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Current Event ChubrosMichigan business owner gives $4M in Christmas bonuses
About 200 employees of a northern Michigan manufacturer received an average $20,000 Christmas bonus. Ludington-based FloraCraft surprised its employees during a holiday lunch on Friday, Dec. 14, when owner and Chairman Lee Schoenherr announced plans to give nearly $4 million in bonuses. Top gifts to employees with more than 40 years of tenure will exceed $60,000, the company. The gifts are a combination of cash bonuses and 401(k) contributions.
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1 day ago
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‘Daredevil’ Actress Says Netflix Was Responsible for Cancellation, Not Marvel
Viewers were surprised by the cancellation of “Daredevil” last month; so was the cast. Charlie Cox called it “painful,” and now his castmate Amy Rutberg has said that even “people high up at Marvel” were shocked by the move — and that Netflix was solely responsible for the decision.
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4 days ago
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Genetic study of people with acne raises prospect of new treatment
The world’s first genetic study of people with acne has raised the prospect of new treatments for those with severe cases of the skin condition. The study of almost 27,000 people, including 5,602 with severe acne, identified genetic differences that were more common in people with the skin condition. Scientists found that many of the genetic variants influenced the formation of hair follicles, which was previously an unknown risk factor for the condition. The researchers think that differences...
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4 days ago
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Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses
Fentanyl is now the drug most frequently involved in overdose deaths in the U.S., according to a National Vital Statistics System report published Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report sheds a bright light on the changing nature of America's drug landscape — and the devastating number of overdose deaths that have occurred in the U.S. in recent years.
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4 days ago
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Russian Maria Butina pleads guilty in case to forge Kremlin bond with U.S. conservatives
Butina becomes the first Russian national convicted of trying to sway U.S. policy in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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5 days ago
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Fallout 76's New Ultrawide Mode Comes Under Fire From Players
Bethesda has irked PC players with the new 21:9 resolution support in Fallout 76's latest patch. This week's Fallout 76 patch saw a number of changes roll out for the game, including adding ultrawide screen resolution support. However, players on Reddit have discovered that the new ultrawide mode appears to be nothing more than a modification to the INI file, meaning that 16:9 aspect ratio has been stretched to meet the wider resolution, rather than being a true 21:9 display.
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7 days ago
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A New Harvard Study Suggests the Gender Wage Gap Doesn't Exist
“Gender pay gap is worse than thought: Study shows women actually earn half the income of men,” NBC announced recently in reference to a report titled “Still a Man’s Labor Market” by the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which found that women's income was 51 percent less than men’s earnings. What do you think of when you hear the phrase “gender pay gap”? Perhaps you think of a man and woman who work exactly the same job at exactly the same place...
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7 days ago
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Crypto Bear Market Has Even Led $15 Billion Bitmain to Lay Off Employees
The latest crypto firm to feel pressure due to continued price decline and bear market, is the $15 billion-valued mining giant Bitmain.
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7 days ago
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Earth teeming with strange underground organisms which may be planet's first inhabitants
Earth is teeming with life miles beneath the surface, scientists have discovered, leading to speculation that our distant ancestors may even have evolved deep underground. Researchers at the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) said they had found barely-living ‘zombie’ bacteria and tiny worms, inhabiting entirely new ecosystems more than three miles into the crust. The lifeforms are so numerous that their mass may be up to 385 times that of all humans.
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8 days ago
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Apple's Sitting Out the 5G Party — It's the Right Move
This week, a lot of the focus of the tech industry was on Hawaii, of all places. That was where Qualcomm was putting on a three-ring circus (or was it a luau?) in service of the forthcoming rollout of 5G cellular networks, highlighting the company's strong position as a provider of 5G-capable chips for smartphones, namely the newly announced Snapdragon 855.
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8 days ago
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Swift parrot habitat vital for survival of species could be destroyed by dam
Tasmanian forest considered important for the survival of the critically endangered swift parrot may be bulldozed to build a dam for a fish farm and golf course development. Glamorgan Spring Bay Council, on Tasmania’s east coast, wants to clear about 40ha of what scientists say is critical swift parrot breeding and foraging habitat to develop a 3,000m-litre-a-year dam near the town of Orford. The environment minister, Melissa Price, will now decide whether the proposal goes ahead.
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8 days ago
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Supertall skyscraper hangs from orbiting asteroid in Clouds Architecture Office concept
In a bid to get around terrestrial height restrictions, Clouds Architecture Office has proposed suspending the world's tallest skyscraper from an asteroid, leaving residents to parachute to earth. New York-based Clouds Architecture Office drew up plans for Analemma Tower to "overturn the established skyscraper typology" by building not up from the ground but down from the sky by affixing the foundations to an orbiting asteroid.
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9 days ago
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to quit Trump administration
Speculation about his departure has been rife after reports suggested he was no longer on speaking terms with the president. The White House said another senior aide is in talks to take on the role.
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10 days ago
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Principal bans candy canes because 'J' shape stands for Jesus
A school principal has been placed on leave after banning certain Christmas decorations, including candy canes because they're shaped like the letter 'J," which stands for Jesus. The principal also banned anything red or green in classrooms because they're the colors of Christmas.
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12 days ago
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Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? We’ll Have To, a New Study Finds
If the world hopes to make meaningful progress on climate change, it won’t be enough for cars and factories to get cleaner. Our cows and wheat fields will have to become radically more efficient, too. That’s the basic conclusion of a sweeping new study issued Wednesday by the World Resources Institute, an environmental group. The report warns that the world’s agricultural system will need drastic changes in the next few decades in order to feed billions more people without triggering a cli...
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13 days ago
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Motorola and Nokia’s new phones make $350 look like $1,000
What matters more: how a phone looks or how it performs? “How it performs” might be the obvious answer, but how a phone looks — its design, screen, and ergonomics — vastly affects how it feels to use. If you have to make a trade-off, sometimes performance is the right choice. That’s the story behind two of this season’s most promising new phones, the Nokia 7.1 and the Motorola One. Both phones look a lot like new iPhones, with tall screens, dual cameras, and notches on top. But they ...
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13 days ago
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David Attenborough gives terrifying warning about climate change
Civilisations are going to collapse and much of nature will be wiped out to extinction if humanity doesn't take urgent action on climate change, Sir David Attenborough has warned. The naturalist gave a terrifying picture of the future of humanity during climate talks being held in Poland. He said that humanity was facing a major threat and that leaders had to drive down harmful emissions if they wanted to preserve the natural world.
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13 days ago
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Forget legal weed. Oregon is one step closer to legalizing psychedelic mushrooms
Oregon's Secretary of State has just approved language for a potential ballot initiative that would legalize psychedelic mushrooms. Now organizers need to get 117,578 signatures to actually put their initiative on the ballot. If they get the requisite number of signatures, Oregonians could vote on the decriminalization of psilocybins, or magic mushrooms, in the 2020 general election.
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2 weeks ago
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Manafort Tried to Broker Deal With Ecuador to Hand Assange Over to U.S.
In mid-May 2017, Paul Manafort, facing intensifying pressure to settle debts and pay mounting legal bills, flew to Ecuador to offer his services to a potentially lucrative new client — the country’s incoming president, Lenín Moreno. Mr. Manafort made the trip mainly to see if he could broker a deal under which China would invest in Ecuador’s power system, possibly yielding a fat commission for Mr. Manafort.
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2 weeks ago
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Egyptian star facing five years in jail for wearing 'revealing' dress
An Egyptian actor could face up to five years in prison if found guilty of public obscenity for wearing a see-through dress that revealed her legs. Rania Youssef, an actor and model known for her roles in Egyptian films and television shows, attended the closing ceremony of a film festival in Cairo wearing the black dress, which had a gauze skirt.
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2 weeks ago
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Bears maul Bitcoin yet again; Price under $4k with 7% losses
Though there was a sigh of relief on November 29, when the coin broke the $4,400 barrier, it soon lost its holding at UTC 13:00 yesterday. The coin lost almost $350 off its value in under 6 hours, piling up its losses to 7.27% for the day. Apart from Bitcoin, every single coin that features in the top 30 cryptocurrencies has seen red. Losses range between 5% to 12%, with the recent sensation, Bitcoin SV being the biggest loser in the top 10 coins with a loss of 12.63%.
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2 weeks ago
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How colleges are adapting to the decline in liberal arts majors
The decline in liberal arts enrollment has forced many colleges to eliminate courses and, in some cases, entire majors.
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2 weeks ago
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Michael Moore sarcastically slams Christians on Facebook. But reactions are way harsher.
The meme is not an unfamiliar one this time of year: “Rather than putting ‘Christ’ back in ‘Christmas,’ I’d settle for putting ‘Christ’ back in ‘Christians.'” But when the likes of left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore puts the meme on his Facebook page — in front of his 2.3 million followers — it elicits a bit more of a reaction.
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2 weeks ago
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Remember the “Russia... if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing...” That was a call to action.
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3 weeks ago
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Bethesda Reportedly Rescinds Offer For ‘Fallout 76’ PC Refunds
Back on Thursday, we ran a report indicating that Bethesda was offering refunds to dejected players of the PC version of Fallout 76, with a number of them citing issues with connecting online and performance. However, a follow-up indicates that they aren’t going through with it after all.