Tngm Final Fantasy XIV Gets Physical With a New Tabletop RPG RIchmond, Va. ndash; Name: Sharon ParhamOrganization: DLA Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis DORRA Years of Service: 18 years What is your job title, and what do you do, specifically Management and Program Analyst. I serve as a contract manager. What do you like most about your job The aspect I like most about my job is the interaction I have with my teammates, customers, and vendors in the procurement field.What would you say has been your major contributions to your organization this year in your job Working the DLA Strategic Evolution contract requirement and meeting the very short timeline.If you could speak d irectly to the warfighters you support, what would you tell them I would tell them I greatly appreciate and honor their service to our country and will continue to support them to the best of my ability as a civilian employee.Do you have an unfulfilled wish Yes. Winning the Powerball jackpot!! LOLWhat are some of your passions outside of work Irsquo;m passionate about sports. I spend most of my time, outside of work, attending my childrenrsquo soccer, basketball, football, and softball games. Very satisfying and keeps me very busy.If you had a theme song, what would it be and why Without a doubt, my theme song would be Respect by Aretha Franklin be cause everyone desires respect despite our differences.Who is the most influential person in your life...past or present My mom has been the most influenti Twxu Why Is Asteroid Bennu Ejecting Particles Into Space Blake Nissen鈥擳he Boston Globe/Getty ImagesBy Zo毛 SchlangerApril 20, 2020 8:00 AM EDTAs the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in the U.S., h ealth care facilities nationwide are contending with an increasing crush of patients, and growing more and more desperate for the tools they need to protect themselves from catching and spreading the virus that causes it. A portrait of a desperately ill-equipped medical workforce is emerging from an online survey with 978 respondents, built by a grassroots organization started by doctors trying to get personal protective equipment, commonly called PPE, to facilities where it is needed most.We could use body bags. And eye shields and gowns! wrote an employee at a nursing facility on Long Island in New York. Please we don ;t have anything, wrote an employee at a regional hospital in Miami, Florida. All its beds were full, the employee wrote. They had no gowns left, and a week or less of most other PPE .We are out of everything, wrote a staffer at a large hospital in Tennessee. Providers using one mask for 3+ weeks. Many COVID patients. Zero gowns.At first, the organization, GetUsPPE.org, just put up a basic request form: What supplies do you need, and where are you But within three weeks they had more than 7,000 responses. Staff members from many of the major hospital networks in the U.S. were begging for supplies. Workers from every other category of medical facility were
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Ddyq This Robot Kangaroo Can Pretty Much Hop Forever Robert O Neill, a former U.S. Na vy SEAL, speaks at the Best of Blount Chamber of Commerce awards ceremony at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville, Te nnessee, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 6.Luke Sha rrett鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Mark ThompsonNovember 9, 2014 10:09 PM ESTRobert O ;Neill may have fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, but he was merely the triggerman. The U.S. and members of its militarymdash;thousands of themmdash;killed the 9/11 mastermind. The fact is that O ;Neill and those telling his story seem to miss that point.There is no I in team, coaches and military commanders are fond of saying. But that rule apparently applies less and less if you ;re at the tip of the spear like the Navy SEALs who allegedly killed Osama bin Laden in his lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011.This week, O ;Neill, an ex-member of SEAL Team 6, is slated to discuss his kill shot to bin Laden forehead with Fox News. His tale comes nearly two years after a colleague, Matt Bissonnette, also a former member of SEAL Team 6, wrote a book, No Easy Day, about the raid under the pen name Mark Owen. Both violated non-disclosure agreements they signed as members of the Navy most elite special-operations force.These things have to be kept quiet for a number of reasons, Don Mann, a former SEAL and author of Inside SEAL Team Six, said Sunday. Talking out like this goes Dqcn Eddie Ray Routh Will Appeal Guilty Verdict in American Sniper Trial Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosts a small business forum with members of the business and lending communities at the Bike Tech bicycle shop on May 19, 2015 in Cedar Falls, IA.Scott Olson鈥擥etty ImagesBy Philip ElliottMay 19, 2015 3:44 PM EDTAlmost half of the money from Hillary Clintonrsquo speaking engagements cam e from corporations and advocacy groups that were lobbying Congress at the same time.The Democratic presidential candidate earned $10.2 million in 2014, her first full calendar year after leaving the State Department. Of that, $4.6 million came from groups that also spent on lobbying Congress that year, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.In all, the corporations and trade groups that Clinton spoke to in 2014 spent $72.5 million lobbying Congress that same year.Asked Tuesday if there were conflicts of interest in speaking to these groups, Clinton was curt with reporters in Cedar Falls, Iowa. No, she said.Obviously, Bill and I have been blessed and wersquo;re very grateful for the opportunities that we had but wersquo;ve never forgotten where wersquo;ve come from, she added.But the speaking fees were more about where they were going next. Name 2014 Lobbying Spending Clinton Speaking Fee General Electric $20,085,000 $225,500 Bio technology Industry Organization $10,186,000 $335,500 Qualcomm Inc $9,530,000 $125,000 Pharmaceutical Care Man
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Hefg Strong Solar Flare Headed Toward Earth The winter nights may be long, but they dont have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who dont have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellars latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the companys last big release from 2023. However, with a few taps on your phone, it still makes it easier than ever to zoom in on your favorite planet , star, nebula, or distant galaxy. Last years Unistellar model, the eQuinox 2, also contained one long telescope that connects to users phones. Sti ll, its biggest selling point was the light pollution filters that were supposed to make it a bit easier to see beyond the blank night skies of suburban or semi-urban environments. That model was also geared toward beginners, and it worked well in that regard during Gizmodos own tests, but Unistellar is promoting this latest telescope as being even better than before at helping amateur astronomers get started stargazing. You see, where the companys previous telescope was a digital reflector telescope, the $2,500 Odyssey is using mirror optics co-developed with lense-maker Nikon that still uses the companys same automatic adjustment capabilities to find planets and stars by typing in the desired celestial object into the Unistellar app. Mirror telescopes normally require readj ustment after use. However, Unistellar co-founder and CEO Laurent Marfisi told Gizmodo the Odyssey changes it up by containing sealed mirrors that dont lose their optimizatio Yibe Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay CorbisBy HealthApril 4, 2015 8:00 AM EDTThe powers of a steady fitness routine are impressive: regular exercise can help you build stronger muscles, stave off chron ic illnesses, and make your clothes fit a whole lot better. But there another benefit of physical activity that deser ves a shout-out: the way even moderate amounts seem to shave years off your age, no matter how many birthdays you ;ve actually celebrated. Of course, you can ;t change your chronological age, but exercise can improve your health to the point where you look and feel younger than you are, says Frank Frisch, PhD, director of kinesiology at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. Behold the 15 physical and mental effects a sweat session can have on your brain and body. Just reading this list will motivate you to never blow off a gym session again.Exercise gives you more vim and vigorA workout is like nature energy drink, firing up your brain and body so you feel more alert and alive. Exercise puts your body in a state of arousal, which translates into more vitality and a greater sense of well being, says Frisch. Daily tasks become less strenuous and require less exertion. It the kind of pep in your step that makes you feel like you ;ve peeled off a decade or two.Exercise jumpstarts yo ur sex driveA sweat session improves blood flow all over your body, including below the belt, and the extra blood surge makes you feel more responsive and incre
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Svtc University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis Statue By Laura StamplerNovember 25, 2014 5:55 PM ESTWhile Thanksgiving is often touted as a bright, warm time full of family, food, and friendship, not everyone has an Instagram-perfect holiday. To give you that extra bit of Turkey Day ego boost or schadenfreude , here are 7 Thanksgiving mishaps that we think rank up there as some of the all-time biggest turkeys:The Bloomberg Family Had a Crappy Thanksgiving mdash; Literally Georgiana Bloomberg, daughter of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, explained her family less-than-ideal Thanksgiving, at the Humane Society gala Friday. Bloomberg recounted her first Thanksgiving with her 10-year-old adopted Chihuahua, at the New York City Animal Care Control center. For Thanksgiving, she got to come to Gracie Mansion, NYMag reports Bloomberg said. And she proceeded to have explosive diarrhea all over the front hall of Gracie Mansion. And we always joke it was her way of thanking the city for deeming her unadoptable.Thief Takes Turkey A Connecticut man was on his way to a friend house on Thank sgiving 2013, turkey and stuffing in-hand, when he got held up at gunpoint, a local Fox affiliate reported. Not only did the thief take Jimmy Mulligan wallet, but he took the turkey and fixings to boot. After police officers learned that the 911 call was not, in fact, a joke, they felt so bad that they bought Mulligan two Thanksgiving dinners from Boston Market.Turkey Takes Down Thi Rvju Anti-Defamation League Adds (((Echo))) to Hate Symbols Database By Sam FrizellOctober 29, 2015 1:15 AM EDTDuring Wednesdayrsquo Republican debate in Boulder, Co lorado, Democrats huddled in war rooms, in front of television screens and laptop monitors, and blasted off pre-prepared fact sheets to reporters and on social media to undermine the GOP candidates.At the heart of the Democratic public relations operation are veteran organizations that include Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and three super PACs supporting Clinton, inc luding Correct the Record, American Bridge and Priorities USA Action, among others.In conversations with Democratic strategists and researchers after Wednesday debate, a few moments came up as ripe for either attacks or advertisements. Note that there are not, as of now, any plans to use these exchanges in ads. Carly Fiorina and Hewlett Packard. The former CEO was asked pointedly about her record at Hewlett Packard, which lost half its value during her tenure. She laid off 30,000 employees and the companyrsquo market share plummeted during her time there.Fiorina turned the question around, saying the stock market was harsh on all technology companies, not just HP, and claimed that she actually saved 80,000 jobs at the company.We saved 80,000 jobs and we went on to grow to 160,000 jobs, and scores of technology companies literally went out of businessmdash;like Gatewaymdash;taking all their jobs with them, said Fiorina. I will run on my record all day lo
Clcc I Was on the Front Line of L.A. s Last Measles Outbreak Hopping, tumbling and flipping over are not typical maneuvers you would expect from a spacecraft exploring other worlds. Traditional Mars rovers, for example, roll around on wheels, and they can t operate upside-down. But on a small body, such as an asteroid or a comet, the low-gravity conditions and rough surfaces make traditional driving all the more hazardous.Enter Hedgehog: a new concept for a robot that is specifically designed to overcome the challenges of traversing small bodies. The project is being jointly developed by researchers at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; Stanford University in Stanford, California; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Hedgehog is a different kind of robot that would hop and tumble on the surface instead of rolling on wheels. It is shaped like a cube and can operate no matter which side it lands on, said Issa Nesnas, leader of the JPL team. Th e basic concept is a cube with spikes that moves by spinning and braking internal flywheels. The spikes protect the robot s body from the terrain and act as feet while hopping and tumbling. The spikes could also house instruments such as thermal probes to take the temperature of the surface as the robot tum bles, Nesnas said. Two Hedgehog prototypes -- one from Stanford and one from JPL -- were tested aboard NASA s C-9 aircraft for microgravity research in June 2015. During 180 parabolas, over the course of four flights, these robots demonstrated severa Pmub Bessel van der Kolk By Koh EweUpdated: January 3, 2024 7:21 PM EST | Originally published: January 3, 2024 8:57 AM ESTIts been a wild ride, to say the least, for Luke Littler, the 16-year-old darts wunderkind who exploded in popularit y in recent weeks as he vaulted his way into the ranks of the worlds greatest players. After shattering records and defeating rivals twice his age to become the youngest competitor in the World Darts Championship finals, Littler ultimately lost to Luke Humphries 7-4 during Wednesdays competition.Over the past weeks, he has taken down even the most seasoned darts players鈥攊ncluding former world champions. Littler will face world No. 1 Luke Humphries at Wednesdays finals.Along with Littlers newfound fame, the relatively niche professional sport鈥攑erhaps better known as a bar-favorite pastime鈥攊s enjoying a fresh surge of interest. Heres what to know about Luke Littler and the World Darts Championship.Who is Luke Littler Nicknamed The Nuke, Littler a lready made history last week as the youngest-ever player to reach the semi-finals of the World Darts Championship鈥攂efore outdoing that record by making the finals this week.Until Littler came along, the previous title of the youngest World Championship finalist belonged to Kirk Shepherd, who was 21 years old when he was named the 2008 runner-up.Littler stunned observers when he defeated former world champion Rob Cross 6-2 at the semi-finals on Tuesday. Hes got the darting world at his feet , Sky Sports commentator Wayne
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Xoqt Vision Pros are cracking for no apparent reason: Here apos what to do if it happens to you What s the sound of a touchdown on Mars If you re at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it soundslike winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering.But in the minutes before that, NASA s InSight team willbe monitoring the Mars lander s radio signals using a variety of spacecraft -and even radio telescopes here on Earth - to suss out what s happening 91million miles 146 million km away.Because these signals are captured by several spacecraft,they re relayed to Earth in different ways and at different times. That meansthe mission team may know right away when InSight touches down, or they mayhave to wait up to several hours.Here s how NASA will be listening for the next Marslanding on Nov. 26.Radio TelescopesAs the InSight lander descends into Mars atmosphere, it will broadcast simple radio signals called tones back to Earth. Engineers will be tuning in from two locations: the National Science Foundation s Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy s facility at Effelsberg, Germany. Their results will be relayed to Mission Control at JPL and engineers at Lockheed Mart in Space in Denver.These tones don t reveal much information, but radioengineers can interpret them to track key events during InSight s entry,descent and landing EDL . For example, when InSight deploys its parachute, ashift in velocity changes the frequency of the signal. This is caused by what scalled the Doppler effect, which is the Pbal Navy plans big splash to celebrate 248th birthday By Helen ReganMay 18, 20 15 4:50 AM EDTEven very young children in the U.S. are not active enough, says a new study.Preschoolers only get about 48 m inutes of exercise on average each day, according to a paper by the University of Washington and published in the journal Pediatrics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC recommends kids get at least one hour of daily physical activity.After documenting children daily activities in 10 preschools in the Seattle area over a period of 50 days, researchers found that they were only exercising 12% of the time. The rest of their day was spent napping 29% , eating or generally being inactive.On average, the children were outside for just more than half an hour a day, the study found.It just not enough, Pooja Tandon, lead author of the study and assistant professor at the University of Washington, told USA Today.Getting plenty of exercise at a young age, she said, was essential for a childrsquo development and for preventing obesity, which has risen dramatically over the past 30 years. According to the CDC, nearly 18% of children ages six to 11 are obese, compared to 7% in 1980.To get kids more active, some health experts advocate combining academic activities in the classroom with exercise.Debbie Chang, vice president of Nemours Childrenrsquo Health System in Delaware, says even reading a book, such as The Wheels on the Bus, can become part of a childrsquo daily exercise as they can
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Nkfb Taking the Crisis Out of ISIS A man walks past a television news screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un R and US President Donald Trump L at a railway station in Seoul on May 16, 2018.JUNG YEON-JE鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesIdeasBy Theo EmeryJune 4, 2018 11:33 AM EDTEmery is the author of Hellfire Boys, a history of the United States Chemical Warfare Service in World War I. Follow him @temeryAs the off-again, on-again talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea Kim Jong-Un finally seem to be approaching, another brutal American adversary with a penchant for banned weaponsmdash;Bashar Assad of Syriamdash;has all but vanished from the headlines and the cable news chyrons. It was less than two months ago that chlorine bombs possibly mixed with a nerve agent rained down on the Damascus suburb of Douma, killin g more than 40 people and injuring hundreds, and triggering missile strikes on Syrian military targets. And then the world moved on. With tweets and leaks setting the frenetic pace of the daily news agenda, Syria is ancient history.The Douma chemical attack on April 7 was a part of a depressingly predictable cycle in a conflict in which no h orror has been spared. Assad has used chemical weapons dozens of timesmdash;possibly as many as 200mdash;in a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians w ith conventional weapons. Time and again, outrage, condemnation and threats follow. Trump furious reaction stood out for his blunt criticism of Assad allies and his Hzgj Russian Internet Trolls Are Apparently Switching Strategies for 2020 U.S. Elections By Gina Cherelus and Dustin Volz / ReutersDecember 14, 2016 4:37 PM EST NEW YORK mdash; U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and some of Silicon Valley most powerful executives met at his Manhattan tower on Wednesday, a summit convened to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the presidential campaign.The meeting was expected to focus on economic issues and skirt the num erous disagreements the tech industry has with Trump including on immigration, the trade relationship with China and digital privacy in favor of a focus on shared priorities, sources said.There nobody like the people in this room, and anything we can do to help this go along we ;re going to do that for you, Trump told the executives gathered in a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower. You call my people, you call me, it do esn ;t make any difference. We have no formal chain of command, he said.Three of Trump adult children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, sat at the head of a large rectangular table as the meeting began. Their attendance may fuel further concern about potential conflicts of interests for Trump, who has said he would hand over control of his business empire to his children while he occupies the White House.Vice President-elect Mike Pence was also in attendance. Guests sat in front of paper name plates and bottle s of water sporting the Trump brand logo.The me
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Uxjk What to Know About Kevin McAleenan, Kirstjen Nielsen s Replacement As Homeland Security Chief Getty ImagesBy Justin WorlandFebruary 23, 2015 8:10 AM ESTCompanies looking to trim the fat are looking to p eople workspaces, according to a new report, leading to a decline in in personal space and privacy at work, even among some corporate employees used to spacious offices.Every client we talk to, theyrsquo;re using less space per person, Kenneth McCarthy, an economist at the commercial real estate broker Cushman Wakefield, told the New York Times.The average space per North American worker in 2012 was 176 square feet, down from 225 in 2010, according to commercial real estate association CoreNetGlobal, and it expected to drop to 151 square feet in 2017.Read more at the TimesRead next: How to Deal When Your Company Moves to an Open Floor PlanMore Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing StatesHarris Battles For the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 Elect ionMel Robbins Will Make You Do ItWhy Vinegar Is So Good for YouYou Dont Have to Dread the End of Daylight Saving The 20 Best Halloween TV Episodes of All TimeMeet TIMEs Newest Class of Next Generation LeadersWrite to Justin Worland at justin.worland@time Jimi This Is How Many People Actually Plan to Buy an Apple Watch By Alejandro de la GarzaFebruary 16, 2022 5:40 PM ESTLast November, in the midst of a tumultuous, headline-grabbing series of stock sales, Elon Musk quietly slipped more than 5 million Tesla shares out of his portfolio and donated themmdash omewhere. That stock, worth about $5.7 billion, would launch Musk to a spot as the second biggest philanthropist of 2021, behind Bill and Melinda French Gates, according to the Wall Street Journal. But observers have a couple big questions. Namely, where did all that money go And why all the secrecy For now, the money might not be going anywhere, really. Therersquo a good chance that the stock went to Muskrsquo foundation, which could hold on to it and make grants later. In the past Musk has made donations through so-called donor-advised funds DA Fs mdash;essentially investment accounts where deposited assets, like stocks, can continue to grow in value with the promise that theyrsquo;ll eventually go to charity. Donating in such a way would allow Musk to immediately take advantage of tax breaks from charitable giving Muskrsquo Tesla stock options have slammed him with a $15 billion tax bill and figure out who specifically should get the funds later. The timing of the stock transfer does have people speculating that the assets could be bound for the United Nations. In October, about three weeks before Musk offloaded the Tesla stake, the worldrsquo richest man declared on Twitter that he would sell $6 billion
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Ktuc Hard Math in the New Economy A general view shows construction in the Jewish settlement of Pisgat Zeev in east Jerusalem, on Jan. 15, 2016.Ahmad Gharabli鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Karl VickJanuary 19, 2016 11:03 AM ESTFirms doing business in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are violating international law by harming the rights of the Palestinians who live in the area and should pull out, Human Rights Watch HRW says in a report released today. The New York-based advocacy group stops short of calling for a boycott of such businesses in the 162-page report, titled Occupation, Inc: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel Violations of Palestinian Rights. HRW urges companies to fulfill their obligations to respect the human rights of populations living where they operatemdash;and for companies, rather than consumers that buy their products, to confirm their goods have not come from the 1,000 companies doing business in Israeli-owned industrial zones, on plantation-style farms and quarries on Palestinian land.Read More: ISIS Leader Reportedly Warns Israel We Are Getting Closer to You ;The report is still sure to enrage officials in Israel, which has been slowly taking over the West Bank since the territory fell under Israeli military occupa tion with the lightning defeat of an array of Arab armies in the 1967 Six-Day War. In the 49 years since, a half million Jewish Israelis have taken up residence in the hills and desert valley above the west bank of Bmrh Donald Trump, M.D.: How the President Is Shaping His Own Treatment Car los Barria鈥擱eutersBy Sam FrizellMarch 17, 2014 1:04 PM EDTGeneral Motors said Monday that it is recalling an additional 1.55 million vehicles, bringing the auto company total costs related to the recall to $300 million for the first quarter.GM initially announced a recall of 1.6 million vehicles last month due to ignition safety issues, and this latest batch of recalls is the result of a comprehensive internal safety review ordered by GM CEO Mary Barra after the outcry. GM admitted that some of its employees knew for nearly a decade about the faulty ignition switches, which have been linked to at least 12 deaths.The U.S. Attorney in New York has launched a criminal investigation into the compan y, and Congress and other investigators are probing the company as well. On Friday, a class action lawsuit was filed in Texas by GM owners who believe their vehicles have lost value after the recalls.I asked our team to redouble our efforts on our pending product reviews, bring them forward and resolve them quickly, Barra said in statement Monday. Todayrsquo announcement underscores the focus wersquo;re putting on the safety and peace of mind of our customers. We are conducting an intense review of our internal processes and will have more developments to announce as we move forward.The company estimated its total costs relating to recalls would reach $300 million in the first quarter of 2014. In the fourth quarter of 2013 GM reported n
