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Stath Lets Flats Creator Jamie Demetriou Sets Creative Partnership With BBC Studios

British comedian, actor and screenwriter Jamie Demetriou, winner of four BAFTAs for Channel 4/HBO Max sitcom “Stath Lets Flats,” has inked a creative partnership with BBC Studios. The multi-year agreement will see Demetriou co-develop and co-produce new projects through BBC Studios’ production scripted portfolio and his own People Day Limited.

Students Sue Troubled Teen School for Systematic Sexual, Emotional Abuse

George Doyle / Stockbyte / Getty Images Nine former students of Mount Bachelor Academy, a now-defunct school in Oregon for “troubled teens,” have filed a $14.25-million lawsuit against the school for emotional, sexual and physical abuse. The suit was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs on July 6 in Multnomah County Circuit Court by attorney Kelly Clark, who specializes in child sex abuse cases and who has successfully represented survivors of abuse by Catholic priests and other clergy.

Study Art and Design in the Czech Republic - Live & Study

12. 10. 2023 | Fields of Study We live in a visual world. Every single day, we are surrounded by art. There is a high demand for beautiful and functional design, which won’t stop any time soon. By studying art and design, you have many options. Companies will always need eye-catching products, visually appealing and user-friendly websites, and stunning brand identities. The Czech Republic is a very inspiring place to study art and design.

Susan Ahn CuddyShe Opened U.S. Navy to Asian-American Women

This piece is part of an ongoing series on the unsung women of history. Read more here. Being an Asian Americans during World War II was not easy. Many Japanese-American families were carted off to internment camps like Manzanar, and even for those who weren’t forcibly relocated, the United States was often a harsh, discriminatory place. Which makes the career of Susan Ahn Cuddy, a trailblazing Korean-American U.S. Navy officer, even more surprising.

The Occult Revival: A Substitute Faith

It is Saturday night. A young Army officer and his wife welcome a small group of people to their comfortable split-level home, which stands amid the tidy landscaping of a housing development in Louisville. The guests — most of them dressed neatly in sports clothes — include a computer programmer, a store clerk, a dog trainer and a psychology major from the nearby University of Louisville. They all troop downstairs to a vinyl-floored recreation room.

The Press: The First 300 Million

Few publishers have been as prolific as E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius. In 30 years he has sold more than 300 million of his world-famed Little Blue Books, whose 2,000 volumes range from the Bible, Shakespeare and Aristotle to socialism, psychoanalysis and sex. Haldeman-Julius, an agnostic, has infuriated clergymen and delighted village atheists, but he has probably helped to open as many curious minds as he has helped to frazzle unstable ones.

The Sun and Your Mood: Why Sunlight Is So Good For You

<!-- wp:gutenberg-custom-blocks/featured-media {"id":"4888416","url":"https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/jessica-pettway_18.jpg","caption":"","credit":"Jessica Pettway for TIME","mediaSize":"medium-jw","playlistId":"RgeiRa73","goJwPlayer":true} --><!-- /wp:gutenberg-custom-blocks/featured-media --><!-- wp:paragraph --> Even Hippocrates believed that the changing seasons had something to do with health—and that the key was how much available daylight there was during different times of the year. Happiness Guide<!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> Many centuries later, it’s clear he was on to something. As people spend more time indoors staring at computer and television screens, scientists are starting to appreciate how exposure to sunlight affects various body systems.

The Survival Skills I Learned While Growing Up In a Cult

Our Mother let us wander anywhere we wanted in the Angeles National Forest when we moved there as small children in 1976. She didn’t restrict where we went, and didn’t ask us what time we would return, but she did tell us what to do if we ran into trouble. “Never put your hands or feet anywhere you can’t see. If you need to step over a log, step up on it, look, then step down.

The Wild Party

Debauchery isn't what it used to be --- onstage, anyway. When the cold-eyed chorus, clad in next-to-nothing and radiating sleaze, slithers onstage at "The Wild Party," you almost want to give them a warm, welcoming hug. Aren't these the same kids who gyrated so seductively in "Chicago," who leered to such potent effect in Sam Mendes' "Cabaret"? Debauchery isn’t what it used to be — onstage, anyway.

Unsolved Murders: The 6 Most Mysterious of All Time

Murders are always disturbing, but some are even worse than that. These killings were brutal, almost unimaginable in their depravity. The crimes horrified communities and stumped police — leaving questions that lingered for decades afterward, as years passed without an arrest or even a credible suspect. As Netflix probes the cold case murder of a Baltimore nun in new docuseries The Keepers, TIME takes a look back at some of the most high-profile killings from the past 150 years.