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Smith selected as Columbiana deputy finance director
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> COLUMBIANA — A former finance director for the city is returning to replace current Finance Director Mike Harold upon his retirement. During the Oct. 17 city council meeting City Manager Lance Willard said that Kevin Smith has been selected to serve as deputy finance director until Harold’s retirement takes effect…
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Keep car key fobs at a distance
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Dear Heloise: Someone recently wrote in to say that they leave their car keys on the dashboard of the car while it is in the garage so that there aren’t any issues with losing the keys in the morning. Some modern key fobs communicate continuously with the car if they are…
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An expandable voice user interface as lab assistant based on an improved version of Google’s speech recognition
Abstract Voice assistants are potentially helpful when working in a scientific laboratory. A big challenge is the extremely specific use of language in every laboratory. As with any voice assistant, another concern is data security. Here, we present Rainbow—an open source voice user interface (VUI) for scientific laboratories, that is adaptable to any Windows PC…
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Author Correction: Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06113-5 Published online 12 July 2023 In the version of the article initially published, the Acknowledgements section omitted reference to the role of Brownies Global Logistics, the technical divers of Global Underwater Explorers (M. McClellan, M. Tanguay, S. Bird, K. Dow, G. Blackmore, J. P. Bressor, S. E. Kim, and K. Kim),…
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New adult nutrition launches from Arla Foods Ingredients, Danone in China
More manufacturers are pivoting their infant nutrition ingredients into other segments of nutrition in light of changing market dynamics in China. Arla Foods Ingredients has launched three formulated powder recipes to help private-label producers meet the growing demand for healthy ageing milk powders. According to Innova Market Insights, between 2018 and 2022, China accounted for…
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Can luxury fashion ever be fully sustainable?
Luxury consumers care about the environment – but can the industry shape up? Faran Krentcil talks to Marie-Claire Daveu – the doyenne of sustainability behind Gucci, Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent – to find out. Channing Tatum is hot. One evening in September, he was also a bit overheated. The Hollywood actor was at New York’s…
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Culture Re-View: How Rolling Stone magazine changed music
9 November 1967: The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. ADVERTISEMENT Jann Wenner had just dropped out of the prestigious Berkeley university when the idea that would define the rest of his life appeared. In a conversation with his friend Ralph J. Gleason, a 50-year-old music critic, Gleason told the 21-year-old dropout that…
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Agri-Food Innovation Summit Inspires Entrepreneurial Scientists to Make Big Impacts
Nov. 09, 2023 U of A System Division of Agriculture photo Griffiths Atungulu, associate professor and director of the University of Arkansas Rice Processing Program, asks a question following a panel discussion during the Agri-Food Innovation Summit. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The inaugural Agri-Food Innovation Summit offered entrepreneurial scientists and inventors inspiration to make “moonshot” impacts…
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Conservation groups seek to protect OR forest from logging project
Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to block a logging project near Eugene. Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Willamette Riverkeeper are challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s authorization of the 4,600-acre Big League logging project. The groups alleged the agency failed to take a hard look at the project’s impacts under the National Environmental…
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Cheryl Bailey Inducted Into Greater Buffalo Sports HOF
Flanked by friends from the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame, Jamestown native Cheryl Bailey, middle, poses for a photo Wednesday night upon her induction into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. Joining her, from the left, are CSHOF inductee Tom Priester; CSHOF board member Chip Johnson; CSHOF inductee Fran Sirianni; and CSHOF president Randy…
