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date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bekar, Ismail; Pezzatti, G. Boris; Conedera, Marco; Vacik, Harald; Pausas, Juli G.; Dupire, Sylvain; Bugmann, Harald
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636378
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Papanikolaou, Nikos; Lambiotte, Renaud; Vaccario, Giacomo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637219
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Keller, Franziska; Popa, Răzvan-Gabriel; Julien, Allaz; Bovay, Thomas; Bouvier, Anne-Sophie; Geshi, Nobuo; Miyakawa, Ayumu; Bachmann, Olivier
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637218
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The thing people don’t like about AI isn’t that the machines are trying to be human, rather it’s that you could be a machine.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/09.html#a172045
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The truck landed on a tree in a “very precarious position.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281641828.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office will terminate at midnight on Dec. 21 barring reauthorization from Congress.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article281637933.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Cultural competence: “And that word trust in Spanish is very different from that in English. “It’s a special word.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article280356639.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Brianna the pup is “the definition of happy and fun-loving.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281638083.html
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SolarWinds has come out guns blazing to defend itself following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s announcement that it will be suing both the company and its CISO over the 2020 SUNBURST cyberattack.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/solarwinds_sec_filing/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Om Malik blog
A conversation with Imran Chaudhri, a former Apple designer and co-founder of Humane about the future of personal computing in the age of artificial intelligence.
https://om.co/2023/11/09/imran-chaudhri-humane-interview/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The husband was called a “generous and devoted supporter” of the school’s orchestra program.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281639158.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Om Malik blog
If you think of Humane’s AI Pin as just another device, it is easy to shrug your shoulders. However, when you place it in the context of the development of computing, you can see we are at the start of thinking about computing differently.
https://om.co/2023/11/09/ai-pin-humane/
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Entertainment studios and the Screen Actors Guild, which represents actors who appear in movies and television shows, have a tentative deal for a new contract, ending a 118-day strike, the longest in the union’s history
https://scvnews.com/sag-aftra-studios-reach-tentative-deal/
date: 2023-11-09, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
The 1957 motion picture Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is one of the more famous anti-war movies of all time. It is set during World War I. A French colonel, played by Kirk Douglas, defends three of his soldiers who have been falsely accused of cowardice to cover up command failures that led … Continue reading International Problems With “Paths of Glory,” 1958
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2023/11/09/international-problems-with-paths-of-glory-1958/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-09, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
One of my favorite tweets of all time:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111381649119577273
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
Opening statements are scheduled in the federal trial of David DePape who prosecutors say assaulted then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi, sending shockwaves through the political world just days before last year’s midterm elections.
date: 2023-11-09, from: 404 Media Group
We are hosting our second FOIA Forum at the end of November. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.
https://www.404media.co/our-second-foia-forum-11-30-1pm-est/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It will be in the Student Union.
https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article281641443.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Liliputing
One of the security updates baked into Android 14 is a feature that blocks you from installing some older apps built for Android 5.1 or earlier… kind of. If you’ve got a shiny new phone or tablet running Android 14, it’s true that you can’t download and install these older apps on your device itself. […]
The post How to install old apps on Android 14 appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/how-to-install-old-apps-on-android-14/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Michael Tsai
Flying Meat: Retrobatch 2.0 includes a new dark UI, a bunch of new nodes, new features, refinements in existing nodes and UI, plus much more.[…]New “Super Resolution” node, which uses machine learning to scale up your image 4x its size.[…]New “Photos Export” node which replaces the “Photos Library” node (which Apple has deprecated libraries it […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/09/retrobatch-2/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
Capturing a stunning photo is just the beginning. The true essence of photography lies in the post-production process, where raw images are transformed into poignant, captivating masterpieces. Every photographer, amateur or professional, has an essential tool in their arsenal – a reliable photo editing software. In the vast landscape of the digital world, finding the […]
The post The Ultimate Guide to the Best Free Photo Editor for PC: Free Photo Editor Download and Photo Editing Free Downloads appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
Veterans Day is more than just a date on the calendar. It’s a poignant reminder of the sacrifices made by countless brave men and women who donned the uniform, standing in defense of freedom and democracy. It’s a day to reflect, honor and appreciate the immense debt of gratitude we owe to our military veterans […]
The post Bill Miranda | Paying Tribute to Our Valiant Veterans appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/bill-miranda-paying-tribute-to-our-valiant-veterans/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Authorities also found a bag of rare antique coins stolen in a different case at his desk, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281641243.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The woman and her son were found shot in a driveway.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281636398.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The iOS 17.1.1 update addresses a BMW wireless charging problem and a bug with the Weather Lock Screen widget. There have also been issues with Wi-Fi connectivity and device shutdowns, but it’s unclear if anything in iOS 17.1.1 is intended to address those. Previously: iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/09/ios-17-1-1-and-ipados-17-1-1/
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in a signing ceremony Thursday with Bulgaria’s Milena Stoycheva, minister of innovation and growth, as her country became the 32nd nation to sign the Artemis Accords. The Artemis Accords establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations, including those participating in NASA’s Artemis program. Also […]
date: 2023-11-09, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW, M3): Today’s update includes bug fixes and security updates according to Apple. Joe Rossignol: While the release notes did not specify which bugs were fixed, we have confirmed that the update resolves a software update issue with M3 Macs and an Adobe Photoshop bug. See […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/09/macos-14-1-1/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (release notes, full installer for M1 and M2, M3): This update has no published CVE entries. Available for MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023) Enterprise release notes: MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch computers with Apple silicon no longer start up to a black screen or circled exclamation point after the built-in display’s […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/09/macos-13-6-2/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): Today’s update addresses an issue that is causing some Apple Watch models to drain battery more quickly than expected. Complaints about Apple Watch battery started after the launch of watchOS 10.1, and Apple confirmed in a memo over the weekend that the battery problems would be fixed in a […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/09/watchos-10-1-1/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-09, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Petition to change.org to allow Xcode to have 30 items in "open recent"
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111381512391208768
date: 2023-11-09, from: 404 Media Group
Minnesota asked the people to design a new state flag, and the people delivered.
https://www.404media.co/minnesota-flag-design-contest/
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
A 3-year-old girl escaped injury in an Oakland shooting Wednesday night that left her mother with a wound to the arm, authorities said.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/09/woman-wounded-child-uninjured-in-oakland-shooting/
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s new streaming service is here. More space. More science. More NASA. The new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service launched Nov. 8. Explore our Emmy-Award-winning live coverage and go behind the scenes with our scientists and engineers through original shows and 65 years of classic NASA footage. NASA has elevated its digital platforms for […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasas-new-streaming-service-is-here-more-space-more-science-more-nasa/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The upcoming miniseries follows the 100th Bombardment Group, an Air Force unit nicknamed the “Bloody Hundredth”
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
For FeedLand users and others, how did you feel about the starter feeds you were offered when you first signed on?
http://scripting.com/2023/11/09.html#a161101
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
In response to five class-action lawsuits, a Washington appeals court has decided that Honda and several other automakers did nothing wrong by storing text messages and call records from connected smartphones.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/car_text_harvesting/
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
The aircraft had reached an altitude of at least 14,000 feet by the time it was turned around, reads a special bulletin by the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB.) The plane landed back at Stansted Airport safely shortly afterward.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“No minors anywhere were safe from (the Ohio man) so long as (he) had access to the Internet,” authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281636933.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering named Dr. Jimmy Kenyon, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Outstanding Mechanical Engineer during a ceremony on Oct. 13. The award recognizes alumni who have demonstrated excellence in industry, academia, governmental service, or other endeavors related to mechanical engineering. Honorees have shown outstanding character and leadership and have accomplished […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/purdue-university-honors-dr-kenyon/
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
You have to go back to February 2012 to find the last time California buyers were in control by one definition.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/09/will-california-ever-have-another-buyers-market-for-homes/
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
This is a thorough and well thought out order, resulting from a great deal of staff time and considerable expertise and technical knowledge by the people who helped draft the order.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/09/white-house-order-provides-guidance-on-ai-safety/
date: 2023-11-09, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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The cars are staggeringly expensive, outfitted with high-tech sensors and cameras, and are worth as much as $200,000.And on Cruise:
Each Chevrolet Bolt that Cruise operates costs $150,000 to $200,000, according to a person familiar with its operations.So the upfront investment is around $150K/car. Assuming a 5-year life and 7% interest, the annual cost would be around $32K, or about $90/day. After paying about $12/hr for fuel, insurance, repairs, depreciation and so on an Uber driver makes $18/hr, or assuming an 8hr day, $144/day. The robotaxi looks like it is about $54/day ahead.
Half of Cruise’s 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless operations were stopped. Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle.With 1.5 workers at Uber’s pay rate the robotaxi’s staff and equipment is costing $306/day, so the robotaxi is $162/day behind, and Cruise is unlikely to be able to pay only $18/hr. What were the 1.5 people per car actually doing?
The workers intervened to assist the company’s vehicles every 2.5 to five miles, according to two people familiar with is operations.Lora Kolodny followed up the NYT team’s reporting in Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every four to five miles:
Vogt confirmed that the General Motors-owned company does have a remote assistance team, in response to a discussion under the header, “GM’s Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve ‘autonomous’ driving.”Clearly, the robotaxi fleet needs some staff. The cars need refueling, say every 200 miles. They need cleaning. Lets guess the average ride is 5 miles and they need cleaning every 10 rides. That would be staff required every 40 miles. So the vast majority of interventions are because Cruise’s self-driving technology just can’t handle San Francisco traffic. They may be called robotaxis, just pay no attention to the driver behind the curtain. These remote drivers will be more expensive than the in-car drivers they are replacing!
The CEO wrote, “Cruise AVs are being remotely assisted (RA) 2-4% of the time on average, in complex urban environments. This is low enough already that there isn’t a huge cost benefit to optimizing much further, especially given how useful it is to have humans review things in certain situations.”
G.M. has spent an average of $588 million a quarter on Cruise over the past year, a 42 percent increase from a year ago.$2,232B/year for 400 cars is $5.6M per car per year! How could each car earn this much?
The company charged an average of $10.50 per ride in the city.To generate $5.6M each car would have to service 510K rides/year or 1,400 rides/day, or one ride per minute. Cruise’s goal, before they got shut down, was less ambitious:
The shutdown complicates Cruise’s ambition of hitting its goal of $1 billion of revenue in 2025.Covering less than half their costs in 2025 is about 91M rides, or about 250K/day. Lets be generous, and assume 10 rides/day/car. They would need 25K Chevrolet Bolts. Scaling the operation from 400 to 25K in under 2 years would be hard. It would be made harder because Bolt production stops next month. But even if the Bolts were available, this would be an additional investment of between $3.7B and $5B in order to lose only $1.2B/year.
Focusing on the notoriously high margin taxi business has always been odd, in that even if they “work” it’s not entirely clear where the big profit opportunity is! Replacing low wage workers with expensive machines that require a lot of attention from people who have more specialized skills than “driving” doesn’t seem to be such a great plan!Last August, Hubert Horan continued his long-running series with Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber, which starts:
I get the appeal for the carbrained. What “we” all want is a 24 hour driver at an affordable rate. It’s just not quite clear what the business model is, even if the technology works!
People always point to niche cases in which robot car would be particularly useful. But they’re niche cases and you need scale to make anything in this industry profitable! Scale is necessary for a lot of reasons, but one is maintenance and spare parts production. Your self-driving campus vans won’t last long if there’s only one guy who knows to maintain them and the parts manufacturer just went bankrupt.
After $33 Billion in Losses Over 14 Years, Uber is Finally Approaching GAAP BreakevenUber has always viewed drivers as a temporary necessity to tide them over until robotaxis take over and boost them into actual instead of manipulated profits. Last month they started offering robotaxi service in Phoenix using Waymo’s cars. But unless Waymo is showing them radically different numbers than the NYT team found for Cruise, Horan’s series is going to run and run.
Uber claimed its first ever quarterly GAAP profit when it released its second quarter and first half financial results on August 1. The claim was a bit of stretch as the reported $394 million second quarter profit ($237 million for the first half) was entirely explained by an alleged $386 million second quarter gain ($707 million in the first half) in the value of untradable securities they hold in companies like Didi, Grab, and Aurora that have nothing to do with their ongoing operations. Readers of this series will know that Uber has aggressively used claims like this to justify misleading claims about its corporate financial performance ever since 2018 when it inflated published net income numbers by $5.8 billion just prior to its IPO.
Last week, a Cruise driverless car collided with a fire truck responding to an emergency. Another Cruise vehicle got stuck in wet concrete. The week before, several Cruise cars blocked traffic in the city’s North Beach neighborhood.More recently, Sam Biddle reported that:
previously unreported internal materials such as chat logs show Cruise has known internally about two pressing safety issues: Driverless Cruise cars struggled to detect large holes in the road and have so much trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios that they risked hitting them. Yet, until it came under fire this month, Cruise kept its fleet of driverless taxis active, maintaining its regular reassurances of superhuman safety.In contrast, all the NYT team could find to report about Waymo was:
In May, one of its cars struck and killed a small dog. A few years ago, a driverless Waymo car with a human safety driver operating the wheel hit a pedestrian who needed to be taken to the hospital. The company has been collecting fares in the Phoenix area for several years and now has a fleet navigating some 200 miles across that region, including to and from the airport.Why is Cruise so much less safe? The NYT team write:
Company insiders are putting the blame for what went wrong on a tech industry culture — led by the 38-year-old Mr. Vogt — that put a priority on the speed of the program over safety. In the competition between Cruise and its top driverless car rival, Waymo, Mr. Vogt wanted to dominate in the same way Uber dominated its smaller ride-hailing competitor, Lyft.As someone who has been sharing the roads with Waymo cars for many years, I have always believed that Waymo, unlike Cruise and much worse Tesla, understood that it was necessary to prove that self-driving technology was safe, not just gaslight the public as Mr. Vogt did:
“Kyle is a guy who is willing to take risks, and he is willing to move quickly. He is very Silicon Valley,” said Matthew Wansley, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York who specializes in emerging automotive technologies. “That both explains the success of Cruise and its mistakes.”
To make streets safer, he said in an interview, cities should embrace self-driving cars like those designed by Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors. They do not get distracted, drowsy or drunk, he said, and being programmed to put safety first meant they could substantially reduce car-related fatalities.Two months later Cruise’s safety record got them shut down. The very same day:
CEO Mary Barra told financial analysts that Cruise “is safer than a human driver and is constantly improving and getting better.”
https://blog.dshr.org/2023/11/robotaxi-economics.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Marketplace Morning Report
After a nearly four monthlong strike, SAG-AFTRA performers reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios last night. While details are still scarce, both sides are celebrating — and there signs of big gains for actors. What will we be looking for in the contract and what does it mean for our favorite shows? Also, workplace injuries are up and a bakery in Gaza struggles to keep up with demand.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
New data predicts population decline after 2080.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281607593.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
The third Power to Explore Student Challenge from NASA is underway. The writing challenge invites K-12 students in the United States to learn about radioisotope power systems, a type of nuclear battery integral to many of NASA’s far-reaching space missions, and then write an essay about a new powered mission for the agency. For more […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-seeks-students-to-imagine-nuclear-powered-space-missions/
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
A man died Wednesday after he was engulfed in flames following a collision between the stolen motorcycle he was riding and a vehicle in Oakland.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 47-year-old man slapped and punched the 16-year-old boy, deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281614293.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
The White House says Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza. T
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
A big office complex in Sunnyvale has staggered into a default on its real estate loan.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I wonder if Stack Overflow tried to do a deal with ChatGPT to flow human knowledge through their database. Or were they caught as flat-footed as Encyclopedia Brittanica was by Wikipedia, or how digital cameras were obsoleted by smart phones. Was there anything any of them could do, or was there no possible corner-turn? Also newspaper classified ads and Craigslist.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/09.html#a154132
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The buried treasure was found in Poland, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281611133.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
There are currently more than 600,000 openings for manufacturing jobs in the United States, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Labor. That number could rise to about 2.1 million vacancies or open jobs by the year 2030 if more efforts are not made to attract and retain workers with specialized skills. In […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-glenn-attracts-students-to-manufacturing-careers/
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
John Glenn. Neil Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin. Jim Lovell. Guion Bluford. These iconic astronauts shared a commonality before they began their careers at NASA: They all served in the United States military. NASA values veterans and their commitment to serving America, and the agency seeks to hire veterans and military spouses, offer career development opportunities, and […]
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I bought a new domain for FeedLand today. 😄
http://scripting.com/2023/11/09.html#a151202
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
At the same time, 72% of Californians said they are satisfied with their household’s financial standing and 54% of likely voters said they approved of Governor Gavin Newsom’s handling of jobs and the economy.
date: 2023-11-09, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. The resulting panchromatic image combines visible and infrared light to assemble one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever taken. Located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, MACS0416 is a pair of colliding […]
date: 2023-11-09, from: San Jose Mercury News
The conference went 11-1 in season openers, with only ASU losing (to Mississippi State).
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A Rocket Lab update on what caused the failure of its “We Will Never Desert You” mission identifies an electrical arc under Paschen’s Law as the most likely culprit.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/rocket_lab_investigation/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The target of the murder-for-hire plot and his family were disappointed with the outcome.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article281599988.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
These national chains in California have deals for Veterans Day.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281558523.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: OS News
Eight gigabytes has been the standard RAM load out on new MacBook Pros for the better part of a decade, and in 2023, Apple execs still believe it’s enough for customers. With the launch of Apple’s M3 MacBook Pros last month, a base 14-inch $1,599 model with an M3 chip still only gets you 8GB of unified DRAM that’s shared between the CPU, GPU, and neural network accelerator. In a show of Apple’s typical modesty this week, the tech giant’s veep of worldwide product marketing Bob Borchers has argued, in an interview with machine-learning engineer Lin YilYi, that the Arm-compatible, Apple-designed M-series silicon and software stack is so memory efficient that 8GB on a Mac may equal 16GB on a PC – so we therefore ought to be happy with it. Eight gigabyte of RAM in and of itself isn’t an issue, on a budget machine. Apple is selling incredibly expensive machines labelled as “pro” with a mere 8 GB, and charges €200 for another 8, which is highway robbery, plain and simple. I wonder how many people at Apple – at any level – use Macs with 8 GB of RAM. I have a feeling that number is quite low.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
She was one of more than a dozen pets helped during the storm.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281632693.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I asked DALL-E to help create an icon for Feed Hunter. I can’t imagine an art director at an agency not using AI to play around with ideas for logos, symbols, ads, whatever. What I arrived at was a tennis racket trying to hit a cheeseburger. I didn’t end up using it, but the exploration was useful. I think this process still has quite a ways to go, I find it difficult to control the bot, I give it explicit instructions sometimes that it apparently doesn’t understand. But it’s still a miracle of technology. And a miracle for this human, because I’ve found an artist that is infinitely patient with me, and works for $20 a month.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/09.html#a143752
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 29-year-old graduate student was a month away from completing his degree.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281633138.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-09, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Feed
Hunter is a new NPM package that looks for a feed, starting with the
address of an HTML file. We first look for feeds that are
linked into the HTML
source code. If we don’t find a working feed there, we
look
in 27 common locations where feeds are often found. And btw, there’s
a new version of FeedLand that uses
this package, so we do better at finding feeds. Thanks to the
Indieblog site which keeps a great
list of blogs with feeds. We
used that info to come up with our list of default locations. We also
used the list of feeds people have subscribed to in FeedLand.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/09.html#a141419
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Sanger High girls roll to fourth consecutive conference title; Sanger High boys pick up fourth league title in five years.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article281635068.html
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Arm has shown better than expected revenue in its first earnings report since the company’s public offering, but its shares fell on a weaker outlook for the quarter ahead.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/arm_q2_2024/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
The Amazon Style store was part of an experiment in brick-and-mortar retail for the online shopping giant. It opened at the Americana last year.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
State funds make up a third of what the radio station will need to upgrade its facility or locate elsewhere.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281628248.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Newsom’s recent China trip was a a politically brave move and a lifeline of hope for a world on the brink of abandoning climate diplomacy.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281500798.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
With the debate on where to build the medical complex as contentious as it was when the governor proposed Eagles Field in Mangilao, the administration continues its effort to lobby support for the Eda Agaga area of Barrigada one talk…
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
Failure to maintain Guam Department of Education Schools already is costing the government of Guam money, as double session at John F. Kennedy High School has increased lease costs.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
Two men were honored for their role in strengthening the friendly relationship between Japan and Guam.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
A judge is considering whether to disqualify the Office of the Attorney General from prosecuting government employees because of a possible conflict of interest.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
District Court of Guam Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood toured the former Ordot dump on Thursday to get additional information on the facility’s condition and learn about its operation and maintenance. She visited various areas at the now-capped former dump facility,…
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
A pay increase for the chief financial officer at the Guam Power Authority, one of three pay raises approved Wednesday by the Consolidated Commission on Utilities, drew criticism from Sen. William Parkinson, who said the CCU should reassess its decision…
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
A man on pretrial release in a burglary case from this year was accused of breaking into a home by removing an air conditioning unit.
date: 2023-11-09, from: 404 Media Group
Ten Labcorp workers told 404 Media that Amazon-like productivity goals at the clinical lab giant are squeezing them for profits in a way that could put patients at risk.
https://www.404media.co/labcorp-workers-say-productivity-goals-are-pushing-them-to-the-brink/
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
An exhibition featuring the work of Simone Leigh — one of America’s most influential contemporary female artists — is now on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. Leigh, known for her focus on feminism, gender equality and racial justice, became the first Black artist in history to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, where she was awarded the coveted Golden Lion. Maxim Adams has the story. Camera: Sergii Dogotar.
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-09, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
To celebrate Google’s request at the EU to force Apple to open iMessage, today we celebrate the career promotions for every PM and VP at Google that gave us this bouquet of innovation:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111380868116458358
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Sergio Martin, 50, taught Spanish at El Monte Middle School.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281592333.html
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-09, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Ok I finally got Godot header files incorporated into a Swift project to begin adding Swift to the Godot editor (not via bindings).
The only issue is that it currently contains a lot of unnecessary junk from “thirdpartylibraries” and also requires some manual header file changes, I’ll write a script to automate that.
My work so far is on https://GitHub.com/migueldeicaza/Godot in the swift branch
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111380830179945773
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Now the New York woman owes $578,943.86 in restitution, prosecutors say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281608338.html
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
IT spending in Europe is set to hit $1 trillion by the end of 2023, and will see growth of 9.3 percent into next year, well up on this year’s figure of 5.5 percent, according to stats from Gartner.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/enterprise_spending_gartner_europe/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“This is not a place for children,” the woman said of the kids in line with their parents, according to cops.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281632378.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
Along with the rest of the congressional Republicans, Rep. Mike Garcia voted to elect Rep. Mike Johnson speaker of the House. Why is this important? The speaker of the House guides the vision of the Republicans in the House. What he decides is important is what the House Republicans work toward. He also is second […]
The post Karen Fencil | Think About Mike Johnson appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/karen-fencil-think-about-mike-johnson/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
Norm Day is an annual student count that “strikes fear in the heart of administrators,” in the words of one LAUSD school board member.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It took me more than a year to find some people who were willing to give it a try.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281222828.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Sacramento Rep. Doris Matsui asked for $2 million after CapRadio approached her office for funding.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281592348.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
How long does it take to pay off a solar panel system in California?
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281098418.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Written during the Seven Years’ War, the letters offer rare insights into the lives of everyday people during wartime
date: 2023-11-09, from: Marketplace Morning Report
For this month’s “Econ Extra Credit” project, we’re watching Martin Scorsese’s new feature film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The film shows how white settlers terrorized members of the Osage Nation, violently attempting to acquire their oil resources. We’re joined by professor and Osage Nation citizen Jean Dennison to define key concepts in the film, including headrights and guardianships. But first: What’s up with Speaker Mike Johnson’s financial disclosure?
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Ocean Exploration Trust visited the site Nov. 3.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281537323.html
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The cybercriminals behind the rampant MOVEit exploits from earlier this year are making use a zero-day vulnerability in on-prem instances of IT service and help desk software-slinger SysAid.…
date: 2023-11-09, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: A group of young former McDonald’s workers in the United Kingdom is taking the fast food chain to court, accusing it of failing to protect them at work. Earlier this year, a BBC investigation revealed allegations of sexual assault, harassment, racism and bullying. Plus, Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest exporter of clothes, but workers are protesting over better pay and conditions. Then, as the French government hosts a conference in Paris today to discuss ways of getting humanitarian aid to people in Gaza, we hear from a bakery in the territory that is struggling to keep up with the massive demand for crucial supplies of bread.
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-08, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Selling miniature replicas to unsuspecting shoppers:
Online marketplaces sell tiny pink cowboy hats. They also sell miniature pencil sharpeners, palm-size kitchen utensils, scaled-down books and camping chairs so small they evoke the Stonehenge scene in “This Is Spinal Tap.” Many of the minuscule objects aren’t clearly advertised.
[…]
But there is no doubt some online sellers deliberately trick customers into buying smaller and often cheaper-to-produce items, Witcher said. Common tactics include displaying products against a white background rather than in room sets or on models, or photographing items with a perspective that makes them appear bigger than they really are. Dimensions can be hidden deep in the product description, or not included at all…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/online-retail-hack.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: When a gift card just won’t do, keep the following in mind guide when you want to show your love to a nurse
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281554083.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: OS News
Xiaomi also has bad news for MIUI users who wish to unlock their smartphones, saying they won’t get updated to HyperOS. “Previous operating systems, such as MIUI 14, still retain the ability to unlock, but users will no longer receive any Xiaomi HyperOS updates if they leave their devices in an unlocked state,” the company told us. The Chinese brand clarified in a follow-up email that HyperOS updates won’t be available if you’ve unlocked your phone’s bootloader, regardless of whether you’re on MIUI 14 or HyperOS. However, the company said you’ll receive HyperOS updates if you choose to lock your device again. This applies to all Xiaomi devices outside of China. I rarely say this, but with this new “HyperOS” skin being the most blatant iOS ripoff I’ve ever seen, just get an iPhone if you want that experience that badly.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Logic Matters blog
The post One in twenty appeared first on Logic Matters.
https://www.logicmatters.net/2023/11/09/one-in-twenty/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Fedora Linux is released when it’s ready, so two decades plus one day after its debut, the latest version is here, with lots of new goodies.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/fedora_39_released/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
We spotted this excellently simple fractal art display on Reddit. It’s a perfect beginner project for someone looking for a geeky desk trinket.
The post PiArtFrame displays fractal art appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/piartframe-displays-fractal-art/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy again tore into each other. | Opinion
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281626423.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Would you do it? Is “writing your own website” an activity that could be described as “untrusted user generated content”? I get the feeling that perhaps it is not! It is your site, you are writing the thing, so it’s trusted. Your visitors need to trust you, too.
Now, in order for an attacker to hurt your visitors, they would need to get access to the file system via the web server somehow.
Do you feel that the situation changes when there’s a service like Oddmu that generates the HTML based on Markdown?
I guess the source remains the same, you’re writing the Markdown, therefore the HTML, and so on. But now the attack surface is larger: attackers can attack either the web server (the reverse proxy in front) or the service itself (in the backend). I don’t run the service in a “demilitarized zone” (DMZ) – what a word! – so there’s that.
The reason I’m wondering about all that is because I wonder whether I need to sanitize the output of the Markdown to HTML conversion using a library like bluemonday.
bluemonday takes untrusted user generated content as an input, and will return HTML that has been sanitised against an allowlist of approved HTML elements and attributes so that you can safely include the content in your web page.
Hm. Even if Oddmu is used by a group of people, I would still assume that they trust each other. In such a context, there are no “untrusted users”.
So why not take the easy route and just apply sanitization always? The reason is that I sometimes (rarely!) include SVG in my Markdown, like in 2022-06-30 How to communicate dungeon maps to players.
Yesterday evening and this morning I spent a fair amount of time writing code that adds SVG validation to a bluemonday policy. You can take a look in issue #196. It’s awful. And I suspect that the specs will keep changing over time and so I will keep running into issues. It would be much easier to just drop it.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-09-sanitize
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Upcoming versions of Samsung devices will come equipped with Generative AI features starting next year after the chaebol launched its own tool – Gauss – on Wednesday.…
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Interview Intel veep Arun Gupta is taking a pragmatic approach to open source and how contributing companies can keep the lights on.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/intel_arun_gupta_on_open_source/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — Ivanka Trump didn’t want to testify. But on the stand Wednesday in her father’s civil fraud trial, she took the opportunity to contend the family business has “overdelivered,” even as she kept her distance from financial documents that New York state says were fraudulent.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MIAMI — In their first debate since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the Republican presidential candidates all declared hawkish support for Israel but squabbled over China and Ukraine as they faced growing pressure to try to catch Donald Trump — who was again absent.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Flaviana Simpliciano Asencion, 90, of Hilo died Oct. 28 at Hilo Medical Center. Born in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, she was a retired head pantry worker for the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Kohala Women’s Club. Visitation 8-9:30 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 15) at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Mass at 9:30 a.m. Committal service 11:30 a.m. at East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 2 Pavilion. Casual attire. Survived by son, Joseph S. (Elma) Asencion of Hilo; brothers, Narciso (Trinidad) Simpliciano of Kailua-Kona and Santiago (Josie) Simpliciano of Kohala; five grandchildren and a great granddaughter; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/09/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-9-9/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — House Republicans issued subpoenas Wednesday to members of President Joe Biden’s family, taking their most aggressive step yet in an impeachment inquiry bitterly opposed by Democrats that is testing the reach of congressional oversight powers.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban fighting between Israel and Hamas heats up.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Downtown Hilo Christmas Lights Parade committee is looking for more parade participants before the annual holiday procession hits the street later this month.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/09/hawaii-news/hilo-christmas-parade-set-for-nov-25/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The U.S. launched an airstrike on a facility in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in the region for the past several weeks, the Pentagon said.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — A federal jury convicted two longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors Wednesday of leaking confidential information to defense attorneys as part of a bribery conspiracy that prosecutors say imperiled high-profile cases and the lives of overseas drug informants.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>About 100 people attended the grand opening Wednesday of the Sacred Heart Affordable Housing Project in Pahoa.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s actors union reached a tentative deal with studios Wednesday to end its strike and months of labor strife that ground the film and television industries to a historic halt.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Members of the state Senate Ways and Means Committee have been holding discussions across Hawaii Island this week to help guide future decisions and budget appropriations during the upcoming legislative session.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The race to add two-way baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani in a blockbuster free agency deal is off to a clandestine start. </p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The oddsmakers are pretty sure about a happy Veterans Day for the Air Force football team Saturday. The Falcons are favored by between 18 and 19.5 points at Hawaii.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KEA‘AU — Kamehameha Schools - Hawai‘i senior Liwai Correa announced Wednesday his commitment to play baseball for Utah Valley University.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/09/sports/correa-commits-to-utah-valley/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — If you think the World Series sped by, it did. </p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Philadelphia Phillies have decided two-time Most Valuable Player Bryce Harper is the team’s first baseman of the future, which means the franchise also is moving on from slugger Rhys Hoskins. </p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan warned Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti about overstepping his authority and rushing to judgment, insisting Wednesday that he cannot discipline coach Jim Harbaugh under the conference’s sportsmanship policy for an alleged sign-stealing scheme that has rocked college football. </p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were nicknamed “The A Team” when they joined Cris Collinsworth to form Fox’s top NFL broadcast crew in 2002. </p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The national championship game in women’s basketball last spring was unforgettable for a lot of good reasons. LSU beating Iowa for its first title. A record television audience of nearly 10 million viewers. The spicy intensity between star players Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. </p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>There are voices that command you to listen with your heart as well as your ears.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Honokaa Business Association presents the 2nd annual Honokaa Renaissance Faire from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Aerial Arts Hawaii will present “Aquatica” at 7 p.m. this Friday at the Palace Theater in downtown Hilo.</p>
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Imagine an environmentally sound planet populated with joyful, healthy animals, humans included. Picture a global society in which everyone is respected and treated as an individual, a world where anger, fear and violence give way to kindness, security and peace.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/09/opinion/make-world-vegan-month-last-forever/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>‘Chasms between
wealth and poverty’</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/09/opinion/your-views-for-november-9-7/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Usually, when Martin Luther King’s words are misappropriated, the culprits are misinformation mercenaries trying to advance some right-wing idea that is light years away from King’s ideology,</p>
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A US-based semiconductor biz is to buy the Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales, following last year’s decision by the UK government that it had to be sold under national security legislation.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/nexperia_sells_newport_wafer_fab/
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
The third Republican presidential debate took place Wednesday in Miami, Florida, featuring fewer candidates than past debates. The candidates tried to set themselves apart from each other and from front-runner Donald Trump with several international issues. VOA’s Senior Washington Correspondent Carolyn Presutti brings us the highlights.
https://www.voanews.com/a/republican-debate-candidates-narrow-to-5/7347955.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Robert Reich on Substack
The Roots of Trumpism (Part 9)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-the-scourge-of-obesity-in-america
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Europe’s government watchdog has found that the European Commission’s refusal to disclose which experts it consulted on the proposal to scan encrypted communication for child sexual abuse material amounted to maladministration.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/eu_casm_expert_identities/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
The post Classifieds – November 9, 2023 appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/classifieds-november-9-2023/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Nonprofit focuses on eviction and intimate partner violence matters.
The post Chowder Fest Raises Funds for Legal Services in High Demand appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/09/chowder-fest-raises-funds-for-legal-services-in-high-demand/
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1898 – Actress Winifred Westover born in Oakland; estranged wife of William S. Hart & mother of his son. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-9/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: Cynthia Kiser’s blog
The key to running so many sites in a single Wagtail installation is they all need to be the same (or nearly the same) except for content. And the best way to make something uniform is to manage it in code. The code that manages our site setup (and tear down) lives in our site creator. This is a Django app that overrides Wagtail’s site management forms to add the logic we use to enforce our ideas about multitenancy.
http://cynthiakiser.com/blog/2023/11/09/site-creator.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Mission Revival architecture was designed to entice tourists to head west.
The post Mission Revival Leaves Its Mark appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/09/mission-revival-leaves-its-mark/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Blackouts in Ukraine last year were not just caused by missile strikes on the nation but also by a seemingly coordinated cyberattack on one of its power plants. That’s according to Mandiant’s threat intel team, which said Russia’s Sandworm crew was behind the two-pronged power-outage and data-wiping attack.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/russias_sandworm_power_plant_attack/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans are looking to sustain their momentum after No. 7 Ohio State upset.
The post Women’s basketball hosts FGCU in home opener appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/womens-basketball-hosts-fgcu-in-home-opener/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
No. 21 USC will strive to continue its strong start in its home opener Thursday.
The post Men’s basketball returns to South Central appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/mens-basketball-returns-to-south-central/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC prepares for Oregon in its first game without coordinator Alex Grinch.
The post Can the Trojan defense be renewed? appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/trojans-hope-for-renewed-defense-under-new-leadership/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Not every person has the immense privilege to follow fads like “bimbo feminism.”
The post ‘Girlsplaining’ is setting back feminism appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/girlsplaining-is-setting-back-feminism/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
What Trojans should know about those pesky underage drinking laws.
The post Faking it: IDs and MIPs appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/faking-it-ids-and-mips/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Campbelle Searcy built an online shop as an outlet for creativity and sustainability.
The post Trojan Threads creates USC apparel appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/trojan-threads-creates-usc-apparel/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Reflecting on who we are in the midst of the Israel-Hamas war through Andrea Rexilius’ poetry.
The post ‘Half Of What They Carried Flew Away’ and some more appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/half-of-what-they-carried-flew-away-and-some-more/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Participants congregated to debate topics such as abortion and foreign policy.
The post USC Democrats, Republicans clash at Student Debate appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/usc-democrats-republicans-clash-at-student-debate/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The event included prayers, songs and speakers from Jewish groups on campus.
The post USC Jewish community, allies rally to recognize one month since Oct. 7 Hamas attacks appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/09/jewish-community-recognizes-one-month-since-hamas-attack/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Robin Maxile se unió al Centro Comunitario Intercultural (ICC, pos sus siglas en ingles) en el verano del 2021, justo cuando Occidental comenzaba a recuperarse de la pandemia de COVID-19. Desde entonces, Maxile ha desempeñado el cargo de Directora Asociada de Equidad Racial y ha sido directora interina del ICC durante seis meses. Maxile dejará […]
The post La fundación de equidad racial de Robin Maxile ha sido un ‘verdadero regalo para nuestra comunidad’ appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Kings guard Malik Monk came to the rescue in an overtime win against the Blazers with De’Aaron Fox missing his fourth game due to injury.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281614028.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
The man accused of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home, bludgeoning her husband with a hammer and seeking to kidnap her goes on trial Thursday.
Opening statements are scheduled in the federal trial of David DePape, who prosecutors say assaulted then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi, sending shockwaves through the political world just days before last year’s midterm elections.
The attack in the early hours of Oct. 28, 2022, also highlighted how conspiracy theories and misinformation that spread online can fuel political violence.
DePape pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. Paul Pelosi is expected to testify next week.
DePape posted rants on a blog and an online forum about aliens, communists, religious minorities and global elites. He questioned the results of the 2020 election and echoed the baseless, right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory that claims the U.S. government is run by a cabal of devil-worshipping pedophiles.
The websites were taken down shortly after his arrest.
A Canadian citizen, DePape moved to the United States more than 20 years ago after falling in love with Gypsy Taub, a Berkeley pro-nudity activist well-known in the Bay Area, his stepfather, Gene DePape said. In recent years, David DePape had been homeless and struggling with drug abuse and mental illness, Taub told local media.
Federal prosecutors say DePape smashed his shoulder through a glass panel on a door in the back of the Pelosis’ Pacific Heights mansion and confronted a sleeping Paul Pelosi, who was wearing boxer shorts and a pajama top.
“Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?” DePape asked, standing over Paul Pelosi around 2 a.m. holding a hammer and zip ties, according to court records. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington and under the protection of her security detail, which does not extend to family members.
Paul Pelosi called 911 and two San Francisco Police officers showed up and witnessed DePape strike Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer, knocking him unconscious, court records showed.
Nancy Pelosi’s husband of 60 years later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his right arm and hands.
After his arrest, DePape, 43, allegedly told a San Francisco detective that he wanted to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage. He said that if she told him the truth, he would let her go and if she lied, he was going to “break her kneecaps” to show other members of Congress there were “consequences to actions,” according to prosecutors.
A backpack DePape was carrying had tape and a rope, in addition to zip ties, according to police.
The assault was captured on the officers’ body cameras. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled last month that the jury will be allowed to see footage that shows Paul Pelosi in a pool of his own blood struggling to breathe and the police officers trying to stop the bleeding. Angela Chuang, one of DePape’s federal public defenders, had argued that the shocking footage would be prejudicial to her client.
Corley also ruled jurors can listen to portions of a 5-minute call DePape made in January to a television reporter in which he repeated conspiracy theories.
“Freedom and liberty isn’t dying, it’s being killed systematically and deliberately,” he said.
“The tree of liberty needs watering. He needs men of valor, patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition to tyranny,” he added.
Katherine Keneally, a senior researcher at the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the attack is an example of increasing online hate, conspiracies and false narratives influencing political violence.
“This didn’t occur in a vacuum,” Keneally said.
Keneally said people who commit such conspiracy-fueled acts of violence often are struggling with mental health or other life crises, such as the death of a family member or a divorce.
“I can’t think of a single case where someone engaged in violent behavior where they were solely influenced by the conspiracy theory,” she said.
DePape, who lived in a garage in the Bay Area city of Richmond and had been doing odd carpentry jobs to support himself, allegedly told authorities he had other targets, including a women’s and queer studies professor, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, actor Tom Hanks and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
One of those targets is included in the defense’s short witness list, though their name has been redacted. The other possible witnesses are DePape, Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff Daniel Bernal, extremism and antisemitism researcher Elizabeth Yates, and federal public defender Catherine Goulet.
The prosecution’s list of potential witnesses contains 15 names, including the surgeon who operated on Paul Pelosi, federal agents, San Francisco police officers and several first responders.
If convicted, DePape faces life in prison. He was also charged in state court with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, residential burglary and other felonies. He pleaded not guilty to those charges. A state trial has not been scheduled.
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
One of Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces, Woman with a Watch, was sold at auction Wednesday night for $139.3 million by Sotheby’s in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist.
In a jam-packed room at the venerable auction house, it only took a few minutes of telephone bidding for the 1932 painting depicting one of the Spanish artist’s companions and muses, the French painter Marie-Therese Walter, to be sold.
Femme a la montre had been valued at over $120 million before going on the block, according to Sotheby’s.
It was part of the house’s special sale this week of the collection of New York arts patron Emily Fisher Landau, who died this year at age 102.
Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of impressionist and modern art, called the Picasso canvas – which hung in Landau’s living room – “a masterpiece by every measure.”
“Painted in 1932 – Picasso’s ‘annus mirabilis’ – it is full of joyful, passionate abandon yet at the same time it is utterly considered and resolved,” he said.
Walter was regarded as Picasso’s “golden muse,” and features in another of his works going under the hammer on Thursday at Christie’s: Femme endormie, or Sleeping Woman, estimated to sell for $25 million-$35 million.
She also featured in Femme assise pres d’une fenetre (Marie-Therese), or Woman Sitting Near a Window, which was sold in 2021 for $103.4 million.
Walter met Picasso in Paris in 1927, when she was just 17 and the Spanish artist was still married to Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. The couple had a daughter, who died last year.
Another Picasso from 1932 was sold for $106 million in 2010.
The record sale for one of his works was of The Women of Algiers (Version O), a 1955 oil painting which sold for $179.4 million.
When it went under the hammer at Christie’s New York in 2015, it was also the record for any work of art sold at auction.
It was dethroned in November 2017 by the sale of Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which went for $450 million and holds the record to this day.
Hot market
Fifty years after his death in 1973 at age 91, Picasso remains one of the most influential artists of the modern world, often hailed as a dynamic and creative genius.
But following the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault, his reputation has been tarnished by accusations he exerted a violent hold over the women who shared his life and inspired his art.
Sotheby’s has already netted $406 million in sales from Landau’s collection, which also includes works by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol.
Flags by the 93-year-old Johns sold for $41 million, while Securing the Last Letter (Boss) by painter and photographer Ed Ruscha sold for $39.4 million.
Auction houses are enjoying a healthy art and luxury goods market, driven by China and showing no signs of a slowdown, said Kelsey Reed Leonard, head of contemporary art sales at Sotheby’s.
Against a backdrop of wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as worldwide inflation, the two titans of the sector – Sotheby’s and Christie’s – will be moving a host of big-ticket lots in the autumn sales, though they may still have a hard time topping last year, when total sales hit a record $16 billion.
https://www.voanews.com/a/picasso-s-woman-with-a-watch-fetches-139m-at-auction-/7347910.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
A judge in Michigan is expected to hear arguments Thursday on whether Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the authority to keep Donald Trump’s name off state ballots for president.
Activists are suing Benson in the Michigan Court of Claims to force her to keep Trump’s name off ballots and to assess Trump’s constitutional qualifications to serve a second term as president.
Meanwhile, attorneys for the former president are demanding that Trump’s name be allowed on the 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot.
Arguments were scheduled to begin Thursday morning in Grand Rapids before Judge James Robert Redford.
Activists — in two separate suits — point to a section of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment that prohibits a person from running for federal office if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. or given aid or comfort to those who have.
Liberal groups also have filed lawsuits in Colorado and Minnesota to bar Trump from the ballot, portraying him as the inciter of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was intended to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win.
The groups cite a rarely used constitutional prohibition against holding office for those who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution but then “engaged in insurrection” against it. The two-sentence clause in the 14th Amendment has been used only a handful of times since the years after the Civil War.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit citing the provision. The court’s ruling said its decision applied only to the state’s primary.
Free Speech For People, a group representing petitioners before the Minnesota Supreme Court, also represents petitioners in one of the Michigan cases against Benson.
Trump is considered the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Benson already has said in a filing that Michigan’s Legislature does not give her the authority to determine whether a candidate for president may be disqualified for the state ballot under the 14th Amendment or to assess a candidate’s constitutional qualifications to serve as president.
It’s a “federal constitutional question of enormous consequence” whether Trump cannot appear as a presidential candidate on state ballots, Benson wrote. “Michigan courts have held that administrative agencies generally do not have the power to determine constitutional questions.”
However, she added that she will follow the direction of the court either way.
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Infosec bods have detailed an underground cybersecurity tool dubbed Predator AI that not only can be used to compromise poorly secured cloud services and web apps, but has an optional chat-bot assistant that only kinda works.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/predatorai_infostealer_chatgpt/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Guam Daily Post
A Port Authority of Guam police officer and three others were taken to the hospital after a three car crash in Piti.
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
Five Republicans hoping to be their party’s candidate in next year’s U.S. presidential election debated Wednesday night, expressing support for Israel in its war against Hamas, while clashing over China and Russia.
Not appearing on the debate stage in Miami was Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House after losing the 2020 election.
Trump has not appeared at any of the three Republican debates, and while holding his own rally nearby on Wednesday called the event with his competitors “unwatchable.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who appears a distant second place in opinion polls, said Trump owes it to those watching the debates to appear and “explain why he should get another chance” to be the party’s nominee.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pointed to Trump’s multiple current and impending legal trials, saying, “Anybody who’s going to be spending the next year and a half of their life focusing on keeping themselves out of jail and courtrooms cannot lead this party.”
With Israel’s military response to an October attack by Hamas militants in its second month, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Israel needs to “eliminate Hamas.”
“We need to be very clear-eyed to know there would be no Hamas without Iran, there would be no Hezbollah without Iran, there would not be the Houthis without Iran, and there wouldn’t be the Iranian militias in Syria and Iraq that are trying to hit our military men and women, if it hadn’t been for Iran,” Haley said.
Senator Tim Scott said he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “not only do you have the responsibility and the right to wipe Hamas off the map, we will support you.”
Republican candidates will next debate on Dec. 6.
Voters will begin selecting the party’s presidential nominee Jan. 15 with the Iowa caucuses, and after the state-by-state nominating contests conclude, the Republican nominee will officially be named at the party’s convention in July.
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Kickoff between Fresno State and San José State is at 7:35 p.m. PST Saturday.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Going into his junior season, lead guard has NBA caliber skills.
The post UC Santa Barbara Basketball Shines with Ajay Mitchell in Leading Role appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Trump still way ahead for president among California Republicans
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281601243.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
Five candidates seeking to halt Donald Trump’s march toward the 2024 Republican presidential nomination gathered in Miami on Wednesday for the party’s third debate while the former president held a separate campaign rally across town.
Here are some takeaways from the debate:
Laying blame
One night after a stinging series of election losses at the hands of Democrats, the candidates vented their frustrations on the debate stage.
“I’m sick of Republicans losing,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said.
DeSantis has long contrasted his successful reelection last year in Florida with Republican setbacks in the last few elections, including Trump’s loss in 2020. Earlier in the day, his campaign argued that backing Trump cost candidates seats in races such as the one for governor of Kentucky, where Republican Daniel Cameron lost to Democrat Andy Beshear.
Republicans on Wednesday were also smarting from the success of a ballot issue in Ohio that enshrined the right to an abortion in the state constitution, as well as the loss of state legislative control in Virginia.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy blamed Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, instead of Trump, for the party’s recent performance.
“We’ve become a party of losers,” he lamented. “We have to have accountability in our party.”
McDaniel was Trump’s hand-picked choice to lead the RNC in 2017, and the committee was a sponsor of Wednesday’s debate.
Ramaswamy comes out swinging
It was clear from the outset that Ramaswamy, whose candidacy has faded since the first debate, was determined to be a spoiler and throw elbows in every direction.
Ramaswamy, a businessman with no political experience, attacked former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and DeSantis right out of the gate.
In an exchange regarding the conflict in Israel, Ramaswamy warned that the two leading candidates on the stage could drag America into a bloody war in Europe, while also channeling speculation that DeSantis wears lifts inside his boots.
“Do you want Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels? Because you’ve got two of them on stage tonight,” he said in reference to Haley and DeSantis, while invoking the Republican former vice president who was known for his neoconservative views.
“They’re 5-inch heels, and I don’t wear them unless I can run in them,” Haley later shot back. “They are not a fashion statement, they are ammunition.”
Ramaswamy wasn’t finished going after Haley. During a discussion over banning the Chinese short video app TikTok, he mentioned that Haley’s daughter used the platform. “You might want to take care of your family first,” he said.
“Leave my daughter out of your voice,” Haley countered, adding under her breath, “You’re just scum.”
Given his lagging poll numbers, the Miami debate could end up being Ramaswamy’s final one. Haley won’t miss him.
Haley and DeSantis go head-to-head on China
All eyes were on Haley and DeSantis, who were widely expected to go after each other in a bid to establish themselves as the top challenger to Trump in the Republican nominating contest.
After circling each other for half the debate, they finally went on the attack over the other’s dealings with China.
Both said their opponent had cozied up to Chinese industry as governors — Haley in South Carolina and DeSantis in Florida. Both, unsurprisingly, disagreed, leading to a heated exchange.
While all candidates on the stage portray themselves as tough on China, Haley has taken pains for months to establish herself as the top China hawk in the field.
The DeSantis campaign, meanwhile, has tried to attack Haley on that issue, accusing her of welcoming a Chinese company into her state.
https://www.voanews.com/a/takeaways-from-the-third-2024-republican-presidential-debate-/7347878.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
The Biden administration has chosen a Maryland location for a new FBI headquarters, the General Services Administration confirmed Wednesday, as the suburban Washington location was selected over nearby Virginia following a sharp competition between the two states.
The site is planned for Greenbelt, about 20 kilometers northeast of Washington.
“GSA looks forward to building the FBI a state-of-the-art headquarters campus in Greenbelt to advance their critical mission for years to come,” Robin Carnahan, the GSA administrator, said. “Thank you to everyone at GSA, DOJ, FBI, Congress, and others who helped reach this important milestone after a comprehensive, multi-year effort.”
The GSA also noted that Greenbelt was determined to be the best site because it came at the lowest cost to taxpayers, provided the greatest transportation access to FBI employees and visitors, and gave the government the most certainty on a project delivery schedule.
Consideration for a new headquarters has been going on for more than a decade, and in recent months the FBI has expressed concern about the site selection process.
Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland said the location in his state was ideal because of access to mass transit and because the cost to taxpayers would be significantly less there.
“We’re very happy about this location. We’ve got a lot more work to do,” Cardin said. The choice was first reported by The Washington Post.
In a joint statement, Maryland’s elected leaders applauded the decision and said their push to bring the FBI headquarters there was “never about politics” and the new facility would meet a “dire, longstanding need for a new consolidated headquarters.”
Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore argued in recent months that building it there would be fast, save taxpayers $1 billion and meet equity goals raised by President Joe Biden, with a location in the majority-Black Prince George’s County.
Most of Maryland’s congressional delegation and the governor personally raised concerns to the GSA in March about the process, including extra weight abruptly given in 2022 to proximity to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
News of the choice brought frustrated criticism from Virginia leaders.
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia told reporters he had not been officially notified of the selection, but if true, “it would be evidence of gross political interference in an established GSA process that both states went through, and it would be frankly more reminiscent of the tactics from the last administration.”
In a joint statement with Sen. Tim Kaine, he said he was disappointed that the “clear case” for Virginia, home to the FBI Academy, was set aside.
Virginia leaders, including Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, argued that along with the academy the state has also welcomed Amazon and other big companies in recent years.
In July, the GSA announced changes in criteria for choosing the new location, boosting two potential places in Maryland. The new criteria raised the weight given to cost and social equity concerns to 20% each and reduced proximity to the FBI Academy to 25%, down from 35%.
Plans to replace the FBI’s roughly five-decade-old J. Edgar Hoover Building, where nets surround the facility to protect pedestrians from falling debris, have been under discussion for 15 years. Momentum stalled at one point while Donald Trump was president, with discussion centering on rebuilding on the existing site in Washington.
Two other finalists were Springfield, Virginia, and Landover, Maryland. About 7,500 jobs are connected to the facility
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-administration-picks-maryland-for-new-fbi-headquarters/7347879.html
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
After 118 days on the picket lines, the SAG-AFTRA strike ends at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
The employees, one of whom was retired, took their own lives.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Heatmap News
Tonight, at approximately seven feet above sea level, the five leading Republican presidential candidates not named Trump assembled in a performing arts center in Miami to once again go through the motions of pretending this is a normal election cycle.
If you happened to be doing something else with your finite mortal hours on Wednesday evening, though, you didn’t miss much. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy made every effort to maintain his status as the group’s enfant terrible with obnoxious barbs that didn’t even spare the moderators; Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina managed to use a Bible verse to talk about the economy; and former Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey reminded the American people that, yes, he is still here.
The debate finally gained a bit of a pulse, however, during a brief rematch between Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley over DeSantis’ fracking record. During the previous debate in September (yes, Wednesday’s was the third Republican debate so far), Haley had blasted DeSantis for being “against fracking” and “against drilling.” DeSantis protested — although a fact check showed Haley kind of had a point, seeing as the governor signed an executive order telling his state officials to “take necessary actions to adamantly oppose” fracking and offshore drilling on his second day in office.
On Wednesday, Haley started in again. “It cracks me up that Ron continues to do this: He has opposed fracking, he’s opposed drilling,” she said. Then she went for the jugular: “He was praised by the Sierra Club,” she slammed. “You’re trying to make up for it and act like you weren’t a liberal when it comes to the environment — but you are, you always have been. Just own it if that’s the case, but don’t keep saying you’re something that you’re not.”
DeSantis protested the use of the E-word (not to mention the L-word) was unfair. “We are absolutely going to frack,” he insisted, though you could see a flicker of his old green moderateness when he added, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to drill in the Florida Everglades and I know most Floridians agree with me.” The end of his sentence was drowned out, however, by Haley saying loudly into her mic, “YOU BANNED FRACKING.”
As was the case the last time around, Haley and DeSantis’ back-and-forth just goes to show “the [Republican] Party’s utter confusion about how to handle environmental issues,” as Heatmap’s Robinson Meyer has written. On the one hand, the conversation around environmental protections and the green transition has advanced to the point that even the GOP debates can’t ignore climate change (or, at least not entirely); Trump himself will allow that hybrid cars are “pretty good” during his rants about electric vehicles. On the other hand, smearing DeSantis as a “liberal environmentalist” who allegedly hates fracking is still perceived to be damaging enough in a Republican primary that Haley used her limited minutes in front of the approximately 17 American viewers who tuned in on Wednesday night to try, once more, to get it to stick.
Only time will tell if such a barb can harm DeSantis (who, for his part, continually insists he welcomes barbs, as well as arrows, hits, and presumably other assorted forms of torment). Then again, the whole thing might be moot. In the next century, the waves of Biscayne Bay could very well be lapping at the stage where, once upon a time, five Republican presidential hopefuls had futilely name-called, hand-wrung, and heel-shamed. Time might tell — but who has time?
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https://heatmap.news/sparks/nikki-haley-ron-desantis-fracking-environmentalist-gop-debate
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A Santa Barbara judge finds enough evidence to proceed to trial, alleging that the two teenage victims were killed “for the benefit of a criminal street gang.”
The post Two Men Will Face Trial for January 2021 Double Murder on Santa Barbara’s Eastside appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Donald Trump as the nominee would be a huge risk,” Florida’s governor said after the debate.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article280588874.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: 404 Media Group
The owner of the site took it offline as of Wednesday, and wrote a long message to users alluding to “attacks” against the site.
https://www.404media.co/omegle-shut-down-offline/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Jirka’s blog
Some time ago I decided to update RAM on my main machine - the Raptor Engineering Blackbird. This OpenPOWER workstation has “just” 4-core CPU (16 threads) which is still OK for most of tasks. But these 32 GB of RAM are not enough for some tasks. I occasionally need to generate some larger data sets and typical size is about 39 GB. This is OK but it means swapping to the disk. Not only swapping is not ideal for a SSD but it also greatly slows things down.
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20231109-0440_Blackbird_RAM_update
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Vivek Ramaswamy took a bellicose posture from the outset targeting the moderators and the chairwoman of the RNC at debate in Miami.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article281355703.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Nobody’s talking about it. Everybody’s watching us,” said former President Donald Trump onstage in Hialeah.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article280788510.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
Former U.S. President Donald Trump will stay on the Minnesota primary ballot after the state supreme court Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to end his candidacy under a rarely used constitutional provision that forbids those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.
The Minnesota Supreme Court declined to become the first in history to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prevent someone from running for the presidency. The court dodged the central question of the lawsuit — does Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualify him from the presidency — by ruling that state law allows parties to put whomever they want on the primary ballot.
“There is no state statute that prohibits a major political party from placing on the presidential nomination primary ballot, or sending delegates to the national convention supporting, a candidate who is ineligible to hold office,” Chief Justice Natalie Hudson ruled.
The court left open the possibility that plaintiffs could try again to knock Trump off the general election ballot in November. The Minnesota challenge was filed by the liberal group Free Speech For People, which said it will continue its campaign to end Trump’s presidential bid.
“We are disappointed by the court’s decision,” said the group’s legal director Ron Fein, who argued before the court at its Nov. 2 hearing on the case. “However, the Minnesota Supreme Court explicitly recognized that the question of Donald Trump’s disqualification for engaging in insurrection against the U.S. Constitution may be resolved at a later stage. The decision isn’t binding on any court outside Minnesota, and we continue our current and planned legal actions in other states to enforce Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment against Donald Trump.”
The ruling is the first from a series of lawsuits filed by Free Speech For People and a second liberal group that are seeking to use Section 3 to end the candidacy of the front-runner in the Republican presidential primary.
On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said: “Ridiculous 14th Amendment lawsuit just thrown out by Minnesota Supreme Court.” He added, “Congratulations to all who fought this HOAX!”
The provision at issue bars from office anyone who swore an oath to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” against it. It was mainly used to prevent former confederates from taking over state and federal government positions after the Civil War.
The plaintiffs in the cases contend that Section 3 is simply another qualification for the presidency, just like the Constitution’s requirement that a president be at least 35 years old. They filed in Minnesota because the state has a quick process to challenge ballot qualifications, with the case heard directly by the state’s highest court.
Trump’s attorneys argued that Section 3 has no power without Congress laying out the criteria and procedures for applying it, that the Jan. 6 attack doesn’t meet the definition of insurrection and that the former president was simply using his free speech rights. They also argued that the clause doesn’t apply to the office of the presidency, which is not mentioned in the text.
Parallel cases are being heard in other states, including Colorado, where a state judge has scheduled closing arguments for next week.
Many legal experts expect the issue to eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court, which has never ruled on Section 3.
Secretaries of state have generally said they don’t have the power to determine whether Trump should not be on the ballot and have sought guidance from courts.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 8, 2022 – Today, community leaders and elected officials celebrated the completion of the Santa Claus Lane
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date: 2023-11-09, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
This week on the Soapbox, hosts Britney Zhou and Fabián Gutiérrez discuss the latest installment of Quynh Anh Nguyen’s Opinion column “I Reckon,” on the post-pandemic changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the implications for card-holding students and citizens in general.
The post Digesting the changes to food stamps with Quynh Anh Nguyen appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/digesting-the-changes-to-food-stamps-with-quynh-anh-nguyen/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
57-year-old Angelita Quezada was killed by a Metrolink train yesterday morning. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the accident happened near Napa Street on 8615 Lindley Avenue. The area was experiencing light traffic a few hours after the incident occurred, according to google maps. There is a mix of residential homes and small businesses…
https://sundial.csun.edu/176860/news/brief-woman-struck-by-train-in-northridge/
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
GOLETA, CA, November 8, 2023 – Time is running out to apply to serve on the City of Goleta’s Historic Preservation Commission and the
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date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara County Chapter – CANP Person of the Year announced Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are advanced practice registered nurses who
The post Celebrating Nurse Practitioner Week Nov 12-18, 2023 appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/08/celebrating-nurse-practitioner-week-nov-12-18-2023/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) this week issued an advisory saying social media companies need to remove deepfakes from their platforms within 36 hours after they’re reported.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/india_deepfake_takedown/
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
The SAG-AFTRA actors’ union reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to resolve the second of two strikes that rocked the entertainment industry as workers demanded higher pay in the streaming TV era, the union said Wednesday.
The 118-day strike will end officially just after midnight, SAG-AFTRA said in a statement. The group’s national board will consider the deal on Friday, and the union said it would release further details after that meeting.
Members of SAG-AFTRA walked off the job in mid-July asking for an increase in minimum salaries, a share of streaming service revenue and protection from being replaced by “digital replicas” generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
The union said negotiators had reached a preliminary deal on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents Walt Disney DIS.N, Netflix NFLX.O and other media companies.
An AMPTP representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The breakthrough means Hollywood can ramp up to full production for the first time since May, once union members vote to ratify the deal in the coming weeks.
“I’m relieved,” actor Fanny Grande said in an interview. “It’s been really difficult for most people in the industry, especially people of color. As it is, we don’t have as many opportunities. We aren’t big celebrities that have money in the bank for months. I just really hope that it’s a fair deal.”
Actors had similar concerns to film and television writers, who argued that compensation for working-class cast members had dwindled as streaming took hold, making it hard to earn a living wage in cities such as Los Angeles and New York. TV series on streaming did not offer the same residual payments that actors enjoyed during the heyday of broadcast TV.
Performers also became alarmed by recent advances in artificial intelligence, which they feared could lead to studios manipulating their likenesses without permission or replacing human actors with digital images.
George Clooney and other A-list stars voiced solidarity with lower-level actors and had urged union leadership, including SAG-AFTRA President and The Nanny actor Fran Drescher, to reach a resolution.
Many film and TV sets shut down when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) called a strike in the spring. While WGA members returned to writing scripts in late September, the ongoing SAG-AFTRA work stoppage left many productions dark.
The disruptions cost California more than $6 billion in lost output, according to a Milken Institute estimate.
With little work available, many prop masters, costume designers and other crew members struggled to make ends meet. FilmLA, the group that approves filming permits, reported scripted production during the week of Oct. 29 had fallen 77% from the same time a year earlier.
The Hollywood strikes came during a year of other high-profile job actions. The United Auto Workers recently ended six weeks of walkouts at Detroit carmakers. Teachers, nurses and healthcare workers also walked off the job.
Hollywood’s work stoppages forced broadcast networks to fill their fall lineups with re-runs, games shows and reality shows. It also led movie studios to delay big releases such as Dune: Part 2 because striking actors could not promote them.
Other major films, including the latest installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise and Disney’s live-action remake of animated classic Snow White, were postponed until 2025.
https://www.voanews.com/a/striking-actors-reach-tentative-deal-with-hollywood-studios-/7347828.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The return of the Santa Clarita International Film Festival’s opening night is right around the corner
https://scvnews.com/dec-7-santa-clarita-international-film-festival-returns/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
AI hypesters may think their training datasets and models’ output are, or ought to be protected, from copyright claims, but their neural networks could still fall foul of consumer protection laws, the FTC has has warned.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/ftc_ai_regulation/
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Finally Family Homes will host an Open House to showcase a tiny house that was built completely by foster youth and community volunteers on Nov. 18th
https://scvnews.com/nov-18-finally-family-homes-hosts-tiny-open-house-fundraiser/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
A GoFundMe has been established for the funeral expenses of the 12-year-old boy who was found dead in Canyon Country on Monday. Medical examiners on Tuesday identified the boy as 12-year-old Willians Lemus Ayala, of Canyon Country. The GoFundMe, at the time of this publication, has a set goal of $25,000. A family member, who […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/gofundme-started-for-funeral-of-slain-12-year-old-boy/
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Discover holiday magic at Light Up Main Street on Nov. 18, 2023, from 4 to 8 p.m
https://scvnews.com/nov-18-start-the-holidays-with-light-up-main-street/
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
Biden administration officials warned U.S. lawmakers Wednesday that a failure to pass the White House request for $61.4 billion in aid to Ukraine could result in a victory for Russia within a week. VOA Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.
https://www.voanews.com/a/looming-shutdown-threatens-us-aid-to-ukraine/7347786.html
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
With a tentative agreement between SAG and the studios, we look at how four workers’ circumstances changed during the strikes and how they made ends meet
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit convenes this month against a backdrop of unprecedented global turmoil, observers say. APEC’s discussions during this mid-November event are non-binding but can lay the foundation in other forums for more concrete agreements. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee has more on the agenda and what’s at stake in this year’s APEC Economic Leaders’ Week.
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
ROTM A man in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot at a produce-sorting facility in South Korea Tuesday after the machine apparently mistook him for a box of vegetables.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/robot_kills_employee/
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, from 3 a.m. to 6 p.m
https://scvnews.com/weather-service-issues-red-flag-warning-increasing-wildfire-risk/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
Now that the actors union has announced a deal, Hollywood could soon be heading back to work as soon as 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
I vigorously oppose the ordinance allowing Parklets in the city Right of Way.
The post Open the Street appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/08/open-the-street-2/
date: 2023-11-09, from: OS News
A few weeks ago, we reported an odd discovery in Microsoft Edge: a poll asking users to explain their decision to download Chrome. A similar thing is now haunting OneDrive users on Windows, demanding to answer why they are closing the app. And demanding is a correct word here because Windows will not let you quit OneDrive without answering first. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
While I appreciated the thoughts in the Letters section of your November 2-9 edition, a couple of thoughts came to mind after reading “Unhinged Apologists.”
The post Inadvertent Killing? appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/08/inadvertent-killing/
date: 2023-11-09, from: OS News
I cannot pinpoint the source of this misconception, it could have been a vendor, or long-lost blog post, or one of the many webinars I attended in my early days as a program lead. Regardless of the source, I operated under the wild misconception that all I needed to do was train my teams to do accessibility. Developers, QAs, designers, all they needed was training! This model does not work. Especially for an organization with multiple products, multiple platforms, and multiple development teams. Accessibility is so much more complicated than can be summarised in a mere training. It requires experts, capable programmers, users who actually require said accessbility, and so much more. It’s also an ongoing process – it’s not a static “train once, use everywhere” kind of deal.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137779/accessibility-training-will-not-save-you/
date: 2023-11-09, from: OS News
A new update for Ubuntu Touch is here – adding Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support for new devices (the PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, PineTab and PineTab 2), and containing a whole slew of bug fixes and new features. It’s awesome to see the UBPorts team delivering a steady stream of updates, keeping the Ubuntu Touch platform alive and kicking.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137777/ubuntu-touch-ota-3-focal-released/
date: 2023-11-09, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) is pleased to recognize Patsy Ayala for her years of outstanding contributions and service to the people of the Santa Clarita Valley
date: 2023-11-09, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Energy Innovation Act will spur the transition from fossil fuels to a clean energy future while protecting vulnerable American households, adding thousands of clean energy jobs, and growing the economy.
The post Climate Legislation that Could Save the Planet! appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/08/climate-legislation-that-could-save-the-planet/
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
Former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, will be a no-show at the third candidates debate Wednesday night in Florida, opting instead to host an event nearby. But five other conservative presidential hopefuls will be looking for breakthroughs.
Wednesday’s debate will be broadcast live from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern time on NBC News and Rumble, a livestreaming platform.
Since the first Republican debate in Milwaukee more than two months ago, former Vice President Mike Pence has left the race and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota have been swept aside, having raised too little money to qualify for Wednesday night’s forum.
Those still in contention — and willing to show up to the debate — are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, biotech businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and U.S. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Here’s what to know about the candidates’ positions on key issues that are likely to come up.
Foreign policy
There are two competing approaches to foreign policy to look for tonight: hawkish neoconservativism from Haley and isolationism — Trump’s brand of diplomacy that Ramaswamy and DeSantis seem to be mimicking.
Haley sees military aid to Israel and Ukraine as crucial to preserving Western interests abroad. Scott and Christie agree that helping Israel and Ukraine in their war efforts is crucial.
Ramaswamy, on the other hand, wants out of what he calls “no-win wars” and recently said the U.S.’s job is not “to be the global police.” To Ramaswamy, successful foreign policy means cutting off many U.S. allies from support.
DeSantis has similarly argued that helping Ukraine’s counteroffensive is not a priority, echoing Trump’s controversial “America first” stance.
Super political action committees for Haley and DeSantis have repeatedly aired campaign ads accusing each other of being too easy on China. Those ads leveled claims that fact-checkers have called into doubt, including that Haley allowed a Chinese corporation to “get dangerously close” to a U.S. Army base and another that “DeSantis voted to fast-track” Obama-era trade deals with China.
Expect Haley and DeSantis to defend themselves and spar over their views on China and more.
Abortion
Progressives made inroads in state-level elections Tuesday in winning back abortion rights, which the U.S. Supreme Court returned to the states’ purview when it struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Some states have greatly restricted abortion rights since then.
The Republican candidates differ in their views on abortion.
Haley, DeSantis and Scott would sign a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks. They haven’t said whether they would allow exceptions in instances of rape or incest or when a pregnancy could be fatal.
Ramaswamy and Christie, while both personally against abortions, have said that they would not support a federal ban, citing the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which some legal scholars say gives decision-making authority over abortion bans to the states.
Ramaswamy has advocated for six-week abortion bans at the state level but said he wouldn’t use executive authority to impose them.
Both Ramaswamy and Christie support exceptions in instances of rape or incest or when a pregnancy could be fatal.
As governor of Florida, DeSantis helped outlaw mifepristone, a hormone-blocking drug that is used in medication abortions. Haley has said the legality of mifepristone should be decided by elected officials at the state level.
Ramaswamy, Christie and Scott haven’t elaborated their positions on mifepristone.
Immigration
Ramaswamy, himself the child of immigrants, has perhaps the harshest policies on immigration. He has said that he would deport every undocumented immigrant and deploy the military at the southern U.S. border to halt any more mass crossings.
Haley has said she would make it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to find jobs and that immigration officials should carry out deportations.
DeSantis has said he would deport undocumented immigrants, particularly those who overstay their visas or are found guilty of crimes. In Florida, he clamped down on undocumented immigration.
Scott has supported bringing back Title 42, which forces out migrants without any legal proceedings, but hasn’t said whether he would deport undocumented immigrants.
Christie has supported mass deportations, and as governor of New Jersey he rejected a national program that helped immigrants find new beginnings in his state.
Haley, Scott and Christie are against breaking up families.
Ramaswamy, DeSantis and Haley are against birthright citizenship.
Trump
New polling from The New York Times and Siena College shows that Trump is beating President Joe Biden in five of six battleground states. Analysts say that should worry Trump’s party rivals, who all trail him by some distance.
But not all are so sure of Trump’s campaign.
Christie has made a name for himself among the Republican candidates as Trump’s harshest critic, claiming that Trump’s legal battles will make it harder to beat Biden as the primaries approach.
Haley has likewise called Trump’s trials “a distraction” from the larger goal of getting a Republican in the White House.
Haley blasted Trump for being too cozy with authoritarian leaders, in a recent meeting with the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is a co-sponsor of tonight’s debate. Trump has a record of praising dictators such as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
DeSantis also has said that Trump “views everything from the lens of him,” referring to how Trump’s legal dramas may have clouded his message.
Scott recently said that Trump isn’t electable in 2024. “I don’t think he can win,” Scott said in late October. “You have to be able to win in Georgia. I don’t think he can win in Georgia.”
Of all the contenders, Ramaswamy has been the least critical of Trump.
As Haley and DeSantis vie for second place, expect them to make their cases for why Republican voters should want them over Trump.
Climate
DeSantis hasn’t said whether he thinks human activity is the main cause of climate change. Haley, Christie and Scott, however, have. Ramaswamy has said that human activity causing climate change is probable but has never expressed certainty.
Ramaswamy and Scott have publicly doubted that climate change is making natural disasters more lethal, with Ramaswamy having said at the first Republican debate that “the climate change agenda is a hoax.”
All the candidates who will take the stage at tonight’s debate have said that the market is better suited than the government to handle climate change.
DeSantis, Haley, Ramaswamy and Scott are opposed to rebate programs for drivers of clean-energy vehicles. Christie hasn’t given his position on tax credits yet.
If the impacts of climate change come up, expect Ramaswamy to be the most vocal denier as in previous debates.
Guns
All the candidates who will appear at tonight’s debate are against restricting access to firearms for those who might pose threats to themselves or others. They also oppose expanding background checks, except for Ramaswamy, who hasn’t yet made his opinions on that known.
Of all the topics that might come up tonight, what to do — or not to do — about gun violence will likely be among the least contentious for the candidates, who broadly see eye to eye on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
https://www.voanews.com/a/what-to-know-ahead-of-third-republican-presidential-debate-/7347749.html
date: 2023-11-09, from: VOA News USA
The giant pandas that lived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington for 23 years returned to China on Wednesday. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias followed the farewell ceremonies and the politics and conservation strategies that could impact the species’ future. Camera: Elizabeth Lee
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
News release It’s a return to Christmastown with Jack Skellington and Sally as the third annual Holiday Skate Show returns to The Cube on Saturday, Dec. 9. To commemorate the movie’s 30th anniversary, the show will be an adaptation of the Disney classic, “A Nightmare Before Christmas,” with two separate times at noon and […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/the-cube-to-present-annual-holiday-ice-show/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
The Circus Caballero is back at Westfield Valencia Town Center from Nov. 9 to Nov. 19. and will feature stunts, acrobatics, tightrope walking and more. For more information visit circocaballero.com.
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/photos-circus-caballero-is-back/
date: 2023-11-09, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Eight gigabytes has been the standard RAM load out on new MacBook Pros for the better part of a decade, and in 2023, Apple execs still believe it’s enough for customers.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/apple_exec_defends_8gb/
date: 2023-11-09, from: The Signal
A 35-year-old Canyon Country man is being charged with one count of robbery after being accused of brandishing a black metal “Glock 19” model BB gun at a fast-food restaurant and demanding a free hash brown, according to court records obtained by The Signal. The suspect purchased breakfast at the McDonald’s on the corner of […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/da-files-charge-in-hash-brown-robbery/
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
At a listening session today hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, hundreds of attendees called on President Biden to add 109,000 acres of the western Angeles National Forest to the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputy who first responded to the fatal crash in Saugus at 3:37 a.m. the morning after Halloween found an open container of alcohol in the driver’s lap and another in the center console, according to a record of the investigation obtained by The Signal. Patrol deputies responding to the […]
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
They are the first religious buildings to be found in a Roman military camp, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281611628.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
The Santa Clarita City Council’s Public Safety Committee received its quarterly report this week from Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station Capt. Justin Diez, indicating local crime is still moving opposite of the direction most would like to see. Mayor Jason Gibbs said he requested the data and updates so he and Councilman Bill Miranda — […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/city-public-safety-committee-hears-report-on-crime/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: Cynthia Kiser’s blog
Once we set up a site, we want to hand over all control to the site admin. This means that they need to be able to add users and give them permissions to do things on their site (and only their site). In Wagtail this means a site admin, needs to be able to create and delete users and assign them to predefined groups.
http://cynthiakiser.com/blog/2023/11/08/user-and-group-management-for-multitenancy.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Violent AI-generated photos fictionalizing the ongoing deadly Israel-Hamas conflict are not only being sold via Adobe’s stock image library, some news publishers are buying and using the pics in online articles as if they were real.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/adobe_ai_israel_hamas_war_pics/
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s current class of astronaut candidates toured the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, including a stop at the Arc Jet Complex, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. In the arc jet facilities, Ames researchers test advanced materials that protect spacecraft from the extremely high temperatures of entering an atmosphere – whether Earth’s, Mars’, […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/astronaut-candidates-learn-about-nasa-ames-heat-shields-and-more/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Officials called the moment in the Alaska national park a “once-in-a-lifetime wildlife sighting.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281608683.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
As Jack Black said in “The Holiday,” “Legend has it when the Santa Anas blow, all bets are off. Anything can happen.” The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory and Red Flag Warning alongside Southern California Edison’s warning of potential Public Safety Power Shutoffs for the Santa Clarita Valley in anticipation of high […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/nws-and-socal-edison-prepare-for-santa-ana-winds/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Officials say a safety zone had to be set up.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281612678.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
The board approved a temporary 3% cap on rent increases in rent-controlled units last November. The cap would have expired at the end of December, causing renters to face increases of 7% or more.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The original information rescuers received on the pair’s location turned out to be inaccurate, fire rescue officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281610343.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: You don’t have to wait until Black Friday to score a great deal on these new TVs
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281609188.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Ken & Joe’s Motorcycle Dealer is thrilled to announce their upcoming “Season of Giving Winter Charity Event”.
https://scvnews.com/dec-16-local-motorcycle-dealership-hosts-season-of-giving-winter-charity-event/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
One man was arrested on six warrants from Madera and Fresno counties.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article281610848.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The New York-based bank is accused of singling out applicants with Armenian ancestry.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281601088.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
Ya están disponibles el nuevo servicio de programación a la carta y la aplicación actualizada de la NASA, dando paso a un nuevo mundo de contenido original producido por esta agencia espacial para el beneficio de todos. Estas nuevas plataformas digitales son el lugar de aterrizaje de series de videos originales, coberturas en vivo de […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/la-nasa-lanza-su-primer-servicio-de-programacion-a-la-carta/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It sold out already, but we have more issues coming,” the owner of Heroes Comics told The Bee.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281600783.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The homeowner said more than a dozen lizards — and one frog — had snuggled up to her windows.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281611113.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Louisiana police chief was arrested and charged nearly a year after the reported tasing incident took place, state police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281602273.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The juvenile was found in Oklahoma, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281607763.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
In 2018, concerned about the public’s perception of its privacy practices, Google leaders proposed a subscription-based private Search service, one that doesn’t log queries and other data.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/google_private_paid_search/
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
CSUN’s Department of Kinesiology is hosting its annual “Colaboratoria: Graduate Student, Faculty, and Alumni Dance Concert.”
https://scvnews.com/colaboratoria-to-showcase-performances-by-csun-choreographers/
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s new on-demand streaming service and upgraded app are now available, ushering in a new world of original content from the space agency for the benefit of all. These new digital platforms are the landing place of original video series, live launch coverage, kids’ content, Spanish-language programming, and the latest news as NASA continues to […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-launches-its-first-on-demand-streaming-service-updated-app/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Heatmap News
My wife drove one of the last great little trucks. The 2000 Toyota Tacoma had no extended cab and no frills, just a bench seat and a short bed to shuttle her stuff back and forth from L.A. to Berkeley. To no one’s surprise, it still runs. We just moved a loveseat in it this weekend.
That kind of two-door utilitarian pickup, which was commonplace in the heyday of the Chevy S-10 and Ford Ranger, is critically endangered in the era of supersized F-150s and Ram 1500s. And the new EVs in the truck space are predictably big. Toyota, though, just revealed an electrified version of the simple little truck: the Hilux REVO EV, an updated, modernized version of my wife’s classic two-door.
I want it. It is in Southeast Asia.
“Why can’t we have this in America” is a familiar refrain in the automotive world. It’s been especially fitting in the last couple of decades, as the American car market consolidated around big trucks and crossovers, the only vehicles that sell en masse. Other countries get station wagons, hatchbacks, tiny city cars, small pickup trucks, and other shapes that make enthusiasts swoon, but don’t reach the U.S. market because they don’t sell in high volume here. (You can’t just buy one and import it, either, because of the United States’s 25-year rule.)
The Hilux is a perfect example. Toyota’s global truck is the world’s workhorse, selling countless numbers in countries where a pickup is meant to be a beater, not a cushy family car that happens to have a bed in the back. The Hilux is notoriously dependable and serviceable. Parts are easy to find since so many of these things exist around the world. You just can’t buy one in the United States, where, since the 1990s, Toyota has sold the larger, comfier Tacoma to compete with the monster trucks on American roads.
Toyota showed off the Hilux REVO EV last month in Thailand, one of the biggest markets for the traditional gas-powered Hilux. The truck is a one-off concept that engineers from Toyota Thailand built using the brand’s EV parts. While the demo is far from becoming a production vehicle, it’s an interesting move by Toyota. The world’s largest automaker has been conspicuously slow in electrification, allowing the other legacy car companies to make their big EV splashes first. Toyota President Akio Toyoda has said more than once that the car industry has put the cart before the horse with electrification, and that Toyota will not race to produce EVs until it is confident the infrastructure those EVs need is in place.
When that infrastructure is in place, Toyota will be in position to offer the world the battery-powered small pickup of my dreams. Here in America, the brand’s eventual EV truck offering is liable to be a much bigger boy. But are we really sure a smaller EV truck can’t succeed here?
To American drivers lusting after the small trucks available overseas, the car companies had a ready-made reply: Sorry, but the numbers don’t lie. Full-size pickups are the best-selling vehicles in America. By comparison, compact trucks aren’t worth the effort. Ford’s mid-size Maverick is a success story, but its sales still can’t hold a candle to the more than 500,000 F-150s and Silverados sold in America each year.
The legacy carmakers thought it could replicate the same dynamic to spur America’s transition to EVs. The Ford F-150 Lightning is available, and the electrified Chevy, Ram, and GMC full-size trucks are coming soon to form the vanguard of Detroit’s big EV push. But it’s not clear the old rules hold true in the new world. Full-size truck owners say they are troublingly unwilling to consider buying an EV as their next pickup. The people who do buy EVs trend urban and Democratic, the kind of people more likely to drive a Honda Civic than a Ram 1500.
In other words, the EV market — at least for now — doesn’t look a lot like the overall American auto market. And maybe that’s an opportunity for the forsaken car shapes to stage a comeback. Chevrolet looked like it would kill off the plucky Bolt to make way for electrified SUVs and trucks. Amid steep headwinds in that effort, the brand says the Bolt is coming back.
A reasonably sized pickup truck could be just the ticket for the urban dwellers who are actually interested in buying EVs. The pickups available now, the Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, are simply too much truck for a lot of people. Their huge batteries can deliver a ton of power — just ask actor Alan Ruck, who crashed his into a Hollywood pizzeria last week. As much as I lust after the Rivian when I see one around Los Angeles, I couldn’t get it into my parking space. You know what would fit in there? The Hilux EV.
My wish is that the EV revolution sets the pickup free. The sovereignty of the oversized truck is tied to its capability, sure, but also its status as a market of tribal membership. Country songs name-drop Chevy Silverados for a reason, and lots of people who wouldn’t dare get mud on their boots own a King Ranch. Given that trucks skew right, and EVs still skew left, the EV truck exists in a liminal political space. Perhaps that’s enough to redefine the form, and make the electrified pickup about practicality more than posturing.
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/toyota-hilux-revo-ev-tacoma-america
date: 2023-11-08, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The European Space Agency’s observatory will map one-third of the sky over six years in a mission to understand the universe’s dark matter and dark energy
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Several athletes are headed to Fresno State.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article281608298.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: 404 Media Group
The gift highlights the fact that the search for extraterrestrial life is increasingly being funded by prominent tech founders.
https://www.404media.co/qualcomm-founder-left-200-million-gift-to-seti-institute-in-his-will/
date: 2023-11-08, from: mrusme blog
Every time one of my posts on this journal ends up somewhere on
Reddit, Twitter Nostr or Hacker News, lots of people seem to
be irritated by the site’s URL. Hence, let me do a quick introduction
into what’s called Punycode, and why I’m using this domain
name.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/never-click-on-a-link-that-looks-like-that/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
She said she was locked inside for an hour, Arkansas police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281603108.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Researchers found the “slender” animal in a national forest in Rwanda
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281599983.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: OS News
What’s happening here is that Migration Assistant has migrated all my apps, and has automatically launched any of them that are listed in Login Items or are set to automatically launch in the background. They all launch, all at once, and every single one of them then prompts me for permission to do all the things they already had permission to do on my previous Mac. In this screen shot, I’ve dragged them apart, but in reality most of these windows appeared on top of each other. They float above every other window, and most of them want to open various portions of the Settings app. In the background, a few apps have launched with their own alert prompts, requesting that I perform more tasks in order to get the system ready. You will be protected.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137772/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-permissions-requests/
date: 2023-11-08, from: OS News
Google is hoping regulators will bail it out of the messaging mess it has created for itself after years of dysfunctional product reboots. The Financial Times reports that Google and a few cell carriers are asking the EU to designate Apple’s iMessage as a “core” service that would require it to be interoperable under the new “Digital Markets Act.” The EU’s Digital Markets Act targets Big Tech “gatekeepers” with various interoperability, fairness, and privacy demands, and while iMessage didn’t make the initial cut of services announced in September, Apple’s messenger is under a “market investigation” to determine if it should qualify. The criteria for gatekeeper services all revolve around business usage. The services the EU wants to include would have more than 45 million monthly active EU users and more than 10,000 yearly active business in the EU, a business turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros, or a market cap of 75 billion euros, with the caveat that these are just guidelines and the EU is open to arguments in both directions. When the initial list was announced back in September, the EU said that iMessage actually met the thresholds for regulation, but it was left off the list while it listens to Apple’s arguments that it should not qualify. The sooner the various messaging services are forced to interoperate – preferably via completely open specifications anyone can build for – the better. These services should not be locking users in.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Still not in writing mode. Lots of interesting stuff going on. I need to find a more comfortable chair.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/08.html#a211135
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Cruise has pushed a handy update to its self-driving taxi fleet so that they will no longer drag pedestrians along the road after running them over.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/cruise_selfdriving_software_update/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Cedar was sold on June 25 to a representative of state Sen. Brian Dahle for $902, with $63.14 going to the fair and $838.86 meant to go to Cedar’s owner.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281594553.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Their fourth-century find also hints at the possible presence of a shipwreck hidden nearby
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“There’s a lot of things that could go really bad, really quick,” one space expert said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281580568.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The blaze in the Sierra Nevada foothills town killed 85 residents and destroyed 11,000 homes on Nov. 8, 2018.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/fires/article281604663.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The California man is going to prison, federal prosecutors said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281596743.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Photos show the rescue pup’s dramatic transformation.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281591088.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Forensic genetic genealogy was used to help identify the woman’s remains, deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281598633.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Cowboys WR Martavis Bryant said time away from NFL took him to “places that you couldn’t even imagine, some really dark places and times. I really would not like to talk about it because I worked so hard to get through those moments.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281598068.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The shooting happened at a Nashville gas station, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281593608.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
House Republicans issued subpoenas Wednesday to members of President Joe Biden’s family, taking their most aggressive step yet in an impeachment inquiry bitterly opposed by Democrats that is testing the reach of congressional oversight powers.
The long-awaited move by Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, to subpoena the president’s son Hunter and his brother James comes as Republicans look to gain ground in their nearly yearlong investigation. So far, they have failed to uncover evidence directly implicating the president in any wrongdoing.
But Republicans say the evidence trail they have uncovered paints a troubling picture of “influence peddling” by Biden’s family in their business dealings, particularly with clients overseas.
“Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” Comer, of Kentucky, said in a statement.
The stakes are exceedingly high, as the inquiry could result in Republicans bringing impeachment charges against Biden, the ultimate penalty for what the U.S. Constitution describes as “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
The subpoenas demand that Hunter Biden and James Biden as well as former business associate Rob Walker appear before the Oversight Committee for a deposition. Lawmakers also requested that James Biden’s wife, Sara Biden, and Hallie Biden, the wife of the president’s deceased son Beau, appear voluntarily for transcribed interviews.
Requests for comment from Hunter Biden, who lives in California, and James Biden, who’s from Royal Oak, Maryland, were not immediately returned.
Both the White House and the Biden family’s personal lawyers have dismissed the investigation as a political ploy aimed at hurting the Democratic president. They say the probe is a blatant attempt to help former President Donald Trump, the early front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, as he runs again for the White House.
Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said the investigation has been full of “worn-out, false, baseless, or debunked claims.” In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday morning, Lowell urged the new speaker to rein in the “partisan political games.”
Johnson, now settling into the speakership after replacing Kevin McCarthy as the top Republican in the House, has given his blessing to the inquiry and has hinted that a decision could come soon on whether to pursue articles of impeachment against Biden.
“I think we have a constitutional responsibility to follow this truth where it leads,” Johnson told Fox News Channel recently. He also said in a separate Fox interview that he would support Comer’s decision to subpoena the president’s son, saying “desperate times call for desperate measures, and that perhaps is overdue.”
Since January, Republicans have been investigating the Biden family for what they claim is a pattern of “influence peddling” spanning back to when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president. Comer claims the committee had “uncovered a mountain of evidence” that he said would show how Biden abused his power and repeatedly lied about the separation between his political position and his son’s private business dealings.
While questions have arisen about the ethics surrounding the Biden family’s international business, no evidence has emerged to prove that Joe Biden, in his current or previous office, abused his role or accepted bribes.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Maryland resident didn’t have time to play the 10 bingo cards on his instant ticket, so he stashed it in his car and went on his way.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281594363.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get a great deal with this Amazon Fire TV for $200, just in time for the holidays
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281600913.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Thanks to a new genetic analysis of 30 kingfisher species, researchers are one step closer to understanding the birds’ dramatic hunting style
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Commentary by former producer at the public television station.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article281597833.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man drove from Arizona to California, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281594813.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
The husband of Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist jailed in Russia on accusations that she failed to register as a foreign agent, is calling on the U.S. government to declare her “wrongfully detained.”
Kurmasheva, an American-Russian dual citizen, was detained on October 18. Authorities ordered her held until at least December 5.
The editor works with the Tatar-Bashkir service for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL. She and her media outlet deny the charges against her.
In his first public comments since Kurmasheva’s detention, her husband, Pavel Butorin, is urging the United States to classify the journalist as “wrongfully detained,” which would open additional government resources to help secure her release.
“We’re already very grateful for the support that we are receiving,” Butorin told VOA’s sister outlet RFE/RL. “This is a very important designation, the kind that comes from the United States government and from the State Department.”
Butorin, like Kurmasheva, works from the RFE/RL offices in Prague. Butorin heads Current Time TV, a Russian-language TV and digital network led by RFE/RL in partnership with VOA.
“There is nothing we want to happen more than to get Alsu back. My children need her. I need my wife back,” Butorin said.
Kurmasheva has had no contact with her family since her arrest.
The journalist had traveled to Russia in May for a family emergency. When she tried to return to Prague in June, her passports were confiscated. She was waiting for those documents to be returned when authorities detained her on October 18.
Now, Kurmasheva is facing five years in prison for allegedly violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.
Moscow says its foreign agent law is a response to the U.S. Foreign Agent Registration Act, but analysts say that the Kremlin uses the designation to target critics.
Russia designated the U.S. Congress-funded RFE/RL a foreign agent in 2020.
The independent network refused to comply with the requirement to register as a foreign agent, saying it would be an invasion of its editorial processes and would limit the ability of the network to work.
U.S. officials and the U.N. Human Rights Office, along with media freedom and human rights groups, have called on Moscow to release Kurmasheva.
“This appears to be another case of the Russian government harassing U.S. citizens,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in October.
Russia’s Washington embassy did not immediately reply to VOA’s email requesting comment.
One of two journalists detained this year
Kurmasheva is the second American journalist jailed in Russia this year.
In March, Russian authorities detained American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government deny.
Declared wrongfully detained by the U.S. government, Gershkovich, 32, is in pre-trial detention until at least November 30. The detention period has been twice extended and appeals for bail denied.
“It’s really hard to believe that our colleague, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, has now been wrongfully detained for more than six months,” Almar Latour, chief executive of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Tuesday at an Atlantic Council event about threats facing foreign correspondents.
“In 2023, journalism is under attack. Make no mistake about it,” Latour said.
Paul Beckett, an assistant editor at the Journal who is focused on securing Gershkovich’s release, said the reporter is “in pretty decent shape” considering the circumstances. He added that the letters of support Gershkovich receives mean “a massive amount.”
The jailings of Gershkovich and Kurmasheva underscore global threats facing press freedom.
At the end of 2022, a record high of 363 reporters were jailed around the world, according to research by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Of those, 19 were detained in Russia.
“The environment for journalists everywhere has deteriorated dramatically in recent years, and that’s in part because we’re seeing a global decline in democracy,” CPJ president Jodie Ginsberg said at the Atlantic Council.
https://www.voanews.com/a/husband-of-journalist-jailed-in-russia-calls-on-us-for-help/7347046.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
A new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro can be sold as a weight-loss drug, U.S. regulators announced Wednesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, or tirzepatide. The drug helped dieters lose about a quarter of their body weight, or 27 kilograms, in a recent study.
Zepbound is the latest diabetes drug approved for weight loss, joining Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, a high-dose version of its diabetes treatment Ozempic.
The FDA approved Lilly’s drug for people who are considered obese, with a body mass index of 30 or higher, or those who are overweight with a related health condition, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes. The drug should be paired with a healthy diet and regular exercise, the FDA said.
In the U.S., at least 100 million adults and about 15 million children are considered obese.
The drug tirzepatide in Zepbound and Mounjaro and semaglutide in Wegovy and Ozempic work by mimicking hormones that kick in after people eat to regulate appetite and the feeling of fullness. Both imitate a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, known as GLP-1. Tirzepatide targets a second hormone, called glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, or GIP.
Zepbound appears to spur greater weight loss than Wegovy. Approved for chronic weight management in 2021, Wegovy helped people lose about 15% of their body weight or 15.4 kilograms, according to study results.
“This would be the most highly efficacious drug ever approved for the treatment of obesity,” said Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine expert at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Touted by celebrities and on social media, semaglutide and tirzepatide have been in such demand that their manufacturers have struggled to keep up. Both have been listed on the FDA’s drug shortage site for months. All strengths of tirzepatide are currently listed as available, but a company spokesperson said that could vary by location and demand.
Side effects of the new weight-loss drug include vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, constipation and other gastrointestinal problems. In the most recent published trial, about 10% of people taking tirzepatide dropped out of the study because of such problems, compared to about 2% of people taking dummy shots.
While experts lauded approval of Zepbound, they worried that it wouldn’t necessarily mean greater access to the drug, which has been prescribed off-label to help people pare pounds.
“Most patients won’t be able to afford Zepbound without insurance coverage and many health plans exclude obesity care,” said Dr. Katherine Saunders, an obesity expert at New York’s Weill Cornell Medicine and co-founder of company focused on obesity treatment.
Eli Lilly and Co. said the list price will be about $1,000 a month, the same as Mounjaro. Medicare is prohibited from covering drugs specifically for weight loss.
Kelly Burns, 50, of St. Petersburg, Florida, lost nearly 45 kilograms using tirzepatide after joining a study of the drug to treat obesity in 2021. When testing ended and she no longer had access to the medication, she struggled, but eventually lost another 23 kilograms.
“My whole life is completely different,” she said. Her health measurements improved and her confidence soared. Now that it is approved for weight loss, Burns plans to ask her insurance company about coverage.
“It would be ridiculous not to,” she said, adding: “I want to stay this way as long as I possibly can.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/fda-approves-new-version-of-diabetes-drug-for-weight-loss-/7347042.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Liliputing
A handful of Chinese PC companies including Topton and Kingnovy are selling a small fanless desktop computer with a starting price under $400 for a model with a 13th-gen Intel Raptor Lake-U processor, dual 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports, and support for up to four displays. As of November 8, 2023, prices start as low as […]
The post This fanless mini PC features a Raptor Lake-U processor, Thunderbolt 4 and dual 2.5 GbE Ethernet for under $400 appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Three were airlifted to a hospital, two with critical injuries, the fire department told news outlets.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281596968.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Peoples CDC blog
This episode is divided into two parts. In the first here, we cover global COVID, US COVID, some new results in Long COVID, and the continuing decline in available surveillance data during a still ongoing pandemic. In the second part, we’ll continue to track the politics of the disintegration of U.S. public health, not only… Continue reading COVID This Week – Nov 2, 2023
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/08/covid-this-week-nov-2-2023/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Michael Tsai
Jesse Grosjean: Use outline paths to query your Bike outlines. Today they are used through AppleScript and Shortcuts actions. In the future they will be used to build new features such as stylesheets and outline filtering. There’s a video demonstrating them and documentation for the syntax. Previously: Bike 1.12
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/08/bike-outline-paths/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Michael Tsai
Zachary McAuliffe: Apple introduced Photo Shuffle for lock screen in iOS 16. However, you could only choose categories of photos in your library and camera roll, like People and Pets, or you could use the Select Photos Manually option and go through your library to find the right photos. You were limited to 50 manually […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/08/ios-17-1-lock-screen-photo-album-shuffle/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Michael Tsai
Emma Roth (via Hacker News, Reddit): Intuit first acquired Mint in 2009, an app that has offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions. Now, Intuit is inviting users to Credit Karma, a service that the company acquired in 2020. While Credit Karma offers […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/08/mint-com-replaced-by-credit-karma/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Scientists described it as an “exciting moment” and “amazing discovery.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281588388.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Michael Tsai
GiovanH (via Hacker News): Apple puts its logo on the devices it sells: not just the outer casing, but also each internal component. The vast majority of these logos are totally enclosed and invisible to the naked eye. This seems like a strange practice — especially since Apple doesn’t sell these parts separately — except […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/08/apples-trademark-exploit/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft and Meta have very different initiatives to combat misinformation in 2024, slated to be a busy election year all over the globe, but whether they’ll be effective is another issue.…
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
This year’s list covers eateries in Visalia, Merced, Tulare, Three Rivers, Mariposa and more.
https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article281389938.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
One deputy was taken to a hospital, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281591848.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Knecht was appointed by the city council on Tuesday, and will take the temporary role starting December 29.
The post Santa Barbara City Attorney Sarah Knecht Named as Interim City Administrator appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
First team singles • Audrey Park, senior, West Ranch • Skylar Brathwaite, senior, Valencia. • Charly Saltz, senior, Golden Valley. First team doubles • Kelsie Lammens-Ross and Madison Vianzon, Saugus. • Cami Schoenwetter and Sivan Garteiz, Valencia. • Melissa Arakelyan and Nitya Kotha, Valencia. Second team singles • Baylee Renfro, senior, Valencia. • Janice Jin, […]
The post 2023 All-Foothill League girls tennis selections appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/2023-all-foothill-league-girls-tennis-selections/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Liliputing
There’s a new mini PC available that features a AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, DDR5-5600 memory, and plenty of connectivity options including two Ethernet ports, support for up to three 4K displays, and a 40 Gbps USB4 port. It also has a somewhat gaudy chassis with a top cover that features RGB lighting effects and the […]
The post This mini PC combines Ryzen 7 7840HS with a “Cyberpunk” design for $410 and up appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/this-mini-pc-combines-ryzen-7-7840hs-with-a-cyberpunk-design-for-559-and-up/
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
While state regulators craft new regulations and consult with the insurance industry, many Californians are paying extra-high premiums — or going without insurance entirely.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“We were in disbelief,” the husband told lottery officials. “We kept reading the instructions over and over.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281595258.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
California voters disapprove of how Biden is handling the war between Israel and Hamas, the economy, crime, inflation and more.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281592343.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Organized by Just Stop Oil, the incident was just the latest of many protests targeting famous artworks
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Truly awesome creatures of the sea.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281590823.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
The BART director’s term expires Dec. 1, 2024.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/bart-director-rebecca-saltzman-wont-seek-re-election/
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
Founded in 1935 on the site of an old winery that was forced to close due to Prohibition, the resort has survived economic collapse, a world war, creditors, recessions, wildfires and other adversity.
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
Zepbound, a new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro, can now be sold as a weight-loss drug and helped patients lose 25% of their weight.
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
The collision happened about 7:25 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Oak Street and Embarcadero West.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/driver-survives-after-vehicle-hit-by-train-in-oakland/
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police did not identify the teen or specify any booking charges, citing laws protecting juvenile suspects.
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
Voters in the Minnesota city of St. Louis Park elected Nadia Mohamed, a 27-year-old Somali-American, as the city’s first Black, first Somali, and first Muslim mayor Tuesday night.
The election results show that Mohamed easily defeated Dale Anderson, a former banker and continuing education teacher, by a margin of 58% to 41%.
“I am very happy to win as Somali-American, Muslim, migrant and Black,” she told VOA’s Somali Service. “I would say thank you to all of those who supported me in this. It is our victory.”
Maine State Rep. Deqa Dhalac was the first Somali American to serve as mayor of an American city in 2021, when South Portland’s six-member council selected Dhalac for the role. Mohamed becomes the first Somali mayor in American history elected directly by voters.
“I have lived in this city for 18 years,” said Mohamed. “I grew up and finished my school here, so it was easy for me to get elected because people know me.”
An early start
As refugees, Mohamed’s family moved to St. Louis Park when she was 10 years old.
Mohamed says her aspirations for elected office started with routine recreational walks when she was young.
“I would walk around the city hall and could only see the portraits of city’s former mayors on the walls. All of them were white men. I only saw two women. None of them looked like me,” she said. “But now, I am very happy, and it is amazing to see my photo among these mayors, knowing that — let us say, 50 years from now — it will be still here.
“Muslim, black and migrant girls will have a better opportunity to see one of them among these mayors,” she said.
Mohamed in 2019 was elected to the St. Louis Park City Council at the age of 23, making her the youngest individual to hold the position in the 170-year history of the Minneapolis suburb.
Before public office, she also held a position at the Minnesota Department of Human Services as a diversity, equity and inclusion specialist.
Predominantly white St. Louis Park, a city of roughly 50,000, has seen the number of people of color more than double over the past two decades, reaching 20% of the population. Some 10% of residents are foreign-born, and the average household income is $87,639.
The city’s mayor is also its manager, responsible for executive-level operations. The mayor also chairs the City Council.
Mohamed will succeed Jake Spano, who announced in March that he would not seek reelection and endorsed Mohamed.
Other Somali-American successes
In nearby Minneapolis on Tuesday, another Somali-American, Ward 6 City Councilman Jamal Osman, defended his seat, receiving 44.6% of the vote, followed by Kayseh Magan with 30.1% and Tiger Worku with 21.8%.
Speaking to his supporters after the election results were in, Osman said he was happy and felt grateful to be trusted by Ward 6 residents for three consecutive years.
“I’m super excited,” Osman said. “We have a lot of work going on. We have a lot of work to do.”
In 2022, at least eight Somali-American women won races in U.S. midterm elections.
The success of Somali-American female candidates in the U.S. eclipses that of female aspirants for elected office in Somalia.
Female politicians in Somalia are so disenfranchised that in 2016, Somalia’s federal and regional leaders had to start allocating a specific quota of seats in parliament. But women still were never given the opportunity to get the 30% quota promised.
In 2016, Somali women occupied 24% of the 329 seats in the two houses of parliament. In 2022, female candidates secured 20%, well short of the 30% quota.
Mohamed Olad Hassan reported from Washington. This story originated in VOA’s Somali Service.
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
The spacious property located in the 12600 block of Cheverly Court in Saratoga was sold on Oct. 25, 2023. The $3,650,000 purchase price works out to $1,497 per square foot. The house, built in 1967, has an interior space of 2,438 square feet.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/four-bedroom-home-in-saratoga-sells-for-3-7-million/
date: 2023-11-08, from: 404 Media Group
“Maine residents have won the right to control their destiny when it comes to car repairs.”
https://www.404media.co/voters-overwhelmingly-pass-car-right-to-repair-law-in-maine/
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
The 49ers’ defense is talented and has analytical Steve Wilks as coordinator. But the most important ingredient – intensity – is missing. Here’s a wild idea to fix that.
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
Calen Addison, 23, had five assists in 12 games for the Minnesota Wild this season
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Gartner has raised the specter of departments outside of tech running their own IT functions under the guise of low-code and digital democratization.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/gartner_shadow_it_low_code/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Wisconsin man ordered “expensive items” on Amazon and then initiated returns, authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281591053.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: San Jose Mercury News
Despite signs of progress, a deal between the entertainment companies and SAG-AFTRA has proved elusive. So what exactly are the outstanding “essential items” preventing the parties from reaching a settlement?
date: 2023-11-08, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Just a few decades of intermixing affected the DNA of all sampled modern wildcats, researchers say, suggesting the species may be “genomically extinct”
date: 2023-11-08, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/keyboard-maestro-11-0-1/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Officers were investigating when exactly the crash occurred, CHP said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281592683.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: TidBITS blog
If you have experienced issues with Apple Pay after wirelessly charging your iPhone 15 in your car, Photoshop tools, update problems with M-series MacBook Pros or the M3 iMac, Apple Watch battery drain, or Siri not paying attention on your HomePod, these updates promise to help.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
News release Santa Clarita Valley residents can learn about their risk for cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and other chronic, serious conditions at a health screening event scheduled to be offered by Life Line Mobile Screening on Jan. 2. Screenings can check for: The event is to be held at the Embassy Suites, 28508 Westinghouse Place, Valencia. […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/health-screening-event-scheduled-jan-2/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The puppy was found in a pet carrier.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281592263.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
DNA taken from the man’s mom helped identify him, California officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281590833.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
Crooked Timber is hosting a series of essays over the next couple weeks on “The Political Ideologies of Silicon Valley.” The essays are derived from a workshop I attended last spring at Stanford’s Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS).
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/crooked-timber-series-on-the-political
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The girlfriend was found disoriented with hypothermia, deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281590613.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 18-year-old student was in a Tennessee park for about an hour after being shot before being found, according to an affidavit.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281587898.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Oracle has won a temporary reprieve in its defense of a lawsuit alleging the company conducted a “widespread fraudulent scheme and unfair business practice” in sales of NetSuite software, with all claims dismissed against Big Red except for one.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/oracle_breach_of_contract/
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
The trio of giant pandas in the Smithsonian National Zoo are heading back to China on Wednesday, leaving only a handful of giant pandas in North America amid tense diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China.
Now age 25 and 26 respectively, the pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian came to the U.S. in 2000 and have been a mainstay in the Washington zoo ever since.
In 2020, they had a cub named Xiao Qi Ji, or “Little Miracle” in English. But now the parents and the cub are embarking on a 19 hour-long flight to Chengdu, China, aboard a cargo plane.
The Smithsonian National Zoo has spent millions over the years, particularly to help the pandas breed healthily, and has paid $500,000 annually to its Chinese conservation counterpart, according to the zoo’s most recent contract.
In the early morning, reporters saw the pandas in large, ventilated crates and boxes of apples and bamboo shoots being hauled out of the zoo.
The pandas’ one-way trip home came as expected: The agreement that brought them to the U.S. stipulated their return. But many see the trio’s departure as a sign of the times as the geopolitical rift between East and West widens.
When it comes to lending pandas to zoos abroad, the Chinese government prefers “nations with whom China’s relations are on the upswing, as a form of soft power projection,” Kurt Tong, a managing partner of the Asia Group consultancy, told Agence France-Presse.
Relations between Washington and Beijing have been strained by years of disagreements over trade, human rights abuses and the status of Taiwan.
According to Tong, “it is not surprising that Chinese authorities are allowing panda contracts with U.S. zoos to expire.”
The Washington zoo held a weeklong “Panda Palooza” in September to bid farewell to the bears. Over the last few months, thousands of panda lovers visited to say their goodbyes.
Zoo Atlanta in Georgia plans to return its pandas in 2024, meaning Mexico City’s Xin Xin will likely be the only panda left on the continent.
The first pandas came to American zoos in 1972, after then-President Richard Nixon’s famous visit to China.
Some information for this report was provided by Agence France-Presse.
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-takes-back-washington-s-pandas-amid-frosty-diplomacy-/7346840.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The California man was left “permanently scarred” and is suing the companies that make the nail gun, according to the suit.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281585958.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of the Americas tends to be uncommon outside of El Niño years, but that could change by the 2030s. An analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team finds that if a strong El Niño develops this winter, cities along the western coasts […]
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The LAist
The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-2 Tuesday on the overnight parking ban.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
Dear Savvy Senior, I’m currently enrolled in original Medicare but have been thinking about switching to a Medicare Advantage plan during the open enrollment period. Many of the Medicare Advantage ads I’ve seen offer lots of extra benefits beyond what traditional Medicare offers and no monthly premiums. What are your thoughts? — Considering […]
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It’s the oldest known example of the toothy teratoma on record, the study says.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281589063.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get Mylio to revisit and preserve the special memories
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281588943.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The skeletal remains were found near Twentynine Palms, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281589993.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Saga of goat 2022 slaughter by Shasta fair officials takes a new turn in federal court.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281564528.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Who knew?
https://steady.substack.com/p/votes-count
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
KubeCon Kubernetes is having its Linux moment, Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Priyanka Sharma told KubeCon in Chicago yesterday. Her proclamation was rapidly followed by every IT presenter’s nightmare – a demo problem live on stage.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/cncf_ai/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The creatures play an important economic role for local communities in India, a study found.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281584443.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Liliputing
Ubuntu Touch is a mobile Linux distribution designed to run on smartphones and tablets. And this week a new version is starting to roll out for more than two dozen supported devices. Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and includes the latest Ubuntu security updates, as well as a number of mobile-specific […]
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date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The LAist
A new report finds a majority of working Californians between the ages of 16 and 24 are earning low wages, and many can’t afford basic living expenses.
https://laist.com/news/education/teenagers-young-adult-labor-study-ucla
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated ChatGPT’s hundreds of millions of users were left without their digital discussion companion this morning, as owner OpenAI reported a major outage across the platform and its APIs.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/outage_chatgpt_openai_claude/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The treat is part of a global effort to encourage love and kindness.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281585433.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/lunar-6-3/
date: 2023-11-08, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/chronosync-11/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Michigan woman got a promotion while posing as a nurse, authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281584908.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: TidBITS blog
Apple has released details about Contact Key Verification, an upcoming option in Messages that lets you manually verify an iMessage correspondent’s identity without relying on encryption data managed centrally by Apple. The feature also watches for anomalies, warning you when changes prevent it from guaranteeing a conversation is with the same person.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It’s a blessing,” the tearful 69-year-old husband said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281583813.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
China is hurrying to buy as much chipmaking equipment as it can before further export restrictions shut off supply, boosting the country’s imports from the Netherlands, home to photolithography maker ASML.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/china_stockpiling_asml_kit/
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
Congratulations to the six Growing Beyond Earth high school teams who will present their original research at this year’s American Association for Gravitational and Space Research Conference in Washington D.C.! The teams represent Biotech@Richmond Heights (Miami FL), Herbert Henry Dow High School (Midland, MI), iMater Preparatory Academy High School (Hialeah, FL), and Institute for Collaborative Education (New York, […]
date: 2023-11-08, from: Kara Wynn blog
“Can we keep him?” “No.” “But it’s a TALKING DOG!”
https://karawynn.substack.com/p/if-we-could-talk-to-the-animals
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Según Grace Adler, estudiante de tercer año y presidenta del capítulo estudiantil de Occidental, End Overdose, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la prevención y respuesta de sobredosis, está abordando el problema de las sobredosis relacionadas con las drogas en Occidental, con la esperanza de iniciar un diálogo en todo el campus sobre […]
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date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
An untraveled nook between the Norris Hall of Chemistry and Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center will soon be transformed into a thriving, interactive micro forest by student volunteers enrolled in Plant Form and Function taught by biology professor Gretchen North. According to North, planting this micro forest involves novel and effective methods for fostering biodiversity, […]
The post Occidental’s first micro forest will have macro impact appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
At Oxy Live!‘s first installment of their speaker series last month, acclaimed interviewer Paul Holdengräber spoke with Alok Vaid-Menon on topics that ranged from the ways in which fiction differs from reality to stories of ordering hot chocolate at 3 a.m. This was the first event in the new series, but there are many more to come, according to Occidental’s […]
The post Enriching conversations thrive at Oxy Live! appeared first on The Occidental.
https://theoccidentalnews.com/culture/2023/11/08/enriching-conversations-thrive-at-oxy-live/2910475
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
The Northeast Neighborhood Outreach organization (NENO) is a 501(c) non-profit volunteer-run organization which focuses on serving the unhoused in the Eagle Rock and Highland Park communities. President Natalie Warner said NENO organization first began as a community group largely funded through local neighborhood councils. They later became a chapter of the Silver Lake, Echo Park, […]
The post NENO tackles LA housing crisis appeared first on The Occidental.
https://theoccidentalnews.com/community/2023/11/08/neno-tackles-la-housing-crisis/2910440
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
From what began as an effort to get rid of an excess of clothes, accessories and knickknacks, Pattye’s Closet II on N. Avenue 50 has grown into an oasis for vintage lovers. After falling in love with vintage as a child in Mexico, owner Renee Davila said she amassed quite a collection of things that […]
The post Pattye’s Closet II is a treasure trove in the vintage world appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Occidental men’s soccer won the 2023 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics (SCIAC) Championship for the first time in school history with a score of 3-0 against University of Redlands Nov. 4. According to Christian Corcoran (junior), a defender on the team, the soccer team is absolutely buzzed. “We’ve been working for this for years now,” Corcoran said. According […]
The post Men’s soccer wins first SCIAC championship appeared first on The Occidental.
https://theoccidentalnews.com/sports/2023/11/08/mens-soccer-wins-first-sciac-championship/2910470
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
“The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” by Chappell Roan Kawena Jacobs (Arts and Culture editor) When you think of a pop song, most envision squeaky clean lyrics and an infectious, heavily produced beat underneath. But while Chappell Roan has a clear grasp on the pop sound, her biggest strength is saying things your […]
The post Editorial: From pop to psychadelic rock, our editors list their albums of the year appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Cross-country runner Ciara Gillen (senior) placed 14th at the 2023 SCIAC Cross Country Championships, running the 6k race in 23.12.3 minutes and earning All-SCIAC Second Team for her performance. According to Occidental Athletics, her performance was 30 seconds faster than her previous race at the NCAA DIII Pre-Nationals and set a new personal record. “I was really […]
The post Athletes of the Week Ciara Gillen and Aidan Lindhe-Johan make strides at 2023 SCIAC Championships appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
According to the Occidental Athletics website, Occidental’s women’s basketball beat Hope International 97-52 at an exhibition game Nov. 1 and won their first game of the season 66-57 against University of Saint Katherine Nov. 4. According to Coach Isaiah Gatewood-Flowers, this year’s team is quite experienced and has been preparing for the current season. “This year’s […]
The post Occidental’s women’s basketball team begins a new season with back-to-back victories appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Assistant Campus Safety Director Kim Bryant Lundy, whose survivor-centered work with the Occidental community left an indelible mark, died Oct. 22. She was 65 years old. Her daughter, Autumn Lundy, 25, said her death was caused by complications from cancer. Kim Lundy was born Jan. 4, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois and moved with her family […]
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Marketplace Morning Report
As investors sense the Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates, stocks are seeing an extended rally. Of course, no one knows what the Fed will really do until they actually do it. Elsewhere, a possible light at the end of the tunnel for the shipping industry’s recession, and checking in on El Salvador’s big gamble on bitcoin.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The woman was hospitalized for eight days, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281585023.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Biden wants to ban ripoff “financial advisors”: Big gubmint wants to take away your freedom to starve to death in old age. Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Biden wants to ban ripoff “financial advisors” (permalink) Once, American workers had “defined benefits pensions,” where their employers promised to pay them a certain amount every year from their retirement to their death. Jimmy Carter swapped that out for 401(k)s, “market” pensions where you have to guess which stocks will be valuable or starve in your old age: https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#are-there-no-poorhouses The initial 401(k) rollout had all kinds of pot-sweeteners that made them seem like a good deal, like heavy employer matching that doubled or even tripled the value of every dollar you put into the market for your retirement. But over the years, as Reaganomics took hold and workers’ power ebbed away, all these goodies were clawed back. In the end, the market-based pension makes you the sucker at the poker table, flushing your savings into a rigged casino that is firmly tilted in favor of finance barons and other eminently guillotineable plutocrats. Neoliberalism is many things, but most of all it is a cult of individualism. The fact that three generations of workers are nows facing down retirement without pensions that will provide them with secure housing and food – let alone money to see the odd movie, buy birthday gifts for their grandkids, or enjoy a meal out now and then – is framed as millions of individual failures, not a systemic one. In other words, if you are facing food insecurity and homelessness after a lifetime of hard work, it’s because you saved wrong. Perhaps you didn’t save enough (through a 40-year run of wage stagnation and skyrocketing housing, health and education costs). Or perhaps you saved wrong, making the wrong bets on the stock market. If you can’t afford to run your air conditioner during a heat dome, that’s on you: you should have been better at stocks. Apologists for this system will say that you don’t have to be good at stocks – you just have to pay an Independent Financial Advisor to pick the stocks for you and you’ll be fine. But IFAs don’t work for free! What if you can’t afford one? Enter “predatory inclusion” – the practice of offering scammy, overpriced and substandard products to poor people and declaring it to be a good deed, because otherwise, those poor people would have to do without. The crypto bubble relied heavily on this: think of Spike Lee and others shilling for pump-and-dump scams as a way of “building Black wealth”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/business/media/cryptocurrency-seeks-the-spotlight-with-spike-lees-help.html More recently, Intuit and other scammy tax-prep services have argued against the IRS’s plan to offer free tax preparation as bad for Black and brown people, because it will deny them the chance to be deceived and ripped off with TurboTax: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/27/predatory-inclusion/#equal-opportunity-scammers Back in 2018, Trump won the predatory inclusion Olympics, when his Department of Labor let the Fifth Circuit abolish the “Fiduciary Rule” for Independent Financial Advisors: https://www.investopedia.com/updates/dol-fiduciary-rule/ What was the Fiduciary Rule? It said that your IFN had to put your interests ahead of their own. Like, if there were two different funds you could bet on, and one would pay your IFN a big commission, while the other would be a better bet for you, the IFN couldn’t put your retirement savings into the fund that offered them a bribe. When Trump killed the Fiduciary Rule, he proclaimed it a victory for poor people, especially Black and brown people. After all, if IFNs weren’t allowed to accept bribes for giving you bad financial advice, then they would have to make up the difference by charging you for good advice. If you couldn’t afford that advice, well, you’d have to make bad retirement investments on your own, without the benefit of their sleazy self-dealing. The Biden Administration wants to change that. Biden’s Acting Labor Secretary is Julie Su, and she’s very good at her job. Last spring, she forced west coast dockworkers’ bosses to cough up the contract they’d stalled on for a year, with 8-10% raises for every worker, owed retroactively: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos Su has proposed a way to reinstate the Fiduciary Rule, as part of the Biden Administration’s war on junk fees, estimating that this will increase retirees’ net savings by 20%: https://prospect.org/labor/2023-11-07-julie-su-labor-retirement-savers/ The new rule will force advisors who cheat their clients to pay restitution, and will require them to deliver all their advice in writing so that this cheating can be detected and punished. The industry is furious, of course. They claim that “The Market (TM)” will solve this: if you get bad retirement savings advice and end up homeless and starving, then you will choose a different advisor in your next life, after you are reincarnated (I guess?). And of course, they’re also claiming that forcing IFNs to stop cheating their clients will deny poor people access to expert (bad) advice. As the Financial Services Institute’s Dale Brown says, this will have a “negative impact on Main Street Americans’ access to financial advice”: https://www.fa-mag.com/news/legal-challenge-predicted-for-new-dol-fiduciary-proposal-75257.html Here’s that rule – read it for yourself, then submit a comment expressing your views on it. The government wants to hear from you, and administrative law requires them to act on the comments they receive: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/03/2023-23782/proposed-amendment-to-prohibited-transaction-exemptions-75-1-77-4-80-83-83-1-and-86-128 Su is part of a wave of progressive, technically skilled regulators in the Biden administration that resulted from a horse-trading exercise called the Unity Task Force, which divvied up access to top appointments among the progressive wing and the finance wing of the Democratic Party. The progressive appointments are nothing short of incredible – the most competent and principled agency leaders America has seen in half a century: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis But then there’s the finance wing’s appointments, like Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who ruled against Lina Khan’s attempt to block the rotten Microsoft/Activision merger (don’t worry, Khan’s appealing): https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion Perhaps the worst, though, is Biden’s Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, a private equity ghoul who did a stint for the notorious wreckers Bain Capital before founding her own firm. Raimondo has stuffed her department full of Goldman Sachs alums, and has sidelined labor and civil society groups as she sets out to administer everything from the CHIPS Act to regulating ChatGPT. As Henry Burke writes for the Revolving Door Project and The American Prospect, Raimondo’s history as a corporate raider, her deference to the finance sector, and she and her husband’s conflicts of interest from their massive stakes in companies she’s regulating all serve to undermine Biden’s agenda: https://prospect.org/economy/2023-11-08-commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-undercutting-bidenomics/ When the administration inevitably complains that its popular economic programs aren’t breaking through the media coverage, they’ll have no one to blame but themselves. The Unity Task Force gave us generationally important policymakers, but ultimately, it’s a classic “pizzaburger.” If half your family wants pizza, and the other half wants burgers, and you serve them something halfway in between that makes none of them happy, you haven’t made a wise compromise – you’ve just made an inedible mess: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/17/pizzaburgers/ Announcing The Lost Cause Tour (permalink) There’s just one week until my next novel, The Lost Cause, goes on sale, and I’m hitting the road with it! I hope you can make it out – tell your friends! Los Angeles: I’ll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT; there’ll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down! https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-cory-doctorow Stratford, Ontario: I’m onstage on November 16 at 19hET with Vass Bednar at the University of Waterloo Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business. I’ll also be doing a talk for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library on November 16 from 1330hET-1430hET. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837 https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford Concord, NH: I’ll be at Gibson’s Bookstore on Saturday, November 18th at 13hET. https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/doctorow-lost-cause Simsbury, CT: I’m at the Simsbury Public Library on November 20 at 19h. https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257 Toronto, ON: I’m at the Metro Reference Library on November 22, at 19hET, hosted by Vass Bednar. https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160105/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758 Toronto, ON: I’m hosting Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, on November 27 at 19hET, at the Metro Reference Library. https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160103/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408 New York City: I’m at the Strand Bookstore on November 29 at 19hET. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187 Chapel Hill, NC: I’m at Flyleaf Books on December 5, live with Sarah Taber, at 18hET. https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023 If you don’t see your city on this list, don’t panic! I’ve got another tour coming in a couple of months, when The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, comes out in February: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle Hey look at this (permalink) Labor Unions Are Industrial Policy https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/labor-unions-are-industrial-policy (h/t Naked Capitalism) The Epic v. Google trial may come down to simple v. complicated https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23949849/epic-google-trial-day-one-recap-summary Seeing like a Bank https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/ This day in history (permalink) #10yrsago Feds subject drug suspect to vaginal/anal probe, X-ray, CT Scan, without a warrant — find nothing https://www.thedailybeast.com/dog-orders-cavity-search-lawsuits-ensue #10yrsago Business-logic of cooperating with the NSA has changed https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/a-fraying-of-the-public-private-surveillance-partnership/281289/ #10yrsago How much value did your account generate for Twitter? https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/07/interactive-this-is-how-much-money-twitter-owes-you/ #10yrsago Rob Ford’s exaggerated and imaginary savings to the taxpayers of Toronto https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/deconstructing-mayor-rob-fords-fiscal-record/article_8c6e3bf3-bea5-54d8-8e2c-d28b5bfcf631.html #5yrsago Europe’s collision course with copyright censorship: where we stand today https://doctorow.medium.com/europes-copyright-rules-will-stifle-free-expression-8633e91f5284 #5yrsago Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can’t afford to rent a DC apartment https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html #5yrsago Bruce Sterling on architecture, design, science fiction, futurism and involuntary parks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0__x5SG8WY #1yrago Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition) https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/09/infosec-blackpill/#on-trusting-trust Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Currently writing: A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING Picks and Shovels, a Martin Hench noir thriller about the heroic era of the PC. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS JAN 2025 The Bezzle, a Martin Hench noir thriller novel about the prison-tech industry. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS FEB 2024 Vigilant, Little Brother short story about remote invigilation. FORTHCOMING ON TOR.COM Moral Hazard, a short story for MIT Tech Review’s 12 Tomorrows. FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE, ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION Spill, a Little Brother short story about pipeline protests. FORTHCOMING ON TOR.COM Latest podcast: The Canadian Miracle, Part 2 (https://craphound.com/news/2023/11/05/the-canadian-miracle-part-2/ Upcoming appearances: The New Luddites Seizing the Means of Computation, with Brian Merchant (Hallway Track), Nov 9 https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack Studio City Branch Library, Nov 13, 1830hPT (LA) https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-cory-doctorow CBC IDEAS, Nov 16 (Stratford, ON) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-ideas-visionaries-in-conversation-tickets-729692809837 Inspiring the Next Generation, Nov 16 (Stratford, ON) https://www.provocation.ca/upcoming-2023-events-stratford Gibson’s Bookstore, Nov 18 (Concord, NH) https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/event/doctorow-lost-cause Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (Simsbury, CT) https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257 Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (Toronto) https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160105/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT495758&R=EVT495758 Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (Toronto)` https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160103/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408 The Lost Cause at The Strand (NYC), Nov 29 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187 The Lost Cause at Flyleaf Books (Chapel Hill), Dec 7 https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023 Recent appearances: Plutopia https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-the-internet-con/ An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse (Hackaday Supercon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1ud0rAT7w The Material Power That Rules Computation (This Machine Kills) https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/294-the-material-power-that-rules-computation-ft-cory-doctorow Latest books: “The Internet Con”: A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245). “Red Team Blues”: “A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before.” Tor Books http://redteamblues.com. Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US): and Forbidden Planet (UK): https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/. “Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin”, on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com “Attack Surface”: The third Little Brother novel, a standalone technothriller for adults. The Washington Post called it “a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance.” Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism”: an anti-monopoly pamphlet analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a solution. https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59?sk=f6cd10e54e20a07d4c6d0f3ac011af6b) (signed copies: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html) “Little Brother/Homeland”: A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A_Little_Brother%26_Homeland.html “Poesy the Monster Slayer” a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627. Get a personalized, signed copy here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2682/Corey_Doctorow%3A_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer_HB.html#/. Upcoming books: The Lost Cause: a post-Green New Deal eco-topian novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias, Tor Books, November 2023 The Bezzle: a sequel to “Red Team Blues,” about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books, February 2024 Picks and Shovels: a sequel to “Red Team Blues,” about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books, February 2025 Unauthorized Bread: a graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2025 This work – excluding any serialized fiction – is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. 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https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
Immigration in the U.S. wasn’t always difficult or a crisis. Just 100 years ago, immigrants arriving in America simply had to give their name, occupation, and port of call when crossing into the U.S. Millions arrived through Ellis Island, an immigration and processing center that operated for more than 62 years. It stopped processing migrants 70 years ago this month. Evgeny Maslov reports on what it was like for immigrants on Ellis Island in this story narrated by Anna Rice.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ellis-island-gateway-to-america-in-early-20th-century-/7346633.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s DISSIPATION mission.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-sounding-rocket-launches-into-alaskan-aurora/
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing water vapor in protoplanetary disks, Webb confirmed a physical process involving the drifting of ice-coated solids from the outer regions of the disk into the rocky-planet zone. Theories have long proposed that icy pebbles forming […]
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Drivers keen on taking the world’s fastest car for a spin - or rather, for a straight-line dash - are being sought amid emerging plans to revive the UK’s Bloodhound Land Speed Record car.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/wanted_driver_for_bloodhound_land/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Still, inflation is up 3.7%, according to the October Consumer Price Index.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/personal-finance/article281209743.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
By Celine Smith “As the seedlings were placed in the water, I felt a moment of déjà vu,” said NASA scientist Tony Kim. “I was taken back to when I was a child playing in similar fields in South Korea. It felt like I was meant to be there bringing space to village with satellite […]
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The earthquake could be felt for hundreds of miles in all directions, USGS data show.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281583893.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
Farmers in the U.S. are closely connected to developments in Ukraine and are intently watching for clues about how the war is affecting not only farmers abroad, but also their own operations at home. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh has more from Decatur, Illinois.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-war-continues-to-roil-global-agriculture-industry/7346576.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Somebody took their life because they needed money more,” the woman’s brother said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281581153.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The calf likely starved to death, experts say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281578623.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: 404 Media Group
Game wardens “put on full camouflage outfits” to sneak onto a Virginia hunter’s property and confiscated his camera. Now, he’s challenging a legal framework called the “Open Fields Doctrine” that let them do it.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Americans in 2023 are big fans of name references from books in modern pop culture and ancient mythology.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281552908.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: NASA breaking news
The third Power to Explore Student Challenge from NASA is underway. The writing challenge invites K-12th grade students in the United States to learn about radioisotope power systems, a type of nuclear battery integral to many of NASA’s far-reaching space missions, and then write an essay about a new powered mission for the agency. For […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-seeks-students-to-imagine-nuclear-powered-space-missions/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-08, from: 404 Media Group
In this week’s episode, we talk Fusus AI-powered surveillance cameras, how people lost their vision (literally) at an NFT conference, and how scammers are using malicious insiders at Walmart to conduct refund fraud.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-week-12-fusus-nft-amazon-refund-scams/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Atlassian reassessed the severity rating of the recent improper authorization vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server, raising the CVSS score from 9.1 to a maximum of 10.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/atlassian_confluence_flaw_upgraded/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
Engineering students from the University of Guam can now pursue internships with the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Marianas, as the University of Guam signed a memorandum of understanding with the Navy on Nov. 1.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
A Guam Power Authority generator reported stolen about a month ago was recovered by police Wednesday.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Visitors Bureau made an appearance at the Tourism EXPO Japan 2023 at Osaka-Kansai, joining 70 countries that also partook in the event last month.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
The Consolidated Commission on Utilities unanimously approved pay raises for three of its employees Wednesday: the chief financial officers at the Guam Power Authority and the Guam Waterworks Authority and the attorney for GWA, who had also been acting as…
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
A man accused of murder has been appointed a new attorney to represent him.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
The prosecution will send an offer for a plea deal to a former Leon Guerrero-Tenorio administration Cabinet member accused of sexual assault after the prosecutor meets with the accuser.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
The debate over where and how to build a new public hospital rages on as the speaker and governor exchange tit-for-tat on the proposal to utilize Guam Ancestral Lands Commission properties for a medical complex, Bill 184-37.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
An elementary school teacher accused of sexually assaulting several students has received an offer from the prosecution.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was accused of using another man’s identity to buy a car.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Commentary: A sufficiently funded wildfire package that embraces beneficial, natural fire will lead to a more resilient future with safer workers and communities.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281512563.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The projects are included in spending bills that are awaiting final congressional approval.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281539563.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I’m deeply worried for my country,” said Shasta County’s Registrar of Voters, Cathy Darling Allen.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281562128.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Find the perfect gift in this guide that will make the coffee lover on your list smile
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
As the U.S. and China prepare for the meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC Leaders Summit in San Francisco, some analysts say Beijing and Washington will try to dissolve the mutual distrust they have over Taiwan.
However, given their fundamental differences over the issue, China and the U.S. will likely try to limit the amount of time they spend on the issue.
“Both sides will have to say something about Taiwan, but this is not the kind of environment in which they can sit down and have a frank conversation about what each side’s approach is going to be,” Kharis Templeman, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, told VOA in a video interview.
He thinks Beijing and Washington will try to talk about Taiwan “as little as possible.”
“There is an election in Taiwan in January that could shake things up, so neither side has the incentive to try to be bold and reach out to the other side or deviate from the path that they have taken over the last couple of years in the trilateral relationship [between the U.S., China, and Taiwan,]” Templeman added.
China views Taiwan as part of its territory and vows to reunite with the self-ruled democracy one day, through force if necessary. In recent years, Beijing has increased its military intimidation campaign around Taiwan, repeatedly sending military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone and staging blockade-style military exercises around the island.
Despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the U.S. has long upheld a policy of ensuring it can defend itself, and has done so through regular sales of military equipment. U.S. military sales to Taiwan have become more frequent in recent years.
Washington’s support for Taiwan
While Beijing and Washington have taken steps in recent months to resume high-level exchanges and stabilize bilateral relations, tensions around the issue of Taiwan remain high.
According to CGTN, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during their meeting in Washington D.C. last month that “Taiwan independence,” as the Chinese state-run TV channel put it, is “the most severe threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, which must be resolutely opposed and reflected in concrete policies and actions.”
Apart from the stern warning from Wang, a top Chinese military official also reiterated Beijing’s determination to quash any attempt to separate Taiwan from China.
General Zhang Youxia,vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, said late last month during China’s biggest annual military diplomacy event — the 10th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing — that “no matter who wants to separate Taiwan from China in any form, the Chinese military will never agree and will show no mercy.”
In addition to warning against attempts to separate Taiwan from China, Zhang also issued a veiled criticism of the U.S. and its allies, accusing “some countries” of trying to undermine the Chinese government.
Some experts say the Chinese government’s main concern is Washington’s increased support and involvement in Taiwan.
“It raises questions about whether the U.S. remains committed to what has been their One China Policy, which is essentially that the process by which the two sides [of the Taiwan Strait] figure out their differences has to be peaceful,” Amanda Hsiao, a senior China analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG), told VOA in a phone interview.
She said Washington’s continuous political and military support for Taiwan increases Beijing’s concern that the U.S. may try to “keep Taiwan permanently separated” from China.
While China has repeatedly cited Taiwan independence as its red line, the Hoover Institution’s Templeman said Beijing’s latest comments are in line with what it has stated in the past.
“I haven’t seen anything that suggests there is a new tone or rhetoric,” he told VOA, adding that this means there is no sign of significant escalation in Beijing’s level of concern.
“Nobody is talking about a deadline for unification or China is going to resolve the Taiwan question sooner rather than later. Those would be a significant escalation from what they have said in the past,” Templeman said.
Tilting the status quo
Compared to stern warnings from Beijing, the U.S. has repeated the importance of maintaining the status quo across the Taiwan Strait during meetings between high-level officials from the two sides.
According to the White House’s readout of Sullivan’s meeting with Wang, Sullivan “discussed concerns over China’s dangerous and unlawful actions in the South China Sea” and “raised the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
Some analysts say the U.S. is trying to maintain the status quo across the Taiwan Strait while “implicitly signaling” that it is China, not Taiwan, that is shifting the status quo.
“Comments from the U.S. certainly repeat the type of rhetoric we have seen before,” Timothy Rich, a professor of political science at Western Kentucky University, told VOA in a written response.
Despite efforts to ease tensions, the U.S. and China remain critical of each other’s military activities near Taiwan. On November 1, the U.S. 7th Fleet announced that a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the USS Rafael Peralta, and a Canadian frigate, HMCS Ottawa, “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit.”
Beijing accused Washington of hyping the transit, and it deployed warships and aircraft to follow the American and Canadian vessels. Senior Colonel Shi Yi, the spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, said the Chinese military’s actions were in accordance with laws and regulations.
Western Kentucky University’s Rich said he doesn’t expect the tensions between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, or the two sides’ military actions, “to dissipate in the near future.”
“I would expect Chinese officials to continue to place the blame on the U.S. and to frame their own actions in the Taiwan Strait as a domestic issue,” he told VOA.
Since their fundamental differences over Taiwan currently seem unresolvable, and given that both sides have many issues they want to prioritize, Templeman thinks the U.S. and China may not give Taiwan a significant focus during the Biden-Xi meeting at APEC.
“Both sides will need to talk about Taiwan at some point during the meeting, but I would expect it to be pretty formulaic,” he told VOA.
In Templeman’s view, if Taiwan is only a small part of the Biden-Xi meeting, that could serve both Biden’s and Xi’s interests.
https://www.voanews.com/a/7346521.html
@Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-11-08, from: Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed)
I find it depressing that 44% of computer science professors apparently think CEOs of AI companies are 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 asking for regulation.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/08/tech-ceos-distrust-expert-survey
https://scholar.social/@mhucka/111375185205040556
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The victim, known as Fred Locz, won a local award for his music last year.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281549048.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Commentary on plan to review books for sexuality, gender themes.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article281567543.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
These state jobs offer telework options and are taking applications in November.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281545723.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
They’re not the only items joining the menu.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281551673.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The police chase ended in a crash, resulting in standstill traffic and an ensuing collision on the Indiana interstate.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281579413.html
@Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-11-08, from: Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed)
I read this in a random article about a product for photographers and I'm boggling at the level of egotism required to think this.
https://scholar.social/@mhucka/111375142255464772
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“The family has lost everything.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281537373.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated Forrester reckons that up to 20 percent of VMware enterprise customers plan to escape its extensive virtualization stack in the coming year.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/vmware_customer_forrester_prediction/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The failure of the county to ensure the maintenance of these nets is foolhardy.
The post Ring Net Removal a Mistake appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/08/ring-net-removal-a-mistake/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Sacramento Kings and Portland Trail Blazers are both dealing with injuries going into Wednesday’s game at Golden 1 Center.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281570043.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The LAist
The Cal State system offers 30 days of paid family leave. Faculty who have authorized a strike are demanding one semester.
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The LAist
The rate of infants dying in California before their first birthday ticked up slightly last year and is part of a troubling trend.
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The LAist
In the third episode of Imperfect Paradise: People vs. Karen, the criminal case against Katie Sorensen goes to trial. Reporter Emily Guerin was there.
https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/imperfect-paradise-podcast-people-vs-karen-part-3
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Of the 34 facilities that were evaluated, 11 provided “inadequate” care to their patients, according to the report.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281554588.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Want to hit the slops as soon as this weekend? One high-elevation Lake Tahoe-area ski resort is opening for the first time this season.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/outdoors/article281548463.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Eight California airports made the list of top 10 for best and worst airports.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281543603.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“The Graveyard of the Atlantic claims another vessel.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281577308.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
BlueROV2 is an uncrewed underwater robot which surveys the depths with the help of a Raspberry Pi 4, at a fraction of the typical cost of an underwater ROV.
The post This Raspberry Pi-powered submarine ROV safely explores the depths appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/this-raspberry-pi-powered-submarine-rov-safely-explores-the-depths/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Marketplace Morning Report
A former safety engineer at Facebook parent company Meta tesifies, “We cannot trust them with our children,” citing indequate options for addressing harmful material. Plus, a look ahead at this weekend’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco; stocks rally on hopes of no more interest rate hikes; and new legislation looks to boost Americans’ retirement security.
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to SpaceX for its next set of Galileo satellites.…
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Once a narrative takes hold — oh, which rhymes with OLD — it’s hard to change it. From Melinda Henneberger:
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281539198.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel against reoccupying Gaza, even while acknowledging a “transition period” may be necessary following Israel’s war against Hamas militants in the Palestinian enclave.
At a press conference Wednesday on the sidelines of a Group of Seven summit in Tokyo, Blinken reasserted U.S. support for Israel’s efforts to oust Hamas, which killed 1,400 people and abducted over 200 others in an attack last month in Israel.
But Blinken also said “it is clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza.”
“Now, the reality is that there may be a need for some transition period at the end of the conflict. But it is imperative that the Palestinian people be central to governance in Gaza and the West Bank, as well,” he added.
In an interview Tuesday with ABC News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested his country will play a security role in Gaza for an “indefinite period” once the conflict ends.
Over 10,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 4,000 children, according to Palestinian officials, as Israel intensifies its ground operation and airstrikes in Gaza.
Netanyahu has insisted there will be no cease-fire until the hostages taken by Hamas are released. But he suggested Tuesday that “tactical little pauses – an hour there, an hour there” are possible.
In a joint statement issued Wednesday, G7 foreign ministers called for “humanitarian pauses and corridors” to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the release of hostages.
The G7 statement also vowed to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia “for as long as it takes,” condemned alleged Russian-North Korean weapons transactions, and criticized a wide range of Chinese actions.
Mideast focus
But the meeting was dominated by the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, amid growing international calls for a cease-fire.
Last week, a large majority of countries in the United Nations General Assembly voted for a resolution calling for an immediate and sustained “humanitarian truce” in Gaza.
The United States voted against the proposal, warning that a cease-fire would allow Hamas to regroup and conduct more attacks.
France, another G7 member, supported the resolution, underscoring differences on the Mideast conflict even among wealthy, developed countries.
G7 host Japan has also not been as outspokenly pro-Israel as other U.S. allies, said Jeffrey J. Hall, a professor at the Kanda University of International Studies.
“Japan is faced with either angering Washington, or angering the Arab states that supply it with oil,” Hall said.
“It’s not really possible for the G7 to come out with a very strong united position on this,” he added.
At his press conference, Blinken played down any suggestion of friction, saying “G7 unity is stronger and more important than ever.”
Pressing global concerns
In the joint statement that followed two days of meetings, G7 foreign ministers addressed a wide range of other global issues.
On Ukraine, the G7 leaders vowed that their governments’ “steadfast commitment” to Ukraine’s defense “will never waver.”
“We commit to standing by Ukraine for as long as it takes,” the statement said.
Some analysts have expressed concern that the Israel-Gaza conflict may shift international focus away from the Ukraine-Russia war.
Such concerns are valid, according to Sebastian Maslow, who teaches international relations at Sendai Shirayuri Women’s College in Japan.
“We are living in an attention economy now,” Maslow said. But, he said, G7 governments know that if they soften their support of Ukraine, “this will send a strong signal towards Russia – and China, for that matter – that the G7 has no ability to resolve a fundamental regional crisis.”
Focus on Asia
In Tokyo, Blinken also stressed it is important for the United States to continue to focus on Asia, even while it deals with urgent issues in Europe and the Mideast.
“We are determined, and we are, as we would say, running and chewing gum at the same time,” Blinken said. “The Indo-Pacific is the critical region for our future.”
His comments come ahead of an expected meeting next week in California between U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping.
Blinken said he could not comment on specific topics that Biden and Xi will discuss, but that both sides “have acknowledged the importance of leader level channels in managing the relationship.”
Analysts do not expect any breakthroughs at the Xi-Biden meeting but say such meetings may help prevent U.S.-China tensions from spiraling out of control.
Wednesday’s G7 statement repeated many longstanding concerns that the United States and many of its allies have about China.
The statement expressed opposition to “unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion” in the East and South China seas.
The statement also linked the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait to the “security and prosperity” of the international community.
China has increased its military threats against self-ruled Taiwan and refuses to rule out taking the island by force. Beijing views the issue as a domestic, not international, concern, and routinely criticizes other countries’ comments on the matter.
In addition, the G7 statement expressed concern about the human rights situation in China, including in Xinjiang and Tibet.
But G7 leaders added: “We stand prepared to build constructive and stable relations with China, recognizing the importance of engaging candidly and expressing our concerns directly to China.”
Blinken to Seoul
Following the G7 meetings, Blinken departed for Seoul, where he will meet with senior South Korean leaders. Military cooperation between North Korea and Russia will be high on the agenda, according to U.S. officials.
Washington and Seoul have vowed to enhance joint deterrence against growing threats from Pyongyang as North Korea continues its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and prepares for what would be a third attempt to launch a spy satellite.
The G7 statement strongly condemned recent North Korean weapons tests, as well as alleged arms transfers from North Korea to Russia, which it said directly violate U.N. Security Council resolutions.
https://www.voanews.com/a/at-g7-blinken-warns-israel-against-occupying-gaza/7346437.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
She entered through the exit to avoid speed bumps, cops say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281576848.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Wine production around the world is set to fall this year to its lowest level in more than 60 years, mainly down to changes in the weather. Plus, consumer and environmental groups have issued a legal complaint to the European Commission, saying that Danone, Nestle and Coca Cola are making misleading claims about plastic bottles being 100% recycled – or being completely recyclable. The big brands deny this. And, El Salvador made history in 2021 by becoming the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, but how has it worked out for ordinary Salvadoreans?
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here.
Our message is simple: it is possible to get the best of both worlds. We can and should get the benefits of the cloud while taking security back into our own hands. Here we outline a strategy for doing that.
In the last few years, a slew of ideas old and new have converged to reveal a path out of this morass, but they haven’t been widely recognized, combined, or used. These ideas, which we’ll refer to in the aggregate as “decoupling,” allow us to rethink both security and privacy…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/decoupling-for-security.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The three beloved bears will depart for China later today, traveling in style on a FedEx cargo plane
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get an early start on Christmas with our review of the best 11 gadgets any man in your life will enjoy.
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281554058.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Monero Project is admitting that one of its wallets was drained by an unknown source in September, losing the equivalent of around $437,000 at today’s exchange rate.…
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Sen. Rick Scott’s plea for ‘unity’ and an end to the GOP race should give rivals an opening in Wednesday’s debate. | Opinion
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281556438.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
Age is a hot topic right now. Especially, “older, old age.” President Joe Biden is getting hit with more than his fair share of rotten tomatoes on this one. He stumbles over words. He gets lost in thought every now and again. He relies on Teleprompters. Oh, how the critics howl about being TOO […]
The post Gary Horton | Biden, Trump, Old Age and Sensibility appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/gary-horton-biden-trump-old-age-and-sensibility/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
I read the Nov. 3 article entitled, “Community members bemoan lack of progress in Hart District negotiation with teachers.” I agree that it is disappointing that our teachers and the William S. Hart Union High School District have not reached a contract agreement yet. I further agree that in order to attract and keep the […]
The post Karen Frost | One Tragic Day Doesn’t Define Us appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/karen-frost-one-tragic-day-doesnt-define-us/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
Hooray for the Eagle Scouts. We should be proud of these young men. Ayush Doshi, working with Bridge to Home, as well as his brother Suraj, are Eagle Scouts and their parents must be so proud. Robbie Haring, thank you for repairing the Saugus “S,” it looks great. Your family must be proud of you. […]
The post Juanita Fitzgerald | Applause for the Eagle Scouts appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/juanita-fitzgerald-applause-for-the-eagle-scouts/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Ubuntu Summit 2023 Next April a new LTS Ubuntu arrives, and alongside it will be a whole new immutable desktop edition.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/ubuntu_core_desktop_details/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The GOP debate in Miami comes exactly one year after Ron DeSantis won reelection big in Florida.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article281353118.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Venus is the most similar planet to the Earth in size and position, but its atmosphere is very different. To help shed light on why, a group of scientists have – for the first time – made direct observations of atomic oxygen on both the day and night sides of the second planet from the Sun.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/venus_oxygen_measures_to_help/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>When former Hawaii Police Department officer Nicholas C.K. McDaniel was laid to rest Saturday in Post Falls, Idaho, numerous Big Island officers attended his funeral.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PARADISE, Calif. — On the day Paradise burned, Gwen Nordgren stopped her car just long enough to rescue a young woman escaping by foot.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, a former engineering director at the social media giant who had rejoined the company as a consultant sent an alarming email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hawaii County has been given 150 Narcan kits from the Hawaii Island Fentanyl Task Force.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/08/hawaii-news/hawaii-county-receives-150-narcan-kits/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Impassioned arguments were raised, but no conclusions were reached Tuesday during a hearing about whether the Thirty Meter Telescope has met minimum requirements to keep its land use permit for Maunakea.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The state has launched a new initiative to ensure that communities across Hawaii have reliable and affordable access to high-speed internet.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, the latest victory for abortion rights supporters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month — and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel said Tuesday that its ground forces were battling Hamas fighters deep inside Gaza’s largest city, signaling a major new stage in the month-old conflict, and its leaders foresee controlling the enclave’s security after the war.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KAPALUA — A breakdown of the first insurance data for the Maui wildfires shows more than 6,079 residential property and personal motor vehicle claims totaling more than $1.35 billion have been filed for losses in West Maui and Upcountry Maui.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s vast fields of underground nuclear missile silos are rarely disturbed by more than the occasional wandering cow or floating spy balloon. But the service is now asking Congress to help with another unexpected danger: towering wind turbines, which are growing in number and size and are edging closer to the sites each year.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing age and their partners to get tested for the sexually transmitted disease.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — the only Palestinian American in Congress — an extraordinary rebuke of her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Carmelita Mary Bacio, 69, of Mountain View died Oct. 29 at home. Born in Hilo, she was a store clerk, caretaker, nurse and 1972 Hilo High School graduate. Visitation 7:30-8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Mountain View. Memorial Mass at 8 a.m. Luncheon at 11 a.m. at Keaau Community Center, 16-186 Mua St. in Keaau. Survived by children, Mark Banasihan of Atlanta, Genevieve (Peter Jr.) Siva of Waimea, Kauai, Regina Banasihan of Kekaha, Kauai, Lorna Pedro-Villanueva of Mountain View and Paul Banasihan Jr. of Keaau; sisters, Josefa Allen of Kapolei, Oahu, Lorita Domingo of Pauoa Valley, Oahu and Connie (Cirilo) Carnate of Pearl City, Oahu; 19 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, and hanai children. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/08/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-8-11/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Shoppers can help put food on the table for Hawaii residents facing hunger this holiday season with the annual statewide Check-Out Hunger campaign from the Hawaii Foodbank.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Nature Conservancy and the Ka‘upulehu Marine Life Advisory Committee on Oct. 30 launched Kanu Ko‘a (planting corals), the first community-led coral reef restoration project on Hawaii Island.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>You probably know what a “zombie lie” is, but, just in case, it’s an idea or proposition or theory that is demonstrably, logically and intuitively false but which, like a zombie, refuses to die. And it will eat your brain.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/08/opinion/3-very-dangerous-zombie-lies/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>One of the things that makes the United States Senate what some call “the world’s greatest deliberative body” is a rule structure that ensures even members of the minority party have a voice.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Hilo Woman’s Club will host a rummage sale from 7 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, Nov. 18, at their clubhouse on 7 Lele St. in Hilo.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Federal pigs are
way out of control</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/08/opinion/your-views-for-november-8-9/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Four Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF) schools — Kamehameha Schools Hawai‘i, Waiakea, Kealakehe and Hilo — represented the island at this year’s Zippy Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA) Cheerleading Championships on Monday night in Honolulu.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>University of Hawaii</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Bill Self signed a lifetime contract Tuesday that will pay him $53 million over the first five years, easily surpassing Kentucky coach John Calipari for the richest deal ever given to a college basketball coach at a public university. </p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DENVER — The Pac-12 comes down to two as the season enters the home stretch. </p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>If I waited for an invitation, I would never be able to attend any party.</p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Michigan is preparing to take possible legal action if the Big Ten Conference punishes the Wolverines’ football program before a full investigation into allegations of an impermissible scouting and sign-stealing scheme, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday. </p>
date: 2023-11-08, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Every once in a while, startup founders and managers decide that they need someone to create and manage their docs –perhaps after reading this letter. Some contact me to understand how they should go about hiring for a tech writer. Since I’ve already published tips for job hunting as a tech writer, I thought it would be a good idea to write down some advice for the other side, too. Here are my recommendations for software companies wanting to hire their first technical writer.
https://passo.uno/tips-hiring-tech-writers/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
French pharma firm Servier says its hit rate for finding target small molecules is up by an order of magnitude after it shifted the supporting data science to a graph database from Neo4j.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/order_of_magnitude_benefit_using/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Robert Reich on Substack
If yes, he’s got to do it now. But should he?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-should-biden-withdraw
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/classifieds-november-8-2023/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-09, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Lawmakers in Europe are expected to adopt digital identity rules that civil society groups say will make the internet less secure and open up citizens to online surveillance.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/europe_eidas_browser/
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1977 – Castaic residents vote 168-54 to withdraw 7th-8th grades from Hart District, making CUSD K-8. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-8/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Alyssa Marin tossed a cross-court pass to Alexis Whitfield, who calmy drained a corner three-pointer to punctuate an uneven, but
The post UCSB Women’s Basketball Outlasts University of San Francisco in Season Opener appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC will host crosstown rival and top-ranked UCLA in its regular season finale.
The post Men’s water polo wraps up regular season appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/mens-water-polo-wraps-up-regular-season/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans hope to extend their winning streak away in the Pacific Northwest.
The post Women’s volleyball set for Washington appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/womens-volleyball-set-for-washington/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Here are the sports you should lean toward and stay away from when it comes to gambling.
The post Picking the sport may be more important than picking the team appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/picking-the-sport-may-be-more-important-than-picking-the-team/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The need to achieve as a FGLI student often leads to self-loathing and guilt.
The post Immigrant optimism wields a double-edged sword appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/immigrant-optimism-wields-a-double-edged-sword/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Despite his lack of infamy, our new speaker is more dangerous than the last one.
The post Amid chaos, GOP moves toward fascism appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/amid-chaos-gop-moves-toward-fascism/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The contest let students showcase their adventures overseas with photography.
The post Photo contest captures study abroad experience appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/photo-contest-captures-study-abroad-experience/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC’s Student Symphony Orchestra performed at Bovard Auditorium Sunday.
The post Student orchestra embraces nostalgia appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/student-orchestra-embraces-nostalgia/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A Vogue contributor has vowed to stop shopping, but why am I scared to join her?
The post A two-step program staring back at me appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/a-two-step-program-staring-back-at-me/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
LAPD did not confirm an arrest, though the investigation is ongoing.
The post Lyft driver who allegedly raped a USC student banned from platform appeared first on Daily Trojan.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The campaign empowers students to help victims of sudden cardiac emergencies.
The post Student Health hosts final CPR trainings appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/stayin-alive-with-final-cpr-training/
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Students wishing to speak must submit a form to describe their statement.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/08/usg-mandates-virtual-meetings-in-response-to-hate/
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump testified on Wednesday that she did not recall details of real-estate deals she worked on at her father’s company, in a New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former U.S. president’s business empire.
Like her brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who testified last week, Ivanka Trump sought to distance herself from the questionable valuation methods that have already been ruled fraudulent by the judge overseeing the trial.
Trump, by contrast, has acknowledged on the witness stand that some of the estimates of golf courses, office towers and other company assets were inaccurate.
The lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, accuses Trump and his family businesses of manipulating real estate asset values to dupe lenders and insurers and embellish Trump’s reputation as a successful businessman.
Unlike her siblings and father, Ivanka Trump is not a defendant in the case.
As a top executive at the Trump Organization between 2011 and 2017, Ivanka said she focused on redeveloping the Doral golf course in Florida and the Old Post Office property in Washington.
At the trial, she was shown a 2011 email in which she acknowledged that a requirement by lender Deutsche Bank that her father maintain a net worth of at least $3 billion was a problem but encouraged company officials to approve it anyway.
“We wanted to get a great rate and the only way to get proceeds/term and principal where we want them is to guarantee the deal,” she wrote to a Trump Organization lawyer.
On the witness stand, she said she favored the deal but did not recall specific terms. “I felt generally that the deal terms with Deutsche Bank for Doral were positive,” she said.
Trump, who leads his rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination despite a maelstrom of legal troubles, has denied wrongdoing and accused James and Justice Arthur Engoron of political bias and “election interference.” He repeated those claims on social media late on Tuesday, saying it was “Sad!” that Ivanka was being forced to testify.
During defiant and rambling testimony on Monday, Trump acknowledged that valuations for his properties were not always accurate but said the errors were not relevant to the financial institutions that used them to price deals.
Donald Jr. and Eric Trump testified last week that the financial documents at the heart of the case were not their responsibility, though emails and other documents showed they may have been more involved than their testimony indicated.
Ivanka joined her father during his 2017-2021 term in the White House, leaving her brothers in charge of the company during that time.
James said Ivanka nevertheless was involved in manipulating property values.
“She will attempt today to distance herself from the company, but unfortunately the facts will reveal that in fact she was very much involved,” James said on the courthouse steps.
In a ruling that found Trump, his adult sons and 10 of his companies liable for fraud, Engoron described in scathing terms how the defendants made up valuations. His ruling could strip Trump’s control of some of his best known properties, though that order is on hold during appeal.
James is seeking $250 million in fines, as well as restrictions that would prevent Trump and his adult sons from doing business in New York.
In addition to this case, Trump is a defendant in four separate criminal cases, including two stemming from his attempts to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory.
Nevertheless, opinion polls show he holds a commanding lead over Republican rivals to face Biden next year.
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Indian outsourcing titan Wipro is mandating a return to the office for three days a week and there will be repercussions for staff that fail to comply.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/wipro_office_return/
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
A year away from the country’s next presidential election, Democrats and abortion rights advocates won a series of victories in elections in several U.S. states Tuesday.
Voters in the state of Ohio approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care.
The measure follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision that had protected abortion rights.
Ohio was one of several states where an abortion ban went into effect as a result of the court’s decision.
Before Ohio, voters in several other states, including California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont, adopted initiatives to protect abortion access following the Supreme Court ruling last year.
In Kentucky, Democratic Governor Andy Beshear won re-election Tuesday after a campaign that included advocating for exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.
Voters in Virginia denied Republican Governor Glen Youngkin’s hope of putting the state’s legislature in his party’s control. Democrats held onto a slim majority in the state Senate while taking back a majority in the House of Delegates.
Youngkin has proposed instituting a 15-week abortion ban in Virginia except in cases of rape, incest or if the life of the mother is at risk. A Democratic majority in the legislature will block that effort.
Republicans did score a win Tuesday in the state of Mississippi, where Governor Tate Reeves defeated Democrat Brandon Presley to earn a second term in office.
November 2024 will feature a much bigger slate of national and state elections, led by races for the U.S. president, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and new terms for 33 seats in the U.S. Senate.
There will also be special elections to finish the final years of Senate terms for two seats, one left vacant by the death of Democrat Dianne Feinstein and the other by Republican Ben Sasse’s resignation to become a university president.
Democrats currently hold a narrow majority in the Senate, while Republicans have a small majority in the House.
Eleven states will hold elections for governor in 2024, while voters in most of the 50 states will cast ballots in legislative races.
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Australia’s second-largest telco, Singapore-owned Optus, experienced an outage beginning Wednesday around 4am Sydney and Melbourne time that left millions nationwide without phone or internet access – either mobile or terrestrial.…
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Supervisor Laura Capps’s eight-point plan includes higher fencing, more lighting, and education on the dangerous bluffs.
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date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
The House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — the only Palestinian American in Congress — an extraordinary rebuke of her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war.
The 234-188 tally came after enough Democrats joined with Republicans to censure Tlaib, a punishment one step below expulsion from the House. The three-term congresswoman has long been a target of criticism for her views on the decades-long conflict in the Middle East.
The debate on the censure resolution on Tuesday afternoon was emotional and intense. Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia pushed the measure in response to what he called Tlaib’s promotion of antisemitic rhetoric. He said she has “levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7.”
With other Democrats standing by her side, Tlaib defended her stance, saying she “will not be silenced and I will not let you distort my words.”
She added that her criticism of the Jewish state has always been directed toward its government and its leadership under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“It is important to separate people and government,” she said. “The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent. And it’s been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation.”
That criticism reached new heights after the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas left hundreds of Israelis dead and scores injured. Tlaib, who has family in the West Bank, came under heavy reproval after she failed to immediately condemn Hamas after the attack.
All Democrats initially stood by Tlaib and helped defeat the first censure resolution against her last week. But since then, many of her colleagues, including prominent Jewish members, have become more conflicted about her rhetoric about the war, especially because of a slogan she has used frequently that is widely seen as calling for the eradication of Israel.
Ultimately, more than 20 of them joined Republicans on Tuesday night to censure her after an effort to shelve the measure failed earlier in the day.
The latest censure push resulted in a dramatic vote on the House floor amid political tensions over the ongoing, deadly Israel-Hamas war.
While the majority of both parties have historically stood firmly on the side of Israel, divisions have emerged in the Democratic Party about the American response.
Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., the lone Democrat to vote with Republicans on Tuesday to advance the censure resolution, said he believed it was important to debate the slogan “from the river to the sea.”
“It is nothing else but the call for the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews,” the Jewish Democrat said. “I will always defend the right to free speech. Tlaib has the right to say whatever she wants.”
He added, “But it cannot go unanswered.”
While the censure of a lawmaker carries no practical effect, it amounts to severe reproach from colleagues, as lawmakers who are censured are usually asked to stand in the well of the House as the censure resolution against them is read aloud.
But the resolution against Tlaib did not call for the public admonishment.
With the vote, Tlaib will become the second Muslim-American woman in Congress to be formally admonished this year for her criticism of the Jewish state.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was removed in February from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for similar comments she made about Israel.
Some on the left have criticized President Joe Biden’s stance and urged him to put conditions on U.S. support for Israel as its aggressive military campaign drives the Palestinian death toll higher.
While the vote against Tlaib will take place against the extraordinary backdrop of the war, the push to censure her is part of a growing pattern in the House.
Censure had long been viewed as a punishment of last resort, just one step below expulsion and to be triggered only for the most egregious wrongdoing. But censure resolutions are quickly becoming routine in the chamber, often wielded in strikingly partisan ways.
Many Democrats and some Republicans who opposed censuring Tlaib cited free speech and warned of the precedent it would set.
“This resolution not only degrades our Constitution, but it cheapens the meaning of discipline in this body for people who actually commit wrongful actions like bribery, fraud, violent assault and so on,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who defended Tlaib against the resolution on the floor late Tuesday.
A second resolution by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to censure Tlaib had also been scheduled for a procedural vote late Tuesday night. But that measure was put on hold after the censure resolution from McCormick advanced to a final vote.
Tlaib is now the 26th person to ever be censured by the chamber, and the second just this year. In June, Republicans voted to censure Democrat Adam Schiff of California for comments he made several years ago about investigations into then-President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
When the House was under Democratic control, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona was censured in 2021 for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York with a sword. And Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York was censured in 2010 over serious financial and campaign misconduct.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Heatmap News
An unprecedented “public power takeover” campaign in Maine failed on
Tuesday, according to a
projection
by The New York Times.
The Maine ballot had asked voters if they wanted to create the Pine Tree Power Company, a nonprofit electric utility governed by a publicly-elected board, which would purchase and acquire all of the investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities in Maine. When the Times made its call, voters had rejected the initiative 71% to 29%, with over a third of precincts reporting.
The ballot question was the culmination of a multi-year campaign by a group called Our Power, which initially brought the idea to a vote in the Maine legislature in 2021. Though it passed, the bill was vetoed by Governor Janet Mills, and supporters did not have the votes to override the decision. Instead, they gathered the 63,000 signatures required to put the question to Mainers on this year’s ballot.
A growing contingent of the progressive climate movement is turning to the idea of public power as a way to solve many aspects of the energy transition at once. They argue that the system of providing electricity through state-sanctioned private monopolies is incompatible with an era of climate change, when utilities should be rapidly transitioning to clean energy, while also growing and hardening the grid, and easing the cost burden for the most vulnerable customers. The theory is that a public utility, unencumbered by the need to turn a profit, will be able to prioritize other public goals.
Public power advocates in Maine offered voters a laundry list of other reasons why they thought the state’s two investor-owned utilities, CMP and Versant, should be replaced. Though it’s rare that anyone likes their utilities, CMP and Versant are consistently rated the worst for customer satisfaction in the Northeast. CMP has faced multiple investigations and fines over its billing system, customer service, and delays connecting new solar projects to the grid. Advocates also appealed to nationalist views by highlighting the fact that both companies have “foreign owners.” (CMP is owned by Iberdrola, a Spanish company. Versant is owned by Enmax, a Canadian company owned by the city of Calgary.)
But in the run-up to the vote, the two utilities spent millions of dollars running targeted ads on social media and streaming services calling the idea “too costly and too risky.” This “disaster for Maine” would “hurt workers and small businesses,” they argued.
A few key aspects of the takeover were uncertain, including the ultimate cost of the acquisition, how long it would take to complete, and whether the transition would result in lower rates for customers. Campaigners essentially asked Mainers to take a leap of faith. They managed to convince the city of Portland, but few other parts of the state appeared to get on board.
This was perhaps the most ambitious attempt at a public power takeover the nation has seen since the early 20th century. But other, similar efforts are underway in cities and towns all over the country, like Ann Arbor, Michigan, and San Diego, California.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/maines-historic-public-power-push-goes-down-in-flames
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
With Israeli tanks surrounding Gaza City, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will assume overall security responsibility after it ends control of the territory by Hamas militants. After another round of shuttle diplomacy, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has acknowledged that efforts to secure a pause in Israel’s bombing of Gaza and to plan for the future of the Palestinians are “a work in progress.” VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-says-it-does-not-support-the-reoccupation-of-gaza/7346219.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
CSUN head coach Andy Newman will have to wait another game to find his first win at Northridge as the Matadors dropped the season opener 88-79 at Stanford (1-0). After being up by four with less than three minutes left in the game, the Matadors (0-1) let a season opening win slip through their fingers….
date: 2023-11-08, from: Transiting Los Angeles
John shares his thoughts on last week’s Arroyofest and what it could mean for the Arroyo Seco.
https://transitinglosangeles.com/2023/11/07/podcast-7-arroyofest/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
My car had huge numbers of mice living in it. When I started the engine and drove it some of the mice who were living in the engine died. Later when I got in the car it smelled terrible. So I took a picture of the car with the mice in it, and I want DALL-E to draw that for me. Thanks.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/07/034228.html?title=miceLivingInMyCar
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Pics The European Space Agency has released the first images snapped by Euclid, its latest telescope which has been designed to help build the largest 3D map of galaxies yet.…
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Review: Kenny Loggins shows off why he’s earned the right to stay forever in our hearts.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Took care of life details today, sold a car, voted, and realized I’ve been pushing it really hard programming for most of the year. Learned a lot, made new friends. Looking forward to working with users and developers this winter, and of course fixing bugs. A big new product release coming soon. 😄
http://scripting.com/2023/11/07.html#a023050
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Nice Prentice and Nicole Buist were named athletes of the week.
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date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club is hosting a food drive on Saturday, Nov. 18, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sam’s Club, 26468 Carl Boyer Drive, Santa Clarita, CA 91350. The donations will be used to help the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry.
https://scvnews.com/nov-18-scv-corvette-club-hosts-annual-food-drive/
date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
China booked its largest single-day U.S. soybean purchases in at least three months on Tuesday, traders said, offering a glimmer of hope for the most valuable U.S. farm export after overseas sales of the 2023 harvest had fallen well behind the normal pace.
Chinese importers bought around 10 cargoes of soybeans, or about 600,000 metric tons, for shipment from Gulf Coast and Pacific Northwest export terminals between December and March, trade sources said.
The sales would be a relief to U.S. farmers, who have seen Brazil dominate the global export market for soy as well as corn for longer than normal this year.
If confirmed, Tuesday’s sales would be the largest single-day soybean purchases by the world’s top soy importer since late July, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) daily sales data.
They were the latest in a series of soy import deals since late last week by Sinograin, China’s state-owned importer, according to three export traders with knowledge of the deals. Total purchases over that time were estimated at as much as 20 to 25 cargoes, two traders said.
Cash premiums for U.S. soybeans at Gulf Coast terminals GRYM, GRZD jumped by as much as 10 cents a bushel on Tuesday as exporters scrambled to source supplies, traders said.
High U.S. prices due to barge shipping disruptions and stiff export market competition from Brazil, which harvested a record soy crop this year, have hampered U.S. sales in the season so far.
Confirmed sales to China as of late October were down 35% from a year ago, and sales to all destinations were down 28%. The USDA is currently projecting a 12% year-on-year export decline.
But U.S. prices have become more competitive for shipments from December through March, when Brazil’s next harvest will be available.
The USDA has confirmed private sales totaling 236,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans over the past two days via the agency’s daily reporting system. Traders expect additional “flash sales” following the deals on Tuesday.
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-makes-largest-us-soy-purchases-in-months-traders/7346211.html
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The union representing actors in the US film, TV, and radio industries has turned down the latest contract offer from studios in its battle to regulate the entertainment sector’s use of AI. …
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date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
News release The nonprofit WeWil Collaborative is joining forces with Rachel Cosgrove, co-owner and operator of Results Fitness, a gym in Old Town Newhall, to present a virtual workshop with the proceeds benefitting the Child & Family Center. The workshop, titled, “7 Secrets for Success in Uncertain Times,” is scheduled to start at noon Friday, Dec. […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/wewil-collaborative-to-host-virtual-workshop/
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Metrolink will suspend service on all lines from Dec. 26-29, to complete the final phase of a three-year modernization project. Trains will not run on any part of Metrolink’s six-county system, which includes the Antelope Valley Line that runs through the Santa Clarita Valley, during the service outage
https://scvnews.com/metrolink-suspends-service-dec-26-29-on-all-lines/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The LAist
Josie Huang filed a claim with L.A. County after she was arrested and injured by deputies in 2020.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Guam Daily Post
A Guam Power Authority generator reported stolen about a month ago was recovered by police today.
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
Several photos of Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer lined the walls inside a soundstage at Santa Clarita Studios on Saturday. Posing for his baseball photo in 2002. Just hanging out with his friends. And a photo with his fiancée Brittany Lindsey in the moment she said, “yes.” The photos that surrounded 14 poker tables and one blackjack […]
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date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The White House is already trying to sink a bipartisan law bill introduced on Tuesday that would rein in the Feds’ powers to snoop on US persons without a warrant under the infamous FISA Section 702.…
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date: 2023-11-08, from: VOA News USA
Washington and NATO allies said Tuesday they will echo Russia’s suspension of a Cold War treaty to limit conventional arms proliferation in Europe, with the White House saying it had “no option” but to leave.
Nonproliferation advocates said this won’t make a huge impact on the battlefield.
Suspending the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) “will strengthen the [NATO] Alliance’s deterrence and defense capacity by removing restrictions that impact planning, deployments, and exercises — restrictions that no longer bind Russia after Moscow’s withdrawal,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
Treaty set limits
The 1990 treaty was designed to prevent either side of the post-Cold War power structure — at the time, NATO and the former Soviet Warsaw Pact — from being able to amass forces for a flash offensive.
It also set equal limits on the number of tanks, armored combat vehicles, heavy artillery, combat aircraft and attack helicopters it applied in the territory between the Atlantic Ocean and the Ural Mountains.
John Kirby, director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, said the U.S. had no better option but to pull out.
“I don’t know how we could justify not pulling out of it, given that the Russians have decided unilaterally to just throw it in the trash heap,” he said. “They left the United States and our NATO allies with no choice but to cease our accommodations and compliance with the treaty, as well.”
VOA asked if this decision could lead to NATO allies increasing the footprint of conventional weapons in Ukraine.
“As for future force posture, I certainly won’t talk about that from this podium,” he said.
NATO, which had criticized Russia’s June announcement to pull out, defended its decision to do the same. In a statement, the 31-member security alliance said they all support suspending their participation “for as long as necessary.”
“Russia’s withdrawal is the latest in a series of actions that systematically undermines Euro-Atlantic security,” NATO said in a statement. “Russia continues to demonstrate disregard for arms control, including key principles of reciprocity, transparency, compliance, verification, and host nation consent, and undermines the rules-based international order. While recognizing the role of the CFE as a cornerstone of the Euro-Atlantic security architecture, a situation whereby Allied States Parties abide by the Treaty, while Russia does not, would be unsustainable.”
“The Treaty’s core objective, namely to ensure a balanced conventional forces potential in Europe, cannot be achieved without Russia,” Germany’s government said in a Tuesday statement explaining its decision.
Russia calls treaty ‘vestige of the past’
Russia gave its 150-day notice of withdrawal in June, arguing that the treaty, forged in the ashes of the Cold War, was obsolete. It also said the “last straw” for the decision was NATO’s decision to welcome Finland and Sweden — both nonsignatories to the treaty — into the pact. Finland borders Russia, and Moscow expressed concerns that it could be used by third countries to amass weapons along Russia’s northwestern border.
“It is clear that, in today’s conditions, the CFE has definitely become a vestige of the past,” the Russian government said in a statement. “Our opponents should not have any illusions about Russia returning to the CFE compliance.”
Both U.S. parties agree on suspension
The U.S. decision was applauded by both parties, said U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, a Democrat, and Jim Risch, a Republican. Both sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“This is an opportunity to reassess our force posture in Europe to ensure we are ready to deter any Russian threats against U.S. national security interests, including against our NATO allies and other regional partners,” they said in a joint statement.
But security and nonproliferation experts say this won’t make much difference.
“Russia stopped implementing the CFE treaty way back around 2007,” John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told VOA. “So, the implications are pretty much zero. … The treaty has been dead for many years, and this is just further acknowledgment that it is so.”
Pal Dunay, a professor of NATO and European security issues at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, agreed in an analysis he wrote when Russia issued its decision.
“Russia’s decision to formally withdraw from the CFE Treaty will not make much difference on the ground,” he wrote.
But, Erath noted, one important thing will now change: Under the treaty, signatories were required to send each other annual reports with detailed information on their conventional forces. Russia, he said, did not comply with that requirement, but was receiving the information from the other signatories.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-nato-follow-russia-in-dropping-out-of-europe-arms-treaty/7346174.html
date: 2023-11-08, from: The Signal
A San Bernardino woman who visited Six Flags Magic Mountain in February 2020 and claimed the amusement park’s X2 ride caused her “shock and injury to her nervous systems and person,” which left her permanently disabled, is suing the park. Attorneys for Six Flags filed a motion Nov. 1 seeking a summary judgment in Department […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/six-flags-attorneys-request-dismissal-of-lawsuit-over-x2/
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The merriest arrival of the year in the Santa Clarita Valley is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. when Santa Claus arrives at Valencia Town Center
https://scvnews.com/nov-10-santa-to-arrive-at-valencia-town-center/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google contractors upset that some of their teammates were allegedly unlawfully terminated in retaliation for trying to unionize at the web giant have now joined the Alphabet Workers Union – after a 26-2 vote overseen by the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).…
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date: 2023-11-08, from: Playdate Blog
Hello! It’s us, Panic. We’ve got another update on what’s new with Playdate, featuring upcoming games, some platform classics, and our new Playdate Cover color.
https://news.play.date/news/playdate-update-4/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Playdate Blog
The Playdate Cover is your tiny yellow console’s best friend—and today, it comes in a new flavor: Aqua. Reminiscent of ocean shores, pool parties, and icy mints, this new color will brighten your desk or pocket. Like our classic purple cover, it’s still made of durable synthetic leather (PU) and it attaches magnetically. Grab one today! Order Now
https://news.play.date/news/cover-aqua/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office says the victim was 16-year-old Shylah Alexander, a student at San Marcos High School.
The post Authorities Identify Teenage Girl Struck and Killed by Train Near Goleta appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-08, from: OS News
Fedora Workstation now features GNOME 45, which brings better performance and many usability enhancements, including a new workspace switcher and a much-improved image viewer. If you’re looking for a different desktop experience, our Budgie Special Interest Group has created Fedora Onyx, a Budgie-based “Atomic” desktop in the spirit of Fedora Silverblue. Of course, that’s not all — we also have updated desktop flavors featuring KDE Plasma Desktop, Xfce, Cinnamon, and more. As with every Fedora release, it comes with the latest and greatest every one of the Linux desktops has to offer, as well as all the newest versions of the various frameworks and underlying layers, down to the kernel. Fedora KDE is my desktop of choice, so I’m definitely a bit biased, but I can’t wait to load up the upgrade and install it.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137767/fedora-linux-39-released/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A contemporary example of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”
The post Anti-Semitism Defined appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/07/anti-semitism-defined/
date: 2023-11-08, from: OS News
In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it’s becoming iteratively more useful. I’m not entirely sure what its purpose is.
date: 2023-11-08, from: Matt Haughey blog
A few years ago, I finished a major project at work and they gave our entire wing of the company a day in October of our own choosing to take off as a reward for the extra hours and long nights. I picked a random Thursday in the middle of October and spent the day …Continue reading “How to visit the Portland Japanese Gardens at peak Fall color”
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Honoring the lives of all who served.
The post Annual Veterans Day Gathering at Santa Barbara Cemetery appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/07/annual-veterans-day-gathering-at-santa-barbara-cemetery/
date: 2023-11-08, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Mary Poppins & friends drop in Seen in Arles one day in 2017. Quote of the Day Judge: What do you suppose I am on the Bench for? F.E. Smith: It is not for me, Your Honour, to attempt to … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-8-november-2023/38795/
date: 2023-11-08, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Now thorugh Dec. 1 the Michael Hoefflin Foundation for Children’s Cancer will host a See’s Candies Yum-Raiser. Up to 50% of each item ordered is donated back to the MHF to support families struggling with pediatric cancer
https://scvnews.com/sees-candy-fundraiser-to-benefit-michael-hoefflin-foundation/
date: 2023-11-08, from: FreeDOS News
Very exciting news! Dave Dunfield has decided to release the source code of over 40 years’ work “in the hopes that others may find it useful or maybe learn a few things.” This includes the Micro-C compiler, a very nice C compiler for DOS. You can find everything at Source Code Downloads on Dave’s website. The source code license isn’t an “OSI open source” license, but aims to release the source code for others to use. Thanks Dave!
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2023/11/micro-c-and-other-programs-now-with-source-code/
date: 2023-11-08, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
How much can the City of Santa Barbara expect to spend on the “promenade” project?
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https://www.independent.com/2023/11/07/show-us-the-money/
date: 2023-11-08, updated: 2023-11-08, from: The LAist
Questions over district boundaries have put the election in the spotlight.
https://laist.com/news/politics/santa-ana-recall-election-judge-complaint-orange-county-jessie-lopez