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Utah Falconz Game
Saturday, May 4th at 4 p.m.
Cottonwood High School
5715S. 1300 E.
Murray, UT 84121
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AT&T Debuts New Retail Store Design in Kaysville
Designed for an Evolution in Connected Entertainment
OGDEN, Utah, April 30, 2019 – AT&T* has debuted a new entertainment-focused retail store at 275 West 200 North in Kaysville Plaza. We designed the store to help you get your hands on the entertainment content you want anytime, anywhere and on any device.
The new store design reflects the changing ways our customers use their mobile devices for entertainment. In the last year alone, video traffic on our network grew over 75%. In our new store, you can interact with content across many different screens and find the best video, internet and wireless options available from AT&T. This unique store joins our lineup of nearly 60 AT&T owned and authorized retail stores in Utah.
“Our customers want more. Their experience in our new Kaysville store is designed for that – more entertainment, more data and more value,” said Amanda Harris, vice president and general manager, AT&T-Rocky Mountain Region. “We want to help family, friends and neighbors in Davis County connect in meaningful ways every day.”
Some key features of the new store format are:
· Entertainment, everywhere. Our new stores illustrate the intersection of content and connection. We train our reps to show how services, like DIRECTV and DIRECTV NOW and products can add value to your connected life.
· Smartphones and more. We’ve moved the phones off the walls to the center of the store to make it easier to compare and choose what’s best for you. We also have two focus areas to show the most popular brands that have products like AR glasses, tablets or smartwatches that work with your smartphone. We expanded our lineup of accessories, and we’ve made them easier to find.
· A comfortable experience. We’ve designed these stores for you to have a personal connection with our reps and services. And we know selecting a phone, plan and sometimes adding TV and home broadband to your list takes longer than grabbing a shirt off the rack. So we added comfortable areas where you and our reps can work together.
*About AT&T Communications
We help family, friends and neighbors connect in meaningful ways every day. From the first phone call 140+ years ago to mobile video streaming, we innovate to improve lives. We have the nation’s fastest wireless network.** And according to America’s biggest test, we have the nation’s best wireless network.*** We’re building FirstNet just for first responders and creating next-generation mobile 5G. With DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW and WatchTV, we deliver entertainment people love to talk about. Our smart, highly secure solutions serve nearly 3 million global businesses – nearly all of the Fortune 1000. And worldwide, our spirit of service drives employees to give back to their communities.
AT&T Communications is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T). Learn more at att.com/CommunicationsNews.
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NEW YORK (PRWEB) APRIL 30, 2019
Worldwide shipments for augmented reality and virtual reality headsets will grow to 68.9 million units in 2022, with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 55.5%, according to the latest forecast from the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. In a new interview, Michael Bodekaer Jensen, Founder of Labster, tells C.M. Rubin, Founder of CMRubinWorld, that this new technology will “empower students through interactive immersive learning” and enable students to experience science up close, “for instance, solving real-world global challenges or by traveling to the inner depth of cells to experience how DNA, molecules and enzymes bring cells to life.” The ultimate goal of VR education, says Jensen, is “teachers being empowered through far greater insights into their individual students' skills levels and each student receiving the best possible education given their individual progression and learning style.” Jensen believes “the training and collaboration with teachers around the world will be absolute key” to realizing these goals.
Read the full article here
Michael Bodekaer Jensen is the founder and CTO of Labster, an award-winning company that focuses on revolutionizing the way science is taught to university, college and high school students all over the world through the exploration and advancement of Virtual Reality technologies.
CMRubinWorld’s award-winning series, The Global Search for Education, brings together distinguished thought leaders in education and innovation from around the world to explore the key learning issues faced by most nations. The series has become a highly visible platform for global discourse on 21st century learning, offering a diverse range of innovative ideas which are presented by the series founder, C. M. Rubin, together with the world’s leading thinkers.
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AGRICULTURAL PRICES RECEIVED
Prices Received – Mountain Region States and United States: March 2019 with Comparisons State March 2018 February 2019 March 2019 Barley, All (dollars per bushel) (dollars per bushel) (dollars per bushel) Colorado ............................. (D) 4.60 4.68 Montana .............................. 4.49 4.40 4.65 Wyoming ............................ (D) (D) (D) United States ....................... 4.46 4.65 4.88 Corn Arizona ............................... (D) (D) (D) Colorado ............................. 3.49 3.56 3.66 Montana .............................. (D) (D) (D) New Mexico ....................... (D) (D) (D) Utah .................................... (D) (D) (D) Wyoming ............................ (S) (D) (D) United States ....................... 3.51 3.60 3.61 Wheat, All Arizona ............................... (D) (S) (D) Colorado ............................. 4.31 4.86 4.89 Montana .............................. 5.35 5.25 5.32 United States ....................... 5.10 5.33 5.19 Hay, Alfalfa (dollars per ton) (dollars per ton) (dollars per ton) Arizona ............................... 200.00 210.00 210.00 Colorado ............................. 190.00 240.00 240.00 Montana .............................. 150.00 150.00 150.00 New Mexico ....................... 200.00 260.00 260.00 Utah .................................... 150.00 185.00 185.00 Wyoming ............................ 160.00 175.00 175.00 United States ....................... 165.00 180.00 184.00 Hay, Other Arizona ............................... 200.00 200.00 200.00 Colorado ............................. 190.00 240.00 220.00 Montana .............................. 130.00 135.00 135.00 New Mexico ....................... 160.00 165.00 165.00 Utah .................................... 125.00 140.00 150.00 Wyoming ............................ 140.00 145.00 145.00 United States ....................... 124.00 146.00 147.00 Milk, All (dollars per hundredweight) (dollars per hundredweight) (dollars per hundredweight) Arizona ............................... 14.50 16.50 16.80 Colorado ............................. 16.00 17.20 17.80 New Mexico ....................... 14.20 15.00 15.90 Utah .................................... 15.70 16.30 17.20 United States ....................... 15.70 16.80 17.50 (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. (S) Insufficient number of reports to establish an estimate.
UNITED STATES
March Prices Received Index Up 2.8 Percent
The March Prices Received Index (Agricultural Production), at 91.9, increased 2.8 percent from February 2019. At 85.7, the Crop Production Index increased 2.1 percent. The Livestock Production Index, at 97.5, increased 3.0 percent. Producers received higher prices for lettuce, cattle, milk, and broilers but lower prices for market eggs, grapefruit, peanuts, and wheat. Compared with a year earlier, the Prices Received Index is down 3.4 percent. The Crop Production Index decreased 2.6 percent and the Livestock Production Index decreased 2.2 percent. The indexes are calculated using commodity prices and volumes of commodities that producers market. Increased monthly movement of strawberries, cattle, milk, and calves offset the decreased marketing of cotton, apples, greenhouse & nursery, and soybeans. The Food Commodities Index, at 97.2, increased 3.4 percent from the previous month but decreased 2.7 percent from March 2018.
March Prices Paid Index Up 0.1 Percent
The March Prices Paid Index for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW), at 110.6, is up 0.1 percent from February 2019 and 1.5 percent from March 2018. Higher prices in March for feeder pigs, diesel, gasoline, and hay and forages more than offset lower prices for field crops, other services, nitrogen, and herbicides.
For a full copy of the Agricultural Prices report please visit www.nass.usda.gov. For state specific questions please contact:
Arizona – Dave DeWalt 1-800-645-7286 Colorado – William R. Meyer 1-800-392-3202 Montana – Eric Sommer 1-800-835-2612 New Mexico – Longino Bustillos 1-800-530-8810 Utah – John Hilton 1-800-747-8522 Wyoming – Rhonda Brandt 1-800-892-1660
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Irish Return to Political Violence?
By J.P. Linstroth
1022 words
Thispast week, I had a conversation with a friend of mine from Belfast, Northern Ireland about the so-called ‘New’ Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its murder of Irish journalist, Lyra McKee, 29 years old, April 18th. Both of us expressed outrage. After all, the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ for peace in Northern Ireland was signed almost exactly 21 years ago, finally ending ‘The Troubles’, which cost nearly 3,500 lives.
Most believed that such extrajudicial killings were relics of the past. The Northern Irish murders ended, or so we thought, with the ‘peace accords’ at Stormont Palace and House of Commons in 1998. Even so, some observers of the Northern Irish Troubles knew IRA hardliners remained after the peace deal had been signed—those who could not accept peace in Northern Ireland, who would not stop the violence until a utopic vision for a ‘unified Ireland’ was achieved.
The tumultuous years of the Troubles lasted in Northern Ireland from the 1960s until 1998, but historically speaking, the violence between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants has deep roots in the sectarian divide of Irish history to the 17thcentury ‘Plantation Era’.
The early years of the conflict between native Catholics against the settler Protestant British and Scottish ‘planter class’ resulted in the Confederate Wars (1641-1653) and the Williamite War (1689-1691), and then to 1916, a bit more than a century ago, and the ‘Easter Rising’ in Dublin, Ireland, where a concerted effort was undertaken to win Irish independence from Great Britain and establish the Irish Republic. It was led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish Volunteers, and the Irish Citizen Army, when the British were heavily engaged in fighting World War I. This historical period was instrumental in Irish history when political party Sinn Féin garnered a majority of Irish votes in 1918 and later would evolve into the political arm of the IRA.
From the 1960s to 1990s, the Troubles were a period of convoluted killings between Catholic-Republican paramilitaries and Protestant Ulster-Loyalist paramilitaries, as well as the IRA against the British military and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), a time of reprisals and counter-reprisals, resulting in assassinations, car bombings, civilian casualties, death threats, disappearances, hunger strikes, petrol bombs, political-jockeying for power, political murals, prison sentences, sectarian community-divisions, and continual terrorism.
Both Unionists and Republicans have united against dissident ‘New’ IRA paramilitaries because of the murder of the journalist Lyra McKee in Derry during Easter Week. After 21 years of relative peace, their willingness to dialogue is welcome and signifies that we are undeniably in a new era where sectarian violence has no place in this ‘new’ Northern Ireland. Talks about power-sharing between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have been revived since the breakdown of such discussions in 2017.
A statement by the ‘New’ IRA’s political party Saoradh, claimed: “Tragically a young journalist, Lyra McKee, was killed accidentally”—was not good enough to the Northern Irish majority who supported the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
After all, it was in the city of Derry where the infamous ‘Blood Sunday’incidents happened some 47 years beforehand on January 30th, 1972. It revolved around the British Army shooting at 48 unarmed Irish-Catholic marchers, 13 of whom were killed, protesting political internment.
Astonishingly, the investigations of Bloody Sunday continue nearly half a century later, with 150 or moreBritish or Northern Irish ex-soldiers under scrutiny and three on trial currently.
Prior to the journalist’s slaying, the Police Service of Northern Ireland/Royal Ulster Constabulary (PSNI/RUC) conducted a raid on the Creggan Estate—a large housing development with a violent history—in Derry searching for explosives and weapons as preventative measures against terrorism during this past Easter weekend.
What ensued was a political riot. Its original intent evolving from a Saoradh demonstration commemorating the Easter Rising of 1916. To protest the police raid, dissident Republican militants set two cars ablaze with Molotov cocktails and began firing live rounds in the direction of police and gathered crowds. During the melee, Lyra McKee, was gunned down by some masked gunman among the New IRA paramilitary-rioters. The New IRA admitted it and apologized.
This so-called New IRA was formed from those Republican paramilitaries who did not believe in the Northern Irish peace process, along with young, impoverished, and unemployed youth who were born after the Good Friday Agreementand raised with sectarian beliefs. The PSNI believe the New IRA may have several hundred members. The political situation in Northern Ireland worsened since 2016 from a potential BREXITfailure and the threat of ‘borders’ and ‘police checks’ returning to Northern Ireland.
Fortunately, the majority of former Provisional Republicans, and Sinn Féin politicians, do not support the New IRA nor the Saoradh, and their unrealistic goals for unification of Northern Ireland with the rest of the island.
On Wednesday, April 24th, McKee’s funeral was well-attended by British and Irish politicians, including British Prime Minister Theresa May, Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Irish President Michael Higgins, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney. All the Northern Irish political parties were equally represented.
McKee was survived by her mother, two brothers, and three sisters. She was described as an LGBT activist and also survived by her partner Sara Canning. The service was at the Protestant St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast, even though McKee was from a Catholic family. Her family wished her funeral to be well-attended by the entire community. Her family described Lyra as a woman with a “warm and innocent heart” and who was a “great listener,” who was also “smart” and “strong-minded,” and who believed in “inclusivity, justice, and truth.”
We can only hope McKee’s death will not be in vain. We can only hope the Good Friday Agreement remains in place and the political parties believe again in the peace process and not a return to violence.
As the Irish Nobel Laureate, novelist, playwright, and poet, Samuel Beckett, once declared: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
The good people of Northern Ireland cannot afford to fail any longer and they know it.
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J. P. Linstroth, Ph.D., syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a former Fulbright Scholar and has written about the Basque conflict and Basque peace. His first book is: Marching Against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland (2015).