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☆ Santa Monica mother urges officials to provide more security amid racist texts
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Nbc Los Angeles | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A racist text message was sent to thousands of Black individuals nationwide the day after the election. Among those who were targeted by the text were Black Santa Monica students. Ericka Lesley has been talking about the post-election racist text messages for five days now. Lesley is calling for increased security for Black children in Santa Monica schools. Neither Santa Monia Police nor SMMUSD indicated any plans to increase school security in light of the text messages.

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☆ New Zealand farmers set for right-wing protest vote over climate change policies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Lucy Craymer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Warning that livelihoods are at stake, farmers are looking to conservative candidates who will unwind or delay these Labour policies. The two will travel the length of New Zealand over 10 days to encourage rural communities to vote for a change. Farmers in New Zealand have staged several protests in the past two years against growing regulations and agricultural emission schemes. New Zealand will also become the first country in the world to tax farmer for methane from animals from 2025. Wayne Langford, president of farmer lobby group Federated Farmers, said recent policies had been impractical, difficult to implement and caused significant frustrations.

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☆ We can’t air-condition our way out of America’s heat crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Extreme heat in the summer has become America’s brutal new reality. It would also include building code changes that require multi-family homes provide cooling the same way they do heating. Heat waves and mirage create an impressionistic scene on Sierra Highway during a scorching day on Saturday, July 15, 2023. Cities are warmer than their surrounding areas, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect, and they need to be better designed to keep people cool, researchers say. They were designed 40 years ago when summer temperatures were much cooler,” Mark Wolfe said.

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Hong Kong/Tokyo CNN —Masatoshi Ito, the Japanese billionaire who turned 7-Eleven convenience stores into a global empire, has died aged 98, closing the chapter on one of Asia’s most storied retail entrepreneurs. A 7-Eleven convenience store in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, on January 9, 2023. So, how did 7-Eleven become synonymous with the Japanese convenience store culture as we know it today? He renamed the company Ito Yokado and started running the business like a US supermarket. Ito Yokado was renamed Seven & I Holdings in 2005, and Ito remained its honorary chairman until his death.

☆ Tuesday Morning says it wants to close 265 stores as part of its bankruptcy filing. See if your local store is on the list.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

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☆ Best Buy, Home Depot Lock Up Goods to Fight Theft
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Sarah Nassauer | Benoît Morenne | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

To deter theft, Best Buy has replaced some products on shelves with QR codes. A Best Buy store at the Southland Center shopping mall in Taylor, Mich. Shoppers are finding more empty space on store shelves, but not because the retailer is out of stock. In many cases, the items are locked away to prevent theft. At a Best Buy store in the suburbs of Houston, hundreds of items including Bose speakers and Fitbit activity trackers have been replaced by small blue signs that read, “This product kept in secured location,” and ask shoppers to find store workers for help.

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