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Lynn Shelton on Overcoming Her Darkest Moment on Set

I last spoke with my friend Lynn Shelton on March 17, just weeks before she passed away suddenly. She was simultaneously one of my role models as a director, one of my very favorite interview subjects, and a true friend in an industry famous for inauthentic ones.

I had asked her for a favor for a book I’m working on, “How I Got Through It,” interviews about self-care for creative types,…

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Can Michigan Mail Absentee Forms? Yes. Can Trump Withhold Funds? Unlikely.

President Trump on Wednesday made false accusations about mail-in voting in Michigan and Nevada, continuing his unfounded attacks on absentee balloting.

He initially mischaracterized the Michigan secretary of state’s actions to expand voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, falsely claimed such actions were illegal, and repeated his false assertion that there is rampant fraud in…

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As Paris Tiptoes Toward Normalcy, Infections Are Sharply Down

PARIS — Coronavirus infections have dropped sharply in Paris following a strict two-month lockdown and a growing contact tracing effort, health officials say, and they have remained in check since the city began a halting return to life nearly two weeks ago.

“The drop is pretty spectacular,” said Renaud Piarroux, head of parasitology at one of the main Paris hospitals and organizer of the…

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Slow Cooker Barbecue Pork and Beans

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Time: 8 1/2 to 10 1/2 hours

Pork and beans are cooked together in a slow cooker for mutually beneficial results (If you don’t have a slow cooker, you can do it in a pot in the oven.) As the pork shoulder and barbecue sauce braise in the oven, the sauce soaks up the pork juices while the pork tenderizes. Then, beans are added…

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Salad-e Shirazi (Persian Cucumber, Tomato and Onion Salad)

Yield: 6 to 8 servings (about 5 cups)

Time: 20 minutes

Named for the city in southwestern Iran, salad-e Shirazi is found on practically every Iranian table at practically every meal. Think of it as an herbier, juicier, more acidic version of Greek salad, Israeli salad or Indian kachumber. It should be bright, crunchy and tart, a nice counterpoint to…

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Linguine With Asparagus Pesto

Yield: 4 servings

Time: 40 minutes

Asparagus dresses this spring pasta in pastel green. Use the stems to make a finely ground pestolike mixture with garlic, olive oil and cheese; reserve the tips for quickly cooking and then tossing into the skillet with the linguine and sauce just before serving.

Ingredients

1 bunch…

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Regno Unito, Cambridge si arrende al coronavirus: il prossimo anno accademico sarà solo online

LONDRA –Cambridge si è arresa al coronavirus. La celebre università britannica ha annunciato che, come già avvenuto in parte del corrente semestre, tutto l’anno accademico 2020-2021 non avrà lezioni dal vivo, ma soltanto in video e da remoto. È una svolta storica, ovviamente senza precedenti nel corso della lunghissima storia dell’ateneo inglese. “Abbiamo preso questa decisione causa l’emergenza…

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2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home

Emily Roz

Through July 5. Front Room,frontroomLES.com.

What makes contemporary art resonate, generally, is a successful mingling of the familiar with the unfamiliar. This is particularly true in Emily Roz’s “Tight Fit” paintings at Front Room, which remix elements of Pop Art, geometric abstraction and the female figure. The show is online, and will remain on view when the gallery reopens.

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9 Movies to Stream When You’ve Watched Everything Else

As summer approaches after a quarantined spring, it seems as if the impossible is happening: you’re running out of things to watch. You’ve checked off all the essentials on our lists of the best movies on the various streaming services; you’ve caught up on all the buzzworthy shows; you’ve even watched (gulp) “Tiger King.” (Again.)

So it’s time to get a little looser with your viewing…

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Stir-Fried Sweet Potatoes

Yield: 4 servings

Time: 20 minutes

In a 2010 love letter to the food processor, Mark Bittman gave the machine the ultimate compliment: “I upgraded its position in my kitchen from a cabinet to a spot on my itsy-bitsy counter,” he wrote. Here, he uses the machine to chop and grate vegetables, cutting down on prep time (and any possibility of shredding…

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Crypto Startup School: How to scale companies using crypto

Zoran Basich Contributor

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Zoran Basich is the crypto editor for Andreessen Horowitz.

Editor’s note: Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup Schoolbrought together 45 participants from around the U.S. and overseas in a seven-week course to learn how to build crypto companies. Andreessen Horowitz is partnering with TechCrunch to release the online…

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Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA

Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playing a new and increasingly prominent role in providing the government with software tools to address the COVID-19 crisis.

This month, the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a new $5 million contract to Palantir through veteran-owned software…

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Different Approaches to a Coronavirus Vaccine

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Not Everyone Hates Remote Learning. For These Students, It’s a Godsend.

Salah-Deen Fouathia, an eighth grader at Voice Charter School in Queens, was struggling in school. It was hard to pay attention. Math was a challenge. His grades in health class weren’t great.

So when the pandemic closed all schools, reducing his classes to the size of a screen, his parents feared Salah-Deen would struggle even more. To their delight, the opposite has happened.

With…

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Il ciclone Amphan si abbatte su India e Bangladesh. Almeno 2 morti, milioni di evacuati: "Temono i contagi"

Il ciclone Amphan si abbatte su India e Bangladesh. Almeno 2 morti, milioni di evacuati: “Temono i contagi”

CALCUTTA – Il ciclone Amphan era atteso e per prepararsi al suo passaggio India e Bangladesh avevano cominciato a evacuare milioni di persone già da giorni. Ma si contano già due morti. Dal 1999, quando Odisha devastò la regione uccidendo circa 9 mila persone, mai nessun altro ciclone potente come Amphan si era più abbattutto sul golfo del Bengala.

Glimpses of #Amphan: Bay of Bengal at #Digha…

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How Women are Getting Squeezed by the Pandemic “Our formal economy is only possible because it’s subsidized by women’s unpaid work.” — Nahla Valji, the senior gender adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations…

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