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*Update: the launch has been rescheduled from Saturday 26 August to Sunday 27 August*

I think it’s fair to say that when Oracle joins a group that promises “free lunch,” it’s someone else’s lunch that Oracle is hoping to eat. How else to explain the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)? This trade association formed by Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ declares “freeloaders welcome” as it tries to build a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

The comic magician can also be seen onstage at the Tropicana and the Luxor.

Leaders in both parties like the Universal Service Fund. But lobbying and Washington politics are making it nearly impossible to fix.

In 40 pages of records turned over by the Department of Justice and Public Safety after an eight-month access-to-information battle, there’s no report assessing the business case for building a new Fredericton-region jail, including how much it might cost to operate, or any assessment of how much space the correctional system might need in the future.

The former White House chief of staff wants his case moved to federal court. If the Trump ally prevails, he’ll owe a debt to a swashbuckling justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln.

Moving quickly and carefully in two layers of gloves, Florian Krauss sets a cube of ice into a gold-plated cylinder that glows red in the light of the aiming laser. He steps back to admire the machine, covered with wires and gauges, that turns polar ice into climate data.  If this were a real slice…

Is it fact or folklore that peeing on a jellyfish sting is a good way to treat it?

Generative AI, ChatGPT, and large language models (LLMs) like GitHub Copilot and other AI code-generation tools are changing software development practices and productivity. McKinsey reports that developers using generative AI tools are happier, more productive, and able to focus on more meaningful work. According to this report, AI can help developers speed up code documentation, generation, and refactoring by anywhere from 20% to 50%.

Most people can sing “Happy Birthday” by heart. But do you know how you learned it? Who first shared it with you? Who wrote it? You have the lyrics and the melody, and can teach others, but you probably have no idea where it came from.

I think it’s fair to say that when Oracle joins a group that promises “free lunch,” it’s someone else’s lunch that Oracle is hoping to eat. How else to explain the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)? This trade association formed by Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ declares “freeloaders welcome” as it tries to build a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). None of these companies is in the business of giving away their own products for free, yet they dearly hope you’ll look to them to get... Читать дальше...

Is opting-out of LGBTQ+ curriculum at public schools enough? We need to directly challenge the presence of sexual perversion in our children’s school libraries and classrooms.

Last week, the deadly combination of flash drought and an off-shore hurricane — both increasingly common conditions as global temperatures rise — produced a catastrophic fire that destroyed the historic city of Lahaina.

At any given moment during this smoky summer of 2023, hundreds of wildfires were blazing in the United States — more than 850 as of late July, according to the nonprofit Fire, Weather & Avalanche Center. Most of those wildfires ignited in the forests of the American West.

Opioid addiction and overdose is a national and local crisis, one that local health care workers, policymakers and educators need to aggressively tackle. But it will take time, a lot of money and a cultural shift before society treats this epidemic not like a temporary problem, but a killer of families, lives and potential.

The Aug. 11 story “Light-colored roofs and buildings, more green spaces, among ingredients needed to combat urban heat islands,” is appreciated by those working each day to save current life across this valley.

We keep hearing about the teacher shortage both here in Las Vegas and across the country.

This supermajority conservative set of Supreme Court justices, hand-picked by the Federalist Society, will serve out their term as lifetime appointees since they were appointed under “lifetime term” legislation.

In the Notes: Interblock, Dallas Haun, John T. Moran III, Stanley Olsen, Kenneth Goodrich, Irene Villenueva, Ryan Hink, David Bonatesta, Lydia Pierce and more ...

It’s hard to escape the desert sun behind Marion Earl Elementary School, where the playground and basketball courts swelter in the heat. But one secluded corner acts as an unintended refuge, with a garden marked by wooden benches, hand-painted rocks, ripening flowers and fruit, and precious shade from lemon and pear trees.

1. Emmy-winning 'This Is Us' actor Ron Cephas Jones dead at 66  GMA
2. Ron Cephas Jones, Emmy-winning actor in 'This Is Us,' dies at age 66  CNN
3. How Ron Cephas Jones’ Vulnerability and Masterful Acting on ‘This Is Us’ Helped Me Forgive My Father Before His Death  Variety
4. Ron Cephas Jones, "This Is Us" star, dies at 66  CBS Evening News
5. This week’s TV: Farewell to Ron Cephas Jones, a Netflix thriller arrives, and a new ‘Star Wars’ spin-off  The Boston Globe
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Promo des: Yepoka Yeebo’s new book “Anansi’s Gold” details an infamous scheme.

From research facilities to water parks, all to raise their rankings, paid for with rising tuition.

As part of the investigation the SET obtained court production orders, spoke with a number of witnesses and reviewed in excess of 200 documents.

Despite being previously labelled as a priority by the UK government, and being extensively praised by members of the aquaculture industry, a pilot study testing digitisation of export health certificates (EHCs) has been scrapped by the UK’s department of food…