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Fires are burning across the breadth of Canada, blanketing parts of the eastern United States with choking, orange-gray smoke. So much wildfire smoke pushed through the border that in Buffalo, schools canceled outdoor activities. The average global temperatures today are more than 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the preindustrial era. The trees and grasses of eastern Canada turned to tinder. “We should expect a stunning year of global extremes,” he wrote.

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☆ What’s the Best Way to Treat a Workout Injury: Heat or Ice?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The prevailing theory on how to treat sprains and strains, especially from exercise, has been to follow the R.I.C.E. sequence — rest, ice, compression and elevation. He now recommends early movement after an injury, as long as patients are not in pain, especially for overuse injuries. “The most important rule is to listen to your body because you feel pain when you’re doing something wrong,” Dr. Mirkin said. “The reason injuries are so common is that people think they can work through pain.”

Persons: Gabe Mirkin, Dr, Mirkin

☆ Serbia School Attack Is a Rare Mass Shooting Outside the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A mass shooting on Wednesday, in which eight students and a security guard were killed at a school in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, was a reminder that such attacks are far less common outside the United States. Serbs are known to have stockpiles of weapons left over from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and there have been other mass shootings in the country. In 2013, a veteran of the Balkan wars shot and killed 13 people in a village near Belgrade. In 2007, a man fatally shot nine people in the village of Jabukovac, in eastern Serbia. The study found that among countries with more than 10 million people only Yemen had a higher rate of mass shootings per capita.

☆ Len Goodman, Judge of ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ Dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON — Len Goodman, a former British exhibition dance champion who was a longtime judge on the BBC reality show “Strictly Come Dancing,” as well as its American spinoff, “Dancing With the Stars,” died on Saturday in a hospice in Kent, England. The cause was bone cancer, his agent, Jackie Gill, said on Monday. Mr. Goodman, who had been working until up to a few weeks ago, was with his wife, Sue Barrett, and his son, James, when he died, Ms. Gill added. Mr. Goodman was the head judge on the BBC show “Strictly Come Dancing” for over a decade until 2016. From 2005 until last year, he also judged the U.S. version, ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” where he was known for addressing contestants with wry humor, charm and colorful phrases, as well as a distinctive delivery that included the way he would announce the score of “se-VEN!”

☆ How to Claim Your Share of Facebook’s $725 Million Privacy Settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you used Facebook in the United States between May 2007 and December 2022, you can apply to claim your share of a $725 million settlement that Facebook’s parent company agreed to pay to settle a class-action lawsuit, according to a claims website set up by a settlement administrator. Users can enter their information on facebookuserprivacysettlement.com to get their payment through their bank account, Venmo or other methods. The payout will be divided among claimants, with more given to those who have used the site longer. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, agreed last year to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of sharing user data or making it accessible to third parties, including the data and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, without users’ permission. The long-running lawsuit was filed after revelations in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica used private information from the Facebook profiles of millions of users without their permission in one of the largest data leaks in Facebook’s history.

☆ How to Prepare Your House for the Extreme Holiday Weather
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As winter storms move through large parts of the United States, here are steps to take to prepare for subzero temperatures, strong winds and blizzard conditions. Make sure you have extra batteries in case of power outages. The National Weather Service recommends having at least one gallon of water per person a day for three days. Expect temperatures as far south as Texas and Florida to plunge below freezing. Do not heat your home with a camp stove, oven or charcoal-burning device.

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