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Utah man incarcerated in Venezuela jail is on his way home, officials say

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Video Utah man Joshua Holt released from Venezuela Joshua Holt was arrested in Venezuela in 2016; Bryan Llenas shares details. A Utah man who has been incarcerated in a Venezuelan jail since 2016 was on a flight home to the U.S., Venezuelan officials said Saturday. Joshua Holt, 26, has been jailed in Venezuela after he traveled to the South American country in the summer of 2016 to marry Thamara Candelo, whom he met on a website for Mormon singles. The two planned to return to the U.S. after getting married,…

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Royal Wedding: Queen Elizabeth’s Reaction To Hearing God Save The Queen Is EVERYTHING!

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This may be The moment was captured on TV, and it is pretty funny and awesome (below): And Twitter went crazy watching it all happen (below)!!! Is it not a bit awkward singing ‘God save the Queen’ when she’s there? “GOD SAVE YOU” “Yes, yes, God save me, I am great” #RoyalWedding — Holly Brockwell (@holly) May 19, 2018 This was a special moment: everyone in the crowd waving their 🇬🇧 and singing God Save the Queen at the wedding of the Queen’s grandson #royalwedding pic.twitter.com/MsghlcOoZF — Thomas Daigle (@thomasdaigle)…

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Astronaut Alan Bean, fourth man to walk on moon, dies at 86

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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, photographed by Cmdr. Pete Conrad (reflected in visor) in November of 1969.  (NASA) “We’re saddened by the passing of astronaut Alan Bean,” NASA said on Twitter. “The fourth person to walk on the Moon, he spent 10+ hours on the lunar surface during Apollo 12. Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II & devoted his retirement to painting.” Born March 15, 1932, in Wheeler, Texas, Bean received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas in 1955, according to…

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Nintendo Switch Online costs $20 per year and comes with 20 online-playable NES games

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Nintendo has finally revealed the details of its paid online service after months of speculation by fans. The pricing is pretty much as expected ($20 per year), but the additions of online save game backups and NES games with added online multiplayer sweeten the deal. We first heard the pricing last June, including the $3.99 monthly and $7.99 3-month options, but the announcement then left much to the imagination. This one makes things much clearer, but there are still a few mysteries it will perhaps clear up at E3 or…

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‘The Expanse’ is officially saved and headed to Amazon

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Image: alcon entertainment Another day, another streaming service swooping in to rescue a TV series that couldn’t cut it on cable. For weeks, fans of Syfy’s The Expanse have been held in suspense over the show’s abrupt cancellation and subsequent hints of a pickup, a la Brooklyn Nine-Nine. That suspense is now at an end, thanks to Jeff Bezos. SEE ALSO: ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ is another testament to the brilliance of Mike Schur The Amazon founder and CEO summed up the situation succinctly during an appearance at the International Space Development…

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5 Movie Problems That Kids Today Will Never Understand

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Like everything else, movies age. Special effects look worse, popular slang and fashion are left behind, and political and social contexts shift. But sometimes, the very central dilemma of a movie becomes so outdated that the film itself is no longer relatable to modern-day audiences. Here are five examples of exactly that, delivered to you in convenient list form — a format that will never, ever become dated or strange. That’s not one irrelevant scene from a simpler time; the whole plot revolves around that moment. Clark is counting on…

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Alan Bean, Apollo 12 Astronaut Who Walked On The Moon, Dead At 86

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Bean spent 31 hours on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, and even he couldn’t believe where he was walking. He later commanded the second Skylab mission in 1973 and spent 59 days orbiting the Earth. Bean’s paintings mostly chronicle his experiences in those places where very few have gone before. “He devoted his time to creating an artistic record of humanity’s first exploration of another world,” the Bean family said in an obituary posted to NASA’s website. The family says Bean often textured his canvases with lunar…

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Ron Perlman Takes No Prisoners: Trump Is a Cardboard Cutout Piece of Shitfuck

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Dont get on Perlmans entertaining Twitter feed, which is filled with pithy comments and retweets about the reality TV host-turned-president, as well as response was, Similarly I never stuck it only half in, and I never put the checks I wrote him in the male [sic]. And when another Twitter user questioned if a regular Fox commentator like Alan Dershowitz would admit he had been played by Hannity after the latter confessed his relationship with the presidents attorney, Perlmans For example, he mentioned that he was recently at a press…

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A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into Self-Driving Cars

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Long before robots could run or cars could drive themselves, mathematicians contemplated a simple mathematical question. They figured it out, then laid it to rest—with no way of knowing that the object of their mathematical curiosity would feature in machines of the far-off future. Amir Ali Ahmadi, a professor at Princeton University, has shown how a sum-of-squares algorithm can be applied to modern optimization problems. Instead of numbers, Hilbert’s question—the 17th of 23 he posed at the opening of the 20th century—has to do with polynomial expressions like 5×2 +…

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CBC News takes home 51 awards at 2018 RTDNA – CBC.ca

CBC.ca CBC News takes home 51 awards at 2018 RTDNACBC.ca​CBC News scooped up 51 awards on Saturday at the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards, honouring national and regional journalism in TV, web and radio.​​. That's up from the 44 the public broadcaster won in 2017. This year's … Read more: www.cbc.ca

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