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Leading by more than 1,000 votes, Kenney Enney has won a seat on the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District Board, according to election results released Friday afternoon. “I am looking forward to getting back on the board, and to turn the district around with a focus on academic performance,” Enney said. Enney received 6,524 votes, or 54.42%, while Hollander pulled in 5,464 votes, or 45.57%. There are still 96 ballots with questionable signatures and ballots received through Monday to be counted. After Enney was appointed to the school district board in Oct. 2022, he discovered a school online page...

Google is adding a label to Maps that lets people identify their business as being LGBTQ-plus-owned, joining Yelp, which has a similar label. While Google Maps has had labels like LGBTQ-friendly and Transgender Safe Space for years, the company says that the new business identity attribute will help people who choose to support diverse businesses and could help queer people find nearby communities.

I'm employing the zinc, quercetin,Vitamins D&C prophylaxis regimen for potential exposure to the Covid virus. I also take PreserVision soft gels twice a day, for a total of 80mg zinc oxide daily. This results in consuming around 64 mg of elemental zinc (if my search results are to be believed). I'm guessing this is a sufficient amount of zinc for the protocol but I have not seen PreserVision (or similar compounds) mentioned in my readings. Thoughts?

When the Hummer EV SUT (sport utility truck) and its newly-unveiled SUV variant hit dealer show floors in the fall of 2021 and 2023, respectively, they’ll be among the first models in GM’s new electrified lineup to be built atop the company’s Ultium battery system. General Motors is no stranger to the electric vehicle market. GM began its electrified venture in 1996 with the EV1, one of the very first viable battery-powered sedan models produced by a major automaker which continued its run until being discontinued in 2003. It was superseded by the BEV2 platform of which the 2016 Chevy...

Nearly half of those in intensive care units (ICU) due to complications from the Wuhan coronavirus across Sweden are from migrant backgrounds. A total of 46 per cent of those in ICUs in Sweden are from migrant backgrounds according to a report. Given that Sweden’s foreign-born population is around one-fifth of the total number of residents of the country, the figures suggest that migrants are serious over-represented in coronavirus statistics.

Jerry Jeff Walker, a country singer-songwriter known for penning the hit "Mr. Bojangles," has died. He was 78. Walker's death was confirmed to Fox News on Saturday by his former publicist, John T. Davis. Davis said Walker died Friday after a battle with throat cancer and related ailments "for several years."

Мой Cтив (My Steve): A personal recollection of Stephen F. Cohen, who died on September 18 at the age of 81.

Controversial French author Jean Raspail, cited by two high-level President Trump advisers as verification of their vociferous anti-immigrant stances, is dead at the age of 94. Raspail passed away Saturday “peacefully surrounded by his family” after a months-long stay in a Paris hospital, his son Quentin told Agence France-Presse.

TiVo isn't wasting much time implementing pre-roll ads before recorded shows. The company told Light Reading in a follow-up statement that these promos will reach "all eligible" retail DVRs within 90 days. This marketing will be a "permanent part of the service," a spokesperson said. TiVo reiterated that you'll have the ability to skip these ads, although an early tester said he had to fast forward to get to the show.

Conservative Stream is no longer posting Savage radio broadcast. Does anyone know another source?

Researcher Mark Burnett is a world authority on passwords. Think I’m kidding? He has collected millions of passwords over the last couple of decades, and has written a book about the real-life password analyses he has done. It shouldn’t be any surprise then to hear that he’s the kind of guy who’s familiar with the different way people choose passwords - including those who think they can generate a really random password by just mashing their keyboard like a crazy man. Enter the bat-shit crazy QAnon conspiracy theory, which - amongst other things - believes that there is a huge...

Why did establishment liberals fall in love with a deranged Twitter thread? It’s time for some game theory.

Tatjana Festerling gave this magnificent speech at the PEGIDA rally in Dresden last Monday, the night before the Brussels massacres. Her talk zeroes in on the NWO brokers — especially George Soros — who arranged the deal between Europe and Turkey on the migration crisis, a “solution” championed by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Rembrandt Clancy has translated and subtitled the speech, and includes an informative introduction as well as a transcript.

Yet again, trouble is brewing in the South China Sea, after Indonesia seized a Chinese fishing boat over the weekend, only to see it rammed free, hours later by China's Coast Guard. The incident began at 10 p.m. on Saturday when a special task Indonesian vessel spotted the Chinese fishing boat illegally fishing within Indonesia's 200-mile exclusive economic zone off the Natuna Islands, The New York Times reports. They seized the vessel, the Kway Fey, and took the crew into custody. As they towed the Kway Fey back to port a Chinese Coast Guard vessel followed behind. At around midnight,...

Apple may have been able to convince a jury that Samsung violated a bunch of its patents, on concepts like "slide to unlock," but apparently the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) disagrees. Despite the court's reputation for regularly expanding the power of patents (and getting smacked around by the Supreme Court for doing so), CAFC has sided with Samsung and tossed out a jury's $120 million award and with it some Apple patents -- including "slide to unlock."

A COLD snap gripped Hong Kong yesterday, with residents shivering as temperatures plunged to their lowest point in nearly 60 years and frost dusted the mountaintops of a city used to a subtropical climate. Weather officials issued a frost warning saying an "intense cold surge" was in place, coupled with chilling monsoon winds. Morning temperatures dropped to 3.3 Celsius in urban areas of the south China city, where most buildings lack central heating, and below freezing on the hills.

Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42. A cause of death was not provided in the blog post announcing the news. Docker declined to comment. The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately have information on Murdock's cause of death.

If the web were a person, it wouldn't have trouble renting a car from now on: the world's first website, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when it went live at CERN on December 20th, 1990 (that wouldn't happen until August 1991), and it wasn't much more than an explanation of how the hypertext-based project worked.

Spotify debuted a new privacy policy today that certainly stretches the meaning of the word. The music streaming service wants access to users’ contacts, photos, GPS data, and sensor data. Perhaps most troubling, Spotify doesn’t just want this data for its own use; it’s also ready to share the information with advertising partners.

If you talk to the reporters who work for various big media companies, they insist that they have true editorial independence from the business side of their companies. They insist that the news coverage isn't designed to reflect the business interests of their owners. Of course, most people have always suspected this was bullshit -- and you could see evidence of this in things like the fact that the big TV networks refused to cover the SOPA protests. But -- until now -- there's never necessarily been a smoking gun with evidence of how such business interests influences the editorial...