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Hunting Utah’s biggest bully — social media |
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| | At first glance, Aimee Winder Newton does not come across as someone you’d imagine crossing the schoolyard to punch the bully in the face. Or at second glance. But underneath that pleasant, non-threatening exterior beats the heart of a person who is hunting the biggest bully out there. Social media. “It’s hard," she says. "So many of the parents say they don’t want their kid to feel left out. What we need are enough parents to start taking it away so that it becomes normal to not have social media instead of the other way around.” |
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| Jared and Jerusha Hess, the “Napoleon Dynamite” creators, have received their first Oscar nomination and embraced high-profile projects like “Minecraft” and the animated feature “Thelma the Unicorn,” which hits Netflix in May. Despite all this, they remain connected to their local community. It was during their days as Brigham Young University film students, after all, that the origins of “Napoleon Dynamite” began to take root. And this year marked two decades since the film became an unlikely standout of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, getting acquired for nearly $5 million and effectively launching both of their careers. Now, in somewhat of a full-circle moment, their first Oscar nomination also has a local tie-in: “Ninety-Five Senses” is the first production to emerge from the Salt Lake Film Society’s MAST program, an initiative that trains and pairs up-and-coming animators with established filmmakers. Read more about the creators of "Napoleon Dynamite." More in Entertainment: Inside this year’s gift bags for Oscar nominees — that are worth $180,000 (Deseret News) Why ‘The Chosen’ Season 4 will be delayed coming to streaming (Deseret News) | FROM OUR SPONSOR MYLIO PHOTOS The new version of Mylio Photos helps you effortlessly share your photos to FamilySearch.org. Easily add dates to scanned images, tag people, and add other details, then publish your Memories to FamilySearch.org with just a few clicks. Get Mylio Photos for free and preserve a lifetime of memories. | Faith Church historian and recorder shares more about Kirtland Temple acquisition (Church News) Using family history to strengthen youth, missionary work and connection: RootsTech Q&A with General Authority Seventies (Church News) Education Sterling Scholar program's impressive legacy (KSL) University of Utah advisory body formed to aid with Latino recruitment, retention (KSL) Business A lesson in community investment (Utah Business) Get Gephardt helps Utahn stuck in billing squabble between her insurance and her hospital (KSL) Utah How a stroke inspired a poetry professor (KSL) Who has the best tasting water? Ask the Rural Water Association of Utah (St. George News) Intermountain Health testing app to ease jaundice detection in newborns (Standard Examiner) How much of state’s capital improvement dollars are targeted for suburbs? (Daily Herald) The West What’s the matter with California? (Deseret News) Colorado’s affordable housing crisis has spread from the mountains to the Front Range (Denver Post) Politics Where will Nikki Haley’s voters go? (Deseret News) Why Republican and Democratic first ladies get treated differently (Politico) The Nation Where will Nikki Haley’s voters go? (Deseret News) Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps awards with best picture and actor wins (BBC) The World Ukraine rebuffs Pope Francis calling for talks with Russia (Deseret News) Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas (CNN) Sports Mark Pope’s outstanding coaching job in BYU’s first season in Big 12 should not go unnoticed (Deseret News) Photo gallery: See highlights from Sunday’s races at the IBU World Cup Biathlon (Deseret News) Utah basketball turns focus to Pac-12 tournament while clinging to fading NCAA tournament hopes (Deseret News) What’s on the line for the Aggies heading into MWC tourney (Deseret News) |
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