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A student was excited to move to Florida for college. Then she realized she'd applied to Miami University — in Ohio perhaps she should take a course in reading comprehension. When Valerie Do, 19, applied to study at Miami University in 2021, she was excited by the prospect of spending her days lounging on beaches in the sun in Florida, surrounded by palm trees like she'd seen in the movies. As an international student living in Vietnam, she couldn't visit the university before applying. So when the university sent her an acceptance letter welcoming her to Ohio, Do felt confused. At first, she wondered whether Ohio might be a district or a county in Florida. But after a quick Google search, her beach fantasy was shattered when she realized she wouldn't be going to the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, as she'd initially thought. She'd be going to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Martha Stewart Flaunts Her High Slit and Full Glam Before Hitting the Carpet: ‘Fun to Dress Up’

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Whenever I think of Will & Jada's relationship (which I try to do at least once a millennium) I'm tempted to sing "Isn't it semantics?"

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He turned 100 May 27th. I bet you didn't even send him a card.

Accent on 'little'. I think I'll use my extra $43/mo to retire to the south of France.

Urban farm on roof of Fenway Park is growing 6,000 pounds of produce a year Fenway Farms is a roughly 5,000-square-foot rooftop garden area tucked up behind the third baseline at legendary Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox. With 2,400 total square feet of growing space, the beds can cultivate anything from A to Z – “asparagus to zucchini,” says Chris Grallert, president of Green City Growers, and a local farmer who grew up going to Red Sox games as a kid. “Local is not new. In 1920, this area [in downtown Boston] ranked fifth in the nation for values of crops or fruits and vegetables. And all the communities around Boston had local markets and local gardens,” Grallert says. “Having a rooftop farm at Fenway Park is an amazing way to be a part of reinvigorating a local food production system.”

Jeremy Allen White must undergo alcohol testing 5X/week to see kids “The Bear” star, 32, has reportedly agreed to be tested for alcohol up to five times a week when he has custody of his daughters Ezer, 4, and Dolores, 2, according to court documents obtained by Page Six. If White does test positive for alcohol, he will be retested 15 minutes later to ensure the test is accurate. If he fails, he loses custody of the girls until next steps are determined. White and Addison reportedly have joint physical and legal custody of their daughters, but the “Shameless” alum’s custodial time comes with the condition that he must attend at least two Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a week in addition to therapy.

These boyfriends have a huge 14-inch height difference. Charlie is 5-foot-7, and Max is a towering 6-foot-9. See how the thirty-something couple in England flaunt their wildly different sizes on TikTok, often with the hashtag "gay couple goals." https://nypost.com/video/short-king-shows-off-his-super-tall-boyfriend/

NHL players won’t be allowed to put Pride-themed tape on their sticks while on the ice this season as part of a decision made by the board of governors in June, multiple league sources confirmed to The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun. Outsports first reported the news. As the league prepares for the opening of its 2023-24 regular season on Tuesday, the topic of players not being allowed to use Pride-themed tape on their sticks was a talking point around the league. “It’s their decision. We’re going to support Pride any way we can other than the tape,” Flames captain Mikael Backlund said. “We’re going to follow the rules and do what we’re told.” When asked how he could show Pride allyship without using tape on his stick, Backlund pointed at other initiatives available to players. “The Calgary Flames Foundation has always marched in the Pride parade. I’ve done it in Sweden and guys have done it in different places in the world,” Backlund said, “So that’s an easy way for us to show our support and that we support Pride.” Calgary forward Jonathan Huberdeau has used Pride-themed tape on his stick for an entire game in the past and sounded like he might be willing to continue that tradition, even in light of the new policy. “For me personally, I support it,” Huberdeau said Tuesday. “If I get the chance to do it, I’ll do it.” But when pressed if he would be willing to risk a fine or punishment for going against league policy, Huberdeau conceded that he likely wouldn’t push the envelope. “No. I probably won’t,” said Huberdeau. “I don’t want to get in trouble.” “This organization, we’ve always been supporters of the LGTBQ community,” Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving told reporters Tuesday. “Nothing is going to change with that.” On Tuesday afternoon, The You Can Play Project — an organization that works “to ensure the safety and inclusion for all who participate in sports, including LGBTQ+ athletes, coaches and fans” — issued a scathing statement about the NHL’s decision on X. “It is now clear that the NHL is stepping back from its longstanding commitment to inclusion, and continuing to unravel all of its one-time industry-leading work on 2SLGBTQ+ belonging. We are now at a point where all the progress made, and relationships established with our community, is in jeopardy. Making decisions to eradicate our visibility in hockey — by eliminating symbols like jerseys and now Pride Tape — immediately stunts the impact of bringing in more diverse fans and players into the sport,” the statement read in part. “We call on all allies, players, fans, and coaches at every level in hockey to amplify their voices and join us in this important conversation and to remind the NHL #WhyThisMatters. This includes the NHLPA and the NHLCA. Hockey is safer and better when more of us belong.” Last week, the league reportedly sent two memos to teams clarifying its guidance about what players and teams can do for “special initiatives,” including Pride night, Black History night, Hockey Fights Cancer night and Military Appreciation night. The latest memo said restrictions cover “on-ice activity” and said “players should be encouraged to express themselves off the ice,” ESPN reported. It also reportedly said players and teams are allowed to “celebrate and support” specialty causes, and host themed groups at games, while players can wear “whatever they want” as long as they adhere to their team’s dress code. At the NHL board of governors meeting in June, league officials decided not to wear specialty jerseys during warmups during the 2023-24 season. “I suggested that it would be appropriate for clubs not to change their jerseys in warmups because it’s become a distraction and taking away from the fact that all of our clubs, in some form or another, host nights in honor of various groups or causes, and we’d rather those continue to get the appropriate attention that they deserve and not be a distraction,” NHL commissioner Gery Bettman said June 22. NHL rules around Pride nights, specifically, came into the spotlight last season as some players took issue with participating in them. Multiple players and teams opted to not wear the Pride warmup jerseys, citing religious reasons or safety concerns. Multiple Russian players opted out of wearing the Pride night warmup jersey as Russian anti-gay laws escalated. Russian players including Buffalo Sabres defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin did not wear the jersey and Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Ivan Provorov, then on the Philadelphia Flyers, sat out of warmups entirely. Some of the teams, like the St. Louis Blues, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild, scrapped the warmup sweaters entirely. In March, San Jose goaltender James Reimer declined to wear a Pride jersey to participate in the Sharks Pride Night, citing his religious beliefs. “There’s a bunch of teams starting to wear them and I just came to the conviction through my faith that it went against what I believe the Bible says,” he said. “I don’t want to really go into too much detail about the behind-the-scenes stuff. But it’s something that I tried to do my due diligence and just came to the fact that the best way to stand up for what I believe in was just to not wear the jersey and then to try and make this as loving and least offensive as possible.” Florida Panthers players Marc and Eric Staal also did not participate in warmups as part of the Florida Panthers Pride night in March. The brothers cited their Christian beliefs in their decision to not take part in wearing the themed warmup jerseys as the Panthers host the Toronto Maple Leafs. “After many thoughts, prayers and discussions we have chosen not to wear a pride jersey tonight,” the Steal brothers wrote in a statement. “We carry no judgment on how people choose to live their lives, and believe that all people should be welcome in all aspects of the game of hockey.” In June, Bettman told team governors all theme nights were important and should be continued, but the uniforms had “become a distraction” and teams would not wear them this season. Bettman said players can “choose to model” those jerseys, but the new rule was about “what’s on the ice.” https://theathletic.com/4946564/2023/10/10/nhl-pride-tape-ban/

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Dog dubbed 'Cheeto' rescued after three days with head stuck in bucket of cheeseballs

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THE VIEW started off Monday's show with a live report by James Longman from Israel. Today they started with a report from Matt Gutman, but 3 minutes in he was ushered away from the scene by Israeli personnel because there was an active battle ratcheting up in the area. He rejoined them later.

Shuttered British boarding school for sale as palatial country place Following the fresh closure of Abberley Hall School, its grounds and buildings are now available for purchase, the price available upon application, Mansion Global first reported. Located in Worcester, the approximately 93-acre estate includes an array of amenities worthy of what was, until its closure at the end of the 2022/2023 academic year, a “leading independent preparatory school” and one of the highest-ranked private educations to be gotten in the English countryside, according to press materials provided to The Post by Savills, which holds the listing. Outside, the grounds include two tennis courts, a heated swimming pool with changing facilities, a climbing wall, a fishing lake and mountain bike trails. There’s also an indoor shooting range and sports hall with a gymnasium, riding stables, multiple flat grass pitches, a stable block, a coach house and a theater. What’s more, there are 16 residential properties, a yellow sandstone principal hall and a 161-foot-high historically protected clock tower which, during World War II, was used as an observation post to report enemy aircraft targeting Birmingham.

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AUSTRALIA GETS A WOODY! World’s tallest wooden skyscraper is set to rise in Western Australia The structure on South Perth’s Charles Street will be the tallest wooden building in the world. On Thursday, Perth’s Metro Inner-South Joint Development Assessment Panel gave Grange Development the green light for the behemoth, called C6 and slated to be composed of a hybrid of materials, 42% of which will be timber and the core of which will be reinforced concrete, CNN reported. The current title-holder for the tallest wooden tower — Wisconsin’s 284-foot, 25-story Ascent building — is less than half of C6’s proposed 627-foot height and 50 stories. C6 also trumps Sydney’s in-the-works Atlassian Headquarters, which is slated to stand at 599 feet once complete in 2026, meaning it may get a few years with the tallest wooden tower crown before C6 takes it. Both C6 and the Atlassian building will combine a steel exoskeleton with laminated timber beams in what is being hailed as a more eco-friendly construction style. “We can’t grow concrete,” developer Grange’s director, James Dibble, wrote in a building proposal given to authorities, which referred to C6’s plan as “a new open sourced blueprint that utilizes hybrid construction methodology to offset the carbon within our built environment, which is the single biggest contributor to climate change,” CNN reported. “This is our opportunity to state that we genuinely care about both the housing crisis before us and the climate crisis we are doing very little about as an industry,” Dibble added. Other Earth-conscious features of the record-breaker will include a rooftop garden and an urban farm. Also, residents of its over 200 apartments will have access to 80 entirely-electric Tesla Model 3s.