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Dr. Calvin Embert Jones Jr., a retired vascular surgeon and faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine recalled for his caring way with patients, died April 16 at Bayview Medical Center after suffering a fall at his home in Parkville. He was 82. “He was a breath of fresh air for those of us interested in cardiovascular disease, and he was adept at all vascular operations,” said Dr. James H. Black III, a Johns Hopkins professor of surgery. “He was like a country doctor. He could talk to those down on their luck as effortlessly as he could chat with a Hunt Valley executive. “He knew their families and their struggles, and he often solved those problems along with their diseases.” Born in Baltimore and raised on Hanover Street in South Baltimore, he was the son of Calvin E. Jones Sr., an office equipment dealer, and his wife, Pearl, a homemaker. He was a 1956 graduate of Baltimore City College, where he played soccer. As a young man he took a year off and worked at the old General Motors plant on Broening Highway. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was…

Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center, at Middle Tennessee State University, is available to provide expertise on how First Amendment rights apply to social media.  On Mahony Area School District v. B.L., for which arguments are on Wednesday, April 28, Paulson says  “Freedom of Speech is not something awarded with a high school diploma. These are citizens with a right to speak out about the operations of a public school, and the U.S. Supreme Court has the opportunity to make that clear.”Paulson's op-ed "Cheerleader case could bolster - or damage - students' speech rights" is available for reprint.Paulson is former editor-in-chief of USA Today, where he remains a columnist writing about First Amendment and media issues. He founded the Free Speech Center at MTSU in 2019. He was executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and served as the center’s president and CEO before that. Paulson speaks widely on First Amendment issues and has been quoted extensively in media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, ESPN, CBS Evening News and Newsweek. Paulson has testified before Congress as a First Amendment expert. He has a juris doctorate and is a member of both the Illinois…

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LOUISVILLE — Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) acquired Louisville-based Pixel8earth Inc. at some point in the first quarter of the year, likely to bolster its mapping capabilities. The parent company of social-media app Snapchat first disclosed that it had made an acquisition of an unnamed company for $7.6 million in its quarterly report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The news was reported by startup publication TechCrunch. A Snap representative confirmed the acquisition to BizWest but declined to comment further. Pixel8earth was developing software that took submitted photographs and stitched them together into a crowdsourced 3D map of various areas. In a blog post, the company said it would be joining Snap as part of its augmented-reality and Snap Map teams. The Snap Map feature allows users to submit and see public Snapchats from across the world. © 2021 BizWest Media LLC LOUISVILLE — Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) acquired Louisville-based Pixel8earth Inc. at some point in the first quarter of the year, likely to bolster its mapping capabilities. The parent company of social-media app Snapchat first disclosed that it had made an acquisition of an unnamed company for $7.6 million in its quarterly report to the U.S. Securities…

Made in Chelsea star Sam Thompson has been slammed by an alopecia sufferer over a joke post in which he pretended to make his co-star sister bald.The 28-year-old prankster mocked-up telly star Louise without any hair using a Snapchat filter.Fan Emma Archer, who has had alopecia for over 20 years, was left feeling offended after seeing the post. Sam's video post - which racked up 62,000 views - was later removed but married mother-of-two Emma claims he then mocked her in a string of direct messages.Emma - who lost 80 per cent of her hair at the height of her alopecia - said: 'All I wanted was him to say "Sorry it was never meant to be offensive". Made in Chelsea star Sam Thompson (left) has been slammed by an alopecia sufferer over a post in which he made his co-star sister (right) baldEmma claims Sam's responses were 'surprising' and 'f*****g insensitive' and that they upset her.  Sam put the hairless snap of sibling Louise - who also starred in the posh Channel 4 reality show Made in Chelsea - last Wednesday. He told his 1.3million Instagram followers: 'Gotta love Snapchat filter. Pulls it off to be fair.'Emma, 37, posted a measured comment…

Los Angeles Sakura mochi — pink-hued rice cakes filled with red bean paste and wrapped in pickled cherry blossom leaves. Shutterstock An Instagram caption from chef David Schlosser sparked backlash from LA’s Japanese-American community — criticism Schlosser actively deleted from his post before eventually apologizing A post on Shibumi’s Instagram account on Thursday, April 15 sparked a wave of criticism from members of Los Angeles’s Japanese-American community. The Michelin-starred restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, best known for chef and owner David Schlosser’s adherence to traditional Japanese cookery, shared a post intended to advertise its sakura mochi dessert special but instead ignited a conversation around colonization, cuisine ownership, and authenticity. It also raised questions about the implications of a white chef who built his career on Japanese food — and was recently named a Japanese Cuisine Goodwill Ambassador — publicly disparaging Japanese restaurants to promote his own business. The post, which was also shared to Shibumi’s Facebook page but has since been deleted on that site, featured an image of sakura mochi with the caption: “Sakura mochi, the most iconic dessert in Japan. Yet no Japanese restaurants are featuring it? So sad. Makes my life harder. It’s because these Japanese restaurants…

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Spotify, the world’s top paid music-streaming service; Hybe, the company formerly known as Big Hit that spawned BTS; and Clubhouse, the actual-human-conversation-based social-media platform launched just last spring, have made Time magazine’s annual “100 Most Influential Companies” list. According to the announcement, “To assemble it, Time solicited nominations across sectors including health care, entertainment, transportation, technology and more, from our global network of editors and correspondents as well as from industry experts. Then, we evaluated each one on key factors, including relevance, impact, innovation, leadership, ambition and success.” People who appear on the five different covers of the magazine are Reese Witherspoon of Hello Sunshine, Adam Silver of the National Basketball Association, Mary Barra of General Motors, Francis deSouza of Illumina, and Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence. “For nearly a century, Time has been a barometer of influence, and it’s hard to recall a moment when the corporate world has had a greater influence on our lives than it does now,” writes Time CEO and editor in chief Edward Felsenthal.  » Read More

You may think that watching innocent videos doesn’t give out much information about you, but you’d be wrong. It’s surprising what proportion of data Google uses to know who you’re and what you wish or dislike. It’s time to require your privacy back and appearance for a YouTube alternative that doesn’t collect your data.Some people use VPN for streaming to watch the desired videos.  Although YouTube is considered the most common platform for YouTubers to watch free videos online (especially since being acquired by Google). There are several YouTube best alternatives you don’t want to miss. These alternatives offer features that you might want for future videos – and they’re free! Not to mention that it’s more complicated than ever to urge YouTube subscribers. Why you should look for YouTube alternatives Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to prevent video streaming websites from using some tracking. They all collect aggregated data to ‘improve their services or use cookies to gather data for marketing purposes. Some also share that data with their partners, and most of them will share your information in ‘special circumstances’ to fight fraud or when required by enforcement agencies. Google does that too, so particular you have to bother…

The Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/IllustrationFacebook (FB.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday the company will build new features starting with Instagram for content creators to earn money from recommending products on the app and a marketplace to help connect brands with influencers.While speaking with Adam Mosseri, head of Facebook-owned Instagram, during a livestreamed video, Zuckerberg also said the social network will launch "creator shops" as part of the ecommerce push.The announcements are part of Facebook's effort to serve the "creator economy," in which social media influencers, journalists and others are earning money directly from their fans on platforms, including Clubhouse, Patreon, Substack and YouTube.Facebook will build an affiliate program that will let creators earn a cut of sales from the products they recommend, Zuckerberg said.A Facebook spokeswoman declined to say how much creators will earn or the timeline to roll out the features.The new marketplace to connect creators with brands will help more users with mid-sized followings earn money,  » Read More