Stock market today: Wall Street slips to a rare back-to-back loss[Cheonji Ilbo Cheongju = Reporter Kim-Heung Soon] North Chungcheong Province is grappling with a sharp increase in digital sex crimes involving deepfake technology, posing a serious social issue. Alarmingly, both perpetrators and victims increasingly include youth, prompting urgent calls for comprehensive measures including preventive education and legal reforms. There is also a pressing need to protect vulnerable groups such as youth with disabilities and ensure responsible media coverage. Recently, incidents involving the production and dissemination of pornographic content using deepfake technology have shocked local communities in North Chungcheong. Cases reported at a middle school in Cheongju and a high school in Chungju highlighted the involvement of youth as both perpetrators and victims. Easy access to such technologies, coupled with a lack of digital ethics and insufficient legal deterrence, is exacerbating the problem. Deepfake technology uses AI to create fake videos by merging an individual’s face or voice with other content. Deepfake pornography distributed via social media and messaging apps inflicts severe psychological trauma on victims. Moreover, the persistence of such material on the internet makes it highly susceptible to secondary and tertiary harm. Park Ji-heon, a member of the North Chungcheong Provincial Council (People Power Party, Cheongju District 12), has urged local governments and educational authorities to implement effective countermeasures, emphasizing the importance of strong public awareness campaigns to prevent digital sex crimes. He stressed that prevention is key and called for active interventions. According to Oh Kyung-sook, Director of the Gender Equality and Family Policy Office in North Chungcheong Province, reports and investigations of digital sex crimes in the region have surged from 276 cases four years ago to 544 cases this year—almost doubling in frequency. Cho Seon-jin, head of the Integrity and Citizenship Department at the North Chungcheong Office of Education, reported that from January to the present, there have been 19 student-related deepfake incidents affecting 30 victims and three teacher-related cases involving four victims. In response, the North Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency is conducting intensive crackdowns and investigations on fake video-related crimes. Educational initiatives targeting youth aim to curb recurrence. Efforts include reviewing case handling protocols, connecting victims to video removal services, and bolstering case management to protect victims from secondary harm. The North Chungcheong Office of Education is also implementing measures such as ▲Special education weeks on school violence and cybercrime prevention ▲Training for teachers and administrators responsible for addressing school violence ▲Distribution of family newsletters focused on digital sex crime prevention ▲Commitment campaigns for proactive participation by educational stakeholders Moreover, the office collaborates with local police, the provincial government, and the Korea Communications Standards Commission to enhance investigations and preventive measures while maintaining close monitoring of at-risk schools. A recent forum on deepfake crime prevention held at the North Chungcheong Research Institute brought together experts, including Kim Yong-won, head of the Women and Youth Division at the North Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency, and Han Young-sook, director of Cheongju YWCA’s Women’s Counseling Center. The forum discussed strategies to strengthen inter-agency collaboration in combating deepfake crimes. Noted criminologist Professor Lee Soo-jung from Kyonggi University emphasized the importance of psychological support for sexual violence victims. Meanwhile, Han Young-sook underlined the role of the community in safeguarding children and youth from harmful environments. She called for digital-age-appropriate sex education and preventive programs, highlighting the need for collaboration among education authorities, youth sexual culture centers, and sexual violence counseling services. Han stated, “Protecting children and youth from harmful environments is a collective responsibility of adults and the community.” MBC Chungbuk journalist Lee Ji-hyun added that while raising awareness of deepfake crimes is important, media coverage must avoid becoming an unintended source of secondary harm. “The media must clearly communicate the criminal nature of deepfake offenses in its reporting,” she said. Experts are also calling for prevention strategies tailored to youth with disabilities, as well as those with borderline intelligence or undiagnosed disabilities. In an interview, Professor Lee Soo-jung acknowledged the challenge but stressed the need to expand special schools and classes to address the issue incrementally. Han Young-sook noted that her center provides digital crime prevention education for individuals with intellectual disabilities in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, but lamented the lack of focused measures for undiagnosed or borderline learners, urging frontline educators to take a closer look. Experts agree that addressing deepfake crimes requires raising public awareness. Kim Yong-won from the Women and Youth Division of the North Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency pointed out the lack of awareness among youth, with many offenders claiming, “I didn’t know this was a crime.” He stressed the importance of measures that instill a strong sense of accountability in youth. Deepfake crimes are not merely a misuse of technology but a reflection of inadequate awareness and societal vigilance, particularly among youth. Experts advocate for legal reforms and institutional improvements to keep pace with technological advancements, alongside stronger cooperation between schools and communities to prevent youth crimes and enhance victim protection systems.US stocks rally despite Trump tariff threat but European stocks fall
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KEYSER, W.Va. - Mineral County 4-H member Carlee Staggs is the recipient of the 2024 State 4-H Youth in Action Healthy Living Award. Carlee was recognized in November during State 4-H Teen Leader Weekend at Jackson’s Mill. Each year the West Virginia University Extension 4-H Program recognizes confident young leaders in the four core pillar areas. The Youth in Action categories are Agriculture, Civic Engagement, Healthy Living, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics). Each pillar winner shared how 4-H changed their lives and how they have used the skills they gained in 4-H to change the lives of others. “Carlee is our first local award winner, and we are excited for her to receive this much deserved recognition,” says Margaret Miltenberger, WVU Extension 4-H agent. “She has been involved with teaching and service through 4-H Teen Leaders since the eighth grade. Carlee tends to be behind the scenes, quietly doing the work to make a difference.” As an active 4-H member for nine years, she has been involved with her 4-H club, 4-H camp, 4-H Teen Leaders, and the Health Rocks program. A passionate advocate for health and wellness, Carlee has taken her role as a 4-H Health Ambassador seriously, working alongside her peers to educate primary and middle school students on the risks associated with vaping. Staggs’ teamwork through the WVU 4-H Health Rocks program is already helping to reduce vaping in schools and encouraging youths to consider the impact of their choices. Plans are being made for more programs during the winter of 2025. “4-H has helped me to develop a love for teaching those around me ways to better themselves and others,” says Carlee. “Public speaking for me was very hard. I have been given the opportunity many times through 4-H to teach lessons and speak at banquets in front of crowds; this has allowed growth in the public speaking area for me.” Staggs says, “Teaching with 4-H has taught me mainly that stepping out of your comfort zone allows for the development of skills you do not have. Overall, 4-H has taught me that being timid is okay, you just have to try new things and find what fits you best!” “Carlee is very dedicated to athletics and academics. It is wonderful to also see her commitment to making a difference, which is evident by her willingness to volunteer. She brings energy to each educational lesson and project,” says Miltenberger. Carlee will receive a $500 mini-grant to develop a significant project within Mineral County, a full scholarship to attend the West Virginia 4-H Older Members Conference at Jackson's Mill in Summer 2025, as well as support to apply for the National 4-H Youth in Action Awards in Spring 2025. “During our county 4-H Overnight Camp this fall I met with other 4-Hers,” says Staggs. “Together we recognized the need for personal hygiene items. We are working to coordinate an effort to collect items and make them available through the schools this winter.” “Earlier this year Carlee participated in the Healthy Living component of the National 4-H Ignite Summitt in Washington, D.C., which has motivated her to go to the next level with leadership and service,” says Miltenberger. “She is currently representing Mineral County by serving on the State 4-H Teen Leader Advisory Council to ensure youth voice with the WVU’s 4-H program.” To learn more about the local 4-H Teen Leader program, contact the WVU Mineral County Extension Office at 304-788-3621 or email Margaret Miltenberger at margaret.miltenberger@mail.wvu.edu . WVU Extension 4-H programs are open to all youths.NonePALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 16, 2024-- In a letter to staff at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Harvey Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., today announced his intention to step down as president of the foundation in late 2025 or early 2026, depending on when a successor is selected and prepared to take up the office. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241216559162/en/ Harvey Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Photo: Business Wire) He “loves the work we do together,” he wrote, but after serving ten years as president, he explained “this is the right moment to recruit a new president who can lead the foundation for the next decade or longer.” “Harvey has been an outstanding president,” observed Kenneth Moore, chair of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Board of Trustees. “His unwavering commitment to excellence, coupled with a visionary mindset, enables him to synthesize complex ideas into a seamless tapestry of insight, transforming challenges into opportunities and inspiring those around him to elevate their own contributions. He will leave the foundation in a strong position for ever greater achievement in the years ahead.” “I have been fortunate to work with many talented, dedicated, and principled people at the Moore Foundation and elsewhere,” Fineberg noted. “I will be ever grateful to Gordon Moore for inviting me to take up this position, to the entire Moore family for their continuing spirit of generosity, and to all trustees, past and present, who so ably served and serve the foundation.” Next year, 2025, marks the 25 th anniversary of grantmaking by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The board plans to initiate the search for Fineberg’s successor in the coming year. Grantmaking impact Under Fineberg’s leadership, the Moore Foundation’s Environmental Conservation Program extended its reach to market-based incentives alongside expanding place-based conservation programs in such critical regions as the Andes-Amazon, the Great Bear Sea in British Columbia, and the Arctic Ocean. The foundation supported many advances in sustainable fisheries, healthy ocean ecosystems, and marine conservation. The foundation enlarged its support for the conservation funding model called Project Finance for Permanence that brings together governments, communities, non-government organizations, and donors to provide comprehensive and enduring solutions, as in the Herencia Colombia (Heritage Colombia) initiative announced in 2022. The foundation accelerated application of natural capital approaches into development decisions and finance; served as a catalyst for global cooperation on nature-based solutions, and launched a major, new initiative on wildfire resilience. During Fineberg’s tenure, the Science Program inaugurated an experimental physics investigator program to provide core support for leading investigators in the field and established the Moore Inventor Fellows to enable brilliant, prospective inventors to pursue their dreams. The foundation extended explorations in quantum physics and systems biology, exploring such interdisciplinary topics as aquatic symbiosis and the evolutionary origins of motility in micro-organisms; invested in astronomical exploration, observatories, instrumentation, and astrophysics; supported development of novel, biological imaging devices and sophisticated instruments for precise, physical measurement; helped establish big-data, discovery capacity at leading universities; fostered and reinforced open science; adopted a new initiative in green chemistry; strengthened and expanded programs to engage youth in science and to support citizen science; and promoted science in policy through state-based fellowship programs to place scientists in state legislatures and executive offices. In preserving the special character of the Bay Area over the past decade, the Moore Foundation has made critical investments to protect undeveloped lands, natural ecosystems, and vital wildlife corridors. And the foundation is a generous supporter of Bay Area science and technology museums that provide exceptional educational opportunities for the public and spark excitement about science and technology in children of all ages. In unique cross-cutting investments, the foundation funded renovation and expansion of key environmental research stations in the South Pacific and in South America; and supported exceptional, science-based conservation opportunities in the Galápagos Islands and eastern Pacific Ocean. As a physician and public health leader, Fineberg helped ensure the legacy of the foundation’s historic contributions to nursing and the quality of health care, including through leadership programs based at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis and a highly consequential initiative on diagnostic excellence. “I am proud of the many achievements by our grantees and grateful for the partnerships with sister foundations and so many others who make that success possible,” Fineberg wrote in his letter. “I want especially to thank my foundation colleagues in the infrastructure, investment management, and program teams, and those in the president’s office, who make work at the Moore Foundation a daily joy and inspiration.” Leadership in science, health care and philanthropy During the COVID pandemic, Fineberg’s fortuitous background in public health lent clarity to the foundation’s policies, and he simultaneously served as chair of the National Academies standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and 21 st century health threats. In that role, Fineberg led in the production of more than 10 rapid expert consultations to assist government decision-making in the early months of the pandemic. During his tenure at the foundation, Fineberg chaired National Academies consensus committees on reproducibility and replicability in science and on a definition of long COVID. Fineberg chaired the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2013-2018) and served as a member (2009-2022). He serves as trustee of the CMB Foundation (China Medical Board), an offshoot of the Rockefeller Foundation, and will take up the role of board chair in 2025. He serves on the board of the Israel Institute for Advanced Study and on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine. Fineberg also serves on numerous advisory boards for domestic and international organizations, including the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Veolia Environment Foresight Committee, the Aspen Health Strategy Group, the U.S. Comptroller General’s advisory board, the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health at Harvard, the Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the scientific advisory board of the Singapore National Research Foundation, the Mavri Program to accelerate biomedical innovation and train physician-scientists in Israel, the Stanford Digital Health Center, and the Center on Diagnostic Excellence at UCSF (University of California San Francisco). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, in addition to the National Academy of Medicine, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. As an extension of his leadership at the Moore Foundation, Fineberg chairs the board of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, now including more than three dozen philanthropies that support science and are dedicated to helping philanthropists new to science to make fully informed choices. The Alliance has also been instrumental in promoting the role of philanthropy in the U.S. research enterprise, symbolized by this year’s enlargement of the National Academies’ research roundtable to include philanthropy alongside government, universities, and industry. Before joining the Moore Foundation, Fineberg served as president of the Institute of Medicine, where he engineered its conversion to the National Academy of Medicine. He helped found and served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Fineberg previously served as provost of Harvard University and dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He served on the board of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and had taken up the role as chair before resigning to become president of the Moore Foundation. About the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore established the foundation to create positive outcomes for future generations. In pursuit of that vision, we advance scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area. View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241216559162/en/ CONTACT: Caitlin Cobb Caitlin.Cobb@moore.org 925-890-9766 KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: PHILANTHROPY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION RESEARCH SCIENCE SOURCE: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/16/2024 05:00 PM/DISC: 12/16/2024 04:58 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241216559162/en
Danaher Announces Quarterly DividendSquid Game Season 2 Trailer Shows New Games With New Stakes - ComingSoon.netDonald Trump wasted no time picking a replacement nominee for Attorney General after Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration. "I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States," Trump announced in a post on Truth Social Thursday evening. Advertisement "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans—Not anymore," Trump added. "Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again." And the liberal media wasted no time flipping out after Bondi was announced as the new nominee. Which is exactly how we know this was a great pick from Trump. Case in point: MSNBC political contributor Jason Johnson, a political science professor at Morgan State University, went on an unhinged rant about why Pam Bondi will be "worse" than Matt Gaetz would have been. "Pam Bondi is what we should all fear cuz she's competent. We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job," Johnson said. "So, if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone — or anyone who cared about liberty and justice was thinking 'Well maybe Matt Gaetz will screw this up and that will give us some time,' well, no." Recommended: Sen. Bob... Matt Margolis
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NoneGaetz withdraws as Trump's pick for attorney general, averting confirmation battle in the SenateNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 26, 2024-- Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR, BETRW) (“Better”), a leading digital homeownership company, today announced that senior management will host meetings at the following investor conferences: UBS Global Technology and AI Conference Date: December 3 - 5, 2024 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Wolfe Research Small and Mid-Cap Conference Date: December 5, 2024 Location: Virtual Benchmark Discovery One-On-One Investor Conference Date: December 11, 2024 Location: New York, NY About Better Since 2017, Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) has leveraged its industry-leading technology platform, TinmanTM, to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. TinmanTM allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates and close their loan in as little as three weeks. Better’s mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. Better launched its “One Day Mortgage” program in January 2023, which allows eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn’s Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune’s Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom. View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241126685898/en/ For investor relations inquiries, please emailir@better.com KEYWORD: ARIZONA NEW YORK UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY FINANCE BANKING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY FINTECH RESIDENTIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE SOURCE: Better Home & Finance Holding Company Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 11/26/2024 05:30 PM/DISC: 11/26/2024 05:28 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241126685898/en