You won't be flying long before you encounter passengers who are nervous about flying. When it first happened to me, it caught me unprepared. I should have been ready with some good answers because the nervous flyer was my mom. In our family lore was the story of the plane crash that Mom survived when she was only 25 years old. She was a passenger on a Sikorsky S42B Clipper that caught fire on takeoff at Manaus, Brazil, and sank in the middle of the Amazon River. She barely escaped with her life.

https://aviationweek.com/business-aviation/aircraft-propulsion/instilling-confidence-nervous-flyers

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Comcast Co. ( NASDAQ:CMCSA – Get Free Report ) declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 11th, Zacks reports. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, October 4th will be given a dividend of 0.29 per share by the cable giant on Wednesday, October 25th. This represents a $1.16 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.62%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, October 3rd. Comcast has a payout ratio of 27.4% meaning its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Analysts expect Comcast to earn $4.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/10/01/comcast-co-cmcsa-to-go-ex-dividend-on-october-3rd.html

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A number of activities took place in Achill , Couny Mayo, over the weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the twinning of Achill with the US city of Cleveland, Ohio in 2003.  More than 30 people traveled to Achill from Cleveland to join the celebrations, which began on Friday afternoon, September 8, with a civil reception at Áras an Chontae in Castlebar.  Gerry Quinn, the President of the Mayo Society of Cleveland and a leading member of the Irish community in the city, was honored at Friday's reception.

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/community/achill-cleveland-twinning

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Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a breath test that quickly identifies those who are infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. The device requires only one or two breaths and provides results in less than a minute. The study is available online in the journal ACS Sensors. The same group of researchers recently published a paper in the journal Nature Communications about an air monitor they had built to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes COVID-19 - within about five minutes in hospitals, schools and other public places.

https://www.miragenews.com/breath-test-for-rapid-covid-detection-developed-1057339/

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It seems intuitive that forests would provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms. Yet, in one of the longest-running studies of tropical wildlife populations in the world, Stanford researchers found that over 18 years, smaller farms with varying crop types – interspersed with patches or ribbons of forest – sustain many forest-dependent bird populations in Costa Rica, even as populations decline in forests. In a paper published Sept. 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nicholas Hendershot and colleagues compared trends in specific bird populations across three landscape types in Costa Rica: forests, diversified farms, and intensive agriculture.

https://www.miragenews.com/habitat-enhancing-farms-crucial-for-food-1077445/

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Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC lifted its position in Permian Basin Royalty Trust ( NYSE:PBT – Get Rating ) by 47.1% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 3,075,848 shares of the oil and gas producer's stock after purchasing an additional 985,353 shares during the quarter. Permian Basin Royalty Trust comprises 1.0% of Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC's holdings, making the stock its 13th largest position.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/03/12/horizon-kinetics-asset-management-llc-grows-stock-position-in-permian-basin-royalty-trust-nysepbt.html

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ZClassic ( ZCL ) traded down 19.4% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 14:00 PM Eastern on May 21st. One ZClassic coin can now be purchased for $0.0349 or 0.00000130 BTC on major exchanges. ZClassic has a market capitalization of $324,445.07 and $17.82 worth of ZClassic was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last seven days, ZClassic has traded down 18.9% against the dollar. Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day: Zcash (ZEC) traded down 1.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/05/21/zclassic-market-cap-reaches-324445-07-zcl.html

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U.S. Department of Defense Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs. This announcement is the Biden Administration's forty-fifth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. It includes additional air defense and artillery munitions, mine clearing equipment, medical vehicles, and other equipment to help Ukraine counter Russia's ongoing war of aggression on the battlefield and protect its people.

https://www.miragenews.com/biden-boosts-ukraine-security-aid-amid-tensions-1074113/

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Yoon-bilateral summitsYoon revs up efforts to promote Expo bid in back-to-back New York summits NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol held another round of back-to-back summits with world leaders in New York on Thursday as he rampped up his push to promote South Korea's bid to host the 2030 World Expo in Busan. Since his arrival in New York on Monday to attend the U.N. General Assembly, Yoon has held dozens of two-way summits in a last-ditch effort for the Expo bid. In a morning summit, Yoon met with Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and said that bilateral talks on the signing of a strategic economic cooperation agreement have been proceeding smoothly, according to his office.

https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0014210458?sid=104

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Not long after firing Tucker Carlson, Fox News further embarrassed their erstwhile Goober Goebbels by revealing to his now-scandalized audience that he might have actually been a racist all along. Yes, I know. Weird, wild stuff, huh? According to recent media leaks , the guy who once said immigrants make our country 'dirtier' also saw three MAGA yobs beating up on an antifa member and wanted them to 'hurt the kid' so much he could 'taste it'—though, to be fair, he also lamented that this wasn't 'how white men fight.

http://rimcountrygazette.blogspot.com/2023/05/aldous-j-pennyfarthing-its-popcorn-time.html

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MANILA, Philippines — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday proposed getting water from Laguna de Bay as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has admitted that the country is facing a water crisis. Gatchalian said that his suggestion is just a stop-gap measure and stressed that the capital region needs more water sources. 'Ang nakita kong mga stop-gap measures dito kumuha ng tubig sa Laguna de Bay. Ginawa natin ‘yan a few times but, of course, you need a very big water filtration system doon,' he said in an interview at the Senate.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1749426/gatchalian-make-laguna-de-bay-a-source-of-water-to-address-supply-crisis

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In this lacy dress and side-swept hair, the Bigg Boss OTT contestant looks like a dictator. Source: Bollywoodlife.com

https://www.bollywoodlife.com/webstories/news-gossip/urfi-javeds-top-10-bizarre-hairstyles-that-made-everyone-go-wth-2372236/

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GoldMining Inc. ( TSE:GOLD – Get Rating )'s share price dropped 2.2% during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The company traded as low as C$1.33 and last traded at C$1.34. Approximately 41,146 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 77% from the average daily volume of 181,944 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$1.37. GoldMining Stock Down 2.3 % The firm has a market capitalization of C$215.32 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -11.91 and a beta of 1.24. The business's 50-day moving average is C$1.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/05/25/goldmining-tsegold-stock-price-down-2-2.html

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World leaders have spoken, and the UN listened. Climate, development, and peace emerged as universal areas of concern, according to a new study driven by artificial intelligence (AI). "It is important that we understand the issues of concern to Member States not only at the global level, but also regionally, noting the differences in priority and emphasis," said Joachim Harris, Chief of the Digital and Promotion team in the UN's Department of Global Communications.

https://www.miragenews.com/ai-uncovers-three-major-global-concerns-1099161/

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Endowment Wealth Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of FS KKR Capital Corp. ( NYSE:FSK – Free Report ) by 1.1% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 92,529 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 977 shares during the period. FS KKR Capital accounts for approximately 1.7% of Endowment Wealth Management Inc.'s holdings, making the stock its 12th biggest position. Endowment Wealth Management Inc.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/08/18/fs-kkr-capital-corp-nysefsk-stock-position-raised-by-endowment-wealth-management-inc.html

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Cetera Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of PepsiCo, Inc. ( NASDAQ:PEP – Get Rating ) by 15.2% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 76,001 shares of the company's stock after purchasing an additional 10,013 shares during the period. Cetera Advisors LLC's holdings in PepsiCo were worth $13,730,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/06/11/cetera-advisors-llc-acquires-10013-shares-of-pepsico-inc-nasdaqpep.html

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Almost 80 years ago, Filipino women in the Central Luzon region were rounded up, brought to an old house called 'Bahay na Pula' or Red House in San Ildefonso town, Pampanga province, where they were detained for weeks. Until they were released, says a report by the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw), the women, some in their teens, were 'repeatedly subjected to rape, other forms of sexual violence, torture, and inhumane detention conditions.' Their experiences as 'comfort women,' the Japanese euphemism for prostitutes which has come to be applied to victims of institutionalized sexual violence against women in countries under Japanese control during World War II, would come to haunt the women for the rest of their lives.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/161616/give-comfort-women-their-due

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American Airlines Group ( NASDAQ:AAL – Get Free Report ) had its price target cut by equities research analysts at Susquehanna from $20.00 to $19.00 in a research note issued to investors on Friday, Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a 'neutral' rating on the airline's stock. Susquehanna's price target would suggest a potential upside of 8.76% from the stock's previous close. Other analysts also recently issued reports about the company. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price target on American Airlines Group from $14.

https://www.dailypolitical.com/2023/07/21/american-airlines-group-nasdaqaal-price-target-cut-to-19-00-by-analysts-at-susquehanna.html

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Western Australian farmers are feeling the pinch of policies, markets and seasonal conditions, with rural sentiment falling further into negative territory. The latest quarterly Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey, released today, saw WA farm confidence reach the lowest level since September 2006. Net confidence dropped from -44 per cent last quarter to -53 per cent, with only four per cent of the state's farmers expecting agricultural economic conditions to improve over the next 12 months and 57 per cent expecting them to worsen.

https://www.miragenews.com/wa-farmer-confidence-plummets-further-1083020/

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