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Noem blocks South Dakota business with certain companies owned or controlled by ‘evil foreign governments’
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order Friday that prevents the state from doing business with particular telecommunications companies owned or operated by “evil foreign governments.”
The order, according to Noem’s office, blocks business with companies associated with the governments of China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.
Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando Feb. 25, 2022.
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In addition, Noem’s office said the order, known as Executive Order 2023-02, requires that “every state contract include a clause certifying the contractor is not owned, influenced, or affiliated with these countries.”
“It is critical that we protect South Dakotans from evil foreign governments,” Noem said after signing the order, which will take effect next week. “This order ensures that these countries cannot leverage telecommunications or state contract procurements to gain access to crucial state infrastructure and data.”
SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR BANS TIKTOK FOR STATE AGENCIES, WARNING OF SECURITY THREAT
“Maintaining the cybersecurity of South Dakota state government is necessary to continue to serve South Dakota citizens,” the order states. “The Chinese Communist Party has increasingly purchased vital agricultural land necessary to the nation’s food independence and real property near critical infrastructure, such as real property near a military base in Grand Folks, North Dakota.”
Additionally, the order stated that South Dakota is “home to critical infrastructure vital to national security” and that “cybersecurity vulnerabilities may lead to real-world consequences for South Dakota residents.”
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“Countries including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have engaged in increasingly aggressive cyber-attacks on the United States’ assets, including Iranian financially-motivated ransomware operations, Russian phishing attempts, Chinese targeted extractions of corporate data, cyber-attacks on crucial ports since 2013, and the cyber and physical targeting of electric grid stations in Washington, North Carolina, and other states in late 2022,” the order noted.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Last November, Noem made headlines when she signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies — or those who contract with them — from accessing the China-owned social media app TikTok and warned the Chinese Communist Party is ripping information from users.
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“It’s off our networks. It’s blocked off of our servers. Any state employee, anybody who contracts with the state of South Dakota, anybody who uses any of our systems no longer will be able to download or utilize this app because of the national security threat that it is,” Noem told Fox News at the time.
Accessing the app will be a criminal offense, she said, adding TikTok poses a threat to the Mount Rushmore State and the personal data of all South Dakotans and, by extension, Americans.
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Slowing of continental plate movement controlled the timing of Earth’s largest volcanic events
Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth’s history.
Surprisingly, the new research, published today in Science Advances, suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical event that enabled magma to rise to the Earth’s surface and deliver the devastating knock-on impacts.
Earth’s history has been marked by major volcanic events, called large igneous provinces (LIPs)—the largest of which have caused major increases in atmospheric carbon emissions that warmed Earth’s climate, drove unprecedented changes to ecosystems, and resulted in mass extinctions on land and in the oceans.
Using chemical data from ancient mudstone deposits obtained from a 1.5 km-deep borehole in Wales, an international team led by scientists from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences was able to link two key events from around 183 million years ago (the Toarcian period).
The team discovered that this time period, which was characterized by some of the most severe climatic and environmental changes ever, directly coincided with the occurrence of major volcanic activity and associated greenhouse gas release on the southern hemisphere, in what is nowadays known as southern Africa, Antarctica and Australia.
On further investigation—and more importantly—the team’s plate reconstruction models helped them discover the key fundamental geological process that seemed to control the timing and onset of this volcanic event and others of great magnitude.
Micha Ruhl, assistant professor in Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, led the team. He said, “Scientists have long thought that the onset of upwelling of molten volcanic rock, or magma, from deep in Earth’s interior, as mantle plumes, was the instigator of such volcanic activity but the new evidence shows that the normal rate of continental plate movement of several centimeters per year effectively prevents magma from penetrating Earth’s continental crust.
“It seems it is only when the speed of continental plate movement slows down to near zero that magmas from mantle plumes can effectively make their way to the surface, causing major large igneous province volcanic eruptions and their associated climatic perturbations and mass extinctions.
“Crucially, further assessment shows that a reduction in continental plate movement likely controlled the onset and duration of many of the major volcanic events throughout Earth’s history, making it a fundamental process in controlling the evolution of climate and life at Earth’s surface throughout the history of this planet.”
The study of past global change events, such as in the Toarcian, allows scientists to disentangle the different processes that control the causes and consequences of global carbon cycle change and constrain fundamental Earth system processes that control tipping points in Earth’s climate system.
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More information:
Micha Ruhl, Reduced plate motion controlled timing of Early Jurassic Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province volcanism, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0866. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0866
Micha Ruhl, Reduced plate motion controlled timing of Early Jurassic Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province volcanism, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0866. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0866
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Reduction of dietary sodium to less than 100 mmol in heart failure (SODIUM-HF): an international, open-label, randomised, controlled trial
Background
Dietary restriction of sodium has been suggested to prevent fluid overload and adverse
outcomes for patients with heart failure. We designed the Study of Dietary Intervention
under 100 mmol in Heart Failure (SODIUM-HF) to test whether or not a reduction in
dietary sodium reduces the incidence of future clinical events.
Methods
SODIUM-HF is an international, open-label, randomised, controlled trial that enrolled
patients at 26 sites in six countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico,
and New Zealand). Eligible patients were aged 18 years or older, with chronic heart
failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] functional class 2–3), and receiving optimally
tolerated guideline-directed medical treatment. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1),
using a standard number generator and varying block sizes of two, four, or six, stratified
by site, to either usual care according to local guidelines or a low sodium diet of
less than 100 mmol (ie, ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02012179, and is closed to accrual.
patients at 26 sites in six countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico,
and New Zealand). Eligible patients were aged 18 years or older, with chronic heart
failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] functional class 2–3), and receiving optimally
tolerated guideline-directed medical treatment. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1),
using a standard number generator and varying block sizes of two, four, or six, stratified
by site, to either usual care according to local guidelines or a low sodium diet of
less than 100 mmol (ie, ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02012179, and is closed to accrual.
Findings
Between March 24, 2014, and Dec 9, 2020, 806 patients were randomly assigned to a
low sodium diet (n=397) or usual care (n=409). Median age was 67 years (IQR 58–74)
and 268 (33%) were women and 538 (66%) were men. Between baseline and 12 months, the
median sodium intake decreased from 2286 mg/day (IQR 1653–3005) to 1658 mg/day (1301–2189)
in the low sodium group and from 2119 mg/day (1673–2804) to 2073 mg/day (1541–2900)
in the usual care group. By 12 months, events comprising the primary outcome had occurred
in 60 (15%) of 397 patients in the low sodium diet group and 70 (17%) of 409 in the
usual care group (hazard ratio [HR] 0·89 [95% CI 0·63–1·26]; p=0·53). All-cause death
occurred in 22 (6%) patients in the low sodium diet group and 17 (4%) in the usual
care group (HR 1·38 [0·73–2·60]; p=0·32), cardiovascular-related hospitalisation occurred
in 40 (10%) patients in the low sodium diet group and 51 (12%) patients in the usual
care group (HR 0·82 [0·54–1·24]; p=0·36), and cardiovascular-related emergency department
visits occurred in 17 (4%) patients in the low sodium diet group and 15 (4%) patients
in the usual care group (HR 1·21 [0·60–2·41]; p=0·60). No safety events related to
the study treatment were reported in either group.
Interpretation
In ambulatory patients with heart failure, a dietary intervention to reduce sodium
intake did not reduce clinical events.
Funding
Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the University Hospital Foundation, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, and Health Research Council of New Zealand.
Peng Shuai emerges at Olympics, gives controlled interview
BEIJING (AP) — Nothing to see here, move on.
That was the message that Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai delivered Monday in a controlled interview in Beijing that touched on sexual assault allegations she made against a former high-ranking member of China’s ruling Communist Party. Her answers – delivered in front of a Chinese Olympic official – left unanswered questions about her well-being and what exactly happened.
The interview with French sports newspaper L’Equipe and an announcement that International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach met Peng for dinner this weekend seemed aimed at defusing sustained international concerns about the three-time Olympian and former No. 1-ranked tennis doubles player. Those concerns have threatened to overshadow the Winter Olympics underway in Beijing.
Peng told L’Equipe that the concerns were the result of “an enormous misunderstanding.” But the format of the interview appeared to allow for no sustained follow-ups, with questions submitted in advance and a Chinese Olympic committee official sitting in on the discussion, translating Peng’s comments from Chinese.
Large parts of the hour-long interview, conducted Sunday in a Beijing hotel and organized through China’s Olympic committee with the IOC’s help, focused on Peng’s playing career. At age 36, and after multiple knee surgeries, Peng said she couldn’t envisage a return to tour-level professional tennis. She hasn’t played on the women’s tour since February of 2020.
The newspaper published her comments verbatim – which it said was another pre-condition for the interview – in question-and-answer form. Photos of Peng during the interview showed her wearing a red tracksuit top with “China” in Chinese characters on the front.
L’Equipe asked Peng about sexual assault allegations that sparked the controversy in November. The allegations were quickly scrubbed from her verified account on a leading Chinese social media platform, Weibo. She subsequently dropped out of public view for a while, leading to “where is Peng Shuai?” questions online and from players and fans outside of China.
In her lengthy post, Peng wrote that Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier and member of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, had forced her to have sex despite repeated refusals. Her post also said they had sex once seven years ago, and that she developed romantic feelings for him after that.
The interview with L’Equipe was her first sit-down discussion with non-Chinese media since the accusation. She walked back the original post.
“Sexual assault? I never said that anyone made me submit to a sexual assault,” the newspaper quoted her as saying.
“This post resulted in an enormous misunderstanding from the outside world,” she also said. “My wish is that the meaning of this post no longer be skewed.”
Asked by L’Equipe why the post disappeared from Peng’s account, she said: “I erased it.”
“Why? Because I wanted to,” she added.
The obvious follow-up question of why she posted in the first place wasn’t asked.
The IOC also worked Monday to defuse the situation. It said Bach dined with Peng on Saturday, a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the Winter Olympics. The IOC said Peng also attended the China-Norway Olympic curling match with IOC member Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe.
Speaking in his daily Olympic press conference, IOC spokesman Mark Adams wouldn’t say whether the IOC believes Peng is speaking freely or is under duress
“We are a sporting organization, and our job is to remain in contact with her and, as we’ve explained in the past, to carry out personal and quiet diplomacy, to keep in touch with her, as we’ve done,” he said. “I don’t think it’s for us to be able to to judge, in one way, just as it’s not for you to judge either.”
He said the IOC cannot pass judgement on whether there should be an investigation of her initial allegations.
“I think we can say that we are doing everything we can to make sure that this situation is as it should be,” he said.
In the interview with L’Equipe, Peng did not reply directly to a question about whether she has been in trouble with Chinese authorities since the post. Instead, she responded with a pat-sounding answer that echoed views often expressed by the Chinese government about sport and politics.
“I was to say first of all that emotions, sport and politics are three clearly separate things,” the newspaper quoted her as saying. “My romantic problems, my private life, should not be mixed with sport and politics.”
Asked what her life has been like since the November posting, she replied: “It is as it should be: Nothing special.”
Peng thanked fellow players who expressed concerns about her. They included 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, who tweeted “we must not stay silent” in November and called for an investigation.
But Peng also expressed bafflement.
“I would like to know: Why so much worry?” she asked. “I never disappeared. It’s simply that many people, like my friends and among them those from the IOC, sent me messages and it was completely impossible to respond to so many messages.”
The women’s professional tennis tour suspended all WTA tournaments in China because of concerns about Peng’s safety. Peng told L’Equipe that a WTA mental health counselling unit sent her emails and a text message.
“That was very unfamiliar to me,” she said. “Why would I need psychological help or that type of thing?”
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AP journalist Sarah DiLorenzo contributed.
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Giant Supermountains Stretching Across Entire Supercontinents Controlled the Evolution of Life on Earth
Rapid erosion of supermountains released large amounts of nutrients, which were eventually carried into the oceans.
Giant mountain ranges at least as high as the Himalayas and stretching up to 8,000 kilometers across entire supercontinents played a crucial role in the evolution of early life on Earth, according to a new study by researchers at The
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