Monthly Archives: August 2021

Every Biennial Louisville Photo Event You May Attend This Year

The Photo Biennale has been around since 1999. What was once a dream of former Artemisia owner Erin Devine was almost lost until Paul Paletti stepped in and took the helm. Today, despite the setbacks of the pandemic, Paletti has found a way to move the Biennale forward – with the cooperation of many people and organizations. This year, the ...

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James Cottrill Obituary (2021) – Washington Court House, OH

James Eugene Cottrill, 72, of Alliance, Ohio, died at 8:35 p.m. on August 28, 2021 at Alliance Community Hospital after a long illness. He was born on December 15, 1948 in Greenfield, Ohio, to Paul Lewis Cottrill and Dorothy June (Hurtt) Cottrill. He grew up on the family farm in Washington Courthouse, Ohio, with his younger brother and sister. Jim ...

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Leaders of Nonprofits Create Black Executive Director Alliance of Detroit to Empower Each Other, Youth

DETROIT – Black executives came together to create a new alliance to empower themselves and empower young people. They are executive directors of several nonprofit organizations in Detroit. Their nonprofits are all designed to help children. “We were having conversations and just talking about the lack of support for the well-being of the city’s black executive directors and then long-term ...

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Westfield special education student wins college scholarship

New Jersey Alliance of Private Special Education Schools press release: August 27, 2021 Rory Scialabba, a Westfield resident and a graduate of Calais School in Whippany, is one of two recipients of the Joe Gorga Fellowship, awarded by the Alliance of Private Special Education Schools of New Jersey. The Alliance is a nonprofit group of 40 state-approved private special education ...

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Column: Another earthquake leaves college football faltering | national

The Southeastern Conference is growing and, in a way, getting even stronger. Three other great conferences have formed an alliance, whatever that means. And the Big 12 is a walking dead man. After a period of relative stability, college football is entering a new season faltering with aftershocks from another major earthquake. Even Nostradamus wouldn’t be willing to guess how ...

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Magnetic tape shipments decline in 2020, future growth expected

Fujifilm LTO 8 Tape Fujifilm LTO 8 Tape The LTO program has released information on LTO tape shipments in 2020. The reported compressed media shipping capacities (1.5: 1.0 compression) were 105.2 EB in 2020, down from about 7%. , 7% compared to 114 EBs shipped in 2019. The press release indicates that the real GDP growth rate declined by around ...

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The Big Ten, Pac 12, and the ACC Alliance are official (sort of)

On Tuesday, the Big Ten, Pac 12 and ACC conferences officially formed an alliance in hopes of shaping the future of college football. The announcement follows the departure of two historic Big 12 Conference programs, the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma, to join the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The trio of commissioners held a joint press conference after ...

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Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 officially announce alliance for football and basketball programming and more

COLUMBUS, Ohio – There is no signed document linking the Big Ten, Atlantic Coast, and Pacific-12 conferences to the alliance they officially announced on Tuesday. Pac-12 commissioner George Klivakoff described the collaboration as “an agreement between three gentlemen” – himself, ACC commissioner Jim Phillips and Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren. All three said the need to collaborate on common interests ...

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ACC, BIG TEN AND PAC-12 ANNOUNCE A HISTORIC ALLIANCE

GREENSBORO, NC & ROSEMONT, IL & SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 today announced a historic alliance that will bring together 41 world-class institutions around a collaborative approach surrounding the future evolution of varsity athletics and programming. The alliance – which has been unanimously supported by the presidents, chancellors and sports directors of the 41 institutions ...

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Scotland needs to think carefully about whether NATO is a military alliance for us

George Kerevan’s provocative article yesterday lives up to his usual high standards by spurring the wider Yes movement to debate, both within itself and with the people of Scotland, what kind of position Scotland should take in multilateral defense given its unique geopolitical place in north-eastern Europe. It must be said that some conservative voices, basically within the current leadership ...

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