Tag Archives: Veterans

Rob, a member of the Mozart group, leads a military training of Ukrainian soldiers in rural Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, on July 23, 2022. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times) KYIV, Ukraine — Andrew Milburn, a former American Marine colonel and leader of the Mozart Group, stood in a chilly meeting room on the second floor of an apartment building in Kyiv about to deliver some bad news. In front of him sat half a dozen men who had traveled to Ukraine on their own dime to work for him. “Guys,… Source link

Wilfred Yeung Joins as Technical Advisor and Reuben Kan Joins as Distinguished Engineer NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Rokt, the leading ecommerce technology company using machine learning to make transactions more relevant to each shopper, today announced that it has appointed two Google veterans to its team: Wilfred Yeung has joined the company’s Technical Advisory Board and Reuben Kan has joined as Distinguished Engineer. Yeung previously spent 11 years at Google, where he led… Source link

For a while, it looked like whoever trained Le’Veon Bell for his exhibition boxing match had been playing an elaborate prank on him. Then Adrian Peterson walked straight into a hard right. The former Pittsburgh Steelers running back emerged victorious from a sparsely attended Social Gloves exhibition against his fellow NFL running back on Saturday despite an embarrassing show of form in the first four rounds. Each boxer landed only a handful of blows — and few, if any, significant strikes… Source link

I understand that fantasy football is generally a young-man’s game on the field, and we like to engage possible breakout players and the hot new rookies. But sometimes a boring but reliable veteran player is a preferred fantasy jam, and today I want to offer five of those boring but useful vets for you to consider on draft day. Why he’s boring: He’s entering his age-32 season, and he’s clearly the second-most talented receiver on his own team (Justin Jefferson’s upside is the moon)…. Source link

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) signed a $13 million contract with Google Cloud to help developers create new apps and tools to improve veterans’ access to VA services and data.   The partnership will enable the VA to scale its Lighthouse API program, which provides access to VA application programming interfaces (APIs) to develop new apps and other data tools, according to the department. Serving more than 19 million veterans and their families, the VA is the largest healthcare… Source link

November 11, 2021 Columbus State alumnus and Army veteran Steve Tette’s work is being seen by hundreds of millions of Google users on Thursday, Nov. 11. The American realist artist was chosen to design the “Google Doodle” for Veterans Day. The doodles are a Google program to alter the search engine’s logo in celebration of holidays, anniversaries and the lives of influential… Source link