The internet is still reeling
from Vulture «s jaw - dropping interview with Quincy Jones on Wednesday.
The TBS show «Full Frontal» covers everything
from vulture capitalists to renewable energy and FEMA's failures in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
This review
from Vulture agreed:
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey may not have earned universal praise
from the Vulture staff, but it is off to a roaring start at the box office, earning $ 85 million domestically (nearly half from IMAX theaters) and $ 223 million globally.
Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, originally
from Vulture:
Okay, maybe these details
from Vulture's source might help — Jupiter Ascending features an unlikely heroine, a recent Russian immigrant who scrubs toilets to make a living.
This news contradicts recent reports
from Vulture which stated that -LSB-...]
Here's the final red band trailer for Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, originally
from Vulture:
(On opening day, a 4 - year - old boy stared at a pair of 1.8 - million - year - old Homo ergaster, protecting their half - butchered antelope
from a vulture's attack, and blurted: «They're naked!
Even with hedge funds vanishing from the agenda, debt relief advocacy group Jubilee South called on the G - 8 governments to protect poorer countries
from vulture funds, or investors who buy up debt at rock - bottom prices and then sue for the full value.
Most pastors believe the best way to keep Christian - Muslim relations calm is to maintain a low profile in terms of evangelism and gripes, to hunker down, protect the real estate
from vultures without and within the community, maintain good relations with the Muslim power brokers and hope that the Christian poor will remain faithful.
Do we sell to vultures and allow them to influence us with their vulture ethics, or do we protect our profession
from vultures by addressing the one area (litigation) that constitutes 99 % of the problem?
Not exact matches
The earliest mention of a Twitter Canoe is
from August 2012 by Lindsey Weber, an editor at New York Magazine's
Vulture.
His foe is played by none other than Michael Keaton who goes
from playing Batman and Birdman to another winged character,
Vulture, in «Homecoming.»
More than 675 luxury condo units are formally listed for sale at a minimum price of at least $ 1 million in the barrier island city of Miami Beach in the South Florida county of Miami - Dade, according to a new report
from Condo
Vultures ® Realty LLC.
This would block the government
from paying foreign bankers and the
vulture funds that have been buying up Greek debt at a deepening discount.
You see, that's what God is saying to those who have the power to step in and make laws to PROTECT the people
from greedy
vultures, yet they don't» do it, because they are in bed with them!!
It is a surprisingly comprehensive survey of cooking in the zone with 130 pages of recipes with ingredients ranging
from avocado to
vulture.
Let's live up to the
vulture tag and get the kid
from Palermo....
The rumours about Karim Benzema have been leapt on like a bunch of starving
vultures on a carcass and they will get every last morsel of meat
from the bones before the transfer window closes.
Persuading Monaco to part with him could prove tricky as
vultures are picking their team apart, but Man City have twice persuaded Monaco to do business this summer and Chelsea prised Timoue Bakayoko
from them.
Depending on the season, hawks, falcons, owls, and
vultures look back at you
from their enclosures.
From New York Magazine's
Vulture: «It collapses on all fronts, delivering hot - button platitudes and just - add - water character development.»
Carrying Puerto Rican flags and signs depicting
vultures to represent the hedge funds allowing investors to profit
from the island's debt, advocates chanted «Wall Street's greed is making Puerto Rico bleed» and voiced concern that the board would implement labor policies that would slash worker salaries and harm the working class.
Speaking a day after he returned
from Puerto Rico, de Blasio blasted «
vulture hedge funders» who he said were part of the reason the embattled island was in such dire financial straights.
Carrying over again
from yesterday: That caucus with
vultures could very well be in the House chambers.
But the impending trial isn't stopping the Luv Gov
from trying to drum up support for a so - called «
vulture fund.»
«To investigate
vultures» ability to survive eating this putrid cocktail, we generated DNA profiles
from the community of bacteria living on the face and gut of 50
vultures from the USA.
Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants
from farming, «
vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.
A team of researchers
from several Portuguese centres and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has analysed the presence of mercury, cadmium and lead in the blood of the 121 Griffon
vultures (Gyps fulvus) in Portugal and Catalonia, and compared the concentration between populations of wild Griffon
vultures and the individuals that were admitted, in a weak state — due to malnutrition — and wounded, into rehabilitation centres.
On average, the facial skin of
vultures contained DNA
from 528 different types of micro-organisms, whereas DNA
from only 76 types of micro-organisms were found in the gut.
Collecting blood samples
from 137
vultures and 27 ravens, they found that lead levels in ravens were almost six times higher during hunting season, when they were exposed to animal remains tainted with lead ammunition, than the rest of the year.
Vulture's migratory movements meant they couldn't be sampled across seasons, but older
vultures tended to have higher concentrations of lead, suggesting that older, more dominant individuals exclude younger birds
from foraging on carcasses.
35,000 years ago, humans in what's now Germany were making sophisticated flutes
from the bones of griffon
vultures.
Vulture conservation in Chhep Wildlife Sanctuary would not be possible without support
from AFD, Sam Veasna Center (SVC) and the European Union.
Lucian,
from his account Icaromenippus, would probably be considered a romantic today, as his chosen method of transport — an eagle's wing on one arm, a
vulture's on the other — would hardly be considered feasible.
Although the
vultures» hooked beaks are sharp enough to pierce the hides of smaller animals, they're unable to access thick - skinned carcasses like this one without the help of larger scavengers like hyenas and wild dogs — animals still missing
from this recovering ecosystem.
The efficiency with which
vultures can remove flesh
from a carcass is legendary.
Satiated white - backed
vultures, Gyps africanus, stand around a warthog carcass after much of the meat has been removed
from the abdomen.
Combined with the fact that
vultures rarely come in contact with humans,
vultures serve as a barrier to prevent diseases
from proliferating in dead animals and spreading to humans.
What's clear
from this and other research in Gorongosa National Park is that
vultures are critical members of this recovering ecosystem, and their relative success here has surely played a role in the overall resilience of the park.
Now, scientists have shown that
vultures also use air currents
from power plants to get a lift.
The small fossils that line the walls of the Fighting Dinosaurs exhibit have helped him further establish an evolutionary lineage
from Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor to the emu, the tit, and the
vulture.
The five - holed instrument — carved
from the bone of a griffon
vulture — might be capable of expressing greater harmonic variety than the modern - day flute, he says.
This one was intent on protecting its meal
from seven white - rumped
vultures that also had designs on the carcass.
«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's
Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.
The zone — one of two in Bangladesh, which are modeled on a handful of similar zones elsewhere in South Asia — is just one part of a multifaceted effort to pull the three
vulture species back
from the brink of extinction.
Those cows — and others bought
from local farmers — also become a source of drug - free meals at a so - called
vulture restaurant within the sanctuary.
The hope is the extra income will dissuade the families
from trying to earn money by foraging for wood in the reserve, where the
vultures nest.
It mixes practical measures for protecting
vultures with public relations efforts aimed at transforming
vultures from symbols of doom to icons of the environment.