Appalachia | The Express Way with Dulé Hill In Appalachia, Dulé Hill explores how music can provide solace and healing. He meets a master luthier rehabilitating opioid addicts, a black folk musician, and the creator of “Latin-grass,” a fusion ... 04/24/2024 - 9:06 am | View Link
From Flooding to Fires: Appalachia’s Recreation Industry Faces Climate Change Challenges The impacts of climate change are steadily and exponentially being felt here in Appalachia just as they have across the globe, and environmental activists, scientists and outdoor enthusiasts alike ... 04/24/2024 - 4:13 am | View Link
Come hear about environmental disasters, religious responses April 28 at Oak Ridge church UT professor Joseph Witt's book dealt with how religous worldviews shaped attitudes toward mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. 04/24/2024 - 12:17 am | View Link
Small businesses often struggle to access funding. A new report examines what that means for Appalachia. The report, released Tuesday, shows that small businesses need additional support and new opportunities to access capital. 04/23/2024 - 9:34 am | View Link
Voices of Appalachia choir to present free concert at Tryon Presbyterian Church TRYON—Tryon Presbyterian Church will host a performance by The Voices of Appalachia choir of Alice Lloyd College at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 6. The free concert was arranged by TPC member Richard ... 04/23/2024 - 6:18 am | View Link
How to Plan the Perfect Trip to the Appalachian Mountains Destinations. USA. How to Plan the Perfect Trip to the Appalachian Mountains — Home to the 2,194-mile Hiking Trail and Gorgeous Small Towns. You're overdue for a mountain getaway. By. Perri... 04/21/2024 - 7:09 pm | View Link
About the Appalachian Region About the Appalachian Region. Appalachia is made up of 423 counties across 13 states and spans 206,000 square miles, from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The Region’s 26.3 million residents live in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee ... 04/21/2024 - 5:15 pm | View Link
Appalachian Mountains Orogeny. Grenvillle, Taconic, Acadian, Alleghanian. Age of rock. Mesoproterozoic era ( Stenian period) [4] – Paleozoic era ( Permian period); 1.2 billion years ago to 300 million years ago. The Appalachian Mountains, [b] often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. 04/21/2024 - 1:19 pm | View Link
Appalachian Mountains | Definition, Map, Location, Trail, & Facts Appalachian Mountains, North American highland system that extends for almost 2,000 miles from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador to central Alabama in the United States, forming a natural barrier between the eastern Coastal Plain and the vast Interior Lowlands of North America. 04/21/2024 - 11:02 am | View Link
Appalachian Culture & History of the Blue Ridge Mountains Appalachia is a vast area that stretches from southern New York to north Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It encompasses 420 counties across 13 states, spans 205,000 square miles, and is home to some 25 million people. 04/21/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
The sails of Paris’ iconic Moulin Rouge windmill have collapsed overnight for the first time in the 134 year history of the cabaret club.
The accident is believed to have occurred at 2 a.m. local time, less than an hour after the venue’s last show had ended, according to the club owners.
It’s not just U. S. universities where the Israel-Hamas war is a touchy topic. This week, an American professor has sparked controversy in Malaysia after criticizing the Southeast Asian nation’s official pro-Palestinian stance on the conflict during a visiting lecture.
“A country whose political leaders advocate a second Holocaust against the Jewish people will never be a serious player in world affairs, and will certainly never be a friend or partner of the United States,” Bruce Gilley, a professor of political science at Portland State University, said during a keynote address at the University of Malaya on Tuesday, according to a now-deleted post on X in which he quoted himself.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a confession to make. “Sometimes I watch the footage from my speeches and I always look much taller than everyone else around,” the 6-ft. 1-in. Greek Prime Minister says with a wry smile, buckled up in the back seat of his car in a pressed blue shirt and black hoodie.
It’s easy to let high stress steal our full attention. Often, high stress leaves us vulnerable to a dysregulated, unproductive state. This means we need reliable resources we can connect to in order to renew and maintain our mental, emotional, and physical energy, and to help us recover from work stressors that, left unchecked, can make us vulnerable to burnout.
As a burnout researcher, my work has been focused on pinpointing the most reliable and effective resources people can connect to in order to protect themselves from burnout.
“We are all at risk of manipulation online right now.”
So begins a short animated video about a practice known as decontextualization and how it can be used to misinform people online. The video identifies signs to watch out for, including surprising or out of the ordinary content, seemingly unreliable sources, or video or audio that appear to have been manipulated or repurposed.
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Though it may not look like it, this 50-second video is actually an election ad—one of three that Google will be rolling out across five European countries next month in advance of the European Union’s June parliamentary elections.
Venice, the historic Italian city known for its canals, would like to draw a balance between its residents who live there and help to keep the place running and its visitors, an important source of economic revenue but increasingly also a burden on social services and the livability of the city.
In recent years, the balance has shifted: in the 1970s, Venice had some 175,000 residents; as of last year, its population dipped below 50,000—and the number of tourist beds outnumbered residents for the first time.