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McMaster University in Hamilton has announced its plans to build a new student residence named after the late Lincoln Alexander. The facility on Main Street West between Forsyth and Dalewood avenues will house more than 1,300 students – primarily first-year undergrads – once it opens in fall 2026.David Farrar, McMaster’s president and chancellor, said during a Thursday announcement about the residence that it was an easy decision to name it after Alexander, who graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political economy in 1949.“As we considered what we would name the new residence, one person…

Ovo Energy has launched a last-minute effort to buy failed rival Bulb Energy almost a year into a nationalisation that has cost the taxpayer at least £4bn.Bulb was Britain’s seventh-largest household energy supplier when it collapsed last November as the result of soaring energy prices, inadequate capitalisation and its failure to buy gas in advance. Its bailout is expected to be the most expensive since the rescue of RBS during the 2008 financial crisis. The company, which has 1.4mn customers, has been temporarily nationalised and is waiting for a long-running sales process to complete, months after it closed in July.Octopus…

A wastewater spill from a pipeline break last year in the northwestern North Dakota oil patch was 20 times greater than first reported, the state Department of Environmental Quality said Wednesday.Tallgrass Energy first estimated that nearly 36,000 gallons of produced water was released during the spill. The company now says the volume was actually closer to 714,000 gallons.Produced water is a mixture of saltwater and oil that can contain drilling chemicals. It’s a byproduct of oil and gas development.DOJ SUES SOUTH DAKOTA HOTEL OWNERS AFTER BANNING NATIVE AMERICANS State Environmental Quality officials have inspected this site several times over the…

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Apple iOS 16Source: AppleApple’s newest update to its iPhone operating system, iOS 16.1, will be available on Monday, the company announced in a press release Thursday.It will launch for iPhone users with an iPhone 8 or newer models, and it adds quite a few features that weren’t available when iOS 16 launched back in September.Here’s what’s coming.Access Apple Fitness+ without Apple WatchApple Watch FitnessSource: Apple Inc.IPhone users with iOS 16.1 will be able to subscribe to and access Apple Fitness+ even if they don’t have an Apple Watch.Fitness+ is a subscription service with guided workouts and meditations that costs $9.99…

Elon Musk made another one of his predictions. On Wednesday evening’s earnings call, the Tesla CEO claimed that his company, a maker of niche luxury cars, would someday be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco. Combined. Together, those companies are worth $10 trillion. Tesla’s market value is $650 billion – down 7% after the company walked back a projection of 50% growth this year. Although Musk’s statements imply that Tesla shares are an incredible value, given his claim that the company will someday be worth over ten times what it is now, he is poised this month to sell…

The leaders of France, Portugal and Spain said Thursday they have agreed to substitute a proposed gas pipeline connection between Iberia and France with an undersea “green energy corridor” that would eventually transport hydrogen.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the plan was to connect Iberia to France and the European energy market by means of a pipeline from Barcelona in Spain across the Mediterranean Sea to Marseille in France. He said it could be used to transport natural gas temporarily, before it starts carrying hydrogen.Sánchez made the announcement after the leaders of the three countries met in Brussels where they…

Employees work at the BMW manufacturing plant in Greer, South Carolina, October 19, 2022.Bob Strong | ReutersThe economy sent a low-key signal Thursday that a recession is looming — and that the Federal Reserve could be making a policy mistake by continuing to try to slow things down.According to the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators index, conditions worsened in September, with the gauge down 0.4% from the month before and off 2.8% for the six-month period.”The US LEI fell again in September and its persistent downward trajectory in recent months suggests a recession is increasingly likely before year end,” said…

The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh became a symbol of the country’s troubled infrastructure, collapsing into a ravine earlier this year just before President Joe Biden visited the city.Biden detoured to survey the scene, where vehicles were stranded on shards of roadway and several people were injured, and he pledged that help was on the way.The Democratic president hopes to turn the bridge into a symbol of success for his administration when he returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, less than three weeks before the midterm elections.PENNSYLVANIA MAN INDICTED FOR THREATENING BIDEN, BENNIE THOMPSON IN LETTER THAT INCLUDED UNKNOWN WHITE POWDERA…

The exhibit, curated by Hill, features Abijako’s designs from his recent Homecoming collection, as well as the Met Gala looks that he designed for Evan Mock and Danai Gurira this year. “I’m also showing a brand new suiting look that’s going to be a part of my next collection,” says Abijako. “I wanted to show that, yes, I started with making T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatpants—but we can do couture shit, too.”In addition to his own pieces, the exhibit will also display works—ranging from textiles to sculptures—by artists such as Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Armani Howard and Malaika Temba, and Joshua Adokuru.…