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The Parkland shooter’s life sentence could bring changes to Florida law

15Oct

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The Parkland shooter’s life sentence could bring changes to Florida law

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is escorted into the courtroom for a hearing regarding possible jury misconduct during deliberations in the penalty phase of his trial on Oct. 14, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Amy Beth Bennett/AP hide caption toggle caption Amy Beth Bennett/AP Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is escorted into the courtroo...

The Communist Party of China opens its 20th congress and will give Xi his third term

15Oct

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The Communist Party of China opens its 20th congress and will give Xi his third term

The Communist Party of China will renew its organs of power in the 20th congress which starts tomorrow in a context of capital challenges both internal and external. The casuistry suggests that the event jubilees Xi Jinping but it is only debated who will accompany him at the helm for the next five years. Their third term What general secretary of the party it is taken for granted after the constitutional reform that dynamited the limits imposed by Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the reforms, to avoid excessive leadership. Xi's inaugural speech, which hovered around the three hours in earlier editions, it is the first item of interest. The zero covid policy, wh...

Samsung Galaxy Watch 5, análisis y opinión

15Oct

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5, análisis y opinión

Parece que fue ayer cuando analizamos los Galaxy Watch 4, pero ya ha pasado un añito y era el momento de que Samsung renovara su familia de wearables. Hace unas semanas mi compañero Rubén hizo un espectacular análisis del Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, el modelo más “serio” y grandote de los nuevos relojes y ahora, tras unas cuantas semanas usándolo tanto de día como de noche, es el momento de contarte mi opinión del Galaxy Watch 5.Como ya deberías saber, es el modelo de Samsung más enfocado a la práctica deportiva y aspira a ser uno de los mejores relojes para Android, algo que tendrá que pelear con su hermano mayor y con contendientes como el Ticwatch Pro 3 Ultra.Galaxy Watch 5 de 44 mmDimensiones y peso43,3 x 44,4 x 9,8 mm | 33,5 gramosPantallaPanel AMOLED de 1,4" | Resolución de 450 x...

Texas school board’s religious curriculum does students a disservice

15Oct

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Texas school board’s religious curriculum does students a disservice

On rosh hashanah, the shofar sounds, marking the beginning of the Jewish New Year. This year, Rosh Hashanah fell on Sept. 26 – the same day the Texas State Board of Education scheduled a public hearing to discuss religious freedoms and the social studies curriculum for students from kindergarten through grade 12. There are certain ironies to this SBOE hearing. One, that a meeting to discuss freedom of religion was scheduled on one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar. Jewish community members were forced to choose between civic participation and attending prayer services, and inevitably, Jewish voices were missing at special hearing. The more voices that are omitted from a democratic process, the less democratic that process becomes.This High Holy Days season is a time for i...

From Romantics to 21st century radicals: Coleridge, Shelley and the roots of communal living | Books

15Oct

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From Romantics to 21st century radicals: Coleridge, Shelley and the roots of communal living | Books

FRiends who have lived in communes tell me the worst thing is the endless meetings. All those issues a household bickers into resolution – who will sort the recycling, who finished the milk – are decided by committee. Yet from Findhorn ecovillage in Moray to the co-housing community at Postlip Hallin Gloucestershire, Britain has more than 400 “intentional communities” or communes, and in the post-Covid era they're fielding more inquiries than ever.Some people turn to co-housing to be able to afford a roof over their head. But many, according to the website of umbrella organization Diggers & Dreamers, are looking for a more values-led, potentially unorthodox way of life. There are echoes of the 1960s and 70s experiments in communal self-sufficiency, when food was farmed organically, ...

Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy | Peter Thiel

15Oct

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Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy | Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is far from the first billionaire who has wielded his fortune to try to influence the course of American politics. But in an election year when democracy itself is said to be on the ballot, he stands out for assailing a longstanding governing system that he has described as “deranged” and in urgent need of “course correction”.The German-born investor and tech entrepreneur, a Silicon Valley “disrupter” who helped found PayPal alongside Elon Musk and made his fortune as one of the earliest investors in Facebook, has catapulted himself into the top ranks of the mega-donor class by pouring close to $30m into this year's midterm elections.He's not merely favoring one party over another, but is supporting candidates who deny the legitimacy of Joe Biden's election as president and...

The cost to capture carbon? More water and electricity | Toilet

15Oct

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The cost to capture carbon? More water and electricity | Toilet

Floodlight is a nonprofit news organization that partners with local outlets and the Guardian to investigate the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate actionA carbon capture proposal for a central Louisiana power plant has been titled “Project Diamond Vault” by its owner, Louisiana utility Cleco. The utility says the project will have “precious value” to the company, customers and state.Yet less than six months after announcing the project to capture carbon from the plant's emissions and store them underground near the plant, Cleco revealed in a recent filing to its state regulator the $900m carbon capture retrofit could reduce electricity produced for its customers by about 30%.Cleco maintains it hasn't committed to this path. But, if it decides to produce addition...

Arrives late, pours your wine and eats onions – 56 dating red flags that should send you running | Dating

15Oct

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Arrives late, pours your wine and eats onions – 56 dating red flags that should send you running | Dating

Picture it, a romantic restaurant, the perfect first date: the lights are low, the music soft, the food exquisite, and the flirting is moving from playful to saucy at just the right pace. And then, as you reach for the last chunk of focaccia … BAM! He licks every one of his fingers, grabs the bread and rips it in two – offering you the smallest half. Innocent mistake? Simple bad manners? Worse: it’s a red flag. Game over.Red flags started out with a serious mission: to alert women to signs of potential coercive control within their relationship – for example, being isolated from their friends, manipulating their recollection of events, and limiting their freedom and autonomy. Now, it’s widened to include far pettier things marking out potential love matches as time-wasters, dimwits or s...

‘Till’ lays bare a palpable fear of Black mothers in white America

15Oct

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‘Till’ lays bare a palpable fear of Black mothers in white America

The story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy kidnapped and brutally murdered in Mississippi by two white men before they dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River in 1955, is not new. That level of racist vileness has been experienced by victims who came before and after the bright-eyed Chicago boy's time, echoing recently in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Yet, in “Till,” filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu offers viewers a different window into Emmett's life through the perspective of his poised and graceful mother, Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler). Many mothers likely carry worries about the safety and well-being of their children. But for Black mothers like Mamie, this is a different sort of anxiety.Through Deadwyler's powerful performance, viewers will feel the palpable fear...

Groups across the country are fighting efforts to expand ‘harmful’ highways

15Oct

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Groups across the country are fighting efforts to expand ‘harmful’ highways

Nearly 60 years after a mile-long interstate uprooted a pair of bustling Black neighborhoods in Detroit, leaders plan to turn part of the highway into a lower-speed boulevard in a $300 million project that will reconnect those neighborhoods and cut down on highway pollution. Last month, the Biden administration awarded Michigan $104.6 million in grant funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law to help with the project.Black Bottom was a predominantly Black neighborhood in the city and the adjacent Paradise Valley served as the town's entertainment and business district, boasting jazz clubs and several other Black-owned businesses. The area was razed and some 100,000 Black residents were displaced when the city built Interstate 375 in 1964 as part of the country's interstate h...