Just in: Free agent F/C Sandro Mamukelashvili has agreed to a four-year, $52 million deal to sign with Los Angeles Lakers, with a player option for the fourth season, sources tell ESPN. Big fully guaranteed deal for George Roussakis and Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports.
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In Virginia, a group of high school students is making a real difference by repairing donated cars and giving them away for free to single mothers in need of reliable transportation.
At Staunton High School’s automotive technology program, students go far beyond textbook lessons. Under the guidance of their teacher, they restore old vehicles donated by local residents and organizations, bringing them back to safe, road-ready condition.
Once the repairs are complete, the cars are gifted to single mothers who often struggle to get to work, school, or medical appointments without dependable transportation.
This heartfelt initiative beautifully combines hands-on education with meaningful community service. While building valuable technical skills, these students are also giving struggling families greater independence, freedom, and opportunity for a better future.
A large data center in Georgia used nearly 30 million gallons of water without proper metering. This situation has caused significant frustration among local residents who were being asked to conserve water during a drought.
People in Fayetteville Georgia first became aware of the issue when their home water pressure suddenly dropped. A county utility investigation later discovered that a major data center campus owned by Quality Technology Services or QTS had two unmetered water connections.
One connection was completely unknown to the utility. The other was not properly linked to the companys account. In total the facility drew more than 29 million gallons of water during construction and site preparation. This volume equals about 44 Olympic sized swimming pools and greatly exceeded the agreed upon limits.
QTS has since paid a retroactive bill of 147474 dollars. The company attributed the problem to a transition involving smart meters. However residents remain upset about the incident.
The news emerged at the same time county officials were encouraging everyone to reduce their water use because of ongoing drought conditions across the state. Even though the data center took a large unauthorized amount of water local utility leaders chose not to issue any fines. They described the company as an important partner in the area.
This decision has increased community opposition. The Fayetteville City Council responded by passing a ban on new data center projects. The controversy has also sparked a broader discussion about the heavy resource demands placed by the technology industry on local communities.
Would you try the Lilliputian mushroom?
It makes you see tiny people everywhere.
Scientists don't even know why it does this because it doesn't contain any known psychoactive compounds.
But, quite reliably, you chow down on this shroom and you're seeing little people.
The Sun has only 22 galactic orbits left.
Earth races around the Sun at ~67,000 mph (107,000 km/h), giving us our familiar 365.25-day year and changing seasons.
But the Sun is in motion too—hurtling through the Milky Way at ~514,000 mph (828,000 km/h) on a grand orbit around the galactic center. One complete lap, known as a cosmic year, takes roughly 225–230 million years.
When the Sun finished its most recent galactic orbit, the earliest dinosaurs were just beginning to roam Earth.
Since its birth ~4.6 billion years ago, our star has completed about 20 such orbits.
Stellar models predict the Sun will keep fusing hydrogen in its core for another ~5 billion years before it swells into a red giant and eventually fades into a white dwarf. At its current orbital speed, that leaves roughly 22 more laps around the Milky Way.
Each cosmic year sweeps the entire Solar System tens of thousands of light-years across the galaxy—through dense spiral arms rich with star-forming regions, past ancient globular clusters, and amid countless other stars.
Continents drift, mountains rise and erode, entire species evolve and vanish—all within a tiny fraction of one galactic circuit.
Human civilization, from the first cities to today’s digital age, has existed for less than 0.001% of a single cosmic year.
We are passengers on a star halfway through its ~10-billion-year galactic journey across a 100,000-light-year-wide disk—witnessing just the briefest sliver of one ongoing lap in an unimaginably vast cosmic dance.
BREAKING: 3⭐️ DL Brock Frisby has committed to Virginia Tech
The 6-3 270 lineman from Severn, Md. becomes the second pledge in the Hokies 2027 class
No. 19 player in MD per @247Sports
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