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multi-hour delays bad weather often causes. Additionally, many more passengers are heading to the skies. In May, nearly 50 million airport passengers passed through TSA, up 19% from April. So far, in June, the TSA has registered almost 35 million passengers.
Claudette Rips Through Alabama
Claudette gained power as it rushed off the coast of the Carolinas on Monday, regaining its tropical storm status after ripping through Alabama. The storm killed 14 in Alabama, including nine children who died on Saturday in a multi-vehicle crash along with one of the children’s 29-year-old father.
Another victim, a 31-year-old man, died after falling into floodwaters, while a 24-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were killed when a tree fell on them outside their home. The storm hit a maximum sustained wind speed of 45 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. Claudette is expected to pass just south of Nova Scotia, Canada, on Tuesday. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as many as ten hurricanes could form this season, including 3-5 possibly “major” storms with windspeeds of 111 miles per hour or higher.
A Picasso in the Potatoes Think the walls of Gourmet Glatt aren’t exciting enough? Head to Essonne, France, where a work of art by Picasso adorns the walls of a local
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supermarket. Picasso painted “L’Atelier” in October 1955 in memory of his close friend, Henri Matisse. The painting belongs to the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris, but is now on display in the grocery store as part of a project to make art more accessible to the public.
Lest you think shoppers may haul the artwork home with their tomatoes and cucumbers, the painting is being watched very carefully by police officers and clandestine security officers. “I am delighted that this work is presented in the midst of pumpkins, watermelons, and beers, where reality is, where people’s lives are,” Serge Lasvignes, president of the Centre Pompidou, said. “It is not the collection of the Centre Pompidou but that of France, because it is national, and we share it with all French people, wherever they are.” One customer spoke to the Capital about the painting, noting that the painting “does something to me.” Sylvie Carillon, the mayor of the nearby town of Montgeron, found the display quite touching. “I was very moved to see that even supermarket employees were looking at the painting with big eyes,” Carillon said. “There was a lot of emotion.” The installation is part of an ongoing attempt to take art masterpieces out of “ordinary locations” in the heart of Paris, squiring them out of high-priced museums and plopping them smack dab in the midst of the public. Previous works have popped up at a courthouse and several prisons. I can definitely picture it there.
England, spent hours stacking M&Ms. After exerting lots of effort he managed to stack five little candies and was crowned the champ. Cutbill always dreamed of earning a Guinness accolade but Covid pushed him to achieve his goal. “It was during the third lockdown in January. I was in the living room, eating a bag of M&Ms, and I was incredibly bored, and I just decided to see how many of them I could stack on top of each other,” Cutbill told Birmingham Live. “I started thinking: I wonder if there’s a world record for this, so I looked it up online and found out the most anyone had ever stacked was four,” he said. It took Cutbill two to three hours full of attempts before managing to stack all five chocolate candies. “It’s not something I would normally have taken the time to do – especially now that the sun is shining and the pubs are back open – but at the time, there wasn’t much else to do so it seemed like time well spent,” he said. The record of four M&M’s had been jointly held by Silvio Sabba of Italy and Brendan Kelbie of Australia before the record-keeping organization verified Cutbill’s video and issued him a certificate. “When I managed to finally stack five M&Ms, I was absolutely ecstatic. I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness, I’ve actually done it,’” he said. “Five M&Ms doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was near impossible to do. So, I was chuffed when I achieved it. I thought about attempting six, but there’s no chance. Five was hard enough.” Talk about dreaming big.
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It may not sound all that exciting, but Will Cutbill is now a Guinness Book of World Records winner. The 23-year-old from Solihull,
One intrepid canine made the trek from Manhattan to Queens last week after crossing the boroughs via the Queens Midtown Tunnel. Indie, a dog rescued three months
