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Report highlights efforts towards building a diverse and inclusive culture, empowering vibrant communities, investing in climate action, and practicing good governance

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- HubSpot, the customer relationship management (CRM) platform for scaling companies, today announced the release of our 2021 Sustainability Report, highlighting our efforts, milestones, and aspirations within the pillars of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).

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Earlier this year, our internal ESG Committee conducted a materiality assessment to identify the key focus areas within ESG important to our business, stakeholders, and growth. Where we believe HubSpot can have the most meaningful impact is within diversity, inclusion, and belonging; privacy and data protection; and energy and emissions. The report reflects the work we've made in these areas since HubSpot was founded.

Of the report launch, Whitney Sorenson, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Sponsor of HubSpot's ESG Committee said, "At HubSpot, we want to build a company future generations will be proud of. That's why it's more important than ever that we're investing in our employees, customers, communities, and environment long-term. Our 2021 Sustainability Report shares transparency into our progress on that journey to date and what's to come. We're proud of our sustainability work, but we also recognize that we're just getting started. Organizations have a responsibility to leave the world better than they found it, and we're committed to making a lasting impact."

Highlights from our 2021 Sustainability Report include:

Building an Inclusive and Diverse Culture:

Increased BIPOC employee representation in the United States 15.4% since 2017

Developed a required Anti-Racism training as part of our company-wide Black Lives Matter action plan, which has been completed by over 4,500 HubSpotters

Created an initiative based on employee feedback called HubSpot Unplugged to address burnout, mental health and well-being

Empowering Vibrant Communities:

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Committed $20M to social impact investing through LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation)

Supported our nine global charity partners through our global HubSpot Helps program, which includes employee volunteerism, financial and in-kind donations, and events

Launched the HubSpot for Nonprofits Program, allowing eligible organizations to receive an ongoing 40% discount on our software and access to resources and support

Practicing Good Governance:

Doubled the number of employees dedicated to privacy and security, including the addition of a Product Trust and Safety team

Invested in diversity at the leadership level, with four women on HubSpot's Executive Leadership team and 70% of our Board identifying as a woman or person of color

Enhanced our platform to enable easier compliance with GDPR

Investing in Climate Action:

Offset over 80,000 metric tons of emissions from 2006, our founding year, through 2020, making HubSpot carbon neutral

Announced HubSpot House in Dublin is the first and only building with an interior that holds a platinum certification based on version 4 of LEED in Ireland

Provided access to discounts from eco-friendly vendors globally to help HubSpotters make more sustainable buying choices while supporting local businesses

The programs and initiatives highlighted in our report are not just a reflection of our sustainability efforts; they are integrated in our culture and operations. With more than 4,980 employees and 121,000 customers globally, we recognize we have an immense opportunity to make an impact and are committed to a more sustainable HubSpot because it's the right thing to do for our employees, customers, partners and shareholders. We hope our 2021 Sustainability Report gives you a glimpse into how we're getting started. Understanding this is an iterative process, we look forward to publishing an annual report in early 2022 highlighting our targets and long-term sustainability commitments.

For more information about sustainability at HubSpot and to view the 2021 Sustainability Report, visit http://www.hubspot.com/sustainability and follow HubSpot Life on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to stay connected with our sustainability efforts in the future.

About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides software and support to help companies grow better. The platform includes marketing, sales, service, operations, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers' needs at any stage of growth. Today, more than 121,000 customers across more than 120 countries use HubSpot's powerful and easy-to-use tools and integrations to attract, engage, and delight customers.

Named Glassdoor's #4 Best Place to Work in 2021, HubSpot has been recognized for its award-winning culture by Great Place to Work, Comparably, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc., and more. HubSpot was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company's thousands of employees work across the globe in HubSpot offices and remotely.

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Wide Altered and Sulphide-rich Intervals intersected at Eagle and Imperial Zones

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 27, 2021) - Endurance Gold Corporation (TSXV: EDG) (the "Company") is pleased to report an update on diamond drilling at both the Eagle and Imperial Zones at the Reliance Gold Property (the "Property") in southern British Columbia. The Property is located 4 kilometres ("km") east of the village of Gold Bridge with year-round road access, and 10 km north of the historic Bralorne-Pioneer Gold Mining Camp which has produced over 4 million ounces of gold.

The Company's planned diamond drilling program of 4,000 metres ("m") has now completed a total of ten (10) drill holes at the Eagle and Imperial Zones for a total of 1,988.6 m through September 26, 2021. Seven (7) holes have been completed at the Eagle Zone (see Figure 1 - DDH Locations at the Eagle Zone). An additional three (3) holes have been completed at the Imperial Zone and the last of four (4) planned drill holes at the Imperial Zone is currently in progress to test the depth extent of the Imperial Zone. After completion of the current hole, the drill will test the Crown-Eagle Zone and further drill holes are currently being considered on the southeast extension of the Eagle Zone, now that site preparations of the new drill road has progressed sufficiently to provide set-up locations.

Eagle Zone Drilling - Based on initial observations, six of the seven diamond drill holes have intersected the Eagle Zone mineralization associated within a complex zone of strongly altered brittle shears and brittle deformed areas over widths similar to those widths reported from the RC drilling in 2020 and earlier in 2021. Also, several of these holes were extended to depth to better define the host stratigraphy, intrusive relationships and the structural settings. Total depth of each of the Eagle holes varied between 84 m and 262 m for a total of 1,265.5 m diamond drilled to date at Eagle. As reported on September 13th, some of the Eagle Zone diamond drill intersections are entirely or partially oxidized. Since that update, DDH 21-006 has intersected an unoxidized interval of the Eagle Zone over about 24 m in drill core, which is an estimated true width of the Eagle Zone in this area (see Figure 2 - Photo of DDH 21-006 Eagle Shear Zone in Core). A more detailed photo montage of the core samples from DDH21-006 is available at the company website.

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The Eagle Zone, striking northwest and southeast and dipping about 35 degrees to the southwest, consists of a 15 to 30 m wide area of brittle deformed and pervasive ankerite-sericite and sulphide altered mafic volcanic with brittle shearing and multi-staged brecciation. Sulphide is in the form of pyrite-pyrrhotite-arsenopyrite-stibnite with a late-stage of silicification, stockworks and quartz veinlets and quartz healed breccia. Two post-mineral but altered feldspar porphyry intrusive dykes (Eagle 0 East and Eagle 0 West dykes) are interpreted to intrude along post-mineral brittle NW-SE trending high angle reverse faults. These two dykes and associated faults sub-parallel the dominant high angle Royal Fault, a wide brittle-ductile fault zone which forms the western hanging wall of the Royal Shear complex. Based on stratigraphic correlations, the northeastern of these two faults related to the Eagle 0 East dyke is interpreted to be a reverse fault with the southwest side upthrown with respect to the northeast side of the fault(s), effectively offsetting the shallow southwest dipping Eagle Zone to the southeast in its surface expression. Therefore, a zone of oxidized alteration, sulphides and breccia intersected in the top 40 m of the DDH21-002 as well as the Eagle South Zone channel sample are currently interpreted to be the offset equivalent of the Eagle Zone.

Within the Eagle Zone drilling, a lower but narrower zone of quartz sulphide veining and stockwork, interpreted to be dipping about 80 degrees to the southwest, has also been observed in three holes associated with a lithological contact between altered mafic volcanic and sheared argillite and chert. Core samples for the Eagle Zone drilling have been submitted to the laboratory for analysis and results will be reported when received.

Imperial Zone Drilling - The majority of the drill core from historic drilling in the late 1980's at the Imperial Zone is in very poor condition, and not recoverable to professional standards, and thus four diamond drill holes were planned at the Imperial Zone to get a complete structural, alteration and mineralized section along strike and at depth on the Imperial Zone. Three holes drilled at -45 degrees have been completed and have intersected the Imperial Zone at approximately 100 m below surface along about 100 m of strike. Depth of the three completed holes is 257 m, 216.5 m and 249.6 m respectively for a total of 723.1 m drilled to date at the Imperial Zone. A fourth drill hole is currently in progress drilling at minus 82 degrees with the objective of intersecting the Imperial Zone at about 150 m step-out down-dip from the intersection elevation of the first three diamond drill holes. In the first three holes, the interpreted Imperial Zone iron carbonate-sericite alteration, sulphide alteration, silicification and breccia in strongly altered mafic volcanics has been observed in intervals between 10 and 25 m in each of the three holes with continuity at the same structural and stratigraphic location. (see Figure 3 - Photo of DDH 21-009 Imperial Zone in Core). A more detailed photo montage of the core samples from DDH21-009 is available at the company website.

The last program of diamond drilling completed in 2008 at the Imperial Zone by a prior owner returned highlight diamond drill intersections of 13.30 gpt gold over 4.20 m, 7.05 gpt gold over 5.06 m, 5.70 gpt gold over 12.05 m, and 5.43 gpt gold over 15.35 m in four (4) drill holes of an eight (8) hole 2008 drilling campaign.

The Company has previously completed two phases of reverse circulation ("RC") drilling in late 2020 and spring 2021 with the completion of 51 RC drill holes. Thirty-Five (35) of these 51 RC holes returned encouraging gold intersections exceeding 3.0 m in width. The significant intersections from the RC drill program are available on the Company website.

Endurance Gold Corporation is a company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of highly prospective North American mineral properties with the potential to develop world-class deposits.

ENDURANCE GOLD CORPORATIONRobert T. Boyd

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACTEndurance Gold Corporation(604) 682-2707, info@endurancegold.comwww.endurancegold.com

The 2020 and 2021 work program is supervised by Darren O'Brien, P.Geo., an independent consultant and qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. Mr. O'Brien has reviewed and approved this news release.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. This news release may contain forward looking statements based on assumptions and judgments of management regarding future events or results that may prove to be inaccurate as a result of factors beyond its control, and actual results may differ materially from the expected results.

Figure 1: Reliance Property - Location 2021 Eagle Zone Diamond Drill holes

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Figure 2 - DDH21-006 Eagle Zone Intersection - Red markers 26m to 50.3m - Ankerite-Sericite Altered Breccia, with Sulphide & Silicification (see website for detail photos)

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Figure 3 - DDH21-009 Imperial Zone Intersection - Red Markers 160m to 184.4m - Ankerite-Sericite Altered Breccia, Sulphide & Silicification (see website for detail photos)

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By Geoffrey Smith

Investing.com -- The dollar opened flat against the euro on Monday after a narrow win for the center-left in Germany's parliamentary elections.

The center-left Social Democratic Party took the biggest share of the vote, with preliminary estimates showing it on 26%, two percentage points ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic bloc. As such, the party of the retiring Angela Merkel looks likely to go into opposition for the first time in 16 years.

Any fear of radical change under a new government was tempered by the poor performance of the far left Linke party, which all but ruled out any chance of it joining the new government.

"The tail risk of significant tax hikes, a denser web of regulations, reform reversals and a tight lid on housing rents has evaporated," said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank in Berlin.

However, the tightness of the result means that the next government will need three parties to command a majority in the Bundestag. Both of the third- and fourth-largest parties, the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats, have signaled they will work with either of the bigger parties. That suggests that negotiations on coalition-building are likely to be complex and time-consuming.

By 3 AM ET (0700 GMT), the euro was at $1.1711, unchanged from late Friday in Europe. It was also effectively unchanged against sterling at 0.8561, failing to gain ground despite the increasing signs of crisis coming out of the U.K. economy. Well over half the gas stations across the country were reported to be without fuel at the weekend after reports of shortages triggered a nationwide wave of panic-buying. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, having signalled a retreat on allowing EU truck drivers to work in the U.K. on Friday temporarily, was reported earlier as planning to dispatch military drivers to ensure deliveries.

Elsewhere, both the dollar and the euro rose against the Swiss franc as risk aversion receded in response to the deal signaling a slight relaxation of the tensions between the U.S. and China on Friday. Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou will be released and allowed to return to China, after a compromise deal. Meng had been arrested in Canada nearly three years ago at the request of President Donald Trump's Justice Department.

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USD/CHF rose 0.3% to 0.9271 while EUR/CHF rose 0.3% to 1.0855.

In emerging markets, the Russian ruble hit its highest in nearly a week as crude oil prices continued to rise, while the Turkish lira appeared to find a bottom after sliding dramatically in response to a surprise interest rate cut by the country's central bank on Thursday. USD/RUB fell 0.2% to 72.5972, while USD/TRY fell 0.1% to 8.8677.

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Tee it Forward (Chart: National Golf Foundation)

Despite surveys showing golfers who select the right tee height have more fun and enjoy a faster pace of play, progress in getting players to pay attention to tees has been slow, according to National Golf Foundation President and CEO Joseph F Beditz, Ph.D.

Behavioral changes in consumers and operators require a lot of time, effort and intervention, Beditz said. National advertising helps create needed awareness but is insufficient to overcome the inertia of ego, convenience and conformity, which golfers virtually all of them willingly admit stand in the way.

The PGA of America and the USGA launched the Tee it Forward campaign a decade ago to encourage golfers to select the correct tee for their playing styles. The initiative was inspired by the thinking of Barney Adams, founder of Adams Golf, who argued many golfers were playing from tees that were too long given how far they hit their drives.

A television PSA featuring Jack Nicklaus spoke to golfers.

NGF recently surveyed core golfers and learned that 73 percent could recall Tee It Forward, but only 30 percent had actually moved up in the past decade most of them older than 50. Those who did have almost unanimously enjoyed the benefits. Three-quarters say their scores improved, and even more (80 percent) say theyve had more fun.

A strong majority of core golfers (more than 80 percent) believe that golfers playing from inappropriate tees is a big problem. As many as one-third of core golfers (approximately 4 million) currently play from tees that are too long for them.

At launch, Adams said the Tee It Forward campaign would be a long and arduous process.

Some golf course operators are successfully encouraging customers to play the correct tees. Cathy Harbin uses an age-based effort at her Pine Ridge Golf Course facility in Paris, Texas, and the Longleaf Golf & Family Club in Southern Pines, N.C., created a tee system based on driving distance.

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Six years ago today, on September 25, 2015, the United Nations finalized the 2030 Agenda, ratifying the 17 Sustainable Develop Goals, or SDGs which outlined key objectives for a more equitable and sustainable future. The SDGs provide a comprehensive set of criteria that, if met, will ensure global intergenerational well-being for humanity and the larger web of life of which we are a part. They cover such things as elimination of poverty, ending extreme hunger, the promotion of human health and well-being, the conservation and protection of life on land and the oceans, and addressing the climate emergency, among many others.

Planet was founded with the mission to use space to help life on Earth, and we care deeply about the SDGs. Our daily, whole-Earth observation system can play an important role in measuring 80 targets and 66 indicators under 14 of the 17 SDGs, including SDG 2 (No Hunger), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), SDG 13 (Climate), SDG 14 (Life Below Water), SDG 15 (Life on Land), and SDG 16 (Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions).

Unfortunately, the world was already off track in realizing the ambitions and fulfilling the commitments of the 2030 Agenda, even before COVID-19 arrived on the scene; since then, the pandemic has not only hampered, but in some cases reversed our progress. For example, according to the UN FAO, COVID-19 may have pushed as many as 132 million people into chronic hunger in 2020, making it all the harder to meet the goal of SDG 2. The pandemic also hampered the abilities of many National Statistical Offices, or NSOs to collect relevant data in the field, and ongoing climate disruptions are imperiling what fragile progress had been previously made.

Amid these challenges, meeting the ambitions of the 2030 agenda will require us to redesign and optimize countless systems, from transport and agriculture to energy and manufacturing. To guide and monitor our progress, we will need to build what our colleagues at the United Nations Environment Programme call a Global Digital Ecosystem for the Environment, with real-time big data and analytics at its core, made widely available to governments, NGOs, companies, civil society organizations, communities, journalists and individuals.

Step by step, and with many different partners, Planet is making progress toward this vision. Some of our efforts include:

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Planet is also helping organizations measure, take action, and report on their sustainable development efforts. With Planet, companies can now identify, monitor, and quantify their environmental and social impact like never before, in areas such as supply chain monitoring, sustainable resource usage, and climate resilience. Heres a few of the many areas in which were working:

Planet approaches these complex sustainability challenges with a sense of fierce urgency. As the climate and political landscape is rapidly shifting, governments, NGOs, and corporations want to adapt to these uncertain contexts. To do so, they look to build more resilient systems with tight information feedback loops. Scientific models, such as our glacial melting insights created in collaboration with NASA, can use the daily data provided by Planet to provide accurate predictions about a systems ability to bounce back from environmental and financial perturbations. This resilience comes from identifying, valuing, and protecting key functioning units within a system functioning units that can now be reliably identified and monitored with Planets largest fleet of Earth observation satellites in the world.

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To the Editor:

As a lifelong resident of this community, I sit with a heavy heart this morning as I write my thoughts. After watching the board of education meeting from last evening (September 20, 2021) I feel an overwhelming sadness for our students, our families, our teachers/staff, our administration, and our board of education members.

There was a statement made during the meeting suggesting that the divisiveness we are seeing in our nation has now impacted our beloved little town. I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment.

I had hoped we could somehow stay protected from this, but now it appears this may have been inevitable. For many years I highlighted to friends and family in other communities how special Monroe was. How cohesive the community members presented. How supportive we all were of each other. The tide has slowly shifted as our world has become more and more divided.

I have spent more than two decades of my life as an educator and school administrator in the state of Connecticut. With that experience, I feel confident in my understanding of the role of boards of education in public education. My experience includes knowledge of the rules of the meetings as laid out by FOIA and Roberts Rules, policy writing and revision, the role of the superintendent and school administration, and the conduct necessary by all parties involved.

Over the last several weeks, it appears to have shifted from professional meetings into discussions that are emotionally driven. While I understand many of these topics can be emotionally charged, it is my feeling the meeting needs to stay professional, and at all times focused on the needs of students.

Based on our policy around public participation and input, in addition to state statute, our board of education has the authority to control the meeting so it does not devolve into emotional rhetoric. Our own adopted bylaws state Provisions for permitting any individual group to address the Board concerning any subject that lies within its jurisdiction shall be as follows:

2. No boisterous conduct shall be permitted at any Board of Education meeting. Persistence in boisterous conduct shall be grounds for summary termination, by the Chairperson, of that persons privilege of address. If necessary, the Chairperson may clear the room so that the Board may continue the meeting..

This trend is a path we see on television. Professional board of education meetings across our nation have turned into appalling situations. I fear we are headed down that very dangerous road if we dont stop and think. Our children are watching and waiting to see what we do.

While sensitive topics can be divisive, that does not mean we should completely avoid them. While our nation experiences civil unrest around many current issues, that does not mean we, in Monroe, should avoid all the things that make our citizens uncomfortable.How we will progress if we dont grapple with the hard stuff?

While listening to the input from both sides of this issue, I kept thinking that we arent as far away from each other as everyone may think. We may be hearing each other, but we are not truly listening.

I believe every single board of education member is sitting at that table meeting after meeting with the best of intentions for ALL of our children. In fact, I know they are.

Right now, however, we have a subset of children in crisis. A group of students who are clearly telling us they need more. They and their parents are begging for our community to see them, hear them, support them. Why arent we listening? Is it fear? Is it not being able to understand their needs?

While I understand there is a policy in place supporting many of our students within protected classes, right now we have an obligation to listen to the needs of our LGBTQIA+ students. I heard members of our community and members of our board all acknowledge the risk factors of this cohort both in Monroe, Connecticut, as well as across the country.

The data is clear. Our students are in crisis and we need to be there for them. While we may not agree on what needs to be done, the discussion must happen. I understand the belief that there is language in the discrimination policy that broadly protects ALL.

Right now we arent talking about all. We are talking about a subset whose voices are saying they need us. Given the fact that everyone agrees this group of students needs our support, cant we find a middle ground? Why arent we willing to have the conversation about what these students and families need from us?

If there is a feeling that language already exists within state statute and current BOE policy, then I ask you what does adding an additional policy hurt?

While looking at our current policies many are dated as far back as 2004.Unfortunately, I do not see where the current student policies (5145 series in particular dated 2006) protect this specific cohort of students. They directly state they protect students with disabilities and students from any racial discrimination.

Im unclear as to how these policies directly protect the LGBTQ+ community. The mere fact that this has not been updated since 2006 gives concern that it does not meet the current state statutes. This series is also clearly not updated to the current CABE recommendations.

Perhaps it is a good opportunity for Monroe Public Schools to request a policy audit through CABE. This may address several of the issues at hand and be sure we are current in our practice.

It is my opinion we, in Monroe, are lacking in policy to support and protect these students. Unfortunately, this did not get addressed at the time the state statutes were implemented and when CABE initially recommended this policy be added. The timing of this discussion is several years behind, but unfortunately now happening at a time of such inability to meet in the middle.

Unfortunately, this problem goes beyond our town border, but it is not too late for us to make necessary changes. I am asking the Monroe Board of Education to open their minds, meet in the middle and listen to our children. Think about what you would want if it was your baby asking for community support.

Chrissy Fensore Martinez

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'How we will progress if we don't grapple with the hard stuff?' - The Monroe Sun

On Monday, disgraced entertainer R. Kelly was found guilty of employing a decades-long scheme to use his fame to sexually abuse young women and children.

The R&B singer, whose real name is Robert Kelly, was found guilty on all nine counts he faced: one count of racketeering and eight counts of violating the Mann Act, a federal law that prohibits transporting people across state lines for any immoral purpose, including prostitution. He could face decades in prison.

The case revealed gruesome details about Kellys abusive behavior, including testimony alleging he arranged to marry and impregnate the late singer Aaliyah as a teenager so she couldnt testify against him; that he knowingly spread herpes to several of his young victims; and that he slapped and choked one of his teenage victims until she passed out because she texted a friend.

The verdict is certainly a victory for Kelly's Black female victims, who hopefully feel vindicated after years of mockery and neglect, but its longterm impact is less clear.

In 2008, Kelly was acquitted of all charges stemming from a child pornography case. That case followed decades of reports and allegations that the chart-topping singer abused young girls, including Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in the Bahamas in 2001 at the age of 22.

On Monday, lawyers and law enforcement officials suggested the verdict was indeed a sign of things to come.

R. Kelly thought that he could get away with all of this, but he didnt, attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented some of Kelly's victims, said during a press conference after the verdict was read. Despite the fact he thought he could control all of his victims, he was wrong.

Allred said the case should be seen as a warning to other celebrities who use their power and influence to abuse others.

The question is not if the law will catch up to you, the only question is when, Allred said.

It remains to be seen whether the R. Kelly verdict is a sign of widespread accountability to come.

Prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, issued a similar warning Monday.

No matter how long it takes, the long arm of the law will catch up with you, Kasulis said after praising her teams work during the trial.

But such comments are optimistic and perhaps overly so. Data compiled by the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community found one in four Black girls experience sexual violence before the age of 18. That data includes a Department of Justice finding that one in five Black women in America are survivors of rape.

For the R. Kelly case to truly be seen as a success, it cant just topple the rich and famous it needs to hold powerful men who lack celebrity accountable, as well.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) The Champaign Police Department said its making progress on an investigation into a social media threat believed to be targeted at Centennial High School.

Champaign Unit 4 School District initially emailed parents about the threat Wednesday.

When a threat or act of violence affects a school in the city, the police department steps in, both to investigate and to provide additional security.

Patrols at Centennial High School have been increased since Wednesday morning, according to Patrol Division Lt. Aaron Lack.

He said as many officers as are available will continue to be stationed around the high school each day, adding officers are also checking in with staff inside the schools.

Theres always a partnership between police and the school district, according to Champaign Police Public Information Officer Tom Yelich. He said the two administrations meet weekly about a number of topics, including school safety.

As for the social media threat, Lt. Lack said they have not made an arrest, but they are making progress.

Any act of violence, or threat of violence, just will not be tolerated, he added. It cant be tolerated so it wont be tolerated by us, and were going to work as closely as we can with the schools or anybody else to make sure that we can prevent that for one, and address it if needed.

The increased patrols are scheduled to continue at least through Wednesday. Lack said, at that point, they will re-evaluate based on where the investigation is at.

Police couldnt offer any more specifics about the ongoing investigation. Officers encourage anyone with information to contact the police department.

In a press release Friday afternoon, the Champaign Police Dept. said they are also aware of rumors of additional school threats. Police say those reports are unsubstantiated and the only active social media threat investigation is into the post that started circulating Wednesday.

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It wont be tolerated: Police making progress on investigation into threat believed to be targeting high school - wcia.com

Dear Meredith,

I'm scared to write this letter, but I'm also at the end of my rope. I'm a middle-aged single woman who hasn't aged well physically. It's not just my body; it's also the fact that Im losing my hair and other changes to my appearance that seem to be age-related and biological.

I have a lot to offer someone. I'm smart, educated, have a good job, have hobbies and friends and a good sense of humor. But I can't attract anyone's attention on a dating site, and never seem to attract anyone romantically in real life either. I don't have any family that's still alive, and friends and hobbies only go so far in filling the gaping hole in my heart. I have tried for years to get myself to lose weight as a starting point, but my overeating is tied directly in with my self-esteem issues and nighttime emptiness and I just don't have the motivation to do it with things as they are. Please don't tell me to get therapy. I've been trying for over a year and am on a million wait lists but no one is taking new patients. I just keep thinking that I can't be the only sad-with-potential middle-aged work in progress but where can I meet other people like me? I know they're not on the dating sites because they aren't attracting attention either.

- Hopelessly hopeless

I'm sorry about this shortage of opportunities for therapy. I am finishing a story about this very issue how empty it can be to recommend therapy when I know most therapists have waitlists miles long because of COVID, etc. I will say that there are group therapy options. I've interviewed a ton of therapists for the story (publishing soon, I swear), and some say that group work should not be overlooked. Also, your doctor might be able to help find you some specialists to deal with other issues.

But aside from that, let's think about where works-in-progress ... make progress. They switch up their hobbies. They take classes. They play pickle ball. (I don't really understand what pickle ball is, but it's been recommended to me by many people over the last six weeks, and all of those people were 50s and older.) You have a very full life right now, but I don't know how much of it exposes you to new things and people. Scenery changes are good.

Also, have a friend help with your app profile. Maybe you need to switch up your pics. Sometimes the app experience is better with a support system.

I do wish you weren't feeling a "gaping hole in your heart" because of your singleness. The right romantic relationship could be lovely, but it's not everything. Maybe theres a long-term project that can hold your attention and give you real accomplishments to look forward to. That would certainly give you plenty to talk about if you wound up on a date.

Meredith

Readers? How to you date as a work-in-progress?

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It's hard to find love when you're a work in progress | Love Letters - Boston.com

DENVER Be frustrated with the Jets. Be angry. Be annoyed. You have every right. Its one thing to be young. Its one thing to lack experience. Its one thing to realize its going to take time to turn a team around.

But this?

Theres no excuse for this.

The Jets lost to the Broncos 26-0 at Empower Field on Sunday. They couldnt move the ball on offense. They couldnt make impact plays on defense. They were an undisciplined mess everywhere in between. And so now, for the third time in as many years, theyre 0-3.

There are bad teams. Then there are the Jets.

These arent youthful growing pains. This is a team teetering on unwatchable.

I feel like weve been having great weeks of practice, coach Robert Saleh said.

No one said this was going to be easy. GM Mike Maccagnans five-year run of negligence put the Jets in a hole that would take more than one or two offseasons to rectify. Joe Douglas needed to rebuild a roster that was a talent wasteland. Thats why few saw excellence on the horizon of last year or this one. No one expected dominance. No one realistically felt the Jets would compete for a divisional title or fight for a wild-card berth.

But in every rebuild, there are glimmers of hope. In every rebuild, there are points in games when you see the vision, signs things are headed in the right direction. The Browns went 0-16. The next year they were 7-8-1. They were in the playoffs two years after that.

The Jets were 2-14 last season.

The rest is here:

Hughes: Jets are beyond bad, with signs of progress (and potential wins) hard to find - The Athletic