TV Turnoff Week urges New Yorkers to unplug screens
America Unplugged notes TV is blamed for moral and family harms and promotes a weeklong unplug. TV Turnoff Week invites up to eight million viewers to disconnect from TV, the Internet, and video games from Monday through May 1, with tips to limit screen time and encourage parent controls.
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TV Turnoff Movement Promotes Off Switch to Control Screen Time
Activists in at least ten countries including Brazil Britain Japan Italy and Mexico push TV TurnOff events as a response to pervasive TV advertising and ubiquitous screens In public spaces the movement argues TV crowds out real life and urges families to limit viewing while TV-B-Gone a pocket remote like device, lets users turn off TVs within 20 to 50 feet, signaling a new tool for reclaiming daily spaces from screens.
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Custom cutter museum preserves harvesters' stories in Inman
Inman Kansas, long known as the Custom Harvester Capital, documents across decades reveal the itinerant life of harvest crews. With a 3500 grant from the Kansas Humanities Council, the Inman Museum collected interviews and compiled them into a binder to safeguard agri cultural history and remind youth of these fallen or aging families.
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Inman Museum
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Eldon Neufeldt
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