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The Xbox Series X is now officially faster compared to the PlayStation 5. But, before you get the pitchforks, hear us out first.

The current Xbox Insider build cuts down the console’s boot time by as much as 25% if not more.

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Over the past few days, Xbox testers noticed their bootup times getting faster. Eventually, Microsoft fessed up and admitted that they tweaked something. Josh Munsee, director of Xbox integrated marketing, confirmed that the company did some backend work to shorten the boot up animation from 9 seconds down to 4 seconds.

Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot up animation (~9s), helping to reduce the overall startup time.

— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) July 23, 2022

Mind you, the changes aren’t limited to Microsoft’s latest consoles.

Senior product manager lead at Xbox, Jake Rosenberg, explained in a follow-up tweet that Xbox One owners should have their consoles booting up faster. Unfortunately, Xbox owners will only feel the shorter boot times if they have their consoles set to Energy Saver mode. Unlike with Standby mode, Energy Saver mode fully powers off the console. This way, the console doesn’t consume any electricity at all.

In total, the Xbox Series S/X boot process should now only take around 15 seconds instead of the usual 20. If you weren’t a huge fan of the Energy…

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The Shawnee language belongs to the Central Algonquian language family and is, therefore, related to Miami, Illinois, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ojibwa, Cree, Montegnais, and Naskapi. Regarding the archaeological evidence concerning the Shawnee homelands prior to the European invasion, some people see the Fort Ancient people in Ohio as ancestral to the Shawnee. Archaeologists Pennelope Drooker and C. Wesley Cowan, in their chapter in Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodland Indians, A.D. 1400-1700, write:

“Archaeologists and ethnohistorians have reached no consensus about which historically named group or groups might have been descended from Fort Ancient populations, although Shawnee and related Central Algonquian groups are most often suggested.”

In his book Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe and its Cultural Background, archaeologist James Howard writes:

“It would certainly appear that the most economical explanation in terms of available archeological, linguistics, and ethnohistorical data is to equate the prehistoric Shawnees with at least part of the Fort Ancient archaeological culture, though other groups were probably involved as well.”

Since the Shawnee often migrated, it is difficult to pinpoint their aboriginal homeland at the beginning of the European invasion. In his Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Carl Waldman writes:

“Perhaps the best way to think of their territory is generally to the west of the Cumberland Mountains of the Appalachian chain, with the Cumberland River at the center. At one time or another, the Shawnees had villages along many of the rivers of the region: the Cumberland, the Ohio, the Tennessee. This area now comprises parts of the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.”

Subsistence

The Shawnee, like many other Algonqian-speaking people, engaged in a combination of farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. Farming was of secondary economic importance and contributed less…

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SHAWANO COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – The National Weather Service has confirmed a 10th tornado from the June 15 storms in Northeast Wisconsin.

NWS says an EF1 tornado touched down in Stockbridge-Munsee at about 5:46 p.m. Estimated peak winds were 95 mph with a path length of 0.58 miles.

On June 15, a cold front moved across Northeast Wisconsin causing widespread damage. CLICK HERE to learn more about the storms.

CONFIRMED TORNADOES

SEYMOUR/BLACK CREEK – OUTAGAMIE COUNTY

• 6:10 – 6:20 P.M.
• EF-1
• 105 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 9.37 MILES
• 400 YARDS MAX WIDTH

WEST BLOOMFIELD – WAUSHARA COUNTY

• 5:41-5:47 P.M.
• EF1
• 95 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 4.8 MILES
• 100 YARDS MAX WIDTH

MANAWA – WAUPACA COUNTY

• 5:52 – 5:56 P.M.
• EF1
• 90 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 3.1 MILES
• 120 YARDS MAX WIDTH

SILVER CLIFF – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 6:31 – 6:35 P.M.
• EF2
• 112 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 1.9 MILES
• 375 YARDS MAX WIDTH

NAVARINO – SHAWANO COUNTY

BOWLER – SHAWANO COUNTY

• 5:34 – 5:46 P.M.
• EF1
• 110 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 9.5 MILES
• 125 YARDS MAX WIDTH

MIDDLE INLET – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 6:34-6:41 P.M.
• EF1
• 93 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 6.6 MILES
• 200 YARDS MAX WIDTH

AMBERG – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 6:45 – 6:54 P.M.
• EF1
• 95 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 8.5 MILES
• 120 YARDS MAX WIDTH

PEMBINE – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 7 – 7:04 P.M.
• EF1
• 104 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 0.65 MILES
• 115 YARDS MAX WIDTH

STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE – SHAWANO COUNTY

• 5:46 – 5:47 P.M.
• EF1
• 95 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 0.58 MILES
• 50 YARDS MAX WIDTH

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Peter’s Mine Road is plastered with signs. On one side, they say “congratulations class of 2022.” On the other, they say “Superfund site.”

Pollution in this area of Ringwood, New Jersey dates back to 1967, when the Ford Motor Company began dumping paint sludge and other hazardous byproducts from their Mahwah car factory on land surrounding a defunct mine. But for a while nobody knew – especially not the indigenous people who lived there. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency didn’t designate the site for federally-managed Superfund cleanup until the 1980s.

Those toxic chemicals remain at the center of a decades-long fight, waged largely with the Ramapough Lenape Nation’s Turtle Clan.

Two weeks ago, New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the state Attorney General’s office filed a new lawsuit against Ford, saying the automaker was “fully aware” of the harm it was causing to Ringwood and the ancestral lands of the Ramapough.

Most of the area’s residents were and continue to be members of the Turtle Clan. Chief Vincent Mann said the community’s way of living off the land unknowingly sealed their fate.

“They were harvesting wild medicinals. They were drinking the water,” Mann said. “In all of those things was all the toxic chemicals that was disposed of there by Ford Motor Corporation, allowed by the town of Ringwood.”

According to the new civil complaint, Ford later sold or donated the land to municipal governments and residential developers without fully disclosing the contamination they’d left behind. By 1973, the company no longer owned any land at the site.

DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourrette said the lawsuit seeks restitution for the damage done to natural resources, rather than human health. Over 600 people from Upper Ringwood, alleging personal injuries and cancer due to the dumping site, filed a class-action…

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18th lifetime tribal Chief Dr. Marilynn Malerba, first female in that office in the modern history of the Mohegan Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.

From Sicangu REDCO Community Development email,

…Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen became the first person in her role to visit a Native Nation … accompanied by [Mohegan lifetime] Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, who had been named as the next US Treasurer just hours earlier by President Biden. The visit also coincided with the Treasury’s announcement of the establishment of a new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs, which will report to the Treasurer and coordinate Tribal relations throughout the Department.

“With this announcement, we are making an even deeper commitment to Indian Country,” said Secretary Yellen, in remarks delivered at Sinte Gleska University [a public, tribal, land-grant university in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Brulé Lakota  Indian Reservation home to the Sicangu.

Yellen] went on to acknowledge the “centuries-long injustices” that Native Nations are working to overcome, and committed to expanding the “unique relationship with Tribal nations, continuing our joint efforts to support the development of Tribal economies and economic opportunities for Tribal citizens….

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Lebanese women strive to close parliamentary gender gap

that’s among the widest in the world, ranking 145 out of 153 countries, with all the resultant impacts upon women, children, civil society, and human…

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WILLIAMSTOWN — They stand, 12 silent sentinels, watching over the land. 

In this field, they bear witness to the wind as it blows, to the rain as it falls, to the stars in the night sky. They watch the fireflies flit in the dark of night and stand watch over the bobolinks that nest in the tall grasses of Field Farm Reservation, 316 preserved acres overseen by The Trustees of Reservations. 

If You Go

What: Counterculture

On view: Through April 30, 2024. Free 30-minute walk-and-talk tours will take place at noon on Saturdays from July 9 through Sept. 3.

Where: The Guest House at Field Farm, 554 Sloan Road, Williamstown

Admission: Free

More information: thetrustees.org/exhibit/counterculture/

It is here that sculptor and mixed media artist Rose B. Simpson‘s slender, androgynous cast-concrete 9-foot-tall sculptures will stand, along the horizon line of the meadow, visible from Sloan Road, though April 30, 2023. Her most ambitious work to date, “Counterculture,” honors generations of marginalized people and cultures, whose voices have been too often silenced by colonization and in many cases, forcibly removed from their homelands. 

“I’ve been playing around with this idea being a witness, of witnessing; in that we look deeply at so many subjects, everything that we experience,” Simpson said, during a recent interview in the meadow, at the foot of her sculptures. “How do we look deeper and ever deeper into those subjects?

“This piece, initially, was about looking at a sort of the post-apocalyptic landscape for indigenous people. So, they are witnesses of that really difficult history [of colonization] … these could be put anywhere on this planet and they’d still be, in a sense, surveying that difficult history.”

And this piece, she said, is about personal growth, for her, and her audience. 

“So much of my work is about teaching myself how to slow…

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