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Robert J. Stephenson, an American actor, producer, and screenwriter, was born on May 18, 1967. He is best known for playing Sheriff Jimmy Taylor in the CBS TV series Jericho. Stephenson was born in California’s Oxnard. University of California at Santa Barbara was his college of choice. In the music video for the song “Lethargic” by the English band X-Press 2 with American vocalist David Byrne of Talking Heads, he played a lazy man.

Mike Bossy, bornon January 22, 1957, in Montreal, Canada to a Ukrainian dad, Borden Bossy, and an English mom, Dorothy Mills Bossy was a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League career for the New York Islanders. He was one of hockey’s most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders who played in line with Bryan Trottier and Clark Gillies at the center and left wings respectively with himself at the right-wing.

The Jets’ Aaron Rodgers era is finally underway. In likely the most heavily-anticipated game in the team’s recent history, the Jets host the Bills at MetLife Stadium on the first “Monday Night Football” of the season. Expectations haven’t been this high in decades, and it begins under the national spotlight in primetime. The Jets have been under a microscope all offseason as the featured team of this year’s “Hard Knocks” series on HBO.

- Part of the pirate fantasy is this idea of a life of total freedom at sea, but how free were the pirates who did not fit the historically-represented European captain that we see at the center of most stories? Let's take a look at freedom through the lens of one of the most famous pirates ever, Black Caesar. You may have heard of the adventures of the larger-than-life African chieftain who blundered alongside Blackbeard.

In the past year, my asphalt shingle roof seems like it has really started to go bad. I see large areas of my shingles that have no granules. You can see the fiberglass fibers in the mat. The disturbing part is that my shingles came with a 30-year warranty, and they’re not even halfway through it. Why is this happening? Is it normal? How can you get the most life out of asphalt shingles?

When 24-year-old Mary Clare Wall read a message that said her colleague would be “out of pocket,” she and her young co-workers giggled. As Generation Z workers, Wall and her peers interpreted the phrase to mean that their colleague planned to do something crazy or inappropriate, not that they would be unavailable. But in the same manner, she confused her older colleagues with her regular use of the word “slay.”

By Alastair SookeFeatures correspondent AlamyComposition with Blue, Red, and Yellow (Credit: Alamy)Piet Mondrian’s primary coloured geometric compositions say much about modern life, writes Alastair Sooke. “Before you start to think about Mondrian’s paintings,” says the Dutch artist’s biographer Hans Janssen, of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, “you have to realise that he was born, in 1872, by candlelight in Amersfoort, a backward, economically undeveloped town in Utrecht. And he died, aged 71, beneath fluorescent lights, on the 3th6 floor of a skyscraper in New York.

For decades, Americans have been in love with the automobile — or so the saying goes. This single idea has been a central premise of transportation policy, pop culture and national history for the last half-century. It animates how we think about designing the world around us, and how we talk about dissidents in our midst who dislike cars. “This ‘love affair’ thesis is like the ultimate story,” says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia, who warns that we need to revisit how we came to believe this line before we embrace its logical conclusion in a future full of driverless cars.

Explore More A new blog has gone viral on TikTok, and Gen Z girls are flocking in droves to the site. Being a teenage girl is hard — and social media and societal pressures don’t make it any better. But some are finding solace in an online community dedicated to all the ups and downs of being a girl called Girlhood. The blog-style forum allows teen girls to seek advice from other girls who have been through similar situations.