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☆ Why apple prices plunged in October
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But apple prices plunged 7.9%. A Goldilocks year for applesIn general, apple prices dip in the fall, because that’s when they’re harvested and flood the market. An apple orchard near Leavenworth, Washington state. “We have a lot of volume, but I don’t know if we’re gonna be making any money this year.”Though gas prices have fallen, apple farmers have other rising costs, including labor. To cope with rising costs and improve sustainability, many farmers have been making adjustments to how they operate, said Todd Fryhover, president of the Washington Apple Commission, which promotes the state’s apple industry.

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☆ Six Hours to Cook and $100 to Shop: Watch 3 NYT Food Writers Make Thanksgiving
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Cc Allen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +42 min

‘Your dinner must be enough to feed four people.’” “’You can cook as many dishes as you’d like, but it must include a main dish and a dessert.’” “All right, cool.” “I love Thanksgiving.” “I love Thanksgiving.” “Thanksgiving is a colonialist holiday that celebrates a genocide. Minus 3.” “Oh, oh, tamarind. O.K., O.K., O.K.” “Where’s the butter? So what I’m going to do is I’m actually going to start the butter and then put the chocolate in. Souffle vibes, O.K., I’m going to do the cranberries now.” [BACKGROUND CHATTER] “Hi.” “Hi camera.” “I’m doing like a layer.

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Israel Ziv, a former general, reached a nearby battle in his Audi. “We are brought up to run as fast as possible toward the fire,” said General Goldfus. The camera mounted on the Hamas commander’s head captured the moment he was shot and killed. By the time the video stops, the commander can be seen slumped on the ground, revealing his long beard and thinning hairline. In other parts of southern Israel, the first formal reinforcements came from an Israeli commando unit that arrived in helicopters, according to the senior Israeli officer.

Persons: Israel Ziv, Yair Golan, ”, Goldfus Organizations: Audi, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Watch a Falling-Baby Rescue in ‘The Flash’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Mekado Murphy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“I’m Andy Muschietti, and I’m the director of ‘The Flash.’ O.K., so this is part of the opening of the movie. He gets a call from Alfred to come to Gotham, because he needs to assist Batman.” “Alfred. But in most scenes that you see Barry, it’s Ezra performing it with, of course, a set extension that is digital. So Ezra was hanging on wires during a lot of days to basically bring this scene to life, with that nurse hanging on wires. And no baby was harmed in the production of this scene, and voila.” [BABIES CRYING] [WOMAN SCREAMING]

Persons: “, Andy Muschietti, ‘, ’ O.K, Barry Allen, Ezra Miller, Alfred, ” “ Alfred, he’s, Ezra, Barry, it’s Ezra Locations: Gotham

☆ How the New ‘Little Mermaid’ Goes Back ‘Under the Sea’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Mekado Murphy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So right about here, as the turtles start to move, then you see, O.K., there’s a little bit of dance starting to happen. And I took a page out of Walt Disney’s playbook, and I worked with the Alvin Ailey Company. He had worked with the Ballet Russe Company when he created ‘Fantasia.’ And I thought that was such a brilliant idea. And then we found all these sea creatures that actually lent themselves to dance naturally. These are all real sea creatures.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 17 (Reuters) - Hong Kong-listed shares in China's Baidu (9888.HK), rebounded 15.7% on Friday as users told of their experiences with the Ernie bot, recouping losses from a day earlier prompted by the chatbot's launch, which failed to impress. One user described on the Weibo social media platform how Ernie had answered a question about the status of Hong Kong philosopher Zhang Jinqing accurately. Analysts also said the initial disappointment the market felt from the launch was tempered by the realisation that the Chinese search engine giant was still best placed to build China's strongest rival to ChatGPT. More than 75,000 corporate users have applied for a trial of an Ernie API developed by Baidu Cloud, the Chinese company said in a video published on its official WeChat account on Friday. Reporting by Eduardo Baptista and Jason Xue; Additional reporting by Brenda Goh; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Gerry DoyleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Cassie Gibson was teaching a unit on slavery last spring to her sixth-grade U.S. history class in Polk County, Fla., when she noticed a paragraph in a textbook that gave her pause. The passage struck her as potentially violating a 2022 law signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis —which he dubbed “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) Act”—that prohibits, among other things, teaching that people should feel guilt over past actions by members of their racial group. She said she worried what her students might say about the passage at home and how their parents might react.

☆ Florida Shows How to Combat Woke Indoctrination on Campus
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Joshua Rauh | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In the battle for open inquiry on campus, two factions have emerged on the side of free speech. The first camp consists of professors and administrators who consider themselves the true defenders of academic freedom. In the second camp, state legislators seek to restore academic freedom by outlawing advocacy of woke progressivism in schools. This camp views such ideological teaching as discriminatory and outside the bounds of taxpayer-funded education. A simmering conflict between these two camps has now burst into the open over Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E.

☆ Trump says Democrats 'weaponized' his tax returns while simultaneously boasting that the records show what a clever businessman he is
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump accused Democrats of weaponizing his tax returns against him. But he simultaneously said the documents, released Friday, show he's a savvy businessman. The documents released Friday — which span thousands of pages — showed that Trump and then First Lady Melania Trump reported millions in losses from 2015 to 2020. The Trump Organization now has felony status and could be ordered to pay up to $1.6 million in fees when it's sentenced next month. That's in addition to the $250 million civil lawsuit that New York Attorney General Letitia James' office filed against Trump, his three eldest children, and the Trump Organization in September.

Fractured teams lose,” GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, co-chair of the centrist-leaning Main Street Caucus, told CNN, pointing to McCarthy’s broad support among the conference. During the meeting, they told McCarthy they would have his back and were committed to voting for him on multiple ballots if it comes to that. But one member told CNN they also conveyed concern to McCarthy about restoring the motion to vacate the speaker’s chair. “He’s open to a lot of things,” Norman told CNN, including adopting the motion to vacate the chair rule. “I’ve said this over and over again: there is not this, like, enormous amount of drama,” Moore told CNN.

☆ A Florida judge blocked Ron DeSantis's Stope WOKE Act for colleges, calling it a 'positively dystopian' violation of free speech
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Florida judge on Thursday blocked part of the Stop WOKE Act that restricted race-related speech on campus. The judge said part of the law, which was backed by GOP Gov. Chief US District Judge Mark Walker's 138-page order described Florida's attempt to censor certain viewpoints related to race and gender as "positively dystopian" and said it violated free speech. "We strongly disagree with Judge Walker's preliminary injunction orders on the enforcement of the Stop W.O.K.E. Judge Walker previously suspended enforcement of another part of the law that impacted companies with 15 employees or more, also dismissing it as a violation of free speech.

☆ Stația de epurare, în proces de renovare: Pentru rezolvarea mirosului neplăcut din capitală va fi construită o linie tehnologică de prelucrare a nămolului
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-01 | by ( Https | Www.Facebook.Com Unimedia.Info | Irina Vlah | ) unimedia.info time to read: +2 min

Anatolie Lichii a informat că 80% din lucrările de construcţie a Staţiei de epurare a apelor reziduale şi a noii linii de tratare a nămolului au fost deja executate. În cadrul inspecţiei, edilul capitalei a solicitat responsabililor monitorizarea permanentă a situaţiei în teren în vederea asigurării calității lucrărilor executate, precum şi monitorizarea respectării cerinţelor contractuale. Lucrările de construcţie a Staţiei de epurare a apelor reziduale din capitală sunt executate de către antreprenorul ,,Consortium Passavant Energy&Environment GmbH & Ludwig Pfeiffer Hoch-und Tiefbau GmbH&Co.KG" Germania. Proiectul prevede construirea mai multor obiective tehnice noi și reabilitarea celor existente, precum și modernizarea echipamentelor tehnologice, menit să asigure costuri operaționale reduse. Obiectivul principal al contractului este construcţia liniei noi de tratare a nămolului, cu aplicarea procesului tehnologic de fermentare anaerobă a mâlului şi deshidratarea acestuia.

Persons: Anatolie Lichii, Ludwig Pfeiffer Organizations: Energy, EURO Locations: GmbH, Germania

☆ Lista aplicațiilor pe care trebuie să le ȘTERGI IMEDIAT din telefon. Experții în securitate: „Sunt periculoase”
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ziarulnational.md time to read: +9 min

Experții în securitate au lansat un nou avertisment pentru utilizatorii de Android, care ar trebui să-și șteargă anumite aplicații din telefon, fiind considerate periculoase. Mai exact, experții de la White Ops Satori Threat Intelligence au făcut publică o listă cu 240 de aplicații periculoase, pe care utilizatorii ar trebui să le dezinstaleze din telefon, întrucât îi bombardează cu reclame frauduloase. „Aceste aplicații te pot face să crezi că reclamele sunt generate de aplicații populare, inclusiv Youtube și Chrome”, atrag atenția experții, într-o postare făcută pe blog. Din fericire, această aplicație ce părea să funcționeze ca o reclamă, a fost ștarsă din Google Play. Acești specialiști în securitate, însă, îți propun să descoperi care sunt aplicațiile care sunt considerate periculoase și să le dezinstalezi imediat din telefon.

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This is “The Daily.” Last week, E. Jean Carroll came forward with the most serious allegation yet of sexual assault by the president. michael barbaroMegan, can you take us back to last Friday, when New York magazine published an article about E. Jean Carroll? e. jean carroll Because it’s Donald Trump, and I’ve got — it’s a thing. e. jean carroll I may have tried to hit him with my purse, I don’t know. e. jean carroll Went out through the building, got to Fifth Avenue, had my purse, because I picked up my phone.

☆ Marian Burros’s Beloved Plum Torte Turns 40. Here’s Its Story.
▼ + stars: | 2016-09-14 | by ( Margaux Laskey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

A plum torte. Today I’m going to be making the original plum torte. So I’m going to just have these, put them off to the side before I get going with my cake batter. Anyway, while my original plum torte bakes, I’m going to do some variations. It’s giving ‘Call Me By Your Name.’ It’s giving like Oliver and Elio eating a plum torte by the pool.

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☆ Donald Trump Calls for Surveillance of ‘Certain Mosques’ and a Syrian Refugee Database
▼ + stars: | 2015-11-22 | by ( Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump said Saturday that he would order surveillance of “certain mosques” to combat terrorism after the Paris attacks and claimed to have watched as “thousands and thousands of people were cheering” while the World Trade Center towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. In a rally at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Ala., Mr. Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, dismissed accounts of his apparent support for creating a registry of Muslims in the United States as an effort by the news media to entrap him. He then seemed to clarify that idea on Saturday, saying he wanted a database of refugees entering the country from Syria and adding, to cheers, “I want surveillance of certain mosques, O.K. ?”“We’ve had it before and we’ll have it again,” he added. Mr. Trump has recently spoken of the New York Police Department’s use of informants in mosques after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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