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Top of the tile: wordsmiths of all ages vie for Australias Scrabble honours Emma Kemp © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images The air in the grand ballroom of Bankstown Sports Club is still. The lights are bright and the decor opulent, but the atmosphere is one of hushed concentration. Its inhabitants, safely ensconced in this sanctuary away from the sing-song of poker machines outside, do not speak except to count scores on Scrabble boards ato...

The science of weather forecasting falls to public scrutiny every single day. When the forecast is correct, we rarely comment, but we are often quick to complain when the forecast is wrong. Are we ever likely to achieve a perfect forecast that is accurate to the hour? There are many steps involved in preparing a weather forecast. It begins its life as a global “snapshot” of the atmosphere at a given time, mapped onto a three-dimensional grid of points that span the entire globe and stre...

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The highest court in New York heard arguments on Wednesday for a case that could redefine what “timber” means in state law, and change what size trees can be cut on state Forest Preserve land. Lawyers for the Protect the Adirondacks environmental group and state Department of Environmental Conservation were arguing an eight-year lawsuit brought by the former against the latter, which led to a DEC tree-cutting moratorium, halting construction on snowmobile trails and other trails aroun...

The highest court in New York heard arguments on Wednesday for a case that could redefine what “timber” means in state law, and change what size trees can be cut on state Forest Preserve land. Lawyers for the Protect the Adirondacks environmental group and state Department of Environmental Conservation were arguing an eight-year lawsuit brought by the former against the latter, which led to a DEC tree-cutting moratorium, halting construction on snowmobile trails and other trails aroun...

The email security vendor on Tuesday became one of the first SolarWinds hack victims to publicly announce they’re dumping the industry-leading Orion network monitoring platform for a competing product. Industry experts had considered it unlikely that the hack would lead to many customers getting rid of SolarWinds due to the unique visibility and monitoring features Orion offers. SolarWinds told CRN the vast majority of its customers continue to operate the Orion Platform, and the company said...

VisCardia Announces Issuance of American Medical Association CPT® Category III Codes for Synchronized Diaphragmatic Stimulation (SDS®) News provided by Share this article Share this article PORTLAND, Ore., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- VisCardia Inc., a privately held medical device developer, announced today that the American Medical Association (AMA) has issued (ten) 10 new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ®) Category III codes in support of the implant procedure and management of Syn...

Woodward Lake is in a mountain valley west of where the Sacandaga River meets Great Sacandaga Lake. Photo: Adirondack Park Agency Mar 15, 2021 — The Adirondack Park Agency board has approved a housing subdivision project around a lake in Fulton County in the southern Adirondacks. Green Groups in the park say the approval sets a dangerous precedent for future development in the park. The plan is to build around Woodward Lake. The lake is small, about 100 acres, and sits in a mountain valley ju...

Mimecast has decommissioned its SolarWinds Orion software and replaced it with a Cisco NetFlow monitoring system after hackers compromised a Mimecast certificate used for Microsoft authentication.

acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com In a long, in-depth hearing on a controversial proposed subdivision development around Woodward Lake in Fulton County, the state Adirondack Park Agency board learned why APA employees believe they should approve the project. The full board will vote on whether to approve this project or not in today’s meeting. The subdivision would split up 1,169 acres of land to create 34 lots, 32 of which would become building sites for single-family dwellings. Thi...