Girl “hardly able to climb stairs” after rescue from almost 7 years allegedly held captive by her family

Berlin — Prosecutors in Germany are holding a mother and grandparents accused of holding the woman’s eight-year-old daughter captive in a house in a small German town for almost her entire life.   There are still many unanswered questions in this case, but the details that have emerged are shocking: The girl was allegedly held in…

By JohnValbyNation January 16, 2024 0

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, activist on hunger strike in Egypt prison, given “medical intervention,” family told

Jailed Egyptian rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who began refusing even water after more than 200 days on a hunger strike at the start of the COP27 climate conference, has received “medical intervention,” his family has been told. Prison authorities told his mother on Thursday that measures had been taken “with the knowledge of a judicial authority.”…

By JohnValbyNation January 16, 2024 0

“Je ne pensais pas pouvoir dire ça” : pourquoi cet acteur français ne jouera pas dans le film de Johnny Depp

Après Pierre Niney, c'est au tour d'un autre acteur français, bientôt à l'affiche du rôle le plus important de sa carrière, de devoir renoncer au prochain film réalisé par Johnny Depp. Pour une raison inattendue. Encore un changement de casting pour la prochaine réalisation de Johnny Depp ! Contrairement à ce qui avait été annoncé,…

By JohnValbyNation January 15, 2024 0

Re-Tales #38: Supply Chains—Keeping It Local

McIntosh CEO Charlie Randall, pictured outside the company’s Binghamton factory in 2006. (Photo: John Atkinson) To remain profitable, many hi-fi companies have outsourced production to faraway countries with lower labor costs. That, certainly, is a legitimate way of doing business. Yet many other hi-fi makers have chosen to work with suppliers that are local, regional,…

By JohnValbyNation January 15, 2024 0

Aural Robert: Nanci Griffith

A vital member of the second wave of Texas singer-songwriters that emerged in the 1970s and included Lucinda Williams, Butch Hancock, and Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith was a product of a time when, to paraphrase a once-ubiquitous bumper sticker, Austin was still weird. Gifted with a delicate, sweet voice and fierce determination, she started playing…

By JohnValbyNation January 14, 2024 0