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☆ A modern etiquette guide for group chats
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Michael Venutolo-Mantovani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

A recent poll of 1,005 US adults found the average American spends 26 minutes a day reading and responding to group chats. For us to survive and thrive as humans, it's time to agree on the Definitive Etiquette of the Group Chat. The ultimate appeal of group chats — their necessity, really — is that they've become the only social media that's actually social. Group chats can become overwhelming, of course, especially as they creep into other apps and especially as they often duplicate participants. Don't talk about the group chat outside the group chat.

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☆ Philip Meyer, Reporter Who Pioneered Data-Driven Journalism, Dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Clay Risen | More About Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Philip Meyer, a former reporter who pioneered new ways to incorporate data, quantitative methods and computers into investigative journalism, died on Saturday at his home in Carrboro, N.C., a suburb of Chapel Hill. His daughter Melissa Meyer said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease. With a career spanning the latter half of the 20th century and several years into the 21st, Mr. Meyer was at the center of a revolution within the craft and business of journalism — a revolution that, to a large degree, he helped shape. When he began working as an assistant editor at The Topeka Daily Capital in Kansas in the mid-1950s, computers were room-size, turtle-speed contraptions, and reporting was done mostly through interviews, with the occasional trip to the library or the government records office. Mr. Meyer was among the few reporters who saw the growing power of computers to crunch data and produce new insight into complex questions.

Persons: Philip Meyer, Melissa Meyer, Meyer Organizations: The, The Topeka Daily Capital Locations: Carrboro, N.C, Chapel, The Topeka, Kansas

☆ Fact Check: Image of praying soldiers predates Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A photo of kneeling soldiers dating to at least 2017 has been falsely claimed online to depict American troops praying ahead of deployment to defend Israel in its war against Hamas. The image shows men in military uniform gathered in a hall, kneeling in front of their chairs while some raise their right hands. A Facebook user sharing the picture on Nov. 4 wrote: “American soldiers praying for their country, for Israel before being deployed to defend Israel. S. Soldiers praying together after a Chapel service in Fort Benning, Georgia’." Photo of kneeling soldiers predates the Israel-Hamas war by at least six years.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Read Organizations: Israel, Hamas, Facebook, U.S, West Bank, UN, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Israel, Fort Benning , Georgia, Iraq, Gaza, Iran

☆ 'Secret room' decorated by Michelangelo in Florence to open to the public
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Plus, we’ll get you in the mood before you go with movie suggestions, reading lists and recipes from Stanley Tucci. But it’s Michelangelo Buonarroti’s less bombastic work that’s on display to the public for the first time in the artist’s “secret room” in Florence. The tiny space sits beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence, where Michelangelo sculpted intricate tombs for members of the Medici family behind the church of San Lorenzo in the Sagrestia Nuova, or New Sacristry. The death sentence was rescinded after two months, and Michelangelo returned to work in Florence, before moving to Rome four years later. Francesco Fantani/Courtesy Musei del BargelloThe space has never been open regularly to the public before, but will open for visits on November 15 to highly limited numbers in order to preserve the drawings.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Walter Davis, a five-time NBA All-Star who had his number retired by the Phoenix Suns, has died. Davis was star in college for North Carolina where he played for the late Dean Smith. It was North Carolina, where Davis' nephew Hubert Davis is the Tar Heels' basketball coach, which announced Water Davis' death Thursday. The school's release said Walter Davis died Thursday morning of natural causes while visiting famil y in Charlotte, North Carolina. Walter Davis, from Pineville, North Carolina, is part of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.

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☆ Intrusive thoughts: What they are and how to manage them
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Most people have intrusive thoughts, but for many they come up occasionally and are inconvenient at worst, experts said. Intrusive thoughts can be violentIn addition to running someone over or pushing your partner off a cliff, other violent intrusive thoughts include wanting to harm your newborn baby or imagining yourself losing control and stabbing yourself with a kitchen knife. Breaking the cycle of intrusive thoughtsCompletely eliminating intrusive thoughts isn’t possible because they’re normal for most people, experts said. What doesn’t really help, Abramowitz said, is trying to resist or analyze intrusive thoughts, because a lot of the time that just makes someone more obsessive. If you’re struggling with intrusive thoughts, remember you aren’t your thoughts and you’re not a dangerous person.

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☆ Universal basic income is working — even in red states
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Michael Venutolo-Mantovani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

He encourages skeptical taxpayers to look at universal basic income from the same "selfish point of view." Among those who received a basic income in Stockton, California, the unemployment rate dropped by nearly 50%. With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal basic income is working nearly universally. Promising as these pilot programs are, the chances of a truly universal basic income in America remain remote. As for Tydricka Lewis, basic income afforded her the latitude to start her own nonprofit.

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☆ Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue Surrenders to the Furnace - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Erin Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Confederate monuments bear what the anthropological theorist Michael Taussig would call a public secret: something that is privately known but collectively denied. Even Lee’s burial site at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. — where he served as president after the war — has changed. The university decided to focus on Lee the civilian rather than Lee the general, for example by moving a prominent portrait of him in uniform. That’s why the idea to melt Lee down, as violent as it might initially seem, struck me as so apt. Confederate monuments went up with rich, emotional ceremonies that created historical memory and solidified group identity.

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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — They were banned under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again. Although abortion is still legal and widely available, new restrictions are being considered as President Vladimir Putin takes an increasingly socially conservative turn and seeks to reverse Russia's declining population. In 2012, the number of “social reasons” for allowing abortion between weeks 12 and 22 was cut to just in the case of rape. He also moved to restrict abortion pills, which are approved to be taken to end a pregnancy in the first 10 weeks.

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Last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision rescinding a five-decade-old right to abortion has reshaped American abortion policy, shifting power to states. Sales of abortion pills in 2022 were up 60%, according to Nikolay Bespalov, development director of the RNC Pharma analytical company. A recent Health Ministry decree restricted circulation of abortion pills, used to terminate pregnancies in the first trimester. Regional authorities have tried to get private clinics to stop offering abortions, with varying success. In Tatarstan, about a third of all private clinics no longer provide them, officials said.

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But hours later, after repeated announcements and a search, authorities moved off — and it was still unclear whether Card had ever been at the location, state police said. Richard Goddard, who lives on the road where the search took place, knows the Card family. The evening shootings killed 18 people and wounded 13 others, with three people still hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. Schools in Lewiston were to remain closed Friday, while those in Portland would decide in the morning whether to open. Ten more will likely be issued once the names of the rest of the dead are confirmed, said Maine State Police Col. William Ross.

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☆ Norfolk Southern profit slumps, takes $163 mln charge on Ohio derailment
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 25 (Reuters) - U.S. railroad operator Norfolk Southern's (NSC.N) third-quarter profit slumped 41% on Wednesday as the company took another hefty charge related to the Eastern Ohio freight train derailment. The company took a $163 million hit in the quarter following a $416 million charge on its quarterly statement in the second quarter and a $387 million charge in the first. Norfolk reported quarterly income from railway operations of$756 million, including the derailment charge, compared to $1.3 billion earned last year. The company's quarterly results were in contrast with that of peer Union Pacific (UNP.N), which reported profit above estimates last Thursday. Reporting by Ananta Agarwal and Mehr Bedi in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun KoyyurOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jonathan Drake, Ananta Agarwal, Mehr Bedi, Arun Koyyur Organizations: University of North, REUTERS, U.S . Justice, Union Pacific, Thomson Locations: Norfolk Southern, Chapel Hill , North Carolina, U.S, Norfolk, Eastern Ohio, of Mexico, Great Lakes, Bengaluru

☆ Why Health Care Workers Are Burning Out
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Noah Weiland | More About Noah Weiland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Federal researchers tracked self-reported mental health symptoms among more than a thousand adult workers in 2018 and 2022, including 226 health care workers in 2018 and 325 in 2022. Compared with other groups surveyed, health care workers reported a substantial jump in poor mental health days in the month prior, from 3.3 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2022. Less than 30 percent of health workers last year described themselves as very happy, a decline from 2018. And the percentage of health care workers reporting harassment on the job more than doubled, compared with the rate in 2018. “Whatever is happening out in the world walks into our health care facilities.”Nearly half of health care workers surveyed said they were somewhat or very likely to look for new work, the researchers found — an ominous sign for providers already struggling to retain staff.

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☆ Donor revolt at Harvard and UPenn over Israel shows big checks often have strings attached
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —Big money donations are booming at America’s colleges, helping fund higher education for millions of students. The biggest donors often sit on universities’ board of trustees, which governs the university and selects university leadership, priorities and direction. The donor backlash at the University of Pennsylvania and uproar at Harvard University over Israel and Palestine highlight how big donations often come with demands for changes to university policy and politics. The backlash has raised questions about the influence big donors wield and pressure donors may exert over leadership, hiring decisions and academic affairs. Restricted giftsMore donations are coming with strings attached, rather than letting schools spend their donations however they want.

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☆ Detroit police say no reason to believe antisemitism behind synagogue leader's killing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Gabriella Borter | Thomson Reuters | Gabriella Borter Is A Reporter On The U.S. National Affairs Team | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The skyline of Detroit is seen looking south from the midtown area in Detroit, Michigan October 23, 2013. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 23 (Reuters) - Officials investigating the killing of a synagogue leader in Detroit over the weekend said on Monday that the crime does not appear to have been motivated by antisemitism, although the investigation is still ongoing. "We believe that there are no other groups or anyone else at risk in regards to this particular incident. We believe that this incident was not motivated by antisemitism," White said, adding that the investigation was still young. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel remembered Woll in a post on X as being driven by "her sincere love of her community, state and country."

Persons: Rebecca Cook, James White, Samantha Woll, Isaac, White, Woll, Dana Nessel, Gabriella Borter, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, Detroit Police, . Police, Police, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Detroit, Detroit , Michigan, U.S, Israel, Detroit's Lafayette Park, Michigan

☆ Opinion | Israel’s Moral and Political Dilemmas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

But nowhere does he mention the deep visceral hatred of Hamas and associated groups toward Israel. It was always apparent that not long after the Oct. 7 massacre Israel would lose the public relations war. Israel does not deliberately target civilians. No serious defender of Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 massacres argues that the lives of Israeli children are worth more than those of Gazan children. Hamas would be considered “heroes” in the eyes of most of the world and its leadership would have attained political legitimacy.

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Edey was joined by Marquette guard Tyler Kolek, Kansas center Hunter Dickinson, Duke big man Kyle Filipowski and North Carolina forward Armando Bacot. Edey is the second straight AP player of the year to return for another season, following Kentucky's Oscar Tschiebwe in 2021-22. Well, he doesn’t have that.”Kolek had a dynamic second season at Marquette after transferring from George Mason. 5 ranking in the AP preseason poll. He averaged 13.7 points and 10.1 rebounds while shooting 56% from the floor last season to earn third-team AP All-America honors.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday pitched new maps for the state's congressional districts starting in 2024 that appear to threaten the reelection of at least three current Democratic U.S. House members. Senate redistricting committee leaders introduced two proposals that would rework the boundary lines for the state's 14 U.S. House seats. The state House and Senate want to enact a final plan by the end of the month. He said House leaders “worked with Senate leadership on the congressional plan,” but he didn't say which Senate plan the House supported. House and Senate redistricting committees also filed separate legislation Wednesday that would rework their own districts — the House for its 120 seats and the Senate for its 50 seats.

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☆ These 53 college towns 'eat the most Chipotle' — and the chain will reward them by staying open until midnight on Halloween
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Chipotle said it plans to keep 53 college-town stores open until midnight on Halloween. The chain said it is targeting college towns popular with Gen Z, a group that likes to eat late. But instead of going national with its late-night business, Chipotle is targeting "college towns that eat the most Chipotle," the chain announced Wednesday. The fresh-Mex chain, which has more than 3,250 restaurants, said 53 college towns will stay open until midnight on Halloween – a busy night for the brand. "Over the past two years, Chipotle has seen a 30 percent increase in transactions after 8 p.m. on Halloween and 81 percent of 18- to 26-year-olds surveyed reported wanting to see Chipotle open until midnight," the chain said.

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Special prosecutors are seeking to recharge actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie in 2021, describing Tuesday their preparations to present new information to a grand jury. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesAttorneys for Baldwin said the latest move by prosecutors is misguided. Special prosecutors initially dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against Baldwin in April, saying they were informed the gun might have been modified before the shooting and malfunctioned. The weapons supervisor on the movie set, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering in the case. In the revived case against Baldwin, a grand jury would “determine whether probable cause exists to bind Baldwin over on criminal charges,” special prosecutors said.

Persons: Alec Baldwin, Kari Morrissey, Jason Lewis, they’ll, Halyna Hutchins, Baldwin, Joel Souza, “, ” Morrissey, Lewis, ” Baldwin, ”, Luke Nikas, Alex Spiro, Baldwin —, Lucien Haag, Hannah Gutierrez, Reed, “ Rust, David Halls, Hutchins, “ Rust ”, Matthew Hutchins, Andrew Dalton, Susan Montoya Bryan Organizations: SANTA FE, —, FBI, Forensic Science Services, Authorities, Associated Press Locations: SANTA, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Mexico, Arizona, Italian, Montana, Los Angeles, Albuquerque , New Mexico

☆ An 11,000-year-old statue of a man holding his penis could reveal secrets about a mysterious Neolithic culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A 7.5-foot-tall statue of a man clutching his penis with both hands was uncovered in an ancient site. AdvertisementAdvertisementArchaeologists have uncovered an 11,000-year-old statue of a man clutching his penis — a discovery that could shed new light on a mysterious Neolithic culture. The Urfa man, a 6.2-foot-tall statue of a man seeming to protect his erect penis with both hands, was notably found nearby. Urfa man, also known as the Balikligol statue, is shown in at Archeology Museum in Sanliurfa on February 22, 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe statue guards its mysterious meaningIt's not clear what the statue was meant to represent and how it fits within this mysterious Neolithic culture.

Persons: —, OZAN KOSE, Necmi Karul, Karahan, Gobekli, Esber, Sean Thomas, Thomas, Karul, Benjamin Arbuckle, Klaus Schmidt, Schmidt, Lee Clare, Clare, Ted Banning, Banning, Arbuckle Organizations: Service, Getty, Istanbul University, Agence France Presse, UNESCO, Archeology Museum, Anadolu Agency, The Spectator, AFP, University of North, Chapel, Smithsonian Magazine, Archaeological Institute, BBC, University of Toronto Locations: Karahan Tepe, Turkey, Karahantepe, Sanliurfa, AFP, Syria, Turkiye, Asia, University of North Carolina, Gobekli Tepe, Karahan, Gobekli

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected North Carolina's appeal in a dispute with animal rights groups over a law aimed at preventing undercover employees at farms and other workplaces from taking documents or recording video. The justices left in place a legal victory for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in its challenge to the law, which was enacted in 2015. PETA has said it had wanted to conduct an undercover investigation at testing laboratories at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but feared prosecution under the law. An appeals court ruled that the law could not be enforced against PETA — and likely others in similar situations — when its undercover work is being performed to conduct newsgathering activities. The Supreme Court has so far refused to weigh in.

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[1/5] English sparkling wine, brand Coates and Seely, is pictured at the Tate Modern art gallery in London, Britain, October 6, 2023. But with vineyards now dotted across hills in southern England and sustainability concerns growing, local fizz is emerging as the drink of choice. Quality has improved, and English wine is no longer mocked by continental neighbours who once joked it tasted of rain. English sparkling and still wine feeds into that narrative," he said. In the UK market for sparkling wine, English fizz accounts for 3% of volumes compared to Champagne's 12%.

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Most of the school burned down, but its leaders quickly got classes up and running at Sacred Hearts Mission Church 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. Sacred Hearts and other private schools across the state took in displaced public school students, such as Cuaresma, while offering a year of free tuition. Other students bused more than 45 minutes away to public schools on the other side of Maui or opted for remote classes. Debbie Tau’s two children won’t return to their Lahaina schools because she also is worried the air isn’t safe. Patrick Williams said the first time he saw his son Kupaʻa praying at Sacred Hearts reminded him of his own childhood in Mississippi.

Persons: ”, Cailee Cuaresma, “ I’m, Cuaresma, Tonata Lolesio, “, Lahaina , King Kamehameha III, Nāhiʻenaʻena, Tiffany Teruya, Puʻuwai, Debbie Tau’s, Patrick Williams, ’ ” Williams, Williams, Gabby Suzik, Suzik, ” Suzik, Charlene Ako, Ako, Maile Organizations: Lahainaluna High, Sacred Hearts School, Hearts Mission, Hearts, Workers, Assistance Dogs, Lahaina, Maui Preparatory Academy, Lahaina’s, Maui Prep Locations: LAHAINA, Hawaii, Maui, Lahaina, Lahaina , King, Kihei, COVID, Mississippi, Asuncion, Waiola

☆ For Palestinian Americans and activists, doxxing is nothing new
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN is not naming the site because it reveals the identities of students and other individuals without their consent. A conservative nonprofit said it organized the truck featuring the virtual billboards with students’ names and images under a banner that reads: “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.”Palestinian human rights activists say doxxing is nothing new. They told CNN they’ve feared losing jobs and endured psychological harm for advocating for fair treatment of Palestinians under occupation – or for simply being Palestinian themselves. Doxxing is the release of personal information without a person’s consent, often with malicious intent, according to the International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. Despite the reality of harassment for Palestinian Americans, the student said, the current sense of hysteria on the Harvard campus is unprecedented.

Persons: Fouad Abu, Israel, Hijleh, “, CNN they’ve, ” Abu, ”, ” Dylan Saba, ” Saba, ” Lena Ghrama, ” Ghrama, Ghrama, ” Harvard Hillel, Meredith Weenick, Bill Ackman, UC Berkeley Law Dean, Erwin Chemerinsky Organizations: New, New York CNN, University of North, CNN, West Bank, Harvard, International, Gender, Media, Communication, Facebook, ” CNN, Palestinian, UN, Palestine, City University of New York School, Law, ”, Jewish, Holocaust, Alliance, Harvard University, University of California, Department of Education, Daily Cal, UC Berkeley Law, Justice, Peace, “ Locations: New York, Jordan, University of North Carolina, Chapel, Abu, Israel, Israeli, Gaza, Palestine, Brooklyn, undergrad, Berkeley

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