Book World: In 2034, it s man against machine
Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post
March 8, 2021
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2034: A Novel of the Next World War
By Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis
Penguin Press. 320 pp. $27
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In the late 1700s and early 1800s, a machine known as The Turk became a sensation by winning matches against expert chess players.
Audiences marveled at this feat of technological wizardry - that is, until one vanquished player took a closer look and discovered that there was a man hidden inside. The whole thing was a hoax.
That long-ago story pops into the head of Sandeep Chowdhury, a deputy U.S. national security adviser, as he s pulled deeper into a terrifying match of technology and military gamesmanship in 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, by combat veteran Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavridis, a former supreme allied commander of NATO.
Restaurant Closure Survey and USTR Tai on Trade with China
Monday Mar 8th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. The restaurant industry has no doubt been one of the hardest hit during the pandemic. In fact, in a LendingTree survey of more than a thousand Americans, half of them say a restaurant they loved has gone out of business in the past year.
www.agrimarketing.com reports, besides mandated shutdowns that forced restaurants in some areas to stay closed for periods of time, they’re also feeling the changing consumer behaviors, including those who’ve been avoiding or cutting back on indoor dining.
April Tyner grew a passion for plants after moving to California.
There, she discovered succulents, plants that retain water and thrive in dry environments. She started collecting the plants, propagating them, planting them in different pots and learning all she could.
Her friends started asking to buy the plants. She started selling them on the sidewalk by the beach.
Several years later, after returning home to North Carolina, Tyner turned her love for plants into a livelihood. Last year she opened Life Doesnât Succ in the Harris Arcade shops in downtown Hickory.
âWe opened with two shelves and like 20 plants and it was awesome,â Tyner said. âThe community really came together to support us. Itâs been smooth sailing ever since.â
Charlotte Mullinnix, executive director of the Northeast Mississippi Board of Realtors in Tupelo, was concerned at the beginning of the pandemic that COVID might negatively impact the associationâs membership. What happened was a welcome surprise.
âIt has been amazing from the standpoint of the number of members,â she said. âWe had about 370 members the year before and ended this past year with over 400 members. Weâve never done that.
The majority of new members are younger than usual. Mullinnix thinks thatâs because new and recent college graduates donât have as much available in the job market as in the past so theyâve joined the ranks of Realtors. âMy thought is they donât see as many career opportunities out there, especially with COVID,â she said. âI will say real estate is a very lucrative profession for self-motivated, hard-working individuals. We have a lot in our board.â
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Icici registers one million users from other banks for mobile payments super app 08 March 2021
3 India s Icici Bank says one million customers of other banks have started using its iMobile Pay app just three months after it opened up the service to the general public. To start using ‘iMobile Pay’, customers of any bank can link their bank account with the app, generate a UPI ID and start paying to any UPI ID or merchants, pay bills, do online recharges and transfer money to any bank account, payment app and digital wallet. In addition, they can open a savings account and apply for a home loan or credit card with Icici.