Early UFC fighter Paul Varelans dies at 51 due to COVID-19
Paul Varelans, a well-known name from the UFC s early days, died Saturday after a battle with COVID-19, his live-in girlfriend, Kim Watson, confirmed to ESPN on Monday. He was 51 years old.
Varelans was admitted in December to Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta with coronavirus and was subsequently put into a medically induced coma, Watson said. On Friday, family and friends were told Varelans didn t have much time left. News of Varelans death circulated Saturday on Facebook. After a solid month of fighting off COVID while in a coma on various machinery fighting off multiple infections Paul s body finally grew exhausted, close friend Shane Viens wrote on Facebook. Anyone that truly knew Paulie knew he was all heart. A fighter to his core he was not one to give up and he [gave] us his all. He left us [Saturday] morning. I was able to tell him I loved him one last time on speaker phone.
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Avanti Senior Living resident, Roger Hoestenbach, bursts into tears as he sees his family during the Senior Living Parade, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Avanti Senior Living at Towne Lake believed the parade would boost morale for it s residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.Gustavo Huerta, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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The Hwy. 6 bridge over U.S. 290 in Cy-Fair opened the weekend of Oct. 31, 2020, ahead of schedule.Melanie Feuk / Staff photoShow MoreShow Less
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Main Street America is an effort from Hope Haven to temporarily house homeless community members and guide them toward self-sufficiency. The community will also have a one-stop shop for aid needed for homeless clients.Hope HavenShow MoreShow Less
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Christmas will look different for Teesside families this year.
Despite tough times, Aerodrome celebrates 25th anniversary
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The Aerodrome Ice Skating Rink opened on December 7, 1995 in hopes it would foster leagues and interested young people and adults in the wintry indoor sports of hockey and figure skating.Courtesy of Aerodrome / SubmittedShow MoreShow Less
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With Covid-19 still lurking around, clients are scanned for their fever and have to wear masks and socially distance while in the facility.Courtesy of Aerodrome / SubmittedShow MoreShow Less
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The mascots aren’t into mischief, but are inviting skaters into the facility for a lot of fun.Courtesy of Aerodrome / SubmittedShow MoreShow Less
Dec 10, 2020
A pilot program testing automated cybersecurity data feeds to state and local governments drastically reduced the time it took them to deploy defensive operations, according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which led the trial.
The goals of the one-year Indicators of Compromise (IOC) automation pilot, announced in July, were to integrate end-to-end cyber defense responses so that the time from sensing to acting was reduced from days to a few minutes and to define consistent procedures for information sharing across state and local governments.
The pilot participants included the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as well as the state governments of Louisiana, Massachusetts, Texas and Arizona, Arizona’s Maricopa County and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).