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Get ready for Glastonbury 2024: 11 essentials to pack, plan and download | Glastonbury on The Nation’s Network

Get ready for Glastonbury 2024: 11 essentials to pack, plan and download | Glastonbury on The Nation’s Network

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If you’re one of the 200,000 music fans who are about to get stuck into five days of partying in the Somerset fields of fun; congratulations for managing to bag a much-coveted ticket. An absolutely golden weekend lies ahead of you (well, once the tent has been pitched). But while it’s probably as far removed from a Scouts’ camping trip as you can get, it’s still advisable to follow their old mantra – even for a slightly more debauched countryside visit – and be prepared. With mere weeks to go, here’s everything you should plan, download and pack to make it a truly incredible experience … 1. Power bankYou know that person who always begs to borrow your power bank as their phone’s about to die? Don’t be that person. For about £20, you can get one that when fully charged should just about see you through for a few days. That’s one option, or you could reserve a charging pack from Vodafone for the entire festival – collect on site, then simply head to …

Denmark ready for Sesko challenge in Slovenia opener

Denmark ready for Sesko challenge in Slovenia opener

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STUTTGART, Germany : Denmark are confident they are favourites to beat Slovenia in their opening Euro 2024 Group C match but tremain wary of the threat of young striker Benjamin Sesko, manager Kasper Hjulmand said on Saturday. The Danes edged Slovenia in their qualifying group to reach the tournament in Germany. However, Slovenia have Sesko, 21, leading the line after a superb season with RB Leipzig, scoring 18 goals in all competitions to have major European clubs looking to sign him before he agreed a contract extension. “In this game we are favourites but we have a lot of respect for Slovenia and they have shown great results, especially against Portugal (2-0 friendly win in March) and we have to do our very best if we want to play our game,” Hjulmand told a press conference. “Sesko is very fast and he has a great left foot and it’s a player we know and a player we’ve analysed a lot because he’s significant for Slovenia,” the 52-year-old said. “Sesko is a big star and a …

‘Perilous for democracy, good for profits’: is big business ready to love Trump again? | Business

‘Perilous for democracy, good for profits’: is big business ready to love Trump again? | Business

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Chief executives of some of America’s largest companies will meet privately with Donald Trump later on Thursday, and many CEOs who were once critical of his unprecedented conduct appear increasingly open to the former president’s return to office, a Guardian analysis has found. The private audience with the former president will take place at the quarterly gathering of the Business Roundtable, a powerful Washington lobbying group that advocates for the interests of chief executives of big US firms. Joe Biden was also invited; his chief of staff will attend while the US president is abroad, a Business Roundtable spokesperson said. The meeting comes less than five months before the election and less than four years after CEOs raised the alarm about political polarization and threats to democracy when Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and incited an insurrection at the US Capitol. Back then, the Business Roundtable – whose members include Apple’s Tim Cook, General Motors’ Mary Barra and JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon – led a chorus of condemnation from …

Are you ready for a fight? Brace yourself! – OpentheWord.org

Are you ready for a fight? Brace yourself! – OpentheWord.org

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So, who are you, really? And who am I? Yes, that is a ridiculous question … or maybe not. The world that we live in depends on our answers, and modern society is changing, under our feet. I went to a meeting, a few days ago, and I am still bothered by what happened. I will tell you the story, or parts of it, but I have a disclaimer. People are signing petitions, and lawyers are involved, and I don’t want to escalate the arguments. I will try to avoid any specific references, and you probably won’t know where this happened. Sorry, but that is the best I can do with such a hot issue. Some time ago, I was asked to become a registered member of an organization, or “society” that is Christian and focuses on educating children. They have several schools. I went to public schools, and I don’t share the enthusiasm, but friends wanted me to join and contribute. I joined. In my mind, I did what I could to make a …

Microsoft finds workers are tired and overwhelmed but AI ready to assist

Microsoft finds workers are tired and overwhelmed but AI ready to assist

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A Microsoft workplace study has uncovered how workers feel about artificial intelligence (AI), with almost two in three workers stating they don’t have enough time or energy to do their jobs. The report compiled findings from 31,000 respondents from 31 countries as well as a deep dive into “trillions of aggregated productivity signals in Microsoft 365, along with labor market trends on LinkedIn”. Microsoft’s 2023 Annual Work Trend Index, the fourth time the tech giant has conducted the poll, contains a lot of useful information on how professionals view their contemporary workplace, with just under half of those surveyed sharing a concern that AI will have an impact on their job security. The report states 75% of workers now use AI in the workplace, with a feeling that the technology is a great tool at times of stress and high-intensity to allow them to concentrate on the imperative tasks. Of those who are already using AI, 78% are said to bring their own AI resources to work. Workers overwhelmed and out of energy The Work …

EnviroSpark just got M, and it’s ready to hire Tesla Supercharger team talent

EnviroSpark just got $50M, and it’s ready to hire Tesla Supercharger team talent

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Photo: IHG Hotels & Resorts Thanks to a new $50 million investment, Atlanta-based EV charging company EnviroSpark wants to hire as many of the Tesla Supercharger team as possible. The $50 million investment from mid-market infrastructure equity investment firm Basalt Infrastructure Partners will allow EnviroSpark to rapidly grow its owned and operated network across the US, innovate technologies, and make its EV infrastructure more accessible and sustainable. EnviroSpark wants to do that with laid-off talent from Tesla, specifically the Supercharger team, which was laid off just over a week ago. This pop-up is on its website’s homepage: Aaron Luque, cofounder and CEO of EnviroSpark, said in an emailed statement: This is the single greatest talent acquisition opportunity since I founded EnviroSpark. Tesla had been able to scale their charging infrastructure due in no small part to the talented employees on the Supercharger team. With the help of our recent investment from Basalt, we’re looking to bring on as many of these highly skilled individuals as possible to achieve our ambitious growth objectives. Following a successful $15 million …

Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis

Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis

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Via The Cradle Republican members of the US House of Representatives are preparing a sanctions package targeting International Criminal Court (ICC) officials as a “precaution” against potential arrest warrants of Israeli officials for war crimes committed in Gaza, according to Axios. “We want to emphasize to [ICC prosecutor Karim Khan] that going down this road of arrest warrants is a really bad idea, and it’s going to blow up the relationship,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul told the US news outlet. Image source: @Yaf “We’re not sure if the arrest warrants are imminent, but it’s sort of a precaution to let them know that, if they do, we have this legislation ready to go. It won’t be put on the floor unless we have to,” he added. McCaul emphasized the new package would come as a “companion” to legislation introduced last February in the Senate that seeks to sanction ICC officials “involved in probes of US allies who are not ICC members, such as Israel.” The report by Axios comes on the heels of a harshly …

Taiwan Says Its Military Is Ready for China Moves Around New President’s Inaugural

Taiwan Says Its Military Is Ready for China Moves Around New President’s Inaugural

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s military is prepared for any moves China may make around the time President-elect Lai Ching-te takes office later this month, the island’s deputy defence minister said on Wednesday. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has a strong dislike of Lai, believing him to be a dangerous separatist, whose repeated offers of talks it has rejected, including one this month. Lai, like current President Tsai Ing-wen, rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims; both say only the island’s people can decide their future. Lai, now vice president, will be inaugurated on May 20. “Before and after May 20, our nation’s military will uphold all combat readiness requirements and pay close attention to the damaging of regional peace and stability by the other side,” Deputy Defence Minister Po Horng-huei told reporters. Chinese military activities in and around the Taiwan Strait are destabilising for the whole Indo-Pacific region, Po added in the comments made to reporters at parliament. China’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Photos You Should …

The Washington ‘Blob’ Seems “Ready To Wreck The Republic To Save Themselves”

The Washington ‘Blob’ Seems “Ready To Wreck The Republic To Save Themselves”

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Prisoners of Themselves “Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the ‘deep state’, what is?” – Jeffrey Tucker You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials from RussiaGate on down to the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan has amounted to one continuous operation against the American people? If it were ever honestly adjudicated, many hundreds of them might go to prison, or worse. Each successive seditious and treasonous action they attempt against their arch-nemesis, Mr. Trump, only compounds their criminal liability — the Steele Dossier, CIA agent Eric Ciaramella’s 2019 impeachment prank, the Covid-19 caper, the George Floyd-BLM hustle, the 2020 election hijinks, the J-6 op and the House J-6 Committee conjured up to spin it, the present battery of farcical court cases — and yet the Golden Golem of Greatness not only remains defiantly at large, but seems to amass ever more electoral mojo. The epic failure of these mighty efforts, and the humiliation entailed, has lately …

Boeing’s Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space

Boeing’s Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space

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“It fits in with the general narrative of Boeing having lost its way,” says McDowell. Starliner, like Crew Dragon, is a capsule-shaped spacecraft like the Apollo missions of old. Capable of carrying up to seven astronauts, the craft is largely autonomous, requiring major input only in the event of an emergency. During the test mission beginning tonight, Wilmore and Williams will test out this eventuality, purposefully pointing the spacecraft off course to ensure they can manually get it back on track, as well as assessing the spacecraft’s general life support and navigation systems. While docked to the space station, the vehicle will be put through further tests, including practicing using it as a lifeboat in case astronauts needed to evacuate the ISS. Starliner is reusable, with Boeing saying it can be flown on up to 10 missions. The spacecraft sports no toilet—unlike Crew Dragon—and has about the same livable volume as an SUV, making for a relatively cozy rise to and from orbit. It has physical hand controls and switches for the astronauts to control …