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Dafoe, L T; Williams, G L; Dickie, K; Gregersen, U; Knutz, P C; Dam, G; Pedersen, G K; Nohr-Hansen, H; Haggart, J W; DesRoches, K. GSA 2020 Connects Online; Geological Society of America, Abstracts With Programs vol. 52, no. 6, 200-5, 2020 p. 1, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020AM-355218

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More than half of the UK adult population have bought a second-hand item online in the last year – and it’s not just the youngest clicking away, as older consumers are also driving the second-hand shopping mega-trend, according to Evri’s inaugural UK Ecommerce Pulse report.

Royal Mail has launched its latest trial to deliver mail by drone, in collaboration with drone specialists Skyports and Argyll and Bute Council.

Bermuda cyclist Nicholas Narraway claimed victory in the 2-Up Droitwich Cycling Club time-trial in Flyford Flavell, Worcestershire, England, on Tuesday [August 27]. Narraway, competing in a field of 31 riders, posted a time of 19min 22sec and was only a few seconds off the course record. In a social media post, the Droitwich Cycling Club […]

Bermudian cyclist Nicholas Narraway continued his fine form after setting a course record on the new Banbury Star K4/10B ten-mile time-trial in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, on Wednesday [August 28]. Narraway, who rides for Team California, completed the course in a time of 19min 49sec. The previous day, Narraway claimed victory in the 2-Up Droitwich Cycling […]

Gabriella Arnold participated in the final stage of the four-stage Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup, a cycling race held in historic Old Town Florissant. The challenging course wound through the nostalgic streets of one of St. Louis’ most beloved neighborhoods. Representing LA Sweat Racing in the women’s pro/1/2 division, Arnold crossed the finish line […]

Gabriella Arnold, representing LA Sweat Racing, finished 46th in the Women Pro/1/2 Division at the Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup in St. Louis. Arnold completed the race with a time of 1:09.07, 1:05 behind the winner, Mejias Garcia. Related Stories Cyclists Head To Guyana For Championships National Criterium Championships Results Arnold And Narraway Compete […]

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Nic Narraway faced a challenging day at the UCI World Championships during the U23 road race, a demanding 173.6km event from Uster to Zurich. A spokesperson said, “Out of 184 starters, Narraway was among the 80 riders who did not finish the race. “Competing in harsh conditions of pouring rain, strong winds, and hail, the […]

The Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association [ECVA] Senior Beach Volleyball Tournament’s men’s and women’s competitions began at Cul de Sac Bay, St Lucia. In the men’s Group B match, the Bermuda team, consisting of Kyle Hamilton and Benjamin Barnett, overcame Mingo and Fredrick with a score of 2-1. Despite losing the initial game 21-16, Hamilton and […]

The 2024 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour is underway in Nicaragua, with Bermuda players in action. Megan Hands and Kayley Hamilton went 1 & 2 in Women’s Pool A action, while Braedon Cooke and Connor Somerville went 0 & 3 on the opening day in men’s pool C. Hands and Hamilton took on Katherine Quesada and Eugenia Ramírez […]

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Joanne and Gary, rival travel agents compete for their industry's top honor, the Globel Prize, while trying to address their clients' impossible demands in an Off-Broadway comedy that debuts this week, "Craving for Travel."

The 85-minute, two-actor, 30-character comedy was commissioned and produced by Jim Strong, president of the Dallas-based Strong Travel Services travel agency.

"Travel agents are always asked to do the impossible, and this play shows how that is done, from finding the impossible rooms to making dreams come true," Strong told the "Dallas Morning News." "I decided to bring it to life on stage as a comedy in New York."

From "Craving for Travel's" press release:

With their reputations on the line, travel agents Joanne and Gary will tackle any request, no matter how impossible, and any client, no matter how unreasonable. Full of overzealous travelers, overbooked flights, and hoteliers who are just over it, Craving for Travel reminds us why we travel-and everything that can happen when we do.

"Craving for Travel" opens Thursday at the Peter J. Sharp Theater, where it'll run through Feb. 9. Tickets are $32.50 and $49. They can be purchased at CravingForTravel.com, 212-279-4200 or the Ticket Central Box Office (416 W. 42nd St., 12-8 p.m. daily). More than half of the shows are already sold out.

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Rockies manager Bud Black said the team prefers that longtime center fielder Charlie Blackmon move to right field, rather than left.

The activation of autonomic and hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) systems occurs interdependently with behavioral adjustments under varying environmental demands. Nevertheless, laboratory rodent studies examining the neural bases of stress responses have generally attributed increments in these systems to be monolithic, regardless of whether an active or passive coping strategy is employed. Using the shock probe defensive burying test (SPDB) to measure stress-coping features naturalistically in male and female rats, we identify a neural pathway whereby activity changes may promote distinctive response patterns of hemodynamic and HPA indices typifying active and passive coping phenotypes. Optogenetic excitation of the rostral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) input to the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) decreased passive behavior (immobility), attenuated the glucocorticoid hormone response, but did not prevent arterial pressure and heart rate increases associated with rats’ active behavioral (defensive burying) engagement during the SPDB. In contrast, inhibition of the same pathway increased behavioral immobility and attenuated hemodynamic output but did not affect glucocorticoid increases. Further analyses confirmed that hemodynamic increments occurred preferentially during active behaviors and decrements during immobility epochs, whereas pathway manipulations, regardless of the directionality of effect, weakened these correlational relationships. Finally, neuroanatomical evidence indicated that the influence of the rostral mPFC->vlPAG pathway on coping response patterns is mediated predominantly through GABAergic neurons within vlPAG. These data highlight the importance of this prefrontal->midbrain connection in organizing stress-coping responses and in coordinating bodily systems with behavioral output for adaptation to aversive experiences.

God uses three OM Russia Discipleship Centre students to bring hope and help to members of a remote church in Siberia.

Over 50 pastors and family members from Tacloban enjoy a weekend getaway organised by OM Philippines from 7-9 March.

A community of believers from across the world come together to establish houses of prayer along what has been called the Isaiah 19 Highway.

Ten years ago, Lydia* arrived on the field as a single woman. Now married and with two kids, her method of ministry has changed entirely.

By providing holistic care and support to victims of human trafficking, OM hopes to lead them to freedom in Christ.

In January 2013, OM Norway and Norwegian Naval Training Agency agreed on internship programme for deckhands and motormen on board MV Logos Hope.

OM's Riverboat will bring the gospel to six ports in three European countries over the course of three months, starting in December 2017.

OM Ecuador team members and volunteers see God open doors and protect the team during a recent trip to the highlands of Ecuador.

Arizona voters on Election Day approved a sweeping ballot measure that would allow state and local law enforcement to arrest immigrants suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside of ports of entry, while empowering state judges to order deportations. Proposition 314, which creates a series of state crimes targeting immigrants, is modeled after a similar measure in Texas known as S.B. 4 that is currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Only certain portions of Prop 314 are scheduled to go into effect later this month, while the most harmful parts won’t be enforced until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Texas law. The measure has drawn comparisons to Arizona’s controversial S.B. 1070, a 2010 law that also gave local police authority to arrest immigrants suspected of being undocumented, though large parts of it were later struck down by the Supreme Court. For more, we speak with Tucson-based activist Alejandra Pablos, who was targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for her activism and has been facing deportation proceedings for years. “People who are speaking out are the first to feel the chills,” Pablos says of Trump’s looming anti-immigrant crackdown. She urges the Biden administration to do what it can to mitigate the harm, including by closing deportation cases against people like her.

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