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Planning To Travel With Friends And Family? Check Out What Essentials You Need To Pack – ABP Live https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/planning-to-travel-with-friends-and-family-check-out-what-essentials-you-need-to-pack-abp-live/ New Delhi: When one thinks of the holidays, what emotions come to mind? Happiness, excitement, and enjoyment. However, amid all of the joy, there is a sense of tension related to packing. Most people become anxious as they consider what to bring and what to leave. The fear of forgetting something important preoccupies the majority of prospective travellers. Check out what essentials should be packed while travelling:  Identity Proof:  While on vacation, it is now mandatory to carry some form of identification. Most hotels will not rent you a room if you do not have one. It would also be of great assistance to travellers and their families in the event of a mishap or other contingency. Both the inside and outside of the bag should have one’s name, address, and the location where one plans to stay on vacation. It will make it much easier to return the bag to its owner if it becomes lost. Medicines:  There are some medications that need to be taken on a daily basis. They should be brought along with a copy of the prescription. Medicines for common problems such as colds, fevers, headaches, and so on can also be taken as a precaution. Personal Hygiene Products:  Personal hygiene items such as toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, face wash, body lotion, shaving kit, deodorants, and so on should be available. And certain items, such as sunscreen lotions or cold creams, are required by the local climate and should be brought along accordingly. The need for essentials may vary depending on the type of trip planned. If you want to explore nature, the following list of essentials is for people who want to go on an open-air nature trip: “Because we are all trying to survive in this world, we all need some space to breathe and be around nature, and a trip to the mountains is the best way to do that.” Prachi and Tapesh, Influencers of Mad Influence, share a list of essentials to keep in mind when travelling in hilly areas. Comfy Tents:  The most peaceful energy can be found sleeping under the stars on a hilltop, and we certainly need a comfortable tent for that. All you’d have to do is lie in a tent and enjoy nature. A Pullover:  A pullover is essential when it starts to get chilly on a starry night. A cosy pullover is required to enjoy the mountain breeze. Hiking Shoes:  Hiking shoes are extremely important! Hiking shoes are required because the rocky paths of mountains will not accommodate your regular working shoes. Portable Devices:  Portable electronics such as torches and speakers are also useful; torches keep you aware of your surroundings, and speakers play music in that conscious environment!

Buckingham Palace Releases Photo Of Queen Elizabeth’s Tomb – Ghana Business News https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/buckingham-palace-releases-photo-of-queen-elizabeths-tomb-ghana-business-news/ The Buckingham Palace has published a photograph of Queen Elizabeth’s tomb at the Royal Chapel in Windsor, featuring a ledger stone bearing her name and those of her parents, and husband, Prince Philip. The stone, made of black Belgian marble, sits in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, which Queen Elizabeth commissioned in 1962 as a burial place for George VI, her father. The Queen was interred on Monday, September 19, after a state funeral in Westminister Abbey, London. The brass lettering on the stone reads: “George VI 1895-1952 / Elizabeth 1900-2002” on the top two lines, followed by a garter star and then “Elizabeth II 1926-2022 / Philip 1921-2021” on the bottom two lines. Queen Elizabeth’s sister, Princess Margaret, is also interred at the chapel, at Windsor Castle west of London. Elizabeth died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle, her summer home in the Scottish Highlands, after 70 years on the throne. Her son, Charles, has become king. Source: GNA/Reuters

Republican Abortion Bans Restrict Women’s Access To Other Essential Medicine – The Guardian https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/republican-abortion-bans-restrict-womens-access-to-other-essential-medicine-the-guardian/ A few weeks after the supreme court’s 24 June decision to overturn the nationwide abortion rights established by Roe v Wade, the pharmacy chain Walgreens sent Annie England Noblin a message, informing her that her monthly prescription of methotrexate was held up. Noblin, a 40-year-old college instructor in rural Missouri, never had trouble getting her monthly prescription of methotrexate for her rheumatoid arthritis. So she went to her local Walgreens to figure out why, standing in line with other customers as she waited for an explanation. When it was finally her turn, a pharmacist informed Noblin – in front of the other customers behind her – that she could not release the medication until she received confirmation from Noblin’s doctor that Noblin would not use it to have an abortion. Since the supreme court’s elimination of federal abortion rights, many states have been enacting laws which highly restrict access to abortion, affecting not only pregnant women but also other patients as well as healthcare providers. As a result, many pharmacies and physicians have been forced to deny and delay patients’ access to essential medications – such as methotrexate – that can be used to help induce an abortion. Noblin is one of the 5 million methotrexate users across the US and one of the country’s many autoimmune patients. Although she was eventually given her prescription, Noblin and other patients are now forced to grapple both with a monthly invasion of privacy at pharmacies that ask them about their reproductive choices as well as the possibility of being wholly denied the medication in the future due to restrictive laws. For 60 years, methotrexate has been considered a cheap, standard treatment for nearly 60% of rheumatoid arthritis patients. It is also widely used to treat other autoimmune diseases, including Crohn’s disease, lupus and psoriasis. And, because it inhibits certain cellular functions, it has been used to treat a variety of cancers including leukemia, breast cancer, lung cancer and lymphoma. But methotrexate also treats ectopic pregnancies, in which a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus. Although rare, with only about 100,000 occurring annually, ectopic pregnancies are fatal for fetuses and can severely jeopardize mothers’ health. Therefore, the only treatment is abortion, and methotrexate commonly is combined with other medicine to perform the procedure. Methotrexate’s versatility prompted the World Health Organization to classify it as an “essential medicine”. Yet Roe v Wade’s reversal has significantly stunted access to the drug – even for patients who are not pregnant and simply require the drug to treat other conditions. Numerous health organizations have confirmed reports of methotrexate being denied to women since the federal abortion rights were eliminated. Calling the drug “an important part” of caring for the illness it is dedicated to fighting, the Lupus Foundation of America said: “We are aware of reports that some people are having difficulty accessing methotrexate in the wake of the supreme court’s ruling [in June].” Similarly, the American College of Rheumatology said that it is aware of the “emerging concerns surrounding access to needed treatments such as #MTX [methotrexate] after the recent decision” from the supreme court in the Dobbs case that led to Roe v Wade’s reversal. In Missouri, abortion is completely banned with limited exceptions for saving the pregnant person’s life or to prevent serious risk to that person’s physical health. As a result, for someone like Noblin, being banned from getting access in Missouri to her monthly doses of methotrexate – even if temporarily – was and is still quite damaging. Methotrexate helps Noblin and others alleviate pain as well as swelling in their hands and shoulder joints that occasionally becomes so excruciating that it hinders their ability to get dressed or drive to work. “If I weren’t taking it,” Noblin told the Guardian, “I don’t know how I would be able to function.” After her pharmacy got confirmation from her doctor that she was not going to be using the drug to induce an abortion, Noblin was finally able to get her prescription for July. In August, Noblin went into the pharmacy again, expecting the process to be smoother this time around. However, to her surprise, she was required to consult with a pharmacist before getting the medication and confirm that she was not pregnant and didn’t intend to become pregnant while taking the medication. Noblin told the pharmacist it was not their business. The pharmacist then told Noblin that she would not be able to get her medication if she did not answer the question. “I’m going to have to answer [that] every single month before they will even consider giving me the medication,” Noblin said. Additionally, another problem that Noblin and many others face is potentially being forced to spend $14,000 a month without insurance for Humira as a brand-name alternative. And they are worried about prosecution by their states. Noblin said she is on birth control but frets to think if she still gets pregnant. In that case she said she would get an abortion in Illinois, which has protected abortion rights. But would she be exposed to prosecution, accused of lying because she would have told a pharmacist she didn’t intend to get pregnant? “It feels like I don’t have any control over my own body,” Noblin said. “My body belongs to Missouri.” Jennifer Crow, a 48-year-old from Tennessee, faced similar issues after the supreme court eliminated federal abortion protections. On 1 July, Crow, who has inflammatory arthritis, received an automated call from her CVS pharmacy, informing her that her refill was declined. The call came in during Friday evening on a holiday weekend. As a result, Crow was left without her weekly dose of methotrexate. Before she started methotrexate, Crow’s joints would become too stiff and sore for her to move without pain in the mornings, limiting her mobility significantly. “Methotrexate gave me back my independence,” she told the Guardian. “I knew without it, I’d be right back to limited mobility and lots of pain.” Four days later, the pain and stiffness started to return. She also began panicking, unsure if she’d ever be able to get her medication because she and her Georgia-based medical providers were both in states that implemented abortion bans after the Dobbs decision. She couldn’t understand why she was in that position, given that she’d had a hysterectomy years earlier. Eventually, Crow found out that CVS refused her refill because the chain had asked pharmacists to decline filling methotrexate prescriptions unless they indicated a diagnosis unrelated to an abortion, a practice Crow finds “invasive and unnecessary”. Crow, like Noblin, eventually got her prescription refilled. But since her treatment’s disruption she’s struggled with increased pain and decreased mobility. “The Dobbs decision has many unintended consequences, and as a middle-aged woman without a uterus, I didn’t think it would affect my care,” she said. Complicating matters: methotrexate is not the only essential medication that many are now struggling to access, despite the US health and human services department’s guidance on laws prohibiting pharmacies from rejecting patients with prescriptions for medications that may end a pregnancy. People on misoprostol – which prevents stomach ulcers for those who take aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen – are also facing access hurdles because the drug can also be combined with other medication to induce abortion, said the Global Healthy Living Foundation’s chief legal officer, Steven Newmark. Such disruptions not only can lead to “serious health consequences”, but they violate patients’ treatment preferences, Newmark added. Nonetheless, methotrexate vividly illustrates the uncertainty created by Roe’s reversal. Texas lawmakers have made it a felony to dispense methotrexate there to someone who is past seven weeks pregnant and uses the medication to terminate a pregnancy. There have been reports from doctors that some pharmacies are refusing to carry methotrexate and other certain essential medication entirely. And some physicians have refused to prescribe those medications to patients who may become pregnant, citing concerns about prosecution. In a joint statement by multiple pharmacy organizations across the country, pharmacists and healthcare providers expressed concern towards “state laws that limit patients’ access to medically necessary medications and impede physicians and pharmacists from using their professional judgment”. The statement went on to call for clear guidance from state boards of medicine and pharmacy, agencies and other policymakers. To Rachel Rebouché, an expert in reproductive health law and dean of Temple University’s law school, the largest problem is clear. “The biggest issue is the confusion,” Rebouché said.

Bears Sack ISU’s Unbeaten Start | News, Sports, Jobs – Marshalltown Times Republican https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/bears-sack-isus-unbeaten-start-news-sports-jobs-marshalltown-times-republican/ AP PHOTO – Iowa State quarterback Hunter Dekkers (12) is sacked by Baylor linebacker Garmon Randolph during the first half of a Big 12 Conference football game Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames. Baylor won 31-24. AMES — A tough loss two weeks ago prepared No. 17 Baylor for Saturday’s Big 12 opener at Iowa State. After a double-overtime defeat at BYU, Bears quarterback Blake Shapen was ready for a rowdy Jack Trice Stadium crowd and was the catalyst for a 31-24 victory over the Cyclones. “We struggled a little bit at BYU, with the noise and things like that,” Shapen said after throwing for 238 yards and three touchdowns against Iowa State. “People look at that and don’t give it too much credit at times, but it’s always a big win when you go on the road in conference.” The loss snapped the Iowa State’s 11-game home winning streak against Big 12 rivals. “I know it’s a tough place to play,” Baylor coach Dave Aranda said. “It’s just a difficult place. They never beat themselves. You have to win it.” Shapen completed 19 of his 26 passes, connecting with 11 receivers. Gavin Holmes finished with three catches for 92 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. “We were never able to control the momentum of the football game early on,” Iowa State coach Matt Campbell said. “We needed to be better.” The Bears (3-1) seized control midway through the third quarter, driving 93 yards in 10 plays and taking a 24-14 lead on Richard Reese’s 19-yard touchdown run. Iowa State (3-1) was undone by two interceptions and averaging just 2.4 yards per rush. “Today was a great example of complementary football,” Bears linebacker Bryson Jackson said. The Cyclones scored 10 points in the final 7 1/2 minutes, but their onside kick with 55 seconds remaining was recovered by the Bears. Baylor scored on each of its first three possessions, building a 17-7 lead in the second quarter. “It always felt like we were fighting from behind,” Campbell said. “What I love about (our team) is they kept playing and they kept fighting and they kept competing.” Two of the drives ended with touchdown passes from Shapen. His success came partly from deep throw opportunities that exposed Iowa State’s secondary. “When they’re giving it to us and we’re able to take advantage, it really opens up the offense,” Shapen said. Iowa State cut the margin to 17-14 by halftime when Hunter Dekkers threw a 24-yard scoring toss to Dimitri Stanley. But the Bears held firm, drawing from their experience at BYU. “BYU was definitely a learning lesson,” Baylor linebacker Bryson Jackson said. “It definitely prepared us for today. We didn’t beat ourselves.” The Bears finished with more than a 9-minute edge in time of possession. TAKEAWAY Baylor: The Bears found success against a solid Iowa State defense. The Cyclones topped the Big 12 through three nonconference games by allowing an average of 234.3 yards — including holding their last two opponents under the 300-yard mark. The Bears netted 273 yards through the first three quarters and covered 68 or more yards on four of their first six full possessions. They finished with 361 total yards. Iowa State: Dekkers threw for 284 yards and two touchdowns, but Baylor had him under pressure. He was sacked four times, twice by Jackson. POLL IMPLICATIONS No. 17 Baylor should continue to rebound in the Top 25. The Bears began the season as a top-10 team, but lost at BYU on Sept. 10 in double overtime. UP NEXT Baylor hosts No. 9 Oklahoma State next Saturday. Iowa State travels to unbeaten Kansas. No. 17 Baylor 31, Iowa St. 24 Baylor 7 10 7 7 — 31 Iowa St. 7 7 0 10 — 24 First Quarter BAY–Sims 12 pass from Shapen (Mayers kick), 8:40. ISU–Brock 2 pass from Dekkers (Gilbert kick), 2:55. Second Quarter BAY–FG Mayers 24, 12:27. BAY–Doyle 1 pass from Shapen (Mayers kick), 7:09. ISU–Stanley 24 pass from Dekkers (Gilbert kick), :46. Third Quarter BAY–Reese 19 run (Mayers kick), 6:05. Fourth Quarter BAY–Holmes 38 pass from Shapen (Mayers kick), 9:37. ISU–Brock 37 run (Gilbert kick), 7:16. ISU–FG Gilbert 28, :55. A–58,069. TEAM STATISTICS BAY ISU First downs 23 17 Total Net Yards 361 350 Rushes-yards 42-123 27-66 Passing 238 284 Comp-Att-Int 19-26-0 23-36-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-12 4-20 Punts 3-46.3 4-48.3 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-30 8-78 Time of Possession 34:39 25:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING–Baylor, Reese 21-78, C.Williams 10-36, Q.Jones 2-10, Shapen 7-3, (Team) 2-(minus 4). Iowa St., Brock 14-73, Silas 1-6, Norton 1-1, Dekkers 11-(minus 14). PASSING–Baylor, Shapen 19-26-0-238. Iowa St., Dekkers 23-36-2-284. RECEIVING–Baylor, Sims 5-39, Holmes 3-92, Presley 2-50, Dabney 2-23, Cameron 1-10, Q.Jones 1-8, Fleeks 1-4, S.Jones 1-4, Reese 1-4, Baldwin 1-3, Doyle 1-1. Iowa St., Hutchinson 8-84, Noel 7-120, Stanley 4-55, Brock 3-17, Dean 1-8. Today’s breaking news and more in your inbox

Dubai Start-Up Bedu Launches First Metaverse To Simulate The UAE’s Planned Mission To Mars – The National https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/dubai-start-up-bedu-launches-first-metaverse-to-simulate-the-uaes-planned-mission-to-mars-the-national/ Metaverse Project 2117 aims to become an environment that will host 100 million users in the next 10 years Amin Al Zarouni, CEO of Bedu, at the launch of Project 2117, which will accelerate its journey to 100 million users in the metaverse. Beta V.1.0 – Powered by automated translation Bedu, a Dubai-based metaverse start-up, has unveiled its new virtual world that focuses on the UAE’s aspirations of space exploration, and which is the first to simulate the UAE’s planned mission to Mars. The virtual world, called Metaverse Project 2117, aims to become an environment that will host 100 million users in the next 10 years, leveraging blockchain and decentralised hosting techniques to deliver high-quality aesthetics, Bedu said. It is in line with the UAE’s Mars 2117 project, which aims to establish the first inhabitable human settlement in the Red Planet by 2117. As part of the strategy, the Emirates will build a complex of buildings called Mars Scientific City. The city will comprise laboratories for food, energy and water, agricultural testing and studies about food security in the future. It will also include a laboratory that will stimulate the planet’s terrain and harsh environment through advanced 3D printing technology, and heat and radiation insulation. Earlier this week, Bedu signed a preliminary agreement with the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, in which the latter will be supporting Bedu in the development of this metaverse. Amin Al Zarouni, chief executive of Bedu, said the metaverse — in all fields — will be able to complement the real-life economy, with the proper investments and manpower that will develop the infrastructure and regulatory framework over the coming decades. “Mars is a destination aligned with [the UAE’s] vision and direction. Our focus is purely on creating a world where people can socialise, network and live together without any differentiation between race, culture and religion,” he told The National. “As with any technology, it will impact multiple pillars, and the economic factor is one of the most important pillars.” The metaverse is the emerging space where people, represented by avatars or three-dimensional representations, can interact in virtual worlds. It is part of Web3, the next evolutionary step of the internet, with blockchain, decentralisation, openness and greater user utility among its core components. The UAE has taken a number of major steps to integrate the metaverse and its related technology, including cryptocurrencies, into the economy, government and society. Next week, Dubai will be hosting the Dubai Metaverse Assembly, the first industry event focused on the technology. In July, the government unveiled the Dubai Metaverse Strategy, which aims to create 40,000 jobs and add $4 billion to the emirate’s economy over the next five years. In May, Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (Vara) – which was established under the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulation Law, the first such law in the emirate – said it had established its Metaverse HQ, making it the first regulator to have a presence there. Mr Al Zarouni said the metaverse is still in its early stages – it can be referred to as “betaverse” – and a realistic timeline for it to go mainstream is 5 to 10 years. New jobs for the metaverse are either existing or being created, but roles require extensive knowledge from a combination of already existing technologies, Mr Al Zarouni said. As such, he said metaverse roles can be expected to be among the most well-paid globally. Mr Al Zarouni said that cyber crime in the metaverse can be kept at bay more compared to other present digital spaces as, very much like the concept of blockchain and decentralisation, the policing efforts will come from users themselves. “That’s the whole concept of the creation of a decentralised world. The power is with the content producer, not anymore with the content holder. We believe that the metaverse has to be governed in a decentralized aspect where the policing happens by the community themselves, he said. Bedu is also currently working in an advisory role with private organisations abroad for their energy projects, Mr Al Zarouni added. Updated: September 26, 2022, 5:09 AM

Razer Launches The Leviathan V2 X PC Soundbar: Worth It At $100? – Tech Times https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/razer-launches-the-leviathan-v2-x-pc-soundbar-worth-it-at-100-tech-times/ Urian B., Tech Times 26 September 2022, 12:09 am Razer is no stranger to cool gaming accessories and although it usually launches gaming headsets, it is now selling a soundbar called the Leviathan V2 X PC Soundbar. The soundbar carries the signature Razer logo with RGB additions and more. Razer is Selling the Leviathan V2 X PC Soundbar According to the story by Bleeding Cool, Razer just recently dropped a new audio device for PC players to use. The device is called the Leviathan V2 X PC Soundbar and as its name suggests, the gadget is a soundbar with a focus on providing users a better gaming experience through sound. The particular Leviathan V2 X PC Soundbar was designed to be as compact as possible without having to lack when it comes to audio capabilities. As the images released show, the audio device has been designed to be able to fit under most PC monitors measuring just 400mm. Soundbar is Selling at $100 Through the Company Website and Official Stores In order to power the soundbar, users can use a USB Type C cable although the audio device also comes with lightning. With the help of lightning, users will be able to cue it along with other Razer gear including the Razer Chroma RGB app. The good thing about the soundbar is that it will be priced at just $100 through the company’s website and at Razer stores. The price will also stay the same through authorized retailers of Razer devices. Soundbar was Designed to Give Users a Clutter-Free Desktop The article notes that a compact PC gaming soundbar can be very beneficial for gamers. The Leviathan V2 X reportedly delivers two full-range drivers as well as two passive radiators. The soundbar is reportedly capable of delivering bold clarity and resonating depth in order to cater to all the entertainment needs of different gamers. The soundbar is reportedly just 400mm in length and gives users a clutter-free desktop. Leviathan V2 X is Capable of 90dB Maximum Volume Output The Leviathan V2 X reportedly fits perfectly under a lot of monitors and despite its small size, is still capable of delivering a room-wide soundstage. The article also notes that the USB Type C connection can be used for hassle-free connectivity. The USB Type C is also a more efficient way of powering the soundbar. With the help of the connection, the dynamic audio is capable of handling small parties with a maximum volume output of 90dB. Read Also: AYANEO to Launch GEEK & AYANEO 2 Handheld Gaming Consoles in December: Can It Play Steam Deck Games? Razer Leviathan V2 X Soundbar Comes in Options of USB Type C and Bluetooth 5.0 The soundbar will be powered by the classic Razer Chrome RGB which is known as the world’s largest lighting ecosystem created for gaming devices. The Leviathan V2 X will be packed with 14 lightning zones, dynamic in-game lightning effects, and countless patterns. Aside from the USB Type C, users will be able to use Bluetooth 5.0 for wireless connection between the PC and mobile devices through the Razer Audio App. Related Article: [New Release] Logitech G Pro Direct Drive Racing Wheel: Worth It at $999? This article is owned by Tech Times Written by Urian B. ⓒ 2022 TECHTIMES.com All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.

Traders Predict This New Cryptocurrency To 83x By 2024 With Its Use Case – Cryptonews https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/traders-predict-this-new-cryptocurrency-to-83x-by-2024-with-its-use-case-cryptonews/ Heading into October expert traders speculate the best crypto to buy right now could be a new coin listing set to launch on a tier one exchange. New Cryptocurrency to Watch OKX exchange – known as OKEx prior to early 2022 – will list Tamadoge (TAMA) on September 27 at 11:00 UTC. OKX will also support TAMA swaps on its cross chain DEX aggregator as of 17:00 UTC – OKX is both a centralized and decentralized exchange, open to worldwide traders. Bullish Case for Tamadoge Tamadoge will be listed at a price of $0.03 with a circulating supply of 1 billion – allocated to its now sold out presale – and a total maximum supply of 2 billion coins. Tamadoge is the play-to-earn (P2E) rewards token and native currency of a new crypto game app, with added move to earn (M2E) features. Alongside other arcade style games, part of its roadmap allows players to walk their NFT dog in an augmented reality metaverse, the ‘Tamaverse’. Our expert traders have compared it to another popular cryptocurrency that exploded earlier this year, STEPN (GMT) – the native token of a M2E app for walkers and joggers. Our analysts reported this month on the Tamadoge presale raising more than the STEPN ICO – which raised $9.2 million – within the space of four weeks. Over the full eight weeks of its token presale, Tamadoge raised $19 million. Following its initial coin offering, GMT went on to achieve a $2.5 billion live market cap at its peak – its bull run lasting from early March (its Binance listing) to late April. In order for TAMA to potentially be the next cryptocurrency to explode to that valuation after its ICO, it would need to increase its live market cap – which will be $30 million at launch – by 83.3x. Deflationary Cryptocurrency Our analysts noted on our ‘is Tamadoge the next GMT‘ analysis piece that unlike STEPN, TAMA is deflationary.  A 5% token burn is applied to all Tamadoge store transactions, the in-game marketplace where players buy items, food and accessories to train and upgrade their Tamadoge pets (represented by dynamic NFTs), all of which have unique strengths, attributes and rarity. In recent weeks Terra Classic showed that crypto investors support assets with some kind of deflation rate – the 1.2% LUNC burn news led to Terra Classic rallying by over 1,400% from its 2022 lows. GMT’s retracement from its April all time high of $4.18 was in part due to GST – the other native token of the STEPN ecosystem, Green Satoshi Token – being inflationary. A Tamadoge prediction via CNBC TV 18 – source Meme Coin Appeal As well as being an app to earn free crypto like STEPN, the Tamadoge app also taps into the mass appeal of meme tokens, its tagline for TAMA being ‘the play to earn Dogecoin‘.  Shiba Inu rose over 50 million percent in its price history, mostly due to retail investor FOMO.  While some criticize meme cryptocurrencies for their lack of utility, they are undeniably the most popular crypto assets alongside Bitcoin itself. DOGE and SHIB are still both in the top 20 cryptos even after a 90% correction, DOGE at #10 and SHIB at #14. STEPN is also currently down over 85% from its top and now has a live market cap of $370 million – which would only be a 12x gain for TAMA to reach, with a similar use case and utility. Having deflationary tokenomics, and the meme crypto aesthetic, make it a strong contender to be one of the top cryptocurrencies after its launch on OKX this Tuesday, through to the next crypto bull run which crypto experts predict will take place around the 2024 Bitcoin halving. New users opening an OKX account via CryptoNews are entered into a prize draw to win a mystery box worth $10,000. Open OKX Account OKX DEX Read Tamadoge Whitepaper

U.S. Slips Down Rankings In Food Security Index – Food Safety News https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/u-s-slips-down-rankings-in-food-security-index-food-safety-news/ The United States has fallen a few places in the latest rankings of a report that measures food security. The study from Economist Impact put Finland at the top, followed by Ireland, Norway and France. Canada was seventh and the United Kingdom was ninth. The United States dropped to 13th from ninth in the previous edition. The 11th Global Food Security Index (GFSI) covers food affordability, availability, quality and safety, and sustainability and adaptation across 113 countries. Indicators are used to do this and one change to the latest version is considering relevant food safety legislation. Based solely on the quality and safety metric, Canada was first and the United States was third. The UK was 29th. GFSI data for the United States suggests that it needs to improve policy commitments around food security and access by establishing a food security agency and implementing a related strategy. Pratima Singh, principal of policy and insights at Economist Impact, said issues such as the Ukraine conflict and high food prices, are stressing an already fragile food system. “The 2022 Global Food Security Index highlights the crucial impact of structural issues and risks to food security such as volatility in agricultural production, trade and supply-chain disruption, scarcity of natural resources, and increasing economic inequality. Building long-term, systemic resilience should be a priority if the larger trend toward greater food insecurity worldwide is to be reversed.” Climate change impact The least food-secure countries are conflict zones and face severe climate risks. Syria is at the bottom of the list, followed by Haiti and Yemen. A difference between the top performer and the country at the bottom has continued to widen since 2019.  There are big jumps in scores for pest infestation and disease mitigation policies. The index, sponsored by Corteva Agriscience, shows governments are not prepared for the increase in extreme weather like this summer’s heatwaves across Europe and North America and flooding in Pakistan. It found water management techniques and existing irrigation systems that can help manage the effects of climate change are lacking. Increasing food prices, rising global hunger, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine and Russia conflict are also mentioned. There were falls in nutritional standards, such as national nutrition plans and monitoring. About a third of countries have no national nutrition plan or strategy in 2022, nearly double the number that lacked one in 2019. Also, 25 of 113 countries are not regularly monitoring the nutritional status of their population compared with 15 in 2019. Without such work, policymakers cannot identify nutritional deficiencies and deploy resources where needed. (To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.)

Technology News | ⚡Apple Starts Assembling New IPhone 14 At Foxconn Facility In India – LatestLY https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/technology-news-%e2%9a%a1apple-starts-assembling-new-iphone-14-at-foxconn-facility-in-india-latestly/ Apple has begun assembling its new iPhone 14 at the Foxconn facility in India, a first in years when a new iPhone is being assembled within weeks of its global launch in the country, the tech giant confirmed on Monday.

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Mosquitoes And Mild Waterborne Illness (PNT Pt. 13) – The Trek https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/mosquitoes-and-mild-waterborne-illness-pnt-pt-13-the-trek/ Trail map at country highway intersection. To Oroville Back on trail, I wound my way up a climb along a barbed wire fence. The trail led me back through the woods a way before I came out onto paved road and then back onto a series of gravel roads through pastoral land. Plots of wood that still existed in the area had all been scorched fairly recently, a sign at the end of someone’s driveway issuing thanks to the local fire teams for saving the owner’s property. My audiobook came to an end at this point, and I went back to my sporadic listening of Lord of the Rings, at this point on Return of the King. Roadwalk after Highway 20 West. Trespassing is Bad The gravel roads lent to fairly easy travel and a good consistent walking speed. I cut down the slope along a road that seemed to connect the route down an extremely long switchback. The road I took ended up dumping me at the cattle gate at the back of some random persons property, which is always a suspicious position to be in; too many “shoot first, ask questions later,” in Backwoods Everywhere America. I took to shwhacking through the woods around the persons property and army crawling under their barbwire fence along the road. A brief reconnaissance showed a stellar, off-grid set up for a small modernly stylized log cabin, and no car in the drive. There is a vagrant part of me that notes every time I come across an empty house. Big, empty, vacation houses are extremely common in all the areas I travel too, and to me, that is a disgusting and dramatically underexploited resource. Not saying that these homes should be broken into, and beds slept in, no, I have no grit for that level of anarchy, nor do I condone it. However, who is going to be harmed if I sleep under the occasional porch? The Alternate The road out in front of this property turned to pavement, putting me on an alternate route to avoid a devastated burn area that was reportedly difficult to traverse due to deadfall. The slight shortcut down the slope left me several tenths of a mile up the way from a potentially more direct logging road, but I chose not to turn around. Stupidly, I was carrying only about two liters of water and was walking into what was unknowingly about a ten-mile dry stretch. That would not have been a huge deal if it had not been near the end of the day and I was scoping out a campsite out of view of the road. It drove me to push another nine miles, to still dry camp, for much of the road dropped steeply off into a ravine to my right. Uh, Hey Kids The next morning, I came across a decently flowing stream in the gully next to the road. Around the same time, a local middle school cross country team began depositing kids all along the road. They had separated into small groups to practice what might have been a sort of cross-country baton pass. After all the kids left me in the dust, I slid down the slope at the edge of the road to fill up on water. Not the clearest water I remember, but it did the job. Mosquitoes devoured me in the closed off shelter of the trees. The Church Rural Backroad leading out of the alternate. Later on that morning, I came out into actual farmed land, parceled out into colorful plots within the valley. As I came back out onto pavement from between the neat rows of trees lining the path, some of the houses above me were of a rustic Victorian style in nature, vines growing luxuriously up their sides and satellite dishes rusting haphazardly on rooftops. The short neighborhood road leading back into farmsteads, deposited me out onto a country highway. A sign at the intersection and a waypoint on Farout directed me a hundred yards up the road to the local church. At the church bulletin board, I found notes from my friends Renee and Tim who are currently working on the paddle portion of their Pacific Northwest Circuit route. We had been so excited to pass each other, and I missed them by an hour. Inside, the church had microwaveable pizzas and cookies for the hikers, and I charged my phone and messaged Renee and Tim while I waited for my pizza to heat up. It turns out that they took the main route into the burn area instead of the alternate when leaving the church, and very quickly found themselves bushwhacking to the alternate. The margin was just enough for us to miss each other. They left some notes for me later on that I was bummed to miss, but other people told me about. The Rolling Hills and Road Walks There was a decent resupply of some weird, sweet, almond Nature Valley bar in the hiker box, and I stocked up before continuing on. A good portion of the midday stretch was exposed road walking, and despite the heat, the area was beautiful. The yellow grasses of the rolling hillsides were thick with wildflowers, and I admired the shift in terrain. A woman in a USPS Jeep stopped me along the way and asked if I wanted a ride to the other side of the road walk. She told me she had given a girl a ride the year before. I turned her down, of course. By this point I was getting annoyed at hearing about how so many people skip the road walking of the PNT. To each their own, but the church had a little fact sheet posted at the intersection that said four-hundred-thirty-eight miles of the PNT is road walking. A third of the trail is a significant portion to skip. Of course, not everyone obsessive compulsively thruhikes. Bad, Bad, Bad Water Sources The road eventually transitioned back to gravel, delving into a sparse dry wood. Cattle blocked my path and were very upset by my presence. I sat at the turn off back onto trail for a while and watched Tik Toks while I waited for the cows to move. They were freaked out because I had walked into the middle of the herd and once they skirted around past me, they bolted down the trail. Part of my break was to contemplate when to grab water, and I stupidly waited to get on trail water instead of walking a fifth of a mile off trail to a potentially clear source. Someone from a few days before, had left a comment on a waypoint that the water on trail was good. Water comments had been pretty reliable for me so far, especially because it was early in the season and water sources were better than normal. However, on this particular occasion, I got shafted. Not only was the water barely flowing, but it had also been trampled to muck by cows, giving it a stagnant, and delectably yellow tannin tinge. Tasted like shit. Swarmed My meanderings along the trail past that point saw very little elevation change. I was high up already, though the surrounding land was relatively flat around me. Several times the trail dipped into shallow depressions filled with foul, stagnant pools of water, black from tannins. The mosquitoes grew thick, and as tree cover reemerged, the tiny blood suckers became a burden on my sanity. Rarely, do I feel the need to bring out my mosquito head net. I keep it for emergencies, because there is nothing that will ruin your day like swallowing mosquitoes every few minutes from the cloud attacking your head. In fact, it may have become a mild phobia of mine after several truly awful experiences where I was not so well prepared. Even with the head net, the fuckers were tenacious. To keep them at bay I maintained a quick jog for the next three miles. The trail was flat and wide, with little more impediment than the occasional low branch or downed sapling. I kept up the jog until, after descending for a while, a slight pain in the mid-shin of my left leg caused me to slow. It felt like a tendon had swollen across it and a more casual stride seemed a safer approach. The mosquitoes, though still present, had decreased to a more manageable intensity, and having recovered from a pretty intense shin splint in that leg earlier in the year, I felt that I should not tempt fate. The High Desert of Northeast Washington As I continued to descend, I emerged from tree line to find myself in a high desert biome. It reminded me of New Mexico on the CDT, the overabundance of sagebrush making itself known by its unique scent and taste on the air. I can never decide if I like the smell. Though fresh and herbaceous, the scent can be a bit overpowering at times. Overlook view of the Okanogan Valley. At some point I came to an overlook with a breathtaking view of the valley. The river flowing through the high desert left a wake of lush farmland along its banks. Bare mountains framed the bucolic scene, leaving an impression on me, of paintings of vineyards on terraced hills along the Mediterranean. Scenes I have not yet scene in real life. I thought of camping there, though it seemed less than ideal. I had phone service, and yet, I had way too much day light left to stop. Little did I know that there were two hikers I would meet the next day camped down the hill from where I stood. A month traveling alone, and I almost missed them by a hair. To the Highway Out of tree line, getting near Highway 97. The trail eventually turned down a canyon leading into the valley. A stream sped along the flank of the trail, providing water, but renewing and exacerbating the scourge of mosquitoes. The tree line eventually broke, and I came out onto an open grassy hill, the trail, lined with tamarisk, switch-backing down to the edge of a young apple orchard far below. I had put off camping for too long, and now I would have to wander into town and hope for the best. A gravel lot led out to Highway Ninety-Seven. Even in the open air of the road, the mosquitoes swarmed me, and I had to keep my head net on. I got long, mystified stares from people passing by in their cars. Me, being all smug because I’m protected from pesky mosquitoes. No Hope for the Hopeless The sun had set, and I wanted to be in town and in camp as soon as possible. I dreamt about dinner and a cold ...

Live News Updates: Interpol Red Notice Issued Against Terraform Labs Fugitive Do Kwon – Financial Times https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/live-news-updates-interpol-red-notice-issued-against-terraform-labs-fugitive-do-kwon-financial-times/ Choose your subscription Trial Try full digital access and see why over 1 million readers subscribe to the FT For 4 weeks receive unlimited Premium digital access to the FT’s trusted, award-winning business news Digital Be informed with the essential news and opinion MyFT – track the topics most important to you FT Weekend – full access to the weekend content Mobile & Tablet Apps – download to read on the go Gift Article – share up to 10 articles a month with family, friends and colleagues Print FT print edition delivered Monday – Saturday along with ePaper access Delivery to your home or office Monday to Saturday FT Weekend paper – a stimulating blend of news and lifestyle features ePaper access – the digital replica of the printed newspaper Team or Enterprise Premium FT.com access for multiple users, with integrations & admin tools Group Subscription Premium Digital access, plus: Convenient access for groups of users Integration with third party platforms and CRM systems Usage based pricing and volume discounts for multiple users Subscription management tools and usage reporting SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) Dedicated account and customer success teams Or, if you are already a subscriber Sign in Are you a student or a professor? Check if your university has an FT membership to read for free. Check my access

Diabetes Diet: The Myths, The Truths, And The Possibilities – CodeBlue https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/diabetes-diet-the-myths-the-truths-and-the-possibilities-codeblue/ KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 – Understanding the frustrations that diabetes patients as well as caregivers go through in preparing suitable daily meals, the “For Your Sweetheart” campaign has commissioned Nik Michael Imran of 2011 Masterchef Malaysia fame to create a series of recipes, ranging from fusion to local cuisines that can be prepared in less than 20 minutes. The recipes were developed in consultation with Poh Kai Ling in her capacity as a council member of Diabetes Malaysia (DM), as well as a former committee member of the Malaysian Diabetes Educators Society (MDES). Debunking The Diabetes Diet Myths  It is important to understand the facts about diabetes, so that both patients and caregivers can make informed decisions about dietary requirements. Some popular myths, especially for newly diagnosed patients and caregivers, include skipping meals to manage fluctuating blood sugar levels, consuming ‘sugar free’ or sugar-substituted products freely, and avoiding eating potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and corn. “Skipping meals or eating less does not help to reduce sugar intake. It is advisable to follow the hunger cues, eat when the body needs. Ignoring hunger cues tend to create craving issues, making it hard for the person to control food intake in the subsequent meals. It is also important to read food labels to understand nutrition contents better, as not all sugar-free products are carbohydrate-free,” Poh said. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and corn are all part of the carbohydrate food group. It is true that carbohydrate intake will increase blood sugar levels. However, these starchy vegetables are highly nutritious, and contain various vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fibre, which are essential to our bodies. One should never avoid these foods. The key is to control the portion sizes. So What Can Diabetes Patients Eat?  According to Poh, a diabetes-friendly diet does not need to be restrictive, boring, and hard to swallow. Having diabetes does not have to limit a person’s meal choices. Healthy eating for people with diabetes is no different than for everyone else. “What is important is to eat a controlled amount and serve a portion of carbohydrate rich food. One of the ways is to take note of the Glycemic Index (GI) of the foods. GI is a value to measure the rate of how quickly carbohydrate in food raises the blood glucose. To put it simply, foods that are low GI (between 0-55) are considered good carbs and high GI (70-100) foods are considered bad carbs. The higher the GI value, the greater the effect on blood sugar levels. Understanding the GI of foods can help us in controlling diabetes along with carbohydrate counting,” she said.  The collaboration between Nik Michael and Poh in developing the recipes in the Simple Healthy Cooking e-book ensured that the meals are not only enjoyable with a wide variety for different tastes, but also simple, easy to prepare, and appropriate for people with diabetes. The result is a variety of win-win recipes — delicious restaurant-style meals that are also healthy and GI-appropriate. “I’ve tried all 10 recipes and I must say they are really delicious. Kudos to Chef Nik! My personal favourites are Brown Pasta Alla Puttanesca, Coconut Crepes and Tenzaru Soba,” said Poh. Sharing his experience in developing the recipes for this campaign, Nik Michael said: “It has been a meaningful journey for me personally. My dad, who was a chef and loves good food too, was recently diagnosed with diabetes. I understand the heart of caregivers in wanting to give the best to their loved ones who are living with diabetes. “That was what drove my inspiration in developing these ten recipes. I aim to retain amazing flavour while modifying their nutrient intake without making patients feel like they don’t have a choice regarding their diet. I hope many people will give these recipes a try and enjoy some special moments with their loved ones while doing it,” he added.  Research shows that one in five adults in the country is living with diabetes, a long-term chronic illness which requires prolonged caregiving and long-term management. Unhealthy levels of glucose in the blood can lead to long and short-term health complications, particularly affecting the heart and kidney. This is why Poh is on a quest to educate and debunk the myths, because eating right can help in reducing the risk of diabetes-related complications such as heart and kidney diseases.   The Possibilities: A Diabetes-Free Malaysia?  Malaysia currently has the highest rate of diabetes in Asia at 17.5 per cent, with over 3.5 million Malaysians living with the condition. The Diabetes Education Manual 2020 published by MDES reported that based on current trends, an estimated seven million Malaysian adults are likely to develop diabetes by 2025.  Looking at the statistics, the dream of a diabetes-free Malaysia seems far-fetched. But, it is this very trend that spurs the For Your Sweetheart campaign to keep doing what it has been doing for the past three years. Any effort to slow down the trend is better than none. The campaign encourages all Malaysians to “Think Diabetes, Think Heart”, and one of the initiatives is through early detection.  In encouraging Malaysians who may be at risk of developing diabetes or have a family history of diabetes to take tests for early detection, the For Your Sweetheart campaign will be having free diabetes HbA1c screenings at participating clinics nationwide. The free diabetes screening effort is supported by Boehringer Ingelheim, in partnership with MDES, Malaysian Endocrine and Metabolic Society (MEMS), and Persatuan Diabetes Malaysia (PDM). Click here to register for your free screening today. the For Your Sweetheart screening campaign is ongoing until December 31, 2022. Nik Michael’s recipes for the For Your Sweetheart campaign can be downloaded here.

Service Pending | News, Sports, Jobs – Warren Tribune Chronicle https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/service-pending-news-sports-jobs-warren-tribune-chronicle/ TIMOTHY S. UPDYKE, 65, of Niles, died Friday at Omni Manor, Youngstown. (Staton-Borowski)

Calls Grow For Legal Measures To Protect Minors From Metaverse Sex Crimes – Asianews.network https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/calls-grow-for-legal-measures-to-protect-minors-from-metaverse-sex-crimes-asianews-network/ September 26, 2022 SEOUL – Calls for measures to counter sex crimes in the metaverse are rising with an increasing number of predators targeting teenagers. Huh Kyung-mi, a professor of police administration at Keimyung University, said that legal measures are essential to respond to sexual exploitation in the metaverse in a paper published on Sunday. According to Huh, 70 percent of metaverse service users are teenagers, and criminal attempts on the metaverse platform, especially those that target youthful avatars, has been increasing. Perpetrators lure minors with virtual items and gradually lead the minors into having inappropriate conversations or filming and sending sexual content. Some cases are not even considered illegal under the current law, such as sexual harassment against virtual avatars. In some cases, crimes within the metaverse evolve into crimes in the real world. A man in his 30s who forced 11 minors he met through Zepeto – Asia’s largest metaverse platform operated by Naver Z – to film and send sexually explicit content of themselves for about a year since April 2021 was sentenced to four years in prison on Sept. 11. Amid continuing challenges, both the industry and the government are having difficulties in getting a detailed picture of the situation, as there is no efficient system for receiving reports about such crimes. The Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Justice have been trying to analyze metaverse crime issues since early this year. The KCC is conducting a survey to specify the scope of actions that can be interpreted as a crime. The digital sex crime committee under the Justice Ministry commented on the limit of the current law in January, recommending that criminal acts against virtual avatars and personal accounts should be considered no less than criminal acts against real human users. Professor Huh pointed out that the core of the controversy comes from the unfamiliar concept of the metaverse. “In order to curb sex crimes in the metaverse, social consensus on the nature of the metaverse should be made first — whether it is an extension of the real world or not. Discussion on a new legal structure to restrain the metaverse should follow,” said Huh said.

This 3-In-1 Dyson Pure Cool Is $200 Off Right Now – Gizmodo Australia https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/this-3-in-1-dyson-pure-cool-is-200-off-right-now-gizmodo-australia/ At Gizmodo, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting. For some, spring is signalled by an abundance of flowers and sunlight. For others, it’s marked by itchy noses and watery eyes. But what if we told you there was a Dyson device that could reduce your allergies, keep you cool in summer and warm your room once winter returns? Say hello to the Dyson HP03 Pure Hot and Cool Link Air Purifier Heater, which is currently on sale at  eBay for $599 (down from $799). If you want to learn more about what this Dyson Pure Hot + Cool Link Purifier Heater can do, read on. This article has been updated since its first publication. What can the Dyson Pure Hot and Cool Link do? Image: Dyson This three-in-one Dyson heater, fan and air purifier is a versatile home gadget that will keep you in full comfort all year. Those with allergies will benefit from its highly-efficient, 360-degree glass HEPA filter that can capture everything that makes your eyes water and your nose itchy as hell. You can also set it to Auto Mode, which will allow the machine to monitor your room’s air quality and turn itself on automatically if it detects any nasties such as dust, mould, pollen or bacteria. You can even inspect its air purification levels by checking the Dyson Link companion app. When the weather gets a bit colder, you’ll probably more interested in finding out how exactly this hollow Dyson heater can keep your room warm. Thanks to its jet focus control, it can easily warm an entire room – despite its small stature. It can even sense once your room has reached optimal warm temperatures and switch itself off to conserve power. The great thing is that once summer rolls around in a few months, you won’t have to pack away the Dyson Hot and Cool. Instead, you can bask in a powerful stream of purified air to cool you down. As a nice bonus, this Dyson heater-cooler is safe to leave on around young children and pets thanks to its bladeless design. It’s also quite short, so it can fit easily on your bedside table or TV cabinet. Plus, if you’re used to seeing dust accumulate on the blades or guard of your usual pedestal fan, you probably know what a pain it can be to clean. Thanks to its ring-like frame, this Dyson Pure Cool fan is easy to clean. This offer is available for both the White/Nickel and Black/Nickel colours.

Jihan Wu-Backed Crypto Miner Bitdeer Acquires ‘Singapore’s Fort Knox’ For $28.4 Million – Bitcoin News – Bitcoin News https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/jihan-wu-backed-crypto-miner-bitdeer-acquires-singapores-fort-knox-for-28-4-million-bitcoin-news-bitcoin-news/ Sources have disclosed that the digital currency mining operation, Bitdeer Technologies, has purchased a high-security storage and display facility in Singapore called Le Freeport for $28.4 million. Bitdeer’s chairman, Jihan Wu, confirmed the vault acquisition via a text message following the reports that revealed the mining firm purchased Le Freeport. Bitdeer Purchases Maximum Security Vault Le Freeport From Yves Bouvier, DBS After the co-founder of Bitmain Technologies Jihan Wu left the company, he co-founded a firm called Matrixport and he’s also the chairman of Bitdeer Technologies. According to a report published by Bloomberg, that cites sources familiar with the matter, Bitdeer paid S$40 million ($28.4 million) for the maximum security vault known as Le Freeport. The vault was originally constructed to be similar to the high-security storage vaults located in Luxembourg and Geneva. Freeport has also been dubbed “Singapore’s Fort Knox for fine art and collectibles.” Freeport was originally built for S$100 million and the latest acquisition by Bitdeer paid off a significant amount of debt to creditors like DBS and the vaults former owner Yves Bouvier. Le Freeport Singapore interior. Photo courtesy of SGPMX. The vault has been for sale since 2017, and the high-security storage facility has had a large number of well known corporate clients. Before 2018, the luxury auction house Christie’s once rented more than a third of Freeport’s storage space. Deutsche Bank once leveraged Freeport to house more than $8.9 billion in gold bullion. Bloomberg’s Ranjeetha Pakiam, Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, and Zheping Huang detail that Bouvier and Freeport’s other shareholders “received about S$5 million from the sale.” However, the sources do not disclose what Bitdeer aims to do with the facility, but following the initial report, Jihan Wu confirmed the Freeport purchase with the Bloomberg authors via text. During the last year, Bitdeer has been making a number of business moves like investing $25 million into a facility based in Texas in May 2021. Five days later, Bitdeer announced cloud hosting, which allows “retail miners to generate revenue with 1 mining machine.” At the end of June 2021, Bitdeer revealed the company’s Antbox products and last October, the company introduced Filecoin mining services. The sources who disclosed the latest acquisition of Freeport in Singapore, also detailed that Bitdeer is researching going public through a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) deal via a blank check company. Bitdeer is not the only crypto firm to purchase a high-security vault or bunker system. Xapo’s bunker in the Swiss mountains is just as extravagant and reportedly millionaires stored their bitcoins there. Last week, reports indicated that the bitcoin mining operation Arsenal Digital Holdings (OTCMKTS: ADHI) acquired an underground data center outside Houston. Some people suspect it’s Westland Oil’s infamous two-story subterranean campus fallout bunker. Tags in this story Arsenal Digital Holdings, Bitcoin mining, BitDeer, Bitdeer Chair, Bitdeer Chairman, Bitdeer Technologies, Bitmain, Bunkers, Christie’s, crypto mining, DBS, Deutsche Bank, Freeport, Jihan Wu, Jihan Wu Bitdeer, Le Freeport, Matrixport, S$40 million, Singapore, SPAC deal, vaults, Wu Jihan, Xapo, Yves Bouvier What do you think about Bitdeer acquiring ‘Singapore’s Fort Knox’ otherwise known as Le Freeport? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today. Image Credits: Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wiki Commons, Editorial photo credit: SGPMX Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only. It is not a direct offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, or a recommendation or endorsement of any products, services, or companies. Bitcoin.com does not provide investment, tax, legal, or accounting advice. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services mentioned in this article.

Central Texas Man Makes Top 25 In US Mullet Championship – KXAN.com https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/central-texas-man-makes-top-25-in-us-mullet-championship-kxan-com/ Hernandez said he had never had a mullet before until growing one in November 2020. Hernandez said he had never had a mullet before until growing one in November 2020. by: Sarah Al-Shaikh Posted: Sep 25, 2022 / 10:07 PM CDT Updated: Sep 25, 2022 / 10:07 PM CDT Hernandez said he had never had a mullet before until growing one in November 2020. Hernandez said he had never had a mullet before until growing one in November 2020. by: Sarah Al-Shaikh Posted: Sep 25, 2022 / 10:07 PM CDT Updated: Sep 25, 2022 / 10:07 PM CDT BUDA, Texas (KXAN) – A Hays County man could be taking home a national title for best mullet in the country. But there’s much more to this competition than just the hairstyle. It benefits a charity that gives back to veterans. Buda native Brandon Hernandez calls his mullet “Texas Tailgate.” Hernandez said he started growing out his mullet in November 2020. “In Texas we do it big and with tailgates. So this is ‘Texas Tailgate’ right here,” Hernandez said. It’s a hairstyle that’s gotten him to the Top 25 round of the 2022 USA Mullet Championship. “Hays County area. Austin area. I think for sure I’m just gonna try to represent all of Texas,” Hernandez said. The nationwide competition benefits Stop Soldier Suicide. According to the charity, veterans have a 57% higher risk of suicide than those who haven’t served. It’s a cause close to Hernandez. “My wife, she has some of her uncles that were in the Air Force. My late grandfather, yes he was in the military as well. He served in the Vietnam War,” Hernandez said. He said knowing that veterans will benefit from this brings much more meaning to his mullet. “It’s just the experience that they go through. It’s crazy man. I really do commend them and their bravery for going through that,” Hernandez said. For now, Hernandez and his family wait to see if he’ll bring the national title to Central Texas. But regardless of the outcome, Hernandez said he’s honored he and his mullet have made it this far. According to the US Mullet Championships, the group donated $2,375 to Stop Soldier Suicides. Hernandez said voting for the top three winners will start Oct. 7-11 and results will be announced a week or so after voting ends. Austin-Travis County BestReviews Tracking the Coronavirus Trending Stories Don’t Miss

Technology News | ⚡Samsung Reportedly Working On Dual Under-Display Camera For Facial Recognition – LatestLY https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/technology-news-%e2%9a%a1samsung-reportedly-working-on-dual-under-display-camera-for-facial-recognition-latestly/ South Korean tech giant Samsung is likely working on a camera system for facial recognition that involves two under-display cameras.

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Letters For Sept. 26: Norfolk Needs To Support The Arts By Fixing Its Traffic Problem – The Virginian-Pilot https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/letters-for-sept-26-norfolk-needs-to-support-the-arts-by-fixing-its-traffic-problem-the-virginian-pilot/ Why has parking in the Scope underground lot become such an arduous task when attending either a SevenVenues show or the symphony? I purchase reserved parking so I am guaranteed a place to park, but getting to the entrance to the lot has become a ridiculous and unnecessary anxious drive as you fight with rude drivers blocking intersections and lanes, and not giving way to those with the right-of-way. If there is a hockey game on the same night, the Norfolk police think they are more effective than the traffic signals and block the left turn lane access, creating a huge, unnecessary bottleneck. Why not only allow those with passes into the lane that accesses the parking garage, rather than waiting until you creep up to the driveway only to find the lot is full? Recently, I missed the first 30 minutes of “Wicked” because there was no traffic control at all for a subsequent event at Scope — it took 45 minutes to travel one block to the parking garage. Where were the police that night? What a loss of revenue for all the tickets that could have been handed out to the traffic violators. There is no excuse for this, and it has only gotten worse each season. I should not have to allow two hours for a 20-minute drive. This shows no support for Norfolk’s events. Take a lesson from Virginia Beach: free parking and plenty of it. Nancy Hackney, Virginia Beach Since President Joe Biden has been in office, nearly 5 million people have crossed our southern border illegally, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Stop and think about that for a minute. It’s no wonder that many Americans view what is happening at our border as an invasion. The federal government’s No. 1 responsibility is to protect the states from invasion; it is failing miserably at that. It’s not possible that this is by just incompetence; it is by design. Why would a president risk the well-being of a nation like this? And where is Rep. Elaine Luria in this? Has anyone heard her speak out about this? Nope, not a word. I have to assume she is fine with all this, just as she must be fine with Biden using U.S. Marines as political props in a highly political, partisan speech in Philadelphia. A retired naval officer should be aware of long-standing Department of Defense regulations prohibiting military personnel from being at political events in uniform. Pretty sad, I would think. It’s time so send her back to private life. Viewpoints Weekly The week’s top opinion content and an opportunity to participate in a weekly question on a topic that affects our region. Jim Herbst, Virginia Beach “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a tale is told by Hans Christian Andersen of a vain leader, so focused on his standing before the wise and competent in his court that he fell for a phony scheme where some unscrupulous weavers sold him the idea that they could make him a colorful and beautiful garment, which would only be visible to those worthy. The garment was finished, and the emperor went on a tour to show off his new suit. Everyone in his kingdom came out to see these clothes — and to curry favor claimed how magnificent the emperor looked in his new suit. Only a child spoke the truth: The emperor has nothing at all on. And others finally joined in this observation. Even though the farce was exposed, the emperor and his court doubled-down. Act as if nothing is wrong: Inflation is not real, so spend more money; crime is not a problem, so empty the jails; illegal drugs entering the country aren’t a big deal, so keep our borders porous. Gary Whiting, Newport News Here’s an idea for all the Democratic governors. Gather all the Make America Great Again election deniers and insurrection supporters in your state and fly them to Florida for a permanent vacation with Gov. Ron DeSantis. Patrick Blake, Virginia Beach

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Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes Selected To Market Garden Homes’ Boutique Residential Community In Florham Park, N.J. – Real Estate Weekly https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/coldwell-banker-realty-new-homes-selected-to-market-garden-homes-boutique-residential-community-in-florham-park-n-j-real-estate-weekly/  Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes, a leading sales and marketing organization in the homebuilding industry, has announced its selection by Garden Homes as the MLS Listing Agent for Parc North in Florham Park, N.J. Working in partnership with Heather Bailey of Coldwell Banker Realty in Morristown, the Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes team will create a marketing strategy targeted at the brokerage community to support sales for the new community. Bailey will serve as the liaison to the brokerage community on behalf of Garden Homes. The assignment builds upon Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes’ successful marketing of Garden Homes’ sold-out 50-unit Cherrywood Townhomes community in River Vale. Situated in the heart of Morris County, one of the state’s most desirable locations to live, Parc North is a boutique residential community consisting of just 49 meticulously designed townhomes and carriage homes starting in the mid-$600,000s. Comprised of a diverse blend of two and three-bedroom designs ranging from 1,885 to 3,125 square feet, each residence features a custom-crafted interior with open, flowing floorplans, dramatic great rooms, chef-inspired center-island kitchens, sumptuous primary bedroom suites with sitting areas, and generous patio spaces. Set against a beautifully landscaped property, the homes at Parc North are designed for easy, everyday living as well as gracious entertaining. The thoughtful design of Parc North is further augmented by its attractive location in Florham Park, boasting one of the lowest property tax rates in Morris County. Residents can enjoy easy access to the nearby Florham Park center located only 1.3 miles away, which includes a Kings Supermarket, Trader Joe’s, CVS, Walgreens and other specialty shopping and dining options. In addition, the community is just a short drive from Life Time Fitness’ 100,000-square-foot athletic resort dedicated to the pursuit of healthy living and just six miles from all the excitement of downtown Morristown.  Parc North is close to major highways including Routes 10, 24, and 78 and is also less than a 15-minute drive to Morristown Medical Center and Summit Health Cancer Center and less than a 30-minute drive from Newark Liberty International Airport. Parc North model home tours are available by appointment only. For more information, brokers should contact Heather Bailey at (201 )274-3710.  Prospective buyers should contact Lori Dargento, Parc North’s on-site sales manager, at (973) 765-6900 or visit http://www.ParcNorthNJ.com/.  “Our ability to envision and implement creative, data-driven marketing strategies focused on driving sales velocity stands at the core of our significant track record of success,” said Dave Schoner, vice president of Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes. “We take immense pride in the relationships that our approach has enabled us to cultivate with leading companies like Garden Homes. We are excited to collaborate with them once again and help them achieve their sales goals at this property.” Powered by the Coldwell Banker brand, Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes partners with real estate developers through every step of the real estate marketing process to drive successful sales and leasing efforts at new residential properties. Through its unmatched business intelligence and data platform paired with a highly experienced team, Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes has become a trusted partner to many of the state’s premier construction and development firms. Since 1985, the Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes team has helped close over $11 billion in gross sales across over 20,000 homes in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. To learn more about Coldwell Banker Realty New Homes, visit their website at https://www.cbnewhomes.com/.

Packers Vs. Buccaneers Score: Aaron Rodgers Trumps Tom Brady In Low-Scoring Thriller Decided On Final Play – CBS Sports https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/packers-vs-buccaneers-score-aaron-rodgers-trumps-tom-brady-in-low-scoring-thriller-decided-on-final-play-cbs-sports/ The Green Bay Packers moved to 2-1 on Sunday as they defeated Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their home opener, 14-12. This was Aaron Rodgers’ second career win over Brady in five total contests, including playoffs, and their first matchup since the 2020 NFC Championship game. This game came down to the very final play. Brady led the Buccaneers 89 yards down the field to cut the deficit to two points with a touchdown pass to Russell Gage with just 14 seconds remaining. However, there was a miscommunication on the potential game-tying two-point conversion, and the Buccaneers drew a delay-of-game penalty. That cost them five yards, and Brady couldn’t find Gage in the end zone to tie the game.  Both star quarterbacks were missing multiple starting wide receivers, which explains the shortage of points scored. Rodgers completed 27 of 35 passes for 255 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, while Brady completed 31 of 42 passes for 271 yards and one touchdown. For the Packers, rookie Romeo Doubs stepped up at receiver, catching all eight of his targets for 73 yards and one touchdown. For Brady, Gage was his favorite target. He caught 12 passes for 87 yards and a touchdown, but also lost a fumble. This was a tale of two halves, as 17 of 26 total points were scored in the first two quarters. After Green Bay dominated the first two quarters, this affair turned into a slugfest dominated by both defenses.  Check back soon, as this article will be turned into a takeaways piece that dives more deeply into what transpired in Tampa Sunday.  4:25 P TB -1.5, o42.5 FOX Season Leaders passing A. Rodgers429 YD, 2 TDS, 1 INT A. Rodgers429 YD, 2 TDS, 1 INT T. Brady402 YD, 2 TDS, 1 INTT. Brady402 YD, 2 TDS, 1 INT rushing A. Jones20 ATT, 181 YD, 1 TDA. Jones20 ATT, 181 YD, 1 TD L. Fournette45 ATT, 192 YDL. Fournette45 ATT, 192 YD receiving S. Watkins6 REC, 111 YDS. Watkins6 REC, 111 YD M. Evans8 REC, 132 YD, 1 TDM. Evans8 REC, 132 YD, 1 TD See New Posts Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned DELAY OF GAME ON THE TWO-POINT CONVERSION ARE YOU SERIOUS Pinned Pinned Russell Gage!!!! Star of the game. Hauls in the touchdown with 14 seconds left. He has 12 catches for 87 yards and a touchdown! Pinned Pinned 20 seconds to go! This quickly turned into a thriller. Bucs have the ball on the 1-yard line.  Pinned Maybe the Buccaneers should have gone up-tempo all game. This is the first time they are driving effectively. Up to 10 plays, 79 yards. Pinned Pinned Eight-point game! This is a one-score affair. Brady hasn’t got anything going up to this point, but there’s a reason he’s the GOAT. He’s got that clutch factor. Watch for some short passing over the middle, and some quick pace.  Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Pinned Doesn’t look like they were very serious. Good try though.  Pinned There’s been no offense this half! Defensive slugfest. Looks like Aaron Rodgers is going to stay on the field on fourth down. wow See More

Israeli Embassy Opens In Metaverse – 코리아타임스 https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/israeli-embassy-opens-in-metaverse-%ec%bd%94%eb%a6%ac%ec%95%84%ed%83%80%ec%9e%84%ec%8a%a4/ The Israel-Korea Metaverse, a virtual version of the Embassy of Israel in Korea, has an olive tree on its first floor. Courtesy of Embassy of Israel in Korea By Kwon Mee-yoo The Embassy of Israel in Korea opened in the metaverse, becoming the first diplomatic mission in the country to gain a presence in the virtual world. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Israel, the Israeli Embassy opened a pavilion in the metaverse to offer information about Israel and promote exchanges between the two countries. “The Israel-Korea Metaverse is a truly unique platform for sharing a virtual reality immersive experience, the history of Israel-Korea relations and also for carrying out all kinds of interesting interactions between Israelis and Koreans. Even though they are 8,000 kilometers apart, yet in the metaverse, they are right next to each other,” Israeli ambassador to Korea Akiva Tor said during a launching event at a hotel in Seoul, Sept. 20. According to the embassy, there is no other embassy metaverse with this level of functionality existing anywhere in the world at this time. The embassy developed this with a Korean company called Vrillar. “I’m quite sure that this is the way forward. It won’t be the only tool of public diplomacy and, of course, we will always want to bring real people to Korea and to hold in-person conferences and in-person cultural performances. But I think the embassy metaverse will become the essential standard just as websites became the essential standard about 20 years ago and SNS channels are now,” the ambassador said. “The more I think about the potentialities of this breakthrough platform and how it can grow, the more exciting it seems… We’ll create new avenues of interaction for people at far distances, like Israelis and Koreans at the opposite ends of Asia.” Ambassador of Israel to Korea Akiva Tor speaks during the Israel-Korea Metaverse launching event at RYSE, Autograph Collection in Seoul, Sept. 20 Courtesy of Embassy of Israel in Korea The pavilion’s exterior is inspired by the Shrine of the Book in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Upon entering the pavilion, the German-born Jewish theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, welcomes visitors and gives a brief introduction of the pavilion. Einstein is voiced by Michael Reiffenstuel, the German ambassador to Korea. On the first floor is a gallery introducing the 60-year history of Korea-Israel relations with an olive tree in the center, bringing Israel’s national tree to the virtual world. The virtual space is open for various events and activities, including the MC2 lounge on the second floor, and the ambassador hopes more people will visit and use the pavilion. “Our challenge as an embassy will be to make this innovative functionality popular in Korea and in Israel, for the people young at heart and open to a new experience of engagement,” Tor said. “I’m thinking of a metaverse with Hebrew and Korean language clubs, an Israel Film Festival, virtual meetings of the student clubs of Israel and Korea, a hangout for lovers of K-pop and the Hebrew Bible, a place for talk and debate about archaeology and the future of autonomous vehicles.” The embassy plans to continuously update the Israel-Korea Metaverse. The Israel-Korea Metaverse can be downloaded at Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

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1M Aussies Will Enter Crypto Over The Next 12 Months — Swyftx Survey – Cointelegraph https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/1m-aussies-will-enter-crypto-over-the-next-12-months-swyftx-survey-cointelegraph/ Approximately one million Australians will purchase cryptocurrency for the first time over the next 12 months — bringing total crypto ownership in the country to over five million — according to a newly released survey. The findings came from the second Annual Australian Crypto Survey by Australian crypto exchange Swyftx, which was conducted by research firm YouGov. The survey questioned 2,609 Australians over 18 years of age in early July, with 548 of the survey sample identified as current holders of cryptocurrency. The report stated that despite the current “Crypto Winter” which has seen approximately $2 trillion in assets wiped from the digital assets market over the course of the last year, Australian crypto ownership has grown 4% year-on-year, reaching 21% in 2022. According to the report, this figure is set to increase by another one million new crypto owners in 2023, while at least one-quarter of Australians are planning to buy crypto over the next 12 months, with Millenials, Gen Zers, Aussie parents, and those in full-time work most likely to buy.  Source: Annual Australian Crypto Survey, Swyftx This finding is broadly in line with recent data from a bitcoin processor suggesting the crypto winter isn’t holding back widespread adoption and comments from crypto exchange CoinJar’s head of content Luke Ryan claiming that sports sponsorship is helping legitimize crypto in Australia. Commenting on the bullish figures for crypto adoption and ownership, Swyftx’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Tommy Honan told Cointelegraph:  “On the basis of current growth trajectories in the use of digital assets, we expect half of the adults under 50 in Australia to own or have owned crypto within the next one to two years.” However, Honan said there were also a lot of variables that make forecasting adoption “fiendishly difficult,” adding:  “The expectation is that we’ll see crypto move into the regulated space next year and, all other things being equal, you’d expect that to trigger growth in adoption, but it isn’t a given.” Honan said the rate of adoption may slow over the next 12 months before recovering again as market conditions improve. “The bear market has knocked confidence […] Confidence can take the stairs up and the lifts down, so we are going to have to wait and see how quickly the market takes to stabilize,” he noted.  According to the survey, lack of sound regulation was revealed as the biggest deterrent to investing in crypto for those who have not yet done so, along with a lack of knowledge about how crypto works, and overall market volatility. Related: Institutional investors headed for a tipping point on crypto — Apollo Capital This finding is reinforced by recent comments from the former head of risk at Credit Suisse CK Zheng, who believes the next crypto bull run will be a result of “regulatory clarity” in the United States. In a comment to Cointelegraph Swyftx co-CEO Ryan Parsons said the report shows there’s clear demand among Australians to purchase and use crypto, but that a “material factor” for crypto hesitancy remains regulation.  “The drumbeat for defined rules is growing and it will continue to grow if adoption of digital assets increases at its current rate. As this report shows, there’s clear demand among Australians to purchase and use crypto. It is imperative we meet this demand responsibly.”

U.S. Warns Russia Of ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ If It Uses Nuclear Weapons – The New York Times https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/u-s-warns-russia-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-it-uses-nuclear-weapons-the-new-york-times/ The comments by the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, illustrate how quickly the rhetoric has intensified as Russia has faltered on the battlefield in recent months. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, this month. American intelligence officials say they still believe the chances that nuclear weapons will be used in the conflict are low.Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times Sept. 25, 2022, 8:00 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — President Biden’s national security adviser said on Sunday that the United States had warned Russia that there would be “catastrophic consequences” for the country if Moscow used nuclear weapons in its increasing desperation to hold on to territory in Ukraine, adding that in recent days the United States has “spelled out” how the world would react in private conversations with Russian officials. The adviser, Jake Sullivan, repeated the comments several times in three Sunday television interviews, though he left deliberately vague whether those consequences would be military, economic or diplomatic. Officials were quick to say they still had not seen any movement in Russia’s stockpile of 2,000 or so small tactical weapons — which can be launched from a short- or medium-range missile — despite President Vladimir V. Putin’s threats in a televised address last week that “this is not a bluff.” But Mr. Sullivan’s use of the word “catastrophic” as a deliberately ambiguous warning of a major — if almost certainly non-nuclear — response to a Russian nuclear detonation illustrated how quickly the rhetoric has intensified as Russia has faltered on the battlefield in recent months. In late May, Mr. Biden wrote a guest essay in The New York Times in which he said that “any use of nuclear weapons in this conflict on any scale would be completely unacceptable to us as well as the rest of the world and would entail severe consequences.” American intelligence officials say they still believe the chances that nuclear weapons will be used in the conflict are low. But they believe those chances are significantly higher than they were in February and March because Mr. Putin has lost confidence in the ability of his ground troops to hold territory, much less take over Ukraine. Mr. Sullivan is a longtime student of nuclear escalation risks, and he has been walking a fine line between orchestrating repeated warnings to the Russians and avoiding statements that could prompt Moscow to raise the stakes, perhaps by beginning to move weapons toward the border in a menacing show of seriousness. He indicated as much on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We have communicated to the Russians what the consequences would be,” Mr. Sullivan said, “but we’ve been careful in how we talk about this publicly, because from our perspective we want to lay down the principle that there would be catastrophic consequences, but not engage in a game of rhetorical tit for tat.” The White House declined to say who in Russian leadership the officials had communicated with, or to characterize the Russian response. But even before Mr. Putin issued his latest threats last week, the White House and the Pentagon had quietly engaged in detailed tabletop exercises, senior officials say, to think through how the United States and its allies might react to a variety of provocations. Those varied from a detonation over the Black Sea by Mr. Putin to the actual use of a weapon against a Ukrainian target. The first of those would be more akin to a North Korean nuclear test, intended as a warning shot. The second would be the first use of a nuclear weapon against a population since the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. For months, administration officials have said they could think of almost no circumstances in which a nuclear detonation by Russia would result in a nuclear response. But there has been discussion of several non-nuclear military responses — using conventional weapons, for example, against a base or unit from which the attack originated, or giving the Ukrainian forces the weaponry to launch that counterattack. In the minds of many officials, any use of nuclear weapons would require a forceful military response. But many of the options under discussion also involve nonmilitary steps, casting Mr. Putin as an international pariah who broke the nuclear taboo for the first time in 77 years. It would be a chance, some officials say, to bring China and India, along with much of Asia and Africa, into the effort to impose sanctions on Russia, cutting off some of the biggest markets that remain for its oil and gas. Mr. Putin’s nuclear threats have hung over the war from its opening days, when he publicly ordered that nuclear forces be placed on a heightened alert status. (There is no evidence it ever happened.) More recently the shelling, apparently by Russian forces, of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has raised the specter of deliberately turning a commercial facility into a potential dirty bomb. Shelling near the plant has continued in recent days, though the reactors have now been shut down, lowering the risk of a runaway nuclear accident. On Wednesday, for the first time in more than six months, Mr. Putin revived his nuclear threats, saying he could use all arms available to him in the war — remarks interpreted by officials in both Russia and the West as a veiled threat about the use of nuclear weapons. “If Russia feels its territorial integrity is threatened, we will use all defense methods at our disposal, and this is not a bluff,” he said. “Those who are trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the winds can also turn in their direction.” Mr. Sullivan said in several interviews that he was taking Mr. Putin’s nuclear threats seriously — saying at one point that the United States was preparing for “every contingency” in the conflict and working to deter Russia from using nuclear weapons. “We do have the capacity to speak directly at senior levels and be clear about our messages to them,” he said, adding: “Russia understands very well what the United States would do in response to nuclear weapons use in Ukraine because we have spelled it out for them.” On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Sullivan said there would be announcements in the coming days of new economic sanctions from the Group of 7 nations against Russia — including on Russian entities operating in other countries — in response to Moscow’s “sham” referendums in portions of Ukraine it is occupying. The voting, which ends early this week, is widely believed to be a pretext for Russia to annex those territories. “We’ve been clear: We’re not going to stop or slow down our support to the Ukrainians, no matter what Putin tries to do with these fake elections and fake referenda and annexation,” Mr. Sullivan said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” Ukrainian and Western officials believe that the rushed voting would open the door for Mr. Putin to claim that Kyiv’s defensive war was an attack on Russian territory. On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated that annexation by Moscow would scuttle any fleeting hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. Mr. Sullivan put it even more bluntly, citing plunging Russian troop morale and shortages of precision-guided weapons. “What we are seeing are signs of unbelievable struggle among the Russians,” Mr. Sullivan said. “You’ve got low morale, where the soldiers don’t want to fight. And who can blame them because they want no part of Putin’s war conquest.” He continued: “You’ve got Russia disorganized and losing territory to a capable Ukrainian force. And you’ve got a huge amount of infighting among the Russian military leadership. And now the blame game has started to include these replacements.” Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.

UK Builds Leadership In Space Debris Removal And In-Orbit Manufacturing With National Mission And Funding Boost – GOV.UK https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/uk-builds-leadership-in-space-debris-removal-and-in-orbit-manufacturing-with-national-mission-and-funding-boost-gov-uk/ Two UK-based companies are designing missions to clear hazardous space junk alongside the launch of a new programme to back cutting-edge space technology, the UK Space Agency has announced. ClearSpace and Astroscale have been awarded £4 million from the UK Space Agency to design missions to remove existing pieces of space debris, working with a consortium of industry partners. Once the designs are complete, the teams, along with other UK space companies, could receive further funding to see the UK’s first national space debris removal mission launch in 2026. The projects will directly support the creation of 70 new jobs, with further opportunities to increase growth in the wider UK space sector, which already supports 47,000 jobs and generates an income of £16.5 billion each year. The UK Space Agency has also announced a new Enabling Technology Programme (ETP), with up to £15 million to support innovative space research and develop emerging space technologies across the UK. The first of six calls for funding from ETP opened today and will include technology for in-orbit servicing and manufacturing, which can extend the lifetime of satellites, building resilience and reducing space debris. Future calls will focus on emerging technologies to support the UK’s contribution to future space science missions. Orbital congestion and space debris is one of the biggest challenges facing the global space sector and the UK Space Agency has committed £102 million, over the next three years, to deliver capabilities to track objects in space and reduce debris. The UK is also leading on global regulation and standard setting to make space activities more sustainable, in line with the government’s National Space Strategy. There are estimated to be more than 130 million pieces of space debris orbiting Earth, from tiny flecks of paint from spacecraft, to old satellites, spent rocket bodies and even tools dropped by astronauts. This debris can stay in orbit for hundreds of years and present a real danger to satellites and the public services that they deliver, from communications and navigation to environmental monitoring. Dr Paul Bate, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, said: As our reliance on space technologies increases rapidly and the UK becomes a global hub of satellite design, manufacturing and launch, we are committed to leading efforts to make space more sustainable. With 1,700 satellites launched last year alone, the need to safeguard the space environment for the benefit of everyone on Earth has never been more pressing. By catalysing investment, backing innovative new technologies and supporting a national mission to remove space debris, we can keep space open for future generations and protect the important satellite services that modern life depends on. ClearSpace UK, based in London, and Astroscale Ltd., based at the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire, were chosen after completing feasibility studies of the missions to remove derelict objects from space earlier this year. ClearSpace has been awarded £2.25 million to conduct the next phase of a study into a mission which would remove derelict satellites from Low Earth orbit (LEO). This design phase will last until October 2023 and will finish with the preliminary design review — an evaluation of the progress on the design and the technical adequacy of the proposed mission. The Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) mission, which will advance key technology building blocks, is a catalyst for the development of commercially viable disposal services and other in-orbit services. Rory Holmes, ClearSpace UK Managing Director said: ClearSpace is honoured that the UK Space Agency is continuing their support to the CLEAR Mission. Space is getting more and more congested with defunct satellites, rocket bodies and other fragments – we have to act now to ensure this precious environment remains usable for future generations. The CLEAR Mission is a vital step on the path to making the removal of space debris a reality, and will allow us to develop state-of-the-art space technologies, such as complex robotics and AI-based algorithms, within the UK. We cannot solve the challenge of space debris alone, and we are proud that 9 cutting-edge UK-based space companies – Alden Legal, AstroAgency, Critical Software, Deimos, MDA, Orbit Fab, Satellite Applications Catapult, University of Surrey – will work with us to address this issue. Astroscale Ltd. has been awarded £1.7 million to design a satellite servicer that is capable of removing multiple retired or defunct satellites in a single mission. The Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture (COSMIC) will harness Astroscale’s rendezvous and Remote Proximity Operations (RPO), and debris capture capabilities. Astroscale most recently proved their magnetic capture and RPO capability in-orbit during the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) satellite mission launched in 2021. The COSMIC servicer will be a technological progression of Astroscale’s Sunrise programme ELSA-M servicer – a commercial partnership between the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency and OneWeb, the global satellite operator. The ELSA-M multi-client debris removal space servicer will be launched ahead of the UK’s Active Debris Removal mission in late 2024. Nick Shave, Managing Director, Astroscale Ltd, said: We rely on space in so many areas of our lives, yet without the rapid development of the in-orbit servicing market we cannot start removing the hazardous debris that threatens our societal dependence on satellites. We are very pleased and honoured to have been selected by the UK Space Agency for this Active Debris Removal Mission Study award. Astroscale, working closely with expert UK partner companies, will design a national robotic capture capability that can safely remove two defunct UK-registered satellites in Low Earth Orbit. With our proven space mission heritage and strong industrial partnerships, we can deliver the UK government’s ambitious plans to develop a sustainable space economy for the benefit of future generations. Our goal is to make in-orbit debris removal and satellite servicing routine by 2030. The government recently unveiled its Plan for Space Sustainability to tackle the growing volume of debris in space, which is both environmentally and commercially unsustainable. The plan includes action to clean up the Earth’s orbit as well as to ensure future projects minimise their footprint, for instance through in-orbit servicing and manufacturing to prolong a satellite’s life or recycle satellites in orbit, as well as retrieving satellites and mitigating debris. The UK has previously provided funding for the implementation of the UN Office for Outer Space Activities (UNOOSA) guidelines for the long-term sustainability of outer space. To achieve a safe and sustainable space environment, the UK is playing a leading role alongside UNOOSA in the adoption of these guidelines, which set out how countries and companies can help preserve the outer space environment for future generations. The UK is also the leading contributor to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Safety programme, which provides collaboration and funding opportunities for UK scientists and industry.

DCTA Employees Get $1000 Bonus On Top Of Salary Adjustment – Denton Record Chronicle https://dentoncountynewsonline.com/dcta-employees-get-1000-bonus-on-top-of-salary-adjustment-denton-record-chronicle/ Before the Denton County Transportation Authority board appointed a CEO at Thursday’s meeting, it also authorized a $1,000 one-time payment for employees, on top of a 5% salary adjustment. The one-time bonus for employees was discussed across two different meetings before its approval Thursday, and comes at a time when governmental bodies across the county are looking at adjusting employees’ income to account for rapid inflation. At last month’s meeting, the conversation shifted from a proposed 4% salary increase across the board and $2,300 bonuses to a plan for 5% salary increases and $1,000 bonuses.