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Why Mom N Pop Antiques Was So Beloved by Its Community
Recently, I bought an old record player, a Realistic Lab-2200, made by RadioShack in the 1980s. I’m enjoying my purchase—it’s spinning Al Green’s “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” as I write this. But more notable is the place where I bought it: Mom N Pop Antiques on Georgia Avenue in Park View. The beloved, cluttered shop recently shut its doors after 39 years. I grew up about ten blocks from the store.
PsiQuantum Announces $10.8M Contract with Air Force Research Laboratory to Deliver Novel Quantum Chip Capabilities to the U.S. Air Force Original
The Partnership Will Provide AFRL the Delivery of Quantum Chips, Unique Optical Switching Material, Software for Component Construction PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PsiQuantum today announced a $10.8M contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y., continuing a partnership that began in 2022.
DARPA Selects PsiQuantum to Advance to Final Phase of Quantum Computing Program — PsiQuantum
PALO ALTO, Calif. – PsiQuantum has successfully completed the research & development viability phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program and is now entering the validation phase of the program. In this final phase, DARPA will evaluate PsiQuantum’s utility scale system design, component and system performance to specification, and application use cases and economic utility.
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Cal Trio On 2025 College Football HOF National Ballot
The announcement of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be made in early 2025 with more specific details to be announced in the future. The 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be officially inducted during the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 9, 2025, at the Bellagio Hotel & Resort, and they will be honored at their respective schools with an NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute, presented by Fidelity Investments, during the 2025 season.
PsiQuantum announces QREF and Bartiq: Open-Source Software for Better Tools, Libraries and Datasets — PsiQuantum
An Industry Need for Tools, Libraries & Datasets Despite a growing effort, the quantum computing industry lacks algorithms tools that are efficient, precise, accessible and reproducible Because of this, developers in the field must make the difficult choice between spending several months writing exhaustive research papers that describe their quantum applications in full or publish without such explicit details and hence risk misunderstanding or non-reproducibility.
The Surprising Past of an Advocate for DC’s Unhoused
It’s a busy fall weekday at Union Station, and I’m sitting at a table near the entrance, having a conversation with Ami Angell. The founder of a DC organization called the h3 Project, Angell works to combat homelessness and human trafficking in Union Station and several DC neighborhoods—everything from handing out clothes to helping people find housing and get mental-health assistance.
How is the market reacting to global rate hikes?
Recent action by key central banks has come in more hawkish than anticipated. What does this mean for investors? After its meeting on Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) announced a 75bps hike to interest rates – its largest single move since 1994. A day later, the Bank of England and Swiss National Bank followed suit, lifting rates 25bps and 50bps respectively. Meanwhile, the ECB is all but certain to raise rates at its July meeting.
Alex Mack’s Best Advice on Becoming a Pro Athlete — BreakAway Data
By Alex Mack The best advice that Alex Mack ever received about making it as a pro athlete was to simply “focus on your job.” Except it isn’t always so simple. It means identifying everything that isn’t essential, understanding how they can be distractions, and then blocking them out as needed. “Football is very difficult and it’s a lot of mental strain,” says the San Francisco 49ers’ center.
Federal Reserve US Treasury
The Asset Allocation team tackles challenges collaboratively, starting with our economists’ analysis, followed by our strategists’ interpretation, and finally the portfolio managers’ view. In this blog, we look at recent movements in bond yields. Bond yields’ gentle flow higher turned into a flood last week. Nominal yields on 10-year US Treasuries jumped by 0.14% on Thursday alone. The last time we saw moves like this was in late 2016.
Proud To Be An American
Growing up in a military community, with the helicopters flying above, seeing my family literally walk through the door every day in their uniforms, you grow up with a sense of pride and respect for the flag. I know what the members of the military do and have done to uphold the flag so that we can do the things that we do. And so for me, the military is very close to my heart. Growing up, I always thought that I would be in the military. My road to football was a little different.
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