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☆ At This California Radio Station, the Call Letters Say It All
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fog clouded the San Jacinto Mountains recently as Brad Fuhr approached the headquarters of KGAY, a radio station in an undistinguished Palm Springs, California, strip mall. KGAY’s call letters aren’t a fluke but a savvy marketing tool. It’s the only terrestrial radio station in America geared toward L.G.B.T.Q. (There’s WGAY, a “party station” in the Florida Keys, but it doesn’t market itself as gay.) Three other D.J.s — Eric Ornelas, Galaxy and ModGirl — provide the station with homemade mix shows that play around the clock.

Persons: Brad Fuhr, ” George Lamond’s, ”, KGAY, “, Chris Shebel, John Taylor, Eric Ornelas, — Organizations: Volvo, coeur, iHeart’s Pride, KGAY Locations: Jacinto, KGAY, Springs , California, Britain, America, Cincinnati, Florida

☆ Two Sisters Try Living Together (Again) in Washington. Who Gets the Bigger Bedroom?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Michele Lerner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Caroline Berens had been perfectly happy living alone for a couple of years in Washington, when her younger sister, Emma, announced that she was planning to move to the city. So Ms. Berens didn’t immediately extend an invitation to be roommates in her one-bedroom rental in Dupont Circle. “I’ve always been frugal and have saved money to buy a home since I started babysitting at 12,” Caroline Berens said. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]“I’m coming from college life, where I lived with three other roommates, so I’m not worried about sharing a home with Caroline,” Emma said. “Plus,” she said, “I was determined to avoid living in a basement.”Both sisters are tall, so Caroline wanted high ceilings.

Persons: Caroline Berens, Emma, Berens didn’t, “, haven’t, ”, Berens, we’ve, ” Emma Berens, “ I’ve, ” Caroline Berens, I’m, Caroline, ” Emma, Adams Morgan, Lucy, “ Caroline, Claudia Ornelas, Ms, Ornelas Organizations: Brunswick Group, Harvard, “ Locations: Washington, Dupont, Boston

☆ Spring training roundup: Mets win Kodai Senga’s debut start
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Cardinals catcher Tres Barrera was responsible for the only hit and run Senga allowed, a solo shot to left in the second. Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso hit solo home runs and Tim Locastro hit a pair of RBI doubles and scored on a throwing error for New York. The Rays got their two runs from solo homers by Jose Siri and Randy Arozarena. Jake Rogers hit his third home run of spring training for the Tigers. The Athletics, who have flirted with a move to Las Vegas, played a two-game spring training series this weekend at Las Vegas Ballpark.

☆ More than 100 priests suspected of abuse remain active in Portugal's Catholic Church
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People walk by a church on the day Portugal's commission investigating allegations of historical child sexual abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic church will unveil its report, in Lisbon, Portugal, February 13, 2023. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes/File PhotoLISBON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - More than 100 priests suspected of child sexual abuse remain active in church roles in Portugal, according to the head of a commission investigating the issue. "There is an approximate (number of accused priests) and it will clearly be more than 100," child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, who headed the commission, told SIC television. The commission said it was preparing a list of accused priests still working to send to the Church and to the public prosecutors' office. Strecht said the Church had the "moral and ethical duty to collaborate with judicial authorities" on the matter.

[1/5] A cross at the top of a church is seen on the day Portugal's commission investigating allegations of historical child sexual abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic church will unveil its report, in Lisbon, Portugal, February 13, 2023. Strecht said the 4,815 cases were the "absolute minimum" number of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members in Portugal since 1950. The Portuguese Catholic Church was rocked last year by cases of alleged cover-up of sexual abuse including by bishops who remain active in church roles. The Portuguese commission started its work in January 2022 after a report in France revealed around 3,000 priests and religious officials sexually abused over 200,000 children. The commission, which says it is independent, was financed by the Catholic Church.

☆ 'No, not again!': In Mexico, 3 powerful earthquakes have struck the same day
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Three powerful earthquakes have struck Mexico on Sept. 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The last two quakes also came very shortly after the annual earthquake drill conducted every Sept. 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 temblor. On the morning of Sept. 19, 1985, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the center, south and west of the country, leaving some 9,500 dead. “It’s really strange, but a lot of people already don’t like that day,” said Jorge Ornelas, a call center coordinator. Monday’s earthquake was the result of the “interaction of the Cocos plate with the North America plate,” which also generated the 1985 earthquake.

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