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Four people were injured and taken to hospitals Wednesday after a small plane landed on a South Texas street and crashed into three cars, authorities said. Caution tape surrounds the scene after a plane crashed on a highway, in Victoria, Texas, on Dec. 11, 2024. Tony Poynor via APThe small plane landed on Mockingbird Lane and a feeder road to Zac Lentz Parkway, also known as State Highway Loop 463 in Victoria, a South Texas city about 85 miles north of Corpus Christi. Images from the scene showed the plane broken in half near a highway overpass. Video shared on social media showed the twin-engine plane flying very low before landing on a street.

Persons: Tony Poynor, Mockingbird, Lentz, Eline Moya Organizations: Corpus Christi, Victoria Police, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Locations: South Texas, Victoria, Victoria , Texas, Corpus

☆ Opinion | A Few Words About Nests
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spring is proceeding apace in this yard, despite my worst fears. After my neighbor’s death last year, a backhoe demolished the house and nearly all the old trees along with it. In most ways, it’s been a glorious spring anyway, despite the ceaseless hammering next door. The spring beauties and woodland violets are nearly bloomed out now, but already other flowers have taken their place. And yet, all spring, our yard has been bereft of nests.

Persons: it’s, There’s Locations: Carolina

☆ The cybercrime underworld has removed all the guardrails on the AI frontier, but the good guys are catching them there
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

More than half (55%) of all brand impersonation instances consisted of organizations' own brands in 2023, according to the Perception Point report. Tal Zamir, chief technology officer at Perception Point, discussed how criminals can now create polymorphic malware (or malware with many variations) at scale using AI and automation. Plus, they can defend against a wider swath of problems by feeding data into their existing models or generating new data sets using AI. Still, Grobman compares AI detection to weather forecasting, saying "When you're working in the world of AI, things are a lot less deterministic." Just as legitimate businesses are looking to AI to be more productive and more effective, so too are cybercriminals.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Steve Grobman, Tal Zamir, Zamir, Grobman, Kiri Addison, Addison, McAfee, recalibrated Organizations: Hong, McAfee, Google Locations: Hong Kong, deepfakes

☆ How to fight dementia, according to neurologists
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

What about diabetes, cancer, thyroid disease, high blood pressure or heart disease? Some of the questions might seem unexpected to those who don’t write about brain health. However, my risk of developing vascular dementia, the second most common type after Alzheimer’s disease, is elevated. "Such spikes cause brain inflammation, disrupt brain metabolism and increase shrinkage of the thinking part of the brain," Isaacson said. The National Institute on Aging currently supports nearly 500 active clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

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☆ Apple CEO Tim Cook says these 6 books shaped him
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Dua Lipa recently interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook on her BBC podcast, "Dua Lipa: At Your Service." Lipa asked Cook to share the books that have shaped him. Apple CEO Tim Cook is no exception. Dua Lipa recently interviewed Cook on an episode of BBC's "Dua Lipa: At Your Service" podcast. Toward the end of the episode, she asked him to share five books that have shaped him over the years.

Persons: Tim Cook, Lipa, Cook, —, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Dua Lipa Organizations: Apple, BBC, Service Locations: Dua Lipa, Dua

Central Florida CNN —Now that books are being banned and disappearing from school libraries, students and parents are showing up to school board meetings in Florida to argue for access to books that take on difficult subjects. Some school board lawyers are confused by the rules, and and those arguing for access have few ways to fight back. According to a PEN America study, more than 40% of book bans nationwide last school year happened in school districts in Florida. But for the spectacle to matter, a school board member had to declare the words were inappropriate for the crowd who came to hear them. … They should stay in the libraries.”Jacob Smith, who said he graduated from a county school in 2017, also addressed the board.

Persons: ” Trixie Meckley, she’d, ” she’d, Riley Kellogg, “, ” Kellogg, they’d, Merrick Brunker, Matt, Jodi Picoult, Josie, ”, Michael Marsh, Brunker, Kellogg, ” Jacob Smith, “ I’m, ” Smith, Jenifer Kelly, ” Jenifer Kelly, It’s, Mike, Liberty, ” Marsh, ‘, “ We’ve, Julie Miller, it’s, Liberty ”, ” Miller Organizations: Central, Central Florida CNN, Liberty, “, CNN, Google, PEN, HB, Liberty ”, Clay County Schools Locations: Central Florida, Florida, DeLand ,, PEN America, Orlando, Seminole County, River County, Volusia County, Seminole, Liberty “, Clay County, Clay

As a result, books like “Call Me Max” have been challenged or outright removed from schools and libraries in Florida, as well as other states — and though some believe book bans lead to more book sales, authors say the effect of those bans is devastating for their careers. These bans “overwhelmingly” target books about race and racism, as well as books with LGBTQ characters, PEN America said in its September study on school book bans. The MoveOn Banned Book Mobile stops for an event with local authors and teachers on October 1, 2023 in Decatur, Georgia. “(A book ban) would make news, and people would say, ‘I’ll buy this book just to show them,’” Lukoff said of the once-common result of book bans. Lukoff said his first high-profile bans occurred in early 2021, in Austin and Salt Lake City, when book bans first started to accelerate.

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☆ Supreme Court's Alabama map ruling defied predictions as Roberts and Kavanaugh teamed up to protect Voting Rights Act
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Ambivalent during early internal debate, Kavanaugh eventually gave Roberts enough confidence that he could write an opinion for a majority. The state’s approach would have wholly undercut the history and purpose of the landmark Voting Rights Act, passed at the height of the Civil Rights movement to try to end race discrimination. Senior conservative Thomas, who has been unyielding in his rejection of race-based practices, was ready to write a far-reaching opinion against the court’s Voting Rights Act precedent for redistricting. Meanwhile, Kavanaugh and Roberts came together, ensuring the chief a five-justice majority for the robust endorsement of Voting Rights Act remedies when states discriminate in redistricting. The Alabama redistricting case shook out differently as Kavanaugh signed a significant portion of Roberts’ opinion.

Persons: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Roberts, Kavanaugh, –, Steve Marshall, Edmund LaCour, ”, Donald Trump, Ramos, Atticus Finch, “, Bill Clinton, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, General LaCour, Holder, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas ’, Barrett, George H.W, Roe, Wade, Dobbs, ” Roberts, General Marshall, LaCour, — Organizations: CNN, Alabama, Republican, Supreme, Blacks, Democratic, Notre Dame, Black, Trump, Black Democrats, ”, Civil, Senior, Jackson, Health Organization, Harvard, University of North Locations: Alabama, Black, Minnesota, . Louisiana, . Mississippi, ” Alabama, Shelby County, Bush, Mississippi, University of North Carolina, ”

☆ Jessica Lange Leads Starry Cast of New Paula Vogel Play on Broadway
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Michael Paulson | More About Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will return to Broadway next spring to star in a new family drama by the acclaimed playwright Paula Vogel. The show, called “Mother Play,” begins outside Washington in 1962, and is about a strong-willed mother raising two children as the family relocates. Lange, 74, will play the mother. She is a two-time Oscar winner (for “Tootsie” and “Blue Sky”) who won a Tony Award in 2016 for playing another difficult mother — Mary Tyrone in a revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”Keenan-Bolger, 45, is a four-time Tony nominee who won the prize in 2019 for “To Kill a Mockingbird”; she will play the daughter. Parsons, 50, who last appeared on Broadway in a 2018 production of “The Boys in the Band,” will play the son.

Persons: Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, Celia Keenan, Bolger, Paula Vogel, ”, Lange, — Mary Tyrone, “, ” Keenan, Tony, Parsons Organizations: Broadway Locations: Washington

☆ Broadway union reaches tentative deal with management, averting strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Daniel Arkin | Diana Dasrath | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The union representing some 1,500 Broadway workers reached a tentative deal Thursday with theater industry management, averting a strike that would have closed the curtains on theatrical productions in New York as well as touring shows across the country. The deal was announced jointly by the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and two organizations representing management: the Broadway League, the industry's trade group, and Disney Theatrical, a division of the media conglomerate. IATSE had been conducting a strike vote when negotiators agreed to a tentative deal. The agreement still needs to be formally ratified by IATSE members, a body that includes stagehands and other backstage employees. "The respective parties will inform their members of the details of this agreement in the coming days," the union and management groups said in a joint statement.

Persons: IATSE, Hamilton, Sweeney Todd, King, Matthew D, Loeb, America's Organizations: Behind Entertainment, NYC, International Alliance, Broadway League, Disney, IATSE, Broadway, North, Walt Disney Studios, Writers Guild of America, SAG Locations: Flatiron, Manhattan , New York City, New York, New York City, North America

☆ They Put on a Show at Camp, and It Changed Their Lives
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Alexis Soloski | More About Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Camp: French WoodsMemories: It was a miracle. Going to this wonderland, where I met other kids who loved this as much as I did gave me a true sense of belonging. The thing that has kept me in the theater for so long is that sense of belonging. I felt the most like myself when I was at camp. Camp made me feel like, “Oh, this could be my profession.”

Persons: Sally Bowles, “ Don Quixote ”, “, I’ve, Celia Keenan, Bolger, Sondheim, Camp, ” Organizations: Interlochen Locations: “

☆ In the spotlight: London hosts Olivier Awards for theatre
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Paul Mescal arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party after the 95th Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 12, 2023. The London theatre community will gather at the Royal Albert Hall for the annual ceremony, named after the famed British actor Laurence Olivier and which celebrates the best productions in the capital. These include nods for best entertainment or comedy play, choreography, directing, costume design and music, as well as a best actress nomination for Mei Mac, who plays younger sibling, four-year-old Mei. Paul Mescal, who was nominated at this year's Oscars, has been recognised in the best actor category for playing Stanley Kowalski in a revival of Tennessee Williams' “A Streetcar Named Desire”. "Killing Eve" star Comer is up for best actress in one-woman play "Prima Facie", in which she portrays a barrister who defends men accused of sexual assault before herself being assaulted.

Mockingbird is recalling approximately 149,000 of its single-to-double strollers after receiving reports that they can break and cause children to fall. According to a release posted to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's website, Mockingbird has received 138 reports of cracks in the frame that have led to eight injuries involving cuts, scratches or bruising to children in the strollers. The New York-based company said the strollers are manufactured in China. Mockingbird said people who own the strollers that have a lot number between 20091 and 22602 on the product label should immediately stop using the strollers and contact Mockingbird to receive a free frame reinforcement kit. The kit includes two frame clamps that attach to the sides of the stroller to reinforce the frame.

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