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5 On Your Side recommends disconnecting garden hoses and blowing out sprinklers. Here are more things to add to your winterizing to-do list.

Police said the Belleville, Illinois, woman was rushed to the hospital, where she died a short time later.

Data Governance Webinar Notes JW Mon, 10/17/2022 - 23:31

• Beyond the Web
  • Doc Searls
  • Nathan Schneider
• Garden Club
  • Going for over 70 yrs
  • Elections, bylaws, processes...
• Online Governance
• Feudal System
  • Amazon, Meta, etc
  • Tech and Legal Stack
    • Implicit Feudalism
  • Online is more feudal because of the hardware/legalities
    • Easy to say "I'm for democracy"
• Cooperative Alternatives
  • Rideshare, Social Media
  • Building against the grain
  • Financing and Policy
  • How do you make it democratic
• Self governance
  • We don't have the ability to be democratic
  • Crypto does have some demo principles
• OSS
  • many types of governance interact
    • Linus (dictator)
    • Corp (RedHat/Ubuntu)
• Section 230
  • Policy Constraints
  • We wanted to provoke companies to make changes to moderation
    • Git
      • GitHub Space (github rules)
      • "The New Governors"
      • "Governable Spaces"
      • Facebook/Twitter externalizing moderation
• Evolution of Journalism
  • eric mack
  • https://journalists.org/resources/even-if-web3-is-full-of-scams-the-part-that-isnt-might-just-change-everything-midway/
  • The Colorado Sun
• Working with DAOs to come up with standards
  • shared data model
  • modular politics
    • Modularity
    • Composabilty
    • Portability
    • Interopability
  • immutability
    • libertarian fantasy. lol
• Federated Social Media
  • Polycentric not Federated actually
• Decentralized things
  • expect forms of centralization to develop within
    • Accountable Centralization
      • eg. Gmail
        • email is a standard, but because of all the bad players...
• Collective Ownership is necessary for Collective Governance
• Hopper? (throw the bums out > voting)
  • comment by Johannes Ernst
• World after Capital
  • attention is going to become the scarcest commodity
• Reputation systems
  • allow people to do things without jumping through as many hoops.
• Further Reading
  • Metagovernance Project: https://metagov.org/
  • social.coop: https://wiki.social.coop/home.html
  • JournoDAO: https://journodao.xyz/
  • Zebras Unite: https://www.zebrasunite.org/
  • Common Stack: https://commonsstack.org/
  • Sustaining the Knowlege Commons: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/tag/common-pool-resource/
  • Datasphere Initiative: https://www.thedatasphere.org/
  • Hello Co-op: https://www.hello.coop/
  • Ostrom Knowledge Commons: http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons
  • Rough Consensus: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8789/

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ST. LOUIS - The victim in a homicide that occurred in the 9400 block of Bagley Drive has been identified as Wade Lee, 46 years of age, of the 9400 block of Bagley Drive in St. Louis, Missouri 63136. St. Louis County Police Crimes Against Persons detectives are investigating a homicide that occurred in the 9400 block of Bagley Drive which resulted in the death of an adult male. On October 16, 2022, at 6:44 PM, St. Louis County police officers from the City of Jennings Precinct responded to a call for service for an assault in the 9400 block of Bagley Drive. Responding officers located an unresponsive adult male suffering from injuries inside the residence. The male was pronounced deceased on the scene. The injuries were incurred as a result of an altercation. St. Louis County Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons detectives are conducting the investigation. The investigation is very active at this time. Additional information will be disseminated as it becomes available.

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CHICAGO – Employees at a grocery store in River Grove are buzzing with excitement after selling a $4.85 million winning Lotto ® ticket over the weekend. The winning ticket was sold at Rich’s Fresh Market, located at 3141 N. Thatcher Ave. in River Grove, and matched all six Lotto numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing, 8-12-14-22-27-36, to win the jackpot. “We know who bought the winning ticket – he is one of our regular customers,” exclaimed Lucas Bujak, General Manager of Rich’s Fresh Market. “The gentleman came into the store on Sunday morning and began inserting his tickets into the Lottery machine. One of my employees jokingly asked him if he won, but before he could answer, the customer almost fainted,” said Bujak. And then according to his employee, a few minutes later, the customer began shouting, “I can’t believe it, I actually won the Lotto jackpot – I guess I can now quit my job.” This

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Chicago will return to Las Vegas' Venetian Theatre for an eight-show residency in February and March 2023. Marking the sixth consecutive year the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees…

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Raise your devil horns this Halloween with AXS TV's "Heavy Metal Halloween" event. On Saturday, October 29, the channel will be running an all-day marathon of documentaries and concert films…

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Trademark bullying usually takes a pretty typical form. Someone with a trademark decides to interpret the need to enforce their mark in an extreme way and goes off threatening and/or suing everyone that even comes mildly close to using the registered trademark. It’s annoying, although perhaps mildly understandable if you squint your eyes just right. […]

JERSEYVILLE - Jenna Eschbach, PhD Candidate in the Plant & Microbial Biosciences Program at Washington University in St. Louis, is a 2022 National Institute of Health F31 Fellowship Award Recipient. Jenna is an extremely talented student and has received accolades throughout her entire time in Jersey schools and now at the prestigious Washington University in St. Louis. She was also an honors student during her time at Truman State University. The National Institute of Health (NIH) created the highly prestigious F31 Fellowship Award to provide promising predoctoral students an opportunity to receive mentored research training while they complete their dissertation research on human health-related topics. F31 Fellowship Award recipients must be finished with classes and in the dissertation research stage of training while enrolled in a PhD program. Miss Eschbach is the daughter of James and Acinda Eschbach of Jerseyville, was the 2013 Jersey Community High School valedictorian and

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There are certain actions you can take to protect your landscape ahead of Monday night's hard freeze. It’s worth the effort, since we'll be seeing warm temperatures again in just a few days.

Boo at the Zoo is a not-so-scary Halloween celebration for the whole family. Come for the spellbinding decorations and stay for the fall-inspired food.  

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Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs’ returned $11 million to a late Chicago man’s estate — the largest returned unclaimed property dollar amount in U.S. history.

John Payne is with Legal Missouri 2022, the group trying to legalizing marijuana for adult use. He talked with STLPR's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg about the ins and out of Amendment 3 — and whether Missourians want to legalize cannabis products.

Benjamin F. Edwards IV, founder and CEO of broker-dealer and investment management firm Benjamin F. Edwards, revealed in an interview how he got his nickname.