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Solidarity with Marathon oil workers in Minnesota! By David Rosenfeld March 1, 2021 Teamsters Local 120President of Minnesota Nurses Association delivers firewood donation to workers locked out by Marathon Petroleum in St. Paul Park, Minnesota. Strike support is crucial for the union. ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — An important labor battle is playing out here that pits Marathon Petroleum — the largest oil refining company in the U.S. — against 200 workers, members of the Teamsters union. These workers deserve solidarity and support to streng...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Nearly Two Hundred Workers at Marathon’s St. Paul Park Refinery Strike Over Workplace Safety January 22, 2021 GMT International Brotherhood Of Teamsters. (PRNewsFoto/International Brotherhood of Teamsters) BLAINE, Minn., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 200 workers at Marathon’s St. Paul Park refinery went on strike this afternoon over unfair labor practices and workplace safety. The workers, represented by Teamsters Local 120, say the company has refused to bargain in good faith, and continues...

Provided It’ll be Christmas in January, with a lot of coronavirus-related humor still on tap, as the Glenwood Vaudeville reboots its Holiday/COVID Revue show this weekend following an untimely December shutdown. The Vaudeville cast was settling in for its popular holiday dinner-theater run when the state placed Garfield County under level-red restrictions due to heightened concerns about the COVID-19 situation locally — effectively suspending indoor events. That meant thousands of reservation cancelations during one of the busiest times of the year for the seasonal comedy and variety show...

By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principles behind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interface emerges that is based on language, a richer representation of objects, expert users, and shared control. At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore. Physicists and mathematicians often stretch their imaginations by considering what the world would be like if...