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One Night in Pelican
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“One Night in Pelican” is a compilation that features all the key groups and players of a special time and place. It captures the musical dreams escaping from Soweto’s first nightclub. Ten seminal tracks journeying through Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Disco, detailing the incredible story and sounds behind the Soweto nightclub during the height of [……
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One Night in Pelican, a compilation that features all the key groups and players from Soweto’s first nightclub.Didier J. MARY (AMF) (African Music Forum)
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Hamas, persi contatti con due ostaggi dopo raid israeliani - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Hamas, persi contatti con due ostaggi dopo raid israeliani - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
L'ala militare di Hamas ha affermato di aver perso i contatti con due ostaggi a Gaza City, Matan Angrest e Omri Miran, a causa delle operazioni militari israeliane nei quartieri di Sabra e Tal al-Hawa a Gaza City. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Tajani, FI chiederà il candidato sindaco di Verona - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/09/28/tajani-fi-chiedera-il-candidato-sindaco-di-verona_c1b760c5-08d3-4dfb-a9ac-230ae9717f6e.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tajani, FI chiederà il candidato sindaco di Verona - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
"Pensiamo di chiedere il candidato a sindaco di Verona, dove l'ultima volta abbiamo perso perché eravamo divisi". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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Her legacy is anchored in every Colombian children’s media maker today.
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Perfiles: Patricia Castaño
Graduada como trabajadora social de la Universidad Javeriana, con una maestría de la Universidad de Swansea en Gales y especializaciones en comunicación en Holanda y el Reino Unido, Patricia Castaño ha dedicado su carrera a la intersección entre la c…Proimagenes Colombia
Relógio do Juízo Final: conheça a "continuação" de Watchmen que salvou a DC
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Palestinian man searches for child as Al Jazeera reports from Gaza hospital
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Palestinian man searches for child as Al Jazeera reports from Gaza hospital
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili was reporting from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital when a Palestinian father rushedAl Jazeera
Traveling through the crazy, paying attention to the converging currents along the way. with writing from @davidtoddmccarty.bsky.social and more. #SundayMorningReadingwarnercrocker.com/2025/09/28/s...
Sunday Morning Reading
Traveling through the crazy paying attention along the wayLife on the Wicked Stage: Act 3
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Trump, tutti d'accordo in Medio Oriente per la prima volta - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Trump, tutti d'accordo in Medio Oriente per la prima volta - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
"Abbiamo una enorme opportunità di grandezza in Medio Oente. Tutti sono a bordo per qualcosa di speciale, per la prima volta in assoluto. lo realizzeremo!!!". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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Firefox spesso propone contenuti interessanti, pur non profilandoti. Ieri mi ha proposto «La tenuta delle famiglie si basa spesso sul ricatto emotivo (e chi ha una comunicazione aperta è "la pecora nera")»
L'articolo sarebbe anche interessante; solo non ho capito che attinenza abbia la foto in evidenza che mostra una persona in una Chiesa Cattolica, con un sacerdote sull'altare.
La tenuta
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Firefox spesso propone contenuti interessanti, pur non profilandoti. Ieri mi ha proposto «La tenuta delle famiglie si basa spesso sul ricatto emotivo (e chi ha una comunicazione aperta è “la …Paolo Redaelli personal blog
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Shot on Google Pixel 7a. Processed in #Darktable
Sep 3, 2025
#silentsunday #naturephotography #pixelfed #photography #amateurphotography #rawphotography #smartphonephotography #pixelography #googlepixel #pixel7a #teampixel #shotonpixel #raw #nature #peaceful #sunshine #leaves #foliage #sky #sun #sunlight #lensflare
Long-term unemployment is rising. Here, what it’s like to be job-hunting in an increasingly bleak market.
The year is 2035. Sidetrack is 95% straight women and is unbelievably profitable. "Love IS love", one squeals with delight, before returning to her drink order, which has taken in excess of fifteen minutes, because her group keeps breaking into renditions of "Pink Pony Club". The bartender, exhausted, stares into the camera.
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"It's not too late to make a change. Bring back gay porn in bars today."
--Brought to you by Gay Porn in Bars for a Better America.
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Iran has inalienable right to develop peaceful nuclear tech — Rosatom CEO
RT talked to Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev about Russia affirming that it would NOT stop its work on a nuclear power plant in Iran - despite the threat of a potential attack by a foreign country.Odysee
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Das Bild zeigt eine abstrakte Wasserspritzmalerei mit einer dynamischen und lebendigen Farbpalette. Der Hintergrund ist in kräftigen Pink- und Lavastößen gehalten, die sich in sanften, diffusen Farbblenden ausbreiten. Im Vordergrund prangt ein intensiver orangefarbener Bereich, der an Flammen erinnert und sich in die umliegenden Farben mischt. Diese Farben sind in einem fließenden, unregelmäßigen Muster verteilt, das eine Bewegung und Energie vermittelt. Die Farben sind in verschiedenen Tönen und Intensitäten gemischt, was eine weiche, aber lebendige Textur erzeugt. Die Farben und Formen sind nicht konventionell dargestellt, sondern erzeugen eine emotionale und visuelle Reaktion, die den Betrachter in eine andere Welt entführt.
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"President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme Court gave an early stamp of approval to a legal theory so outlandish that experts at one point predicted to TPM it wouldn’t 'get a single vote.'
The Court blessed, at the preliminary stage, Trump’s gambit to zero out money Congress already appropriated."
~ Kate Riga
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #fascism #corruption
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It’s Completely Trump’s Supreme Court Now, And He Knows It
President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme Court gave an early win to a pocket rescissions “theory” so outlandish that experts predicted it wouldn’t “get a single vote.”Kate Riga (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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numethods
A lightweight, from-scratch, object-oriented Python package implementing classic numerical methods.
GitHub - denizd1/numethods: A lightweight, from-scratch, object-oriented Python package implementing classic numerical methods.
A lightweight, from-scratch, object-oriented Python package implementing classic numerical methods. - denizd1/numethodsGitHub
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Migliori robot aspirapolvere e lavapavimenti sotto 300 euro (ottobre 2025)
Scopri i migliori robot aspirapolvere e lavapavimenti sotto i 300€: potenza, autonomia e funzioni smart per una casa pulita senza fatica.Carla Cigognini (Tom's Hardware)
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Traveling through the crazy, paying attention to the converging currents along the way.
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Sunday Morning Reading
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Sunday Morning Reading
Traveling through the crazy paying attention along the wayLife on the Wicked Stage: Act 3
Head from a colossal limestone statue of a goddess, possibly Aphrodite (510-480 BC), unknown provenance.
Dimensions 50.8 × 34.9 x 41.2 cm, which means the statue must have been more than 4m tall.
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts 🇺🇸
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Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib said the files contain the full names, personal data, addresses, and professional affiliations of 189 Israeli nuclear and military specialists directly linked to weapons projects. He noted that the list continues to grow as Iranian experts analyze the material.Khatib further asserted that some files expose direct influence by Israeli officials and U.S. senators over the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as well as the transfer of confidential information about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
He said that during the 12-day conflict in June, coordinates retrieved from the cache were used to strike several Israeli sites with Iranian missiles.
The minister stressed that what has been disclosed so far represents only a fraction of the trove. Even so, he claimed, the release has ended Israel’s long-standing “nuclear ambiguity” and exposed the scale of its concealments and those of its Western backers.
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#iran #IsraelTerroristState #usaIntelligence ministry releases Israeli nuclear, military secrets in IRIB documentary
TEHRAN – Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence has released information from a massive cache of classified documents obtained from Israel’s military and nuclear programs.Tehran Times
Summer day with women washing clothes in Lake Geneva (1887) by Danish artist Peder Mork Monsted (1859-1941).
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E possiamo dire che dopo il nuovo Codice della Strada voluto da #Salvini anche il decreto Caivano, voluto dalla #Meloni, non è servito ad un cazzo, nemmeno nella stessa Caivano... direi che non è cambiato nulla, stese ed intimidazioni continuano.
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PS: come al solito non avevo dubbi, lo dico per i fan della destra che davvero ci speravano...
Don Patriciello, busta con proiettile durante la messa a Caivano: un fermato - LaPresse
"Inaccettabile quanto accaduto oggi a Caivano, nella parrocchia di San Paolo Apostolo, dove durante la messa un uomo, confondendosi tra i fedeli, haRedazione (LaPresse)
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Russia attacked Ukraine with nearly 500 drones and over 40 missiles, including Kinzhal missiles, last night.
The attack lasted more than 12 hours.
The main targets were Kyiv and Kyiv region, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi region, Sumy region, and Odesa region.
Four people were killed in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl.
Across Ukraine, at least 40 people were injured, among them children.
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脳波で魔力をチャージし，視線でドラゴンを撃つ。祈りでカプセルも現れる。東京ゲームショウ2025で体験した新しい遊びのかたち［TGS2025］ - 4Gamer.net - YAYAFA
脳波で魔力をチャージし，視線でドラゴンを撃つ。祈りでカプセルも現れる。東京ゲームショウ2025で体験した新しい遊びのかたち［TGS2025］ 4Gamer.net視線の動きでプレー、音で敵との距離を把握 誰もが楽しめるゲームをYAYAFA
Warnings for Trader Joe's and Walmart meals after 4 killed by listeria contamination
The pasta came from Nate’s Fine Foods of Roseville, California.ssteade@bayareanewsgroup.com (The Mercury News)
This is a copy of an original curved copper bandage that was found around the arm of an Anglo-Saxon skeleton, discovered in a cemetery during an archaeological dig.
Dating from 500-1000 CE, the original is now at Reading Museum. Beneath the thin copper layer the remains of plant material were found. It is believed that these were medicinal plants applied to a wound in an attempt to heal an injury.
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How a Warming Planet Has Made Home Insurance Increasingly Unaffordable
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
For decades, Sanibel Island, one of the most treasured vacation resorts in America, was an insurance agent’s dream. Year after year, the 5,000-odd residents of the barrier island on Florida’s Gulf Coast wrote checks for their home and flood insurance policies, but rarely filed claims. Insurers collected over $10 in premiums for every dollar they paid out, a remarkable return on their business.
Then, in September 2022, Ian, a bruising Category 4 hurricane pushed up to 12 feet of water across the low-lying island, collapsing part of the only causeway on and off Sanibel, flooding thousands of single-family homes and condominiums with brackish water, and forcing some year-round residents into exile for over a year. Two more hurricanes, Helene and Milton, in 2024, added to the island’s misery.
The damage was both staggering and surprising. It had been years since Sanibel had experienced a hurricane of any consequence. Officials had also taken steps to reduce their risks, limiting development to a third of the 12-mile-long island and setting aside land for a federal wildlife refuge. Still, Sanibel is only a few feet above sea level and many older homes are at ground level.
“We are marching toward an uninsurable future in this country and across the globe; marching into the abyss.”
“We had so many good years, 30 or 40 years, we were spoiled,” said Daniel Moore Thompson, whose two-bedroom house and gift shop flooded. “And then Ian happened, and it was like we lost our innocence. I basically lost everything except my Jeep and dog.”
In a matter of hours, Sanibel went from being an insurer’s dream to a financial nightmare. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which sells most flood policies, was hit with $620 million in claims, a nearly hundredfold increase from the total that it had paid Sanibel homeowners over the previous four decades.
But Sanibel wasn’t the only Southwest Florida community to suffer a dramatic reversal of fortune. Homeowners in Fort Myers Beach, Cape Coral, and Punta Gorda received over $1 billion in flood payouts, records show. Meanwhile, property insurers covering wind and other damages paid billions more, helping to make Ian one of the costliest hurricanes in history.
For insurers, the three hurricanes were a rude awakening. After years of underestimating risks posed by climate-fueled storms, wildfires, and other natural disasters, the industry now faces a perilous future. Old models based on stable climates are being challenged by more frequent, extreme, and damaging events—from searing wildfires in the coastal canyons of California to hail and torrential rain in the Midwest, and explosive hurricanes such as Ian in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. Now, as sea levels rise, drenching rainstorms swell rivers, and hail the size of baseballs pounds roofs and cars, the increased costs are pushing insurers to the limit, upending housing markets and even reshaping the makeup of some communities.
“The insurance crisis in the US is the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is dead,” said Dave Jones, the insurance commissioner of California from 2011-2018 and now director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the Center for Law, Energy and Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. During his time as commissioner, wildfires exploded in Paradise and Malibu, resulting in billions in damages. Coupled with the Trump administration’s aggressive moves to roll back climate initiatives, Jones fears: “We are marching toward an uninsurable future in this country and across the globe; marching into the abyss.”
Jones isn’t alone in such dire warnings. Testifying this February before the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell predicted that “in 10 or 15 years there are going to be regions of the country where you cannot get a mortgage” because insurance isn’t available.
Even more recently, the economists and climate analysts Carolyn Kousky, Spencer Glendon, and Barney Schauble raised the idea that the future may be uninsurable. “As natural disasters grow more frequent, extreme, and damaging, more people and businesses are struggling to afford—and even get—insurance,” they wrote in a recent article. “In places of increased climate risk from disasters such as fires and storms, insurance has gone from an afterthought to a source of concern, dismay, and anger.”
The markets for property and flood insurance are already in crisis, and in some high-risk areas are broken, analysts say. Dozens of insurers in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and California have collapsed or been declared insolvent following searing wildfires and catastrophic hurricanes. Meanwhile, prominent national insurers, including Progressive, Allstate, and State Farm, have fled high-risk states or scaled back on writing new policies.
“People always question: Is insurance going to break? Well, it already broke a long time ago.”
In one five-year period, 2018-2023, insurers canceled nearly 2 million homeowner’s policies in the face of rising climate risks—over four times the number that would normally be expected in a year. Many of the notices came with little warning or explanation, leaving homeowners scrambling to find new coverage, no longer a given, and likely at a sharply higher price.
Deborah Brown received notice in 2017 that her family homeowner’s policy was being canceled after years with the same insurer. Her home was 10 miles inland, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but insurers considered it to be high risk. When she looked for a new policy, she was quoted a figure of $8,000, Brown recalled, double her last policy, and over three times the national average, about $2,300. “That was the straw that broke our back,” Brown said. She and her husband sold their house and are now splitting their time between an RV and their daughter’s home upstate.
Florida and other high-risk coastal states have the highest rates of non-renewals, data prepared by the US Senate Budget Committee show. However, there are signs that the trend—while not as pronounced—is spreading inland to Iowa, Oklahoma, and other states.
“People always question: Is insurance going to break?” said Benjamin Keys, a Wharton School economist who has written extensively about the impacts of climate change on real estate. “Well, it already broke a long time ago. Private insurers don’t want to write in the riskiest areas. The Florida insurance market has been broken for a long time.”
In 1992, after Hurricane Andrew caused billions in damage in southern Florida, and several companies collapsed or stopped writing policies, the state created Citizens Property Insurance Corporation to act as an insurer of last resort. Although never intended to compete with private companies, Citizens has since grown to become one of the largest insurers in Florida, with as many as 1.4 million policies at one point. Concerned about its growing financial exposure in the wake of Ian, Citizens began “depopulating” its rolls and transferring policies back to newer, smaller private insurers that have entered the chaotic Florida market.
More than 30 states have followed Florida’s path and created their own so-called FAIR plans to fill gaps in the private market. In California, hundreds of thousands of homeowners flocked to the state plan when insurers canceled their policies or stopped writing insurance in the wake of devastating wildfires. But the state policies do not come cheaply, and analysts worry that the small insurers do not have sufficient reserves and reinsurance to cover catastrophic disasters. In 2023, Louisiana was forced to raise the rates of its FAIR plan by over 60 percent in the wake of back-to-back hurricanes Laura and Ida.
Some analysts believe the federal government may have to step in to prop up the wavering market for home insurance, the way it did decades ago when it created the federal flood insurance program after private insurers abandoned the market. But the federally subsidized flood insurance program has lost billions over the years and currently is about $20 billion in debt to the US Treasury (that’s after the government already forgave $16 billion of its debt). The troubled NFIP recently increased prices, with the average policy expected to double in five years.
“There’s so much property for sale—maybe five or six houses on every street—and nothing sells. It’s insane.”
Tens of thousands of homeowners have canceled their policies in response, and many more are expected to follow. “I don’t think the story is insurance won’t be available,” said Keys. “I think the question is affordability and what is the price going to be. For wealthy owners, that may not be a deal-breaker. But others will have to bear more of the risk themselves, either out-of-pocket or by taking out higher deductibles.”
Keys and other analysts estimate that the average cost of a homeowner’s policy nationally has risen between 30 to 40 percent in the last five years—more in high-risk states such as Florida, where there are few regulatory caps and the average premium increased by $1,450 between 2020-2023. Overall, Florida is the most expensive state for homeowner’s insurance, with rates up to four times the national average and painfully high deductibles costing homeowner’s thousands of dollars more.
The risks associated with our hotter, wetter world are growing as natural disasters become more damaging. Ten of the 20 largest wildfires in California have occurred in the last five years, including the devastating 2025 LA fires, while hurricane damages and flood losses have soared to all-time highs.
Since 2000, Florida has had 36 presidential disaster declarations, with damages from just the last seven years exceeding $300 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Florida, Louisiana, and Texas alone account for about two-thirds of all hurricane and flood losses.
For example, between 1979-2003, Florida homeowners filed $1.5 billion in flood claims, data show. Then, in 2004, four large hurricanes struck the state, followed by a string of other storms and floods, including Ian and five other major hurricanes. Flood claims have since swelled to $18.9 billion. Most are in coastal counties along the Gulf of Mexico, including Lee County, home to Sanibel Island.
Keys said the rising costs associated with sea level change, hurricanes, and other natural disasters should be sending “a loud and booming signal” to the housing market. “There is a certain portion of the population that has been skeptical of climate risk, but when it hits your pocketbook you take it seriously,” he said.
Potential buyers have begun asking about climate risks and demanding discounts on homes located in coastal floodplains, known as Special Flood Hazard Areas, with a 1 percent annual chance of a 100-year storm. The sharp uptick in the cost of home and flood insurance is also dampening demand for homes, with tens of thousands of houses sitting unsold and some buyers avoiding high-risk areas entirely.
Potential buyers are factoring climate risks into their purchasing decisions, notes Selma Hepp, an economist at the research firm Cotality (formerly CoreLogic). “They’re pricing in insurance premiums, future storms, and the potential for resale challenges,” she said.
The challenges are especially acute in storm-prone Florida, with 1,350 miles of coastline and millions of houses and condominiums perched along shorelines, lagoons, and canals. Now, following three major hurricanes in two years, the housing boom thereshows signs of stalling, or even becoming a bubble.
“In Fort Myers and Cape Coral, we have 12,000 properties for sale. Five years ago, maybe there would be 30,” real estate agent Susanne Perstad told The Times of London in April. “There’s so much property for sale—maybe five or six houses on every street—and nothing sells. It’s insane.”
“It costs $100,000 or $200,000 to elevate on Sanibel. I didn’t have that with all the other costs I had.”
Back on Sanibel Island, scores of homes and condominiums have been on the market for months, or longer, and owners are offering discounts up to $100,000 to lure buyers.
During Covid, demand for homes soared across Florida, but especially along the Gulf. “There was so much demand, we ran out of inventory, and you could sell anything for whatever you wanted,” said Eric Pfeifer, who owns a popular real estate agency on Sanibel. The median sales price soared to $1.3 million, but has since dropped to pre-Covid levels, about $830,000. “It was unsustainable,” Pfeifer said. “People weren’t thinking about sea level rise and climate change. In hindsight, it appears unfortunate.”
Thousands of Sanibel homes have been repaired three years after Ian. But a surprising number haven’t been elevated, and with the island less than five feet above sea level, those properties remain vulnerable to future hurricanes and floods. In Ian, older properties, including many at ground level, accounted for about 70 percent of $620 million in flood losses.
Under an NFIP regulation known as the 50 percent rule, if a house is damaged by half or more of its market value, it is required to elevate in order to keep its flood insurance. But some Sanibel homeowners avoided that requirement by requesting new assessments. The new, higher valuations make it less likely damages reach the 50 percent threshold.
Daniel Moore Thompson said he applied for a state grant to help raise his two-bedroom, two-bathroom house located near Blind Pass, where Sanibel merges with Captiva Island. But he was turned down after the state program ran out of money. “It costs $100,000 or $200,000 to elevate on Sanibel. I didn’t have that with all the other costs I had.”
Thompson got a new, higher assessment, which allowed him to stay on the ground for now. But he still plans to elevate. “It just kind of has to wait until I have the money.”
The federal flood program paid him the maximum $250,000 to cover Ian’s flood damage to his house, plus $75,000 for contents. “I still have my same homeowner’s insurance, and it only went up about 30 percent,” he said. “When I heard some of the horror stories from my friends, who had to fight their insurers or had their policies canceled, I was lucky.”
Thompson’s gift shop, Suncatchers, didn’t have flood insurance, and he estimated he lost about $1 million worth of inventory. He has since relocated to an elevated commercial mall on Periwinkle Way.
Even with the challenges, Thompson plans to stay on Sanibel “as long as nature” allows him. “I moved here from Western Pennsylvania. When I saw the nature and the water, I knew this is where I was meant to be. I get up in the morning, walk out my door and fish. I mean who doesn’t want to live by the water?”
This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.
How Climate Risks Are Putting Home Insurance Out of Reach
After years underestimating the risks posed by climate-fueled disasters, the U.S. home insurance industry is in turmoil.Yale E360
Est-ce que quelqu'un connaît une entreprise fiable qui fait des transports d'oeuvres d'art ou d'objets fragiles d'un endroit de France à un autre ?
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Linux 6.18 To Deliver Many Notable Features For AMD CPUs
There is a lot coming for AMD processors with the Linux 6.18 kernel. Of the early pull requests submitted in advance of the planned Linux 6.17 kernel release later today, there are a number of changes already lined up with some exciting AMD CPU feature additions for the next kernel version. These AMD changes for Linux 6.18 are all the more important with that kernel expected to become thi…
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Solidarity campaign autum 2025
Ukrainians are still suffering from Russian’s ongoing military aggression, struggling from constant missile attacks and their destructive consequences. We still cannot stand aside indifferently, while the people in Ukraine continue to face all the hardships of the war on a daily basis.
We are a group supporting people in Ukraine since 2022 beginning of fullscale invasion. We collected already around 380.000€ to buy needed items and organized several transports to Ukraine. We are working together with Solidarity Collectives, a Ukrainian based NGO.
For a humanitarian transport we collect donations in kind and 5000€.
Please donate: betterplace.org/en/p162495
For donations in kind check the website:
abcdd.org/en/2025/09/27/solida…
By the end of October there will be a transport to the Kharkiv region handing the collected goods over to the people who need it.
We highly encourage you to contribute! Every contribution is appreciated.
#solidarity #Ukraine #SolidarityCollectives
#humanitarianaid
Ukraine Solidarity
Support people in regions of Ukraine severely affected by the war! We are raising €5,000 for a humanitarian transport to the Kharkiv region at the end of October to purchase urgently needed goods and deliver them directly to the people!betterplace.org
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Luca Accomazzi
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •La visione di Fleabag ti permetterà di capire.
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Luca Accomazzi • • •Questa serie TV it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleabag ?
Non sono abbonato ad #AmazonPrimeVideo o ad altri servizi analoghi, ~~spendo~~ perdo già troppo tempo nelle reti sociali 😅😅😅
Credo di aver intuito dalla trama per come è raccontata su Wikipedia
serie televisiva britannica del 2016
Contributori ai progetti Wikimedia (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Luca Accomazzi
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