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Tuscaloosa News
April 24, 2018
On Tuesday, “S-Town” was named as one of five recipients of the George Foster Peabody Award in the “Radio/Podcast” category. ... “Being with him really felt like really being off the grid in a way that the normal rules of society don't totally matter, and he created that feeling,” Reed told The TuscaloosaÃâà...
The Journal Pioneer
April 24, 2018
SUMMERSIDE – The Walk for Alzheimer's brings people and fundraising together in support of Alzheimer's disease. Registration for the Alzheimer Society of P.E.I.'s Walk for Alzheimer's is now open. Visit www.walkpei.ca or contact the Alzheimer Society of P.E.I. at 902-370-3136. You can demonstrate yourÃâà...
ANI News
April 24, 2018
Chiao, an internationally renowned expert on urbanisation who conceptualized the Imagine 2060 program with Asia Society's global leadership, said, "Our 2018 theme, Towards a Clear Sky, does not just look at the policies that can be put in place to restore the harmony between city development and airÃâà...
Broadway World
April 24, 2018
The Handel and Haydn Society has announced that Debra Nagy has won its Principal Oboe position, effective July 1, 2018. ... "The position of Principal Oboe with the Handel and Haydn Society is one of the most prestigious and sought-after among period instrument orchestras worldwide," said Nagy.
Business Insider
April 24, 2018
Facts and evidence have started taking a backseat to opinion, and that mentality is bleeding into investing, according to Bernstein. The firm scoured millions of books spanning 400 years in an attempt to provide quantifiable evidence of this trend. Bernstein argues that this is a harmful mindset that distortsÃâà...
Bloomberg Big Law Business
April 23, 2018
The disqualification hearing had the elements of tabloid fodder: a big-dollar divorce, allegations of asset concealment, and well-known lawyers-including Marc E. Kasowitz, who made a personal appearance and is best known as one of Trump's go-to lawyers. But the hearing took place in a nearly emptyÃâà...
Petoskey News-Review
April 20, 2018
CHARLEVOIX — The Charlevoix Historical Society is showcasing the art and influence of Charlevoix native Irene Harsha Young both in a program and exhibit. The illustrated program will take place at 7 pm. on Tuesday, May 1, at the depot at Depot Beach. The program will be presented by historicalÃâà...
Santa Barbara Edhat
April 20, 2018
Sheriff Bill Brown, who has a son with autism, said he understands the nuances and challenges that autism brings, especially during interactions with law enforcement. He said, “I want to thank the Autism Society for sponsoring this valuable training. My hope is that the first responders who attended nowÃâà...
GMA News
April 20, 2018
One such leader is Indira Jaising of the Lawyers Collective in India, which advocates for women, the poor and minorities. "Indira Jaising's little NGO punches far above its weight because it can outsource staff and infrastructure; the Internet lets it communicate widely at low cost and enables volunteers toÃâà...
CANOE
April 20, 2018
American Lindsay Souvannarath pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit murder in a plan that would have seen two shooters open fire at the Halifax Shopping Centre food court in 2015. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Peter Rosinski told the court Friday she is and will remain a threat to society.
Civil Society Media
April 20, 2018
Happy Friday dear readers and if you're anything like the Society Diarist you've probably spent the last two days wandering around squinting up at an azure expanse of clear sky asking out loud to other bemused denizens of your particular conurbation 'what is this giant, heat-giving golden orb and can weÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
April 18, 2018
In celebration of Caldecott Honor recipient Brendan Wenzel's new picture book, Hello Hello, which was released on March 20, Chronicle Books is teaming up with the Wildlife Conservation Society to increase awareness of endangered animals in young readers. Hello Hello introduces species classified asÃâà...
Patch.com
April 18, 2018
LARCHMONT, NY — The Larchmont Historical Society is inviting the community to cozy up to the fireplace at some of Larchmont's most coveted century residences at its annual House Tour from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 6. A reception will follow at the Larchmont Yacht Club from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. TheÃâà...
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
April 18, 2018
The senators said the bill, called the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (S. 2680), will improve the ability of HHS, the FDA, the CDC, the National Institutes of ... Separately, the American Medical Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine jointly announced a proposed alternative paymentÃâà...
Variety
April 18, 2018
If your first instinct upon seeing the title “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is to say, “Well, that's a mouthful,” rest assured that Mike Newell's film has you covered, for a secondary character does the very same. Indeed, pretty much everyone in this crumbly oatmeal biscuit of a movie doesÃâà...
Irish Times
April 18, 2018
In a keynote address on Tuesday on the opening day of sessions at the RSA Conference in San Francisco – one of the world's largest annual security events – Ms Nielsen said society has reached a tipping point where “digital security is converging with personal and physical security. The public is startingÃâà...
The Times
April 18, 2018
What value do we put on civic responsibility in Ireland? Not much, if a casual scan of some of the news stories of the past few days is anything to go by. On Friday, a report revealed that carbon emissions from Irish homes are 60 per cent higher than the European Union average. There are many reasons forÃâà...
The Business Times
April 18, 2018
Founded in 2015, Funding Societies - which goes by Modalku in Indonesia - is headed by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya and describes itself as a digital lending platform which helps to connect small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia with retail and institutional lenders.
Free Times
April 18, 2018
This isn't your grandmother's Jane Austen. While Kate Hamill's new stage adaptation is faithful to Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility, second-year M.F.A. candidate Lindsay Rae Taylor has delved deeply into her director's bag of tricks, employing non-traditional narrative techniques to enliven theÃâà...
Deseret News
April 18, 2018
The announcement that Brigham Young University would serve as host for the Society for Political Methodology (SPM)'s annual meeting, PolMeth, on July 18-21, 2018, led several members of the society to express concerns regarding the school's Honor Code. This week, SPM issued a statement thatÃâà...
Vox
April 17, 2018
Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, written with economist Edward S. Herman, relates to the latter half of the conversation about why, if there are relatively easy fixes to our society's happiness problem, those changes aren't implemented. According to Hari, the bookÃâà...
Fast Company
April 17, 2018
We can generate much more income for society if we hold more assets–like natural resources, carbon tax payments, or a sovereign wealth fund–in common, ... This is at a time when, as a nation, we're already $21 trillion in debt, and many of us aren't keen to pay more taxes (Yang would institute a nationalÃâà...
Chronicle Telegram
April 16, 2018
LORAIN — The Lorain Historical Society unveiled a new room for children Sunday afternoon that allows kids to see history and interact with it. The Children's ... The Charles Berry Bridge in Lorain is the second-largest bascule bridge in the world, built in 1939 and dedicated in 1940. A bascule bridge is aÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 16, 2018
Coming to Sharjah from five continents, among the many famous international authors are Britain's Ed Vere, whose 'Max the Brave' is a New York Times best-seller and was named one of The Sunday Times' 100 modern children's classics; Varun Pruthi, an Indian humanitarian, actor, director and socialÃâà...
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
April 16, 2018
That double standard is an unfortunate example of hypocrisy in society. If a white person uses the N-word, they are immediately scorned for their behavior, it is deemed inappropriate and they are quickly labeled as a racist. While I agree that the word can be offensive and inappropriate to use, I find itÃâà...
New Statesman
April 16, 2018
Entitled, arrogant and reckless with money– this is the stereotype levelled at young people in the UK today. But this is generally an image of young people in the south, and ignores the reality for thousands of young men and women in the north. The recent backlash against Labour's youth-friendly policy ofÃâà...
Fylde Borough Council
April 16, 2018
The Society was founded in 1912 with the original objective to stimulate interest in all forms of Pictorial and Applied Art, by meeting for painting, sketching from nature, discussion, criticism and by holding an annual exhibition. The society has flourished and still pursues those same objectives today with membershipsÃâà...
Honi Soit
April 16, 2018
The Sydney Arts Students Society (SASS) is the largest faculty society on campus. It aims to provide a “vibrant experience and dynamic opportunities” for its 17,000+ members, a figure that represents around 30% of the total student body. With these sorts of numbers, a rich history of contribution to theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 15, 2018
“The person who wants to die presses the button and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. He or she will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die,” said Nitschke. The Sarco was a device “to provide people with a death when they wish to die,” Nitschke said. The inventors put a model ofÃâà...
The Guardian
April 15, 2018
The father of Isaiah Haastrup has spoken of his anguish that he has not yet been able to bury his son, who died after doctors won a court battle to remove life support from the profoundly brain-damaged one-year-old. Five weeks after Isaiah died, a coroner is investigating the cause of death and an autopsyÃâà...
The Guardian
April 14, 2018
He added: “Some people do need extra legal help and support, and if they don't get it they may end up without benefits they're entitled to. “Access to justice is a fundamental human right as well as a sign of a civilised society. We'd urge the government to reverse the changes that are hitting disabled peopleÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
Reich defines the common good as consisting in “our shared values about what we owe one another as citizens who are bound together in the same society.” What binds us as Americans, he argues, is not birth or ethnicity but a commitment to fundamental ideals and principles: respect for the rule of lawÃâà...
University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
April 2, 2018
Satvika Neti, a digital social justice advocate at the Women and Girls Foundation, spoke after an intermission about how society is moving toward a more intersectional future where interconnections between race, class and other social categorizations are more fully recognized. She said her goal is to getÃâà...
TownandCountrymag.com
April 2, 2018
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FIU News
April 2, 2018
Stempel College dean inducted into Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars ... The Society of Scholars was established in 1967 on the recommendation of former university president Milton S. Eisenhower and was approved by the Board of Trustees. Society members, nominated by JHU faculty, have achievedÃâà...
Haaretz
April 2, 2018
With all the difficulties faced over the years, I have never doubted the possibility of change; I fight because I know change is possible. Change is possible because there are great people fighting with us – not because we are poor refugees and need shelter, but for better society we all aspire to live in.
Longford Leader
April 2, 2018
We don't need Sean to tell us that our local musical talent is top shelf stuff, but that didn't stop the Leader asking his opinion. “There's super talent in Longford,” he said with enthusiasm. “Everyone is very creative and St Mel's Musical Society has such a good reputation as well. They're very talented.” He wasÃâà...
The Verge
April 2, 2018
To really find out if coffee is beneficial, researchers should conduct randomized trials where thousands of participants are either assigned to a coffee-drinking group or a no-coffee group, and followed for at least five years, Ioannidis says. But Arnett says that in our society, where coffee is so prevalent, it'd beÃâà...
The Hindu
April 1, 2018
The elections were to be held on Monday. T.M.N. Deepak, a disability rights activists, said another visually impaired candidate had filed his nomination on Saturday for the post of director of the society. “This is a significant victory. We have called off our protest as of now,” he said. S. Nambu Rajan, an activistÃâà...
The Guardian
March 30, 2018
Porn performers are complaining that Google Drive is no longer allowing them to share erotic videos with private clients. Microsoft has announced new rules banning “offensive language” from conversations on Skype and Xbox. And Reddit has closed sex industry discussion groups entitled “Escorts”,Ãâà...
Cecil Daily
March 24, 2018
ELKTON — The Historical Society of Cecil County's next exhibit, “Historic Threads 150 years of Clothing and Accessories and the Stories that Bind them,” will not ... There is a connection between men's beards and women's fashions in a study published in The Atlantic, in which Jane Richardson and AlfredÃâà...
Dayton Daily News
March 24, 2018
A reward is offered for anyone who saw or knows anything about a dog found burned to death. The Humane Society of Greater Dayton's partner, Lexus of Dayton, is offering $1,500 to anyone with information that leads to catching those responsible, the agency announced tonight. The incident was reportedÃâà...
Psychology Today (blog)
March 24, 2018
Second, the main claim of this argument is this: the moral degradation of our society is what causes us to have more gun violence. ... degradation of American society is the problem, we should be able to find a correlation between how amoral other societies are and how bad their gun violence problem is.
MDJOnline.com
March 24, 2018
The Bow Wow Brunch, the third annual fundraiser for the Atlanta Humane Society, holds a special place in Cindy Voyles' heart. “I think it stands out because it is a family friendly event, and we get to bring puppies (up for adoption) to it,” said Voyles, who is co-chairing the event with her husband, Bill, andÃâà...
The Guardian
March 23, 2018
“As local governments have seen their budgets squeezed, there has been a push to commission generic one-size-fits-all bed spaces at lower cost, but without the security, support and expertise of life-saving refuge places. A refuge is more than just a bed for the night; it is a lifeline for thousands of womenÃâà...
Newsweek
March 23, 2018
Rose continued, "We don't make our son live by society [sic] norms that's why he's so special. "Liking a certain type of music will not make you 'pick' your sexuality you dumb f---s," Rose wrote. “P.S. my son just got accepted into the most prestigious private school in Los Angeles because he's smart as f--kÃâà...
BBC News
March 23, 2018
A climber from Cardiff who died while saving his wife during a rock fall in the United States has been given an award for his bravery. Andrew Foster, 32, was killed when he and his wife Lucy were hit by falling rocks at El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in California. Making the award, the Royal HumaneÃâà...
First Things
March 23, 2018
It is a quasi-voluntary response to the drift of things, from deep in the conscience of society. It is, fundamentally, a cultural adjustment, necessary and ... Sixties libertinism is now more problematic for our societies than even ELP's noodlings were in '76. Together with its cultural offshoots—industrial abortion,Ãâà...
The Keene Sentinel
March 23, 2018
Weeklong summer camps for students in grades 3-5 will be held in July at the historic Wyman Tavern Museum. The camps will feature hands-on learning about life in Cheshire County during the eighteenth century and will be held July 9-13 and July 23-27. At this year's 18th century camps, children willÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
March 23, 2018
This is a society that recognizes and affirms diversity from within, and not only accepts those differences, but seeks to understand and learn from them. ... aim to develop future leaders from all backgrounds with the skills and knowledge to support positive development in their societies and beyond. PluralismÃâà...
