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BERN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini put his side's recent impressive form down to a mix of confidence, self-belief and the continued development of his squad, following their dominant Champions League win over Young Boys on Tuesday. Atalanta, led by a superb performance from two-goal Charles De Ketelaere, schooled Swiss side Young Boys as they claimed a 6-1 win to secure the Bergamo club's largest margin of victory in a major European match. Gasperini's side are fourth in the Champions League table and also on a seven-match winning streak in Serie A that has left them second in the Italian top flight, a point behind leaders Napoli. "We are in a good period of form in Italy and Europe, I’m happy with the performances and results we are getting,” Gasperini told Sky Sport Italia. "Winning the Europa League last season helped us to grow in confidence, self-belief and then many new players arrived too who are improving. This is what’s behind the impressive form." Gasperini admitted that Atalanta's development has been remarkable. "There are some players who have been here so long and know us so well that they are coaches on the field, I could easily just leave them to it," Gasperini said with a smile. "But there are others who need to get to know the movements, the chain reactions, the timing. On top of that, we have always had a very strong locker room atmosphere where the behaviour and attitude is always based on values." (Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk; Editing by Toby Davis)Rumble Announces Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

Friday, November 22, 2024 Canada is introducing revised work permit rules that could disqualify as many as 67,000 international students from eligibility for the post-graduation work permit (PGWP) program. The updated regulations, unveiled by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), aim to streamline the program to align with the country’s labor market priorities. Graduates from only 966 designated academic programs will now qualify for the PGWP. These approved fields include agriculture, agri-food, healthcare, science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), skilled trades, and transportation. Students in programs outside these fields will no longer be eligible for work permits, signaling a sharp policy shift that could reshape Canada’s international education landscape. This year alone, Canada issued 105,030 PGWPs to international students, with 64% granted to college graduates. Business studies, which accounted for 42% of these permits, along with computing and IT (16%), and STEM fields (37%), will be significantly affected by the changes. Many graduates in business-related disciplines, in particular, may now find themselves excluded from this key immigration pathway. The new rules, effective this month, will not affect students who already hold or have applied for study permits before the policy takes effect. Moreover, graduates from university degree programs are exempt and will continue to be eligible for up to three years of work authorization under the existing framework. The revised PGWP regulations are part of Canada’s efforts to address workforce gaps in critical sectors. By concentrating eligibility on specific academic fields, the government aims to ensure that international graduates are funneled into high-demand areas such as healthcare, technology, and skilled trades. This targeted approach reflects an urgent need to address labor shortages while supporting the nation’s economic growth. However, critics argue that this narrow focus overlooks the broader contributions of graduates from other fields, including business, arts, and social sciences. These disciplines play a vital role in fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and cultural diversity, which are essential to a thriving economy. The new rules have raised concerns about the potential impact on Canada’s reputation as a top destination for international students. Excluding graduates from non-STEM fields risks discouraging students who bring diverse skills and perspectives to the Canadian economy. Business graduates, for instance, are key drivers of economic growth and leadership but may now face fewer opportunities to remain and work in Canada. Advocacy groups are calling for additional measures to support affected students, such as alternative pathways, regional work permits, or tailored programs that account for local labor needs. These initiatives could help maintain Canada’s appeal to a wide range of international talent while still addressing critical workforce gaps. As these changes take effect, institutions and policymakers must step up to provide clear guidance and resources to international students. Transparent communication about the new eligibility criteria, coupled with alternative opportunities for excluded graduates, will be crucial in minimizing disruption. Additionally, monitoring the impact of these rules on enrollment patterns and labor market performance will help refine the program as needed. Canada’s updated PGWP rules represent a significant shift in immigration and education policy, prioritizing specific sectors over broader inclusivity. While these changes aim to meet labor market needs, ensuring that Canada remains a welcoming and competitive destination for global talent will require a careful balance of strategy and support.None

Health In Tech Announces Closing of Initial Public OfferingRemoving the Bible from classrooms across the country has led to devastating effects like increases in crime and teen pregnancy, according to lobbyist Blaine Conzatti. Conzatti, president of the Christian nonprofit Idaho Family Policy Center , told the Times-News Tuesday that he believes it's time to bring the Bible back. He said he has drafted a bill for the 2025 Idaho Legislative session that would create a legal requirement for public schools to ensure that 20 Bible verses be read in classrooms every morning. According to tax forms, the center is a Boise-based group that advances the lordship of Christ in the public square and trains statesmen to advocate for Judeo-Christian values. "It is our belief that our children and our communities are starved for the biblical principles that once made our society the greatest in the world," Conzatti said. "That's why we're arguing that it's critical for the Idaho state Legislature to take this historic opportunity and bring the Bible back into the classroom." The Bible is read aloud Nov. 25, 2013, at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City. He said the Bible was read in Idaho classrooms for over 100 years, ending in 1964. He said the draft legislation is similar to an Idaho law passed in 1925, but with significant updates to ensure it passes modern constitutional muster. The new bill includes conscience protections for teachers and students who do not want to participate, he said. Conzatti said he is not concerned about how students who practice other religions would feel if the Bible was read every day. He said the draft legislation includes no assignments, discussion or instruction of the Bible. "We are not expecting anyone to affirm the Christian religion," he said. He added that he does not believe the legislation would open the door for reading other holy texts, like the Quran, as there is not a history and tradition of reading the Quran in this country. To back up his constitutional argument, Conzatti said he has seen a shift recently in federal judiciary establishment clause jurisprudence. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free practice thereof. Conzatti said he truly believes school sponsored Bible reading is constitutional and he said he is not trying to create a test case for the U.S. Supreme Court. "It took place in Idaho for around 100 years until a federal court and an activist judge invalidated the practice," Conzatti said. Local thoughts The Times-News spoke with four state legislators and one Twin Falls pastor to hear their thoughts on requiring the Bible in the classroom and using public funds for private schools. Sen. Ron Taylor (D-Hailey) will be the only Democratic legislator from the Magic Valley and the only legislator the Times-News spoke with who referenced the U.S. Constitution. He said the state is constitutionally bound to require free and fair education to everyone, but not bound to provide religious doctrine. "Our Constitution has a very clear delineation of church and state," Taylor said. Taylor said he has voted against public funds for private schools before and he will do it again. He expressed clear opposition to the Idaho Family Policy Center's proposal. "We should not be reading the Bible in our public schools," Taylor said. Taylor said the Bible proposal is a distraction. He said he wants to support tax relief and protect the agriculture industry from the looming threat of mass deportation under the incoming Trump administration. Representative-elect Mike Pohanka (R-Jerome) said he went to private school and read the Bible every day. He said decisions on public school teachers reading the Bible in schools should be left up to local school boards. "If they do that's fine, if they don't that's up to them," Pohanka said. "I think it just needs to be at the local level." Rep. Lance Clow (R-Twin Falls), the longest serving legislator in the Magic Valley, said he expects several bills regarding school choice and public funding for religious schools in the coming session. He did not comment on the Bible proposal. "Until we're in the Legislature, you don't see anything," Clow said. "Everything's all hypothetical at this point." On school choice, he said he thinks the best path forward is a compromise that protects public schools. Clow presented HB 289 in 2023 that would have allowed families to use a portion of public funds for tuition at private schools. The bill did not make it out of the education committee. "I believe that eventually at some point we need to make some form of a compromise to deal with that question," Clow said. "Just a yes or no is not a simple answer." The Twin Falls Republican Central Committee earlier this month narrowly passed a resolution in opposition to diverting public to private, religious or homeschools, including any form of vouchers, tax credits or educational savings accounts. Twin Falls County GOP Central Committee approved two resolutions to be forwarded to the Idaho GOP for consideration at its January meeting. Rep. Douglas Pickett (R-Oakley) said he hasn't heard about any proposals to require public schools to read the Bible and he doesn't have a comment on his stance. "I think we need to really see what they are proposing before we make any judgments on that," Pickett said. He said he expects school choice will be one of the biggest issues in the coming session and that he thinks there are situations where using public funds for private schools is justified. Money Conzatti is both president of the Idaho Family Policy Center and director of the ID Family PAC, an organization with no website, but he told the Times-News that there is no legal or official relationship between the two groups. Both share the same street address, at 1116 S Vista Ave in Boise, but the Center has an office in suite 227 and the PAC has a P.O. box at that address. In another connection between the two groups, Chad Israel Waitman is both a current board member for the Center and a former treasurer for the PAC. The PAC is led by chair Christian Welp, who is also a registered lobbyist for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise. Of the 12 state legislators representing the Magic Valley, five received contributions from ID Family PAC during the 2024 campaign: Sen. Glenneda Zuiderveld (R-Twin Falls), Sen. Kelly Anthon (R-Burley), Representative-elect Joshua Kohl (R-Twin Falls), Steve Miller (R-Fairfield) and Pickett. Of those five, only Pickett returned phone calls from the Times-News . Of the five, ID Family PAC spent the most money to support Kohl. His campaign received a contribution of $1,000 from the PAC as well as $8,653 in independent expenditures. Magic Valley Liberty Alliance PAC also endorsed Kohl. Zuiderveld's campaign spent $600 in October for an event at The River Christian Fellowship during the 2024 election season. Scott Spencer, assistant pastor at the church, told the Times-News on Friday that the U.S. was founded on Christian principles, like treating other people well and being nice. He said he thinks it would be good for teachers to read the Bible in schools, as kids today have no compass and no sense of right and wrong. "The biblical principles are true whether or not you're actually reading the scripture or not, about treating other people well, about helping other people," Spencer said. A former teacher himself, Spencer said he used to teach from a book that taught morals without specific biblical references, but that book has since been replaced with one that teaches nothing but a progressive, leftist, woke agenda. "What we've had for the last four years with the whole woke agenda," Spencer said. "That's being pushed way harder than any of the Christian principles that made our country great." Spencer echoed a false claim from President-elect Donald Trump. It is illegal in all 50 states to kill a child after live birth. Spencer said, as a country, we are at the point where a woman can have a live baby and then kill that baby after it is born. "The mom can say, 'I don't want the kid,' and they can kill it," Spencer said. "In some states that's legal. That's horrific to me." Spencer also expressed disdain for transgender people. "Someone can say, 'I'm a girl,'" Spencer said. "No you're not." The Idaho Family Policy Center circulated a 2024 candidate questionnaire that includes questions about protecting biological females in bathrooms, removing exceptions for abortion in the case of rape or incest, prohibiting drag shows, protecting traditional marriage between a man and woman and holding teachers accountable for teaching critical race theory. None of the legislators the Times-News spoke with said they had filled out the questionnaire. Conzatti said the U.S. Supreme Court has established that the U.S. is a Christian nation and that legislators need to reflect that sentiment. "We are a Christian ministry and believe that government officials are God's ministers and they are expected to uphold God's standards of justice," Conzatti said. "They are expected to govern according to biblical principles." 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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 25, 2024-- MARQUEE Wireless Inc., a company specializing in integration and deployment of cellular, IoT and edge computing technologies for cellular networks and Smart Cities, and Veea Inc. (NASDAQ: VEEA), a pioneer in hyperconverged Multiaccess Edge Computing (MEC) with AI-driven cybersecurity and edge solutions, announced a partnership for a visionary initiative to roll out a transformative solution based on MARQUEE’s patented SMARTCELLTM platform supported by Veea’s Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) to accelerate the introduction of MEC solutions with Edge AI as an extension of cellular network infrastructure. "It is a pleasure to work with the Veea team to extend the capabilities of our revolutionary, modular SMARTCELLTM platform for cellular networks and Smart Cities with IoT, Mobile-Edge computing and AI," said Dimitrios Lalos, MARQUEE’s founder and CEO. "The MARQUEE team is pioneering advancements in the deployment of cellular solutions enhanced with innovative, fully patented technology. Our combined knowledge, expertise and products will make its mark for the cellular industry together with Veea’s first-of-a-kind technologies in AI-driven cybersecure connectivity with network slicing to protect the Smart City endpoints at the edge, and preserve data privacy by processing raw data for innovative applications with Edge AI locally in SMARTCELLs with process automation and energy monitoring for sustainable and efficient urban centers." MARQUEE offers comprehensive, turnkey SMARTCELL deployments that extend cellular network coverage for mobile network operators with edge-cloud managed value-added services. The SMARTCELLTM provides the wireless carriers unprecedented flexibility blended with innovative, aesthetically pleasing, ergonomic solutions such as modularity, digital displays with contextual advertising, EV charging stations, kiosks and surveillance cameras enabling the deployment of Cellular MACRO, MINI-MACRO, and MOBILE EDGE sites enhanced with Smart City and IoT Solutions into America’s main streets. MARQUEE has contractual agreements with AT&T and Verizon for deployment of SMARTCELL in urban centers. The SMARTCELLTM platform offers more capacity and coverage as compared with Small Cell poles because of the large space availability inside the platform, which among others makes deployment of advanced antennas for massive MIMO with a large number of antenna elements for beamforming in urban centers more practical. “We are most excited to be partnering with MARQUEE Wireless in its implementation of a cybersecure hyperconverged MEC platform with Edge AI for Smart Cities with a highly innovative usage-based business model for datafication-to-monetization of contextual edge data collected through MARQUEE’s SMARTCELLs,” stated Allen Salmasi, co-founder and CEO of Veea. “The notion of a cellular network extended with Edge AI-driven applications is truly revolutionary as it ultimately can allow the cellular industry to capitalize on a range of Smart City edge-managed applications including a wide range of subscription-based Wi-Fi and IoT services with cybersecurity and very low latency.” Veea’s full-stack MEC middleware enables DePIN architecture, supporting Web3 protocols with Veea’s vTBATM-based cybersecure peer-to-peer networking, blockchain technology, and decentralized data storage, together with applications that benefit from federated learning for inferencing and training of mobile-edge “Contextual AI” models together with network slicing over 5G networks. Honeywell Tridium’s Niagara Building Management System (BMS), providing for a SaaS offering of energy monitoring and management with process automation, is an example of such an edge-managed application running on VeeaHub products with Edge AI, which enables data collection, real-time monitoring, and advanced analytics to provide insights into energy usage patterns, enabling informed decision-making and targeted interventions for renewable energy solutions, energy storage systems, smart lighting, smart grids, energy-efficient buildings, EV chargers, and others. Smart cities, served by cellular networks and the combined capabilities of Veea Edge Platform and SMARTCELL, can leverage automation and advanced energy management systems to optimize energy usage, minimize its carbon footprint, and ultimately strive towards a Net Zero emissions goal, by utilizing data-driven insights to control and regulate energy consumption across different urban sectors such as public infrastructure, transportation, and commercial buildings. About Marquee Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, MARQUEE offers solutions for Cellular and Smart City deployments with available fully permitted locations with innovative, aesthetically pleasing, ergonomic platforms. The patented SMARTCELLTM platform features unprecedented availability of space in a very small footprint to deploy LTE/5G MACRO/mini-MACRO sites into a single modular structure. Presently MARQUEE has under management over 26,000 locations in the US. The Company partners with public entities, private businesses, big box stores, fast food restaurants, Malls, Gas Stations, MDUs, cities and municipalities among others. MARQUEE obtains permits, construct utilities and custom configures the SMARTCELLTM as requested by the Cellular Carrier. For more information, visit marqueewireless.com and follow us on LinkedIn. About Veea Veea ® makes living and working at the edge simpler and more secure. Veea has unified multi-tenant computing, multiaccess multiprotocol communications, edge storage and cybersecurity solutions through fully integrated cloud- and edge-managed products. Veea’s pioneering Multiaccess Edge Computing (MEC) product, developed from the ground up in several compact form factors, brings together the functionality typically provided for through any combination of servers, Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, routers, firewalls, Wi-Fi Access Points (APs), IoT gateways, 4G or 5G wireless access, and Cloud Computing (CC) by means of multiple hardware, software and systems integrated and maintained by IT/OT professionals. Veea Edge Platform offers application responsiveness, bolsters cybersecurity, data privacy and context awareness, and lowers data transport costs as well as total cost of ownership, while providing for easy installation, operations, monitoring and maintenance of edge networks. At the heart of VeeaHub products resides a Linux server with a full-stack virtualized software environment for cloud-native applications that run in Secured Docker TM containers, with a high degree of user data and application isolation, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and cybersecurity, delivering hyperconverged networking that extends 5G network slicing with cellular-like network-managed Wi-Fi and IoT devices over a connectivity and computing mesh network. The fully integrated turnkey solution offers end-to-end cloud management of devices, applications and services with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and, optionally, a highly simplified plug and play 5G-based Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering. Veea Developer Portal and development tools provide for rapid development of edge applications, optionally, with Edge AI. Veea was formed in 2014 and is headquartered in New York City with a rich history of major innovations in the development of advanced networking, wireless and computing technologies, along with over 103 granted and 33 pending patents in key aspects of hyperconverged edge computing technologies. For more information, visit veea.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn . View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241125091566/en/ CONTACT: Media Contact: James Christopherson Sterling Communications for Veea Inc. veea@sterlingpr.com KEYWORD: ILLINOIS NEW YORK TEXAS NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES MEXICO CANADA CENTRAL AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: 5G SECURITY IOT (INTERNET OF THINGS) BLOCKCHAIN STATE/LOCAL SOFTWARE URBAN PLANNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS INTERNET DATA MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY MOBILE/WIRELESS CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY PUBLIC POLICY/GOVERNMENT APPS/APPLICATIONS CARRIERS AND SERVICES WEB3 SOURCE: Veea Inc. Copyright Business Wire 2024. 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