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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Agustina Bazterrica |Michael McDowell |John Kennedy Toole |Leïla Slimani
The bestselling Argentine writer known for her compelling short stories and novels shares how great audiobooks feed her love of literature. One of the best things that has happened to me has been the discovery of audiobooks. I find it fascinating to be able to listen to powerful, beautiful, complex stories while I exercise or do housework. Audiobooks allow me to stay connected to one of my passions: literature. That's why I am recommending five books that I hope you enjoy as much as I have.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
nand-research.com | Michael McDowell
Retail innovation relies on scalable, reliable networks to modernize stores, engage customers, and gain competitive advantages. At NRF, HPE showed off advancements to securely connect IoT devices, deliver real-time AI insights at the edge, and provide reliable pop-up and backup connectivity for critical applications like credit card processing.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Michael McDowell
I imagine that many people in Ireland are quietly hoping that some of the more pessimistic forecasts of what the Trump presidency could mean for this country prove to be wrong and that somehow the old adage that politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose will turn out in practice to mitigate those forecasts.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Michael McDowell
From the beginning of January 1973, Ireland was a member state of the . But for the following decade we were in the throes of despair. By the mid-1980s, Ireland was being crippled by political violence, mass emigration, mass unemployment, political paralysis and a sense of hopelessness. Sometimes it is worthwhile recalling the failed structure of the Irish economy at that time. Most young people nowadays would hardly believe how dominant the State had become in the failing Irish economy.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Michael McDowell
It should come as no surprise that the Israeli foreign minister should accuse the Irish Taoiseach of anti-Semitism. After all, the spokesman for the same minister’s department of foreign affairs levelled the exact same charge against the members of the Seanad who voted in the majority to pass the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill, 2018. Those alleged anti-Semites included senators David Norris, Ivana Bacik and myself, among others.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Michael McDowell
If you look at large-scale maps of Ireland 100 years ago, you will see little black rectangles representing homes occupied by rural dwellers scattered across the landscape. The population was not as concentrated geographically or as urbanised then as it is today. Of course, that reflects a very different society, demography and economy. Large and extended families lived in often overcrowded and inadequate houses based on an agricultural existence – often at subsistence level.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
patch.com | Michael McDowell
HARLEM, NY – A 42-year-old Harlem resident, Vadim Dergachev, appeared at State Sen. Cordell Cleare’s Harlem office in the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building on 125th Street in November and threatened to “shoot up” and “blow up” the office if he couldn't speak with Cleare, who wasn't in the building at the time of the incident. It took 20 minutes for the NYPD to arrive and arrest Dergachev, who was unarmed. After being released, he returned to the building on Dec.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
patch.com | Michael McDowell
MIDTOWN, NY – The man who fatally shot Brian Thompson, the 50-year-old CEO of UnitedHealthcare – one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world – appears to have eluded authorities. The masked gunman shot and killed Thompson outside Hilton Club The Residences – a large Midtown hotel where the company had planned to hold its annual investor day – between 6:44 and 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday. Minutes later, he disappeared into Central Park.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
patch.com | Michael McDowell
NEW YORK CITY – A 17-year-old teenage boy, Yeremi Colino, was killed after he was stabbed in the chest outside 17 John Street on Thursday night, authorities confirmed. Police responded to a 911 call regarding an assault just off Broadway in the Financial District at about 7:40 p.m. Upon arrival, cops found Colino with a stab wound to the chest and an 18-year-old man with a stab wound to his left arm.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
patch.com | Michael McDowell
HARLEM, NY – The Harlem Junior Tennis & Education Program (HJTEP), a longstanding neighborhood nonprofit dedicated to building champions on and off the tennis court, is ready to expand. “Our program is going to be 53 years young next year – we’ve been around since 1972 – and we are bursting at the seams at our current location,” said executive director and former tennis pro Katrina Adams.
