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Peter Thiel bets on the far right: Tech tycoon spending millions to bankroll "Trump wing" of GOP – Salon

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel is bankrolling election conspiracists and primary challengers againstRepublicans who backedDonald Trump's impeachment after the Jan.6 Capitol riot, including an ArizonaSenate candidate who is literally on his payroll.

Thiel, the Facebook board member who co-founded PayPal and later the controversial data-mining company Palantir, has long been a top Republican benefactor, donating millions to GOPcandidates and political action committees. But in the wake of Trump's 2020 defeat, Thiel has grown more aggressive in his political investments, dropping more than $20 millionto support two far-right Senate candidates and helping to fund primary challengers against Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and other Republicans who called for Trump's removal after the deadly riot.

"He wants to be the patron of the Trump wing of the Republican Party," said Max Chafkin, a Bloomberg reporter and author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power." Thiel is focused on building out "Trumpism after Trump," Chafkin said in an interview with Salon, describing the tech billionaire as "in many ways further to the right than Trump."

Thiel, who donated $1.25 million to back Trump in 2016, has made an even bigger splash this election cycle with a $10 million donation to back his protgBlake Masters, who plans to run for the Republican nomination in next year'sArizona Senate election. Masters is uniquely connected to Thiel, serving as the chiefoperating officer of Thiel Capital, the billionaire's venture capital fund, and co-writing Thiel's book "Zero to One."

While candidates like Virginia's Glenn Youngkinhave stepped away from their corporate careers to run for office, Masters appears to still be on Thiel's payroll. He earned $775,000 from Thiel Capital last year and received more than $340,000 in royalty payments from the sales of "Zero to One," according to a personal finance disclosurethat was first reported by Insider. Masters did not respond to questions from Salon about whether he still collectsa salary from Thiel'scompany, but still lists himself as the firm's COO on his LinkedIn page.

Thiel last month hosted a fundraiserfor Masters'campaign at his Los Angeles home that cost up to $5,800 to attend.

Saving Arizona PAC, the Thiel-funded effort that has already spent nearly $1.7 millionin Arizona, has launched ads attacking state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Masters' principal GOPopponent, for rejecting Trump's lie that voter fraud cost him the election.

"Mark Brnovich says President Trump is wrong on voter fraud. Really? Brnovich failed to convene a grand jury, certified Biden as president. Now he's nowhere to be found, making excuses instead of standing with our president," the ad says.

Brnovich was one of multiple state officials, including Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who certified the election results. The addoes not explainwhy Brnovich should have convened a grand jury. There has been no evidence of widespread fraud in Arizona or any other state,and courts haverepeatedly rejectedchallenges by Trump allies seeking to overturn Biden's win.

The PAC also blasted Brnovich on Twitter, arguing that he is "nowhere to be found in the fight against voter fraud."

Masters is the "only candidate who will demand fair and transparent elections," the PAC said.

The Saving Arizona PAC recently made yet another six-figure ad buy attacking Brnovich for not being Trumpy enough.

Masters, who was endorsedby Trump's former national security adviser Robert O'Brien this week, has walked a fine line whendiscussing the presidential election. He has stoppedshort of claiming that the election was stolen outright, but has boostedconspiracy theories on Twitter about "dead people voting,"Dominion voting machinesandfears about election "integrity,"echoing a trope employed by numerous other Republicanswho have tried to distance themselves from the voter fraud lie while still trying to appease Trump loyalists.

After the dubious so-called auditin Arizona's Maricopa County actually showed Biden gaining a handful of votes compared to the official total, Trump and other Republicans began to claimthat the audit had turned up serious questions about the election administration. In fact, Republican audit officials testified to Congress last week that the county held a "free, fair and accurate election."Masters, however, sided with TrumpWorld throughout the process, teasingthe release of the audit report, echoing Trump's claimsabout "fake" polls and "anti-Trump disinformation," and making the evidence-proofargumentthat "no matter what the audit finds, we know this election wasn't fair."

Masters later demanded action from Brnovich in response to the audit, though he did not say exactly what he wanted the state attorney general to do.

"The AZ audit findings have been referred to the Attorney General," Masters tweeted. "The ball is now in Brnovich's court. He has a track record of doing the bare minimum, so let's pay attention, and we'll see if the Republican establishment is serious about election integrity."

Masters also demanded that Ducey immediately "call a special session" to impose new voting restrictions, even though Ducey had already signed a billto restrict mail ballots and purge the state's popular early voting list in the spring.

"Get the legislature back to work so they can tighten up our election laws," Masters tweeted. "Starting with universal voter ID for every kind of ballot nothing less is acceptable."

Masters did not respond to questions from Salon about whether he believes Biden legitimately won Arizona, or what he would like Brnovich to do in response to the "audit" results.

The attacks on Brnovich come as Masters seeks to close a massive early polling deficit against the attorney general. A Republican pollconducted last month showed Brnovich leading Masters, by 41% to 6%. Another September poll from OH Predictive Insightsalso showed Masters polling at just 6% and performing the worst of any candidate against incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat.

"It's clear Blake Masters is threatened by AG Brnovich," Joanna Duka, a spokeswoman for Brnovich, said in a statement to Salon.

Thiel has also dropped another $10 million to back J.D. Vance, another longtime business associate and the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," in Ohio's Senate race. As with Masters, Thiel has a long business relationship with Vance, who got his start in venture capital working at Thiel's Mithril Capital Management, which is named after a fictional metal in "The Lord of the Rings." Vance later got an investmentfrom Thiel to help start his own venture fund, Narya Capital, which is named after one of the Elvenrings in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic.Both men recently investedin the right-wing video platform Rumble.

Masters and Vance are "kind of extensions of Peter Thiel," Chafkin said, describing them as "hardcore ideologues" whoare more disciplined and coherent than Trump, but largely focused on the same issues.

Vance has tried to stay away from election conspiracies but defended rioters at the Jan.6 Capitol attack as mostly "super peaceful."Thiel's allies have generally avoided directly claiming that the 2020was rigged, but have continued to raise irrelevant or baseless questions about the result.

"They're trying to walk a line and come up with some kind of intellectually respectable version of The Big Lie," Chafkin said, adding that the Thiel-backed candidates have tried to "cozy up" to hardcore Trump backers and "be perceived as friendly to them."

Thiel himself has also cultivated relationships in TrumpWorld. He developed close ties to former Trump campaign chief and White House strategist Steve Bannon, whom Chafkin described as Thiel's "ideological" ally who shares his views on the "deep state." Thiel routedhis big 2016 donation to back Trump through the super PAC controlled by Rebekah Mercer, also a major donor to far-right Republicans.Mercer was a longtime patron of Bannon and his projects and has joined Thiel in funding Vance's Ohio campaign. Mercer has spent millionsto support some of the leading proponents of Trump's election lies, as well aselection objectors who fueled the Capitol riot.

More recently, Thiel met with Trump at the ex-president's Bedminster, New Jersey, resort and began funding candidates in support of the former president's revenge tour against pro-impeachment Republicans, according to Politico.

Thiel donated the maximum $5,800 to Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed primary challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Hageman hascontinuedto claimthat there are "legitimate questions about what happened during the 2020 election" and supported the Arizona "audit."

Thiel has also donated to Joe Kent, the Trump-backed primary challenger to Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., who also voted to impeach Trump after the riot. Kent spokeat the recent "Justice for J6" rally in Washington in support of the Capitol rioters charged in the attack. He vowedto lead a "full congressional inquiry" into the 2020 election if elected. Kent was among a group of Trump supporters who filed lawsuitslast month in Washington state accusing multiple counties of "flipping votes" and calling for a "full forensic audit" of the election.

Thiel's funding for candidates pushing election lies is "totally consistent" with his embrace of Trumpism, Chafkin said. Though Thiel ultimately decided not to donate to Trump in 2020 out of frustration about the former president's "perceived competence," the billionaire has sought candidates who will pursueTrump's hardline policies on immigration, relations with China, regulation of tech companies, "political correctness"and globalization.

On all those issues, Thiel "basically agrees" with Trump, Chafkin said. "He wants to be involved in this movement and what you're seeing now is he'smaking that play.He's trying to be the main patron to his part of the Republican Party."

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Eni S p A : selects the best startups to develop innovative solutions in Communications Data Mining – Marketscreener.com

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

San Donato Milanese (Milan), 15 October 2021 - Eni, in collaboration with Cariplo Factory, has announced the winners of the call for startups in "Communications Data Mining", an open innovation initiative in data analytics to monitor and optimise communication processes and interactions with stakeholders. Of the 8 startups involved in the Selection Day, 3 companies were selected: BLACKBIRD.AI, DATRIX and ASC27 for having developed the proposals with the greatest innovative potential.These startups will start to hold a course of study with Eni to identify possible areas of cooperation, with the option to engage in a future collaboration. The teams of innovators will have the opportunity to get feedback from Eni and, with the support of Cariplo Factory, test the innovative potential of their products and services in the hugely important and ever-changing communications sector.Focus on the selected startups:

The Selection Day is the result of a design project that began in July with the involvement of Eni's External Communication and Digital & Information Technology units, and defined the innovation areas and their objectives. Seventy-four innovative startups and SMEs were screened for final selection.Three areas of interest were the focus of the search:

The project marks another step forward in Eni's digital transformation by contributing to the development of a mutually beneficial innovative ecosystem with startups - essential to achieving the company's strategic objectives.

Cariplo Factory is a leading player in open innovation. It has been supporting Eni since 2018 in developing the Italian ecosystem and the role of startups in the country's digital transformation.

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SkyChain Signed Agreement to Secure Land and Power… | INN – Investing News Network

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Skychain Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a service agreement with Sunset Solar Inc. which is a private company incorporated under the laws of Alberta. Sunset has been engaged in the business of developing a solar farm since its inception in 2016 with access to land in Alberta and potential electricity for constructing a solar farm and cryptocurrency mining facilities.Sunset is an

Skychain Technologies Inc. (TSXV: SCT) (OTCQB: SKTCF) (the Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a service agreement with Sunset Solar Inc.(Sunset) which is a private company incorporated under the laws of Alberta. Sunset has been engaged in the business of developing a solar farm since its inception in 2016 with access to land in Alberta (the Land) and potential electricity for constructing a solar farm and cryptocurrency mining facilities.

Sunset is an Alberta registered company that has progressed in the permitting process to build a 57-megawatt (MW) alternating-current solar photovoltaic power plant. The project is proposed to consist of 216,756 fixed-mount photovoltaic solar panels, an underground network of electrical collector lines, and a collector substation located one kilometre southwest of the hamlet of Grassy Lake Alberta occupying 10 acres. The use of solar power combined with conventional power sources on the 10 acres site will add an emission free energy source for its data centre.

Pursuant to the service SkyChain will proceed with all required permits and applications with participation by Sunset in all aspects of the project. Final approval to the project is subject to securing the land and energy from the Alberta power transmission authority.

Per the terms of the service agreement, subject to successful completion of the services resulting in securing the permits, approvals, with land and power access, SkyChain will provide a payment of $1.68 million CAD in SkyChain common shares at $0.80 CAD per common share to Sunset.

The payment remains subject to successful due diligence and the satisfaction of various conditions per the agreement, as well as the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the Exchange). The Company and Sunset are presently working through the due diligence process.

About Skychain Technologies INC

Skychain Technologies is a Vancouver based company providing Blockchain Infrastructure services and power solutions. Our vision is to become a leading player in the crypto/data mining hosting by growing to 100MW of crypto hosting capacity. To learn more, visit http://www.skychaintechnologiesinc.com.

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President and CEO

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Statements in this news release may be viewed as forward-looking statements. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. There are no assurances the company can fulfill such forward-looking statements and the company undertakes no obligation to update such statements. Such forward-looking statements are only predictions; actual events or results may differ materially as a result of risks facing the company, some of which are beyond the companys control.

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Windfall Geotek Completes Soil Program and 43-101 on Sobeski Lake Property in the Red Lake Area – Junior Mining Network

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Highlights:

Sobeski area is near the northeastern tip of the Red Lake Greenstone Belt (RLGB) and the southern end of the Nungesser Lake Greenstone Belt (NLGB)

497 Soil samples taken, some returned values as high as 640 PPB; One large gold-in-soil anomaly with several smaller outlier anomalies

Windfalls AI generated targets in the area were validated in this program along with obtaining a 43-101 on the property

Brossard, Quebec - TheNewswire - Oct 14, 2021 Windfall Geotek (TSXV:WIN) (OTC:WINKF) (FSE:L7C2) a leader in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with advanced knowledge-extraction techniques since 2005 in the mining sector is pleased to announce the filing on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) of the new NI 43-101 report on its 100% owned Sobeski Lake property. Windfall initially identified highly prospective targets on the property and elected to conduct and complete a soil campaign that validated the AI targets in the summer of 2021.

Exploration Summary

Since acquiring the Sobeski Lake Property, Windfall has completed a soil sampling program. A total of 497 samples were taken. The objective of the program was to determine if there were coincident gold-in-soil anomalies over the statistical analysis of the area using Windfalls proprietary AI system that led Windfall to stake the area. The program was designed to cover the AI targets seen in Figure 1. The results of this program were successful as anomalous gold-in-soil samples returned values as high a 640-ppb gold (Figure 2). One large gold-in-soil anomaly was outlined with several smaller outlier anomalies detected.

Geology Context

The Sobeski Lake Property lies at the junction of the northeastern tip of the Red Lake Greenstone Belt (RLGB) of the Uchi Subprovince and the southern end of the Nungesser Lake Greenstone Belt (NLGB) of the Berens River Subprovince. Both Subprovinces belong to the Superior Province of Canada. The Property appears to be underlain by a variety of granitoid intrusive rocks making up the marginal zone between the Trout Lake batholith to the South and the Little Vermilion batholith to the north. The current property boundary mapped the following rock types: 1) Mafic volcanic rocks consisting of medium-grained, schistose with black amphibolite; 2) Clastic metasediments (arkose and greywacke) which grade into biotite gneisses and migmatites and 3) Felsic intrusive rocks of a granite to granodiorite suite (Modified from NI 43-101 Report, Kilbourne, M. &, MacLachlan, B., August 15, 2021).

Figure 1: Windfalls Sobeski Lake Property claims with geology and AI targets

Figure 2: Windfalls Sobeski Lake soil sampling program

Dinesh Kandanchatha, Chairman of Windfall Geotek commented: Over this summer we have made significant advancements in our AI technology including the ability to rapidly process public and private datasets in a portion of the time that it has taken historically. We are leveraging this extraordinary technical leverage to advance our engagements beyond target generation. This 43-101 in Sobeski Lake is accretive to our AI technology and the next phase of value creation for Windfall shareholders..

The scientific and technical data contained in this press release was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of Grigor Heba, Ph.D., P.Geo.,Principal Geologist and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.About Windfall Geotek Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 2005

Windfall is an Artificial Intelligence company that has been in business for over 15 years developing its proprietary CARDS analysis (AI) and data mining techniques. Windfall Geotek can count on a multidisciplinary team that includes professionals in geophysics, geology, Artificial Intelligence, and mathematics. It combines available public and private datasets including geophysical, drill hole and surface data. The algorithms designed and employed by Windfall are calculated to highlight areas of interest that have the potential to be geologically similar to other gold deposits and mineralization. The Company's objective is to develop a new royalty stream by significantly enhancing and participating in the exploration success rate of mining and to continue the Land Mine detection application as a high priority. Windfall has played a part in numerous past discoveries utilizing its methodology as described at: https://windfallgeotek.com/.

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Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer – MIT Technology Review

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

The last 20 months turned every dog into an amateur epidemiologist and statistician. Meanwhile, a group of bona fide epidemiologists and statisticians came to believe that pandemic problems might be more effectively solved by adopting the mindset of an engineer: that is, focusing on pragmatic problem-solving with an iterative, adaptive strategy to make things work.

In a recent essay, Accounting for uncertainty during a pandemic, the researchers reflect on their roles during a public health emergency and on how they could be better prepared for the next crisis. The answer, they write, may lie in reimagining epidemiology with more of an engineering perspective and less of a pure science perspective.

Epidemiological research informs public health policy and its inherently applied mandate for prevention and protection. But the right balance between pure research results and pragmatic solutions proved alarmingly elusive during the pandemic.

We have to make practical decisions, so how much does the uncertainty really matter?

I always imagined that in this kind of emergency, epidemiologists would be useful people, Jon Zelner, a coauthor of the essay, says. But our role has been more complex and more poorly defined than I had expected at the outset of the pandemic. An infectious disease modeler and social epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Zelner witnessed an insane proliferation of research papers, many with very little thought about what any of it really meant in terms of having a positive impact.

There were a number of missed opportunities, Zelner sayscaused by missing links between the ideas and tools epidemiologists proposed and the world they were meant to help.

Coauthor Andrew Gelman, a statistician and political scientist at Columbia University, set out the bigger picture in the essays introduction. He likened the pandemics outbreak of amateur epidemiologists to the way war makes every citizen into an amateur geographer and tactician: Instead of maps with colored pins, we have charts of exposure and death counts; people on the street argue about infection fatality rates and herd immunity the way they might have debated wartime strategies and alliances in the past.

And along with all the data and public discourseAre masks still necessary? How long will vaccine protection last?came the barrage of uncertainty.

In trying to understand what just happened and what went wrong, the researchers (who also included Ruth Etzioni at the University of Washington and Julien Riou at the University of Bern) conducted something of a reenactment. They examined the tools used to tackle challenges such as estimating the rate of transmission from person to person and the number of cases circulating in a population at any given time. They assessed everything from data collection (the quality of data and its interpretation were arguably the biggest challenges of the pandemic) to model design to statistical analysis, as well as communication, decision-making, and trust. Uncertainty is present at each step, they wrote.

And yet, Gelman says, the analysis still doesnt quite express enough of the confusion I went through during those early months.

One tactic against all the uncertainty is statistics. Gelman thinks of statistics as mathematical engineeringmethods and tools that are as much about measurement as discovery. The statistical sciences attempt to illuminate whats going on in the world, with a spotlight on variation and uncertainty. When new evidence arrives, it should generate an iterative process that gradually refines previous knowledge and hones certainty.

Good science is humble and capable of refining itself in the face of uncertainty.

Susan Holmes, a statistician at Stanford who was not involved in this research, also sees parallels with the engineering mindset. An engineer is always updating their picture, she saysrevising as new data and tools become available. In tackling a problem, an engineer offers a first-order approximation (blurry), then a second-order approximation (more focused), and so on.

Gelman, however, has previously warned that statistical science can be deployed as a machine for laundering uncertaintydeliberately or not, crappy (uncertain) data are rolled together and made to seem convincing (certain). Statistics wielded against uncertainties are all too often sold as a sort of alchemy that will transform these uncertainties into certainty.

We witnessed this during the pandemic. Drowning in upheaval and unknowns, epidemiologists and statisticiansamateur and expert alikegrasped for something solid as they tried to stay afloat. But as Gelman points out, wanting certainty during a pandemic is inappropriate and unrealistic. Premature certainty has been part of the challenge of decisions in the pandemic, he says. This jumping around between uncertainty and certainty has caused a lot of problems.

Letting go of the desire for certainty can be liberating, he says. And this, in part, is where the engineering perspective comes in.

For Seth Guikema, co-director of the Center for Risk Analysis and Informed Decision Engineering at the University of Michigan (and a collaborator of Zelners on other projects), a key aspect of the engineering approach is diving into the uncertainty, analyzing the mess, and then taking a step back, with the perspective We have to make practical decisions, so how much does the uncertainty really matter? Because if theres a lot of uncertaintyand if the uncertainty changes what the optimal decisions are, or even what the good decisions arethen thats important to know, says Guikema. But if it doesnt really affect what my best decisions are, then its less critical.

For instance, increasing SARS-CoV-2 vaccination coverage across the population is one scenario in which even if there is some uncertainty regarding exactly how many cases or deaths vaccination will prevent, the fact that it is highly likely to decrease both, with few adverse effects, is motivation enough to decide that a large-scale vaccination program is a good idea.

An engineer is always updating their picture.

Engineers, Holmes points out, are also very good at breaking problems down into critical pieces, applying carefully selected tools, and optimizing for solutions under constraints. With a team of engineers building a bridge, there is a specialist in cement and a specialist in steel, a wind engineer and a structural engineer. All the different specialties work together, she says.

For Zelner, the notion of epidemiology as an engineering discipline is something he picked up from his father, a mechanical engineer who started his own company designing health-care facilities. Drawing on a childhood full of building and fixing things, his engineering mindset involves tinkeringrefining a transmission model, for instance, in response to a moving target.

Often these problems require iterative solutions, where youre making changes in response to what does or doesnt work, he says. You continue to update what youre doing as more data comes in and you see the successes and failures of your approach. To me, thats very differentand better suited to the complex, non-stationary problems that define public healththan the kind of static one-and-done image a lot of people have of academic science, where you have a big idea, test it, and your result is preserved in amber for all time.

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Engineering Dean and Chemistry Researcher Andrew Lyon Receives Distinguished Educator Award From Greater Irvine Chamber | Chapman Newsroom – Chapman…

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

Fowler School of Engineering Dean Andrew Lyon, an internationally known chemist, researcher and professor at Chapman University, was honored Wednesday, Oct. 13, with a Distinguished Educator Award by the Greater Irvine Chamber.

The inaugural Distinguished Educators program, presented at the Hilton Irvine, recognizes exemplary Orange County educators at all levels of learning, with a particular focus on programs in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics).

It is a true honor to be recognized at the inaugural Distinguished Educator Awards ceremony, Lyon said. The Greater Irvine Chamber displayed great vision in establishing this event. By celebrating all of the educators who truly excel in their support of a broad diversity of learners, the Chamber is honoring not only those educators, but also Irvines tremendous history as a place for excellence and innovation in education.

In his nomination for the award, Chapman President Daniele C. Struppa lauded Lyon as a dynamic leader in STEAM education who built Chapmans engineering school from the ground up. He also praised the dean for championing the work of the schools woman-majority faculty as well as raising funds to support free tuition for a large number of students.

Dr. Lyon has made significant contributions to the field of chemistry, both within the academy and in private industry, Struppa said. His research explores the possibilities of polymer nanoparticles, and commercialization efforts have yielded patents that go into life-saving products.

Recently, Lyon developed an artificial platelet technology designed to help the body heal from traumatic injury. He is among 63 of the worlds best emerging academic inventors in the latest class selected as Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors.

We at Chapman couldnt be more pleased that Irvine is the home of our Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus, where we are making a number of enhancements to fully realize the many advantages of our location in the Irvine Spectrum area, Chapman Provost and Chief Academic Officer Norma Bouchard said in her remarks during the awards program.

As the footprint of this vibrant campus continues to grow, our faculty, alumni and student scholars are making their own imprint on the world, Bouchard added. We look forward to realizing even more life-changing impact in this moment and for generations to come.

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SAE International Congratulates the 2021-22 Recipients of Annual Engineering Student Scholarships – WFMZ Allentown

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

WARRENDALE, Pa., Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SAE International announces the 52 undergraduate and graduate engineering student recipients of the 2021-22 Annual Engineering Student Scholarships. Funded through the SAE Foundation, the scholarships encourage academic excellence and help students pursue their passion for engineering.

"With the help from our generous donorsindividuals, corporations and universitieswe are able to offer scholarships to students across the country that help put them on the path for success," said Lori Gatmaitan, executive director at the SAE Foundation. "We are proud to support the future engineering workforce by awarding these scholarships to help undergraduate and graduate students achieve their dreams."

SAE International is proud to announce the 2021-22 recipients:

BMW/SAE Engineering Scholarship

Dan and Vicky Hancock Scholarship

Donald and Barbara Mozley Scholarship

Edward D. Hendrickson/SAE Engineering Scholarship

Fred M. Young Sr./SAE Engineering Scholarship

SAE Doctoral Engineering Scholarship

SAE/David Hermance Hybrid Technologies Scholarship

Ralph K. Hillquist Honorary SAE Scholarship

SAE/Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies Scholarship

SAE Heinz Prechter Scholarship

SAE International Undergraduate Scholarship

SAE Long Term Member Sponsored Scholarship

SAE/PRI/ITC Staff Dependent Scholarship

Tau Beta Pi/ SAE Engineering Scholarship

TMC/SAE Donald D. Dawson Technical Scholarship

Toyota/SAE Engineering Scholarship University Kentucky

Yanmar/SAE Scholarship

Applications for the 2022-23 academic school year student scholarships will be accepted January 4, 2022 through March 15, 2022.

For more information and to apply to one of the 2022-23 SAE International Annual Engineering Student Scholarships, please visit: https://www.sae.org/participate/scholarships/.

About SAE International

SAE International is a global association committed to advancing mobility knowledge and solutions for the benefit of humanity. By engaging nearly 200,000 engineers, technical experts and volunteers, we connect and educate mobility professionals to enable safe, clean, and accessible mobility solutions. We act on two priorities: encouraging a lifetime of learning for mobility engineering professionals and setting the standards for industry engineering. We strive for a better world through the work of our philanthropic SAE Foundation, including award-winning programs like A World In Motion and the Collegiate Design Series. More at http://www.sae.org.

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Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department Special Land Use Hearing: 2645 West Warren Avenue – City of Detroit

October 15, 2021 | Author: admin

NOTICE OF HEARINGPLEASE NOTE OUR MEETINGS ARE TEMPORARILY ON ZOOM

Governor Gretchen Whitmers Stay Home, Stay Safe Executive Order 2020-21 (EO 2020-21) went into effect on March 24, 2020. Consistent with the various executive orders from Governor Whitmer, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, Special Land Use Hearings will be meeting remotely via the internet until further notice. This action is being taken in accordance with Governor Whitmers Executive Order 2020-75, which provides temporary authorization of remote participation in public meetings and hearings.

The Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, Special Land Use Hearings will be held electronically, in compliance with the Open Meetings Act and EO 2020-75

TO OWNERS AND RESIDENTS OF PROPERTY WITHIN 300 FEET OF:

2645 West Warren Avenue

You are hereby notified that a hearing will be held at 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, October 28, 2021

The link below is for all of our Zoom Meetings: https://cityofdetroit.zoom.us/j/94300761447

Dial-in number: 1-267-831-0333

APPLICANT: Dani Itani

LOCATION: 2645 W. Warren between 17th Street and Lawton Avenue

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: S WARREN E 278 FT OF W 615.54 FT LYG BET WARREN AVE & G T R R R/W LORANGER FARM 10/-- 31,570 SQ FT (PIN 10000622-3)

PROPOSED USE: Construct a new 8,940 square foot building on a 0.7-acre site to establish a 3,984 square foot Marijuana Retail/Provisioning Facility and a 4,556 square foot Marijuana Processor Facility in an M4 (Intensive Industrial) Zoning District.

PROCESSED PER SECTIONS 50-3-241, 50-3-535, 50-10-114(6), and 50-10-114(7) OF THE OFFICIAL ZONING ORDINANCE Chapter 50.

Any citizens, owner or resident of property (or his/her duly authorized representative) may express his/her comments, statements, or opinions concerning the proposed land use either in writing to the Department, by email at [emailprotected] or by virtually at this hearing.

NOTICE TO HANDICAPPED PERSONS

BSEED Hearings are accessible to the handicapped. Any handicapped person needing special assistance (other than transportation) in order to participate in this hearing must notify the Department of such need at least forty-eight hours prior to the hearing. Michigan Relay is a communications system that allows hearing persons and deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired persons to communicate by telephone. Users may reach Michigan Relay by dialing 7-1-1 and then connecting with the Zoom conference number above. There is no additional charge to use this service. Please contact 313-590-1922 with any requests for accommodations.

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