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AJ Wright Named Player of the Week

OurSports Central - Frontier League 

Ottawa, ON - The Frontier League has announced today that Ottawa Titans infielder AJ Wright has been selected as the Player of the Week for the week o... - FL Ottawa Titans

Arizona teen escapes bear attack with nasty scratches

NBC News 

An Arizona mom was counting her blessings Monday after her teenage son escaped from a black bear that barged into their family cabin with only some nasty scratches across his face and arm.

Brazil seeks investment in energy transition

Brazilian.Report 

Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) and mining giant Vale on Monday announced a public bidding process to select an investment fund to invest in minerals related to energy transition, decarbonization, and fertilization. “With the objective of developing new mines, the fund will be an important tool to finance mineral research,” BNDES said in a statement. […]

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China to host Egypt's Sisi, Arab leaders this week

Energy-daily.com 

Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2024
China will host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as well as a number of other Arab leaders in Beijing this week, its foreign ministry said Monday. The leaders will from Tuesday to Saturday "pay state visits to China and attend the opening ceremony of the 10th Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum", foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a stateme

Musk plans largest-ever supercomputer for xAI startup: report

Energy-daily.com 

Washington (AFP) May 26, 2024
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has told investors he plans to build a supercomputer dubbed "gigafactory of compute" to support the development of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, an industry news outlet reported Saturday. Musk wants the supercomputer - which will string together 100,000 Nvidia chips - operational by fall 2025, and "will hold himself personally responsible for del

China invests $47 billion in largest ever chip fund

Energy-daily.com 

Shanghai (AFP) May 27, 2024
China has poured more than $47 billion into the country's largest-ever chip investment fund, a business database showed on Monday, as Beijing seeks self-sufficiency in the crucial semiconductor manufacturing sector. Semiconductors are an indispensable part of the modern economy, used in everything from kitchen appliances and mobile phones to cars and weapons. The chips industry is increa

Ha, I Was Right! (Oops, I Was Also Wrong)

Athletics Nation 

“Why does the word ‘airmail’ leap to mind right now?” | Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images

On this Memorial Day, first let us take a moment to honor the men in our country who made the ultimate sacrifice, making an out so that a runner could advance from 1B to 2B. With the season just past the 1/3 mark, some elements of the A’s 2024 roster — at least the small portion of it that is not currently on the IL — are coming into focus.

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Paranormal activity: Slow horses

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

The estate agent had made much of this feature, pointing out the array of plants that created a microclimate there; natural and green and eco-whatever peppering her spiel. Ho had nodded like he cared, calculating how many electronics he could fit into here once this eco-shit was off the premises. Quite a lot had been his estimate. This turned out to be the precise exact amount.

Du Bois, Du Bwa, Du Boyss, Dubya, Du Lit

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a scholar at Academia La La Land, criticized a student who mistakenly pronouncing sociologist W E B Du Bois' name wrong during a Q&A session at JNU. Spivak pointed out Du Bois was finicky about pronunciation, and Kumar was of Haitian-French descent. Spivak argued that Kumar was a 'brahminist', allowing her to use Spivaking, as a dalit can pronounce Du Bois as 'Spivak'.

‘Desert of Namibia’ Review: A Meandering Chronicle of a Listless Japanese Zoomer

Variety 

“Desert of Namibia,” about a caustic 21-year-old Japanese wanderer, embodies its protagonist’s listlessness to a fault. Director Yôko Yamanaka was still a teenager when she made her debut feature “Amiko” in 2017, a sharply funny high school film with the jagged, quick-cut energy of a YouTube travel vlog. It marked her as a Gen Z […]

DLP factions to return to court on June 26

Nation News.com 

The warring factions in the Democratic Labour Party will be back in court in a month’s time after the suit brought by member Ricky Williams was adjourned this morning in the No 9 Supreme Court. It is scheduled to be heard on June 26. Newly installed Chief Justice Leslie Haynes adjourned the matter so that […]

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