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I want to be a better person, especially a better tech person, since, as a sometime "thought leader" in the space, I'm supposed to set an example. Of course, I never do and only take the long, hard, and necessary look in the mirror as the year draws to a close. I make promises to myself about all the ways I'll be better in the new year, stacking up a list of resolutions that are improbable and ultimately unattainable. I hope I at least get credit for considering them. Perhaps if I list them all for you, I'll feel the shame of not keeping them and do better in 2025. 1. Less time on my phone I make this promise to myself and those around me every year and stick to it for usually a week. One year, I took at the end of the year, but, like someone who loses a little weight and then puts more back on, I returned to my phone and social media with even more passion and verve than before. But the amount of time I spend on my phone is becoming a problem. The other day, TikTok accounted for 48% of my battery usage. That's bad. And my wife is running out of patience. My attempts at multi-tasking – paying attention to her and the phone simultaneously – are failing. I could try ending this year and starting 2025 with a 20% reduction in phone and social media time, but then I'll be at and you know how that goes. The reality is I need my phone to do my job, but I do not need it for all the other stuff. I'm sort of stuck in a vicious cycle of social media posting and then social media checking. The latter is about seeing the notice and approval of thousands of people I do not know. It's a cycle I long to break. Look for a similar post next year. 2. Digitzing old media In my attic are boxes of old photos, stacked like monoliths to a bygone era. Sometimes, I brush the dust off the top of a box or two and start rifling through 35-year-old photos, rediscovering memories I thought were lost. This is quite unlike the experience of conducting a search in or even 's Photo app, where I can usually . What I realize is that there's a whole section of my life that's digitally undocumented. Apparently, I am not alone – a recent survey by , a service that will, for a price, scan all your old pictures (as well as VHS and films), found that . That's a lot of decaying and brittle memories that will likely be lost to time in the next decade or so. Mitch Goldstone, who runs ScanMyPhotos, has been on my case for years, trying to get me to use and review his service. They send the boxes, and then you package up the photos, and everything gets returned along with your digitized images. I keep promising myself (and Mitch) that I'll do this, and yet I don't, even though I know I will never get the job done myself. Back in the early aughts, I started digitizing my old 8mm video tapes. It was such a massive project that I only got halfway through and have never returned to the project. Perhaps 2025 is the year I finally take Mitch's advice. Also, I'm selling tickets for people to come to visit my mountain of photo boxes in 2026. 3. Paying attention to the metrics my Apple Watch and Oura rings capture Thanks to wearing both the and smart ring almost 24/7, I have more information about the internal workings of my body than ever before. The details should qualify me, if not for doctor status, then at least residency. The problem is that I ignore all of this data. I couldn't tell you how well I slept or my standing heart rate. Am I stressed? Do I sit too often? Who knows? I track every workout – mostly core – and each long walk with my wife. I know the details of those workouts but not the trends. Sometimes, congratulates me on seven consecutive days of exercise, and I at the medal animation, but I never dig into the details. I live an unexamined physical life, and I want that to change. In 2025, I want to start digging into the details of my sleep habits and see if I'm hitting a new peak heart rate during workouts. I want to know the full scale of my walking routines. Like, how many miles am I walking a month? I don't know, but I could. Is my BMI on the right track? After the holidays, I sometimes feel a bit – um – bloated. It's time to track my weight in these apps and see how they sync up with everything else these systems know about the physical me. I worry that I'll still be too busy for this kind of introspection. Isn't it enough that I work out almost every day? It should be. Still, if I'm going to wear these things, I should be getting more out of them. I promise by next year, you'll find I'm still working out and know next to nothing about my physical health. 4. Using my iPad for more than just TV watching I used to draw on the iPad all the time, but my hectic schedule leaves little time for one of my favorite hobbies., You know what I use the iPad for almost all the time? Watching TV. I stream Sling, Peacock, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and Prime TV on it all the time. When I'm working, it's the screen I like playing in the background. I'm not watching – much – but I hate working at home without the background chatter of coworkers and appreciate how the hum of a game show dampens the silence. However, the M4-running , for example, is an incredibly powerful system. I want to do more. Can I, for instance, use it in place of my ? I have the excellent Magic keyboard, and even though I can't run as many app windows as I'd really like, this seems possible. Also, why not take more notes on the iPad? It can recognize my scribbles and convert them to text. I also could do some serious photo editing on the platform. At the very least, I'd love to draw on the iPad daily. How do I carve out time to do that in 2025? One answer might be carrying the with me. It has most of the same capabilities (no right-sized, physical magic keyboard, though). If it and the Apple Pencil Pro are always in my bag, maybe I'll pull them out of the backpack and leave my phone (and that tantalizing TikTok stream) in my pocket. I can do this one, right? Maybe. 5. Standardizing on on smart home platform Installing Google's latest Nest Learning Thermostat of my smart home's thoroughly confused state. Supporting every platform imaginable in one home is a recipe for disaster or at least dissatisfaction. Forget making automations on scenes when you have a patchwork of intelligent systems. Considering what I do for a living, it's embarrassing. Even my family is calling me out on it, especially after we stayed at a friend's home, which was entirely standardized on Amazon Alexa, where everything just worked. My wife said little about the situation but offered heavy side-eye. It's time for me to fix my own smart home and start culling the disparate plugs, lights, and cameras, choose one platform, and begin the upgrade. This worries me a bit, though, because it means I'll probably choose Google Home (I have zero interest in switching out my two Nest Thermostats) and must remove some of our Alexa smart plugs. That seems like a small thing, but our "First Plug" is one of the few smart home devices my wife recognizes by name. "Alexa, " she intones, "turn on First Plug," and our Christmas tree lights spring to life. Imagine her frustration if the one plug she knows by name disappears. But this is the kind of pain I must endure if I finally want smart home homogeny. And please do not tell me that fixes all this. It has yet to help, and I don't think it will solve many problems in 2025. The plan is in place...I'm ready to move on with this in 2025, except I have a smart deadbolt that doesn't work with Google Home, and if I swap that out, someone here may kill me. Other things I think about addressing in 2025 but won't: Look, try not to judge me. At least I'm thinking about all this. What about you? Feel free to email me with your successful tech resolution efforts. I will be chastened and maybe share some in a future post.5 tech New Year's Resolutions I'll probably never keep

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BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit, in her memoirs published Tuesday. Merkel, 70, appears to have no significant doubts about the major decisions of her 16 years as German leader, whose major challenges included the global financial crisis, Europe’s debt crisis, the 2015-16 influx of refugees and the COVID-19 pandemic. True to form, her book — titled “Freedom” — offers a matter-of-fact account of her early life in communist East Germany and her later career in politics, laced with moments of dry wit. Merkel served alongside four U.S. presidents , four French presidents and five British prime ministers. But it is perhaps her dealings with Russian President Putin that have drawn the most scrutiny since she left office in late 2021. Putin's power games Merkel recalls being kept waiting by Putin at the Group of Eight summit she hosted in 2007 — “if there's one thing I can't stand, it's unpunctuality.” And she recounts a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi that year in which Putin's labrador appeared during a photo opportunity, although Putin knew she was afraid of dogs. Putin appeared to enjoy the situation, she writes, and she didn't bring it up — keeping as she often did to the motto “never explain, never complain.” The previous year, she recounts Putin pointing to wooden houses in Siberia and telling her poor people lived there who “could be easily seduced,” and that similar groups had been encouraged by money from the U.S. government to take part in Ukraine's “Orange Revolution” of 2004 against attempted election fraud. Putin, she says, added: “I will never allow something like that in Russia.” Merkel says she was irritated by Putin's “self-righteousness” in a 2007 speech in Munich in which he turned away from earlier attempts to develop closer ties with the U.S. She said that appearance showed Putin as she knew him, “as someone who was always on guard against being treated badly and ready to give out at any time, including power games with a dog and making other people wait for him.” “One could find this all childish and reprehensible, one could shake one's head over it — but that didn't make Russia disappear from the map,” she writes. As she has before, Merkel defends a much-criticized 2015 peace deal for eastern Ukraine that she helped broker and her government's decisions to buy large quantities of natural gas from Russia. And she argues it was right to keep up diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow until she left power, Obama and Trump Merkel concluded after first meeting then-Sen. Obama in 2008 that they could work well together. More than eight years later, during his last visit as president in Nov. 2016, she was one of the people with whom she discussed whether to seek a fourth term. Obama, she says, asked questions but held back with an opinion, and that in itself was helpful. He “said that Europe could still use me very well, but I should ultimately follow my feelings,” she writes. There was no such warmth with Trump, who had criticized Merkel and Germany in his 2016 campaign. Merkel says she had to seek an “adequate relationship ... without reacting to all the provocations.” In March 2017, there was an awkward moment when Merkel first visited the Trump White House. Photographers shouted “handshake!” and Merkel quietly asked Trump: “Do you want to have a handshake?” There was no response from Trump, who looked ahead with his hands clasped. Merkel faults her own reaction. “He wanted to create a topic of discussion with his behavior, while I had acted as if I were dealing with an interlocutor behaving normally,” she writes. She adds that Putin apparently “fascinated” Trump and, in the following years, she had the impression that “politicians with autocratic and dictatorial traits” beguiled him. Could Brexit have been avoided? Merkel says she tried to help then-Prime Minister David Cameron in the European Union as he faced pressure from British Euroskeptics, but there were limits to what she could do. And, pointing to Cameron's efforts over the years to assuage opponents of the EU, she says the road to Brexit is a textbook example of what can arise from a miscalculation. After Britons voted to leave the EU in 2016, an outcome she calls a “humiliation” for its other members, she says the question of whether she should have made more concessions to the U.K. “tortured me.” “I came to the conclusion that, in view of the political developments inside the country at the time, there would have been no acceptable possibility for me to prevent Britain's way out of the European Union from outside,” Merkel says. Giving up power Merkel was the first German chancellor to leave power at a time of her choosing. She announced in 2018 that she wouldn't seek a fifth term, and says she “let go at the right point.” She points to three 2019 incidents in which her body shook during public engagements as proof. Merkel says she had herself checked thoroughly and there were no neurological or other findings. An osteopath told her that her body was letting off the tension it had accumulated over years, she adds. “Freedom” runs to more than 700 pages in its original German edition, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. The English edition is being released simultaneously by St. Martin's Press. Geir Moulson, The Associated PressMyriad Genetics Expands Board of Directors with Election of Mark S. Davis as New Board MemberIn recent days, the football world has been buzzing with speculations and rumors surrounding the future of Tottenham Hotspur's star forward, Son Heung-min. Reports surfaced claiming that Son, a beloved figure at the North London club, was on the verge of a shock move to the Turkish Super Lig. However, these rumors were swiftly shut down by his agent associated with Barcelona.None

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TMC Class Action Notice: Robbins LLP Reminds Investors of the Lead Plaintiff Deadline in the Class Action Against TMC the metals company Inc.FAIRFAX, Va. , Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GovCIO Media & Research , a leading federal technology media company, opened the Flywheel Award nominations for the 2025 Defense IT Summit. The Flywheel Awards will be presented on February 27, 2025 , in Arlington, Virginia , at the Defense IT Summit. The awards will recognize the key accomplishments of federal and defense leaders in transforming and innovating national security technology through the programs they oversee. The entry deadline is December 20 and finalists will be announced on January 6 . "The Flywheel Awards embody what it means to be a transformer in defense IT, and it is our goal to continuously recognize these leaders," said Amy Kluber , Editor-in-Chief. "During the Defense IT Summit, the Awards will recognize the accomplishments made by defense leaders and the programs that they work on that transform and innovate national security technology." The Defense IT Summit Flywheel Award categories include: Nominees must be federal IT employees and submission achievements must be from January 2024 to present. Nominations for the Defense IT Summit Flywheel Awards are open until December 20 . Submit nominations here. Visit the Defense IT Summit event page to view the full event agenda, speaker lineup and register for this must-attend event. Tickets are going fast, register today. About GovCIO Media & Research GovCIO Media & Research, an independent media company, provides insights and analysis on federal IT innovation and is the leading industry solutions resource. Our team utilizes a multi-platform approach to today's most pressing issues through video, podcasts, events, articles and special reports that keep federal IT decision-makers informed on technology's impact on government. Media Contact Emyly Hall Sr. Communications & Marketing Specialist emyly.hall@govcio.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nominations-open-for-2025-defense-it-summit-flywheel-awards-302315886.html SOURCE GovCIO Media & ResearchAs the stakes continue to rise, AC Monza must dig deep, find their fighting spirit, and rise to the occasion. The journey ahead will be tough, but with determination, dedication, and a collective effort from everyone involved, AC Monza can overcome their struggles and write a new chapter in their storied history. Only time will tell if they have what it takes to rise from the depths and reclaim their rightful place amongst the elite of Italian football.FAIRFAX, Va. , Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GovCIO Media & Research , a leading federal technology media company, opened the Flywheel Award nominations for the 2025 Defense IT Summit. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Top trending stories from the past week. News, Sports, and more throughout the week. The week's obituaries, delivered to your inbox.

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CCTV's "News Broadcast" praises Guangwei Island for providing strong momentum for new industrializationHaiti’s armed-gang crisis just got worse — and even more complicated. A new report by the United Nations’ leading child welfare agency, UNICEF, says the number of children being recruited by the country’s violent gangs has soared by 70% in the last year. The unprecedented spike, registered between the second quarter of 2023 and this year, is yet another example of how children in Haiti, already kept out of school due to violence and rape by gangs, are increasingly being robbed of their childhood. “Children in Haiti are trapped in a vicious cycle — recruited into the very armed groups that are fueling their desperation, and the numbers are growing,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “This unacceptable trend must be reversed by ensuring children’s safety and welfare are prioritized by all parties.” As many as half of all members of armed gangs in Haiti are children, the U.N. said. This revelations come as Haiti sees an escalation in violence by armed groups and rising vigilantism by residents desperate to protect their neighborhoods from being overtaken. A separate report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime says that as the country finds itself trapped between escalating violence and political paralysis, criminal groups are taking advantage of the institutional collapse and political vacuum to expand their territories. “In a political-institutional vacuum, the gangs have weaponized violence to exert pressure on the system,” the report said. Last week, dozens of suspected gang leaders were killed by police and residents during an attempt to invade the upscale community of Pétion-Ville in the capital. While police put the official death toll at 28, Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network said the actual number killed after police intercepted three vehicles on Tuesday was 90. Overall, at least 108 people were killed over a three-day span of violence involving gangs and communities fighting back. In one of the photos of the Tuesday incident, the charred body of a young child could be seen in the back of a vehicle. A 43-year-old resident in the Bourdon community of the capital, who spoke to the Miami Herald on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety, said that among three armed gang members he saw running through the community fleeing police was a boy around 12 years old toting an automatic rifle and wearing flip flops. “A 12-year-old child with a huge Galil in his hands, that is sad,” said the man, who like most people in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood was awakened by the sounds of gunfire and screams as police attempted to capture the invaders. “These children are the most dangerous.” A father of three between the ages of 4 and 18, the man said he is still shaken by the site of the heavily armed child, who was lost inside the community and trying to find his way out. “Children should not be living these kinds of things,” he said, blaming the recruitment of children by armed gangs on the government, which has failed to protect children and for years ignored an epidemic of street kids who have presumably been recruited into the armed groups. “The state has not taken responsibility.” UNICEF says that the rise in child recruitment by armed groups has been fueled by escalating violence, pervasive poverty, lack of education and near collapse of critical infrastructure and social services in Haiti. “Children are often coerced into joining to support their families, or under threats to their safety,” the agency said in a statement. “Many are recruited after being separated from their caretakers, stripped of protection and survival options.” The recruitment of kids, as well as the rape of girls in Haiti by armed gangs, is a grave violation of children’s rights, said UNICEF, calling on Haitian authorities to prioritize the protection of children. In Port-au-Prince, 1.2 million children live under the threat of armed violence. An estimated 25% of the more than 703,000 internally displaced people — of whom 365,000 are children — are currently in the city living under dire conditions and exposed to multiple threats. “Children in many parts of Haiti are subjected to atrocities no child should ever have to experience, leaving them with psychological and emotional scars that might haunt them for a lifetime,” Russell said. “Chaos and horror have become part of daily life.” ©2024 Miami Herald. Visit at miamiherald.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.