Bobbie Racette, founder and CEO of virtual assistance company Virtual Gurus, didn’t always have a clear sense of how her story would unfold. She didn’t necessarily envision a chapter on becoming an entrepreneur — but it would turn out to be one of the most important ones.Image Credit: Courtesy of Virtual Gurus. Bobbie Racette. Before Racette started her business, she says she had little direction and “was kind of just one of those people who went from job to job looking for different things to do.” In 2015, Racette was working as a safety technician in Calgary’s oil and gas…
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Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraftNASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has an environment that could support life. The Europa Clipper mission is expected to launch at 12:06 pm local time aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, having been delayed by several days as a precaution because of Hurricane Milton. Europa is the smallest of the so-called Galilean moons, which are Jupiter’s four largest moons. It is slightly smaller than our own moon and is of…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican.The 80-minute meeting, held privately at the guesthouse where the pope lives, included a Catholic sister who works with LGBTQ people, a member of the transgender community, and a U.S. medical doctor who helps run a clinic providing gender-affirming hormonal care for adults.“I really wanted to share with Pope Francis about the joy that I have being a transgender Catholic person,” Michael Sennett, who took part in the meeting, told…
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.In space, high-energy gamma radiation can change the properties of semiconductors, altering how they work or rendering them completely unusable. Finding devices that can withstand radiation is important not just to keep astronauts safe but also to ensure that a spacecraft lasts the many years of its mission. Constructing a device that can easily measure radiation exposure is just as valuable. Now, a globe-spanning group of researchers has found that a type of memristor, a device that stores data as resistance even in the absence…
672,483 new EBT cards in 14 months—a 34.6% surge! With 2.6M active cards, these numbers don’t add up. The MassGOP stands with @Kelly4StateRep in calling for a full audit. Taxpayers deserve accountability!#mapoli #MassGOPRead more below! ⬇️https://t.co/Vy28Wgsrsr — MassGOP (@massgop) October 9, 2024 The welfare state has exploded under Biden-Harris. Democrat-run Massachusetts recently revealed that they added an astounding 672,483 people to its EBT card and welfare programs, a 34.6% increase in a 14-month period! These figures indicate that 10% of the entire state is currently on welfare. State Senator Ryan Fattman is demanding an audit, believing this uptick in…
A photo of drones flying over Langley base, provided by an eyewitness. (Source: Wall Street Journal) For 17 consecutive nights, a squadron of mysterious drones breached the airspace over Langley Air Force Base, home to some of America’s most advanced military assets. Despite the base’s state-of-the-art defenses, military personnel were left perplexed and concerned, watching each night as the drones crossed Virginia’s restricted airspace without deterrent. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the bizarre drone activity has left military commanders, including U.S. Air Force General Mark Kelly, scratching their heads. Kelly watched in disbelief as drones zoomed across the…
Actress Demi Moore continues to be by her ex-husband, Bruce Willis’, side following his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (FTD).Willis was faced with an FTD diagnosis after an initial diagnosis of Aphasia two years ago. Willis’s closest family members, including his ex-wife, have been by Willis’s side since then. The “Die Hard” actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, Moore, and his children have all shared updates on Willis’ condition with the public on Instagram several times.Article continues below advertisementMoore recently spoke of the “Moonlighting” alumni’s health earlier today after being awarded the Career Achievement in Acting Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival.…
STOCKHOLM: US-based academics Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday (Oct 14). The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns (US$1.1 million). “Reducing the vast differences in income between countries is one of our time’s greatest challenges. The laureates have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for achieving…
John Mason says he would be ‘happy’ to repeat comment that if Israel wanted to commit Gaza genocide, it would have killed 10 times more.The ruling political party in Scotland has expelled an outspoken member and lawmaker over “utterly abhorrent”, “flippant” and “completely unacceptable” comments about Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. John Mason of the Scottish National Party (SNP) confirmed his ouster on Sunday, saying he was “very disappointed” about the party’s decision. “I continue to believe that we should be able to tolerate a variety of views within the Party as long as we are all committed to…
Despite winning the 2024 NBA championship, the Boston Celtics have been the subject of a consistent media narrative aimed at discrediting their achievement. Joe Mazzulla’s team has been accused of having an easy run to the NBA Finals due to multiple opponents missing their star player during the postseason.According to former NBA wing Eddie Johnson, Boston’s players haven’t had the enjoyable summer that’s supposed to come with winning a championship. As such, he’s expecting the Celtics to embark on another dominant season as they play with an attitude and look to prove the media and their doubters wrong.”You’re supposed to…