This Rinsing Bowl Cleverly Includes a Colander

Isn't this an ingenious design? This bowl has a moveable colander piece that folds in and out so you can wash and serve your fruit in the same piece. The combination strainer/bowl is $15 from Umbra. It rolls two steps of meal prep into one smart kitchen gadget, while solving one of life's most grating-albeit...

gizmodo.com (15 hours ago)

Girls lacrosse: Bees sink Vikings hopes

Todd Shapiro MEDINA - Don’t allow the 14-5 score be deceiving because Medina had a battle on its hand Monday in the Ohio Schoolgirl Lacrosse Association Division I regional semifinals against North Canton Hoover. The Bees (13-0-2) advance to host Mentor or Olentangy Liberty on Thursday with a trip to the state...

medinagazette.northcoastnow.com (1 day ago)

Sen. Jeff Sessions tries to sink the immigration bill by himself

The Republican from Alabama has attached 49 amendments to the bill.

yahoo.com (1 day ago)

20-foot-wide sinkhole opens in Boca Raton neighborhood

Authorities remain on the scene of a sink hole that opened in a Boca Raton neighborhood Monday. City dispatchers report parts of Burning Tree Lane are closed to traffic.

palmbeachpost.com (1 day ago)

Coffee Essentials for the Perfect Cup

Welcome to the Programmable World Connected Sensors Watch the Earth’s Murmurs and Translate Into Data The Boat That Could Sink America’s Cup 1/ For drip brewing, your grounds should be the size of coarse sea salt. A burr grinder like ...

wired.com (1 day ago)

Stocks: Apple and Carnival may make waves

Apple will be in focus as CEO Tim Cook appears on Capitol Hill, while shares in cruise ship operator Carnival are set to sink.

cnn.com (1 day ago)

M&S profits sink as fashion lovers stay away

Marks & Spencer’s failure to get a grip on the fashion tastes of the high street shopper has led the...

thetimes.co.uk (1 day ago)

Transfield shares sink on profit downgrade, job cuts

Mining services group says slowdown in resources, infrastructure projects weighing on earnings, brings forward job cuts.

businessspectator.com.au (1 day ago)

The Secret to a Goof-Proof Manicure & More Surprising Uses for Vaseline Petroleum Jelly

CUTICLE CREAM: Keep a little tub of the stuff by the sink and work into cuticles twice a day. It’s all you’ll need to prevent hangnails. FACIAL MOISTURIZER: Because it’s non-comedogenic, petroleum jelly is perfect for locking in moisture without risking breakouts. EYEBROW TAMER: Control errant hairs and shape brows...

ivillage.com (1 day ago)

E.W. Jackson complicates Cuccinelli bid

A nominating convention helped put Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on the gubernatorial ballot. It might also sink his chance to win. Nominating conventions turn out the most committed and partisan members of the party. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a more moderate Republican, dropped out of the race for governor...

washingtonpost.com (1 day ago)

Seattle Reign vs. Sky Blue FC: Final Score 0-3, red card helps to sink Seattle

philly.com (1 day ago)

Scottish nightclub investigated over alleged spy mirror in women's toilets

Allegations that a nightclub in Glasgow has secretly fitted a two-way mirror to allow male guests to spy on the women's toilets "as a bit of fun" are being investigated by police and council licensing officers. Glasgow city council said it had received complaints that the Shimmy nightclub had installed a spy mirror...

guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)

FYI: Do Wind Farms Make It Less Windy?

Related: Do they change the surrounding temperature? Wind turbines extract kinetic energy from the air around them, and since less energy makes for weaker winds, turbines do indeed make it less windy. Technically speaking, the climate zone right behind a turbine (or behind all the turbines on a wind farm)...

popsci.com (1 day ago)

Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013

The waiters were serving borscht and blinis while we sat at our tables in the faux-Russian supper club, waiting for the show to start the other night. A sociable young women in 19th-century period dress stopped by to welcome us and asked if we had everything we needed. As long as you asked, I said, my friend here...

time.com (2 days ago)

Injunction proposed as dog-walker law looms

San Francisco’s first commercial dog-walking regulations are scheduled to go into effect in under two months, but opponents still have some bark left. Phoenix Asher Featherstone, formerly known as Elisa Baker, knows San Francisco’s political dog wars intimately. In 2007, the animal trainer was one of the opponents...

sfexaminer.com (2 days ago)

Police sink plan for mass nude swim

A planned mass nude swim as part of a Tasmanian winter arts festival has been cancelled because organisers were told the event would be illegal.

abc.net.au (2 days ago)

Stress is a foreign notion to Marina's Jake Bauers

Power-hitting senior first baseman is a cool customer on the field, even during playoff games.It's 15 minutes before the start of a pressure-packed Southern Section Division 1 baseball first-round playoff game. Some players are feeling a little nauseated as the reality of what's at stake begins to sink in.

latimes.com (2 days ago)

Cost could sink Cleveland trash-to-energy plant

A proposal in Cleveland for a trash-to-energy plant could be sunk by rising cost estimates.

news-herald.com (2 days ago)

Cost could sink Cleveland trash plant

A proposal in Cleveland for a trash-to-energy plant could be sunk by rising cost estimates. But mayoral chief of staff Ken Silliman tells The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (bit.

middletownjournal.com (2 days ago)

Cost could sink Cleveland trash plant

A proposal in Cleveland for a trash-to-energy plant could be sunk by rising cost estimates. But mayoral chief of staff Ken Silliman tells The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (bit.

journal-news.com (2 days ago)

Girls prep track & field: Staebler strides into history

DES MOINES -- Steve Staebler noticed his daughter Jasmine running a little ahead of the other sixth graders. It didn't sink in until two years later that he was raising a budding Iowa prep track star.

thonline.com (3 days ago)

Couture, Sharks sink Kings in OT, cut hole to 2-1

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Logan Couture scored a power-play goal 1:29 into overtime to help the San Jose Sharks bounce back from two losses in Los Angeles to beat the Kings 2-1 in Game 3 of their second-round series on Saturday night.

si.com (3 days ago)

Miami Marlins dealt eighth shutout loss of season as Diamondbacks win

The Diamondbacks’ Gerardo Parra hit the first pitch for a home run, which was enough to sink the Marlins – wasting a solid outing by Miami starter Tom Koehler.

miamiherald.com (3 days ago)

Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review

At the end of ENO's new staging of Wozzeck, the last thing you feel like doing is clapping. Carrie Cracknell's powerful production asks for silence; time to absorb the shock of it. Wozzeck and his mates – in as far as he has any – are back from fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. Coffins, draped in union flags, are...

guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)

Proposed setbacks could sink Muncie-area wind farm

A central Indiana official says the tough conditions opponents of a planned wind farm are seeking for the project would leave little room for the proposed power-generating wind turbines.

indystar.com (3 days ago)

Pam Hogg: this much I know

I never felt I had my mother's love but it probably just seemed that way because my father showed it so eagerly. My earliest memory is of clinging to her legs and asking what I'd done wrong. I must have been about two years old. Glasgow was a great place to grow up – you couldn't be smug about anything, as you...

guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)

Michelle Brané: Women Are a Critical Part of Immigration Reform: Let's Include Them This Time

By Michelle Brané and Emily Butera On April 17, we at the Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) welcomed the introduction of S. 744, the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013." For those of us who are veterans of the immigration reform efforts of 2006 and 2007, this day marked...

huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)

Gold prices sink for seventh day, near April low

Gold prices fell for a seventh day in a row on Friday, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news.

miamiherald.com (4 days ago)

Gold prices sink for seventh day, near April low

Gold prices are falling for a seventh day in a row, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news. Gold for June delivery dropped 1.6 percent on Friday, losing $22.20 to settle at $1,364.70 an ounce. The precious metal is nearing the low it reached April 15, after a plunge knocked $200 off its price....

bostonherald.com (4 days ago)

San Antonio ends Golden State's playoff run

Spurs sink the Warriors, 94-82, in Game 6 to advance to the Western Conference finals against the Memphis Grizzlies.

latimes.com (5 days ago)