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☆ March Madness: Top seeds for men and women’s 2024 NCAA basketball tournament announced for Selection Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Jacob Lev | Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The other top seeds for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament are the Purdue Boilermakers, North Carolina Tar Heels and Houston Cougars. 2 seeds are Iowa State Cyclones, Marquette Golden Eagles, Tennessee Volunteers and Arizona Wildcats. Thirty-two teams automatically qualified in both the men’s and women’s tournament by virtue of winning their respective conference tournaments. Now that Selection Sunday is all but over, there are only two days for fans to fill out their brackets before the men’s tournament begins on March 19 and the women’s tournament begins the day after. Angel ReeseAngel Reese is another of the tournament’s biggest stars, following her crucial role in propelling LSU to its first ever women’s college basketball title last year.

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☆ ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Nicholas Confessore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +44 min

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. “In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education,” Mr. Klingenstein wrote in August 2021. In a 2023 exchange, Dr. Yenor and two associates discussed how to defend Amy Wax, a conservative law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Yenor and his allies bristled at the conventions of academic life as overly solicitous toward female and nonwhite students. Samuel Ginn, Claremont donor“The president then told him, ‘Things will change,’” a Claremont fund-raiser wrote to Dr. Yenor and other officials there.

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Flowers had a touchdown catch and ran for a game-sealing score late in the fourth quarter as the AFC-best Ravens beat the Los Angeles Chargers 20-10 on Sunday night. “I thought the fourth quarter was a statement. It wasn’t good enough on our part today.”Gerald Everett’s 3-yard touchdown reception with 8:32 remaining in the fourth quarter pulled Los Angeles within 13-10. INJURIESRavens: OT Ronnie Stanley left with a knee injury during the second quarter but returned during the second half. ... LB Patrick Queen was evaluated for a head injury during the fourth quarter but returned to the game.

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“Jonathan has a proven track record of success, building the Oregon State program from the ground up by implementing a plan resulting in sustained historic success for the Beavers," Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller said. He also coached quarterbacks at Boise State, Montana and Idaho after starting his coaching career as an Oregon State graduate assistant in 2002. Oregon State and Washington State are the lone remaining teams in the Pac-12 after the other 10 teams bolted in realignment. Smith closed his coaching career at Oregon State with a 31-7 loss to rival and sixth-ranked Oregon. “This year, Oregon State has controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, ranking among the nation’s leaders in both rushing offense and rushing defense.

Persons: Smith, “ Jonathan, Alan Haller, Tucker, Harlon Barnett, Mark Dantonio, Nick Saban, “, Scott Barnes, Gary Andersen, Cory Hall, ” Haller, “ He’s, he’s, ”, Ralph D, Russo, Anne M, Peterson, Larry Lage, ___ Organizations: Oregon State, Beavers, Michigan State, Boise, Big, Spartans, Penn State . Michigan State, College Football, LSU, Oregon, Washington State, Cougars, AP College Football, AP Sports, AP Locations: Oregon, Pasadena , California, Boise State , Montana and Idaho, Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin

☆ Puka Nacua: From breaking records to LeBron James shoutouts, the ‘special’ rookie wide receiver
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Nacua’s jersey has been placed in football’s shrine to all things great and good because of the historic beginning to his rookie NFL season. An already high-ceiling group, which included Cooper Kupp – the NFL’s receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns leader in 2021 – was searching for additional explosiveness. It couldn’t be any better,” Nacau told reporters after the Rams’ Week 1 victory in Seattle against the Seahawks. Over the next five weeks of the season, Nacua compiled 326 receiving yards off 25 catches and a touchdown. Nacua has 293 more receiving yards than the next rookie in the league, Jordan Addison.

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☆ Visualizing the Latest Wave of N.C.A.A. Conference Realignment
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Josh Katz | Kevin Quealy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Missouri and Texas A&M were the first teams to join the SEC in 20 years. Financial benefits and concerns about conference stability lured Boston College to become the A.C.C.’s 12th member in 2005. Penn State, one of the last major programs to remain independent, became the Big Ten’s 11th member in 1993, setting off a wave of realignment across college football. The Missouri Valley Conference stopped sponsoring football after the 1985 season. Arkansas departed for the SEC in 1991, signaling the beginning of the end for the Southwest Conference, long associated with N.C.A.A.

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☆ NCAA Football: Why you should cherish this college football season
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Andy Scholes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —When it comes to tradition, passion and rivalries, there is nothing quite like college football. Stetson Bennett of the Georgia Bulldogs celebrates winning the College Football National Championship game in January. Legendary broadcaster Brad Nessler, who has called college football games all over the country for 30 years, said the Pac-12’s demise is a loss for the sport. The Super Conference eraNext year will mark the Super Conference Era for college football. Everybody makes the playoffsThe 2023 season will be the last for college football with just four playoff teams.

Persons: Stetson Bennett, Ezra Shaw, “, Brad Nessler, you’ve, it’s, ”, “ You’re, Pat Chun, Katelyn Mulcahy, Chun, Mike Gundy, Gundy, Michael Ezeike, Harry, Sam Wasson, you’re Organizations: CNN, ESPN, Fox, USC, UCLA, Georgia Bulldogs, College Football, Rutgers, Washington, Oregon State . Washington State, USC Trojans, San Jose State Spartans, Conference, Southeastern Conference, SEC, Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, UCLA Bruins, Texas Tech, Stanford, Apple, Washington State, Oregon, Texas, LSU, Florida State, Pittsburgh Panthers, Sun Bowl, Tulane, Boise State Locations: Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Stanford, California, Washington State, Alabama, El Paso , Texas, Boise, Cincinnati

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 17 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to allow Idaho to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on transgender women and girls from participating in female sports leagues, saying the measure likely was unconstitutional. That argument was pursued by the ACLU's client, Lindsay Hecox, a transgender athlete who sought to join the women’s track team at Boise State University. Wardlaw said the law also discriminates against all Idaho female student athletes on the basis of sex by subjecting only them and not male athletes to the "invasive" sex dispute verification process. The Biden administration's Department of Education in April proposed a rule change that would prohibit schools from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes from teams that are consistent with their gender identities while offering flexibility on exceptions for the highest levels of competition. Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ This 33-year-old brought in $2 million making PowerPoints: Here's her best career advice
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The 33-year-old studied graphic design at Boise State University, and after deciding to focus on presentation design, filled her senior portfolio with them. By 2017, with her client list growing, she founded her own presentation design company, 16X9. When she and her fellow graphic design students would get assigned to do them, "people always were like, 'ugh, PowerPoint. In graphic design, "there's a lot of flashier things like advertising and branding," she says, but it was this day-to-day task that executives across the board were looking to outsource. Be 'a strong advocate' for yourselfWhether or not you go the freelance route, make sure you're getting paid what you deserve.

Persons: Courtney Allen, Allen, Allen wasn't Organizations: Boise State University, Cisco Systems, Adobe, BBC, Census Locations: PowerPoints, U.S

☆ Fact Check-Ukrainian coat of arms predates use of trident symbol by far-right nationalists
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Ukrainian coat of arms, a trident, is an official symbol of the country and dates back over a thousand years. The blue shield with a gold trident-like symbol is seen on the Military of Defense of Ukraine site and is currently listed as the country’s official coat of arms (here). FAR-RIGHT NATIONALISTS ADOPTED THE SYMBOLFar-right Ukrainian nationalists during the pre-WW2 era “naturally used symbols that were historically associated with Ukraine,” Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center on Extremism said, including what is now the Ukrainian coat of arms. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), was founded in 1929 to “liberate Ukraine from Soviet rule and create an independent Ukrainian state,” according to Reuters reporting from 2015 (here). While far-right Ukrainian nationalists have used the trident symbol, the symbol is from a millennium earlier, is on Ukraine’s coat of arms, and is not proof Zelenskiy is connected to extremists.

☆ How this 33-year-old brought in $2 million making PowerPoints
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Courtney Allen, 33, had a hunch PowerPoint presentations could be a full-time job. 'What sort of job are you going to get just doing PowerPoints for a living?'" Allen spent the first few years out of college traveling the world and contracting as a dedicated PowerPoint presentation designer for companies like Cisco. Within a year, the work started pouring in, and in May 2017, she founded her presentation-making company, 16X9. Her personal contracts and those of her company have now brought in more than $2 million on Upwork.

☆ 33-year-old who brought in $2 million making PowerPoints shares her best tips: 'Reduce the content'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

PowerPoint presentations are a powerful tool for your work life. In fact, their use is so popular "presentation design" is one of the most in-demand freelancer skills for 2023, according to work marketplace Upwork. Courtney Allen has been designing PowerPoints professionally since 2013. She knew there was a future in designing them; now she's made more than 1,000 and brought in $2 million creating them on Upwork. It's less about "your personal design preferences and more designing to who you're talking to."

☆ N.C.A.A. Bracket Picks: Where Fans and Experts Diverge
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Josh Katz | Alice Fang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

One avenue is examining the differences between the forecasts of mathematical models and the collective choices of fans. For example, fans are much more likely to have Kansas and Alabama in the Final Four than the experts. The table below shows an aggregate view of the difference between the public’s picks and those of forecasting models. But if you pick the same teams as everyone else, your bracket will look the same, too, something you should consider. There is no guarantee that this approach will work, of course, and part of the draw of the N.C.A.A.

☆ Factbox: TikTok's Chinese ownership, security concerns spark bans across nations
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationFeb 28 (Reuters) - The White House has set a 30-day deadline for U.S. government agencies to remove Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from all federal devices and systems. AfghanistanIs in talks to ban TikTok and video game PUBG, with the Taliban claiming those were leading Afghan youths "astray." U.S. Congress passed a bill in December 2022 to ban TikTok on federal devices. U.S. Educational InstitutionsBoise State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas-Austin, and West Texas A&M University are some of the schools to ban TikTok on university devices and Wi-Fi networks. European CommissionThe European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, has issued an order to ban the use of popular Chinese app TikTok on its staff's phones due to cybersecurity concerns.

☆ Factbox: TikTok suffers another blow with European Commission's ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A 3-D printed figures are seen in front of displayed Tik Tok logo in this picture illustration taken November 7, 2019. Picture taken November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationFeb 24 (Reuters) - European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, has issued an order to ban the use of popular Chinese app TikTok on its staff's phones due to cybersecurity concerns. AfghanistanIs in talks to ban TikTok and video game PUBG, with the Taliban claiming those were leading Afghan youths "astray." loadingPakistanBanned TikTok at least four times, with the latest ban running for four months till November 2022, over what the government said was immoral and indecent content on the app.

Bills to block the app on state devices in California, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont have also been proposed. University of IdahoSchool’s policy: TikTok must be removed from university equipment "regardless of funding source," according to the school's help page. South Dakota University SystemSchool’s policy: The South Dakota Board of Regents, which governs six universities including Black Hills State University, University of South Dakota, Northern State University, Dakota State University, South Dakota State University and South Dakota Mines, told employees they could not use, download or access TikTok on university devices. University of Texas — AustinSchool’s policy: On Dec. 16, university officials announced that TikTok would be banned on state-issued devices. Texas Tech UniversitySchool’s policy: University employees are prohibited from using TikTok on school-issued devices and official university TikTok accounts must be deactivated.

☆ Salary Transparency Is Coming — so I Decided to Tell Everyone What I Make
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

But there's a glaring catch to my support for pay transparency: I haven't actually practiced it in my own life. To find out why, I decided to commemorate the dawning age of salary transparency by telling pretty much everyone in my life what I earn. Norway responded to pay transparency with yet another level of transparency, and that brought down the level of snooping.. Thanks to its nationwide experiment, Norway has been fertile ground for scholars trying to measure the consequences of extreme pay transparency. But I do believe that as more states implement pay-disclosure laws — and as Gen Z increasingly comes to dominate the workforce — salary transparency is going to become the new norm.

Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC NewsAmong her must-have accessories this semester is a heavy flashlight with a strobe function that doubles as a baton. Brandon Moore, a freshman at Washington State University in Pullman. “It definitely makes you more aware of everyone around you.”Koryn Damiano, a sophomore at Washington State University in Pullman. Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC NewsDamiano said she shares a sense of relief that the suspect has been caught. At the University of Idaho, students will have the option to take classes in self-defense, vigilance and stalking awareness.

☆ 34-year-old spent $17,000 on a tiny home in Idaho—now it brings in $49,000 a year on Airbnb: It's 'almost completely passive'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Ivan Ellis Nanney listed his personalized tiny home on Airbnb in 2019. While on the tour, Nanney met a fellow Boisean named Kristie Wolfe, who turned the original six-ton potato into an Airbnb property. The friendship inspired Nanney, who dedicates six months of the year for travel, to set up his own Airbnb property. Ivan Ellis NanneyHe listed it on Airbnb in June 2019, with a plan to live there himself for six months per year. Ivan Ellis Nanney

“You have to sample them all and analyze them all to see if they belong to victims or a suspect. The Moscow killings occurred in a three-story, six-bedroom rented house, about a half-block from the University of Idaho campus. The apartment house in Moscow, Idaho, where four students were stabbed to death held an enormous amount of biological evidence, experts say. “So, who could have left that DNA evidence? Before getting answers about DNA, investigators seek clues in the location of blood.

Mixed messaging and unclear answers from police would have given whoever fatally stabbed four students in the Idaho college town of Moscow more time to flee, law enforcement experts say. It was two days after the slayings when the department said in a news release that it was "working closely" with the Idaho State Police and other state and federal agencies. The last homicide involving the University of Idaho was in 2011, when a professor fatally shot a graduate student he had been dating before taking his own life. "They have access to the Idaho State Police, which runs a branch of the crime lab in Coeur d'Alene, not far from Moscow," he said. "We know you want answers," Idaho State Police Director Kedrick Wills said at Sunday's news conference.

☆ For widows on Facebook, updating relationship status is complicated
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But on Facebook (FB), these changes come with additional complications due to the limited number of relationship status options available and the impact that changes to this status can have on whether a marriage is represented on the deceased’s Facebook (FB) memorial pages. “The relationship status is such a source of deep pain when a widow chooses to proceed with a new relationship,” she wrote in the letter. A separate Change.org petition started in September 2021 received nearly 20,000 signatures asking Facebook to retain the “widowed from” status permanently and allow users to create a new relationship status if they want. Facebook also allows users to change their relationship status to “widowed” and specify a partner’s name if a partner’s account has been memorialized. Sandberg lists Bernthal as her spouse on Facebook; Goldberg’s account is a memorial page, where it lists six former places of employment.

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