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Whose sovereignty is really being fought for? What happens when First Nations People are dragged into extremist protests – The Conversation AU

Posted: February 7, 2022 at 6:13 am

Over the past few weeks we have seen First Nations people protesting alongside alt-right freedom protesters at Old Parliament House in Canberra.

With this we saw a classic example of the alt-right trying to recruit disaffected marginalised people for their own ends.

This is not only dangerous given what we know about the history of First Nations peoples interactions with police, it also perpetuates a stereotype of First Nations people that we are dysfunctional, disunited and do not know what we want.

Read more: A short history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy an indelible reminder of unceded sovereignty

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra was established in 1972. The Embassy is a permanent, heritage-listed protest site representing the political rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia. It is the longest living Indigenous protest site in the world.

However, in recent months a clash of extremist white protesters alongside some Indigenous people, attempted a hostile invasion of the site in a bid to co-opt the Embassys cause. The group that descended the area included key white supremacist figures, including members of the Proud Boys.

These alt-right, extremist invaders are aligned with the global Sovereign Citizens (SovCits) movement, whose roots are racist and antisemitic. Sovereign Citizens are anti-government and believe they are sovereign from the laws of the country where they live.

These extremists misappropriated the long-term struggle of First Nations people, and created chaos and division.

It seems these groups find ways to recruit others by tapping into the distrust of authority. They potentially exploited this to recruit Indigenous people to an alt-right cause.

The presence of Indigenous people in these protests further perpetuates the narrative we are dysfunctional peoples who cannot agree - a stereotype white people as a collective do not have to worry about.

Indigenous people being perceived as dysfunctional springs from white deficit narratives about Indigenous communities. This deficit discourse represents our people in terms of incivility, discord and failure.

Sovereignty is one of the foundational principles of international law. Unfortunately, sovereignty under traditional Western Euro-centric international law was purposefully designed and restricted to what are considered civilised nations and Indigenous Peoples were (and one could argue still are) objects under the law.

Indigenous Sovereignty remains a separate concept and means something entirely different but is marginalised to Indigenous politics. It remains marginalised because of the history of Terra Nullius being applied to justify colonisation and the refusal of contemporary politicians to advocate on the issue. Indigenous Sovereignty has deep significance in the fight for recognition, and there are many models of what Indigenous Sovereignty looks like.

However, sovereignty cannot simply exist, it can only be asserted, claimed, or taken - which is the antithesis of Indigenous law and lore.

Sovereignty and the assertion of sovereignty is a critical item of Indigenous activism in Australia the only commonwealth country without an agreement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Terra Nullius was enacted in Australia because the colonial invaders believed the Indigenous Peoples were uncivilised and thus did not possess sovereignty, therefore did not have the right to exclude the invaders from their lands. Therefore, the notion of Indigenous Sovereignty is intertwined with the activism for Treaty and the pursuit of self-determination.

Sovereignty however, has been hijacked by the alt-right and their version of sovereignty is about the rights of (white) individuals to do what they like without the subordination of the outside authorities.

White protesters co-opting Indigenous causes for their own sovereignty agenda is problematic in a number of ways.

First Nations people are often expected to educate those around us, and to freely give emotional and cultural labour. Providing such labour when educating about systemic violence while concurrently facing disadvantage due to white privilege in systems takes a significant toll. However, speaking out and protesting has very real life and death consequences for Indigenous People that white people do not need to consider.

First Nations People in Australia are the most criminalised and incarcerated in the world, and are at a higher risk of dying in custody.

White people also do not need to manage the same burdens, cultural loads or responsibilities, such as being asked to be the representative of their entire race. Nor are they collectively condemned when one white person does something that is considered wrong.

The far-right appropriating Indigenous causes is not new and often used to justify acts of violence. The far-right appropriate language about rights and twist them to fuel their own propaganda. This has been an effective tool to recruit all sorts of disenfranchised people.

Read more: Who are the 'Original Sovereigns' who were camped out at Old Parliament House and what are their aims?

In order to stop the momentum of these groups and their toxic way of thinking, we must ensure white people are no longer ignorant of the power of white privilege and the effect dysfunctionality speech, deficit narratives and systemic racism have on Indigenous Peoples and communities.

Many people may feel we are living in uncertain times, and these protest groups might try to pretend they have the answers people seek. But they do not. These groups encourage a pattern of ignorance that maintains social inequity for marginalised groups.

Instead these groups fuel hate speech, create further division in communities, and do nothing to bring stability to uncertain times.

SpaceX Starship Backdrop? Elon Musk Says it is a Good One After Reports of Mission Not Close to Launching – Tech Times

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SpaceX's Starship may only be a backdrop in the next event to showcase the Stainless Steel spacecraft in the upcoming event on Starbase, Boca Chica. The event coming by Thursday, February 10, will bring a massive update on the Starship spacecraft, especially with what it has to offer in the coming months after it is in the process of getting the test launch license.

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According to Teslarati's report, the SpaceX Starship will be the "ultimate backdrop" in an event for the spacecraft, and it pertains to the non-operational situation of the Stainless Steel rocket. The report said that it may be so that the Starship will not have a test launch anytime soon, especially now that the massive crane is not yet operational.

The Booster 4, or the Super Heavy that will propel the Starships towards the sky, is now in position the orbital launch pad, something that is not the right location for the spacecraft, says Teslarati. The Super Heavy and Starship should be with Mechazilla, also known as the massive structure with arms to carry both spacecraft.

Read Also:SpaceX Falcon 9 Sends US Spy Satellite Into Orbit! Starlink Launches To Follow

Musk said that the Starship is a good backdropcompared to others, and this may also mean that the CEO is confirming that it would only be an opportunity to show it to the public. However, it is important to note that Musk did not confirm anything regarding the Starship's flights, particularly with the upcoming showcase and weeks to come.

SpaceX Starship's focus is to go to Mars, and the mission is to establish a colony in the Red Planet for the humans to live. The multi-planetary goals came from CEO Elon Musk, and this is because he thinks that this is the solution for the world to avoid and experience population collapse,which he said is happening now in most nations.

The mission to Marsis a massive step for mankind and the space company from Musk, and this is because they aim to go places where no one else can come. However, it would ensure that legitimate scientists and experts will soon join its human flights that will happen in a few years. Musk thinks that coming to Mars may help in making life multi-planetary.

The space company from Musk will soon hold a showcase in Texas to address its Starship plans for the future, especially now that it is close to happening. Moreover, there may be speculations regarding its delayed flights again, but that will soon get attention and a discussion from Musk that will wait until Thursday to address this issue.

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The International Space Station will meet its end in 2031. Where will it crash and what will take its place? – ABC News

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The clock is ticking for the International Space Station, with NASA last week declaring plans to let it plummet back to Earth in 2031.

The iconic piece of space infrastructurewill be nudged out of its orbit and eventually meetits watery demise when it plunges into the ocean and smashes into smithereens.

That day will mark the end of 32 years of space station construction, experiments, photography and since November 2000 continuous human habitation,all whilehurtling around the planet once every 90 minutes or so.

On New Year's Eve, NASA extended the space station's operations from 2024 to 2030.

Given the space station's decades ofinternationalcooperation not to mention the cash needed to get it up and running (it's the most expensive object ever built) why will it be dragged down anddestroyed?

And once it's gone, what will take its place?

The space station's international focus has been a "wonderful thing in many ways", says Duncan Steel, a space scientist atXerra Earth Observation Institute in New Zealand.

The US and Russia announced plans to build it together in 1993, and Japanese, Canadian and European space agencies signed on later.

The first segment of the space station, the Zarya Control Module, launched aboard a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in 1998.

Tonnes of parts have been added, removed and replaced over the years since.

"But," Dr Steel says,"it was never the idea that the space station would be permanent."

This is partly because, quite simply, it's gunking up and wearing out.

It's not just humans livingon board. Bacteria, fungi and other microbessurviveand thrivethere too.

"Imagineliving in a caravan, and you couldn't open the windows, but youhave to keep it clean," Dr Steel says.

"There's colonies of bacteria inside the space station which we don't necessarily see, but you could expect to cause all sorts of problems.

"When there's so muchrecycled air ... it can get into the electronics and so on."

The outer surfaces are becoming worn too.

The space station orbits about 400km above Earth's surface.

Any objectsbelow about 500kmnaturally fall back to Earth, so the space station is regularly boosted upto counter this effect.

This means there's not too much in the way of space junk in the space station's path (it's not completely clear, though).

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But what is plentiful at 400km up is oxygen atoms. They comprise about 96 per cent of the atmosphere in low-Earth orbit.

"Oxygen atoms are very strongly oxidising, and the space station is flying around 7.8km per second through this very tenuous atmosphere of oxygen atoms," Dr Steel said.

"And that's actually corroding the outside."

Docking and undocking of vehicles ferrying supplies and people to and fro canput strain on the space station's structure, and various cracks and leaks have been patched up over the years.

The constant maintenance and upkeep needed to keep the station in working order and support inhabitants is expensive, so doing away with the space station will saveplenty of cash.

For instance, NASA estimates savings"to be approximately $1.3 billion in 2031, ramping up to $1.8 billion by 2033", which is money that could be put towards efforts "toexplore further and faster into deep space".

The space station's descent won't be a random tumble back to Earth.

Once the space station is emptied and stripped of whatever needs to be saved,operators on the ground will control its descent using thrusters, gradually puttingit oncourse for its eventual crash.

Its final resting place will be submerged ina patch of water dubbed the spacecraft cemetery (more formally called theSouth Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area).

Hundreds of spacecraft have plopped in this zone,which is the furthest location from any land.

January 2031 is roughly when it will all kick off, but exactly when the operators will begin theirdescent manoeuvres is still up in the air.

And it all really depends on what the Sun is doing at the time.

When it'sactive, sunspots and flares eruptfrom its surface, and Earth's atmosphere gets warmer and expands.

If the denser lower atmosphere puffs up past 400km,the space station mustdeal with more drag,and it drops faster.

"Thiscausesobjects to re-enter the atmosphere and the space station is especially prone to that," Dr Steel said.

The International Space Stationis the only fully operational and habitable space station up there at the moment, but it wasn't the first, and it certainly won't be the last.

Dwellers of the spacecraft cemetery include remnants of the old US space station Skylab, plusa handful of Soviet space stations that were launched in the 1970s and 80s, including the world's first modular space station, Mir.

Russia, which has built and operatedone side of the International Space Station, plans todevelop and deploy its own enterprisethe Russian Orbital Service Station in five or six years' time.

According to Russian news agency TASS, NASA and Roscosmos are still in talks about International Space Station operations until 2030, and whether Russia will still be involved.

A space station already under constructionis the Chinese Tiangong, the first part of which launched in April last year.

(It's the third Chinese space station the nation launchedTiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 in 2011 and 2016respectively but this latest iterationis the first to have a modular design.)

China has never been a part of the International Space Station. In 2011, US politicians passed the Wolf Amendment, which all but barred cooperation between NASA and Chinese organisations, citing human rights andnational security concerns.

But other agencies,such as the European Space Agency,have worked with China and continue to do so.

So what about NASA?

With its sights set further afield to deep space, the US space agency is funding commercial partners and outsourcing its low-Earth orbit activities to companies such as Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin.

It's already given Axiom Space permission to attach modules to the space station, which will eventually detach to become their own low-Earth orbit facility.

Enrico Palermo, head of the Australian Space Agency, says this new suite of space stationsparticularly those from commercial operators "presents a terrific opportunity for the Australian space sector".

"Our industry will have a range of choices to suit their needs and fast-track their access to space,which will ensure our research and development opportunities are maximised."

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Starman waiting on the ground: NASA’s Moon mission gets delayed | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah

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The first mission in NASA's program to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until spring at the earliest, as the highly anticipated rollout of space agency's new moon rocket, on its launch pad in Florida for final tests before a first flight, needed to complete more safety checks, the agency said.

NASA, which late last year had targeted liftoff this month for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission around the moon and back, declined to set a revised launch date, but the delay would preclude a flight before April.

At a briefing for reporters, NASA executives said there were no specific, major difficulties slowing their schedule, but rather a higher-than-usual volume of technical hurdles to clear in preparing a large, complex rocket system for its very first launch.

"It's really what I would call a kind of punch list of a whole bunch of things that we absolutely need to finish up and then we'll be ready to roll the vehicle out," said Tom Whitmeyer, a deputy associate NASA administrator.

NASA officials said workforce and supply disruptions related to the recent omicron-driven surge in COVID-19 infections also were factors in slowing down the work.

At stake is the combined fate of NASA's heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion crew capsule it will send aloft for the Artemis program, aimed at returning humans to the moon and eventually establishing a long-term lunar colony as a precursor to sending astronauts to Mars.

The United States Apollo program sent six astronauts to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972, the only crewed spaceflights yet to achieve that feat.

In November, NASA announced that it would aim to achieve the first crewed lunar landing of Artemis, named for the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, as early as 2025.

However, the space agency has several spaceflight stepping stones to meet before it gets there, starting with a successful maiden flight of the SLS and Orion, now in the final stages of pre-launch preparations.

Rollout of the towering spacecraft, a key milestone marking the public's first glimpse of the newly assembled, 36-story-tall rocket-and-capsule vehicle as it is moved, had recently been planned for mid-February.

Under the updated timeframe outlined on Wednesday, the SLS-Orion will be trundled out on a giant crawler-transporter in March probably around the middle of the month from its assembly building to Launch Pad 39-B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Once there, it will take about two weeks for technicians to ready the launch vehicle for a "wet dress rehearsal" that includes fully loading the rocket's fuel tanks with propellant and running through a simulated countdown.

Afterward, NASA will roll the SLS-Orion stack back into the assembly building for a last round of checks before officially setting a new target liftoff date.

In a statement on Wednesday, NASA said it was reviewing launch windows in April and May, but the timeline could slip further depending on the outcome of the dress rehearsal, space agency officials said.

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Business Briefs: February 2022 – The Crozet Gazette

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A Wine Bar for Waynesboro

In a space between Initial Inspirations and the Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Kelly and Brandon Sheelyboth long-time Waynesboro residentswill open The City Foxes Wine Bar and Market this spring. In the past, the space housed a beauty salon and a storefront church. Its a familiar neighborhood for Kelly, who formerly worked at the Waynesboro Heritage Museum just up the street.

The Sheelys have wanted to own their own business for a long time and, as fans of Virginia wine, decided to make local wines the centerpiece. Kelly said theyll focus on wines from the Shenandoah Valley first. Theyll also offer other local products, both food and art-related.

Kelly said theyll also have eight tables for those who want to enjoy a meal prepared on the premises, featuring local produce, cheeses and baked goods. Other dishes will be packaged for carry-out. Meanwhile, she said, residents are impatient for opening day. Its slower than we had hoped, she said, with supply chain shortages and construction delays. Find City Foxes Wine Bar and Market on Facebook and at thecityfoxes.com.

The Crozet Artisan Depot presents metalsmith Anna Lee of Elkton and watercolorist Amy Snowden of Kill Devils Hills, N.C. as guest artists for February. The two sisters, who collaborate in their jewelry business, will be at the Depot February 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the historic Crozet train depot, 5791 Three Notchd Rd.

Lee and Snowden named their business, Mary Maveline Originals, after their two grandmothers, Mary Eloise Kelsoe and Maveline Gammill, whom they honor as beautiful, industrious, and special women. Lee paints original miniature watercolor paintings, then frames between glass panes with a lead-free solder to become a part of jewelry crafted by Snowden.

Chase and Stephanie Hoover are the new owners of the former Colony Motel on the Waynesboro slope of Afton Mountain. Theyre giving it a complete overhaul, and will open this summer as the Grey Pine Lodge. Chase Hoover said theyll also have space for indoor and outdoor events.

Mi Rancho in Old Trail has completely remodeled its interior, with walled booths, fresh paint, and south-of-the-border statuary.

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Harvard Says He’s Building Device to Capture "High Resolution Image" of UFO – Futurism

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Can he pull it off?High Fidelity

Harvard professor Avi Loeb has long been outspoken about taking the search for extraterrestrial life more seriously. In an eyebrow-raising quest, hes often even exhorted his colleagues to take UFO research more seriously.

Now, Loeb says he hopes to collect a high resolution image of a UFO within the next couple years, according to a new interview with the Guardian.

I really want the next generation to be free to discuss it, and for it to become part of the mainstream, Loeb told the paper. My hope is that by getting a high resolution image of something unusual, or finding evidence for it, which is quite possible in the coming year or two, we will change it.

Last year, Futurism talked to Loeb about his book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, which purported that an interstellar object that drifted through our solar system in 2017 may have been an alien probe rather than a boring space rock. At the time, Loeb said many of his colleagues held UFO research at arms length and generally dismissed findings as natural events or the stuff of conspiracy theory.

The scientific community can address a topic even if other people address it in a way that is not scientific and doesnt make much sense, he said.

Loeb heads the Galileo Project, in which a team of more than 100 scientists are establishing a network of sophisticated telescopes to scan the skies for extraterrestrials. According to the Guardian, Loebs first telescope will begin operation from the roof of the Harvard college observatory this summer, equipped with infrared cameras rolling 24/7, a radio sensor, an audio sensor and a magnetometer to detect non-visual objects.

Were taking a road not taken so there may be low hanging fruit, that nobody else picked because it was not taken, Loeb told the Guardian.

Loeb says capturing strong UFO evidence, including the high-res image he hopes to snap within the next two years, will attract younger scientists scared away by the older, more cynical crowd. If he manages to pull it off amajor if, to be clear we may finally have to take UFO research more seriously.

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Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Reportedly Doxxed – Futurism

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Are they who you expected?Dox3

If youve heardanything about the NFT craze thats swept the web over the past year, its probably been about the premier project in the space, the Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Bored Apes NFTs, which depict exactly what youd expect from the name, have become one of the eras strangest status symbols, picking up celebrity buyers ranging from Justin Bieber to Eminem.

And now the tokens creators, whose real life identities had remained shrouded in mystery, appear to finally have been unmasked by BuzzFeed News indominable Katie Notopoulos. Notopoulos reporting found drumroll, please that the pseudonymous cocreators, who go by the handles Gordon Goner and Gargamel, are a pair of little-known American creatives named Wylie Aronow and Greg Solano, respectively.

Make of that revelation what you will.

On the one hand, whatever you think of NFTs, Aronow and Solanos relative nobody status does corroborate the central ethos of the NFT craze that anybody can create or at least have a hand in creating, because as BuzzFeed pointed out, these two were assisted by several others who remain unidentified the hottest digital commodities on the web.

Its also likely to bring fresh scrutiny onto the entire project, which has already taken heat for everything from allegations of racism to underpaying the artist who created the actual artworks.

And at the same time, a debate is now raging over the ethics of identifying anonymous internet creators. On the one hand, Aranow and Solano have a right to privacy, and seem to have taken at least some pains to conceal their identities. On the other, many have pointed out, they arguably gave up at least some of that right to anonymity by virtue of running a boggling profitable online venture.

At the end of the day, at least theyve become unfathomably wealthy.

More on NFTs: Guy Accidentally Sells $300,000 Bored Ape NFT for 1% of Its Value

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SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say – Futurism

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But it probably wont happen.Moon Dump

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk might soon have a Moon-sized lawsuit on his hands.

After astronomers discovered that a derelict SpaceX rocket stage will likely crash into the lunar surface in early March, the story spurred a number of interesting questions about the legality of dumping a glorified piece of space trash on the Moon.

Now, some legal experts argue the dumping could be grounds to sue Musk and SpaceX though such a lawsuit likely wont ever materialize.

Theoretically, yes, attorney Steven Kaufman told Forbes. Practically, probably not.

Of course, the biggest reason why Musk isnt likely to be sued for the stunt is because nobody technically owns the Moon. That said, if the errant SpaceX rocket part crashes into, say, Chinas lunar rover, then he might have a significant legal issue on his hands.

According to the Outer Space Treaty of 1966 and the Convention on International Liability for Damage Causes by Space Objects of 1972, countries can make legal claims if their spacecraft are damaged by other countries. In other words, it could theoretically happen.

That said, these areuncharted waters. Theres simply not a lot of precedent, attorney Scot Anderson told Forbes.

Interestingly, there has been one liability claim since the treaties were enacted. In 1978, a Soviet satellite broke up in the skies over Canada and spilled radioactive material into the atmosphere. The Canadian government was able to settle the matter with the Soviet Union for a meager $3 million after originally billing the country for $6 million.

Musk likely wont have to pony up any cash when his rocket crashes into the Moon. However, Anderson believes that he wont be able to get away with his lunar littering for long. As NASAs Artemis program gains steam and countries eventually establish outposts on the Moon, well likely see more regulatory control on what you can and cant do on the lunar surface.

Countries involved in the project have signed the Artemis Accords, for instance, which outlines rules to limit space junk.

So get your Moon littering in while you still can, billionaires.

READ MORE: Can Elon Musk Get Sued For Crashing a Rocket on the Moon? [Forbes]

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The Winter Olympics Have a Problem: They’re Being Ruined by Climate Change – Futurism

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How does one hold the Winter Olympics when winter as we knew it is changing for the worse?

Melting snow, high winds, and the many other ills of climate change are on the minds of Olympians and scientists alike as the world gears up for the Beijing Olympics, which are taking place not only on the eighth hottest consecutive year on record, but also, of course, during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic.

World-class skiers got a taste of what to expect in Beijing during the Alpine Ski World Cup. Organizers on two continents had to cancel slalom competitions due to dangerously high winds that, asThe Guardian notes, appeared to give unfair advantages to the first racers to descend during womens matches in Vermont, and even tragically led to the French bronze medalist Victor Muffat-Jeandet breaking his ankle in Zagreb, Croatia.

A recent study published in theCurrent Issues in Tourism journal found that conditions in Winter Olympics cities have become increasingly dangerous and unfair over the last 50 years and, according to the researchers projections, a vanishingly small number of previous host cities will have enough snow and ice for the games in the future.

While much emphasis is placed on the phony snow shipped into winter sports arenas as is happening in Beijing this year the impacts of climate change on winter sports are perhaps felt more severely in the places where Olympians live and train because artificial snow is often an unsustainable supplementation for the real thing.

As theAssociated Press noted, Colorado went 232 days without snow until December 10, 2021, which broke the states record of most consecutive days without snowfall since 1880. And by the end of that month, only about an inch had accumulated and by then, wildfires had begun swarming around the state.

We definitely have noticed a lack of snow everywhere, Taylor Fletcher, a Colorado-born and Utah-based Nordic combined Olympian, told theAP. Places that, in December, November, used to be winter wonderlands, were seeing them with less and less snow. And some years, theyre not getting any snow.

While the researchers behind the Current Issues in Tourism study and some Olympians are optimistic that both host and participating countries can help turn back the tide of climate change by making and sticking to climate pledges, others still have darker outlooks.

The reality is that ship has sailed, unfortunately, in my opinion, Bode Miller, an American Olympian who won six medals for Alpine skiing, told theAP. We havent made the requisite changes. Weve kind of missed the window.

There remains some hope, however, that presenting such a stark reality to the International Olympic Committee and the nations that participate in the games may make a difference.

Part of what we do papers like this for is to get the message out that we have a large influence, Daniel Scott, a University of Waterloo professor who co-authored the Tourism study, told the AP. And so, if we act, (there is) hope of avoiding those worst-case scenarios.

Hopefully, the IOC and the rest of the world will heed their warning.

READ MORE:Olympians worry as Winter disappears from Winter Games [The Associated Press]

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Futurism Brings Affordable Cyber Defense to the Rural Health Care Community at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference – Newswire

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Press Release-Feb 4, 2022

PISCATAWAY, N.J., February 4, 2022 (Newswire.com) - Futurism is excited to co-sponsor the 2022 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference on Feb. 6-8, in Phoenix, Arizona.

"We are excited to return to the 35th Annual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We continue to extend our support to help the rural health care sector accelerate the shift towards a more sustainable, connected and secure health system," says Mr. Sheetal Pansare, President & Global CEO for Futurism Technologies.

Cybersecurity Hot Topic Roundtable: A thought leadership discussion on reducing business risks and improving cyber resilience for rural hospitals (Monday, Feb. 7, 12:30 - 2:00 pm)

The hot topic roundtable discussion will throw light on cybersecurity for rural hospitals, providing CEOs and board members with an opportunity to speak confidently about their security risk posture.

"Security is always an uphill battle for rural hospitals since most of these hospitals lack the required budget and security skills. Plus, there is always a void between the CEOs/Board of Directors and IT teams, causing lack of awareness and understanding pertaining to security," adds Mr. Sheetal Pansare.

The roundtable discussion will revolve around ways to effectively educate and communicate risk posture to the board and top executives of rural hospitals. The hot topic roundtable aims to address questions related to cybersecurity for rural hospitals.

The hot topic roundtable will address these and many other concerns related to cybersecurity for rural hospitals. We invite you to connect with our Cybersecurity Executive Mr. Leo J. Cole at our AHA Hot Topic Roundtable discussion, as he talks about key security issues that CEOs and Board Members of rural hospitals face and how we can help them in getting the right answers.

Learn more about our cybersecurity hot topic roundtable here.

How we can help?

As a leading IBM Global Security Solutions Partner, we are committed to helping rural hospitals become cyber-smart. Futurism Cybersecurity Services utilize Zero Trust Security Architecture to help rural hospitals leverage industry-leading IBM security tech and tools including IBM QRadar, IBM Watson AI, IBM MaaS360, IBM Verify Access, IBM Guardium, etc. for less than the cost of point products and expensive resources. Our security experts work like an extended arm of your IT/security team offering round-the-clock protection from Ransomware attacks and a range of advanced threats.

Drop by our booth to learn more.

About Futurism Technologies

Futurism Technologies is a trusted Digital Transformation (DX) advisor and consulting partner assisting businesses of all sizes to unlock the true value of digital. We provide DX services and solutions across the entire value chain including infrastructure management, product engineering, cybersecurity, process automation, cloud, AI, Big Data, RPA, Blockchain, enterprise product platforms, and many others. We are committed to helping rural hospitals get the most out of their IT/security investments by offering them affordable cybersecurity services (powered by IBM).

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Monthly Archives: February 2022

Whose sovereignty is really being fought for? What happens when First Nations People are dragged into extremist protests – The Conversation AU

SpaceX Starship Backdrop? Elon Musk Says it is a Good One After Reports of Mission Not Close to Launching – Tech Times

The International Space Station will meet its end in 2031. Where will it crash and what will take its place? – ABC News

Starman waiting on the ground: NASA’s Moon mission gets delayed | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah

Business Briefs: February 2022 – The Crozet Gazette

Harvard Says He’s Building Device to Capture "High Resolution Image" of UFO – Futurism

Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Reportedly Doxxed – Futurism

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say – Futurism

The Winter Olympics Have a Problem: They’re Being Ruined by Climate Change – Futurism

Futurism Brings Affordable Cyber Defense to the Rural Health Care Community at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference – Newswire

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