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A Pride Q-and-A with owners of Urban Growler Brewing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

June is Pride month, and a lot of local businesses are offering specials or raising money for their favorite LGBTQ+ causes.But few have as much to celebrate as Urban Growler Brewing (2325 Endicott St., St. Paul; 651-340-5793) owners Deb Loch and Jill Pavlak, who are marking their ninth year in business and their 10th wedding anniversary this year.The brewery always has lots going on during Pride month, but they were generous enough to sit down with us for an interview recently. Here’s what they had to say.This Q-and-A has been edited for length and clarity.Q: How did you meet?Deb: We met through Match.com in 2006.Jill: We corresponded via email, but our first meeting was at The Happy Gnome (now The Gnome in St. Paul).Deb: So we thought that was really foreshadowing. (The bar is known for its craft beer selection.)Q: Did you drink beer on your first date?In unison: Yeah, of course, yeah.Deb: Jill was ready to give up on Match.com. She did the three-month free subscription and it was ...

98.3 TRY Social Dilemma: Is Car Detailing a Bad Gift For Your Wife for Mother's Day?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Today's 98.3 TRY Social Dilemma comes from Harrison and it's about appropriate gifts for your spouse! Hi Jaime. I have a problem. Let’s rewind back to Mother’s Day. I gave my wife what I thought was a very nice gift…a certificate good for a complete car detailing. She’s very busy, and her SUV has started to look like an “old” car, even though it’s a 2016. I thought it would be nice to get it back to looking brand new inside. It seems that I was wrong because even after the car was worked on, and now looks like a diamond, she says it was a gift more for me…and feels like I was calling her out on her dirty car. What’s more, she’s now saying things like she “promises to take better care of it,” like I was somehow guilting her about the condition of the car. I thought I was doing something nice, but apparently, I messed up. For future reference, was this the nice gift I intended it to be, or was there really something insensitive and insulting that I just didn’t...

Repair Cafe to be held in Albany on Saturday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Repair cafes are growing in popularity in the United States. The international movement that brings community members together to fix household items for free is leading to a repair revolution. Albany tool library growing in size and popularity This Saturday in Albany you can fix items for free at a local repair cafe hosted by the Historic Albany Foundation. The person who brings in the broken item will fix it right alongside the expert so they can learn the skills to do it themselves moving forward. While repair cafes have taken place in the Capital Region, this is the first one to be held in the city of Albany according to the group.“We're going to have people fixing clothes, electronics, lamps. Lamps are one of the huge things, people want to fix, vacuums cleaners,” said Kimberley Parker from the Historic Albany Foundation. The history of Albany’s oldest building The event will take place this Saturday, June 10 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Albany P...

Ask Amy: Woman wants to avoid parents’ skeevy friend

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

Dear Amy: I am in my mid-20s and have a great relationship with my parents. I live nearby and see them multiple times a week.They have a large social network of other married couples as friends, many of whom I’ve known since childhood, as they were the parents of my own friends, classmates, neighborhood kids, etc.In the past couple of years, I’ve started to feel uncomfortable around one of their male friends, “Biff.”He has never done or said anything specific, but I can’t help but just feel this … icky vibe when I’m around him.It’s little things, like just leaning in too close when he talks to me, holding eye contact too long, and “teasing” in a way that if it was coming from a man my age I would perceive as definite flirting.My parents are planning a weekend vacation at the end of the summer at an Airbnb. They plan to invite several of their friend-couples, including this man and his wife.I really want to go, but I can’t shake this nagging feeling that I will be spending the weeken...

Ukraine's Zelenskyy discusses peace moves with Papal envoy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the Vatican on Tuesday (6 June) to contribute to the implementation of a Ukrainian peace plan during talks with a Papal envoy about Russia's war on Ukraine.Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, tasked by Pope Francis to carry out a peace mission to try to help end the war in Ukraine, visited Kyiv to sound out the Ukrainian authorities.Zelenskyy said they discussed the situation in Ukraine and humanitarian cooperation "in the framework of the Ukrainian Peace Formula.""Only united efforts, diplomatic isolation and pressure on Russia can influence the aggressor and bring a just peace to the Ukrainian land," Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app."I call on the Holy See to contribute to the implementation of the Ukrainian peace plan. Ukraine welcomes the readiness of other states and partners to find ways to peace, but since the war is on our territory, the algorithm for achieving peace can be Ukrainian only."Zelenskyy met the pope at the Vatican in M...

Work and play with flex space

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

Among the many lessons of the pandemic were those from which families gleaned ways to live together, share space without tripping over each other and hopefully still get along.Now that we’re three years past the start of stay-at-home mandates, certain aspects of pandemic-style living have grown on many people. Namely, that everyone needs their own space at home and that they’re not willing to give it up just because people are no longer required to stay home all the time.Builders anticipated this scenario when planning home designs for construction from 2021 onward. In doing so, the already growing popularity of flex space gained new importance.Now, flex space in new construction homes not only refers to rooms or spaces that the homeowner can define on their own, but to rooms and spaces that can serve multiple purposes simultaneously and with ease.For some new-home buyers, flexibility means having space for two or more home offices plus a playroom or recreation room that both kids a...

Bridge: June 8, 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

“It finally happened,” Unlucky Louie exulted in the club lounge. “Harlow’s luck ran out.”While Louie labors under a cloud of unending bad luck, the player we call Harlow the Halo is fortune’s favorite son. His finesses always win and his errors never cost.“In a team match,” Louie told me, “Harlow and I both played at four hearts, and West led the jack of trumps. The Halo took the K-A and next led a club from dummy. For once, his inspiration failed him: He played the jack. West took the queen and led a club to East’s ace, and they also got a trump and a spade.”BETTER PLAYLouie found a better play. He won the first trump in dummy and immediately led a spade to his jack. West won and returned a spade to Louie’s ace. Louie then cashed the king of trumps and, when East discarded, started the diamonds. Eventually, he threw West in with his trump trick to lead a club or concede a ruff-sluff. Making four.“I guess ...

Graham: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — Graham Corp. (GHM) on Thursday reported a loss of $481,000 in its fiscal fourth quarter.The Batavia, New York-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents per share.The maker of vacuum and heat-transfer equipment posted revenue of $43 million in the period.For the year, the company reported profit of $367,000, or 3 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $157.1 million.Graham expects full-year revenue in the range of $165 million to $175 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on GHM at https://www.zacks.com/ap/GHMSource

Democrats and Republicans are skeptical of US spying practices, an AP-NORC poll finds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major surveillance programs, the Biden administration faces an American public that’s broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security. Congress in the coming months will debate whether to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Section 702 authorizes U.S. spy agencies to collect large amounts of foreign communications for intelligence purposes ranging from stopping spies to listening in on allies and foes. Those collection programs also sweep up U.S. citizen communications that can then be searched by intelligence and law enforcement officers.The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Democrats and Republicans have similar views on surveillance tactics, while Republicans have become substantially less likely over the last decade to say it’s at least sometimes necessar...

Declan Rice set to leave West Ham after winning European trophy, club chairman says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:37 GMT

LONDON (AP) — England midfielder Declan Rice looks to have played his final match for West Ham.Rice, who captained West Ham in its victory over Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday, has been promised he can leave the club and wants to go, chairman David Sullivan said.“You can’t keep a player who doesn’t want to be there,” Sullivan told British radio station Talksport on Thursday.Rice has been linked with some of Europe’s top teams, including Arsenal and Bayern Munich.“It’s not something we want to happen,” Sullivan said. “We offered him 200,000 pounds ($250,000) a week 18 months ago. He turned it down.”The 24-year-old Rice has played for West Ham since 2017. He said after Wednesday’s final that “it’s not a goodbye yet.”“Obviously there’s loads of speculation but nothing’s happened,” Rice said. “I’m a West Ham player, I’ve got two years left on my contract. I love every minute of it.”Sullivan said West Ham has yet to receive an offer.“But I think the of...