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Things to Do This Weekend in The Palm Beaches – The Palm Beaches

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Events for Friday, February 2 Lake Worth Beach Bonfire, Lake Worth Beach

Pack up your smores kits and enjoy roasting marshmallows around a mini bonfire in Lake Worth Beach. This is a family-friendly event!

Featured artists: The Leafy Greens.

Time: 6 pm 10 pm.

Location: Lake Worth Beach and Casino Complex, 10 South Ocean Blvd, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460.

Each Friday night from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach organizes Art After Darka fun mix of art and entertainment featuring a docent-led tour, an open studio, live music, and more! This Friday, join a tour that will highlight African American artists whose work is on view.

Clickhere for more details.

Location: Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

Get ready for The Art of Laughter: A Hysterical Stand-Up Comedy Series at Arts Garage!

Come see some of the best touring comedians from South Florida and beyond, the first Friday of every month.

Time: 8 pm 10 pm

Cost: $35

Get tickets.

Location: Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444.

Learn the dance of passion from professional dance instructors. If you are looking to socialize, get your dance on, and make new friends, then join us. Monthly dance workshops are FREE to attend from 6:30 8 p.m. Walk-up registration is also welcomed starting at 5:30 p.m. Click Here to view instructors.

Register here.

Location: City Hall Courtyard, 407 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

Mark your calendars to celebrate Manatee Lagoons 8th anniversary at ManateeFest 2024! This FREE, family-friendly event is an annual celebration where you can explore the wonders of manatees, the Lake Worth Lagoon, and environmental conservation.

Experience a day packed with activities for everyone, including face painting, live music, photo opportunities with Mia the Manatee, a KidsFunZone, food vendors, arts and crafts vendors, eco-conscious exhibitors, and more!

Manatee Lagoonoffers a dedicated area for viewing manatees up close and a robust year-round program and event schedule.

Time: 9 am 4 pm.

Location: Manatee Lagoon, 6000 North Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33407.

Visit The Square for the third annual Black History Month Kickoff Eventpresented by Rohis Readery. Enjoy a series of events celebrating African Diasporic peoples multifaceted history and culture. The Spirit of this event is to uplift a narrative that will include live music, vendors, classes for children, and workshops for adults.

Location: The Square, 700 South Rosemary AvenueWest Palm Beach,FL33401.

Roll out your mats with the community as Natalie Addison guides you through an all-levels Vinyasa class. Start your weekend off right, enjoy a fresh playlist, move your body and set intentions for the day. All levels, bodies and people are welcome. The class takes place on Rosemary Ave in front of True Food Kitchen.

Bring: A Yoga mat, towel and water.

Time: 10 am

$10 suggested donation. Donations can be made on site via Venmo or cash.

Advanced registration is not required.

Location: The Square, 700 South Rosemary Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

Visit the West Palm Beach GreenMarket and shop over 125 vendors selling various products, including fresh fruits and vegetables, coffees and teas, flowers and plants, homemade specialty items, desserts, and treats, and so much more.

Time: 9 am 1 pm

Location: Great Lawn, 100 N. Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

The Delray Green Market is a Saturday morning destination. At the Green Market youll find more than 50+ vendors featuring Palm Beach County farm-to-fork produce, just picked citrus and juice, farm fresh eggs, raw milk, and butter, 100% grass-fed and finished (antibiotic and hormone free). Florida beef, poultry, pork and lamb, fragrant artisan baked goods, plenty of gluten-free, vegan and sugar-free products, fresh cut flowers, plants and other unique gourmet fare along with live musical entertainment each week.

Time: 9:00 am 2:00 pm

Location: Old School Square, 96 N.E. 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444.

Every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm, shop 30 incredible local vendors at a real farmers market on a real farm! The market offers not only the best produce that you expect from Swank Farm, but also bakers, growers, gardeners, and sellers of the best Farm Market products that you can possibly want.

Location: Swank Farm, 14311 North Road, Loxahatchee Groves, FL 33470.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year by exploring artworks in the Chinese Collection and become inspired by the symbolic meanings behind the creatures depicted in these artworks. In the studio, explore calligraphy, stamps, sculptures, and paintings, using similar ancient techniques. Children ages 5 12, and their accompanying grown-ups, participate in a thematic tour, followed by a related art workshop. Every Saturday is a new experience!

Space is limited: online registration required.

Cost: Free admission for children and adults.

Time: 11 am 1 pm

Location: Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

American Tune: Simon, Croce & Taylor takes you on a magical trip back to the 1970s to experience the timeless music and prolific songwriting of Paul Simon, Jim Croce and James Taylor. Relive the intimate storytelling, intricate chord changes and breathtaking melodies of these gifted artists, their work building on and transcending the more traditional folk-influenced acoustic music of the previous decade.

Time: 8 pm 10 pm

Cost: $45 $50

Get tickets.

Location: Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444.

Break a sweat with fellow runners in the community during this run club led by lululemon ambassador Alex Celis. Meet in front of lululemonto mingle, stretch and warm up before setting off on a 2-mile loop around Downtown West Palm Beach, ending back atThe Saltyfor a cool down and sweet treat.

Time:Warm-up at 8:45AM; run begins in at 9AM

Register Here to Run

Location: The Square, 700 South Rosemary Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

Shop at the market at Harbourside Place every Sunday, from 10 am 4 pm! Stroll along the Intracoastal while shopping local artisan and handmade goods!

Time: 10:00 am 4:00 pm

Location: Harbourside Place, 200 N US Highway One, Jupiter, FL 33477.

Enjoy a multi-course dinner at Swank Farm. Wear something in the Carnival colors (purple, green, gold) bring your favorite Mask and lets get into the Mardi Gras Spirit.

Benefiting: Connections Education Center of the Palm Beaches.

Clickhereto see the participating chefs and to get tickets.

Location: Swank Farm, 14311 North Rd, Loxahatchee, FL 33470.

Get onboard The Brunch Club Experience presented by The Palm Beaches for vibes, bites, and delights. Your Brunch experience lets you enjoy a one-way PREMIUM ride on a themed coach with complimentary snacks on your ride up, and plenty of bubbly from exclusive partners like MOET, and Ruffino Prosecco Rose for you and your friends. Plus, Guests get free entry to the Historical Society of Palm Beach County with their Brightline ticket.

Leave room for seconds. Brunch Club riders can enjoy a complimentary drink, appetizers and other perks from these participating restaurants at The Square:

Brunch Club trains run three times a day on February 4 and February 11 from MiamiCentral Station to West Palm Beach Station at 9:45 am, 10:50 am, and 11:45 am. Guests are responsible for their return trip.

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Janes quartet program, her most frequent offering, is as varied as her twelve studio albums. Featuring some of the worlds finest musicians, her band expertly accompanies her as she interprets iconic songs from the Great American Songbook, famed Brazilian composers, and the singer-songwriters of the twentieth century.

Time: 7 pm 8:30 pm

Cost: $55 $60

Get tickets.

Location: Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444.

When: January 30 February 3, 2024

Now celebrating its 29thanniversary, FOTOfusion is a popular cultural festival where creativity and technology fuse. The festival attracts thousands of professional and hobbyist photographers to West Palm Beach for a series of workshops, lectures, panel discussions, multimedia presentations, portfolio reviews, hands-on computer classes, demonstrations, and photo shoots taught by world renowned photographers, digital imaging artists and picture editors all of whom donate their time and expertise to educate, mentor and encourage creativity among participants of all levels and ages.

The 29th annual FOTOfusion will celebrate distinguished photojournalist David Burnett, the recipient of the prestigious FOTOmentor Award 2024.

To register or for more information, clickhere.

Location: Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

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Get ready to hold your breath and unleash your appetite because the Best Stinkin Party in South Florida is back, and its more aromatic and exciting than ever!

Mark your calendars for February 3rd and 4th as this internationally acclaimed event returns to Wellington, ready to tantalize your taste buds and thrill your senses. From the moment you step foot into this culinary wonderland, youll be swept away by the vibrant atmosphere that surrounds you.

The aroma of garlic-infused delicacies will waft through the air, leading you to the renowned Gourmet Alley. Brace yourself for an incredible selection of over 100 garlicky menu items that will leave you craving more. From classic favorites to bold and innovative creations, prepare to embark on a flavorful journey like no other.

The Best Stinkin Party is more than just food! Its a full-blown entertainment extravaganza! Prepare to be mesmerized by the electrifying performances of nationally acclaimed musical acts that will take the stage.Learn more.

Location: 12100 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, FL 33414.

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A week into 2024 and Big Tech has earned enough to pay off all 2023 fines – TechRadar

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2023 surely was an eventful year in tech. To cite just a few key moments, generative AI became mainstream thanks to software like ChatGPT; we had to say goodbye to the iconic blue bird while welcoming Twitter's new name (I know very well the pain of writing 'X, formerly known as Twitter' over the past six months); and big tech companies got fined the most under GDPR's data abuses for a total of more than $3 billion.

Well, on the latter point, data protection regulators' efforts turned out to be not as effective as it was hoped they'd be.

Swiss privacy firm behind popular email and VPN service, Proton reported that only after a week into 2024 the likes of Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft earned enough to pay off all last year's fines. Let's take a look at what needs to change and, most importantly, what you can do in the meantime to truly protect your privacy.

"Whats clear is that these fines, though they appear to be a huge amount of money, in reality are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to the revenues that the tech giants are making. In other words, they arent a deterrent at all," Jurgita Miseviciute, Head of Public Policy & Government Affairs at Proton, told me.

Researchers at Proton have calculated that Alphabet (Google's parent company) needs only a bit more than a day to pay off its $941 million fines. Amazon and Apple's earnings of just a few hours are then enough to repay their data protection's sanctions of $111.7 and $186.4 million respectively.

While biggest data abuse perpetrator Meta, which got a record $1.3bn fine for its (mis)handling of EU user data in May last year, managed to accumulate all the necessary money in just about five working days.

These findings make it clear that data regulators' fines, as founder and CEO of Proton Andy Yen put it, are "little more than pocket change for these companies" instead of a mean to stop them abusing users' data. Not only that, he said, as "these minuscule fines essentially give the green light to tech giants to run riot in a marketplace skewed in their favor."

It's also quite common that big tech firms might appeal to these sanctions or simply refuse to pay, delaying the repayment for years. Take how Google contested India's fine, for instance, about the Android-related inquiry for abusing its dominant position in the market which started in 2019.

On this point, Yen said: "Its the average consumer that's losing outfacing higher prices, less choice, and no privacy. It has to stop and we need real, tangible change that puts people first, not profits."

According to Miseviciute, there are two main things that must happen for things to really change.

Did you know?

Fully enforced in May 2023, the EU Digital Market Act (DMA) brought new obligations for tech companies to ensure fair competition and protect people's digital rights. A similar bill, so-called Digital Markets, Consumer and Competition Bill (DMCC) is currently passing through the UK Parliament, too.

For starters, she believes that governments have to issue fines with a real financial effect in order to fight back against big monopolies.

"Thats why fines up to even 20% of global revenues for breaches of laws such as the EUs DMA [Digital Market Act] and up to 10% in case of the proposed DMCC [Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers] Bill in the UK are a step in the right direction," she told me.

If heavier sanctions are important, they are not everything. Miseviciute explained that regulators need to combine these with practical measures such as enforced behavioral and structural changes, for example.

Again, she sees the EU quite well-placed to do so due to the new powers gained with the DMA. However, elsewhere there are also some small steps in this direction.

"We hope Googles antitrust trial in the US serves as a catalyst for comprehensive antitrust regulation on the other side of the Atlantic. We also see promising potential regulatory developments in South Korea, Japan, Australia and other major jurisdictions," she told me.

"If you open up the marketplace, and you give innovators like Proton a chance to succeed, youll get solutions that are more private and more secure for consumers."

As we have seen, 2023 was yet another hard year for our online privacy.

The US, for instance, still lacks a federal data protection law with the proposed ADPPA being stalled at the time of writing. Enforced in August last year, India's new privacy law was strongly criticized for favoring government and big tech instead of citizens. Well, where allegedly strong legislations are in place like in the EU, these seem to have not enough teeth just yet.

Commenting on this point, Miseviciute told me: "Until laws like the DMA in the EU and the proposed DMCC in the UK are effectively put into practice we are living in a world where big tech rules the internetand all our privacy is at the mercy of their surveillance capitalism business model."

Did you know?

Two thirds of people in the UK would rather lose their passport than access to their email account. Yet, despite these concerns, most of them lack the necessary knowledge and tools to protect their digital privacy. Big Tech knows that, researchers revealed.

The glimpse of light in this gloomy scenario is that it's ultimately our choice if we want to keep using data-hungry products. Luckily, there are some smaller companies offering privacy-first alternatives you can switch to.

On its part, Proton appear to have been working hard to cut Google out of our digital life. Likewise the popular service, the Swiss-based provider offers an encrypted email service Proton Mail (which even beat the big tech giant by landing with a standalone desktop app in December), secure calendar and its own cloud storage Proton Drive, too.

Proton's product offering also includes one of the best virtual private network apps on the market (Proton VPN) to help you boosting your anonymity while browsing among other things, as well as a password manager tool (Proton Pass) to secure all your login details. Even better as all the provider's services come both with free and paid plans.

However, Proton is just one of the many companies developing privacy-first alternatives to big tech software. Worth a mention there are also encrypted messaging app Signal if you wish to replace WhatsApp with a more secure application and Mullvad browser to make the switch from Safari and Chrome.

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I WILL NEVER GIVE DAVE PORTNOY A GAMBLING PICK AGAIN! – Barstool Sports

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There's no denying I had a ROUGH week at the Stool last week.

After spoiling Surviving Barstool on Wednesday morning, Wake Up Mintzy was suspended until 2024 and dump button gets figured out. All hell obviously broke loose at Barstool and I rightfully took a good bit of heat. I even had to wear a dunce cap around the office all day.

I also am banned from live content currently. I had to sit behind the NFL Sunday stream in this crazy mask & could not speak.

Just when I could not make things any worse, I mentioned to Dave Portnoy that I loved Green Bay (-3.5) on Sunday to bounce back from Monday Night Football loss at the Giants.

OOPS!

So much for that. Baker Mayfield torched the Packers secondary in 34-20 road win in what was the first time a road quarterback had a perfect rating at Lambeau Field.

And once again, I got torched by Dave Portnoy who fired big on the game.

The gambling gods then came for me when I lost my 2 unit over 48.5 bet on a blocked extra point in Washington/LA Rams game.

Thank God it is a new week. And it cannot get any worse than last week.or so I hope?

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I WILL NEVER GIVE DAVE PORTNOY A GAMBLING PICK AGAIN! - Barstool Sports