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Amador High football team suspended after chat thread surfaces

The Amador County Office of Education is investigating a “chat thread” involving the varsity football team

SUTTER CREEK, Calif. — The Amador High School varsity football team remains off the field indefinitely following word that the school district is investigating a “chat thread.”

“It’s concerning. That’s a huge step for a supervisor or superintendent to take,” said Sutter Creek resident Dennis Daniels.

In an email to parents, in part, it reads, “The District is aware of the chat thread associated with the Amador Varsity Football Team. At this time, the team is suspended until further notice and three staff members

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UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations on Sunday called for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”

The UN said it is concerned that the policy, together with other restrictions on basic freedoms, will contribute to a deepening of the country’s economic crisis in the form of greater insecurity, poverty and isolation.

“This is a tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable anniversary,” said Markus Potzel, acting head of the UN mission in Afghanistan.

A year after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, hard-liners appear to hold sway

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Dietitian Questions Healthfulness of the Mediterranean Diet

September 3, 2022 · 7:27 AM

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Shana Spence, RD, wrote at Self.com:

The Mediterranean diet is constantly lauded in the nutrition world—in fact, US News has named it the “best diet overall” for five years straight—but as a registered dietitian, I think it’s time to think about it a little differently: It’s time to dethrone the Mediterranean diet as being the very best way to eat.

Now, the Mediterranean diet—which emphasizes whole grains and plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, tree nuts, seeds, and olives, and limits red meat, sugar, and saturated fat—is not

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