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2020 NHL season: Bruins-Predators season-opener in Prague postponed

The Boston Bruins had planned on opening up their 2020-21 NHL regular season overseas against the Nashville Predators in Prague as part of the NHL Global Series, but that plan to visit the Czech Republic has now been postponed.




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This Date in Bruins History: B's earn thrilling OT wins vs. Leafs, Canadiens

Few things in sports are better than overtime in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and May 8 has seen the Boston Bruins play in a couple memorable games that required bonus hockey.




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New Hotel in Turkey 'Floats' Above Ancient Ruins

Closed due to COVID-19, the Museum Hotel Antakya looks forward to welcoming guests with its blend of luxury and history once restrictions are lifted




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Bruins sign pending free agent Jaroslav Halak to 1-year deal

Boston Bruins goaltender Jaroslav Halak signed a one-year contract worth $2.25 million US, the team announced Friday. He was playing in the final season of a two-year contract.



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Amid ruins, Ramazan meal reunites a community

ATAREB, Syria: Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramazan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria, foreign media reported.Dozens of men and children sat out on a long line of blankets on the ground in the town of Atareb for...




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On this day: 'Crystanbul' ruins Liverpool title dream as Palace stage stunning fightback from 3-0 down

"An amazing night at Selhurst Park, Liverpool have caved in!"




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Peak wood? Or paranoia? Report claims wood pellet heating ruins forests

Report accuses wood burners of being naively careless when they should be worried




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This 2,000-year-old message from Pompeii's ruins is freaking me out

Archeologists unearthed some eerie graffiti in history's most famous graveyard.




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Small House In Czech Republic Recycled From Ruins of Barn

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.




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Coronavirus: US pork farmers panic as pandemic ruins hope for good year

After enduring extended trade disputes and worker shortages, US hog farmers were poised to finally hit it big this year with expectations of climbing prices amid soaring domestic and foreign demand. Instead, restaurant closures due to the coronavirus have contributed to an estimated USD 5 billion in losses for the industry, and almost overnight millions of hogs stacking up on farms now have little value. Some farmers have resorted to killing piglets because plunging sales mean there is no room to hold additional animals in increasingly cramped conditions. "One producer described it to me the other day as a snowball rolling downhill, and every additional disruption that we have just kind of adds to that and how fast and how big it's going to be when it finally hits," said Mike Paustian, who farms 2,400 acres of corn and soybeans and sells 28,000 pigs a year near the small eastern Iowa community of Walcott.

COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has created problems for all meat producers, but pork farmers have been hit especially hard. They entered this spring in shaky financial condition because tariffs had drastically reduced sales to China and Mexico. Many operations have struggled to get enough workers, in part due to federal immigration policies. Then demand plunged because the virus forced the closure of restaurants, hotels and other businesses that buy about 25 per cent of pork, including nearly three-quarters of bacon produced in the US. The biggest problem could be getting worse as additional giant slaughterhouses that can process more than 20,000 hogs a day have had to close at least temporarily as the virus spreads among workers. The industry slaughters from 10 million to 12 million pigs a month. Whereas poultry producers can slow production by not hatching baby chicks and ranchers can keep cattle on pastures longer, pork farmers don't have good options. Hogs are raised inside barns with limited space, and it takes time to stop the birthing cycle for pigs.

"We are in crisis and need immediate government intervention to sustain a farm sector essential to the nation's food supply," said Howard Roth, a pig farmer from Wauzeka, Wisconsin, and president of the National Pork Producers Council, an industry trade group. The group has asked the federal government to buy USD 1 billion worth of pork in cold storage that had been destined for restaurants and instead give it to food banks, which have been besieged by people who have lost their jobs as much of the economy has shut down. On Friday, the US Department of Agriculture announced it would spend USD 3 billion to buy fresh produce, dairy and meat that will be sent to food banks. Roth said the purchase will hopefully help move a backed up supply of pork and help raises hog prices. The USDA also said it planned USD 1.6 billion in direct payments to pork farmers with limits of USD 250,000 per individual. Roth said the aid was appreciated but wasn't enough to meet their problems. Farmers have also received emergency waivers from the government to increase the number of pigs they can keep in barns beyond normally allowed limits. Still, farmers without extra space are faced with the prospect of killing baby pigs they can't afford to feed.

"Sadly it's true that euthanising is a question that's going to come up on farms," Roth said. Paustian, the eastern Iowa farmer, said the most frustrating part has been the uncertainty of scheduling deliveries of hogs to meat producers that fall through. Even as the majority of slaughterhouses have continued to operate, most plants are large and their closure is a severe hardship for hog farmers who operate in the region, he said. Because a plant has closed about 40 miles away in Columbus Junction, Iowa, Paustian said farmers in his area are sending hogs to other plants in the state and Indiana. "Producers are on pins and needles every day right now, and nobody knows if they're going to get loads out. They get loads scheduled then they get canceled. It's kind of a roller coaster of emotion for producers right now," Paustian said.

Producers he knows have been able to sell about half of the pigs they'd normally send to market. It's enough to get by for a few weeks, but it's not sustainable, Paustian said. For many pork producers, the coronavirus pandemic may be the final straw, said Nick Giordano, a vice president at the National Pork Producers Council. "We are hearing from lots of producers. They're hanging on for dear life," Giordano said. Besides seeking the purchases for food banks and direct payments to producers, the group wants to make agricultural businesses eligible for a federal economic injury disaster loan program.

While not denying the industry's problems, some people who raise pigs independently say the coronavirus has revealed that the the industry is too reliant on a few large international corporations that oversee everything ' from raising hogs to processing plants and even marketing and sales. Chris Petersen, a northern Iowa farmer, raises Berkshire pigs 'the old fashioned way' ' in individual A-frame houses instead of large confinement buildings. He laments the loss of the independent farmers who marketed pigs to nearby buying stations that delivered the animals to smaller packing plants much closer to the farms. "It's a very fragile system because everything has to work just right," Petersen said.

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SERIE A WEEKEND PREVIEW: Inter look to leave Lazio's title dreams in ruins during trip to Rome

For Inter Milan and Lazio fans, this is where they wanted to be, even if it may have been somewhat fanciful at the start of the season. But they meet on Sunday in a fierce title race with Juventus.




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Sterling K. Brown ruins Armani suit at SAG Awards 

Sterling K. Brown really had a ripper of a night at the SAG Awards on Sunday. The This is Us actor won two Screen Actors Guild Awards.




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American Idol: Peyton Aldridge nearly ruins duet and dreams with Madison Paige over 'chicken wings'

Gas station chicken wings almost ended one singer's dream of stardom on Sunday's episode of American Idol.




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Restored from the ruins


A South Marathwada village reconstructs itself after the devastating earthquake, with help from Jnana Prabodhini. Sayli Udas reports.




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Amid ruins of a Syrian town, Ramadan meal reunites a community

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria.




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Amid ruins of a Syrian town, Ramadan meal reunites a community

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria.




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Amid ruins of a Syrian town, Ramadan meal reunites a community

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria.




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Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination [Electronic book] / edited by Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou, Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Emmanouil Aretoulakis.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.




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In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West / Wendy Brown

Brown, Wendy, 1955- author




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The shape of the ruins: a novel / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Hayden Library - PQ8180.32.A797 F6713 2018




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Eve out of her ruins / Ananda Devi ; translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman ; foreword by J.M.G. Le Clézio

Hayden Library - PQ3989.2.N547 E9513 2016




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Flaubert in the ruins of Paris: the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Brooks

Hayden Library - PQ2247.B683 2017




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Jinnealogy: time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi / Anand Vivek Taneja

Rotch Library - BP63.I42 T363 2018




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In the ruins of neoliberalism: the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West / Wendy Brown

Dewey Library - JC423.B83 2019




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Risen from ruins: the cultural politics of rebuilding East Berlin / Paul Stangl

Rotch Library - NA9200.B4 S73 2018




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Boundaries undermined: the ruins of progress on the Bangladesh-India border / Delwar Hussain

Rotch Library - DS407.H97 2013




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The ruins of Ani / Krikor Balakian ; translated and with an introduction by Peter Balakian with Aram Arkun

Rotch Library - DS51.A54 P3413 2019




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Jinnealogy: time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi / Anand Vivek Taneja

Rotch Library - BP63.I42 T363 2018




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Sugar mill or mission ruins, it's interesting




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Fashionable Bulow Plantation in ruins




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Inside ruins of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Key West, Florida




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Inside ruins of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Key West, Florida




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Ruins of the old Spanish mission. New Smyrna, Fla




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Ruins of old Spanish mission, New Symrna, Fla




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Ruins of old Spanish mills, near Daytona Beach, Florida




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Ruins of old Spanish mills, near Daytona Beach, Florida




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Ruins of old Spanish mission, New Symrna, Fla




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Ruins of Old Spanish Sugar Mill, Port Orange, Fla




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Ruins of St. Bridget's Abbey, from act III, scene 8, of The shaughraun




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Isola Tiberina with the Ponte Rotto, 16th c. bridge, built on Roman ruins, collapsed in 1598




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Addison Blockhouse Ruins




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Elliott sugar mill ruins




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Young Wild West and General Von Kluck ; or, The treasure of the ruins.




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Ruins And Sisal Fort Jefferson Dry Tortugas Oct 1956




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Ruins And Sisal Fort Jefferson Dry Tortugas Oct 1956




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When Hauz Khas ruins, kund steps and gopuram gateways inspired BV Doshi to design NIFT Delhi