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Thanks to a Prank, Sculptures Make Googly Eyes at Oregon Residents

The eyes were attached to eight installations, to the delight of residents. City officials, who lamented the cost of repairs, were less amused.

“Orb I,” by the artist Brandon Zebold, was installed in 2005 on the Roundabout Art Route in Bend, Ore.Credit...City of Bend, Oregon, via Associated Press

Hezbollah Loses Supply Route Through Syria, in Blow to It and Iran

The militant group’s leader admitted that the toppling of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, cut off an important land route from Iran.

Canada claims sovereignty over the Northwest Passage because all of its routes run between islands that are Canadian territory. But it has never sought to settle the question in court

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America tries to freeze Canada out of the route through the Arctic

Business Secretary Greg Clark said the government had "worked tirelessly" with British Steel, Greybull and lenders to "explore all potential options to secure a solution for British Steel".

He said the government had shown its "willingness to act", having provided the British Steel with a £120m bridging facility in April to meet EU emission rules.

freeze out. phrasal verb. If you freeze someone out of an activity or situation, you prevent them from being involved in it by creating difficulties or by being unfriendly. Other traders did everything they could to freeze us out of the business. [

Bridging finance or a bridge loan is a short-term finance option or facility that 'bridges' the gap before a longer term financing option is available. Bridging finance usually applies to property and/or land purchases or transactions.

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Enjoy the warm spring weather in New York by visiting Calder’s outdoor sculptures. The monumental stabile Hats Off is permanently installed in the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo in Purchase. 

View an interactive map of public Calder installations around the world: https://tinyurl.com/46nfws27

[Image: Hats Off (1969), Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Garden at PepsiCo, Purchase, New York. Photograph by Corey, Fifi + Hop. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

Purchase 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase,_New_York

In 1695, John Harrison, a Quaker from Flushing "....purchased of the Indians a tract of land about nine miles in length and nearly three in width . . . The Indians reserved 'such whitewood trees as shall be found suitable to make canoes of..." Large numbers of Friends came to settle there. They called it "Harrison's Purchase," or simply "The Purchase" and it is still known today as Purchase, NY. A Quaker meeting house was erected there in 1727.^[3]