>“I saved you,’ cried the woman. And you’ve bitten me, but why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die.’ ‘Oh shut up, silly woman,’ said the reptile with a grin. ‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.’”
New York Knicks and Rangers CEO Andy Lustgarten resigns
CEO Resignation
MSG Sports President and CEO Andrew Lustgarten will step down at the end of the year, the team announced Friday.
Lustgarten, 45, a childhood friend of MSG Executive Chair James Dolan, has run the business side for the Knicks and Rangers since MSG split ownership of the sports teams from arenas and the cable television network in April 2020.
“With the company on firm footing and the NBA and NHL seasons to start soon, this is the right time for me to pursue other opportunities,” Lustgarten said in a written statement.
Dolan will continue to oversee team operations for the Knicks and Rangers, MSG said. David Hopkinson will be promoted to become president and COO of MSG Sports.
“Andy’s leadership at both our sports and entertainment companies has helped solidify MSG’s position as an industry leader,” Dolan said in a written statement.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/new-york-knicks-and-rangers-ceo-andy-lustgarten-resigns/
Osprey landing highlights links between Purdue, the military and Rolls-Royce
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. − As part of a larger recruiting event for companies with a prominent presence in the Greater Lafayette area – such as Saab, Rolls-Royce and branches of the military – Discovery Park District became the landing spot for the Marine MV-22 Osprey flight vehicle.
Purdue Research Foundation invited the Marine Corps Osprey – an aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but flies like a plane – to land just outside of the Convergence Center in Discovery Park District. Tours of the aircraft and opportunities to speak with the Marines and other military branch recruiters were provided afterwards.
"We're here demonstrating the capabilities of the Marine Corps," Cpt. Christopher Morales, a Marine pilot of the MV-22 Osprey, told the Journal & Courier, "in order to help Purdue aviation in their recruitment efforts as well as … the rest of the branches of military trying to recruit also."
Morales explained the unique properties of the Osprey as well as what the design of the aircraft.
"The MV-22 Osprey is the Marine Corps' variant," Morales said. "Our mission is assault support. So our job is to take Marines in and out of combat zones, and because this vehicle is both a helicopter and an airplane, we have very unique capabilities that other aircrafts don't necessarily have.
"We're about twice as fast as a conventional helicopter and we can go about three times as far as they can. Which allows the carrier strike force to be further off the coast of any type of danger and allow us to insert Marines into any area that they need to go to."
The landing of the Osprey caused extreme winds that blew trees, bushes and, especially, mulch. Ear protection was recommended for onlookers. However, as Morales put it, these were "baby winds" as compared to what the Marines have been through before.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/osprey-landing-highlights-links-between-140345059.html
Hundreds of Google and Amazon workers gathered outside company offices protesting a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract for Israel's military
As Googlers left their New York offices on Thursday, they were met by more than 100 people — including some of their coworkers — holding banners, waving signs, and passing out flyers in protest of Google and Amazon's involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military.
New York was just one node in a mass protest against Project Nimbus on Thursday. The Googlers and organizers — who joined in pro-Palestine chants such as "Free, free Palestine! No more tech for Israel's crimes!" — were joined by hundreds of others protesting outside Google offices around the country, including San Francisco, Seattle, and Durham.
Protests came after former Google project manager Ariel Koren— a vocal critic of Project Nimbus who wrote a public memo urging Google to drop the contract — resigned after being told by Google that she had to agree to move to São Paulo, Brazil within 17 business days, or resign.
The protests were organized primarily by the Alphabet Workers Union and #NoTechforApartheid, a coalition of activist groups that protest tech companies' work with the Israeli government and military. Dozens of people from several grassroots groups — including Muslim organization Mpower Change, anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace, and anti-Amazon group the Athena Coalition — organized and attended the protest.
Thursday's protests are the most significant movement of Google workers against a contract since 2018 when thousands of workers protested the company's involvement in Project Maven, a Pentagon contract for building AI software to be used in drone warfare. Following the protests, Google opted to not renew the contract. Amazon and Microsoft took their place.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-gathered-demanding-google-and-amazon-drop-12-billion-contract-for-israels-military-2022-9?r=US&IR=T
No, there is an end to all of this.
We're at the last cycle.
Judgment for all of mankind, from now until times past is imminent.
You get one shot at it, and there are no second chances.
Repent, Dig, Meme, and Pray.
God is watching.
Almost done.