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• EDMONTON, AB, July 28, 2023 /CNW/ - Edmonton International Airport (YEG) is the first Canadian airport to sign on to a new initiative led by Action Coalition on Human Trafficking (ACT) Alberta that provides translated materials to Canadian newcomers about their rights in Alberta.
• YEG is always looking for progressive and innovative ways to increase safety measures for every single person who comes through our airport.
• As the prevalence of human trafficking in our communities grows, we know that as an international airport, we have an important and unique opportunity to help prevent it."
• Since 2021, YEG has partnered with ACT Alberta to provide industry-specific human trafficking awareness training to RCMP, CBSA, Security and leadership staff at the airport.

• The first AI supercomputer on this network, Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1), has 4 exaFLOPs and 54 million cores.
• Cerebras and G42 are planning to deploy two more such supercomputers, CG-2 and CG-3, in the U.S. in early 2024.
• With a planned capacity of 36 exaFLOPs in total, this unprecedented supercomputing network will revolutionize the advancement of AI globally.
• Located in Santa Clara, California, CG-1 links 64 Cerebras CS-2 systems together into a single, easy-to-use AI supercomputer, with an AI training capacity of 4 exaFLOPs.

• Collective will use the investment to accelerate AI deployment across its operations and quickly onboard the nearly 100K businesses on its waitlist.
• Collective provides business formation, S-election, payroll, tax, and bookkeeping services for Businesses-of-One, as well as a personal dashboard to manage their finances—saving its members an average of $10,000 per year.
• These copilots dramatically reduce the time needed to complete processes such as bank reconciliation (by 70%) and expense categorization (by 90%).
• With its new funding, Collective will be able to develop additional AI tools, smoothly scale its operations, and grow twice as fast as originally projected.

• Are white Southerners condemned to think of themselves as the bad guys, the ones who were willing to destroy the Union to preserve slavery?
• As an adult, I read more widely about the Civil War and became fascinated with Union Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, who grew up in Virginia but joined the Union army.
• Hundreds of thousands of African American Southerners supported the Union by escaping slavery and serving in the Union army.
• George H. Thomas, known to history as “the Rock of Chickamauga,” is the most prominent of them.
• When the Civil War broke out, nearly all the Southern career officers left the U.S. Army to serve in the Confederacy.

Led African American troops

• At Nashville, Thomas commanded thousands of African American troops.
• His colleagues in the military later recalled that Thomas viewed African American troops as inferior soldiers, not suited to offensive operations, and he relegated them to a part of his line that he thought would see no fighting.
• Touring the battlefield after his victory, Thomas saw the African American dead piled in heaps before the Confederate fortifications.
• The Negro will fight.” The sacrifices of African American soldiers at Nashville and elsewhere were a heroic and tragic act, with meaning and significance that went far beyond their effect on the opinion of a single person.

Enslaver turned civil rights defender

• There he protected newly freed Blacks from racist local officials and the Ku Klux Klan.
• Here, my biography traced new ground, drawing upon military records in the National Archives to discover Thomas’ role.
• Once a racist enslaver, he distinguished himself after the war in his active protection and promotion of the rights of formerly enslaved persons.
• In my view, as the military assesses new names for bases formerly named after Confederate generals, Thomas’ name deserves consideration.