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Pitt QB Eli Holstein carted off with leg injuryWELLINGTON, New Zealand , Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- WAISL is delighted to announce the launch of its Digital Twin-Powered Integrated Airport Predictive Operations Centre (APOC) at Hyderabad International Airport in India . The avant-garde solution was unveiled by the Honourable Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, who lauded the pioneering efforts of the Chairman and leadership of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Hyderabad and their technology partners. This is India's first end-to-end fully integrated digital twin-powered APOC that covers the Terminal, Airside and Landside, integrating with over 40 modules and tracking more than 100 KPIs, capable of managing 40+ million passengers annually. WAISL's innovative APOC solution can significantly enhance the efficiency of New Zealand airports, reduce flight delays, and enhance passenger satisfaction. By integrating advanced technologies, the country's airports can effectively manage rising passenger volumes, improve revenue streams, and reduce operational expenditures, ensuring a seamless and efficient travel experience. This deployment ushers in a new era in airport operations, offering predictive, prescriptive, and simulative insights and a comprehensive 360-degree view of the entire airport ecosystem. The solution leverages next-generation technologies like Digital Twin, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, AI/ML, video, and Data Analytics. WAISL had identified and established a key partnership with Kloudspot using their IoT technology for this solution. More recently, WAISL partnered with AWS to further evolve this solution and take it to other airport and transport clients globally. This was launched by AWS via press releases and at their prestigious Re-invent in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. "At WAISL, we are setting a new benchmark for airports worldwide. We don't just innovate; we transform the boundaries of what's possible. In the digital age, transformative impact stems not from technology alone but from its bold, strategic application to complex operational challenges," said Rishi Mehta , President & CEO of WAISL Ltd. WAISL's digital solution is designed to deliver significant business advantages for airports. It delivers real-time insights and an automated plan of the day that seamlessly integrates with all systems, predicts potential disruptions, analyses trends, and continuously learns from post-operative analysis for performance optimisation. " We want to clear the myth and quantify a real achievable business value and RoI to Airport Operators and CxOs who are in various stages of maturity with their APOC strategy. The WAISL digital APOC is one of the first to embrace Total Airport Management, Con-Ops, and IOT/AI/ML technology to drive end-to-end Digital Operations Transformation. 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On the demise of my beloved book bag, and how it helped me let go of the past | The Old GuyPresident-elect Donald Trump campaigned on his plan to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, which has left professors and education experts envisioning a mostly bleak future for student learning. On Tuesday, he announced he chose Linda McMahon, a former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, who served as the leader of the Small Business Administration in Trump’s previous administration. After leaving his previous administration, McMahon remained in Trump’s circle, serving as chair of a super PAC that backed his reelection campaign in 2020 and serving as co-chair of his current transition team. Former WWE executive Linda McMahon has been nominated to serve as Secretary of Education in the next Trump administration, a role for which critics say she’s unqualified. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) McMahon ran twice, in 2010 and 2012, for a U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut but lost both times. After that, McMahon decided to provide financial support to candidates, and gave $6 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Critics say McMahon has little experience to guide federal education policy and budgets. McMahon served on the Connecticut Board of Education for a year starting in 2009. She claimed that she had a degree in education in a vetting questionaire for the position, but later admitted to the Hartford Courant that contacted the governor about the mistake. She also spent years on the board of trustees for Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She has expressed support for charter schools and school choice that have wide GOP support. Kyle Telechan/Post-Tribune State Senator Rodney Pol (right), D-Chesterton, and Representative Patricia Boy, D-Michigan City. answer questions from students during a visit to Chesterton High School on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Kyle Telechan for the Post-Tribune) McMahon was also named in lawsuit filed in October, which accuses her and other WWE employees of knowing about child sexual abuse by former ringside announcer Melvin Phillips but failing to do anything about it, according to The Associated Press. Phillips, who died in 2012, was accused of assaulting “ring boys” as young as 13. State Senator Rodney Pol, D-Chesterton, said he was surprised at McMahon’s nomination, but it seemed to follow the direction of other cabinet nominees. “It’s as if he’s picking the cast of ‘The Apprentice’,” Pol said. “These are people’s lives you are playing with. This is insane.” Chesterton High history teacher Robert DeRuntz said he doesn’t understand how eliminating the Department of Education would improve K-12 education if it takes money away from public schools. “Good government is about good policy and good problem solving,” said DeRuntz. Kyle Telechan / Post-Tribune Chesterton High School history teacher Bob DeRuntz, in Union garb, performs the Gettysburg Address for students during a living history Civil War camp in the school’s courtyard on Monday, September 27, 2021. (Kyle Telechan for the Post-Tribune) The DOE manages the $18.4 billion Title I program that provides more funding support in high-poverty urban areas like Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago. Financially-strapped Lake Station used its Title I funding to rehire its entire paraprofessional staff after it lost a property tax referendum last year. The DOE also manages the $15.5 billion program that supports programs for students with disabilities and it oversees the $1.6 trillion federal student loan program. Brendan Cantwell, a professor of higher education at Michigan State University, said McMahon has little relevant experience with education policy. In appointing McMahon, who has been a friend and ally to Trump, the president-elect stated he wanted to devolve education policy to the states but did not state he would eliminate the department, Cantwell said. Democratic candidate for governor Jennifer McCormick speaks during a visit to the Harris/Walz Campaign Headquarters in Gary on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune) The U.S. Department of Education was established in the 1970s and opened in 1980 to manage the growing portfolio of educational programs and enforce educational laws that Congress passes, Cantwell said. The department enforces provisions like Title IX, which ensures that gender is not a barrier in full participation — from academics to sports — in higher education, Cantwell said. For many years, most Republicans in Congress have been skeptical about expanding the federal government, Cantwell said. As a relatively new department, Republicans have viewed the Department of Education “suspiciously,” Cantwell said, and that many portions of the department could be combined with other departments. State representative Vernon Smith, D-Gary, speaks to local education leaders during the annual Northwest Indiana School Superintendents’ Luncheon at Indiana University Northwest in Gary on Friday, March 1, 2024. (Michael Gard/for the Post-Tribune) For example, most Republican legislators believe federal financial aid could be handled by the U.S. Department of Treasury, Cantwell said. Or, they believe the U.S. Department of Justice could enforce provisions like Title IX, he said. “Republicans have sort of long viewed getting rid of the Department of Education as a potential goal for downsizing the government,” Cantwell said. “The difference now is that Trump has championed eliminating the department much more consistently and vigorously than any presidential candidate in the past.” The timing will also likely prove important, Cantwell said. Trump has discussed eliminating the Department of Education at a time when Republicans maintain their skepticism in the size of government, particularly with administering programs, and when education, particularly higher education, has become culturally and politically polarizing, he said. “This moment might be the moment when there’s enough energy to get behind a dramatic change to federal education policy,” Cantwell said. “While it’s a proposal that is definitely on the table and will probably get discussed, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s guaranteed to happen.” Congress would have to vote to eliminate the department, Cantwell said. While Republicans will control the next Congress, Cantwell said he foresees disagreement among Republicans on whether or not to prioritize eliminating the department. Congressional Democrats would oppose eliminating the department, Cantwell said, so it would require the Republicans to unify behind the issue. With two years until the next Congressional elections, it’s not clear if eliminating the department would be a top priority for Republicans. Education officials have shared a theory that Trump could eliminate the department through executive order, Cantwell said, but it’s not clear if the courts would allow it. It’s likely that if Trump did attempt to eliminate the department through executive order, lawsuits would be filed and the process would be tied up in the courts, he said. “Those are the obstacles. Congress may not be willing to do it, and if he tried to do it on his own, it might be blocked,” Cantwell said. But, if Trump were able to eliminate the department, Cantwell said while education laws would likely remain on the books, the enforcement agency wouldn’t be there to make sure the laws are being followed. From there, the federal government would become reactive instead of proactive when it comes to education law, he said. Without an education department, the federal government would likely lose or greatly reduce the number of experts in education, for example civil rights laws within the context of education, Cantwell said. Without a Department of Education, schools and universities would have the authority to do what they want, which would follow Republicans’ push for local control in education, Cantwell said. “President Trump operates much differently than other presidents in the past — both Republicans and Democrats — and so it’s hard to understand exactly what he’s thinking and what would happen,” Cantwell said. Jennifer McCormick, Indiana’s last elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, said it would be “a huge lift” to eliminate the department. Her immediate concerns have been the execution, from how the department will be eliminated and at what pace, to the purpose, she said. McCormick, who lost to GOP Gov.-elect Mike Braun earlier this month, questioned whether the purpose of eliminating the department would be to allocate education dollars differently or through a different federal agency or to drastically reduce or eliminate funding. In Indiana, the majority of federal funds from the Department of Education go to public schools, McCormick said. Funding goes toward supporting students with special needs, students who are eligible for free or reduced lunch, among other things. When she was state superintendent, McCormick said Indiana received $1 billion annually from the U.S. Department of Education. If that funding ends or were cut in half, the state’s education entities would feel that, she said. “From the people I’ve talked to, school officials, they’re just very concerned about really why and what happens to the funding because, let’s be realistic, Indiana does not have enough money to replace those funds. It would be really difficult to do that really for any state from the state level,” McCormick said. McCormick questioned whether the plan would be to allocate federal education funds toward voucher schools, which she said would be “very concerning.” “The concern is it’s coming across as the reason for it is punitive, and I’m not sure that’s a great reason to eliminate an agency. If you’re looking for efficiency and effectiveness, and if you’re looking for better service to kids, and they deem that to be the best way, but I’m not hearing that,” McCormick said. “It seems to be just ‘we don’t need it’ without much other explanation.” If the Trump administration was successful in eliminating the department, students would feel that impact because the services and resources teachers that federal funding support would be negatively affected, McCormick said. “We are already struggling to keep up with the cost of serving kids, and they deserve it. They are eligible and the law protects them. But the funds, we’re really struggling to keep up with the demands of those services,” McCormick said. Pol said his biggest concern with eliminating the department has been the impact that would have on special needs and low income students. If federal dollars were to become used for charter or voucher schools, public education would suffer, Pol said. “To me, that’s going to be very problematic,” Pol said. “That should be incredibly alarming.” State Rep. Vernon Smith, D-Gary, said if Trump eliminates the department, then education standards and procedures will be left largely to the states. Under that scenario, Smith said he has grave concerns that some states may decide they don’t want to teach minorities, special needs individuals, or girls and women. “There would be no national standards, and so the quality of education across these United States would be diminished,” Smith said. “We would have no regulatory watchdog to see what is going on with our various schools.” Smith, who serves on the Indiana House Education Committee, said he’d be concerned with the Indiana legislature dictating education policy without federal oversight because of the Republican Party supermajority. “With a conservative party being in place, they may just do away totally with traditional public education because the movement has been towards charters, has been toward vouchers, funding of private schools and so forth. There’s no telling what would happen with traditional public school,” Smith said. Smith, who has been a public school educator for more than 30 years, said the ultimate goal of eliminating the department is to have undereducated constituents. “Educated people are easy to lead but difficult to drive,” Smith said. “I am sure that Donald Trump wants to drive people rather than educate them. When you have an uninformed populace, then the lies that he tells are accepted because they don’t know any better.” Freelance reporter Carole Carlson contributed to this story. The Associated Press contributed. akukulka@post-trib.com

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SUGAR LAND, Texas, Dec. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. AAOI (" AOI ," " we ," " us " or " our ") expects to enter into transactions with holders of its 5.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the " 2026 Notes ") to exchange approximately $80 million principal amount of the 2026 Notes for aggregate consideration consisting of a combination of (i) Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 (the " 2030 Notes "), (ii) shares of our common stock (the " Exchange Shares ") and (iii) cash representing accrued interest on the 2026 Notes and the value of fractional shares, if any (such transactions, collectively, the " Exchanges "). Final terms for the Exchanges will be determined at the time of pricing. The 2030 Notes will be our senior, unsecured obligations and will be equal in right of payment with our existing and future senior, unsecured indebtedness, senior in right of payment to our existing and future indebtedness that is expressly subordinated to the 2030 Notes and effectively subordinated to our existing and future secured indebtedness, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing that indebtedness. The 2030 Notes will be convertible at the option of holders of the 2030 Notes under certain specified circumstances, as set forth in the indenture governing the 2030 Notes. We will settle conversions by paying or delivering, as applicable, cash, shares of our common stock or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock, at our election, based on the applicable conversion rate. Following the completion of the Exchanges, we may engage in additional exchanges or repurchase, induce conversions of, or exercise our right to redeem the 2026 Notes. Holders of the 2026 Notes that participate in any of these exchanges, repurchases or induced conversions may purchase or sell shares of our common stock in the open market to unwind any hedge positions they may have with respect to the 2026 Notes or our common stock or to hedge their exposure in connection with these transactions. These activities may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock and the 2030 Notes we are offering. There can be no assurance that the Exchanges will be completed. The issuance and sale of the 2030 Notes and the Exchange Shares pursuant to the Exchanges are being made in transactions exempt from registration pursuant to Sections 3(a)(9) and 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. is acting as AOI's exclusive financial advisor in connection with the Exchanges. Concurrently with the Exchanges, AOI announced today that it intends to commence an offering of shares of its common stock in a registered direct offering (the " Registered Direct Offering "). We intend to use the net proceeds, if any, from the Registered Direct Offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, capital expenditures and working capital. We may also use such proceeds to fund acquisitions of businesses, technologies or product lines that complement our current business; however, we have no present plans, agreements or commitments with respect to any potential acquisition. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. is acting as the sole placement agent in connection with the Registered Direct Offering. The Registered Direct Offering is being made pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR (Registration File No. 333-283905), which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the " SEC ") on December 18, 2024, and became effective immediately upon filing, including the prospectus contained therein. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to and describing the terms of the Registered Direct Offering was filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the " Securities Act ") on December 18, 2024, copies of which may be obtained from Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Attention: Equity Syndicate, 880 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, Florida 33716, or by telephone at (800) 248-8863, or by e-mail to prospectus@raymondjames.com . Electronic copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus are also available on the website of the SEC at http://www.sec.gov . The Exchanges and Registered Direct Offering are expected to close concurrently on or about December 23, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. Haynes Boone LLP is acting as legal advisor to AOI and Mayer Brown LLP is acting as legal advisor to Raymond James & Associates, Inc., in connection with the Exchanges and the Registered Direct Offering. This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor will there be any sale of any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Forward-Looking Information This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that's he's preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect's threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park." Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn't a trolling-free zone for Trump's adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A." In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden's spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump's taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.Gettman kicks go-ahead FG as Villanova ends Delaware's FCS-era with a 38-28 win in finale

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