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Sheffield-based YouTuber Luke Cutforth here ventures into – that dread phrase – long-form content, with a thin slip of YA fantasy (drawn from a novel by Caroline Smailes) about a humiliated schoolboy retrieved from the brink of self-sacrifice. Cutforth clearly knows his way around a camera, which isn’t always the case at the industry’s lower-budget end; with cinematographer Josh Winslade, he makes atmospheric use of his primary location, Manchester’s Victoria Baths, recast as an abandoned spa. Yet the pacing proves…

Four people escaped miraculously from a car that got swept away in the Mahanadi floodwater in Athagarh, Cuttack. The incident happened on Monday night and timely intervention from the fire department personnel helped to save all the occupants of the car after a tough rescue operation. Three family members were in the car with the driver when they were returning from Angul district. The family twenty to offer prayers to the Puri Jagannath Temple when the vehicle got trapped in the floodwater near the Nidhipur area in…

Coroners in Japan have ruled that the death of Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi (real name Kazuo Takahashi) was from probable accidental drowning. Takahashi’s body was found off the coast of Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture on July 6. While the circumstances surrounding his death are still under investigation, the chances of foul play have been deemed ‘low’. He was 60 years old. After the news of the death of Kazuki Takahashi broke on Thursday, tributes and notices poured out and came from places beyond the somewhat…

Noticing the increase in e-commerce delivery traffic, then-mayor Bill de Blasio allocated $38 million in the November 2021 budget to shipping these packages via the “blue highway”––by ferry instead of by truck. “One of the best ways to fight climate change is to get away from a society and economy dominated by big trucks,” he said in late 2021. “nd that’s just the truth in New York City and America today: the reign of the 18-wheeler. It’s supreme; it’s everywhere, and it’s a danger to our future.”  Other attempts to…

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Schoenoplectus americanus, or the chairmaker’s bulrush, is a common wetland plant in the Americas, and it has an existential problem. It has chosen to live in a place where it is always at risk of being drowned. Like all plants, the bulrush requires oxygen to produce energy. One solution is obvious: Send shoots skyward like straws to suck down oxygen to the roots. But the bulrush also employs a more unusual strategy: raising the ground on which it grows. The plant builds its roots near the surface, where they trap the…

Johnny Depp’s ‘Unprofessional Behaviour’ Was The Reason Behind His Drowning Career, He Asked For $20 Million Loan Way Before Amber Heard’s Allegations: Former Agent(Photo Credit–Poster/Instagram/Twitter) With each day, new witnesses take the stand and take sides in the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard defamation trial. So far, Jennifer Grey, Whitney Henriquez, and Rocky Pennington are among others who have testified in the court. Now, the Pirates Of The Caribbean actor’s former agent Tracey Jacobs is making a…

Indian users of Google Messages are facing a deluge of ads within Android’s default messaging app, 9to5Google reports. Users are reporting being sent multiple ads a day, even if they enable the app’s Spam Protection feature, and blocking and reporting the offending accounts doesn’t appear to prevent ads from different companies appearing. Many of the worst offenders appear to be ads for personal loans, gambling companies, and life insurance. As 9to5Google notes, companies appear to be abusing an RCS feature designed…