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Defending truck champ Ty Majeski shrugs off career win gap as playoffs fire off at Darlington
Sportskeeda
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August 30, 2025
Ty Majeski seems unconcerned with the idea of career wins mattering in the postseason, with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series playoffs starting this weekend. During an interview with Bob Pockrass during a media session ahead of Saturday's (August...
City appoints Ruth Morrison as director of intergovernmental affairs
North Richmond Today - Virginia
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August 30, 2025
Honorable Cynthia I. Newbille Council President | City of RichmondHonorable Cynthia I. Newbille Council President | City of Richmond Ruth Morrison has been appointed as the new Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs for the City of...
County youth work program keeps kids out of trouble, says the City of Troy's Director of Diversity, Opportunity, and Outreach Kevin Pryor
WAMC - New York
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August 30, 2025
A youth employment program that helped 211 young people with summer jobs in Rensselaer County wrapped up for the summer recently. The Youth Workforce Program was hosted by local non-profit organizations, private businesses, and county offices....
Music Sparks Social Imagination and Eases Loneliness
Neuroscience News - Texas
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August 30, 2025
Summary: A large-scale study with 600 participants shows that music can genuinely evoke feelings of companionship by sparking social imagination. When participants listened to folk music, they imagined vivid social scenes such as being with...
Morrow County approves new human resources hire
Hermiston Herald - Oregon
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August 30, 2025
Published 8:01 am Saturday, August 30, 2025 HEPPNER — The Morrow County Board of Commissioners approved a new senior human resources director. During a special session Friday, Aug. 29, in Heppner, the commissioners directed Administrator Matt...
PNB Announces Key Senior Management Appointments
PSU Connect Media
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August 30, 2025
NEW DELHI, August 30, 2025. Punjab National Bank (PNB), a major public sector bank in India, has announced important changes to its senior management team, effective today. The appointments were disclosed in a regulatory filing to the stock...
Raja Jackson advertised for wrestling appearance days after nearly killing a man
Sportskeeda
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August 30, 2025
In a surprise update, Raja Jackson has been advertised for a pro wrestling appearance, days after a brutal attack. The son of the former UFC fighter, Rampage Jackson, was involved in a controversial incident on August 23 at a KnokX Pro Wrestling...
Why Vikings' Adam Thielen reportedly agreed to revised contract, reduced salary after trade from Panthers
CBS Sports - Florida
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August 30, 2025
The Minnesota Vikings and wide receiver Adam Thielen have agreed to terms on a revised contract, per the NFL Network. The two-time Pro Bowler agreed to reduce his salary by $2 million and remove $4 million in potential incentives from his contract...
Lee Corso picks Ohio State over Texas in final 'College GameDay' appearance
News4Jax - Florida
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August 30, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Just as it was the first time, Lee Corso's final headgear pick was Brutus Buckeye. Corso selected the third-ranked Buckeyes to beat top-ranked Texas on his final appearance on ESPN's “College GameDay” on Saturday. Corso made the...
Veteran Chinese Auteur Jia Zhangke Embraces AI Opportunities, Says It’s ‘Like Playing Chess’ — Venice
Deadline
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August 30, 2025
Veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke held a masterclass at the Venice Film Festival, covering a wide swathe of topics, from embracing artificial intelligence opportunities in filmmaking, to launching the Pingyao International Film Festival in...
Will Social Security COLA include tariff impact? Seniors are worried.
Yahoo Finance
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Seniors are bracing for a skimpy increase in their 2026 Social Security benefits, even without all the data that will determine next year’s cost-of-living increase, known as the COLA. The reason: tariffs. Half of retirees are “terrified” about the...
Neven Maguire - "I used spend all my wages on cookbooks and vinyl"
RTE Ireland
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Chef and occasional DJ, Neven Maguire, shares five songs that have soundtracked his life from Tina Turner to the deep house of Felix, he tells Brendan about the impact and inspiration of his parents on his career, his love for dance music, the...
911 star Lee Brennan has surprised fans by announcing a major career move - and it's quite different to his 90s pop career
Daily Mail
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August 30, 2025
Nineties pop icon Lee Brennan has surprised fans by announcing a major career move. The former singer, who fronted chart sensations 911, has revealed after a period of intensive studying, he is now a 'certified Transformative Life Coach'. Lee, 51,...
Maxwell School professor receives NSF CAREER Award for AI workplace study
Syracuse Sun - New York
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August 29, 2025
Baobao Zhang, an associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award totaling $567,491. The grant will fund her project titled “Future of...
Accenture CEO Urges Leaders to Say Yes to Stretch Opportunities
SightsIn Plus
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August 30, 2025
- Advertisement - Julie Sweet, CEO of global professional services firm Accenture, has shared a key piece of career advice that challenges conventional thinking about promotions and leadership readiness. In a recent episode of Fortune’s “Titans...
Land of Lincoln Goodwill partners with Google for free career accelerator program
WLDS - Illinois
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August 30, 2025
By Benjamin Cox on August 30, 2025 at 9:30am Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries, in partnership with Google, has launched a free, fully virtual Digital Career Accelerator Program available to anyone in Central Illinois. This initiative offers...
Ugochinyere hails Innocent Ike’s appointment as Access Holdings CEO
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 30, 2025
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, has congratulated Innocent Ike on his appointment as the substantive Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) of Access Holdings Plc. The appointment, announced on...
US Open Star Shrugs off Social Media ‘Hatred’ After Third-Round Loss: “It Makes Me Laugh”
Essentially Sports
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August 30, 2025
Ugo Blanchet’s incredible journey at the 2025 US Open really caught the attention of tennis fans. As the World No. 184 and a qualifier, he fought hard through two tough matches to make it to the third round of a Grand Slam for the very first time...
Alec Baldwin and his uncanny resemblance to Carlo Ancelotti that has social media calling for him to star in a biopic about the Italian's life
MARCA
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August 30, 2025
At 67 years of age, Alec Baldwin decided to publish a video on his Instagram profile to talk about his life and career. He did so wearing a Real Madrid tracksuit, which caught the attention of his fans who also noticed a more than reasonable...
Scamming couple claimed £235k in benefits on top of husband's £403k wages
Stoke-on-Trent Live
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August 30, 2025
A delivery driver has been jailed for a £235,000 benefit fraud scam he carried out with his wife. Paul Churchman earned £403,000 as a self-employed courier for Evri over the same 11-year period that the pair swindled the DWP and local council. As...