TV Realite

23Oct

By Austin B. PowerNo Comments

Sports

After the Final Rose: Jesse Palmer’s unlikely journey from Canadian QB to American TV star

LOS ANGELES — Typically, a throng of beautiful, mid-20s women excitedly giggling and waving is the stuff of boy-band lore or bad Hollywood script writing.But this is Jesse Palmer, so this is Wednesday afternoon.His welcome is the type of earned experience that comes with being a handsome television star, and one you witness multiple variations of over the course of a few days together.You’re deep in the canyons of Malibu, Palmer carefully steering his Audi rental car toward a remote ranch and popular filming location. In a little more than 24 hours, he will appear in a previously filmed three-hour block on ABC primetime television, first as the suit-clad host of the new “Golden Bachelor,” then in a breezy linen button-up on “Bachelor In Paradise.” But today you’re on site for Season 28 of ...

23Oct

By Austin B. PowerNo Comments

Economy

How High Interest Rates Sting Bakers, Farmers and Consumers

Home buyers, entrepreneurs and public officials are confronting a new reality: If they want to hold off on big purchases or investments until borrowing is less expensive, it’s probably going to be a long wait.Governments are paying more to borrow money for new schools and parks. Developers are struggling to find loans to buy lots and build homes. Companies, forced to refinance debts at sharply higher interest rates, are more likely to lay off employees — especially if they were already operating with little or no profits.Over the past few weeks, investors have realized that even with the Federal Reserve nearing an end to its increases in short-term interest rates, market-based measures of long-term borrowing costs have continued rising. In short, the economy may no longer be able to avoid ...

Gestión de crisis de reputación digital en España: Balboa Pacific Media

23Oct

By Austin B. PowerNo Comments

Empresas

Gestión de crisis de reputación digital en España: Balboa Pacific Media

Balboa Pacific Media, al utilizar su amplio bagaje de más de veinte años en el campo del marketing en línea y la gestión de la imagen y reputación en internet, ha establecido su posición como líder indiscutible en la industria, convirtiéndose en la principal agencia de gestión de la reputación digital en España. Numerosos clientes han obtenido beneficios al implementar nuestras metodologías únicas para mejorar la percepción en buscadores y plataformas de redes sociales, trabajando en total confidencialidad con clientes en ciudades de España como Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Málaga y Bilbao. Todo esto, gracias a nuestra exclusiva red de medios digitales en el país.Cuando nos referimos a la gestión de la reputación digital, nos referimos a las acciones y tácticas destinadas a impact...

23Oct

By Austin B. PowerNo Comments

News

Indigenous Australians Say ‘Reconciliation Is Dead’ After ‘Voice’

The result of the referendum was decisive, and at the same time, divisive. It bruised Indigenous Australians who for decades had hoped that a conciliatory approach would help right the wrongs of the country’s colonial history. So, the nation’s leader made a plea.“This moment of disagreement does not define us. And it will not divide us,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, visibly emotional, said this month, after voters in every state and territory except one rejected the constitutional referendum. “This is not the end for reconciliation.”But that was a difficult proposition to accept for Indigenous leaders who saw the result as a vote for a tortured status quo in a country that is already far behind other colonized nations in reconciling with its first inhabitants.The rejection of the Indig...

23Oct

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Science and Technology

An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I.

Ali Farhadi is no tech rebel.The 42-year-old computer scientist is a highly respected researcher, a professor at the University of Washington and the founder of a start-up that was acquired by Apple, where he worked until four months ago.But Mr. Farhadi, who in July became chief executive of the Allen Institute for AI, is calling for “radical openness” to democratize research and development in a new wave of artificial intelligence that many believe is the most important technology advance in decades.The Allen Institute has begun an ambitious initiative to build a freely available A.I. alternative to tech giants like Google and start-ups like OpenAI. In an industry process called open source, other researchers will be allowed to scrutinize and use this new system and the data fed into it.T...

23Oct

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Sports

Michigan is ruthlessly beating its opponents, NCAA investigation aside. And it won’t get nicer

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Go ahead, question Michigan’s integrity.Accuse Jim Harbaugh of disregarding the NCAA rulebook. Cry foul about sign-stealing or analysts overstepping their bounds. Root for the Big Ten’s cockiest program to get its comeuppance. The Wolverines have made one thing abundantly clear: They. Do. Not. Care.“You see it all over social media,” right guard Zak Zinter said. “People are throwing different stuff at us, NCAA, whatever. They can claim and do whatever, say whatever. We’re just going to keep doing what we’re doing.”What they’re doing is demolishing every Big Ten team in their path. No. 2 Michigan (8-0, 5-0 Big Ten) did it again Saturday night, shellacking Michigan State 49-0 after another week shrouded in controversy.News broke two days earlier that the NCAA was invest...

23Oct

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Economy

LinkedIn issues warning to a site shaming pro-Palestinian sentiment.

Online posts asking to “#PrayForPalestine.” Entreaties for peace. Pleas to “Free Gaza.”Over the last 10 days, a website called anti-israel-employees.com published more than 17,000 posts, which one of the people behind the site said had been taken mainly from LinkedIn. The site, which claimed to be a “global live feed of potentially supportive sentiments for terrorism among company employees,” listed thousands of people and grouped them by their workplaces, in an apparent attempt to shame them for their sentiments on the Israeli-Hamas conflict.The website, which was taken offline for a day before being migrated to a new web address, named employees of major international corporations, including Amazon, Mastercard and Ernst & Young, and shared their profile photos, LinkedIn pages and pos...

22Oct

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News

Israel-Hamas War Live News: 14 More Aid Trucks Arrive in Gaza

Awad Darawshe, shot in the abdomen, bled to death under the stage at the trance music festival that Hamas gunmen transformed into a killing field. A Palestinian Israeli paramedic, he died in a desperate attempt to save the lives of Jews at the Tribe of Nova peace-and-love gathering that marked the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.Mr. Darawshe, 23, was at the festival as part of a small team of paramedics working for Yossi Ambulances, an Israeli company recruited to take care of routine medical emergencies. His colleagues fled when the shooting began, but he “felt compelled to help people as one human being to another,” said Mohammad Darawshe, a cousin who is himself a prominent mediator between Palestinians and Jews.A young Palestinian Israeli citizen committed to peace and killed by Islamist Hama...

22Oct

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Science and Technology

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial Reveals New Details of How FTX Died

On the morning of Nov. 6, Nishad Singh, a top executive at the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, sent a message in a group chat with two senior colleagues. Customers were rushing to withdraw funds from the exchange, he wrote. Within the last day, they had tried to move $1.25 billion off the platform, and $120 million in withdrawal requests had come in over the last hour.Caroline Ellison, who ran FTX’s sister hedge fund, Alameda Research, replied with an image of a sad face. Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX’s founder, responded with a single word: “Oof.”Less than a year later, Mr. Bankman-Fried, 31, is on trial in federal court in Manhattan, fighting criminal charges that he stole more than $8 billion from FTX customers. The company is bankrupt, and Mr. Singh and Ms. Ellison, both 28, have pleaded guilty ...

22Oct

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Sports

Bold predictions for the NBA season, including Wembanyama the All-Star and a Celtics title

What time is it? That’s right … it’s time to make some outlandish statements that people will look back on next spring and cackle hysterically.OK, that’s not actually the goal, but it is certainly an occupational hazard. Prognostication makes fools of us all; there are just too many things we can’t possibly have seen coming. Thank goodness for that, actually, as sports would be pretty boring otherwise.That won’t stop me from trying, though. With the regular season starting next week, now is the time to gaze into my extremely hazy crystal ball and make some calls for what will happen in the coming months. In particular, the goal is to make some calls that might go against the tide and are actually, y’know … bold. For instance, “Nikola Jokić will make the All-Star team” is a defensible pred...