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NORTH Yorkshire residents are being urged to donate their spare or unwanted toys and games amid the cost-of-living crisis to ensure more children wake up to a gift on Christmas Day. For the fourth year running, the Reuse Santa appeal has been launched at household waste recycling centres across North Yorkshire and York. This year, however, the appeal has taken on an even greater resonance amid the soaring cost of living, with rising inflation and the dramatic increase in the price of food and essential items placing more pressure on household finances.  North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC), City of York…

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Radio GLLU tapes at the KPFK Studios in North Hollywood in 1986. Radio GLLU made history on the airwaves as the first bilingual LGBTQ+ radio program in the U.S. Radio GLLU was hosted and operated from 1986 to 1997 by the Los Angeles-based Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (also known as GLLU), one of the first LGBTQ+ Latino organizations in the nation. Photo: Louis Jacinto. “Together On the Air” will be possibly the only exhibit to ever chronicle Radio GLLU, which made history on the airwaves as the first bilingual LGBTQ+ radio program in the U.S. Radio GLLU was hosted…

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Published: 12/4/2022 12:06:50 AM Modified: 12/4/2022 12:06:27 AM WEST LEBANON — Roughly 20 Upper Valley toddlers and young Jewish children, along with 35 or so of their parents and grandparents, gathered at the Kilton Public Library on Saturday for a morning of songs, crafts and stories.The tot Shabbat event — referring to the Jewish Sabbath, which takes place from Friday at sundown until Saturday at sundown — was sponsored by the area’s two synagogues: Kol Ha’Emek in Hanover and Shir Shalom in Woodstock. But Leah Gawel, director of family education at Shir Shalom, stressed the importance of holding family programs…

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A dozen cheetahs quarantined in South Africa for more than four months have lost fitness in their wait to be flown to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) as a formal signing of an agreement is holding up their inter-continental translocation, wildlife experts have said. They said prolonged quarantine is taking a toll on the health of these big cats, who are slated to join the eight cheetahs imported from Namibia and released in KNP in Sheopur district in mid-September. In fact, the 12 South African cheetahs seven males and five females – have not hunted for…

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A study on the condition in such countries, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, found that, in South Africa, pulmonary hypertension accounted for 31% of total cardiovascular deaths. Photo: Archive NEWSBeing overweight, smoking and using narcotics such as cocaine and methamphetamine can result in pulmonary hypertension.According to health specialists, pulmonary hypertension is different from hypertension in that it occurs only in the lungs, affecting not only breathing, but also overall cardiac health. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel…

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CNN  —  Sunday’s round of 16 fixtures feature the 2018 World Cup winner, the current African champion and one of the Euro 2020 finalists. First up, reigning World Cup champion France faces Poland at the Al Thumama Stadium in the early fixture before arguably the highlight of the day as England meets Senegal at the Al Bayt Stadium. Euro 2020 finalist England comes in as heavy favorites having reached the World Cup semifinals in 2018.History would also seem to favor Gareth Southgate’s team. England has faced African opposition 20 times, including seven World Cup matches, and has yet to lose.…

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CNN  —  Sitting in the back of a packed room in the Hamilton County Schools administration complex, Clara fought the urge to leave. She had taken the day off from her factory job to be there but was nervous to see a crowd of people supporting a board member who had referred to Latino students as a burden. On that fall afternoon, the mother of three felt like she carried the weight of those parents who wanted to defend their children but couldn’t show up out of fear, or could not leave their workplaces early to attend the school board…

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