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SOQUEL, Calif.  —  The parking lot behind JJ’s Saloon was coated in three inches of mud. It was midday Monday and the Santa Cruz County saloon had now flooded three times in 10 days.The latest flooding was all from direct rain, bartender Jeff Ferreira said, but last week Soquel Creek had risen over its banks and gushed into downtown.“Had to be a couple of feet,” the 56-year-old bartender said as he pulled up a video from a few days earlier showing the water-logged lot behind the saloon. On Monday, as huge swaths of…

The massive Southwest Airlines meltdown brought chaos to airports across the country and upended the lives of thousands of passengers.Many people stranded at California airports now must wait days to get back on a Southwest flight.Here are some stories from inside Los Angeles International Airport and Hollywood Burbank Airport.Nothing to do but wait The Southwest baggage check-in desks are still adorned in tinsel and Christmas ornaments.Luis and Ruth Hernandez from Torrance sat on the curb outside the Southwest terminal…

“Damien Chazelle's Babylon is a sprawling portrait of late 1920s Hollywood that just so happens to be one of the boldest and best movies you'll see this year.” Pros Damien Chazelle's bravura visual style Linus Sandgren's gorgeous, versatile cinematography Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, and Li Jun Li's scene-stealing performances Cons Several…

Brad Pitt Talks About The “Flame Of Joy” The Came Into His Life Post The Misery Of Splitting With Angelina Jolie (Photo Credit –wikimedia) Hollywood star Brad Pitt has unveiled that he created art while stricken with “misery” in the wake of his split from actress Angelina Jolie. The “Bullet Train” actor said he turned to two friends, singer Nick Cave and British artist Thomas Houseago, when he was newly single as they had all suffered personal battles, reports aceshowbiz.com. The 58-year-old actor told the Financial…

Imagine if Lord of the Rings were like Marvel. Frodo, Bilbo and the elves would be able to frolic together happily through the Shire, and take on big bad Sauron. But due to complicated legal machinations by lawyers in the late 90s, the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm and the Lonely Mountain would need to exist in their very own, entirely separate film and TV universe, while Gollum might find himself being written out altogether. Only if various suits met up to thrash out deals that allowed all of the above to appear together would…

Hotmail and Gmail users are being warned about a fake Royal Mail email that scammers are circulating. In the space of just one week Action Fraud received over 1,000 reports about the bogus Royal Mail message. The fake email claims the recipient has missed a parcel delivery and are told to head to a website and enter details so they can collect it - but this is just part of a con to steal personal and financial information from a victim.If scammers get hold of these sensitive details it can be used not only for identity…

There are four possible ways in which we can combine our reactions when we observe another person’s happiness or unhappiness: we can feel pleasure at another’s unhappiness (schadenfreude), displeasure at another’s unhappiness (compassion), displeasure at another’s happiness (envy), or pleasure at their happiness (mudita). Schadenfreude is a word borrowed from German, composed by Schaden (“damage/harm”) and Freude (“joy”). Thus, schadenfreude means tingling or even waves of pleasure noticing another’s misfortunes. The…

UK broadband customers that are with Shell Energy Broadband will soon see their bills go up. The provider has begun informing customers that from September things will be going up by £2 a month or 6.1 percent, depending on when they joined Shell Energy. This price rise was meant to kick in earlier this year, before Shell Energy announced it was delaying it due to pressures on household budgets caused by the cost of living crisis.If you signed up for Shell Energy's broadband or landline packages before October 4 2021, or…

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday reminded investors to stay the course in the market, as the pain will eventually go away."The fact is, if you own stocks right now, the odds favor that you're going to lose money. So why not just get out and circle back at a better moment? … Because losing money in markets like this one is actually part of the process," he said.The "Mad Money" host, who said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve is winning its battle against inflation, reiterated his position that inflation has peaked or is…

LONDON—At 5:30 a.m. on a recent weekday, Heathrow Airport’s departure boards were blinking optimistically with hundreds of on-time flights. It didn’t take long for the airport to fall into what has become a near-daily meltdown. Within a few hours, human traffic jams formed as lines converged and spilled into each other. Passengers knocked into each other as people trying to get to ticket desks and bag drop-offs collided with an overflow line for those waiting for a different set of kiosks. By early…