It may not sound like the sexiest software. But considering that every seven seconds another of the nation’s 75 million baby boomers turns 50, there’s clearly gold in helping the old. So developing tech solutions that enhance independence and keep people in their homes longer may be the hottest software gig of the next decade. Patterson’s applications and others like it use artificial intelligence to enable devices to make decisions on their own....
There’s also the recent celebration of #BacktotheFutureDay on October 21 that’s also added to this year’s excitement. (As fans know, that is the date that Marty McFly travels to in the future in Back to the Future Part II.) There has never been a better time to be a fan, as the merchandise available now offers something for every style of collector. Here are some of the unique gifts we think any true fan would love to get this holiday season....
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has introduced the new mandatory policy amid a surge in coronavirus infections. He said that from August 16 staff at nursing homes will be suspended if they fail to book an appointment to get their vaccine. A similar policy will be applied to health workers at state-run and private hospitals from September, he announced. Mitsotakis said in a televised address: “After a year and a half, no one can claim ignorance about the coronavirus anymore....
The policy, which was implemented under the administration of former President Donald Trump and allows authorities to expel migrants over COVID-19 pandemic concerns, had been set to end on Wednesday following a federal district court ruling last month. An appeals court shot down a Republican-led effort to overturn the ruling Friday. On Monday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts at least temporarily extended the policy by implementing a stay on the appeals court ruling....
Marking the state’s first ever single-day spike of more than 10,000 new cases, the latest daily case count was the highest recorded in Texas since the outbreak began. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has refused to reinstate a stay-at-home order, despite local officials in large cities, including Houston and Austin, asking for “additional shutdown measures and asking in the alternative to give them the authority to completely shut down and lock down their jurisdiction for a period of time,” the governor told Houston’s KPRC-TV Tuesday....
Abbott has been seen as a potential candidate for the 2024 presidential election, and plans to shift $250 million in state dollars toward a new barrier with more financing through crowdsourcing, a donations webpage and post office box for supporters to donate their own money, the Associated Press reported. Abbott’s office said crowdsourcing has raised more than $459,000, although it did not say how many donors were involved. There has been some criticism about Abbott’s measures, which he has rejected by saying it’s for the good of American citizens and Texas residents....
Just a few weeks ago he played in the Wells Fargo Championship Pro-Am with Luke Kuechly as his caddie, and on Wednesday he became a certified NASCAR pace car driver in preparation for this weekend’s All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. MORE: Olsen + Cam commercial | Fantasy football TE rankings NASCAR driver Matt DiBenedetto was the first to take Olsen around the track in a Toyota Camry topping 120 mph, which was about as much as the Pro Bowl pass catcher could handle....
A barbed exchange between Thunberg and Tate began with the former kickboxer bragging about his petrol-guzzling cars, and ended with him being detained by Romanian authorities. During the exchange, two of Thunberg’s tweets went viral, entering the top ten of the most-liked tweets of all time. Now, on January 3, 2022, Swedish climate activist and campaigner Thunberg is celebrating turning 20 years old. Social media users didn’t forget Thunberg’s recent perceived victory as they sent messages to her....
The 16-year-old activist told Swedish news outlet Dagens Nyheter that people had made threats towards her 13-year-old sister and the rest of their family, adding that everything was reported to police. Thunberg also said her sister was being “constantly discouraged” by abuse and told supporters the best way to back her would be to support her sister. Speaking to Dagens Nyheter, which translated its interview from Swedish to English, Thunberg said: “The one who suffers is my sister....
The 19-year-old hilariously responded to taunts by the controversial former kickboxer and self-styled “misogynist,” only for him to be promptly arrested over sex trafficking claims. The globally renowned climate activist gained almost 800,000 followers between 27 and 31 December, gaining 354,000 new fans on 30 December, alone, according to social media statistics website Social Blade. Thunberg clapped back at the 36-year-old who mocked her environmental campaigning on Twitter. Tate posted a photo of himself on Twitter filling up his Bugatti supercar with gasoline on December 28 boasting the “enormous emissions” from his 33-strong luxury car collection....
The six-story Ramada, just off Kennedy airport, has been ground zero for the grief and incomprehension surrounding TWA Flight 800. It has been a place of prayer and condolences, of unlimited bar tabs and a presidential visit. “We all try to comfort each other as best we can,” said Quetcy Vega, who lost an aunt and a cousin on the plane. The medical examiner is identifying bodies very slowly, keeping families at the hotel....
The people who run the College Football Playoff took a shot at something similar last season, staging the first of their semifinal games on a Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. ET. That day happened to be New Year’s Eve. MORE: Predicting every single bowl game winner The reaction from many in the media was so vicious you’d have thought someone underinflated the footballs: “Dumb.” “Terrible.” “Mess.” “Joke.” Those words were all employed to describe the contesting of the CFP on New Year’s Eve....
Christopher Coffey, from Tennessee, was taken off life support on Saturday after his condition deteriorated and was surrounded by his family when he died that morning, according to a family statement on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe. The statement added Christopher’s “final wishes were to donate his organs” and there was a family waiting for a transplant. Christopher married his partner-of-10-years Mary on Saturday, September 11, and the following day as they drove down to Florida, a driver in a white Dodge Charger struck the back of his truck, flipping it over and down the interstate....
“It didn’t work for his body,” his mom, Erin Wilson-Weaver, told The Washington Post on Saturday. Her son died on June 14, he was 27. The Virginia native had been rationing his pricey prescription before a doctor recommended taking ReliOn, an over-the-counter brand sold for $25 a vial at Walmart, according to The New York Post. Known as “human insulin,” ReliOn requires more time to become effective than the “analogue” insulin that Wilkerson had previously been taking....
Blame that exhausted marathon runner, the American consumer. Fueled by cheap credit instead of PowerGel, she looked great at Mile 16, but bonked at Mile 23 and is now crawling to the finish line. Sales fell in December, putting the cap on a miserable Christmas season. Last week the government reported that retail sales rose 3.9 percent between January 2007 and January 2008. But back out inflation and sales of gasoline, and retail sales fell in real terms in the past year....
Traders and arbitrageurs speculate feverishly about which company will be the next target of a voracious private equity firm. (Last week, the buzz was all about Macy’s, for example.) The speculation isn’t random: Private equity buyers like Cerberus and the Blackstone Group seek companies with certain distinguishing characteristics. These include (but are by no means limited to) the following: a stock that has been beaten down recently, allowing the buyer to get the deal done on the cheap; an underlying business with healthy margins that generates lots of cash, which will be needed to service the debt incurred in a buyout; a valuable brand and a long operating history that serve as ballast; little or no existing debt so that the new owners can borrow heavily to pay themselves dividends or to pay down the debt raised to acquire the company....
The lawsuit was filed by the Human Rights Campaign and challenged the “bathroom bill” that limits which bathrooms are accessible to transgender people. “Courts have time-and-again ruled against these dangerous and discriminatory laws and we are going to fight in court to strike down this one and protect the civil rights of transgender and non-binary young people,” said Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David in a statement. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....
Look at Home Depot for orange trees, clementine trees, grapefruit trees, lemon trees, or lime trees. If you’re interested in a tree with various citrus types (you read that right!) try a fruit salad tree. If you’re planting multiple trees, be sure to allow for 12–15 feet (3. 7–4. 6 m) of space in between each tree. If you’re planting a grafted citrus, the tree should be elevated a bit higher, about 4–6 inches (10–15 cm) above the surrounding soil....
It’s also just the sort of place where he’ll fall in love with a thoroughbred beauty (Amy Smart) and discover there’s more to life than listening to the Allman Brothers. All coming-of-age stories tell essentially the same story. If they rise above cliche–and “Outside Providence” does, several contrived moments aside–it’s because they play telling variations on an old theme. Whether it’s Tim giving his girl a double roach clip for a Christmas present, or the convincing way Baldwin and Hatosy navigate their ambivalent feelings toward each other, the movie gets a lot of the details right....
On Monday, shark biologist John Chisholm shared some gruesome images of the incident, which occurred in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. “Several white sharks sighted today off MA including one enormous individual feeding on a dead humpback whale. The two others seem tiny in comparison. One of the smaller ones is towing a recently deployed tag,” Chisholm posted on Facebook. The biologist told Newsweek that the largest of the white sharks he saw measured more than 17 feet in length....
