Yearly Archives: 2013

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What you may need to know:

1. Season Three was meant to be the last one, but Kenny Powers is BACK for one last series. And that’s cool with us.

2. Danny McBride has been written off as a one trick pony all too often. He stole the show in This Is The End (2013).

3. Sure, Your Highness (2011) sucked, but at least we got a movie out of it.

4. We can’t recommend E&D seasons 1-3 enough. Each is best watched in a three hour, six episode burst.

5. We’re really hoping they bring Don Johnson back.

Release Date: September

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Footage of hard core, poker-faced slot nerds and their insanely quick mini-motors at the 2013 Wing Car World Championship at Buena Park Raceway, Buena Park, California last May.

The 1:24 scale slot cars run at 12V and can reach speeds of up to 75mph (120km/h).

Previously: That’s Not Scalextric, THIS Is Scalextric

SYRIA-CRISIS/

“With Syria’s war well into its third year, the number of Syrian children forced to flee their homeland as refugees will reach one million today.”

“This one millionth child refugee is not just another number,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “This is a real child ripped from home, maybe even from a family, facing horrors we can only begin to comprehend.”
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“Children make up half of all refugees from the Syria conflict, according to the two agencies. Most have arrived in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. Increasingly, Syrians are fleeing to North Africa and Europe.”

“Latest figures show that some 740,000 Syrian child refugees are under the age of 11.”

“Inside Syria, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, some 7,000 children have been killed during the conflict. UNHCR and UNICEF estimate that more than 2 million children have been internally displaced within Syria.”

 

A million refugee children mark shameful milestone in Syria crisis (UNHCR, UNICEF)

Image of boy in Aleppo, Syria last year by award-winning Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic.