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Education panel rules in favor of former DCPS teacher – FirstCoastNews.com WTLV-WJXX

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In 2021, Amy Donofrio was removed from the classroom after she refused to take down the flag. Thursday's ruling allows her to keep her teaching license.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A former Duval County Public Schools teacher will keep her teaching license after she was removed three years ago for displaying a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroom.

Thursday, Floridas Education Practices Commission voted unanimously in favor of allowing Amy Donofrio to retain her license.

Donofrio said she's happy to have closure.

"The last three years have been without a doubt, the hardest years of my life," Donofrio said.

In 2021, Donofrio was reassigned for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter flag from her Robert E. Lee High School classroom.

The commission unanimously agreeing with a judge's ruling that Donofrio did nothing wrong by refusing to remove the flag.

This circus that DCPS put, not just me but our community through, our children through this painful, painful chapter, it was all completely unnecessary," Donofrio said.

Donofrios removal came as the schools name was changing from Lee High School to Riverside.

Former Florida Education Commissioner, Richard Corcoran, called out Donofrio at the time saying, "we made sure she was terminated."

Donofrio sued DCPS and the two sides settled for $300,000 in 2021.

Thursday ruling provided closed the latest chapter for the former teacher.

Affirming Black students is our professional responsibility as teachers to do. It's not something that should cost someone their job. It's not something that should cost someone their teaching license. And today in the state of Florida, it didn't," Donofrio said.

The commission did issue a written reprimand to Donofrio saying she failed to keep her personal beliefs out of the classroom by allowing students to wear face masks saying, "Robert E. Lee is a gang member."

First Coast Newsreached out to Duval County Public Schools and is waiting to hear back.

Donofrio says she has not heard from the district, but said she wants to stay in Jacksonville and help kids.

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‘These are the issues we came to college to change’: Black students at pro-Palestine encampment find solidarity … – The Huntington News

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Just a few steps away from Centennial Common, where pro-Palestine protesters set up an encampment for nearly 48 hours in April, sits the John D. OBryant African American Institute. Affectionately called The Tute by many students, the building is home to Northeasterns Black student organizations, events and ideals that, some say, closely align with those of students advocating for Gaza.

Starting April 25, hundreds of student protesters and community members filled Centennial Common to join a pro-Palestine encampment, adding Northeastern to the plethora of universities across the nation whose students and affiliates are demonstrating against what they view as their schools involvement in the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip. The protesting is fueled by calls for the divestment of university funds from companies involved with Israel and its military.

For the hours that the encampment stood, people of many ethnicities, races and backgrounds joined students in their cause to make for a diverse crowd and sense of community that some protesters said isnt present in other spaces at the school. But Black students who participated in the encampment said the calls for justice hit especially close to home.

One student, who was granted anonymity due to fear of social retaliation, said it was a trip to The Tute that drew him to the chants for a ceasefire.

The student, a rising second-year mechanical engineering major, felt the decision to stop by the encampment wasnt a matter of knowledge, but instinct. Despite his academic focus on STEM, he cited his education on movements advocating for social progress as the most influential in his decision to join the protesters.

I felt a sense of guilt. Here I am walking past the opportunity to do the things [Ive learned about], he said.

After first joining, the reasons to stay despite the risk of arrest or disciplinary action from the school compiled quickly, the rising second-year student said. The sense of community he felt led him to stay for over three hours.

Another student, a recent 2024 alum with a degree in environmental engineering who was granted anonymity due to fear of retaliation from the New York institution they are attending for graduate school, echoed the sentiment of connection and community she felt at the encampment which many find difficult as Black students in predominantly white spaces that made her stay. Amongst the Black students present at the demonstration, there were no clear patterns apart from a shared desire for social justice, with students representing all majors, organizations and cultures linked arm in arm, the alum said.

I feel like I meet so many people [at protests]. You both know that youre there for social impact. People are going because they actually care about the cause, the alum said.

The development of these forged communities, she believes, is important to the vitality of any social justice movement, with personal relationships being the reason local initiatives become worldwide stories.

The only discernible trend they saw amongst the Black protesters, the two protesters said, was an intimate past with justice movements, with some of the most major protests in American history happening as close as their front doorstep.

The rising second-year student, who lived in Washington, D.C. for the majority of his life, recalls laying awake by his bedroom window as calls for gun control echoed throughout the city in the wake of the 2018 Parkland school shooting.

I remember watching the March for Our Lives and thinking, I dont wanna look back and say I just watched because of the risk, he said.

Personal connections to ideas for change stand at the core of the Black student experiences at Northeastern, both students said. The rising second-year student noted that outside of times of heightened polarization, a significant portion of his conversations with peers were already colored by race, discrimination and what college students could contribute.

No African American goes to college without changing some portion of their world these are the issues we came to college to change, he said.

Rashida Jalloh, co-president of the Northeastern Black Student Association, said active participation in any form of advocacy is one that resonates with the purpose of the student organization as a whole.

Our organization believes all the Black students and students in general on campus should have the right to exercise their beliefs safely and correctly, she said.

Beyond the general desire to contribute to the movement, Black students who participated in the encampment spoke about a respect for the Palestinian people that they believe is mutual. The evidence of this symbiosis between people isnt hypothetical, the alum said, but rather found in the history of the Black Lives Matter movement and others just like it.

When it was [tanks] rolling through Ferguson during [a Black Lives Matter] protest, it was Palestinians over there telling us how to deal with tear gas over here. How is standing up for Palestine not also standing up for myself? Our struggles are interconnected, the alum said.

The rising second-year also mentioned that the politic of solidarity is upheld throughout the diaspora, wherever people are paying the price of colonialism.

A similar thing is happening where Im from Cameroon, the rising second-year student said, [There is] media suppression, mass violence, oppressor and the oppressed.

The rising second-year student also said that solidarity extends beyond the empathy of linked struggle. Many groups on campus South Asian, Latin American, white American, Jewish, Muslim were present together at the demonstration despite what he believes traditional media conveys.

Another student, a rising third-year, who requested anonymity due to personal privacy concerns, was one of the 98 people arrested April 27. He said what he called the extreme measures taken by the various police departments that were present were coded by the abuse Black people often face.

The alum, after witnessing dozens of her peers in handcuffs, said she wasnt shocked by the lengths the police went, a stance entrenched in her belief that Northeastern has always been violent just in more covert ways.

You see this with everything [at Northeastern]. Northeastern has been complicit in genocide. They were complicit in Apartheid. They gentrify Roxbury. Theres blood on their hands, she said.

Despite this, the students said they remain reassured in the might of their community and the potential for dreams to become reality against insurmountable odds.

Look in the eyes of fear and tyranny and say you do not scare me, the rising second-year student said. Black students stand with Palestine. If not all, the vast majority. Its the Black Muslims, Black Christians, African Americans, Black Americans, all of us.

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Around 30 Malaysian couples head to Southern Thailand each month for polygamy – The Star Online

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NARATHIWAT: The Narathiwat Islamic Religious Council has disclosed that at least 30 couples from Kuala Lumpur, Kelantan and Terengganu travel to the province every month to enter into polygamous marriages.

Its deputy president, Abdul Aziz Che Mamat said the majority of these couples came with the intention of formalising their relationships and were willing to travel long distances for this purpose.

"However, getting married in southern Thailand is not as easy as it may seem. There are specific conditions that must be met, including background checks on the couples.

"One of the mandatory conditions is the presentation of the divorce certificate or the death certificate of a previous spouse if the woman is a widow or divorcee. If these conditions are not met or are questionable, the solemnisation will not be allowed to proceed, he told Bernama recently.

Abdul Aziz emphasised that marriages are not conducted recklessly, as everyone must consider the lineage and future implications if they are not truthful.

He added that couples wishing to practice polygamy in southern Thailand must obtain verification from the Malaysian Consulate General Office in Songkhla and register their marriages in Malaysia to avoid future problems. - Bernama

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Malaysian Polygamists Getting Married in Thailand – Southern Thailand News – Thailand News, Travel & Forum – ASEAN NOW

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Southern regions in Thailand have become a favorite spot for Malaysian men who opt for multiple marriages in ceremonial rites. The Narathiwat Islamic Religious Council in Thailand reportedly hosts approximately 30 marriage ceremonies for Malaysian couples every month, according to a report by Bernama news agency. Couples usually hail from nearby Malaysian states like Kelantan and Terengganu, but also from farther places like Kuala Lumpur.

Deputy president of the provincial council, Abdul Aziz Mamat, however, had emphasized that arranging a marriage in southern Thailand isnt a straightforward task. Various requirements, including background checks of the couple, need to be fulfilled. Mr. Aziz refrained from explaining why Narathiwat is such a hotspot for Malaysians who choose polygamy, a marital practice permitted in Islam.

The practice is not limited to Narathiwat but extends to other provinces along the southern border. As indicated by the Malaysian consulate in Songkhla, approximately 300 Malaysian couples get married in Songkhla province every month, as reported by the Malay Mail, referring to a report by the Malaysian-language newspaper Sinar Harian. Consul Ahmad Fahmi Ahmad Sarkawi pointed out Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani, and Satun as preferred wedding destinations for Malaysians.

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Polygamous Malaysians marrying in Thailand – Bangkok Post

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The southern provinces in Thailand have become a popular choice for Malaysian men entering ceremonial polygamous marriages.

At least 30 couples from Malaysia go through the ceremony at the Narathiwat Islamic Religious Council every month, Bernama news agency reported on Monday.

They usually came from neighbouring Kelantan and Terengganu states, but sometimes from as far as Kuala Lumpur, it said.

"However, getting married in southern Thailand is not as easy as it may seem. There are specific conditions that must be met, including background checks on the couple," provincial council deputy president Abdul Aziz Mamatn told Bernama.

Mr Aziz did not explain why Narathiwat is so popular with Malaysians entering into polygamy, which is allowed by Islam.

This trend is also seen in other southern border provinces.

According to the Malaysian consulate in Songkhla, about 300 Malaysian couples tie the knot in Songkhla province every month, the Malay Mailreported in February, citing a report from the Malaysian-languageSinar Harian.

Consul Ahmad Fahmi Ahmad Sarkawi said that Narathiwat, Yala, Pattani and Satun were the other popular destinations for marriage.

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‘Sister Wives’: Did the Brown Family Lie to Fans Just to Sell the Show? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

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As Sister Wives approaches its 19th season on TLC, the Brown family is so far removed its origins that the show is a shell of its original premise. Fans have since realized the original idea for Sister Wives was a lie fabricated by the Browns and TLC to sell the show

The Brown family hard sold polygamy for years. The clans reported objective was to show that polygamists are just like everyone else. And that spiritual marriages should be normalized within society.

However, fans began to smell a rat after a few seasons on TLC. The show started to veer off course, away from the family and into scripted, drama-filled moments.

Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown became bolder in their confessionals. The familys biggest lie came in Season 18 when Christine Brown let it slip that Kody and Meris happy marriage was anything but how it was portrayed early on in the series.

When Kody and Meri married in 1990, they exchanged rings. However, Meri says that when Kody started dating Robyn, he told her he no longer wanted to wear his wedding ring. He didnt think that it was fair that I had a claim on him, Meri explained, so he melted it down and kept the diamonds.

That was a symbol! That signified our marriage and commitment, and he melted it down! Meri slammed.

Whos to say that he didnt just melt down our entire relationship in that moment? She added that it occurred six or seven years before the catfishing scandal that Kody claimed ended their marriage, yet another lie for TLCs cameras.

In another tipping point from Season 18, Kody admitted that only poverty scares him. That seemed like an odd response from a man who has made millions on reality television, but it makes perfect sense looking back on the Brown family history.

Thats because the family was indeed living below the poverty level for years before their series debut. Christine and Kodys daughter Mykelti confirmed this. She admitted on her Patreon that the Brown family was dirt poor and that they lived off 3-day-old bread and MREs for dinner.

This wasnt evident as Kody introduced his children in the first episode of Sister Wives. They appeared to have everything they needed, including food, as they ate snacks alongside their father.

Showbiz Cheat Sheet has reported that the Browns are estimated to have made anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000 per episode. Therefore, over 18 seasons, if the family filmed at a minimum of 14 episodes per season, they have so far been paid from $6M to $10M

Therefore, without the lies that Sister Wives perpetrates, Kody could face his biggest fear again. Hes also lost a steady income flow from Meri, Christine, and Janelle since they left him. This leaves Kody with less income to fall back on, and his cash flow level lower than its been in years.

In the earliest seasons of Sister Wives, the Brown family moved from Utah to Las Vegas, Nevada. Kody explained they were facing legal issues surrounding their polygamous lifestyle. Fans bought the storyline, which turned out to be a lie.

Later, it was revealed that no legal action was taken against the Brown family. Kody moved to Vegas because he wanted to.

Subsequently, the familys Flagstaff move was sold to viewers as a money maker for the family. However, it was later revealed they moved because Robyns oldest son, Dayton, had been accepted to college in Flagstaff.

During the pandemic, Kody said his older kids couldnt work or see girlfriends. But Kody officiated a friends wedding and was seen dancing and partying with the guests around the same time; another lie.

Some of the many other lies the Brown family told viewers included Kodys assertion that Christine begged to marry him. In fact, he pursued her.

A Meri/Robyn friendship when their relationship was anything but. And worst of all, Kody insisted that he didnt favor Robyn. However, he spent the majority of his time at her home.

Sister Wives is currently on hiatus. The show is set to return to TLC later this summer.

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Fish Could Turn Regolith into Fertile Soil on Mars – Universe Today

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What a wonderful arguably simple solution. Heres the problem, we travel to Mars but how do we feed ourselves? Sure we can take a load of food with us but for the return trip thats a lot. If we plan to colonise the red planet we need even more. We have to grow or somehow create food while we are there. The solution is an already wonderfully simple biosphere style system; a fish tank! New research suggests fish could be raised in an aquatic system and nutrient rich water can fertilise and grow plants in the regolith! A recent simulation showed vegetables could be grown in regolith fertilised by the fish tank water!

In the next few decades we may well see human beings colonise Mars. The red planet is 54.6 million km away which, even on board a rocket, takes about 7 months to get there! Future colonists could simply have supply ships drop all they need but that becomes ridiculously expensive to sustain and frankly, isnt sustainable. The lucky people that colonise Mars will just have to find some way to grow what they need.

If you have watched The Martian movie with Matt Damon you will know how unforgiving the Martian environment is. Ok the film was a little out on scientific accuracy in places but it certainly showed how inhospitable it really is there. Matt managed to cultivate a decent crop of potatoes in Martian regolith fertilised in human faeces.This may not be quite so practical in real life and there may be alternative, less smelly and dangerous alternatives.

Taking the assumption that colonists will have to grow fresh produce locally, a team of researchers decided to explore how feasible this might be. On first glance, it may seem not too great an idea after all, the atmosphere is toxic with 95% carbon dioxide (compared to just 0.04% on Earth). There is a similar length of day on Mars but being able to grow crops will require longer periods of lighting. It is possible at least water may be collected from the ice which forms on and in the Martian rocks. The rocks most certainly have water stored away but organic compounds that we know of.

The team wanted to see how fish could help and whether the water from the system could be used to impart nutrients into the Martian regolith. To test the idea, they setup an aquaponic system with fish in tanks to generate the nutrient rich liquid.

The results were very promising. They found that aquaponic systems not only facilitate growing plants within the system itself but the nutrient rich water performed as an excellent fertiliser. This took the organically deficient regolith and turned it into something akin to useable soil. The fish used in the study were tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and using them, the team managed to grow potatoes, tomatoes, beans, carrots and much more. To enable all this to happen, the fish received sufficient light and other environmental stimulus. The plants were grown and indeed thrived in a tent that simulated Mars in every way possible.

Its an interesting aside that the study not only benefits future space travellers but those inhabitants of more environmentally hostile places on Earth.

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Call Attacks on Pride What They Are: Political Violence – The New Republic

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Earlier this month, when an Austin brewery got a bomb threat specifically citing the drag brunch the brewery hosts, they made the decision to shut down for the day. The threat came via email to the Brewtorium Brewery & Kitchen on the day of their Legendary Drag Brunch and Market, claiming a pipe bomb had been placed in the restaurant office. The email reportedly also said, fuck drag queen scum. A few days later, Pride and Black Lives Matter signs were stolen from an Austin church. The associate pastor said it seemed like someone had run over the signs with their car. Texas has faced far-right and Christian-nationalist harassment of drag and Pride events in the state over the past several years, which at time has featured people invoking Christ as they taunted drag brunch attendees as groomers. The Texas state legislature also attempted to effectively ban drag in 2023, a ban that was ruled unconstitutional.

When police came to investigate the threat at the Brewtorium in Austin, they found no bomb. After a day full of back and forth with the Austin Police Department and an FBI liaison, it has been determined that we were most likely a victim of a hoax that has affected institutions in several major cities throughout the U.S. recently, the Brewtoriums owner said in a statement to Eater Austin. (In May, the FBI issued an advisory about possible threats to Pride, but it focused only on foreign terrorist organizations.) While no one was injured, the hoax bomb accomplished what such threats are meant to: shutting down events. Others may also consider whether Pride events are safe to host in the future.

Attacks targeting Pride events this year are not limited to states or communities with anti-LGBTQ legislation, or where Trump has a conspicuous base. This June, one week after Beverly Unitarian Church in Chicago held its first Pride event in its history, a Pride flag flying at the church was torn down and burned on the church lawn. In response to the attack, the congregation has added more Pride colors to the outside of the church, and theyve scheduled a second Pride event later this month. We are not going away. Our beliefs are not going away. Our trust in people is going away, Beth OGrady, chair of the church board of trustees, told the local CBS News outlet.

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Cloning and functional characterization of the legumin A gene (EuLEGA) from Eucommia ulmoides Oliver | Scientific … – Nature.com

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Singers Offered AI Voice Cloning by World’s Biggest Record Label – Ultimate Classic Rock

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The worlds biggest record label, Universal Music Group, announced plans to offer its artists AI models of their own voices.

The corporations deal with digital startup firm SoundLabs will create software called MicDrop, designed to replicate an individual voice via machine learning techniques. The artist will retain full control of the model it wont be used in any way without permission, wont be available to the public, and the voice owner will profit from its use.

MidDrop is the latest iteration of technology thats been under development for years and has already begun impacting the music industry. Practical uses include being able to sing in foreign languages without having learned them; being able to create music after health issues prevent ones vocal cords from working; and even allowing music to be made after ones death.

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In addition, the voice model can by used like the voices on a synthesizer, offering additional creative opportunities. While its use as an onstage tool remain to be revealed, it could theoretically be used by a singer like Jon Bon Jovi who fears he may never tour again as a result of health issues to stay on the road.

MicDrop is the first in a suite of interoperable AI tools and services developed by SoundLabs for sound design and music generation, UMG said in a statement. It gives artists new music super-powers and completely reimagines how music is made, enabling them to expand what is possible.

SoundLabs goal is to place powerful new compositional tools at artists fingertips, while supporting proper management of their intellectual property. SoundLabs is focused on helping artists retain creative control over their data and models.

We believe the future of music creation is decidedly human, said BT, musician and boss of SoundLabs which uses the tagline Transform your voice into any voice, instantly. He continued: Artificial intelligence, when used ethically and trained consensually, has the promethean ability to unlock unimaginable new creative insights, diminish friction in the creative process and democratize creativity We are designing tools not to replace human artists, but to amplify human creativity.

Chris Horton, SVP of UMG which recently revealed its Principles for Music Creation With AI added: UMG strives to keep artists at the center of our AI strategy, so that technology is used in service of artistry, rather than the other way around.

We are thrilled to be working with SoundLabs and BT, who has a deep and personal understanding of both the technical and ethical issues related to AI. SoundLabs will allow UMG artists to push creative boundaries using voice-to-voice AI to sing in languages they dont speak, perform duets with their younger selves, restore imperfect vocal recordings, and more.

Music lives on long after the artists who create it are gone. Sometimes, lucky fans even get to enjoy new songs afterward.

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