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Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
"As pet ownership soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity followed close behind. The pandemic years of 2020-2022 were 'the peak years for private equity acquisitions of veterinary services and practices' [...]

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one in a series examining private equity’s impact on health care and the ways that states are responding.

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
The judge also recommended that Eastman be ordered to pay $10,000 in monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund.
Eastman’s legal team said he would appeal Wednesday’s r…

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
A California judge recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Wednesday.  State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip…

Neljä vuotta sitten, 29. helmikuuta 2020, oli Siltasaaressa näin mukavaa. Huomenna ei taida olla. Mutta kai se kevät pikkuhiljaa lähestyy.

🧧 Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/13/loongson_cpu_mini_pc/

Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
Slow but bona fide made in China

Trump asked if U.S. was better off in his last year. In many ways, the answer is no. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/24/trump-2020-better-off-covid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p19#a240324p19

Ranking top QBs from 2020-2024 draft classes: Here's how Caleb Williams, C.J. Stroud and others stack up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draf…

Ranking top QBs from 2020-2024 draft classes: Here's how Caleb Williams, C.J. Stroud and others stack up
Where do C.J. Stroud and Caleb Williams rank next to Justin Herbert and Drake Maye? Ranking five QB draft classes together

får man skriva att man är en "icke vinstdrivande" skola när man i regel gör 6-7 siffror plus och tar ut utdelningar mellan 300-750 kkr varje år?
Utdelningar senaste åren är 742 kkr (2022-12-19), 726 kkr (2021-10-29), 705 kkr (2020-10-28), 300 kkr (2019-11-08), 300 kkr (2018-12-10), 390 kkr (2017-11-30).
Vinster senaste åren:
19-20 1,5 mkr.
20-21 1,2 mkr.
21-22 700 kkr.
22-23 800 kkr.
Uppgifter från årsredovisningarna som ligger på

Example of Trump's racism: when he accused majority-black cities of stealing the 2020 election

A look at Apple's iPhone recycling, including shredding robots, and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for $22.6M in a case that has since been inactive (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04…

Apple iPhone Recycling Program Has Secrets
Apple touts its network of shredding robots and contractors as a greener way to reuse old gadgets. A lengthy court battle and a Businessweek investigation have cast some light on the recycling industry’s dirty secrets.

@… i was wondering was there ever any reaction from google about this fine request of yours? https://blog.cryptographyengi…

Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail. Every now and then, however, a major …

"Most countries are struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, emissions tracking study shows"
#Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

Most countries are struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, emissions tracking study shows
Nineteen out of 34 countries surveyed failed to fully meet their 2020 climate commitments set 15 years ago in Copenhagen, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

From June 28, 2020
Phil Lesh & Friends Perform Atop Bay Area Roof For Terrapin Crossroads
#PhilLesh #GratefulDead

This means, though, that biology most certainly is not founded on mathematics in the way that physics is.
England J (2020): Why Physics Can’t Tell Us What Life Is; Available from: http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/why-physics-cant-tell-us-what-life-is…

Life Education
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Life Education | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Life Education Host: Tracey Challenor Category: Kids & Family Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Parenting & Pregnancy & Families First Episode: 2020 The Life Ed podcast supports…

Nielsen: the 96th Oscars averaged 19.5M viewers in the US, up 4% YoY, the biggest audience for any awards show since 2020, when the Oscars drew 23.64M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2024-osc…

TV Ratings: Oscars Score Post-Pandemic Highs
The 96th Academy Awards draw 19.5 million viewers, the most for any awards show since 2020.

Today is the seventh anniversary of political analyst Robert E Kelly being interviewed by the BBC about North Korea when his then-four-year-old daughter barged into the room with her baby brother following. A novelty in 2017, many of us experienced a variation of that scene in our own lives during the years following 2020. BBC interview Dad was simply ahead of the times.

schon auch bisschen lustig, die Doppelmoral der Stadt Stuttgart!
2020 hatte sie z.B. noch auf ihren Bussen diese Werbung, die für dubiose Geschäftsmodelle zum Anfechten von Bußgeldbescheiden aufgerufen hat.
Und inzwischen wünscht sie sich "Fall mir nicht in den Rücken."

Visualization for Trust in Machine Learning Revisited: The State of the Field in 2023
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12005

Visualization for Trust in Machine Learning Revisited: The State of the Field in 2023
Visualization for explainable and trustworthy machine learning remains one of the most important and heavily researched fields within information visualization and visual analytics with various application domains, such as medicine, finance, and bioinformatics. After our 2020 state-of-the-art report comprising 200 techniques, we have persistently collected peer-reviewed articles describing visualization techniques, categorized them based on the previously established categorization schema consi…

3rd-party scripts in a web page are the 2020's spaghetti code.

"A c implementation of tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf. Written for IOCCC 2020." – Nicholas Carlini
https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

Nielsen: the 96th Oscars averaged 19.5M viewers in the US, up 4% YoY, the biggest audience for any awards show since 2020, when the Oscars drew 23.64M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2024-osc…

TV Ratings: Oscars Score Post-Pandemic Highs
The 96th Academy Awards draw 19.5 million viewers, the most for any awards show since 2020.

Mehr Macht für Polizei - Bürgerrechte in Hongkong weiter eingeschränkt #News #Nachrichten

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The antiviral properties of Quercetin have also captured researchers' imaginations, especially in the wake of recent global health crises. Research emerging in 'Viruses' in 2020 shed light on how Quercetin could impede viral reproduction at various stages of infection. While more studies are necessary to fully understand its effectiveness and mechanism against different viruses, this flavonoid's potential to serve as an adjunct in antiviral therapy warrants further e…

Vikings to sign former first-round pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/vikings_to_sign_former_first_round_pick/s1_14819_40109219

Vikings to sign former first-round pick
Continuing to reshape their front seven, the Vikings have a deal in place with Jerry Tillery.  The former first-round defensive tackle is set to join Minnesota on a one-year deal worth up to $3.25M, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports. Tillery had an underwhelming start to his career with the Chargers, despite seeing a full-time starting role in 2020 and 2021.  The 27-year-old saw his workload cut the following season, and he was ultimately waived midway through the 2022 campaign. He closed …

A Review of Virtual Reality Studies on Autonomous Vehicle--Pedestrian Interaction
Tram Thi Minh Tran, Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11378

A Review of Virtual Reality Studies on Autonomous Vehicle--Pedestrian Interaction
An increasing number of studies employ virtual reality (VR) to evaluate interactions between autonomous vehicles (AVs) and pedestrians. VR simulators are valued for their cost-effectiveness, flexibility in developing various traffic scenarios, safe conduct of user studies, and acceptable ecological validity. Reviewing the literature between 2010 and 2020, we found 31 empirical studies using VR as a testing apparatus for both implicit and explicit communication. By performing a systematic analys…

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A rightwing Christian lobby group that wants abortion to be banned has forged ties with an adviser to the British prime minister and is drawing up ­policy briefings for politicians.
The UK branch of the US-based Alliance Defending Freedom ( #ADF ) has more than doubled its spending since 2020 and been appointed a stakeholder in a parliamentary group on religious freedoms in a role that grants it direct a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02816 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: the photosphere as revealed by tomography during the past 15 years
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star of semi-regular variability, underwent a historical minimum of brightness in February 2020, the Great Dimming. Even though the brightness has returned to the values prior to the Great Dimming by now, it continues to exhibit highly unusual behavior. Understanding the long-term atmospheric motions of Betelgeuse and its variability could be a clue to the nature of the Great Dimming and the mass-loss process in red supergiants. Our goal is to study long-term dynami…

Possible and Impossible Inferences From Reconstructed Evolutionary Processes using Phylogenies as an Example
Niklas Hohmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03000

Possible and Impossible Inferences From Reconstructed Evolutionary Processes using Phylogenies as an Example
Our understanding of past evolutionary change is often based on reconstructions based on incomplete data, raising fundamental questions about the degree to which we can make reliable inferences about past evolutionary processes. This was demonstrated by Louca and Pennell (2020), who showed that each pure-birth process can be generated by an infinite number of birth-death processes. Here, I explore what it means to reconstruct past evolutionary change with three approaches from measure theory, g…