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Another game of three thirds

Terry Wills gives the Albion perspective on Monday night's clash.







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Mother pays tribute to dead son

Witnesses still sought to fatal incident.






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B2C commerce startup Wheelocity raises $15 million from Lightspeed, others

The new funding will support Wheelocity’s plans to expand operations across 20,000 towns and villages in southern India over the next year, aiming to reach a user base of 10 million.





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Jesus, Our Faithful Brother (Lesson #4)

What are ways that you can learn to experience more deeply that reality of just how close Christ can be to you? Why is having this experience so important to your faith?




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N.C. Teacher Expresses Her And Other Teachers' Concerns About Reopening Schools

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: School - parents, students and teachers are wondering, what will it look like this year? Will doors actually open, or will students be back on their computers for classes or a mix of both? In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper says he'll make an announcement this week about what his state's schools should do. Teachers like Tamika Walker Kelly are waiting. She teaches elementary school music in Fayetteville, and she's also the president of the North Carolina Association of Educators. She joins us now. Thanks for joining us. TAMIKA WALKER KELLY: Thank you for having me. MCCAMMON: I'd like to start with what you and other teachers in the state are hoping for. What do you want to see happen this fall? WALKER KELLY: So many educators around our state - and, I would say, nationwide - are really concerned about re-entering schools in a safe way. Our safety of our educators and our student is the No. 1 priority of many of us. And so we




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MeFi: "Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by..."

In a place where an act as simple as reading the Quran can be an act of defiance, the Taliban has banned women from hearing other women's voices in its latest attempt to impose their version of Islamic law on Afghanistan, including mandating that women refrain from performing Takbir—an Islamic expression of faith—and from reciting the Quran aloud, even in the presence of other women.

The UN and Amnesty have stated that the oppression of Afghan women, made prisoners in their homes, unable to speak, has erased women from all spheres of life. Girls born in the 20 years free of Taliban rule went to school and learned of their mothers' experience of repression, only to lose the ability to attend school with the Taliban's return in 2021. Women lost their ability to work, learn, travel alone, or receive healthcare and became "faceless, voiceless shadows" in a brutal apartheid against women.

What makes the Taliban's ideology so uniquely repressive of women?

"What sets the Taliban apart from other Islamic groups," Moheq added, "are the tribal codes of Afghanistan also embedded in the Taliban's ideology." A fundamental part of the tribal codes is defining a narrow place for women: They exists as the property of men and for the honor of men. For example, Moheq explained, "the rape of a woman is not seen as wrong because she was raped, but because she represents the honor of a man," and that is what was violated.

The Taliban's ideology was strong enough to draw manpower from the country's tribal areas for long enough to outlast the United States and the Western-backed government in Kabul. In return, as the primary manpower of the Taliban comes from tribal areas of the country, they further reinforce the Taliban's conservative culture, including the continued exclusion of women.

However, a supermajority of Afghan men polled believe women's rights should be a national priority. But they're afraid to speak out:
Among more than 7,500 Afghans living in the country with access to mobile and internet services, the survey found, 66% said they agreed or strongly agreed that human rights for women were a top priority for the future of Afghanistan. Nearly half, or 45% of those, strongly supported the Taliban's control of the country.

Is the international community helping afghan women, or abandoning them?

To the Taliban's nihilist vision for Pashto-Itslamic culture, a proud history of alternatives exist.

UN Women - Afghanistan Gender Profile 2024
Wikipedia | Taliban Treatment of Women




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Latinos Will Never Vote For A Republican, And Other Myths About Hispanics From 2016

There were two major assumptions about Latino voters throughout the presidential campaign: (1) a record number of Latinos would show up on Election Day to oppose Donald Trump's candidacy and (2) the anti-immigration rhetoric that launched Trump's campaign would push conservative-leaning Hispanics to flee the Republican Party. Neither of those assumptions entirely panned out as expected. Prediction 1: The Surge? True. A record number of Latinos did vote this November. But the truth is complicated. The official national exit poll, the one commissioned by the big media organizations, suggests the Latino share of the electorate was higher than ever before — about 11 percent, compared to 10 percent in 2012. "It's very possible that the Latino vote, while reaching a record, may have been swamped by other groups of voters," said Mark Hugo Lopez, the director of Hispanic Research at the Pew Research Center, pointing to states like Florida which Trump won. We won't know the percentage of




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DOJ Watchdog To Review Pre-Election Conduct Of FBI, Other Justice Officials

Updated at 4 p.m. ET The Justice Department's watchdog has launched a sweeping review of conduct by the FBI director and other department officials before the presidential election, following calls from Congress and members of the public. Top advisers to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton have blamed FBI Director James Comey, in part, for her loss in November. Now, federal investigators say they will examine whether public statements by Comey in July, October and November 2016 ran afoul of policies that caution officials not to influence the outcome of an election and to avoid making derogatory comments about people who haven't been formally charged with wrongdoing. Comey has previously told friends and employees that he had few good choices in the investigation into Clinton's handling of classified information on her private email server. In a statement Thursday, Comey said, "I am grateful to the Department of Justice's IG for taking on this review. He is professional and




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Issues of the Environment: Ann Arbor school district making progress toward renewable energy and other sustainability goals

The Ann Arbor School District is transitioning away from the use of fossil fuels. The district was the first to sign up for DTE Energy’s MIGreen Power Program to get to 100% use of renewable energy, and the district will add four more all-electric school buses this academic year. WEMU's David Fair spoke with the Ann Arbor Schools' Director of Capital Programs, Jason Bing, about where the district is today and where it’s headed.




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Fine Art At Sears, And Other 'Stuff You Missed In History Class'

Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey host the popular podcast Stuff You Missed In History Class in the Atlanta offices at HowStuffWorks at Ponce City Market. They joined me during our live show from the rooftop of Ponce City Market to talk about what it’s like to produce a history podcast in a historic building – and also some of their personal connections with the Sears company, which built this building in 1926.




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Margo Price On The Mysterious Process Of Album-Making And Motherhood

The day Margo Price walked into the studio to start recording her new album, That's How Rumors Get Started , she had butterflies in her stomach, a mixture of excitement, trepidation — and morning sickness. "I definitely was not expecting to be pregnant," she says. "I had planned to go into the studio regardless of what was happening in my personal life." Her daughter Ramona was born last June — and her new album is now out in the world, too. Price says that the two processes, making an album and having a baby, were eerily similar. "I think when you're making art and you're creating something, you have this feeling of protection," she says. "You keep it to yourself at first, and it's evolving and growing and changing. And the same [can be said] when you're carrying a baby. It's such a process that it's really hard to describe either one. I think they're both kind of mysterious in their own way. It's something that's just so personal." NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke to Margo Price about staying




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Laurence Fishburne, Others To Honor Jessye Norman At Funeral

The public funeral for opera star Jessye Norman has been set for Saturday in Georgia and will feature tributes from actor Laurence Fishburne, civil rights activist Vernon Jordan and Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald. The funeral will be at the William B. Bell Auditorium in Augusta. A private interment will follow. There are two public viewings — on Thursday and Friday.




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Susan Rice Talks Of Balancing Career And Motherhood, Reflects On Benghazi

Looking back at more than 25 years in public service, Susan Rice — former U.N. ambassador for the United States and national security adviser to President Barack Obama — describes much of her career as a balancing act. Sometimes, that meant toeing the line between her personal and professional life. "My now 22-year-old son, in fact, learned to walk in the halls of the State Department," recalls Rice in an interview with NPR. "And there were those who thought that was a little bit inappropriate for the staid halls of the State Department." But luckily, she says, she had the support of then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Other times, Rice had to balance her ambition with her identity as a person of color: At the age of 28, having just started her career in government, Rice turned down a position working on African policy for the Clinton administration out of fear of pigeonholing herself. She worried "this predominantly white national security establishment would see [her] as




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Yet another Halcyon trivia event

Let's meet for Tuesday trivia night at Halcyon Brewing in Greenwood. Trivia starts at 7:30pm. Let's meet up at 7pm. Trivia is held in the room without the bar. The room may be empty at 7pm, but fills up as 7:30pm approaches. All ages. Maximum number of team members is 6, but we can split if there are more. No entry fee. Check Halcyon's Facebook page for category hints. Brush up on the latest news (regular, pop culture, and sports) beforehand, or not and we'll make our best guesses.




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Well heck, it's another Helloween cartoon!

By Satan's forelock, it's Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2024. Not much to be scared about this year, amirite? So this year I've just drawn up my favorite cartoon scalawags mixed in with a liberal dose of tales about THE END OF THE WORLD! Nuthin' special and no worries about HOW WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. Enjoy!

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A Mother-Daughter Conspiracy

What do Herod, Herodias, Salome, and John the Baptist have to do with end-time Bible prophecy?



  • Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

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Trump Overhauls Key Environmental Law To Speed Up Pipelines And Other Projects

In Atlanta today, President Trump will announce big changes to the regulations that govern one of the nation's most significant environmental laws. The aim is to speed up approval for major projects like pipelines and highways, but critics say it could sideline the concerns of poor and minority communities impacted by those projects, and discount their impact on climate change. The 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. It requires federal agencies to consider the environmental effects of proposed projects before they are approved. It also gives the public and interest groups the ability to comment on those evaluations. The administration's new regulations are expected to reduce the types and number of projects that will be subject to review under the NEPA. An earlier version of the proposed rules truncated those reviews in an effort to streamline processes that can take years to complete. It also dropped a requirement




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A Mother-Daughter Conspiracy

What do Herod, Herodias, Salome, and John the Baptist have to do with end-time Bible prophecy?



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Conozca a los 'Kitchen Brothers': los hermanos que comparten su amor por la cocina




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Turn the Other Cheek: the radical case for nonviolent resistance

The Sermon on the Mount is one of the greatest gifts of scripture to humanity; just ask Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Leo Tolstoy. In a time when an eye for an eye still seems to hold sway, IDEAS producer Sean Foley explores the logic of Christian non-violence, beginning with Jesus' counsel to 'turn the other cheek.'




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Another winter house fire

A DOG has been evacuated from the backyard of a western Sydney home that went up in flames this morning.




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The mainstream media was 2024’s other big loser. Is there any path forward? |Opinion




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(3) cmerry???? on X: "@Squad_sussex96 She was chasing a bunch of other rich boys too. Willys friends called her The Mattress ????I think the options dried up for both so they both had to settle for each other ???? https://t.co/VpRCXfE63B" / X

She was chasing a bunch of other rich boys too. Willys friends called her The Mattress I think the options dried up for both so they both had to settle for each other




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Who really won the US election? The fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries.




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The Avett Brothers: A Family Affair

Watching the Avett Brothers in concert is a liberating voyage of the soul. Some moments are tender, others winking and at times it often feels like a Sunday morning revival.






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The Avett Brothers, Bonnie Raitt Lead MerleFest 2025 Lineup

MerleFest, presented by Window World, has announced the initial lineup ahead of the annual event, taking place April 24-27, 2025




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Letters: Denver does not need Ball Arena development and Kroenke doesn’t need another billion dollars

"Please, Mr. Kroenke. You have your 124,000 playground ranch and billions in cash. Can't we have some space? How much money do you need?"




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Ella Hagen, already a three-sport individual state champion, adds another trophy by dominating Class 4A state cross country meet

Ella Hagen won her second Class 4A cross country crown on Saturday at the Norris Penrose Event Center.





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Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on abortion and other tough questions

By DAVID A. LIEB Life, death, crime and taxes will be on ballots for voters to decide this fall. More than 140 measures are going before voters in 41 states during the general election alongside choices for president and other top offices. The ballot questions will give voters a chance to directly decide some consequential […]




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Songs his mother taught him: In “Avaaz,” it’s the joy that endures | Theater review

Playwright Micheal Shayan as his mother Roya welcomes you to Tehran-geles, CA in the one-mother show “Avaaz” at the Denver Center.




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Reintroduced Colorado wolf likely died after fight with another wolf, federal wildlife officials say

One of Colorado's reintroduced wolves likely died of wounds it suffered during a fight with another wolf, federal officials announced Thursday.




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Paige: Denver Broncos find themselves in yet another quarterback controversy

For the sake of this argument, the dueling quarterbacks will be Mark Sanchez, the man of journey, vs. Paxton Lynch, the rookie of potential.  Sides have been taken. Who you got, Broncos fans?




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If You Will Teach Mediation (or Other DR Course) Next Year, Read This

At this year’s AALS ADR Section WIP Conference, I presented data showing that more than 90% of law school mediation courses and more than 90% of the coverage in popular mediation texts focus on the mediator’s role.  I asked people what they think the emphasis generally should be in generic mediation courses, and here are … Continue reading If You Will Teach Mediation (or Other DR Course) Next Year, Read This




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Flicks of the Week: Will Smith TKOs Another Role



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Ahmaud Arbery Mother’s Speaks Out As Murder Trial Begins



The 25-year-old was killed on Feb. 23, 2020.





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Are MJ and Justin Getting in Each Other’s Way?



Selfish actions won’t always bring you happiness.