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Greenpeace trial begins over North Dakota pipeline protests. Why the case will test the 1st Amendment

Fast Company Tech

An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota , and defamed the company to its lenders. Nine jurors and two alternates will hear the case in Mandan, North Dakota.

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Apple and Google’s COVID-19 tracking system will make its full US debut in new Virginia app

The Verge

If enough of the population downloaded this app and enabled it on their phone, we would have an automated way of figuring out who you have been around,” Danny Avula, director of the Richmond and Henrico health districts in Virginia, told VPM. Alabama, South Carolina, and North Dakota each had projects in development in May.

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When is Equal Pay Day for social sector leaders in your state?

Candid

For the last two years, I’ve calculated Equal Pay Day for CEOs and executive directors in the social sector, based on Candid’s most recent Nonprofit Compensation Report. North Dakota. This translates to women making about 83 cents for every dollar made by men (based on median income). 101,348.00. New Hampshire. 118,819.00.

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FDA clears Withings’ EKG and blood oxygen features

The Verge

They’re more useful as an initial screener, Seema Khosla, medical director of the North Dakota Center for Sleep, told The Verge. But watches only track a few of the measurements doctors typically use to diagnose the condition, and for now, experts say they aren’t reliable enough to stand alone.

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How can nonprofits bridge the gap between race and leadership?

ASU Lodestar Center

According to the Race to Lead Revisited report , only 20% of organizations have been led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) CEOs or executive directors over the last 15 years. She received her bachelor's degree in Social Science from the University of North Dakota.

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SHIFT relies on token-level features to de-bias Bias in Bios probes

The AI Alignment Forum

She has been co-director of Miracle Burn Camp since 2001 & assisted in creating the Young Adult Burn Survivor retreat in 2007. Dr. Bigelow was then an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of North Dakota for three years prior to coming to Iowa State University in August 2008.

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The Withings ScanWatch knows when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake, but not why

The Verge

“When I first started looking into this space, it was extremely early days, and I was not terribly impressed with the information I would see from these devices,” Susheel Patil, clinical director of the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary Sleep Medicine Program, told me.

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