Kyle C. Garrison, Author at Bastead man

Mar

11

2024

Vision Pro Goggles Are Not Safe While Driving a Tesla, U.S. Says

Science and Technology

Linked media - Associated media Is this the future? A world in which people can’t step away from the digital realm long enough to focus solely on everyday tasks such as socializing or exercising? Eric Decker, a YouTube and TikTok creator who goes by the name Airrack, posted a video poking fun at an “average day for an Apple Vision Pro owner,” showing him wearing the headset while lifting weights at the gym, getting his hair cut, going through airport security, walking down a street and even showering. (The Vision Pro is not waterproof.) “I truly feel most of these…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

Hamas Is Open to a Cease-Fire Deal with Israel but Ready to Keep Fighting: Live Updates

Social Responsibility

Linked media - Related media Abraham and Adra, an Israeli and Palestinian filmmaking team, had just won the festival’s award for best documentary for “No Other Land,” a movie about Palestinian resistance to Israeli campaigns in the occupied territories. It was “very hard,” Adra said, to celebrate the award “when there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred by Israel in Gaza.” He called upon German lawmakers to “stop sending weapons to Israel,” before Abraham called for a cease-fire and an end to Israel’s occupation. The audience, which included the culture minister of Germany, Claudia Roth,…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

Is Lying on the Floor Good for Your Health?

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As a child, Josh Patner became accustomed to stepping over his mom, who used to lie down in the kitchen whenever her mother-in-law would call.“My grandmother would talk her ear off,” Mr. Patner, 61, recalled. To cope, his mother would “lie on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.” Mr. Patner’s father, also a fan of the floor, took a 20-minute nap under the family’s piano each night after work.So it is unsurprising, perhaps, that Mr. Patner enjoys floor time at his home in Brooklyn or even at his friends’ places — in part to stretch and…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

How Paul Mullin – via a text from Rob McElhenney – ended his rare goal drought

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Rob McElhenney takes the duty of care he has as Wrexham’s co-owner seriously.When Phil Parkinson was still coming to terms with what remains the nadir of the club’s return to the EFL after a 15-year non-League exile, the co-owner reached out to his manager just moments after September’s 5-0 thrashing at Stockport County via text.Hollywood actor and writer McElhenney did something similar with Paul Mullin during the latter’s recent run of eight games without a goal — comfortably the striker’s most barren period in almost five years.The level-headed Liverpudlian’s response was no surprise. “I feel pretty good,” he told McElhenney,…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

Francisco Martinelli íntimo: sobre el éxito y la espiritualidad

Social Responsibility

En una reveladora entrevista, el reconocido abogado Francisco Martinelli abrió su corazón al contar sobre su experiencia personal dentro del movimiento de Emaús y cómo ha sido fundamental para redirigir su vida y mantener el éxito sin perder de vista la espiritualidad. Francisco, quien proviene de una familia religiosa, comparte cómo su camino lo llevó desde la cercanía con la iglesia hasta el alejamiento a medida que alcanzaba el éxito en su vida.El mensaje central de Emaús, de que Jesucristo siempre está al lado sin importar las circunstancias, resonó profundamente en él. Reconoció que, a pesar de su éxito y…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.

Science and Technology

“The really striking thing about Musk is the disjuncture between his outsized public persona, and his very, very minimal philanthropic presence,” said Benjamin Soskis, who studies philanthropy at the Urban Institute. Where other billionaires have aimed for a broad impact on society, Mr. Soskis said Mr. Musk’s foundation lacks “any direction or any real focus, outside his business ventures.”Mr. Musk did not respond to requests for comment.A school for his childrenMr. Musk and his younger brother, Kimbal, started the Musk Foundation in 2001, a year before the sale of PayPal, the online payments company he co-founded, to eBay for $1.5…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

William Whitworth, Revered Writer and Editor, Is Dead at 87

Investments and Business

William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker giving voice to his idiomatic subjects and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where he was editor in chief for 20 years, died on Friday in Conway, Ark., near Little Rock. He was 87.His daughter, Katherine Whitworth Stewart, announced the death. She said he was being treated after several falls and operations in a hospital.As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different…

Mar

11

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

Photo of Catherine, Prince of Wales, Manipulated, News Agencies Say

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A photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, with her three children, released by Kensington Palace and meant to showcase her recovery from surgery, has come under scrutiny after three news agencies advised news organizations on Sunday evening to withdraw it, saying the image had been manipulated by the palace.The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse issued advisories about the photo, which circulated widely on news sites, including The New York Times, and social media after it was distributed by the palace on Sunday morning. The Times has since removed the photo from an article about it.In a “kill notification” issued…

Mar

09

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

Kansas City Chiefs Fans Needed Amputations After Frigid Game

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Several fans of the Kansas City Chiefs who attended a playoff game on a bitterly cold January day in Missouri suffered frostbite that required amputations, according to the hospital that treated them.Twelve people — including some football fans who were at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 13 — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes, the hospital, Research Medical Center in Kansas City, said in a statement on Saturday.The center said it treated dozens of patients who experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap. Not all of the patients who had amputations attended the Chiefs game. Some were people…

Mar

09

2024

By Kyle C. Garrison

How love, Warriors basketball and poetry brought Tom Meschery back

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The poet has been upstairs in his office, tapping at the keyboard on various projects. Most of his mornings begin this way … so much work to do. Some days he tends to his blog, and on other days he tidies up his memoir that is nearing publication. Or he may put the finishing touches on another of his mystery novels. And of course, his poetry. There is always his poetry.Much of his poetry chronicles his remarkable life. He was born in Manchuria to Russian parents, and from ages 3 to 6 lived in a World War…