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☆ I Asked South Dakota Dog Trainers About Kristi Noem
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Jess Bidgood | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Davenport, the secretary of the Western South Dakota Bird Dog Club, owns seven adult hunting dogs: mostly Spinoni Italiani with whimsical names like Confetti and Partito, and one vizsla. She has been a dog trainer and dog fancier since the mid-1990s, she said. She knows that some dogs are “wired inappropriately” and that, sometimes, for the safety of humans and other animals, it can be necessary to euthanize. “Since I live in a very rural agricultural state, there are people that do that themselves with a firearm,” Davenport told me. What she does not get, though, is the way the governor of her state, Kristi Noem, talked about shooting her dog Cricket, as well as an unnamed billy goat, in her memoir, “No Going Back,” which came out yesterday.

Persons: Deb Davenport, Davenport, ” Davenport, Kristi Noem, billy Organizations: Dakota Bird Dog

☆ The Rise and Fall and Rise of San Francisco
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Ian Volner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By the 1860s, as Davenport writes, “many of the city’s boardinghouses, hotels and businesses sat on dozens of unstable city blocks atop ‘fill’ or ‘made’ land,” as did the water systems meant to protect them from fire. “It was inevitable,” Davenport says, that “another ‘big’ one would strike the Bay.”On April 18, 1906, at around 5:12 a.m., it happened. An earthquake later estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale convulsed the region, its epicenter some two miles out to sea. When it made landfall, as one resident claimed, it “was like the waves of the ocean”: The ground leaped and buckled; bedroom walls fell on sleeping occupants; facades fell off their frames and into the street. The worst was yet to come, however, as four days of fire ravaged the city, scorching a combined 500 blocks and leaving a quarter-million homeless.

Persons: Davenport, ” Davenport, “, Robert Altman, Jack London, Enrico Caruso — Locations: ”

☆ Parents need not fear adolescent weight gain
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Michelle Icard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Yet it sends adults into a tailspin of fear around weight, health and self-esteem. Yet weight gain remains a sensitive, sometimes scary subject for parents who fear too much weight gain, too quickly. “About 25 percent of growth in height occurs during this time so as youth grow taller, they’re also going to gain weight. Parents need to work on their own weight bias, but they also need to protect their children from providers who don’t know how to communicate with their patients about weight. “We all have a lot of work to do when it comes to conversations about weight,” Hutchison said.

☆ Iran expands uranium enrichment at underground nuclear site amid violent crackdown on protesters
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Iran has started expanding uranium enrichment to 60 percent purity at an underground site in Fordow days after foreign governments accused Tehran of failing to cooperate with a U.N. investigation into its past nuclear work. Iran last year already embarked on enrichment up to 60 percent elsewhere at an above ground site in Natanz. The 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It imposed limits on Iran’s nuclear program in return for an easing of U.S. and international sanctions on Iran. As Iran defied the provisions of the 2015 nuclear deal, it faced renewed international criticism over its response to a wave of anti-regime protests that erupted in September.

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