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Abandoned farmland near Westing, Unst, Shetland, Scotland. Nirian / E+ / Getty Images Why you should trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing high-quality, science-based content about environmental issues, their causes and solutions. Abandoned farmland in Europe, which covers around 25 percent of the continent's area, could potentially be rewilded, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology. According to a Cell Press press release, the researchers found that 289 million acres of farmland in Europe have ample potential for rewilding. “Europe has many areas with…
The Massachusetts native is “on track” to re-sign with his hometown team after finishing the 2023 season with San Diego and sitting out the entire 2024 season.Rich Hill, 44, will be the oldest active player in MLB, and he auditioned for teams in Massachusetts last Friday, and according to WEEI's Rob Bradford, he may not have to go far to land his next job in baseball.Bradford said the Boston Red Sox are on the verge of formalizing a minor league contract with Hill. Bradford asked Hill on Friday whether he thought he could make a quality start in the major…
Fairfield Area School District leaders are transforming how students learn in a digital world. During the August meeting, Assistant Superintendent Aaron Taylor told the board that several changes will be implemented this school year to help students learn. With snow closures now a thing of the past, the district is modifying remote learning days to allow students to learn while enjoying the winter weather. Taylor said that on remote learning days, teachers will hold live sessions so students can ask teachers questions about the day's assignments. Students will be given time the rest of the day to complete their assignments,…
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – For Little League World Series umpires David Nogel and Eddie Smith, it's the summer vacation of a lifetime.Noegel, who lives in East Orlando, began umpiring in 2006. A graduate of the United States Military Academy and a Gulf War veteran, Noegel is based in Union Park Little League but plays throughout Central Florida.”Some of the first umpires I worked with joked about how funny it would be to make the Little League World Series,” he said, “because we never thought it would ever happen.”Smith began umpiring balls and strikes in New Jersey around 1996. He now lives…
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Master plan for Dawon's upcoming luxury resort in the Philippines (Photo provided by Dawon) South Korea's Dawon Landscape Engineering & Construction is aiming to expand its business in Southeast Asia after beating out major domestic construction companies such as Samsung C&T in this year's evaluation by the Construction and Specialized Contractors Association. According to the Korea Construction Association and the Korea Professional Construction Industry Association, Dawon came in first in the landscaping, planting and structures category in the 2024 Construction Capacity Assessment, which comprehensively evaluates construction performance, current management status, and technological competitiveness.Korea's largest construction company Samsung C&T and HDC…
TAIPEI – Two sports legends from opposite sides of the globe. They were the fiercest rivals in the decathlon, the world's toughest athletics event, and their showdown at the 1960 Rome Games remains one of the iconic moments in Olympic history. And unbeknownst to many, they were also best friends, trained together under the same coach, helped and encouraged each other, and jokingly referred to themselves as the “Two United Nations.” What a great story, it has the potential to make a great documentary film. But it took me and my co-creator, author and former Wall Street Journal Asia reporter…
Asian markets are expected to follow Wall Street's gains as U.S. economic data eased recession fears. Asian traders will analyze revised trade data from South Korea and export data from Singapore. Taiwan and Hong Kong's second-quarter GDP data will be released after market hours. Asia Pacific markets are set to end the week higher, tracking Wall Street gains after the latest economic data eased fears of a US recession. Retail sales rose 1% in July, well above Dow Jones's forecast of a 0.3% increase. Weekly jobless claims also fell that week. “Today's strong data on retail sales and jobless claims…
Popular benchmarking utility Geekbench has released a new cross-platform tool to evaluate a device's performance in AI-intensive workloads. Geekbench AI measures a device's CPU, GPU and NPU (Neural Processing Unit) to determine how well it can handle machine learning applications.Primate Labs, the developer of Geekbench, has been working on the software under the name Geekbench ML, which was released as a preview in 2021, but was renamed to AI for obvious reasons. To find out how different hardware responds to different AI-related tasks, it supports various frameworks such as ONNX, CoreML, TensorFlow Lite, and OpenVINO, and evaluates their performance based…
People on bicycles pass the entrance to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) headquarters building in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo on May 2, 2024.Richard A. Brooks | AFP | Getty ImagesJapanese shares led Asian gains on Friday, hitting a four-year high after the latest economic data eased recession fears and Wall Street rebounded overnight.The Nikkei stock average rose 3.64%, topping 38,000 for the first time since Aug. 1. For the week, the index rose 8.67%, its highest since April 2020, according to FactSet data. Japan's broader Topix rose 2.99% to end at 2,678.6, also its best since 2020, after a…