Sheldon K. Caplis, prodigious fundraiser for community causes, dies
Sheldon K. Caplis, who devoted his life to giving away money he helped raise from corporations to nonprofits, died June 11 at his Pikesville home. He was 73.
Sheldon K. Caplis, who devoted his life to giving away money he helped raise from corporations to nonprofits, died June 11 at his Pikesville home. He was 73.
Former Chelsea striker Dominic Solanke is open to a return to the club this summer but Bournemouth have reportedly declined to allow the Blues to pay his release clause in instalments, according to Simon Phillips. Solanke impressed at Bournemouth last season, scoring 19 goals in 38 Premier League games, and 21 in all competitions in […]
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A new study finds that the median retirement savings of people who are 55 is just $50,000, far from what experts recommend.
Crazy Town were best known for the hit single "Butterfly."
I know he's sad, and I wonder if I should risk losing our relationship.
If incumbent president Joe Biden can remain standing and be even vaguely coherent for 90 minutes, he will be declared victorious. That is how low a bar voters have set for him.
It’s no secret, everyone in the county wants a pound of flesh from Manchester Valley. Coming into the year fresh off an undefeated 2023, coach Shelly Brezicki knew that. She also knew that in order to defend her county, regional and state titles, it would take a little bit of effort from everyone. Armed with […]
If you’ve studied French (or, indeed, been French) in the past couple of decades, you may well have played the card game Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux. Known in English as The Werewolves of Millers Hollow, it casts its players as hunters, thieves, seers, and other types of rural villagers in the distant past. By night, […]
Artist Tanya Nixon-Silberg asked 14 mothers of color what phrases they heard growing up and what they say to their children now. The result is a textile project that explores what it means to decolonize parenting.
On June 25, 1947, “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
CNN will be hosting the first debate at 9 p.m. ET Thursday.
Five-foot-long heath goannas may eat enough animal carcasses to prevent blowfly populations from getting so high that sheep are infected with maggots.
A new and worrying way that large ice sheets can melt has been characterized by scientists for the first time. The research focuses on how relatively warm seawater can lap at the underside of ground-based ice, which can accelerate the movement of the ice into the ocean.
In a new article, a coalition of conservationists and researchers have shown how we can protect Earth's remaining biodiversity by conserving just a tiny percentage of the planet's surface. This affordable, achievable plan would make it possible for us to preserve the most threatened species from extinction, safeguarding Earth's wildlife for the future.
Giant lizards called heath goannas could save Australian sheep farmers millions of dollars a year by keeping blowfly numbers down—and must be prioritized in conservation schemes to boost native wildlife, say researchers.
A team of solar physicists at NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CASS), led by Research Scientist Chris S. Hanson, Ph.D., has revealed the interior structure of the sun's supergranules, a flow structure that transports heat from the sun's hidden interior to its surface. The researchers' analysis of the supergranules presents a challenge to the current understanding of solar convection.
Lower Wedgeport-based Ocean Pride Fisheries Ltd. has been ordered to compensate the workers for deductions from their wages, missing hours, and pay that should have been provided in lieu of notice of termination.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It feels weird, talking to yourself online. Especially when you’re pretty much the most unpleasant character you’ve ever met. The “me” I’ve been chatting to this week, called King Fiall of Nirth,…
Etienne Boulter walked into his lab at the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, France, one morning with a Lego Technic excavator set tucked under his arm. His plan was simple yet ambitious: to use the pieces of the set to build a mechanical cell stretcher. Boulter and his colleagues study mechanobiology—the way mechanical forces, such…
You will find a lot of articles on the web about what it takes to become a senior developer. Many of these articles focus on soft skills. They often advise staying current with technology, learning to communicate well, mentoring junior developers, and other things along those lines. These recommendations are all fine and good, but, well, let’s be honest. They are also pretty much pabulum.
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Just like big data back in 2013, we’re in the “everyone’s doing it, no one knows why” phase of generative AI (genAI). A recent McKinsey survey found that 65% of enterprises are “regularly using genAI.” Promising! In Elastic’s recent earnings call, the company noted that over 1,000 customers are paying to build genAI applications. Wow! Each of the big cloud companies, as well as Oracle, has talked up how genAI is driving cloud spend. Amazing!
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I’m not sure why our industry keeps falling into the trap that when a new concept emerges, there are near-immediate announcements that it runs best on one platform. Enterprises shouldn’t even think about other options.
Читать дальше...Over the past decade, the Nevada Legislature has taken strong steps in bringing transparency and accountability to drug pricing so that Nevada families stop getting price gouged on life saving drugs. Now, as leaders look for additional ways to help patients get their prescriptions, they should swiftly move to reform how Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) operate.