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$3 Billion in New St. Louis Area Infrastructure Construction Projects To Be Introduced Feb. 20

2 years 5 months ago
More than $3 billion in new capital improvement construction project opportunities in the St. Louis region will be introduced to 700+ local construction industry contractors and other partners on February 20, 2024 at the 8th Annual Investment in Infrastructure Expo sponsored by the SITE Improvement Association. Officials from a record number 28 government agencies, municipalities, […]
Dede Hance

Kribs Is Off To Outstanding Start For JCHS Bowlers, Is A Sparklight Internet Male Athlete Of Month

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JERSEYVILLE - Adam Kribs is off to an outstanding season for the Jersey boys bowling team. Adam bowled a 1332 series at the Abe Invite with a high game of 278 and an average of 222 for the day, the sixth-best against some of Southern Illinois' best teams. Adam is a Sparklight Internet Male Athlete of the Month for the Panthers. "Adam is a senior leader for our program and he puts in the work and leads by example with his attitude and work ethic toward becoming a better bowler and teammate," his bowling coach Trent Morgan said. Season statistics for the first six matches: 11/29/23 - Bowled 599 series against the Roxana Shells 11/28/23 - Bowled 642 series - high game 258 against the Triad Knights 11/27/23 - Bowled 653 series against the Taylorville Tornadoes 11/21/23 - Bowled 649 series - high game 279 against the Waterloo Bulldogs 11/16/23 - Bowled 606 series against the Southwestern Piasa Birds 11/15/23 - Bowled a 696 series - high game 245 against the Metro East Lutheran Knights

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Plagiarism Is Fine

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There’s plenty of hypocrisy and bad faith to go around in the ridiculous Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal. While Gay’s accusers are right that she technically violated Harvard’s plagiarism rules by copying phrases either without quotation marks or required attribution, they don’t actually care about plagiarism, only “scalping” Gay. What’s more, their own plagiarism accusations have […]
Mike Masnick

Bombed Back Into the Stone Age

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Today on TAP: An American general’s prescription for how we should have fought in Vietnam has been realized in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Harold Meyerson

When The Sun Goes Down

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The 2015 horror film “The Visit” gives the Hollywood treatment to sundowning. An impostor grandmother is seen running the halls, scratching the walls and vomiting, terrorizing two children in the home. A little exaggerated, says Courtney McFarlin, PA , an OSF HealthCare internal medicine provider who specializes in geriatrics. But she says sundowning is an all too real experience for some older adults. What is sundowning? McFarlin explains that sundowning is not a medical condition, but rather a way to describe behavior seen at night. It’s triggered by a disruption in your circadian rhythm. “That’s our body’s natural, 24-hour sleep/wake cycle,” McFarlin says. “It’s regulated by the hypothalamus in the brain. Based on daylight and darkness, it tells our body to be alert during the day. And it helps us settle down in the evening to want to go to sleep.” Many things can disrupt your circadian rhythm, like illness,

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