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Crowdfunding Spirit back to life?Once Hunter Peterson heard Spirit would close on May 2 — after attempts to merge with other airlines or get a lifeline from the federal government — the 22-year-old voice actor and content creator posted on social media that day with an idea to revive the airline.
If a fifth of Americans each pitched in $45, (the equivalent of a cheap Spirit flight) “we could buy Spirit Airlines,” he said.
His initial pitch was to run the airline like the Green Bay Packers, the only publicly owned team in the NFL. It has more than 5 million shares split among more than 530,000 owners. His joke, however, became a call to action. Peterson is not taking actual cash, but he has rallied $337 million in pledges from more than 370,000 verified people, his website says.
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Bugscrolling - what's buzzing/chewing/biting in your neighborhood?Did you actually rid your body of it? My poor sister got it and never could get rid of it.
It's been seven years and haven't had any problems. I recognized what it was pretty early on and got antibiotics pronto. I also have a pretty hardy immune system. The blood tests they did to confirm Lyme showed a very robust immune reponse. I know it hits some people really hard but thankfully I don't seem to be one of them.
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Prediction of a super El NinoSeasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather.
“I think we’re going to see weather events that we’ve never seen in modern history before,” WFLA-TV Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist Jeff Berardelli, in Tampa, Florida, said Friday.
An El Nino event is expected to develop from the middle of this year, impacting global temperature and rainfall patterns, according to the World Meteorological Organization. While the models indicate that this may be a strong event, the WMO cautioned that the models also have a harder time making accurate forecasts in the spring.
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?@AdagioM The stems on mine got longer, so they are dancing well above the foliage.
I do love the way they look and they seem to be both disease- and rabbit-resistant. However, as you've noted in the past, they do tend to invade the garden. I cleaned out an area of "volunteers" a couple of years ago. And I started deadheading the remaining plants to prevent the seeds from forming and re-populating the garden.
Seems to be working.
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Continuing to redecorate Washington DCPresident Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls "American flag blue."
He did more than just see it — the Republican president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement and answer questions from reporters who had been taken there to await his arrival before the sun set.
The new blue coating will hide the pool's gray stone, a color Trump said was "never good." The project cost nearly $2 million, he said.
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Eat eggs!Add me to the egg brigade. Never gave them up, even when they were considered evil cholesterol bombs.
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ConnectionsMake an Impact: 85-year-old and 11-year-old team up to create greeting cards
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Canvas data breachThe online education platform Canvas went offline after a data breach on Thursday, temporarily leaving students and faculty at thousands of U.S. colleges — and K-12 schools — without access to course materials and communications during finals period.
"I'm sure somewhere in the country when the outage happened, there probably were people actually taking final exams on the platform when it crashed," says Damon Linker, a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thirty million users — including at half of the higher education institutions in North America — rely on Canvas to manage courses, submit assignments, view grades and facilitate communication, according to its parent company, Instructure.
But when Linker and many other users tried to do so on Thursday afternoon, they met a black screen and a warning message.
"ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again)," it read. "Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some 'security patches.'
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/nx-s1-5815956/canvas-data-breach-school-finals
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