Papacqua Fountain | Stone Column

While brick was a dominant element for the construction of homes, churches and large commercial structures, it was accented by the use of a great variety of stone for the details and complements of this construction.

NEW YORK — Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh has some tips for jeans owners: Don’t freeze your jeans. And don’t put them in the washing machine.

"We saw [Wednesday] morning a southerly change moving through, and that caused a little bit of early morning shower activity with some heavy falls mainly off the coast in the south-east," he said.

“We were told to start looking in bins in case her body was in there,” a woman at the resort who watched Madeleine told the Daily Mirror. “It was at that point we realized this was serious.”

Drone footage captures incredible images of flood damage in the Knoxville area Saturday Feb. 23, 2019. Drew Moss, Wochit

Democratic firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rode into office railing against the influence of big money and hidden donors in U.S. elections. Yet the political operation that helped elect her to Congress was itself less than transparent—exposing her to attacks from conservative foes.

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The Steele dossier itself was not sufficient for a story – its contents were bizarre, extreme and unproven. But once it had changed hands – once then-FBI Director James Comey had warned President Trump about its contents – then stories could be written saying, as CNN did, that “classified documents” were “presented last week to Trump.”

"It will come down to the south-east … the rainfall won't be as heavy as it is in the central interior, but there's still potential for 20 to 40mm of rainfall more towards the coast on the weekend."

There are numerous slant comments on literature in The Plains. The filmmaker’s life story is comprehensible to the plainsmen because it’s ‘devoid of events or achievements’, like their own canon (and Murnane’s books). We hear of ‘those few fools who appear every decade or so urging us to set our passions free and to speak frankly before our women’ and ‘the preposterous fallacy that we have lately banished from our plains: the specious argument for the artist’s concerning himself with the distribution of material wealth or the workings of government or the release of men from the constraints of morality in the name of a universal licence masking itself as Freedom’. Economics and politics have no place in Murnane’s world; licentiousness isn’t possible for his characters. But his previous books do contain disclosures of passions, if not frank discussion of them. (One consequence of this for Murnane has been the estrangement of his uncle Louis, his father’s youngest brother and his own closest horse-racing pal, who in another fictional rendering disapproves of his nephew’s enthusiasm for free verse.) The filmmaker is sponsored by a landowner who gives him access to a grand library and unlimited time to make his film about the ‘Eternal Plane’. It’s too much freedom. He spends a decade leafing through books and contemplating Time – the other plane. But in the end, his film unbegun and unfinished, he gives his patron what he wants, a blank screen with the lights out, a vision of the plains covered in the ‘Great Darkness’.

We’re no longer in an era when hot new social media apps are bubbling up every few months, and if they are, I’ve aged out of the early-adopter demographic. Now whenever I stumble upon a new social media app, my only “friends” using it are the venture capitalists I write about. (Even those apps tend to be copied or bought by Facebook.)