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☆ Opinion | I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m gutted to see Condé Nast folding the online music magazine Pitchfork into GQ. I won’t try to improve on the eulogies written for the site already (Casey Newton and Eric Harvey have good ones). It’s one of the few corners of the internet I still love, no matter how often I find myself in disagreement. I’ve seen some thoughtful writing already on why Pitchfork couldn’t make it. In this case, they’re specific to Pitchfork’s editorial choices and market position.

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☆ Touching the sky: A rare solar eclipse and a new hotel in the clouds
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Courtesy Amelia Earhart Hangar MuseumAmelia Earhart wasn’t just the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic. Camelot Theme Park (England): Set in the leafy Lancashire countryside, the Magic Kingdom of Camelot resurrected tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Scott Audette/AP Pripyat Amusement Park (Ukraine): This theme park was orphaned in 1986 following the Chernobyl meltdown just five kilometers (three miles) away. Considered the first theme park in Southeast Asia, it featured an artificial lake, huge swimming pool with giant water slides and a Prehistoric Animal Kingdom. Anne Jones/Alamy Stock Photo 10 fascinating theme parks that have closed forever Prev NextThat’s the question posed by these no-longer-in-operation theme parks around the world.

☆ 10 fascinating theme parks that have closed forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Joe Yogerst | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In April, we’re taking a thrilling ride into the world of theme parks. “We think of amusement parks as vibrant, colorful, noisy, cheerful places,” says Jim Futrell of the National Amusement Park Historical Association. Pripyat Amusement Park (Ukraine)The Pripyat Amusement Park was built right before the Chernobyl disaster. Yongma Land (South Korea)Once in a blue moon, abandoned theme parks find new life by adopting totally new functions. Faced with increased competition from Orlando’s modern theme parks, Cypress Gardens closed in 2009 and was eventually absorbed into LEGOLAND Florida.

☆ Trump-aligned PAC rolls out Ron DeSantis 'Pudding Fingers' ad, mocking his rumored eating habits and hitting him on Medicare and Social Security
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Trump-aligned super PAC attacked DeSantis over his eating habits in a new ad. The ad makes fun of a story in which DeSantis ate pudding with his fingers. Ron DeSantis for his record on Medicare and Social Security — and his rumored eating habits. On Friday, Make America Great Again, Inc. released a new ad titled "Pudding Fingers." "Tell Ron DeSantis to keep his pudding fingers off our money," the ad ends, showing a pile of empty pudding cups on the table.

☆ North Carolina's Outer Banks beach struggles with lost home — as mysterious item appears on shore
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Monday, a mystery item was found on the beach north of Rodanthe Pier, reports say. It later turned out to belong to the US Navy, but disappeared before it could be recovered by the military. On Monday, the same day a local house washed out to sea, Kyle Barniak found something had washed in just north of North Carolina's Rodanthe Pier in the Outer Banks. Barniak learned the vessel belonged to the US Navy's Norfolk Naval Air Station in Virginia nearly 100 miles north of Rodanthe. "The county doesn't have the funds to pay for a beach nourishment project," Dare County Manager Bobby Outten told WRAL.

☆ NBA Player Richaun Holmes Sues Sacramento Bee Parent for Defamation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Alexandra Bruell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Richaun Holmes of the Sacramento Kings. Sacramento Kings forward Richaun Holmes sued the Sacramento Bee’s parent company, McClatchy Co., and Bee opinion writer Robin Epley for defamation over articles that included Mr. Holmes’s ex-wife’s allegations of domestic and child abuse. The National Basketball Association player has retained Camille Vasquez, lawyer to actor Johnny Depp and other celebrities, in his fight against McClatchy and other defendants, including Allexis Holmes, whom he divorced in 2019.

☆ Plummeting Mississippi River levels revealed a rare American lion fossil
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's only the fourth fossil of the ancient American lion found in Mississippi, according to the news outlet. Only four American lion fossil specimens have ever been discovered in Mississippi. A barges stranded by low water along the Mississippi River in Rosedale, Mississippi, in October. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe Mississippi River is a vital transportation route, and its unusually low water levels disrupted shipping across several states in recent months. In early October, low water levels revealed an old sunken ship along the river's banks.

☆ Why isn't Ukraine already in NATO? Here's what it takes to join the 30-country alliance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Ukraine's pursuit of NATO membership has been cited as a key factor in Russia's invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long been vocal about his country's desire to secure both NATO membership and additional assistance. "So there were some formal reasons why the Alliance could say that Ukraine was not ready yet to join the Alliance." Will Finland and Sweden join NATO? Both countries submitted official letters of application to join NATO in May 2022 and were formally invited to join the alliance in June.

☆ U.S. confident of U.N. resolution, multinational task force on Haiti in early November
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Washington is confident of securing a U.N. Security Council resolution and finding nations to lead a task force in early November to address the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols said on Wednesday. Briefing reporters on a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Canada beginning on Thursday, Nichols, the top State Department official for Western Hemisphere affairs, told reporters the composition of a multinational task force proposed by Haiti would be discussed during the visit. "I strongly disagree with the idea that a resolution authorizing a multinational force is in peril," Nichols said, adding that he expected the leadership of the force to become clear as talks move forward in the coming days. "I'm confident that we will have something early in November, both a resolution and leadership for the force. Reporting by Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Chris Reese and Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ U.S. confident of U.N. resolution, multinational task force on Haiti in early November -official
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Executives from Google, NBCUniversal, Uber, and others have poured $7 million into a new fund to turn 15 women-led companies into billion dollar businesses
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Princeton classmates Lynda Clarizio and Joy Marcus are aiming to create a new ecosystem for funding women-led businesses. The $7 million fund is still raising money to help 15 women-led businesses have a chance at success. Clarizio and Marcus hope to fund women-led companies around media, advertising, and content — areas that they both know well. The98 also hopes to create even more proof in the market that women-run businesses can be billion dollar companies, said Marcus. In the first half of 2022 start-ups with female founders raised $20.8 billion of venture funding, according to Pitchbook.

☆ DeSantis' reputation as a social misfit who doesn't like people is a 'total fabrication,' his senior campaign advisor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ron DeSantis of Florida has for the last year received in-depth profile treatment from the media amid speculation that he'll seek the White House in 2024. That portrait, says Phil Cox, senior advisor to the DeSantis gubernatorial campaign, is "bullshit" and "a total fabrication." Cox said DeSantis "has a good sense of humor and cares about people." "Ron's strength as a politician is that he doesn't give a fuck," the New Yorker article said. "Republican voters love him because he says what he's going to do and he goes and does it," Cox said.

☆ Walmart hit with lawsuit, accused of firing a Florida mom who claims managers harassed her and denied lactation accommodations
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-14 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Her request for accommodations were denied by Walmart, according to the lawsuit. Another woman filed a similar suit against Walmart in February. But it claims she began getting "harassed" by her managers after giving birth in 2020, the Miami Herald reports. After submitting a request for pregnancy-related accommodations via a doctor's note, she was denied and told Walmart "does not accept doctor's notes," the lawsuit says. The Defuniak Springs Walmart was subject to another EEOC lawsuit in 2021 after the store was accused of continuing to allow a male employee to "sexually harass at least three female employees."

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