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How the massive immigration raid on a Georgia car plant unfoldedMore than 300 South Koreans who were detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US state of Georgia last week are due to arrive home on Friday.Their return comes as the country’s president and Hyundai’s chief executive have warned about the impact of the raid.A chartered Korean Air jet carrying the workers and 14 non-Koreans who were also detained in the raid took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at midday local time on Thursday (17:00 BST). One South Korean national has reportedly chosen to…

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Hugh PymHealth editorBBC”It was really bad – we had patients dying on the waiting lists – politicians were getting desperate.”Jesper Fisker, chief executive of the Danish Cancer Society, is looking back 25 years – to the moment Denmark decided to transform its approach to treating cancer.At that point, he says, the country did not have a strong record.”It was a disaster,” he recalls. “We saw Danish patients out of their own pocket paying for tickets to China to get all sorts of treatments – endangering their health.”Some went to private hospitals in Germany that offered new treatments unavailable in Denmark.Back…

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The Love Boat costars Ted Lange, Fred Grandy, and Jill Whelan collaborated on the Off Broadway play Lady Patriot.Their former costar Bernie Kopell supported the show during its opening night performance.Whelan said that a costuming Easter egg in the play pays tribute to original Love Boat captain Gavin MacLeod. The Love Boat cast is making another run!Four cast members from the classic romance series reunited at the Off Broadway premiere of Lady Patriot, a play written and directed by Ted Lange, who portrayed bartender Isaac Washington on the beloved series. Lange’s play also features his former costar Fred Grandy, the…

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While some humans find they have two left feet on the dancefloor, octopuses manage to coordinate eight highly flexible arms across a host of behaviours, from foraging to den-building, or moving around the seafloor.Now researchers say they have completed the most comprehensive study of its kind, not only identifying the actions and small motions involved in different types of movements, but revealing that – like primates, rodents and fish – the cephalopods prefer to use particular limbs for certain tasks.“In general, we did see that for most actions the octopuses used their front arms more often than their back arms,”…

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Former Virgin Australia chief exits with $50mJonathan BarrettJayne Hrdlicka, the former chief executive of Virgin Australia, left the airline with a remuneration package worth more than $50m, according to the company’s annual report.Hrdlicka, who was brought on to revive the airline after its collapse early in the pandemic, left in March, shortly before Virgin Australia re-listed on the ASX.She has had several high-profile executive roles, and is the former head of Qantas’ budget carrier, Jetstar. Photograph: Loren Elliott/ReutersVirgin’s annual report, released this morning, shows Hrdlicka left the airline with a package of cash and shares valued at $49.9m, which included…

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Larry Ellison, co-founder of the software company Oracle, is having a good year. His friend Donald Trump is in the White House, his son David Ellison has taken over the storied media company CBS, and on Wednesday he surpassed his buddy Elon Musk to win the title of the “world’s richest man”.Oracle’s stock went wild with the news, pushing his fortune even higher. Ellison’s net worth shot up to $393bn, surpassing Musk’s $384bn – although, by the time markets closed on Wednesday, Musk was back ahead.Ellison is not as much of a household name as Musk, but he is largely…

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Online media brands, including Yahoo, Quora and Medium, are taking a new step to prevent AI companies from copying and using their content to train models without their permission.The publishers, including CNET’s parent company Ziff Davis, see this new tool, called RSL, as another way to ensure large AI developers don’t use their work without payment or compensation — an issue that’s already led to a host of lawsuits. RSL, which stands for Really Simple Licensing, is inspired by Really Simple Syndication, a longtime web standard that provides up-to-date and automatic content updates in a computer-readable format. Like RSS, RSL is…

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Throughout the college football season, we’ll be taking a late-week look at potential play or fade chances for the upcoming action. While this exercise might have a bit more clarity in upcoming weeks as teams get into conference schedules and move on from various non-league games, often against lower-tier opposition, we’ve still seen enough in the first two weeks to identify potential risers and fallers in upcoming games.We’ll move down the list in alphabetical order as we identify some potential college football betting value for Week 3.Appalachian State -2.5 at Southern MissVerdict: Play Sun Belt sources indicate not to overreact…

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