AutoNation Honda Miami Lakes general manager Armando Ibanez said the Florida dealership has been investigating customer complaints related to former finance manager Carlos Ravelo as well, according to police.
DAYTONA BEACH — When NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope’s first images were revealed in July 2022, the details were stunning, even for most people seeing them on just their computer screen or cellphone.
Those images and more released in the past 10 months, though, get a much grander stage with a new exhibit titled “Unfolding the Universe: The James Webb Space Telescope” open to the public starting Saturday at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach.
“You can click and point to it and zoom in on your computer, but to actually stand in front of it and see it full-scale gives you another appreciation for it,” said MOAS curator of science Seth Mayo during a media preview on Thursday.
The exhibit is one of the largest ever for the small museum that has been open since 1955.
Highlights include blowups of several of the James Webb images NASA has released including the Carina Nebula, the Pillars of Creation and the deep field image that showed thousands of galaxies including the faintest objects ever observed.
Since the fight over the future of 100 acres of land in Eatonville spilled into public view in December, residents in the small Black town have been calling for Orange County Public Schools to forego a sale to a developer and instead donate the land to the town.
In a push supported by town mayor Angie Gardner, residents said donating the land that once housed the historic Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, a private Black boarding school formed when public institutions were legally segregated, would help to correct past harm caused by OCPS’ takeover of the property more than 70 years ago.
A land donation, residents said, would ensure that Eatonville would have a chance to be a thriving town for the families who have lived there for generations.
“If this land was in unincorporated Orange County, I think that would be a little different than land that is nestled in our town,” Gardner said, adding that she believes it is inappropriate for anyone other than Eatonville’s residents to decide the future of the land that was placed into a trust for the education of the town’s children decades before OCPS gained control of it.
We’re hearing a lot about the dangers of generative AI like ChatGPT, the new Microsoft Bing and Google Bard. For example, Geoffrey Hinton, who is often referred to as the “godfather of AI,” recently quit his job at Google so he could speak freely about the risks of AI being developed by Google and other companies.
He told PBS News Hour that he worries about “the risk of super intelligent AI taking over control from people.” Numerous tech experts, including Elon Musk, have called for a pause in the development of powerful generative AI models while we explore their risks and ways to make them safer.
There’s reason for caution. If left unchecked and unregulated, there are all sorts of bad things that could happen, including AI systems evolving in ways that can harm humans and, more likely, empower bad actors to perpetuate scams and other crimes, generate and disseminate disinformation, defame people, spew hate, plan insurrections and so much more. It can also be biased and can put lots of people out of work. But, along with the possible risks, come some safety and security benefits.
Crowds of tourists clad in flip-flops and Mickey Mouse ears will soon flock to Orlando’s hotels as another busy summer season kicks off this month.
These guests are still paying more for what could feel like a scaled-back hotel experience from prior years. Room rates continue to climb locally and nationally due in part to higher labor costs, yet pandemic-related staffing shortages persist.
Orlando lodging companies say their employee numbers have generally improved from last summer’s “significant understaffing.”
All reached by the Orlando Sentinel have upped pay and enhanced benefits in response and have shown an increased willingness to listen to employee concerns after many workers were laid off, furloughed or voluntarily left the industry in 2020 and 2021.
But one expert says Central Florida hotels are still grappling with staffing, even with those changes.
Michael “Doc” Terry, a senior instructor at the University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management, estimates Orlando hotels are still understaffed by about 30% on average.