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☆ A woman whose husband died snorkeling in Hawaii is suing its tourism board, saying it failed to warn them of the risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Patricia and Ray Johnson arrived at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui on February 23, 2022, marking the couple's sixth visit to Hawaii. AdvertisementA July 2010 Snorkel Safety Study, conducted in collaboration with the Hawaii State Department of Health and the Hawaii Tourism Authority, distinguishes drowning by ROPE from drowning by aspirating water. Related storiesPatricia Johnson told ABC 7 Eyewitness News that Ray had kept his head above water before appearing disorientated. According to the lawsuit, Ray Johnson eventually lost consciousness before reaching the shore. He added: "If even one life is saved by this message, then Ray Johnson will not have died in vain."

Persons: —, Patricia, Ray Johnson, Ray, Ray Johnson's, Patricia Johnson, Johnson, KITV, Ray wasn't, Jay Stuemke, we'd Organizations: Service, Business, Mayo Clinic, Hawaii State Department of Health, Hawaii Tourism Authority, ABC, Hawaiian Tourism Authority, Hawaii Visitors Locations: Maui, Hawaii, Wailea, Lani

☆ Imagine Your Last Day of Work Ever. Here’s Theirs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Victor Llorente | Charley Locke | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Arthur JayFabric-store owner, 82, St. Petersburg, Fla.Arthur Jay didn’t think he would spend his life running the family business. After growing up around his parents’ first fabric store on Long Island, he left to attend college and then to pursue a career in management at Kmart. But when Jay was 27, his father died unexpectedly, so he had to take over at Jay’s Fabric Center in St. Petersburg. “For me, every customer that came in was a different opportunity,” he says. “If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, getting up every day would be a drudgery.”

Persons: Arthur Jay Fabric, Arthur Jay didn’t, ’, Jay, ” Organizations: Kmart Locations: St, Petersburg, Fla, Long, St . Petersburg

Now Jay’s case is the first of those killings to go to trial. Opening statements are set for Monday in the federal murder trial of Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington, who were arrested in 2020. Jay, born Jason Mizell, formed Run-DMC in the early 1980s with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Joseph Simmons, known as DJ Run and Rev. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesThey were the first rappers with gold and platinum albums and a Rolling Stone cover. He considered Jay to be family, since the DJ grew up across the street from Jordan's father, his defense wrote.

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☆ 36-year-old quit her job to write novels—how she and her husband are making it work on one salary
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Soon after they got married in 2022, Heather MacLean and Scott Kyrish decided they needed a financial advisor. "We were both making good money, and we realized we were just putting it in savings," says MacLean. "It didn't take long before Jay started trying to convince me to quit my job," MacLean says. She was making about $52,000 a year and her husband had recently received a salary bump from about $65,000 to about $80,000. "I remembered how much I loved it and thought, 'Maybe I'll give this a shot and see if it can turn into something,'" MacLean says.

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☆ Mysterious mouse mummies found in Mars-like conditions on Andean mountain peaks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

So how did a species of leaf-eared mouse make this barren land their home? The mice, called Phyllotis vaccarum, are commonly found living in the Andes mountains at lower elevations, all the way down to sea level. In 2020, a living mouse was recorded at the summit of Llullaillaco, a volcano with an elevation of 6,739 meters (about 22,110 feet) on the border of Chile. The discovery of the living mouse spurred Storz to conduct expeditions at 21 different volcanoes. Freeze-dried mouse mummiesWhile the conditions are not ideal for living creatures, they create perfect conditions for preservation, as the mice are essentially freeze dried, Storz said.

Persons: Jay Storz, Jay Storz “, we’ve, ”, Storz, “, “ It’s, it’s, ” Storz, Emmanuel Fabián Ruperto, Ruperto Organizations: CNN, University of Nebraska, Geographic, NASA, Argentine Institute for Dryland Research Locations: Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, United States, Atacama, Llullaillaco, Lincoln, Mendoza

☆ 13 mummified mice in Mars-like environments atop 20,000-foot volcanoes have stumped scientists, who don't know why mice would climb to such harsh heights
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Thirteen mouse mummies were found atop volcanoes in Chile and Argentina about 20,000 feet above sea level. The discovery has baffled scientists who did not think mammals could live at such high elevations. The species is known to live at high elevations, but baffled scientists at more than 20,000 feet. The scientists are now looking for signs of physiological adaptations that may allow these mice to survive at high elevations with low oxygen levels. Storz's team is also continuing to search the volcano tops for signs of mice, living or mummified.

Persons: —, Jay Storz, University of Nebraska — Lincoln, Marcial Quiroga, Carmona, Storz, Mario Pérez Organizations: Service, University of Nebraska Locations: Chile, Argentina, University of Nebraska —

But as it turns out, I was just not using my imagination, because this year’s Burning Man was an absolute nightmare. casey newtonA bit more of a Drowning Man than a Burning Man, I have to say. kevin rooseYeah, so as someone who’s been to Burning Man, I was fascinated by just the logistics of it all, because it is already a mess to get in and out of Burning Man. kevin rooseSo you are, in addition to a Burning Man escapee this year, you’ve been actually going to Burning Man for a long time. When I say I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what happened to prompt the things that were being directed at us.

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☆ New Yorkers Got Broken Promises. Developers Got 20 Million Sq. Ft.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Urvashi Uberoy | Keith Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

These agreements allow developers to build larger towers and earn more revenue in exchange for providing public spaces. “Developers received something that was disproportionately valuable,” said Jerold S. Kayden, a lawyer and professor of urban planning and design at Harvard University and an advocate for keeping privately owned public spaces open to the public. Bonus Building Space The additional space that developers received is often far larger than the public spaces they provided. Here are the 392 buildings with privately owned public spaces. The violations fall under three main categories:Reduced Access In 2021, the plaza at 835 Sixth Avenue was fenced off.

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☆ A Modern IRS? Careful What You Wish For
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Jay Starkman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Internal Revenue Service is beginning to spend the $80 billion and hire the 87,000 people last year’s Inflation Reduction Act allocated. One premise of the legislation is that better technology will streamline operations: “Americans rightfully expect a more modern and high-performing IRS,” as Daniel Werfel said at his Feb. 15 confirmation hearing to become the agency’s commissioner. But the IRS has managed to use digitization to make life more difficult for taxpayers. Given the influx of money and agents over the next decade, expect the worst. The IRS will focus less on service than compliance, enlisting AI-assisted computing power to become ever more intrusive.

☆ Not Every Tax Deduction Is a ‘Loophole’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Regarding Jay Starkman’s excellent explanation of Donald Trump’s tax situation (“How Congress Cut Trump’s Taxes,” op-ed, Dec. 29): I would like to share my dislike of the term “tax loophole,” which is used often by commentators and pundits. Legitimate tax deductions aren’t loopholes. A loophole would refer to a flaw in the law that allows a workaround to circumvent the intent of the law. Legitimate tax deductions are entirely different. The term “loophole” gives an unjustified negative connotation to legitimate and legal tax deductions.

☆ Полный список адресов избирательных участков за границей для президентских выборов
▼ + stars: | 2019-01-28 | by ( ) newsmd.md time to read: +14 min

Из этого числа 556 тысяч отправят на зарубежные избирательные участки.Республика Австрия, 1/306, Вена (штаб миссии) Löwengasse 47, 1030Республика Азербайджан 1/307, Баку (штаб миссии) бул. 33, Cinema Studio Art, 11252Швейцария 1/320, Женева (штаб миссии) Авеню де Франс 23, 1202.ОАЭ 1/321, Абу-Даби (штаб миссии) Vila Nr. Таллинн (штаб миссии) ул. No 18, D.1, Gümüşsuyu Palas, 34437, Ömer Avni Mahallesi, IstanbulУкраина 1/440, Киев (штаб-квартира миссии) ул. Посмітного 2/2 “Б”Республика Венгрия 1/442, Будапешт (штаб-квартира миссии) 1024 Budapest, Ady Endre utca 16Королевство Дания 1/443 , Копенгаген Tordenskjoldsgade 25, 25 st.th.

☆ Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves
▼ + stars: | 2016-05-15 | by ( Nina Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +51 min

Then, like more than a million men, women and children since 1869, she was consigned to a trench on Hart Island. Citing security, the city’s Correction Department also repeatedly rebuffed The Times’s requests to witness Hart Island burials firsthand. hart island Future plots Future plots Active trench 2000s 1990s Hart Island N.Y.C. He readily remembered the Dickerson case as a financial disappointment, but said he was hearing of his ward’s Hart Island burial for the first time. When she died, Ms. Murray had $6,887 left in her personal account at New Surfside.

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☆ How Congress Cut Trump’s Taxes
▼ + stars: | 2012-06-07 | by ( Jay Starkman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The House Ways and Means Committee plans to release Donald Trump’s tax returns Friday and has already put out a report faulting the former president for paying little or no income tax in recent years. These include deferral of income, conversion of ordinary income into lower-taxed capital gains, nontaxable income, tax credits, and artificial tax losses that ordinary taxpayers can’t obtain. Entrepreneurs who purchase or construct a building can obtain depreciation deductions, together with deductions for mortgage interest on the loan. Using “cost segregation,” they can accelerate the depreciation deduction. A large mortgage with a low down payment magnifies the interest deduction.

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