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We cut back our worth goal for Danaher as a frustration after a messy quarter

We reduce our price target for Danaher as a frustration after a messy quarter

A worker uses a machine from Pall Corp. During a demonstration of the clarification phase of the production of influenza vaccines during a tour in a production facility by Sanofi Pasteur in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania.

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Danaher The shares will be under pressure on Wednesday, as the results of the winnings of the Club Holding mixed in the fourth quarter and the instructions were disappointed. The company, which has long been known for its operational excellence, will continue to test our patience.

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Cooper Flagg, welcome to the Herzog-UNC rivality

Cooper Flagg, welcome to the Herzog-UNC rivality

  • Ryan McGeeJanuary 31, 2025, 1:00 p.m. and

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    • 2-time Sport-emty winner
    • 2010, 2014 NMPA author of the year

On Saturday, the Duke Blue Devils will organize the first of two regular season with long-time rival North Carolina Tar Heels in a Sonic Blockbuster-Matchup on ESPN (6:30 p.m. ET).

In the name of his home state, the north of North Carolina, Ryan McGee, wrote an open letter to the Star newcomer, in which the two programs are separated by only 11 miles on both sides of the famous rivalry of College basketball.

Dear Cooper Flagg,

Congratulations on a ridiculously great freshman season at Duke. In a basketball program that has long been a assembly line, you have already managed to include your name in the wooden frame of the Cameron Indoor Stadium after only 20 collegiate games played.

They came to Durham with an almost unprecedented hype, as the top recruit of the nation and already the alleged No. 1 selection in the NBA design of 2025. But they fulfilled the hype right from the start, raised lanes, falling traces of 3, And dark of backboard rattling in a campaign thrown up Newport, Maine.

Before we can consolidate your inheritance, it is the question of the planned competition on Saturday against a neighboring team that carries a lighter blue tone and makes the 11-mile hike from Chapel Hill to Durham north. Yes, North Carolina, the flagship school of the state in which you now live – and the measurement floor, on which your duke is evaluated forever.

Forget that 18 years ago you turned 18 years ago. As you from the other end of the Highway 501 against the team, you will surpass you through every birthday you celebrate from now on.

And to be clear here, child, that is not overwhelming sports jaws. Just ask those who once stood in their sneakers on the same courtyard, most of them – for a very long time – before they were born.

“It was 40 years ago since I played a college basketball game,” said Michael Jordan. (Maybe you heard from him, Cooper?) “To this day before people ask me about our national championship or our three ACC championships or acc.

Even Michael Jordan is not immune to the depth of the UNC-Duke rivality. Bob Donnan-USA do sports today

After he was to make room for a grinchic evil grin while thinking about his UNC days, while at the end of last autumn at a nascar event (he is now a team owner), added the goat: “The answer was By the way, that we did very, that we did very, very, that we did very, very, that we did very, very, that we did very, very, that we did a lot, that we did a lot that we did very, very, that we did very, that we did very, very, that we did very, so. “

Very good, as with six wins to a loss – what brings us, Cooper, and on the other hand lonely end of this scale.

“This one defeat for Michael was the first victory for me,” said Jay Bilas. In any case, you know this name, isn't it, Cooper? He is the guy who always speaks about you about “College Gameday”. He is also the 6-foot 9-big man in all of these photos that the museum in the Cameron Indoor Lobby draws. No. 21, Bilas exchanged in Socal against the south as a member of Dukes Acc. (In your defense, however, you cannot recognize him in these team pictures because he had hair at the time.)

“I don't remember the score of many games in which I played,” continued Bilas. “But I remember the score of this year in 1984. It was the ACC tournament and North Carolina in 1st place, but we won 77-74. I will always remember this score because we, as we After Durham came back, every car in every car in Town had a car sticker with the sound: Duke Blue 77, Carolina Blue 74.

“It was so rare for Duke to beat Carolina at the time. I remember that we said that this shouldn't be a big deal. This must be a normal event.”

Bilas, like MJ, grin.

“And it had been.”

In fact, Cooper, it has. UNC leads the all-time series with 145 victories to Dukes 117, but this includes a 16-game winning shop that took place a century ago. The series has been as Duke 57, UNC 49 since 1978. It has been Duke 26, UNC 23. And so far this decade, the Scorecard Unc 6, Duke 5.

The only game without a regular season among these was in the Final Four 2022 when the heels Mike Krzyzewski ended unprecedented coaching career in the largest conceivable way.

But Mr. Flagg, which you have to understand before the tipoff on Saturday evening, has nothing to do with records, status leaves or series profit series (although it is worth mentioning that UNC won two in a row). This game is much greater than that. This is about emotions. About braggling rights. To the waves that were sent out of the triangle in the old North State, from the Appalachen to the outer banks. The epicenter is the numbers that you and your teammates stamp on these statistics sheets in your two winter meetings with your heels or not.

Duke-Carolina is old men who are sitting in cabins in the grill joints. The methodist, who is dressed in a blue shade, asked the Presbyterian, who was attracted in this other Azul color: “Well, what the hell happened on Saturday evening?” Then immediately press the check over the formica colored with vinegar, as the tradition requires.

Be warned, dear Neuling Flagg, that a countless list of your teammates in the first year was both willingly and accidentally immersed in the spotlight of the Herzog Carolina ramp.

Jeremy Brevard-USA do sports today

Zion Williamson was a newcomer in the night of February 20, 2019 when his right Nike sneaker exploded 36 seconds after the UNC game in Cameron, as if it had been manipulated by a Hollywood special effect unit. In 2007, when Dukes broke Gerald Henderson's elbow Tyler Hansbroughs nose, he opened the fracture between Durham and Chapel Hill. The image of the blood-covered face of the UNC center is the equivalent of the old North State on Rocky Balboa, the “Adrian!” – But it was Hansbrough to avenge Henderson who was a newcomer.

And these classic cars in their barbecue cabins still tell the story of February 4, 1961, the day on which the rivalry of rivalry became more than just a basketball competition. Larry Brown from UNC-E-An Internet search for this name, Cooper, he became a very big affair under the tire trainers in the last seconds the duration of the Cameron Court and remained the deficit of Duke 81-75. He was guarded by Blue Devil Ace Art Heyman, who spat on Brown and grabbed him for a targeted foul. Brown reacted by threw the ball on Heyman and then threw fists.

The UNC bank, which is then located along the base line, reacted with the jumping of Heyman en masse. Duke-Bank reacted by ran over the building to protect her all-American while the students flocked to the ground and hit everyone in light blue blue. Among them later it was guilty to make it much worse, yes, yes, first semester players of both teams who were not yet present at a time when they were not yet allowed to play fans.

In addition, they would not pay much attention to the current victory loss records of their respective teams. Yes, Duke has only lost twice and will organize the game on Saturday evening as a secondary team in the country. And yes, North Carolina gives 13: 9, occupy seventh place after he has reduced three of his last four years, and there is increasing noise from those who have tar on their heels so that it could be time To separate from Unc Hoops heroes after four seasons at the head of his Alma Mater after four seasons.

But Davis himself will be happy to explain how “the records throw when these two come together”, no mere sports cliché when these two teams come together. During the junior year of Davis in 1990, the double Tar Heels were the team with higher rank – and lost both times. Then they met in the ACC tournament title game in which Duke was classified in front of Carolina … and lost.

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“People remember the game when we lost to them in the 1984 ACC tournament, but we had to play our asses so as not to have lost them against them the week before,” recalled Brad Daughty. “We were also number 1 in this game and they pushed for two overtime hours before we finally put it away. I think it was almost 20 years ago since Duke won in Carmichael [UNC’s longtime arena] And I remember that I saw all the old letters there that night as she looked at us: “You are better not those who blow these strips!” Thank God we didn't. “

And, Coop, before taking the place for the latest edition of this rivalry, they do a favor almost exactly two decades ago and dig out the feature film of the same competition in the same building.

It was February 2, 1995. Duke was bad. Like the only real flaw in Krzyzewski's post-earliest seasons, somehow bad. The Blue Devils went 2-14 in the ACC. It was all so terrible that Coach K, when he had to miss part of the season for back surgery, decided not to return at all. But in very typical heel devils mode it could be the best game ever played in her new home. Rashed Wallace, Jerry Stackhouse and the No. 2-Heels triggered a dark competition to take over a lead of 17 points, but Duke gathered to force overtime. At the end of the first OT, the nation was looking for the brand new ESPN2 on its cable systems.

UNC won the game. But Capel won the hearts of her new school forever and forever.

The current Pitt head coach Jeff Capel is one of the former Duke stars who have strengthened their legacy in this rivalry. Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire

Who knows Cooper Flagg? Maybe you have your own capel moment. Or Hansbrough moment. Or MJ … or JJ Redick … or Austin Rivers … or with her favorite blue grade of all time.

I only know that, Mr. Maine Man. Whatever you think you know about the greatest rivalry of College basketball, forget them. Because all those who threatened to do so also knew.

“The only thing you really need to know is that this is greater than you think, and it is certainly bigger than you,” said Christian Laettner, who may have been loved and loathless at the same time, who has ever been up for this series for this series that has been. A series in which he took place despite all the sides (see: four last four, two national titles and the Dream team), he set up a 5: 6 record against UNC.

“To say that you played in the Duke-Carolina game is the most amazing privilege,” added Laettner. “To say that you won it and won it several times, this is the gift that gives again and again for the rest of your life. And those who have lost them are still putting them in their heads.”

We will see which brand you leave on this rivalry on Saturday, Coop.

Sincere,

Each in the state of North Carolina

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Technology

Figuring out much less about AI makes folks extra open to have it of their lives

Knowing less about AI makes people more open to have it in their lives

The rapid spread of artificial intelligence asked people: Who is most likely in their daily life? Many assume that it is the technically experienced-The ones who understand how AI works-who are the most on taking over it.

Surprisingly, our new research (published in the Journal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with fewer knowledge of AI are actually more open to the use of technology. We call this difference in the tendency to adoption the connection “lower literacy high susceptibility”.

This link is displayed in different groups, settings and even countries. For example, our analysis of data from the market research company Ipsos, which includes 27 countries, that people in nations with lower average AI alphabetization are more susceptible to the introduction of AI than people in countries with higher literacy.

Similarly, our survey among US students finds that those with less understanding of AI are more likely to indicate that they are used for tasks such as academic tasks.

The reason for this link is how AI is now doing tasks that we once thought that only people could do it. When AI creates a work of art, writes a warm answer or plays a musical instrument, it can feel almost magically – as if it were going into the human area.

Of course, AI has no human properties. A chat bot could create a sensitive reaction, but it doesn't feel sensitive. People with more technical knowledge of AI understand this.

You know how algorithms (sentences of mathematical rules used by computers to execute certain tasks), training data (used to improve the functionality of a AI system) and arithmetic models. This makes the technology less mysterious.

On the other hand, those with less understanding can see AI than magical and impressive. We suggest that this feeling of magic makes you more open to use AI tools.

Our studies show that this recovery connection, which is prospective with lower literacy, is strongest for the use of AI tools in areas that associated people with human characteristics, e.g. B. emotional support or advice. When it comes to tasks that do not emerge the same feeling of human characteristics as the analysis of test results, the pattern flips. People with higher AI alphabetization are more susceptible to these uses because they focus more on the efficiency of AI than on “magical” properties.

It's not about skills, fear or ethics

Interestingly, this connection remains between lower literacy and greater sensitivity, although people with lower AI alphabetization look at the probability of less capable, less ethical and even a bit scary. Her openness to AI seems to be due to her feeling of amazement at what she can do, despite this perceived disadvantages.

This knowledge provides new insights into the question of why people react so differently to the technologies. Some studies suggest that consumers prefer new technology to a phenomenon called “Algorithm value estimation”, while others have skepticism or “algorithm difference”. Our research indicates the perception of AIS “magic” as a key factor that shapes these reactions.

These findings are a challenge for political decision -makers and educators. The efforts to increase the AI ​​alphabetization could unintentionally dampen people's enthusiasm for the use of AI by making less magical. This creates a difficult balance between the support of people to understand AI and to keep them openly to their adoption.

In order to optimize AI's potential, companies, educators and political decision -makers have to increase this balance. If we understand how the perception of “magic” influences the openness of people for the AI, we can help to develop and use new products and services on AI-based AI that take into account the way people take into account , and help them to understand the advantages and risks of AI.

And ideally, this will happen without causing a loss of awe, which inspires many people to use this new technology.The conversation

Chiara Longoni, Associate Professor, Marketing and Social Science, Bocconi University; Gil Appel, Assistance Professor of Marketing, School of Business, George Washington University, and Stephanie Tully, Associate Professor of Marketing, USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

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Faux information, CNN and UN, local weather change doesn’t intervene with Latin America's meals manufacturing – watts?

Fake news, CNN and UN, climate change does not interfere with Latin America's food production - watts?

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By H. Sterling Burnett

In a recently carried out CNN story, it is claimed that climate change has caused the recent food production disorders in Caribbean and South America. This is wrong. Although in Latin America as far as farm production varied in 2023 from year to year and the weather, some farmers have regularly set records in some countries in the region. Although it was a time when the earth was modest, the improvement of the stocks on important cultures led to a decline in hunger. Without sustainable production acceptance and without long -term trend, it is simply wrong to say that climate change harms food production in Latin America.

In CNN history “Climate change disturbs the food systems all over Latin America, it says in UN report.” In a recently published UN report “Latin America and the regional Caribbean regional overview of nutritional and nutrition 2024” to claim:

According to a new report by the United Nations, the violent weather reinforced by climate change was fueled in all of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023 hunger and food uncertainty throughout Latin America and Caribbean.

According to the report, which of several UN agencies, including the World Food Program (WFP), has increased harvest prices in the region in several countries in the region.

First of all, the extreme weather, which influences harvest prices in 2023 or another year, is not unusual, they ask a farmer. Extreme weather is not unusual in Latin America or elsewhere. Every year extreme weather strikes somewhere. If this is the case, it may hinder plants, care, harvest and/or transport plants and make it difficult to harvest cultures from field to market. When my meteorologist Anthony Watts and I have an excellent meteorologist and I have in climate level here, here, here and here, and here, for example, the world meteorological organization, clear that the weather is not a climate. Only long -term weather trends can mean a change in climate, and there was no persistent, multi -year or even multi -year trend of more frequent or more severe weather events in the Caribbean or South America.

While there were no indications that climate change influenced in 2023 in Latin American agriculture, El Niño, a natural shifting of the oceanic shift, carried out several storm events in the entire region. El Niño leads to shift of weather patterns such as excessive rainfall in some areas, floods and fewer rainfall with others, which leads to drought. It can also affect the formation of hurricanes, their strength and the likelihood that they will likely strike and contribute to conditions that are favorable or unfavorable for forest fires. There is no evidence that climate change affects the oceanic changes by El Niño/La Niña.

The strongest evidence that refutes the claim that climate change “disturbs the food systems throughout Latin America”, as CNN claims, comes directly from the organization Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which collects data on food production. FAO data show that between 1990 and 2025 the most important plants in the Caribbean as well as in Central and South America, grain crops (corn, rice, wheat, oats, barley, rye, etc.) and tubers and roots (potatoes, oats, barley, Rye etc.) (corn, rice, wheat, oats sweet potatoes, yams, manioc (maniok), carrots, beats, etc.) have repeatedly set up all records for production during the period.

  • The production of cereal grains rose by around 44 percent throughout Central America, 18 percent in the Caribbean and 275 percent throughout South America.
  • Tuber and root production in Central America changed by about 91 percent, 52 percent in the Caribbean and 6 percent in South America. (See illustration below)

Facts are facts, and while CNN and the UN could try to prove a single food disorder for some farmers in some countries as a regional climate crisis, the data tells a different story. In the middle of the continuing modest warming, while some farmers have decreased in some countries, in a few years and transport may be made more difficult due to storms due to storms, food production in Latin America is increasing. Farmer and agricultural areas in the entire region are good. There is no evidence that climate change disturbs food supply or causes hunger or malnutrition in Latin America.

H. Sterling Burnett

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. In addition to the direction of Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy of the Heartland Institute, Burnett assembles environmental and climate protection messages.

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Bhad Bhabie's mom reacts to the grievance of Soulja Boy

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Barbara Bregoli Comes for Soulja boy'S Nach over her daughter Bhad Bhabie. The mother recently appeared in Instagram stories after Soulja threatened to sue Bhabie about him and Alabama Barker because of her allegations.

Relatives: Alabama Barker claps after Bhad Bhabie accused her of being pregnant by Tyga and intimate with Soulja Boy (videos)

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Both Alabama and Soulja Boy denied the claims of Bhad Bhabie, which she had scolded online this week, without providing evidence. Soulja, known for not getting calm in controversial moments, did not bury the 21-year-old. He described her comments as lies and warned that a defamation lawsuit brewed.

“I am Finna sue your stupid A ** for the defamation of the character. I want 10 million. So stop climbing the Internet that is on my name and spoke about my name. You don't belong black, you don't belong in this culture. Now let our culture of our M ***** f ***** G, end my name, B *** h “,” Soulja Boy shot about social media on Bhabie.

Soulja added that she did not know each other at all and said that she once visited his house in Malibu and supposedly tried to initiate oral sex. He claimed that she had been crazy since then because he rejected her. The time frame in which this occurred remains unclear. He also repeatedly said that her allegations are all lies. Later he announced screenshots that show unanswered DMS, which he allegedly received from Bhad Bhabie.

Bhad Bhabie's mother occurs with a spicy reaction

Well, Bhad Bhabie's mother had the same energy for Soulja Boy in her reactions to his risk of complaint. After what he said, Barbara Bregoli reminded him that they don't move in the same circles.

“About my daughter boys, the boy, she 34. When did that talk about which you supposedly have to do when she was a minor? Looks like they had hit women too, ”wrote Barbara Bregoli.

In another post, she accused Soulja of being lied and said that he was not a gangsta and had to go down. Barbara claims that she met Soulja with her daughter and said that the meeting was not in the rapper house. She also claimed that Soulja was the one who used to be in her daughter's line!

“… I think you forget how to call them to ask them to hang around with you !! Now your problem is not with my daughter, it's with me !!! “

Like Soulja Boy, Tyga has also published an explanation in which sexual engagement with Alabama Barker denies. Remember that Barker has also doubled not to have any previous connections to Soulja or Tyga, Bhabie claimed that Barker was pregnant earlier.

Relatives: OOP! Tyga appeals to Bhabie Bhabie's wild claims that Alabama Barker used to be pregnant by him

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RFK Jr. fights with Medicare, Medicaid bases in hearings of the Senate

RFK Jr. fights with Medicare, Medicaid bases in hearings of the Senate

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the candidate of the US President Trump, who is a secretary for health and human services, testifies to the hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, Labor and Pension on Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, January 30, 2025.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's election to head the Ministry of Health and Human Services, seemed to be not familiar on Thursday during his second hearing to confirm the Senate with basic elements of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

“You want us to confirm that you are responsible for Medicare, but it seems that you do not know the basics of this program” Medicare before the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Work and Pensions.

If confirmed confirmed, Kennedy will lead an agency of 1.7 trillion dollars that supervises a number of federal health agencies. This includes the centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that manage the state -financed health care of millions of Americans, including seniors, people with disabilities and patients with lower incomes who rely on Medicare, Medicaid and the markets of the Affordable Care Act.

The 71 -year -old Kennedy stumbled when answering questions about Medicare and Medicaid during his two confirmation hearings this week. He appeared on Wednesday before the Finance Finance Committee.

Hassan, who sits on both panels, asked Kennedy to explain on Thursday what every part of Medicare is. However, he tried to identify and explain the basic aspects of the program, cover the older and disabled Americans.

When asked what Medicare is for, Kennedy said that it was “mainly for basic care or doctors”. Hassan made it clear that it was reporting for seniors who receive inpatient care in hospitals.

When asked what Medicare is part B, Kennedy said that it was “for doctors and doctors”. Part B is a cover for a number of medical services such as visits to the doctor, outpatient clinic, budget health, certain medical care and preventive services.

When asked what Medicare part C is, Kennedy called it “the full menu of all services – A, B, C and D.” Hassan found that part C is also called Medicare advantage and is conducted by Medicare privately owned. These plans serve as an alternative to traditional Medicare plans.

Kennedy insisted that he “only explained the basics of the program”, but Hassan said that she had to correct him on several things.

The New Hampshire senator also grilled Kennedy during the hearing on Wednesday when he seemed to be confused with MedicAid with Medicaid.

The state-federal Medicaid program offers around 80 million Americans, including many people with low incomes. The Republicans could address Medicaid, which costs the federal government more than $ 600 billion a year, for the financing of reductions this year to support tax cuts in paying tax cuts.

Kennedy described Medicaid on Wednesday as “fully paid” by the federal government, although the program is also financed by states.

On Thursday, Kennedy admitted that the program was financed together by the Federal Government and the States, and added that he “stated” something wrong during the hearing on Wednesday.

At the end of this hearing on Wednesday, Senator Ron Wyden, D-ORE., The ranking member of the Finance Committee said that Kennedy was “unprepared” and suggested not knowing the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.

“My colleagues have seen Medicare and Medicaid back and forth, and it is not clear which program they use, when,” said Wyden.