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DaShawn Groves has been appointed director of the Vermont Health Access Agency. Photo providedVermont Gov. Phil Scott has appointed Washington, D.C., health care administrator DaShawn Groves to head the Vermont Health Care Access Authority, the agency that runs Vermont's Medicaid program and health insurance marketplace.”Dashawn brings a great deal of expertise and experience to this role,” Scott said in a press release announcing his appointment Thursday. “I am confident that his outside perspective and strong leadership abilities will be of great benefit to the department.”Groves spent a total of about nine years working for the D.C. Health Care Financing Agency,…

Indie hacker and entrepreneur Peter Revels built his success from his laptop at home, and by “home” he means 140 cities in 40 countries.The self-taught developer, who now runs about 40 startups, said his various business ventures are now generating more than $2.2 million in revenue. (Revels regularly writes online about which startups are profitable and which have failed.) And he's been able to launch those startups all over the world as a digital nomad, a remote worker who travels independently.During a recent episode of the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” Levels revealed that his favorite place is also home to one…

The late French film star Alain Delon requested that his dog be buried with him. The dog survives.PARIS (AP) — The late French film star Alain Delon once said he wanted his beloved Marinette dog, Louba, to be buried with him. To the relief of animal rights advocates across France, Louba will be allowed to live. Delon, an internationally acclaimed and prolific French actor and producer, died Sunday at age 88. His burial will take place Saturday at his family home in Douchy, south of Paris. After his death, animal rights activists and concerned citizens expressed concern about Louba's fate.…

The late French film star Alain Delon requested that his dog be buried with him. The dog survives.PARIS (AP) — The late French film star Alain Delon once said he wanted his beloved Marinette dog, Louba, to be buried with him. To the relief of animal rights advocates across France, Louba will be allowed to live. Delon, an internationally acclaimed and prolific French actor and producer, died Sunday at age 88. His burial will take place Saturday at his family home in Douchy, south of Paris. After his death, animal rights activists and concerned citizens expressed concern about Louba's fate.…

“We are proud to apply our cutting-edge technology to improve service delivery,” said Mark Fialkowski, president of North American Infrastructure at Parsons. “As a leader in digital transformation, our capabilities enhance and streamline program management delivery models to deliver best-in-class transportation technology services and solutions.” The work will include preventive and reactive maintenance of all project elements as well as spare parts inventory management. “Maintenance of road technology systems and devices will ensure they are in peak performance and in good repair and help effectively monitor and manage road traffic accidents,” the company said. These devices include traffic signals, ITS…

Getty ImagesWales have won one version of the World Cup, although the trophy may look a little different to the one Argentina won last time. Wales waited decades to play in a World Cup and then they played two finals on the same day, winning one and losing the other.It took 64 years for the country's men's team to compete on the international stage for the second time in Qatar 2022.But now Wales' veterans have gone even further, reaching the final of the over-75s tournament only to miss out after losing to England on penalties.But redemption was made shortly thereafter…

The image went viral overnight on social media: it's a stunningly realistic recreation of the face of Jesus Christ, purportedly based on the Shroud of Turin, and was created using cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology. The image was generated by British tabloid newspaper Daily Express using popular generative AI tool Midjourney as part of a story about new evidence that the Shroud of Turin, which many Catholics believe to be Jesus' burial cloth, dates back 2,000 years to the time of Christ. Perhaps most striking is the resemblance of the new image, purportedly drawn from the Shroud, to classic depictions of…

What we've learned about LSU's offense over the past few years is that it can be explosive in a few different ways, and in 2024 the Tigers will need to get creative with how they maintain their offensive excellence.With just a week until the start of the new season, the 247Sports team looked at every offense in the SEC, compared them to the latest offenses and looked at the trends of each unit: Here's what the varsity team said about the trends of the LSU offense.Five-year high school admission ranking: 42nd year transfer ranking: 202023 Offensive Rank (Pick Six Preview):…

Selling more than 125,000 copies, the 1970 album “Songs of the Humpback Whale” is the bestselling nature recording of all time. Including tracks such as “Distant Whale” and “Three Whale Trip,” the 35-minute series of recordings produced by bioacoustician Roger Payne was a historical landmark during the beginning of the Save The Whales campaign. In an article published five days before Payne’s death last year, the lifelong activist asked readers to imagine what it might be like to talk to whales, writing, “If we could communicate with animals, ask them questions and receive answers — no matter how simple those…

401 Tech Bridge, a Middletown, Rhode Island nonprofit, will host BlueTIDE 2024’s signature demonstration event on August 29, 2024. A joint event between 401 Tech Bridge, the U.S. Navy and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, the event will provide participants with the opportunity to test and evaluate new maritime technologies.The demonstration will feature six teams from Rhode Island, New Zealand and the United States competing in a series of mission scenarios focused on subsea and multi-domain communications, digital twin and virtual world modeling and simulation, persistent surveillance and sensing, and autonomous and unmanned systems.”While the Navy regularly conducts exercises, this…