Jan 30, 2021
FILE - In this March 15, 2013, file photo, a Facebook employee walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
HUNTINGTON The Fitzsimmons law firm of Wheeling is among a group of attorneys representing Huntington-based HD Media in an antitrust lawsuit against Google and Facebook, which charges the two companies with monopolizing the digital advertising market.
HD Media LLC, which owns the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington and a half-dozen weekly newspapers, filed a 42-page complaint against Google and Facebook in federal court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
According to a release from HD Media, “Google has monopolized the digital advertising market to such an extent that Google has been enabled to extract a supracompetitive share of HD Media’s advertising revenues, harming the company’s ability to effectively monetize its content.”
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Thursday was the final day of testimony in the trial of Marek Albinowski. The 71-year-old accused of human smuggling was charged in Oct. 2014, and now waits for final submissions and the judge’s verdict.
The trial, which took place over two-and-a-half weeks, centred on Albinowski’s involvement in three incidences of smuggling and the charges he faces for each. Albinowski was charged with co-accused Wladyslaw Pipien, and Robert Fitzsimmons, and the court heard from both of them earlier this week and last.
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Dylan Kealy pictured with his dad Michael Daniel. He is an avid reader of the machinery section of IFJ and loves helping his dad on the farm. They have a dairy farm that has 200 cows and they also do beef and tillage. \ Claire Nash
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Dylan Kealy pictured with his dad Michael Daniel. He is an avid reader of the machinery section of IFJ and loves helping his dad on the farm. They have a dairy farm that has 200 cows and they also do beef and tillage. \ Claire Nash
Dylan Kealy with their three-week-old winter calves. \ Claire Nash
DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term “makers” to describe people who enjoyed “hands-on” work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.
In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change” through an initiative that honors Americans who are “doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.” At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice o