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☆ A Surprising Shadow Was Created by the Total Solar Eclipse
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Viewers of last week’s solar eclipse were treated to stunning celestial phenomena up and down the event’s path during totality. The first was an unusually sharp shadow caused by a passing airplane just after the total eclipse concluded. The plane passing over Montreal during the partial phase of the eclipse left a typical contrail in its wake. In this case, the sharpness of the shadows was explained by the eclipse. Eclipse” for his knowledge of the events.

Persons: ”, Fred Espenak, “ Mr Locations: Montreal

☆ How African Immigrants Have Revived a Remote Corner of Quebec
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | Nasuna Stuart-Ulin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Not long ago, the handful of African immigrants in Rouyn-Noranda, a remote city in northern Quebec, all knew one another. There was the Nigerian woman long married to a Québécois man. And, of course, the doyen, a Congolese chemist who first made a name for himself driving a Zamboni at hockey games. A couple from Benin has taken over Chez Morasse, a city institution that introduced a greasy spoon favorite, poutine, to this region. And women from several corners of West and Central Africa were chatting at the city’s new African grocery store, Épicerie Interculturelle.

Persons: Chez, Interculturelle Locations: Rouyn, Noranda, Quebec, Nigerian, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congolese, Africa, Benin, West, Central Africa

☆ This move could help protect your portfolio from volatility as stocks trade near their highs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Darla Mercado | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

There's a party happening in stocks in 2024, and though investors may be reluctant, it could be time to think of taking a few chips off the table. My portfolio has recovered [from 2022],'" said Marguerita Cheng, certified financial planner and CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth in Gaithersburg, Maryland. "I tell people we're not selling everything, but we need to give the portfolio the TLC it deserves – this is the fine-tuning of your portfolio," she added. Be tax aware: Investors may be wary of selling highly appreciated holdings within their taxable accounts, which can incur levies on capital gains. Cheng of Blue Ocean has been turning toward dividend payers, as well as small and midcap stocks.

Persons: There's, they're, Marguerita Cheng, it's, Morningstar, Carla Adams, –, Sean Lovison, Cheng, Russell, Matson, – that's, It's, Jon Ulin Organizations: Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Netflix, Blue, Global Wealth, CNBC's, CFP, Ametrine, Investors, redeploy, Pfizer, Micron Technology, Holdings, Federal Reserve, Ulin, Wealth Management Locations: Gaithersburg , Maryland, Lake Orion , Michigan, Moorestown , New Jersey, SDVY, Boise, Boca Raton , Florida

☆ Caribou Meat and Moon Signs: Inuit Lessons for Soldiers in the Arctic
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | Nasuna Stuart-Ulin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A moon dog hung low over the horizon. It showed up on the first day of the Canadian soldiers’ patrol, and the Inuit rangers guiding them in the country’s far north spotted it right away: Ice crystals in the clouds were bending the light, making two illusory moons appear in the sky. The Inuit rangers told the platoon to pitch their tents and hunker down. “If it gets worse, we’re going to be stranded,” said John Ussak, one of the Inuit rangers, recalling how the soldiers wanted to keep going, but backed down. Canada is now on a mission to assert its hold on its Arctic territory, an enormous stretch that was once little more than an afterthought.

Persons: ”, John Ussak Locations: Canada

☆ For the Indigenous, Was This Building a Gesture of Reconciliation? Or an Empty Gift?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Norimitsu Onishi | Nasuna Stuart-Ulin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Near the old perfume counters on the ground floor of the Hudson’s Bay department store in Winnipeg, Canada, a trade dripping with symbolism took place. The 39th “governor” of Hudson’s Bay — North America’s oldest company and one of Canada’s most iconic — accepted from an Indigenous leader two beaver pelts and two elk hides in exchange for the building, the company’s onetime Canadian flagship. The ceremony took place a year ago when Hudson’s Bay, the company once chartered to found the colony that became part of Canada, gave away its shuttered, 600,000-square-foot, six-floor downtown building to a group of First Nations. But what seemed like an act of reconciliation has become a subject of intense debate as the building’s worth and the cost of transforming it have become clearer: Was this a real gift or an empty one? The gift of the building has focused attention on the evolving relationship between Hudson’s Bay and Indigenous people in Canada, as well as their central role in the history of a country founded on the fur trade between them and the company.

☆ Read Your Way Through Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Héctor Tobar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Outsiders often think of Los Angeles as an anti-intellectual place, all Hollywood glitz and no substance, but writers have always been drawn to my hometown. In David L. Ulin’s “Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology,” I read about Simone de Beauvoir’s 1947 journey to L.A.’s Eastside, where she learned about the city’s anti-Mexican prejudice and admired Dia de los Muertos skulls. It’s no accident that two very different, canonical works of L.A. literature climax with riots, even though they were written more than a half century apart: Nathanael West’s 1939 novel “The Day of the Locust,” and Anna Deavere Smith’s play “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.”Is there a book, or a writer, who captures the essence of Los Angeles? With her iconic 1960s and ‘70s essays about Los Angeles and the West, in collections such as “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Didion helped invent New Journalism.

In its continued battle with inflation, the central bank on Wednesday announced another quarter percentage point interest rate increase. The latest rate increase comes after annual inflation eased to 5% in March, down from 6% in February, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. When building a bond portfolio, advisors consider so-called duration, which measures a bond's sensitivity to interest rate changes. I don't see us moving much higher from an interest rate perspective, so that should be good for bonds moving forward. But it may take another six months to see the results from the Fed's series of interest rate hikes, he said.

☆ 'There is no such thing as a free lunch.' 4 lessons for crypto investors from the FTX collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. on Nov. 11, 2022, seeking court protection as it looks for a way to return money to users. "I think the collapse of FTX will end up being good for traditional finance companies like Fidelity who are entering the crypto space, because they come with a certain level of trust," Lum said. Earlier this month, Fidelity Investments announced plans to launch a commission-free crypto product, allowing investors to buy and sell bitcoin and ether. The FTX collapse has also renewed interest in cold storage, or taking digital currency offline, making it less susceptible to hacks. The [FTX] collapse should be a lesson that any individual company — be it a crypto exchange or more traditional business — can go bankrupt in times of distress.

☆ Acțiunile de bullying încalcă drepturile elevilor la educație și sănătate
▼ + stars: | 2020-05-27 | by ( ) ziuadeazi.md time to read: +6 min

Pedagogii și experții solicită să fie elaborate și realizate programe educaționale de prevenire și combatere a acestui fenomen, destinate atât elevilor, cadrelor didactice, cât și părinților. Violența și hărțuirea în mediul școlar constituie o încălcare a drepturilor copilului la educație și la sănătate. El a auzit despre noțiunea de „bullying” abia anul trecut, în cadrul unei activități de educație civică. Neapărat trebuie să se elaboreze programe anti-bullying, cu participarea elevilor, pedagogilor, părinților, dar și statul trebuie să aplice anumite pedepse pentru bullying”. Legislatorii din România au prevăzut ca persoanele implicate în acțiuni de bullying, atât agresorii, cât și victimele, să beneficieze de asistență și evaluare psihologică.

Persons: ., Guranda, El, Adrian, Tânărul, Natalia Popov, Vasile Bîrca, Ion Creangă Organizations: Organizației Mondiale a Sănătății ( OMS, OMS, UNICEF Moldova, Zaharia, Asociația Presei Locations: Europa, Moldova, Bălți, Corlăteni, Râșcani, Fălești, Cuizăuca, Rezina, Letonia, Lituania, Republica Moldova, Ucraina, Bulgaria, Federația Rusă, România, Canada

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