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Dear Amy: My best friend recently attended her professional association's top producers' banquet. “Brian,” a very successful man from another firm, ...

He’s Jewish and his collection is driven by the premise that “Hitler should plotz (drop dead) knowing that his stuff is in a Jewish home.” There is a scenario however, beside education, that would justify the purchase. Dear Knots: If the child’s parents are the “perpetrators” pushing food, then my main suggestion is that you should understand that they are the child’s parents and they have the right to handle mealtimes the way they think is best. I agree that this way of treating mealtime takes away a child’s agency; the parental hovering and hoovering can also be hard for others to witness. Real estate agents meet clients alone in empty houses. I’ve brought it to the attention of the perpetrators – gently I hope – and things seemed better for a while.

News 10 viewer Lottie Powell wrote in, saying "In Spring of 2020, in a Klamath Homes & Outdoor interview with Chris Jones, Project^, outlined the ...

Wall mentioned that the city of Klamath Falls has issued all necessary permits to Project ^, and the next steps are in their hands. According to the Project ^ website, The Balsiger site will become both a small hotel and 42 apartment units. Wall said what used to be the basement of the old car dealership on the lot was dug out, filled and leveled in preparation for the construction.

Mount Carmel United Methodist Church, 4265 Ebert Road, Winston-Salem, will have a paper shredding event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 8. A donation of $5 per box ...

Trinity Moravian Church, 220 E. Sprague St., Winston-Salem, will hold a shredding event from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 15th. Mount Carmel United Methodist Church, 4265 Ebert Road, Winston-Salem, will have a paper shredding event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 8. A donation of $5 per box would be appreciated. Shamrock Shredding will be shredding documents onsite in the church parking lot. Proceeds will be used by the Girl Scouts to fund service projects in their community. Is this a danger to them and are they in peril? Girl Scout Troop 40047 will sponsor a community shredding event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the G. Galloway Reynolds Community Center, 131 Lucy Lane, Lewisville, enter from Shallowford Road. Shamrock Shredding will provide secure onsite document destruction for a suggested donation of $5 per box or bag. There is a preferred method of removing the plants so they don’t drop seeds when removed. A $5 per box or a donation is appreciated. We will try to add some plantings this winter.” Fries Memorial Moravian Church, 251 N. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, will have a community shred day from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 17. “This was not on our list for this year.

Got a tech question? Ed Bott and ZDNet's squad of editors and experts probably have the answer. This week: The simplest way to cut a torrent of junk email ...

But just creating a separate account and not giving your "real" email address to untrusted correspondents should cut the junk mail torrent in your main inbox to a mere trickle. Get in the habit of using your new secondary address when you sign up for anything that looks like it might result in incoming junk mail. Be sure to include a working email address in case we have follow-up questions. Look for an option to change the email address they have on file for you. Use the unsubscribe button to take yourself off any mailing lists that aren't useful. Our goal is to deliver the most accurate information and the most knowledgeable advice possible in order to help you make smarter buying decisions on tech gear and a wide array of products and services. And they're likely to pass your address along to partners who will also clutter your inbox. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. Creating that new account is just the first step. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. If they don't, we'll find an outside expert who can steer you in the right direction. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.Our process

By Sarah Kaufmann — A bad ride or race can really cut us to our core. If you have been working hard, preparing and training consistently, it can be.

Was it excessively hot or cold and/or were you not acclimatized for those conditions or was your clothing not appropriate for the temperatures? The Notes app on your phone or a dedicated app for this purpose can be really useful. If your in-race fueling and hydration seems adequate and appropriate, go through what you ate and drank in the 24-36 hours prior to the race, with extra consideration to the 4-6 hours leading up to the race. If there is both heart rate and power data, I look at both and compare whether heart rate is abnormally high or low for the power output. If this is the case for you, assess whether you felt like you were pushing as hard as you could and at your physical max, but you weren’t going as fast as you could reasonably expect OR did it feel like you could not access deeper intensities and you felt governed. Sometimes it feels like a bad ride or race is a deeper reflection of your identity as a person or athlete.

Plus, thoughts on the 'Grey's Anatomy' finale, questions about 'How We Roll,' and more.

Comment: Cheers to the season finale of NCIS: LA. The party at the beach was genius and positive with lots of storylines tied up. We can’t do this without your participation, so please keep sending questions and comments about TV to [email protected] or shoot me a line on Twitter (@TVGMMattRoush), and you can also submit questions via the handy form below. The last time I remember bowling working on TV was in NBC’s Ed (how I miss it), which isn’t to say this world is now off-limits, but it’s certainly a lost opportunity. As an aspiring professional bowler and a huge bowling fan and fan of the PBA for many years, the story of Tom Smallwood is one that I find very inspirational as do many people in my local bowling leagues. But since I too will likely stick with this show to the end because I’ve come this far, I’ll just fall back on my approach to how I watch so much episodic TV, especially broadcast variety: Power through the rough patches to get to the good stuff, which Grey’s at its infrequent best still delivers, thanks to this ensemble and in part to the shared history so many of us have with having watched them for so long, for better or worse. Matt Roush: I’ll take your word for the sports discrepancies, but the truly fatal flaw of this show was that it just wasn’t funny or fresh. I’m in until the end because I’ve invested so much of my life in the show, but this season has been especially frustrating to me, and this season finale was the worst. The actor who played Tom couldn’t actually bowl, the actors who played the professional bowlers when he was at tournaments couldn’t actually bowl, and they made them into wacky characters that wore hats or smoked cigarettes or had crazy nicknames, and that is strictly forbidden by the PBA tour as part of the persona clause. The residency program has been the backbone of this show, and watching it crumble to nothing is hardly a satisfying 400th episode celebration. I feel that if they dropped the cast to below 10, maybe around seven, they could improve the overall quality of the show by providing greater focus on the performers they have and provide greater recognition for them. I guess it was nice to see Jackson and April together and happy, but that’s all I’ve got in favor of this episode. The flashbacks and reuse of songs from previous episodes just served as a reminder of how much better the show was back then and felt really distracting from this narrative.

Learn about what quantum materials are and why we can expect them in all our future technologies from physicist Nai-Chang Yeh.

But the application of quantum materials to qubits is certainly an area that can have impact on quantum computation. And not just quantum bits, you also need to have quantum memories, quantum networks, quantum transducers—all of those things. And of course, qubits are directly related to quantum computation. Also, there are qubits already made of quantum materials. She was always very dedicated to everything she did, and she was passionate about research. As you know, to make quantum computers you need to start with qubits, also known as "quantum bits." Right now, for instance, one of the major challenges in advancing semiconducting technology is that we need to continually decrease the size of nano-electronic components and devices. Typically, the sizes people are working with these days are mostly at the nanoscale or nanometer scale, which is a few billionths of a meter—a scale that's related to the size of molecules, or a few tens of atoms. Nowadays people generalize quantum materials to other things, including topological materials, low-dimensional materials, and engineered quantum materials. She investigates materials with fascinating quantum properties, such as superconductors, exotic magnets, graphene, topological materials, and materials made of atomically thin sheets or wires. (Note: Find a more in-depth discussion of these materials in theConversation recording). The definition of "quantum materials" these days is much broader than when the term was originally created. It's an umbrella term referring to materials that have properties that cannot be easily described by classical, or low-level, quantum physics.