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The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (AP) — Johnny Kinziger scored 21 points including two free throws with five seconds left to lead Illinois State to an 84-83 win over UAB on Saturday. Kinziger shot 8 of 12 from the field, including 2 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 3 from the line for the Redbirds (4-2). Chase Walker scored 16 points and added eight rebounds. Ty Pence shot 3 for 7 (1 for 4 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 10 points. Alejandro finished with 19 points for the Blazers (3-4). UAB also got 18 points from Efrem Johnson. Yaxel Lendeborg also had 14 points and seven assists. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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On Dec. 23, I made a year-end resolution. For the remaining nine days of the year, I won’t be touching a single drop of alcohol. When friends commented that this quest was quite unrealistic given all the upcoming parties, I reasoned that I don’t like alcohol anyway— especially the debilitating headache that I always get from a hangover even if I only had one drink. I was successful for a grand total of 24 hours. At “noche buena,” one of my cousins brought a bottle of Limoncello—a drink I genuinely love— and my year-end resolution was immediately discarded and demoted to a humorous holiday-related anecdote. This episode is typical of people’s various resolutions as the year changes. Due to what psychologists call the “fresh start effect,” individuals are more inclined to pursue positive changes following temporal landmarks such as birthdays or, in this case, the end and start of a year. However, as many of us know from personal experience (and confirmed by research), many of these pursuits toward self-betterment often falter and fail. The self-help industry has often trumpeted positive thinking as the key to achieving our goals. Proponents assert that we will be more motivated and focused if we just take the time to properly visualize our desired outcome while engaging in encouraging self-talk. Positive thinking also includes telling other people about one’s plans. They claim that sharing our resolutions with others enables us to attract support and compels us to be more accountable. While these insights sound good in theory, they often fall short in practice. For instance, a study conducted among hip replacement surgery patients found that the more they imagined themselves having a smooth recovery, the less motivated they were to move their new joints. Another study found that the more overweight individuals imagined a thinner version of themselves, the less success they had in losing weight. Dr. Gabriele Oettingen, a renowned psychology professor and researcher, argues that our hyperfixation on positive thinking is actually what could be hindering us from reaching our aspirations. After 20 years of researching the impact of positive thinking on people’s lives, Oettingen discovered that when people imagine themselves attaining the future they want, they tend to hold on to the positive feelings that come with that image while neglecting the need to strategize and mobilize. She also highlighted that telling others about our plans could make us less likely to do it consistently. Since we have already received social affirmation for our intention to act, many might no longer feel motivated to put in the actual work. As an alternative, Oettingen suggests practicing a concept she calls “mental contrasting.” This cognitive strategy focuses on helping an individual visualize their desired goals and imagine how it feels like to attain them while simultaneously acknowledging the obstacles that may hinder their achievement. The strength of the mental contrasting technique lies in its ability to promote a more pragmatic kind of optimism. By envisioning both the positive aspects of achieving a goal and the potential difficulties, one also becomes more proactive in developing actionable plans to overcome them. Mental contrasting also helps people see how their habits contribute to obstacles. This translates into concrete behavioral changes and a stronger sense of responsibility for their progress and challenges. Oettingen crafted the “Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan” or the WOOP goal-setting strategy to guide individuals on operationalizing mental contrasting in their day-to-day lives. It starts with identifying your Wish or what you want to accomplish, imagining the best Outcome from this goal, reflecting on the Obstacles that could keep you from completing it, and then developing a Plan using if-then statements that outline how one will overcome those barriers. Subsequent studies have shown that mental contrasting effectively facilitates behavior change across various contexts, from helping students perform better academically and enabling professionals to reach their career objectives to assisting individuals to achieve desired health-related behaviors (e.g., weight loss and smoking cessation). This approach is particularly relevant in my work with low-income communities. Given that many of our scholars routinely encounter various poverty-related barriers to success, we have always incorporated Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset in our lessons—encouraging students to embrace challenges and setbacks as a necessary component of learning and growth. While this is a good start, teaching them mental contrasting concretely helps them to navigate circumstance-specific barriers better. The beauty of mental contrasting is that it doesn’t diminish the power of hope or optimism; it grounds them in reality and action. As we prepare to welcome a new year, it is worth reflecting on how we could embrace this approach to guide the success of our goals and for all those we mentor. —————- [email protected] Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy .President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education is facing the usual attacks any conservative nominee with a deep business background could expect from Democrats and the legacy media. But Linda McMahon is well-suited to the task of serving as America’s last education secretary. She strikes a much-needed contrast with her soon-to-be predecessor. Nearly four years ago, Joe Biden selected an education secretary with a resume that checked all the usual boxes. Miguel Cardona was a former public-school teacher turned Connecticut education commissioner. Fawning press coverage lauded his conventional credentials and extolled him as an “easy pick.” But his tenure proved disastrous. The Education Department failed three consecutive audits and presided over a financial aid debacle that depressed freshman enrollment at colleges across the country. It proposed crippling cuts to high-performing charter schools while shoveling billions out the door in unconstitutional student loan forgiveness schemes. Federal bureaucrats dragged their feet on school reopening, then sat on their hands after school closures advocated by national teachers unions erased two decades of learning improvement. Cardona eagerly but selectively waded into culture wars. He openly feuded with conservative governors over parental rights and curriculum policies, but stood silent while antisemitism flared on college campuses. This should serve as a cautionary tale. Conventional education experience provides no assurance that an education secretary will be effective. In selecting McMahon as his nominee, Trump has shown he understands the assignment. Education has been a lifelong passion for McMahon. She earned a teaching credential in college before choosing a different career path, helping build her family’s successful sports entertainment business empire. In addition to decades as a trustee of Sacred Heart University, she served on the Connecticut Board of Education. As board chair for the America First Policy Institute, she has presided over an operation developing a conservative education agenda that will restore decision-making power to parents, take radical ideology out of schools, and remove barriers to middle-class careers. She is a champion of high-quality school options and training programs that will allow millions of American students to secure stable employment. Most importantly, McMahon will bring a badly needed skill set to a position that is largely managerial and administrative. As head of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, she showed how much difference a capable businesswoman can make in government. During her first year in the job, three major hurricanes struck Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida. She retooled the agency to prioritize disaster relief, repurposing part of the agency’s Washington office into a call center for families and business owners trying to get back on their feet. The agency promptly processed more than 96,000 emergency loans. That’s the kind of nimble leadership that will be required to repurpose, and shrink, a federal education apparatus that has long outlived its usefulness. The Education Department made a hash of its largest function: serving as a bank for billions in federally backed student loans. The department is still in the process of fixing a botched overhaul of financial aid applications that created crippling roadblocks for would-be college goers across the country. In K-12, the department’s largest function is serving as a funding conduit for low-income students and students with disabilities. Once Trump takes office with a mandate to restore power to the states, the department’s defenders need to answer a simple question: What value do the American people get from inserting a federal middleman between students and taxpayers? Based on the department’s performance over the past four years, the answer is: not much. What it needs is a competent executive who can clean up the mess, return power and funding where it belongs, and then turn out the lights. Linda McMahon is the ideal candidate for the job. Erika Donalds is CEO of OptimaEd and a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. ©2024 Tribune Content Agency.
MEUDON, Francia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--nov. 21, 2024-- La inteligencia artificial es el tema central de la Cyber Week europea de este año, que tiene lugar entre el 19 y el 21 de noviembre en Rennes (Bretaña). En el marco del desafío organizado por la Agencia de Innovación de Defensa francesa (AID), que coincidirá con la Cyber Week, los equipos de Thales han desarrollado con éxito un metamodelo para detectar imágenes generadas por IA. A medida que el uso de las tecnologías de IA gana terreno, y en una época en que la desinformación es cada vez más frecuente en los medios de comunicación y afecta a todos los sectores de la economía, este metamodelo de detección de «deepfakes» puede ayudar a combatir la manipulación de imágenes en una gran variedad de casos de uso, como la lucha contra la suplantación de identidad. Este comunicado de prensa trata sobre multimedia. Ver la noticia completa aquí: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241120768241/es/ (c)Thales Las imágenes generadas por IA se crean mediante plataformas de IA como Midjourney, Dall-E y Firefly. Se han realizado estudios que demuestran que dentro de unos años el uso de «deepfakes» para el robo y la suplantación de identidad podría causar enormes pérdidas financieras. Gartner estima que es muy probable que en alrededor del 20 % de los ciberataques que se produjeron en 2023 se haya utilizado contenido «deepfake» en distintas campañas de desinformación y manipulación. El informe de Gartner 1 destaca el creciente uso de «deepfakes» en el contexto de fraudes financieros y ataques de phishing sofisticados. “ El metamodelo de detección de «deepfakes» de Thales aborda el problema de la suplantación de identidad y las técnicas de «morphing» ” 2 dijo Christophe Meyer, experto sénior en IA y director de tecnología de cortAIx, el acelerador de IA de Thales . “ Valernos de conjuntos de métodos que utilizan redes neuronales, detección de ruido y análisis de frecuencias espaciales nos ayuda a mejorar la protección del creciente número de soluciones que requieren de verificación de identidad biométrica. Se trata de un avance tecnológico notable que evidencia la gran experiencia de los investigadores de IA de Thales ”. El metamodelo de Thales utiliza técnicas de aprendizaje automático, árboles de decisión y evaluaciones de las fortalezas y debilidades de cada modelo para analizar la autenticidad de las imágenes. El metamodelo combina varios modelos, entre los que se incluyen: El equipo de Thales que está detrás del desarrollo de este metamodelo forma parte de cortAIx, el acelerador de IA del Grupo, que cuenta con más de 600 investigadores e ingenieros de IA, 150 de los cuales se encuentran en el área de investigación y tecnología de Saclay, al sur de París, y trabajan en sistemas de misión crítica. El equipo de hackers éticos ha desarrollado un conjunto de herramientas llamado BattleBox con el propósito de evaluar la solidez de los sistemas basados en IA frente a los ataques diseñados para sacar provecho de los puntos débiles de los distintos modelos de IA (entre los que se incluyen los modelos de lenguaje de gran tamaño), como los ataques adversarios y los intentos de acceder a información sensible. Para contrarrestar estos ataques, el equipo se encarga de desarrollar medidas paliativas avanzadas, como el desaprendizaje, el aprendizaje unificado, las marcas de agua para los modelos y el fortalecimiento de los modelos. En 2023, Thales demostró la experiencia de su equipo durante el desafío CAID (Conferencia sobre Inteligencia Artificial para la Defensa) organizado por la Dirección General de Armamento francesa (DGA), que consistía en el hallazgo de datos de entrenamiento de IA incluso después de que hayan sido borrados del sistema para proteger la confidencialidad. Acerca de Thales Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) es un líder mundial en tecnologías avanzadas especializado en tres áreas empresariales: Defensa y Seguridad, Aeronáutica y Espacio, y Ciberseguridad e Identidad Digital. El Grupo desarrolla productos y soluciones que contribuyen a que el mundo sea un lugar más seguro, más ecológico y más inclusivo. Thales invierte cerca de 4 mil millones de euros al año en Investigación y Desarrollo, especialmente en áreas claves para la innovación como la IA, la ciberseguridad, la tecnología cuántica, las tecnologías de computación en la nube y la tecnología 6G. Thales cuenta con 81 000 empleados en 68 países. En 2023, el Grupo generó ventas valuadas en 18 400 millones de euros. VISITE Grupo Thales Defensa Thales Desarrollamos sistemas de IA de confianza | Grupo Thales 1 Informe Gartner de 2023 sobre Riesgos Emergentes de Ciberseguridad. 2 El «morphing» consiste en transformar gradualmente un rostro en otro en etapas sucesivas mediante la modificación de los rasgos visuales para crear una imagen realista que combine elementos de ambos rostros. El resultado final es una combinación de las dos imágenes originales. El texto original en el idioma fuente de este comunicado es la versión oficial autorizada. Las traducciones solo se suministran como adaptación y deben cotejarse con el texto en el idioma fuente, que es la única versión del texto que tendrá un efecto legal. Vea la versión original en businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241120768241/es/ CONTACT: Marion Bonnet Directora de Relaciones Públicas de Thales Marion.bonnet@thalesgroup.com +33660384892 KEYWORD: FRANCE EUROPE INDUSTRY KEYWORD: APPS/APPLICATIONS ONLINE PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY SECURITY OTHER TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE NETWORKS INTERNET DATA MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOURCE: Thales Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 11/21/2024 06:42 PM/DISC: 11/21/2024 06:40 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241120768241/esFive Key Takeaways From the Proposed PTEP Regulations
Vanderpump Rules vet Scheana Shay breaks silence on James Kennedy's domestic violence arrest Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By ASHLEIGH GRAY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 15:36 EST, 27 December 2024 | Updated: 15:47 EST, 27 December 2024 e-mail 7 shares View comments Scheana Shay has broken her silence on former Vanderpump Rules co-star James Kennedy 's recent domestic violence arrest. On the latest episode of her Scheananigans podcast, the 39-year-old host addressed the 32-year-old DJ's run-in with the law and explained what took her so long to respond. She said to listener's on Friday's episode: 'I did write out what I wanted to say because I want to try and be just as eloquent as possible. I want to get what I want to say out without stumbling over my words.' Kennedy's arrest came amid an argument with live-in girlfriend Ally Lewber, whose privacy Shay said she wanted to protect . 'I was respecting Ally’s privacy — as she requested,' Scheana explained. 'So I wasn’t going to say anything on the podcast, but I now see how that’s coming off by staying silent. So I have spoken to Ally. I check in with her often. I always have. But I know it seems like if I stay silent, you all somehow think I support his behavior, which I absolutely do not,' she clarified. Scheana Shay has broken her silence on former Vanderpump Rules co-star James Kennedy 's recent domestic violence arrest; pictured in November On the latest episode of her Scheananigans podcast, the 39-year-old host addressed the 32-year-old DJ's run-in with the law and explained what took her so long to respond; Kennedy pictured December 10, hours before his arrest Police were called to Kennedy’s home on December 10, hours after he attended Kathy Hilton and DIRECTV's Christmas At Kathy's 2024 event. Law enforcement received a call about an argument between a man and a woman, and allegedly a witness saw James grabbing the woman, though no visible injuries were found. While Scheana kept quiet initially, Kennedy’s exes Kristen Doute and Rachel 'Raquel' Leviss both released separate statements about their respective ups and downs with him. The reality television personality was released on $20,000 and later posted a statement of his own to social media. Scheana said on Friday: 'Obviously, I was very close with Raquel for years. And while she always told me that James was never physically abusive, as we all know, abuse isn’t limited to just physical. 'And ultimately it led to her exiting that relationship. I had a lot of empathy for her... I wanted to do anything I could to help and give her a safe space.' She continued, 'I do hope that James views this as a rock bottom moment and is serious about just committing to a healing plan versus just seeing this as something that’s gonna, like, "ruin the world tour" or residency or whatever.' The mother-of-one, who shares two-year-old daughter Summer with husband Brock Davies, noted, 'I’ve noticed his name has been taken off of certain shows and that is a direct consequence [of] his actions.' Kennedy's arrest came amid an argument with live-in girlfriend Ally Lewber, whose privacy Shay said she wanted to protect; pictured one week before the domestic violence incident In the wake of his arrest, James vowed to make 'meaningful changes in my life' Read More Lisa Vanderpump reignites Kristen Doute feud with pregnancy dig and The Valley star fires right back Days after his arrest, James took to social media to share a somber message with followers. 'I am committed to making meaningful changes in my life. I am taking time to focus on my sobriety, personal growth, and being present for my loved ones,' he vowed. The 'Bravo-lebrity' continued, 'Navigating challening moments is not easy, but I am determined to learn, grow, and move forward with the incredible support system around me.' Meanwhile, his lawyer stated they would be looking into the domestic violence complaint. 'We are in the process of conducting our own investigation into the allegations levied by the Burbank Police Department against James,' attorneys for Kennedy told DailyMail.com. 'We understand that there were no injuries and we are hoping that, after careful review, the city’s attorneys will decide not to file formal charges.' Kennedy has been dating Lewber since 2022, following the end of his engagement to Leviss. Scheana shares two-year-old daughter Summer with husband Brock Davies Shay encouraged Kennedy 'to get help' on her newest podcast release. She stressed, 'And not just to prevent Ally — or some other girl — from being subjected to abusive behavior in the future, but to give himself a chance to live life with healthy relationships. 'I know he wants those things for himself and he needs to give himself the proper tools to deal with his trauma that doesn’t involve projecting it on to others.' Speaking toward Ally, she shared, 'I want her to know that she is supported. I don’t want to say something that then puts her in a position where it’s like she has to choose between a friendship or a relationship. 'I just don’t want there to be one less mechanism of support for her. That’s just only going to make things harder.' Lewber previously made a statement via Instagram Stories that read, 'Thank you to everyone who has reached out with love and support and for checking in on me. 'I’m OK and taking the time I need right now. I deeply appreciate all the kindness and respect for my privacy during this time.' 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