ibet789 Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI) to Issue Quarterly Dividend of $0.94BANGKOK (AFP) – A second major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has said it is ready for talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), with about 8,000 available fighters, has fought the Myanmar military for over a decade for autonomy for the Kokang ethnic minority in northern Shan state. Last year, MNDAA and two other allied rebel groups launched an offensive against the military and seized swathes of Shan state. Last week, MNDAA ally the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) said it was ready for talks with the military. “From today onwards we will cease fire immediately, and will not actively attack the Myanmar army,” the MNDAA said in a statement. “We are willing to engage in peace talks with the Myanmar army on issues such as Lashio,” it said, referring to the city its fighters captured in August in a huge blow to the junta. The MNDAA was “willing to send a high-level delegation to engage in dialogue and consult with the Myanmar military and resolve conflicts and differences through political means”, it said. A junta spokesman did not respond when contacted for comment on the MNDAA statement. The junta has not responded to the TNLA offer, and local media outlets have reported continued air strikes on TNLA-held territory. The Arakan Army (AA), the third group in the rebel alliance, is still fighting the military in coastal Rakhine state in Myanmar’s west.

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Mutual of America Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in Tenable Holdings, Inc. ( NASDAQ:TENB – Free Report ) by 10.5% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 81,167 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 7,713 shares during the quarter. Mutual of America Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Tenable were worth $3,289,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. A number of other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp boosted its stake in Tenable by 20.6% during the first quarter. Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp now owns 11,482 shares of the company’s stock valued at $568,000 after buying an additional 1,958 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Tenable by 0.3% during the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 12,543,352 shares of the company’s stock valued at $620,018,000 after acquiring an additional 32,535 shares during the last quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Tenable by 815.9% during the first quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 21,799 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,076,000 after purchasing an additional 19,419 shares in the last quarter. Bessemer Group Inc. increased its position in shares of Tenable by 60.2% in the first quarter. Bessemer Group Inc. now owns 21,060 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,041,000 after purchasing an additional 7,910 shares during the last quarter. Finally, American International Group Inc. raised its stake in Tenable by 1.0% in the first quarter. American International Group Inc. now owns 57,385 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,837,000 after purchasing an additional 592 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 89.06% of the company’s stock. Insider Activity In other news, CFO Stephen A. Vintz sold 3,413 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $41.75, for a total value of $142,492.75. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 278,493 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $11,627,082.75. This represents a 1.21 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website . Also, CEO Amit Yoran sold 5,673 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $41.75, for a total transaction of $236,847.75. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 39,309 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,641,150.75. The trade was a 12.61 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 22,307 shares of company stock valued at $920,880. Corporate insiders own 4.30% of the company’s stock. Analyst Ratings Changes Read Our Latest Analysis on Tenable Tenable Stock Performance NASDAQ:TENB opened at $42.44 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.28, a current ratio of 1.28 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.88. Tenable Holdings, Inc. has a twelve month low of $35.25 and a twelve month high of $53.50. The stock has a market cap of $5.10 billion, a P/E ratio of -83.31 and a beta of 0.83. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $40.96 and its 200 day simple moving average is $41.79. Tenable Company Profile ( Free Report ) Tenable Holdings, Inc provides cyber exposure solutions for in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. 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Online predators are becoming increasingly resourceful in trolling media platforms where children gravitate, prompting an explosion in police case loads, said an officer who works for the RCMP Integrated Child Exploitation Unit in British Columbia. Data show the problem spiked during COVID-19 when children began spending more time online — but rates did not wane as police anticipated after lockdowns ended. In B.C., they soared, almost quadrupling from 2021 to 2023. Const. Solana Pare is now warning exploitation of children is likely here to stay, as a technological race between police and predators gains momentum. “Technology is becoming more and more available, and online platforms and social media sites are being used by children younger and younger, which provides an opportunity for predators to connect with them,” Pare said in an interview. Police say child exploitation cases in B.C. went from about 4,600 in 2021 to 9,600 in 2022 to 15,920 reports last year. The upwards trend is seen nationally, too. Statistics Canada says the rate of online child sexual exploitation reported to police rose by 58 per cent from 2019 to 2022, and police data show cases have continued to rise. The RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Crime Centre reported that from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, it received 118,162 reports of suspected online child sexual exploitation offences — a 15 per cent increase compared with the previous year. Online child sexual exploitation, Pare explained, includes offences such as sextortion, child luring and the creation or distribution of sexually explicit images of a minor. “We don’t see these types of reports going away,” Pare said. “We only see them increasing because the use of electronic devices and social media, and kids being online earlier and earlier is becoming more common. There’s going to be more opportunity for predators to target children online.” Monique St. Germain, general counsel for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said the most common type of child luring is communicating with a youth online in order get them to produce sexual abuse material. She said “the pandemic accelerated those types of cases, and it hasn’t slowed down.” “The tools (Canadian authorities) have to deal with this type of behaviour are inadequate for the scope and the scale of what’s going on,” she said. Online exploitation gained international attention in 2015 in the case of Port Coquitlam, B.C., teenager, Amanda Todd, who died by suicide after being blackmailed and harassed online by a man for years, starting when she was 12. The month before the 15-year-old died, she uploaded a nine-minute video using a series of flash cards detailing the abuse she experienced by the stranger and how it had affected her life. It’s been viewed millions of times. Dutch national Aydin Coban was extradited to Canada for trial and, in October 2022, he was convicted of charges including the extortion and harassment of Todd. Since then, the term “sextortion” has made its way into the vernacular as more cases come to light. Among them was Carson Cleland, a 12-year-old Prince George, B.C., boy who died by suicide in October 2023 after falling victim to the crime. In New Brunswick that same month, 16-year-old William Doiron took his own life after falling victim to a global sextortion scheme. Mounties across Canada have issued news releases warning of increased cases in their communities, noting that the consequences for the victims can include self-harm and suicide. St. Germain said technology, such as artificial intelligence, is also becoming more user-friendly. “The existence of that technology and its ease of use and ready accessibility is a problem, and it is going to be an increasingly large problem as we move forward,” she said. Pare said police are also adapting to technological advancements in order to keep up with the ever-changing online landscape. “Police are constantly obtaining training on digital technologies to increase our knowledge and understanding of all the intricacies involving their use and how to capture any digital evidence,” she said. Pare said the true rates of the crime are impossible to determine, but pointed to increased social awareness and legislation across North America around mandatory reporting of child abuse material from social media companies as a potential reason for the increase. It’s not going undetected any longer, she said. “Additionally, there’s been a lot of use in artificial intelligence to detect child exploitation materials within those platforms.” Pare said “it’s up to each individual platform” to ensure there is no child sexual abuse material on their sites or apps. “With mandatory reporting, it’s putting the onus back on the electronic service providers to ensure they have measures in place to prevent this from happening, and if it is happening that it is being reported,” she said. “That being said, there are times when things don’t get located.” That is why the Canadian Centre for Child Protection has been advocating for the adoption of the Online Harms Bill that the federal government introduced in February, St. Germain said. “It’s shocking that up until now, we’ve relied on companies to self regulate, meaning we’ve just relied on them to do the right thing,” she said. “What we are seeing in terms of the number of offences and in terms of all the harm that is happening in society as a result of online platforms is completely tied to the decision not to regulate. We need to have rules in any sector, and this sector is no different.” The Online Harms Bill covers seven types of harms, from non-consensual sharing of intimate images to content that can be used to bully a child. Earlier this month, Justice Minister Arif Virani announced the Liberal government will split the bill into two parts: dealing with keeping children safe online, and combating predators and issues related to revenge pornography. “We are putting our emphasis and prioritization and our time and efforts on the first portion of the bill,” Virani told reporters on Dec. 5. Such measures would include a new Digital Safety Commission of Canada, which would compel social media companies to outline how they plan to reduce the risks their platforms pose to users, particularly minors. It would have the power to levy fines and evaluate companies’ digital safety plans. St. Germain said such a split “makes sense,” noting that most objections to the bill are related to changes to the Criminal Code and not measures around curbing harms to children. “There obviously are differences of opinion in terms of what is the best way forward, and what kind of regulatory approach makes sense, and who should the regulator be, but there does seem to be consensus on the idea that we need to do more in terms of protecting children online,” she said, adding that the organization is still in support of the second half of the bill. She said the United Kingdom previously passed its own Online Safety Act that will come into effect in 2025, which includes requiring social media firms to protect children from content such as self-harm material, pornography and violent content. Failure to do so will result in fines. “Canada is really behind,” she said. “The amount of information that has come out of the U.K., the amount of time and care and attention that their legislatures have paid to this issue is really quite remarkable, and we really hope that Canada steps up and does something for Canadian children soon.” In the absence of national legislation, province’s have filled the void. In January, B.C. enacted the Intimate Images Protection Act, providing a path for victims to have online photos, videos or deep fakes expeditiously removed. Individuals are fined up to $500 per day and websites up to $5,000 a day if they don’t comply with orders to stop distributing images that are posted without consent. B.C.’s Ministry of the Attorney General said that as of Dec. 11, the Civil Resolution Tribunal had received a total of 199 disputes under the Intimate Images Protection Act. It said the Intimate Images Protection Service had served more than 240 clients impacted by the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, adding that four awards of $5,000 each and one for $3,000 had been supplied as of mid-December. Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta and Saskatchewan have also enacted legislation targeting unauthorized distribution of intimate images. St. Germain said the use of provincial powers is also necessary, but it’s not enough. “A piece of provincial legislation is going to be very difficult to be effective against multiple actors in multiple countries,” she said, noting that the online crime is borderless. “We need something bigger — more comprehensive. We need to use all tools in the tool box.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2024. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. 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Months have passed since the kilts were packed away and the hangovers cured, yet the echoes of Scotland's summer of fun in Germany continue to resonate. The cities that welcomed hundreds of thousands of Scottish fans during the Euros have long since returned to normal, but it seems the effects of what took place there are still being felt. Tourism experts report a surge in German visitors to Scotland, with some attributing this trend to the friendships forged by the Tartan Army during their time overseas. An estimated 200,000 Scotland fans travelled to Germany to support Steve Clarke’s team in their first major overseas tournament since the 1998 World Cup. On the pitch, the side struggled and failed to qualify for the knock out phase of the tournament, but for two weeks fans partied with the locals in Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart and beyond - making memories and friendships that would last a lifetime. “It’s one of those where you had to be there to really understand what it was like,” said Craig Ferguson, who gained social media fame by walking in his kilt from Glasgow to Munich. The 21-year-old has been back to Germany several times and has even become friends with the Mayor of Munich. “Pretty much on the daily I’ve been getting messages from people in Germany saying ‘look Craig, we want to come to Scotland now because of what we've seen, what the Scottish people were like, in our cities over the summer’. “For sure there’s not just people saying they want to come, but there are actually people booking flights to come, which is fantastic. “I’ve been back a number of times and even off the back of what happened in the summer, people hear the Scottish accent and instantly say ‘no way, are you from Scotland?’ “It’s like they remember the positive connotations that came along with that and it’s just amazing." Travel companies too are seeing evidence that something changed during those few weeks of football. “The number of Germans visiting Edinburgh has increased by 156% year on year,” noted Mohit Joshi from travel company Skyscanner. “What’s fascinating is that the Scottish fans brought warmth, kindness, and humour to Germany - qualities that the locals truly admired. “This curiosity has sparked a growing interest in Scotland, reflected in the rising search queries.” Visit Scotland anticipates a clearer picture of the impact next year, but they say that searches in Germany for Scotland as a holiday destination surged by 57% during the tournament itself. While it’s difficult to prove beyond doubt what effect Scotland’s Euros party has really had on tourism, those in the hospitality sector are noticing a clear connection. Andy Barton, owner of the HairyCoo bus tour company, which takes tourists to destinations like Skye and Loch Ness, has observed a significant upturn in German visitors and is convinced something is happening. “Last year, we welcomed around 3,000 Germans on our tours; this year alone, that number has jumped to about 5,000,” he said. “If we can build on the momentum from Germany this summer, it would be fantastic for Scotland.” For evidence of what impact the Scotland fans had on their German hosts, look no further than Martina Spiech from Cologne. After spending two weeks celebrating with Scottish fans in her hometown, she completely fell in love with a country she has yet to visit. To commemorate her experience, she got a giant tattoo of the lion and thistle, inked down her calf. Martina also joined the newly formed Cologne Tartan Army fan group and can’t wait to explore Scotland. “I truly fell in love with Scotland and wanted to show my affection in any way I can, even though I’ve never been there,” she said. She is also convinced there are many more like her who loved what they saw in the summer and now have Scotland top of their list of places to visit. She said: “I think many people here were maybe thinking about it but after mixing with so many Scottish people in the summer, now they are saying ‘we have to go'.”Longest-lived US president was always happy to speak his mind

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 17: Commuters arrive into the Oculus station and mall in Manhattan on ... [+] November 17, 2022 in New York City. According to a report by the United Nations population division, the world's population reached 8 billion people as of last Tuesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) AI goes to work. It’s a central message that we’ll all hear repeatedly next year throughout 2025. There’s an undercurrent running through the technology industry that suggests we may need to start thinking about the practical application of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It will no longer be acceptable (we hope) for vendors to simply say “look! we’ve just added AI to our platform” and although we’re a very long way indeed from AI simply being a functionality rather than a fanfare in its own right (that won’t happen inside this decade), we may be at a turning point where the tech glitterati start to realize the need to talk about solid software solutions. Kyle Campos agrees with this sentiment. As chief technology & product officer (CTPO) at FinOps and cloud ROI platform company CloudBolt, Campos is used to conversations that get to the bottom line (financially, literally) quicker than some. He thinks that now is the time for AI in the cloud to moves from simply spotting and identfyig things to actually doing things. The New AI Tablestakes "Beyond data crunching and spitting out so-called ‘insights’, AI-driven automation that turns insights into actions, automatically optimizes cloud performance and spend... and reduces the insight-to-action gap will become the new tablestakes by the end of 2025,” asserts Kampos. “Agentic AI will now gain rapid adoption and be integrated into workflows to accelerate AI impact such that the industry begins seeing ‘near-realtime FinOps’ for the first time. This is the point at which AI begins playing a bigger role in spotting anomalies and making decisions at moments of truth at the edge as organizations continue finding ways to shift left.” This sentiment is echoed by AI analytics company ThoughtSpot. The organization has now extended its platform with Spotter, an agentic AI analyst tool designed to bring the analytical and reasoning skills of a human data analyst to all users. Spotter enables users, irrespective of their technical capabilities, to converse with Spotter as they would a human analyst to get a kind of self-service business decision support service in natural, conversational language. The tool integrates with users' preferred softwaer platforms so that is embedded withing existing business applications, digital productivity tools and custom agents. This Viral Smart Bassinet Is 30% Off With The Snoo Black Friday Sale The 50 Best Black Friday Deals So Far, According To Our Deals Editors Business Augmented Reasoning Spotter’s architecture begins with ThoughtSpot’s agentic reasoning layer, known as the BARQ (Business Augmented Reasoning for Questions) layer. Here, questions are classified and matched with the appropriate agent based on the required skill. From frontline workers in retail to C-Suite executives in financial services, Spotter adapts to the industry and persona of its users, allowing everyone to get reliable, replicable and contextually rich insights. Dovetailing with human intelligence, users can modify and interact with their answers directly based on their train-of-thought and business expertise. Enterprise software company Pegasystems Inc. is also suitably (admirably, even) impatient with the state of the AI hypecycle and wants to help bring practical tools to market. The company’s AI-driven legacy discovery capabilities in Pega GenAI Blueprint are designed to accelerate the task of modernizing legacy systems. No More Band-Aids “There are only so many Band-Aids that IT can keep applying before their systems reach a breaking point,” said Kerim Akgonul , chief product officer, Pega. “But digital transformation is a herculean undertaking that’s typically fraught with failure. These new features in Pega GenAI Blueprint turbocharge modernization projects so organizations can finally shed their outdated tech and curb technical debt while paving the way for a future-ready business.” This is an AI-infused workflow design platform technology (initially launched earlier this year) that enables firms to digitize mission-critical workflows, fast. With newly added legacy discovery features, it jumpstarts digital transformation projects to rethink and replace inefficient systems and apps. Users can now get hold of generative AI to analyze existing IT assets and create new modern cloud-native application ‘blueprints’ that are ready to build. This sidesteps lengthy discovery processes that slow these projects from the start. “With more than 60,000 blueprints created since its launch, Pega GenAI Blueprint is the fastest adopted solution in Pega’s history. With nothing more than a natural language description of an app idea, it designs components in seconds using generative AI and drawing on Pega’s expertise, industry best practices, and internet knowledge. This makes innovation easy so anyone can go from app idea to functional app design exponentially faster and more completely than any other workflow design tool,” said Akgonul and team. “Pega GenAI Blueprint releases new features every week to make app design easier and faster. The latest updates include the ability to add new automation types, like AI and robotic processes, to the apps. Plus, with enhanced Live Preview, users can see how their app will look for different personas before going live, complete with their organization’s brand style and simulated data.” Beyond The Brouhaha If this trend manifests itself in more concrete terms in the next 12 months, then we’ll likely hear vendors talk about the real world application of “real AI tools” in this way and tell us that now is the time to get working at a variety of different levels. In truth, many organizations have been using working systems that employ Robotic Process Automation and intelligent data and process mining technologies for most of the current decade if not the one before that too. What has perhaps “muddied” the perception and understanding of AI throughout 2024 has been the hullabaloo and brouhaha that has accompanied generative AI, the additional layering of retrieval augmented generation and the popularization of agentic AI tools capable of getting on with work with limited (or no) human intervention. As the tech trade now starts to come out of its AI honeymoon period, we can relax and start to enjoy an enriched assemblage of real world intelligence tools that actually perform tasks for humans and help us progress towards better societies, improved human wellbeing and interplanetary sustainability with a core consideration for environmental and social governance. Will all that happen so that the AI hype finally subsides? Don’t be ridiculous, strap yourself in for more of the same.

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Health authorities in the United Kingdom have warned the public against cheap Brazilian butt lift (BBL) from overseas clinics. The invasive cosmetic procedure is being offered abroad for under £3,000, inclusive of hotel accommodation and flight fare, to entice customers. In contrast, local BBL costs 70 percent higher in the United Kingdom, according to the National Health Service (NHS). However, a spate of deaths and medical complications arising from botched BBL surgeries, with the NHS frequently having to treat patients when they return home, prompted the warning posted on the NHS website on 21 December. In the post, NHS National Medical Director Professor Sir Stephen Powis also said BBL surgery has the highest death rate of all cosmetic procedures as the fat injected into the buttocks can lead to a pulmonary embolism, which is a blockage in a blood vessel in the lungs that can be fatal. “While many people’s social media feeds will be full of enticing looking offers in the run up to Christmas, the reality is these bargain basement cosmetic procedures are potentially deadly,” he warned. Meanwhile, a literal case of butt lifting has been remedied using 3-D printing technology. Mystic Aquarium senior veterinarian Dr. Molly Martony revealed that the company Adia measured and scanned Charlotte for the design of a customized prosthetic harness to remedy a “bubble butt syndrome” (BBS). Charlotte, a green sea turtle at the Connecticut aquarium, is suffering from BBS years after it was hit by a boat that damaged her shell and spinal cord. The BBS caused the male green sea turtle to be buoyant and vertical in the water because air in its gastro-intestinal tract lifts its butt up. The position can damage its organs, Claire Bolster, Charlotte’s handler, said, according to ABC News. With the prosthetic harness fitted on Charlotte’s shell, weights can be placed to pull his butt down and let him swim at level and more smoothly.