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The Minnesota Vikings just announced a mega contract extension with wide receiver Justin Jefferson that will break the record for highest salary and most guaranteed money for a non-quarterback player, and he certainly deserves it.The move will be welcomed by many, including those within the organisation.”Justin is an exceptionally talented player and a great person, and it’s an honor to coach him and have him as a team captain,” said head coach Kevin O’Connell. “His positive energy and love of the game are evident in the way he strives every day to be the best at his craft. As his…

This is a different Kyrie Irving. Two feet firmly planted in the present, preaching inside Dallas’ huddle before running out before the world. He lavishes postgame affirmations to a largely inexperienced roster that follows each crafty step of his signature Anta sneakers — as they follow Luka Dončić’s dribble. At 32, Irving’s fourth stop of his 13-year NBA career has produced the exact circumstances his second pro situation was supposed to beget with Boston.Irving’s Mavericks now face his former Celtics in the 2024 NBA Finals that begin Thursday night. That opposing side happens to be hoping for key contributions from…

The school was founded in 1985 with the merger of the Philadelphia University of the Arts and the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.The news comes amid a wave of similar closures across the country, due not only to pressures on higher education in general but also the particular vulnerabilities of arts institutions. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, America’s first art school and museum, founded in Philadelphia in 1805, will disband at the end of the 2024-25 school year. (Some of the academy’s students were expected to be taken on by the University of the Arts.) Last April, the…

My father, Michael Assaf, is known to many as the IT Director for Ludlow Public Schools. Whenever we need to plug in new technology like computers, smartboards, or cameras, he’s there. Technology is the reason for pinpoint learning at Ludlow High School. From the resources to learn on the Chromebooks we’re given to students, to the lessons projected on the smartboards, electronic devices are key to progressive learning. junior high school Experience is everything. I’ve been surrounded by technology my whole life. For the past three summers, I’ve worked in the IT department at Ludlow Schools. From outfitting every student…

The world’s oceans have been breaking daily temperature records continuously since the beginning of 2023, a year-long heatwave that has worried and disheartened climate scientists, coral reef experts and even hurricane forecasters.In the key areas of the Atlantic where hurricanes form, water temperatures are “really astonishing,” said Brian McNoldy, a senior scientist who studies hurricanes at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Management.Warmer ocean waters and sea surface temperatures are like an octane boost during hurricane season, providing more fuel that drives the development and intensity of hurricanes and tropical storms moving across the ocean. Warmer than normal waters…

Voting took place in the Vaishali constituency in Bihar on May 25. As many as 766 million voters in the state were eligible to vote in this year’s Lok Sabha elections, which will be held alongside legislative elections in four states – Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim.This year’s Indian Lok Sabha election was the world’s largest, with a total of 968 million voters eligible to cast their ballots.Background to the Lok Sabha elections:India’s upcoming Lok Sabha elections, always a tense contest, pits the BJP-led NDA against a near-unified opposition called the Indian Union, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

Arati Prabhakar spent her early career leading the development of autonomous ships at a secretive U.S. military research institute. She is now the White House’s top technologist, the first defense industry figure since the Cold War to represent Washington’s new hardline consensus on China.For three decades, the United States went all-in on globalization, buoyed by the confidence that a rising tide floats all boats, but the American boat will rise highest. The rise of Chinese technology has shaken that confidence and prompted a broad policy shift.”For many years, for many decades, we have had an oversimplified model,” Prabhakar told The…

Pakistan’s High Court on Monday overturned the treason conviction of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who remains jailed on other charges.The conviction was one of three handed down to Khan ahead of February elections which he claims were rigged to prevent him being returned to power.The verdict by a two-judge bench of the Islamabad High Court was announced by Chief Justice Ammar Farooq, as witnessed by an AFP court reporter.”This is the first major case that was part of the political persecution against Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi that has been crushed,” Salman Safdar, a lawyer for Khan’s Pakistan…

FlowcasFloQast’s latest release is now interoperable with SAP technologies, including private cloud implementations.LOS ANGELES, June 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Flowcasta finance and accounting operations platform provider founded by accountants for accountants, today announced that it has been certified by SAP for its products built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP’s platform for the intelligent enterprise.”FloQast’s expanded integration with SAP S/4HANA now includes private cloud integration with SAP’s business technology platform, which is game-changing for companies undergoing an ERP transition,” said Mike Whitmire, CPA, CEO and co-founder of FloQast. “Organizations can’t afford to have critical processes like financial…

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is famously macho. Women only won the right to vote for president in 1953, 30 years after their American counterparts, and until just nine years ago, there were no female state governors.But Mexico just elected its first female president, Claudia Scheinbaum, in a race that was essentially a contest between two female engineers, and as the United States prepares for a presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Mexico is outpacing its northern neighbor in terms of gender equality in government.Women currently hold half of the seats in Mexico’s Congress, roughly twice as many as…