Thursday, June 14, 2018

In the news, Friday, June 1, 2018


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from Church Times
Newspaper in London, United Kingdom

Cross was the clue to reuniting a Mantegna masterpiece
A FORGOTTEN painting of Christ that was stacked in the storeroom of an Italian museum has been identified as a valuable work of art by the Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. The painting, The Resurrection of Christ, was thought to be a copy of a lost work by Mantegna from the late-15th century, until the curator of the Accademia Carrara, in Bergamo, Giovanni Valagussa, looked more closely. “I was cataloguing the works in the store room, and made the discovery of a lifetime.” It is thought to be the top half of a larger painting, possibly intended as an altarpiece. The bottom half, Descent into Limbo, sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $28.5 million in 2003. A small cross at the bottom of The Resurrection matches up with the top of Christ’s banner in Descent. Mr Valagussa said: “The cross was like a clue in a thriller.”

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from CNBC
TV Network in Englewood Cliffs, NJ

When Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett makes investing decisions, he focuses on one thing only: the facts. "You have to be able to play out your hand under all circumstances," Buffett told shareholders in 2006. "But if you can play out your hand, and you've got the right facts, and you reason by yourself, and you let the market serve you and not instruct you, you can't miss."

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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper

Data protection laws are shining a needed light on a secretive industry
Regardless of where we live, we all benefit from data protection laws – companies must us show how they profit off our information.

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from Idaho Statesman
Newspaper in Boise, Idaho

'Jimmy the Stiff,' Boise's infamous town drunk, gets a proper toast a century later
James Hogan was laid to rest back in 1907 — the aughts of 100 years ago — without fanfare, although he was accompanied by flowers. He might have been buried in a pauper’s grave, and without flowers, but for some kind-hearted (or perhaps guilty-feeling) citizens who rose to the occasion and passed the hat. Now, 110 years later, a different set of kind-hearted Boiseans pitched in again for Hogan. Perhaps with a bit of an apology toward how society has treated alcoholics in the past, they have done the contemporary form of passing the hat and crowdfunded a proper headstone to honor his passing.

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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA

Cathy McMorris Rodgers is pretty blasé about the whole Russia investigation thing
There's a whole lot of smoke, but Cathy McMorris Rodgers isn't convinced there's a fire.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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