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Miami Herald
19 hours ago
- Miami Herald
TSA issues new warning for airport travelers
With the busy summer travel season underway, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning globetrotters about the dangers of using USB chargers at airports. According to a Facebook post from TSA, travelers should avoid charging electronic devices via the USB ports that are now commonplace at airports around the country and the world because of the potential malware the ports may contain. According to TSA's advisory on Facebook: 'Hackers can install malware at USB ports.' The advisory goes to state that 'when you're at an airport do not plug your phone directly into a USB port. Bring your TSA-compliant power brick or battery pack and plug in there.' The same Facebook advisory also contains a warning from the government agency about free public WiFi available at most airports. Here too, the concern is that hackers can access your personal information unbeknownst to you, the traveler. The TSA Facebook post states: 'Don't use free public WiFi, especially if you're planning to make any online purchases.' The post goes on to warn 'Do not ever enter any sensitive info while using unsecure WiFi.' Meanwhile, privacy experts have been busy issuing warnings of their own. Travis LeBlanc, a lawyer and former member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, recently told The Mirror that travelers would be wise to opt out of the facial recognition technology that the TSA has begun using at U.S. airport security checkpoints over the past year or more. 'You don't have to submit your picture to the government for the government to scan it and store it under their rules,' LeBlanc, The Mirror reported. Separately, privacy and data policy expert Jennifer King told the publication: 'I'm sure that the dream of enforcement agencies would be to be able to track people in real time based on something like facial recognition.' However, according to King, TSA has been 'a little vague' about what they plan to do with the photo data now being collected. TSA meanwhile, has said that any data collected is not used for surveillance. Additionally, the data is not stored. A TSA agent previously told the HuffPost that: 'Photos are not stored or saved after a positive ID match has been made, except in a limited testing environment for evaluation of the technology's effectiveness. A real-time picture simply means that an image is taken at the kiosk and that 'live' photograph is matched against the image on the identification credential.' _________ Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Texas A&M baseball loses RHP pitcher to the 2025 transfer portal
Texas A&M baseball loses RHP pitcher to the 2025 transfer portal Like all college sports, the loose transfer rules mean that athletes have the opportunity to move on to a new team in the hopes of finding a better fit for their career from year to year. Texas A&M baseball is not immune to this phenomenon, and on Friday, they saw their first public transfer announcement of a player leaving the program. Talented junior RHP Kyrin LeBlanc announced via social media that he will be entering the 2025 transfer portal after his lone season in Aggieland. The transfer from Cisco College did not make any appearances during the season, despite an Aggie bullpen that struggled to find its footing for most of the season. He has significant potential and has reached speeds of 100 mph with his fastball multiple times in his career. However, he has struggled with control, leading to 29 walks with 37 strikeouts before joining A&M. Below, you can see the official announcement from LeBlanc's X account. Contact/Follow us @AggiesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&M news, notes and opinions. Follow Jarrett Johnson on X: @whosnextsports1.
CNBC
7 days ago
- Business
- CNBC
A couple who've worked in the Maldives and Bali share how living in paradise differs from visiting it
From the Maldives to Bali to the Cayman Islands, Marc LeBlanc and Laura Robinson have lived and worked in places that most people dream of visiting. They work in the hospitality industry — a journey that LeBlanc, who is Canadian, began at 16 years old when he accepted a job as a dishwasher at a hotel. He worked his way up to bellman, then to the reservations desk, before pursuing a degree in hotel management. Robinson, who is British, studied marine biology and worked as a diving instructor before transitioning to hotel leadership. The couple met while working in the Cayman Islands and have since lived and worked on several islands in Asia — most recently, the small eastern Indonesian island of Sumba. Now they reside in Shinta Mani Wild, a luxury resort tucked away in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, where LeBlanc serves as the hotel's general manager, and Robinson oversees operations and sustainability. The couple frequently speak with hotel guests, many of whom "are super curious to know about our story," said LeBlanc. For starters, working in places like the Maldives — which is known for its "one island, one resort" concept — is different from visiting it, he told CNBC Travel. "You're locked on that island, surrounded by water," LeBlanc said. "You're not really going anywhere … you're kind of stuck there for long periods of time." For employees, resort life centers on a staff village, where workers sleep, eat and do laundry — a situation LeBlanc likened to a summer camp. "It becomes a little community of its own," Robinson said. "You still have the same challenges that having a large group of people living together can present. There are differences in personalities and opinions." Managing those differences is important, she said, especially in places like the Maldives, which has a multicultural workforce. That has been easier at Shinta Mani, because "except a few of us, everyone is Cambodian," she said. Many people think that working in hospitality is about ensuring guests are having a good time. But "you've got 100 [employees] that you've got to make sure are happy" too, she said. Robinson said she and LeBlanc celebrate staff birthdays and other events at the hotel. "Mark sometimes gets his decks out and DJs for them, which they adore," she said. While island life spells sun and fun for most travelers, saltwater creates maintenance issues for those working behind the scenes, Robinson said. In the Cambodian forest, the environmental challenges are different. "Here you've got the humidity and the forest trying to reclaim itself," she said. Shinta Mani has 15 guest tents, but the resort sits on land that "is the size of Central Park," and it requires a "very high-level of attention to detail, in terms of product and service, but also the conservation work that we do," LeBlanc said. He said staff patrol the property, including a large farm on the land, while also maintaining the trails that run through it. "It's new for us," he said. "We're learning." Life in some of the world's most coveted travel destinations has its perks, but LeBlanc and Robinson also contend with living far from their families. When they lived in the Maldives, their parents visited them yearly, and they returned home every other year to see siblings, said Robinson. Now the couple travel home every year, she said. "My brother and sister started having kids … and our parents are getting older." The couple do not have children, so schooling — a big consideration for many expatriates — isn't an issue. They recently adopted two dogs from the Cardamom Mountains forest, they said. LeBlanc and Robinson discussed another challenge: living and working in remote locations as a couple. "Initially you don't know how it's going to go," said LeBlanc. But "we work quite well together." "We're still doing it," Robinson said with a laugh, adding that separate offices are key. As the general manager of Shinta Mani, LeBlanc oversees matters related to human resources, finance, security and engineering at the hotel, while Robinson handles more "front of house" matters, she said. "[Laura is] highly organized, highly efficient, and I'm more on the creative side," LeBlanc said. Robinson said LeBlanc comes up with bold ideas and is skilled at executing them. The couple spend time, even on personal holidays, brainstorming ideas — often finding inspiration from their travels, she said. "There's no shortage of places looking for managing couples," LeBlanc said. "There are recruitment firms that specialize in hiring couples, not only for hotels, but also for private islands, for ultra-high net worth individuals. The job opportunities are out there." In remote destinations, having a companion can ease loneliness too, said LeBlanc. "It makes sense we have each other," he said.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
How Dominic LeBlanc's life was saved by a 20-year-old German college student
As the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, intergovernmental affairs and Prime Minister Mark Carney's 'One Canadian Economy' portfolio, Dominic LeBlanc will face many obstacles in the days and weeks ahead. But the veteran Liberal minister is no stranger to a challenge, having overcome a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma more than five years ago thanks to a stem cell donation from Germany. LeBlanc reflected on his battle over the weekend, sharing a memory of visiting with his donor, Jonathan Kehl, on social media. 'Two years ago, Jonathan, the brave young man who saved my life, welcomed Jolene (Richard) and me to his family's home town in Germany, Bad Hersefeld,' he posted along with two photos of himself and his wife with the now 26-year-old and his family members. 'I will cherish this moment and remember his kindness, and that of his family, forever.' LeBlanc 'was as yellow as a lemon … and had lost a lot of weight' In April 2019, while overseeing intergovernmental affairs, northern affairs and internal trade under then-prime minister Justin Trudeau, a 51-year-old LeBlanc, feeling particularly unwell, was informed by Moncton doctors he had a 'lethal form' of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His only chance at survival: 'very aggressive' chemotherapies and a stem cell donation via an allogeneic transplant — obtaining healthy stem cells from a donor who is not identical to the recipient. In an interview with DKMS, the German-based international blood science organization that ultimately paired him with Kehl, LeBlanc said it took doctors a few weeks to figure out the 'right recipe of chemotherapy' to get his cancer into remission before referring him to Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, a facility renowned for its expertise in hematology and stem cell transplants. 'He was as yellow as a lemon because of the liver failure and had lost a lot of weight,' Dr. Sylvie Lachance, who oversaw his care, told Reader's Digest Canada in 2023. But LeBlanc, who'd announced he'd won a battle with leukemia the year prior, was optimistic and said doctors were, too, reminding him that even if his younger sister, Genevieve, was not a match, the DKMS's global registry of potential bone marrow donors offered added hope. His sister's blood ended up being incompatible, but a perfect match showed up through the database several weeks later, and the anonymous donor agreed to the procedure. International rules prohibit doctors from divulging the identity of the donor to the recipient for two years, but LeBlanc wondered if his potential saviour might be based in Germany, 'just because they had said that so many Germans are in the database, and the German people are so generous when they're asked to donate.' On the other side of the Atlantic, a 20-year-old Kehl, who'd registered as a donor while still in high school two years earlier, was living with his parents in the Hesse state town of Bad Hersfeld when he was told he was a perfect match with a Canadian man. 'I could have said no, but I agreed,' Kehl told Reader's Digest. 'I wanted to save a life! It was a really emotional moment for me, and for my family, who encouraged me to donate.' In early September, he travelled to Frankfurt to have his stem cells collected, after which they were flown to Montreal, where LeBlanc awaited, having just finished a final round of chemotherapy to prepare his body for the transplant. 'So you're obviously not feeling a great deal of energy. All my hair had fallen out. I probably lost 35 pounds,' he said to DKMS. 'But the doctors were very positive. They said I was ready to receive the transplant. And I'll never forget when the nurse comes in to the hospital room and shows you the bag of stem cells, it was maybe half a litre in a bag that had a whole series of stickers of different barcodes on it.' The procedure itself took just two hours to introduce the 570,000,000 stem cells into his bloodstream, followed by a waiting period to see if new blood cells regenerated. 'I was afraid it hadn't worked until Dr. Lachance came into my room with a smile and told me the neutrophils — the white blood cells — had materialized,' LeBlanc said to Reader's Digest. After several weeks of isolation to protect and rebuild a severely weakened immune system, during which he was elected for the seventh straight time as the member of parliament for Beauséjour in the federal election, LeBlanc was discharged in November. He returned to Parliament in January. Blood brothers: 'This young man saved my life' LeBlanc said he first filled out the form to learn his donor's identity about a year after the transplant, and he got an email with Kehl's name and date of birth in October 2021. 'What struck me on the information I got is that he was born in 1999,' LeBlanc said to DKMS. 'I didn't imagine that the donor would have just been 20 years old when he donated the stem cells.' His team quickly obtained Kehl's contact information so LeBlanc could send him a personal message of thanks. He even contacted Stéphane Dion, the Canadian ambassador to Germany, to find out which translation agency they use for official correspondence. Kehl responded in English, which he told Leblanc he'd been studying since childhood. From Trudeau's babysitter to loyal soldier, what we know about the new finance minister, Dominic LeBlanc Liberal MPs urge LeBlanc to reconsider and run for leader COVID-19's Omicron wave delayed an in-person meeting, but the pair chatted on Zoom just before Christmas and agreed to get together when travel rules allowed. That meeting happened the following September when Kehl visited Canada as LeBlanc's special guest. 'This young man saved my life,' LeBlanc said, introducing Kehl in Ottawa, where the young German also met Trudeau and conducted media interviews before the pair went to Montreal and then to New Brunswick for two days of salmon fishing. Kehl returned the favour in May 2023, inviting LeBlanc and Richard to Bad Hersfeld to meet his family. 'He and I have a special bond,' LeBlanc wrote on Twitter at the time. 'Indeed, we have the exact same blood and immune system. Because three and a half years ago, he answered the call to donate some of his stem cells to a man whom he knew was very sick, but whose identity was not known to him at the time.' For his part, Kehl told Reader's Digest that should LeBlanc require more stem cells, he's ready to donate again. 'I consider Mr. LeBlanc to be my genetic twin,' he said. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here.
Malaysian Reserve
26-05-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
Gold Candle announces Initial Resource at the Geminid Nickel Sulphide Zone and provides Project Update
Initial Underground Resource of 2.93 million tonnes at 1.6% nickel or 105 million pounds of nickel, all within the Inferred category Recent drilling, outside of the known resource shapes, has intersected KAD25-326-B2; 18.9 m @1.90% Ni from 890 m depth and KAD25-326-B1; 1.80 m @ 1.96 Ni% from 750 m depth. TORONTO, May 26, 2025 /CNW/ – Gold Candle Ltd. is pleased to provide the first Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Geminid nickel sulphide zone located 1,300 metres to the east of the historic Kerr-Addison Mine located outside Virginiatown, northeastern Ontario, Canada along the prolific Cadillac Larder Lake Break (CLLB) Geminid was first discovered in 2023 by the Gold Candle exploration team. Since the initial discovery hole in Summer 2023, the Company has drilled 16,181 metres in 23 holes. Key Highlights Inferred MRE – 2.93 Mt @ 1.6% Ni, containing 105 181 700 pounds of nickel (at 0.69% Ni cut-off grade). Significant Intercepts: Downhole interval estimated true width (etw), nickel grades and vertical depth for significant intercepts comprising the MRE. KAD23-266: from 278.4m to 301.8m, 12.2 m (etw) @ 1.93% Ni, from 360 metres depth KAD24-300: from 528.0m to 584.5m, 19.8 m (etw) @ 3.73% Ni, from 500 metres depth KAD24-308: from 709.0m to 716.5m, 5.1 m (etw) @ 4.23% Ni from 550 meters depth KAD24-313: from 803.0m to 808.0m, 7.5 m (etw) @ 3.79% Ni from 660 metres depth Gold Candle President and COO Leon LeBlanc stated: 'We are incredibly proud to announce our initial Inferred Resource at the Geminid Project, located adjacent to our 5.7 million ounce gold project at Kerr Addison. With less than two years of drilling, we have reported one of the highest grade, undeveloped nickel sulphide projects not currently owned by a major mining company. The orebody in this resource has approximate dimensions of 200 m strike, 700 m vertical extent and has an average thickness of 4.5 m. Historical work has identified nickel mineralization up to 400 m east of the orebody and recent drilling has extended the mineralization beyond the limitations of the resource. We are planning to drill an additional 5,000 m on Geminid through 2025, targeting significant extensions along strike and at depth.' LeBlanc continued. 'It was not our intention to be pursuing a nickel discovery, but we see significant complimentary value in delineating a multi-million tonne, high grade resource along with a multi-million ounce gold system in the heart of one of the world's great mining camps. This is another example of the exploration upside of Gold Candle's property and supports our ongoing +50,000 m exploration plan.' Gold Candle VP Exploration Dean Crick said: 'We are excited to report a nickel resource that is open in all directions with expansion drilling planned along strike and at depth. We are also encouraged to report signs of chalcopyrite (copper sulphide) mineralization beyond the nickel zones. Concurrently we will be undertaking geophysical surveys across the regional project land tenure of roughly 5 km to the Quebec border to define potential additional drill targets for follow-up. As such, Geminid presents a compelling poly-metallic opportunity in addition to gold targets along the prolific Cadillac Larder Lake Break).' About Geminid The Geminid Project is located 1.3 km east northeast of the Kerr #3 Shaft in the McGarry Township of the Timiskaming District of Ontario. It is hosted within the 6 km Gold Candle regional land tenure package reaching from the Kerr-Addison mine to the Quebec border. Geminid was discovered in 2023 targeting the projected CLLB identified by high magnetic signature Larder Lake group ultramafic rocks in contact with low magnetic Timiskaming sedimentary rocks. The 2023 regional program was further designed to test the apparent 1 km spacing of historic Larder Lake Au deposits along the CLLB east of the Kerr Addison Mine. The initial discovery hole, KAD23-266 intersected 12.2 m (etw) of millerite, sulfidic mineralization grading 1.9% nickel, with trace gold mineralization. Other 2023 Au intercepts along the 5 km strike of the CLLB are illustrated in Figure 1. The 2023 drilling program took place between May and October and included eight drill holes totaling 3,708 m. Between January and December 2024, 17 holes totalling 11,493 m were drilled to expand the mineralization east, west and down plunge (Figure 2). (Six drill holes on the Geminid project Figure 3B.) Notes to Accompany Mineral Resource 1. These mineral resources are not mineral reserves as they do not have demonstrated economic viability. The MRE follows current CIM Definition Standards (2014) and CIM MRMR Best Practice Guidelines (2019). The results are presented undiluted and are considered to have reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction ('RPEEE'). 2. The independent and qualified persons for the mineral resource estimate, as defined by NI 43‑101, are Chafana Hamed Sako, Martin Perron, and Simon Boudreau, (InnovExplo, a wholly own subsidiary of Norda Stelo). The effective date of the estimate is February 24, 2025. 3. The estimation encompasses six (6) wireframes using Leapfrog Geo and interpolated using Leapfrog Edge. 4. High-grade capping on assays (supported by statistical analysis) was set between 65,000 ppm Ni for HG domains and 15,000 Ni for LG domains. No capping for Co. 1.0-m composites were calculated within the mineralized zones using the grade of the adjacent material when assayed or a value of 0.30 when not assayed. A low-cut value of 1,800 ppm was used to filtered out mineralogical contamination. 5. The estimate was completed using an octree sub-block model from Leapfrog Edge, with a parent block size of 5m x 5m x 5m (X,Y,Z) and a minimum sub-block size of 1.25m x 1.25m x 1.25m (X,Y,Z). 6. Grade interpolation was obtained by ordinary Kriging (OK) interpolation method using hard boundaries. 7. Density values result database have been used. The density was assigned by lithology by averaging the measurements for each lithology: FELS-SSMS: 2.82 g/cm3, GWG: 2.74 g/cm3, MSSS: 2.75 g/cm3, SSMS: 2.88 g/cm3, UM: 2.79 g/cm3, UM LOWMG: 2.85 g/cm3, UM REG1: 2.82 g/cm3, UM REG2: 2.84 g/cm3, Overburden: 1.80 g/cm3. 8. The mineral resource estimate is classified as Inferred. The Inferred category is defined with a minimum of one (1) drill hole in areas where the drill spacing is less than 200 m, and reasonable geological and grade continuity have been demonstrated. 9. The MRE is locally constrained. The resources meet the RPEEE requirement by applying constraining volumes to all blocks (selective underground long-hole) using Deswik Mineable Shape Optimizer (DSO). 10. The RPEEE requirement is satisfied by having cut-off grades based on reasonable parameters for underground extraction scenario, minimum widths, and constraining volumes. The estimate is presented for potential underground scenarios (realized in Deswik) over a minimum width of 2 m for blocks 20 m high by 20 m for the long-hole method at a cut-off grade of 0.69% Ni. Cut-off grades reflect the currently defined geometry and dip of the mineralized envelopes. The underground cut-off grade was calculated using the following parameters for the long hole method: mining cost = CA$130.00/t; processing & transport cost = CA$35.00/t; G&A cost = CA$0.00/t; selling costs = CA$.00/tNi price = US$19,932/t; USD/CAD exchange rate = 1.35 and mill recovery = 88.5%. 11. Cut-off grades should be re-evaluated in light of future prevailing market conditions (metal prices, exchange rates, mining costs etc.). 12. The number of metric tons (tonnes) was rounded to the nearest thousand, following the recommendations in NI 43-101. The metal contents are presented in pounds (tonnes x grade / 2204.6) rounded to the nearest hundred. Any discrepancies in the totals are due to rounding effects. 13. The QPs are not aware of any known environmental, permitting, legal, title-related, taxation, socio-political, or marketing issues or any other relevant issue not reported in the Technical Report that could materially affect the Mineral Resources Estimate. QA/QC and Data VerificationGold Candle Ltd. maintains an internal Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC) program at the Geminid Project to ensure sampling and analysis during exploration work is conducted in accordance with best practices. Drill core is logged and sampled at a secure core logging facility within the historic mine site under the supervision of a Qualified Geologist. A geologist marks the individual samples for analysis and the sample intervals, sample numbers, standards, blanks and duplicate samples are entered into the database. All drill core is cut in half using an electric core saw equipped with a diamond tipped blade. One half of the core is placed into a plastic sample bag and stapled closed in preparation for shipment. The other half of the core is returned to the core box and retained for future reference. The samples are placed in large reusable crates, which are secured with numbered security tags. The core samples are picked up at the mine site and are delivered to the ALS Canada Ltd. laboratory in Sudbury, Ontario. ALS is a certified laboratory with an internal Quality Control (QC) program that includes the insertion of blanks, reference materials, and coarse and pulp duplicates. Nickel is analyzed as part of a multi-element analytical package. A 0.25g sample is subjected to a four-acid digest and is analysed with an Inductively Coupled Plasma – Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) finish. Samples greater than 10,000 ppm Ni are re-analyzed using a similar method specific for higher grade samples. Gold is analyzed by a 50g fire assay with an ICP-AES finish. Samples greater than 10.0 g/t Au, are re-analyzed using a gravimetric finish. Gold Candle Ltd. inserts QC samples (blanks, reference materials and duplicate samples) at regular intervals to monitor sample preparation and analytical performance. Umpire assays are completed on a regular basis at a secondary accredited laboratory. Qualified PersonsThe mineral resource estimate was conducted by InnovExplo (a wholly owned subsidiary of Norda-Stelo) under the supervision of Martin Perron, and Simon Boudreau, both are Independent Qualified Persons under NI 43-101 standards. The initial mineral resource estimate relating to the Geminid Zone contained in this presentation is based on the technical report on the Kerr-Addison project by Martin Perron, Chafana Hamed Sako, and Simon Boudreau, from InnovExplo, a subsidiary of Norda Stelo, which will be filed on Sedar +. The technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Dean Crick P. Geo Msc, Vice-President of Exploration for Gold Candle, whom is a Qualified Person under NI 43-101 standards. An independent technical report prepared in accordance with the requirements of NI 43-101 will be completed within 45 days of this news release. About Gold CandleGold Candle is a privately funded Canadian exploration company led by a diverse and highly experienced group of mining professionals. In 2015, the Company acquired claims over the historic Kerr-Addison Gold Mine and surrounding area in the McGarry Township, located in the Timiskaming District of Ontario. Our approach to responsible mineral exploration is to perform our activities in a manner that benefits local communities, employees and shareholders and respect people and the environment.
