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World’s Smartest Dog’ Dies Chaser the border collie knew 1,022 nouns A border collie that has been Front Page called “the world’s smartest dog” died Tuesday at age 15. Chaser, a black-andwhite pup given to Dr. John W. Pilley by his wife when the dog was 8 weeks old, learned to recognize 1,022 nouns thanks to Pilley’s training. e professor emeritus of psychology at Wo ord College in Spartanburg, SC, spent four to ve hours a day for three years training Chaser by showing her hundreds of objects, saying their names dozens of times each, then hiding them and asking her to nd them. As Pilley explained in a book published in 2013, the dog even understood sentences that contained a prepositional object, verb, and direct object. Her death, which her family says was due to natural causes, came the year a er Pilley’s death at age 89 last year. “She is buried with the other Pilley dogs, sprinkled with John Pilley’s ashes,” the family posted on Facebook. “What we would really like people to understand about Chaser is that she is not unique. It’s the way she was taught that is unique,” Pilley’s daughter, who helped her dad with the training. Chaser was featured in newspapers and magazines and appeared on TV shows with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Anderson Cooper. “ e goal of my father was to teach her human language, and in learning any new language, you need a vocabulary. So he began teaching her the names of her toys, which had value to her,” Pilley’s daughter tells GoUpstate.com. “He was able to further teach her verbs as independent behaviors from nouns and she was conceptually able to understand that words have independent meaning.” A statue of Chaser, with the bronze footprints of Dr. Pilley nearby, will be placed outside Spartanburg’s Children’s Museum of the Upstate next year, and a portion of a street nearby will be renamed Chaser the Border Collie Boulevard.
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”Get used to me,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers earlier this year. Starting next month, Americans will have to get used to some of the changes he has introduced, including slower mail for a higher price. e federal regulator overseeing the US Postal Service has approved a plan to raise the price of rstclass stamps from 55 cents to 58 cents; the change will take e ect Aug. 29. e USPS also plans to press ahead with slower delivery standards, another part of DeJoy’s 10-year cost-cutting plan. e Washington Post has a map showing how much slower mail will be in di erent zip codes. Under the current standard, 100% of rstclass mail is to be delivered in three days; under the new plan, that drops to 79%. Western states, especially Nevada, will be most a ected, though Florida will also see signi cant slowdowns. Last month, the plan to slow down the Divers Off Maine Find US Ship Sunk by German Sub mail was criticized by regulators, though ey nally found the Eagle 56—a war grave o the coast of Maine. Divers discothat will not stop it from going ahead. e vered the wreckage of the USS Eagle PE-56, which was sunk by a German sub in Postal Regulatory Commission’s advisory the nal weeks of World War II, reports the New York Times. Forty-nine of the opinion said the move would not bring 62 people aboard were killed in the blast on April 23, 1945. e Navy initially “much improvement, if any, to the Pos- blamed the sinking on a boiler explosion and didn’t formally change that contal Service’s current nancial condition.” clusion until 2001, thanks to the research of naval historian Paul Lawton, per the Under the plan, which was opposed by AP. Video from the discovery, to be aired in an upcoming documentary on the 21 state attorneys general, the standard Smithsonian Channel, show that both of the ship’s boilers are intact. e ship’s for rst-class mail would change to within ve days instead of three. e USPS hull is broken in two and sits in water about 300 feet deep some Maine’s coast, in an area beyond the reach of recreational divers. ve miles from argues that customers would prefer mail on time within a ve-day window instead of potentially late under the current threeday requirement, but PRC commissioner When we found her initially and found subsequent pieces later on, we were just in absolute awe and there was an incredible amount of respect for the sailors who are still entombed with the Eagle 56,” Ryan King, one of the divers, said. e Eagle 56 was the last American ship to be sunk by a German sub in the war. A couAshley Boling said the USPS had provided ple of weeks later, the sub now blamed for the attack was itself sunk o the coast no evidence for its claim that “the majority of Rhode Island. When the Eagle 56 went down, it had been towing a practice of American citizens and businesses will target to be used by bombers stationed nearby. e 13 survivors were pulled from actually experience increased satisfaction the water by a Navy destroyer, and Lawton interviewed three of them decades with these sweeping service cuts.” later as part of his research.
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A week a er a Florida city caved to hackers The Top 4 Party Beaches on the East Coast demanding $600,000 to rid its computer 1 2 system of a debilitating virus, another Florida city is following suit. Lake City, some 60 miles west of Jacksonville, will pay hackers 42 bitcoins, or around $500,000, following a cyberattack two weeks ago. ough IT sta disconnected computers within minutes, employees were unable to access email accounts while Lake City’s 12,000 residents were prevented from making municipal payments online. South Beach, FL South Beach, FL Virginia Beach, VA Witt says taxpayers will be on the hook for $10,000, with the city’s insurer covering the remainder of the payment. “ e insurance rate will probably go up for everybody,” the mayor says, which notes it could still be weeks or months before systems are fully restored. e FBI doesn’t advise ransomware targets pay hackers, noting there’s no guarantee that the consequences of such attacks—known to hit cities, companies, and even hospitals—will be reversed. Still, city o cials say the payment was the most e cient option they had. Hampton Beach, NH Block Island, RI
This Is the First Major US City to Truck Driver in Biker Crash Could Get Deported Ban E-Cigarette Sales Mass. license for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy ought to have been San Francisco has become the rst major US city suspended a er drunk driving arrest to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes a er super- e 23-year-old truck driver charged with killing seven bikers in a horrivisors gave the measure its second and nal vote. c crash in New Hampshire shouldn’t have been on the road. Ukrainian national and permanent resident Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, who police Backers say they hope the legislation will curb un- say plowed into the bikers with his Dodge 2500 pickup towing a atbed derage use of e-cigarettes, but critics say the ban trailer, was arrested for drunken driving in East Windsor, Conn., on May will make it harder for adults to purchase an al- 11 a er a man was seen revving a truck engine and acting erratically ternative to regular cigarettes. E-cigarette maker outside of a Walmart. Zhukovskyy of West Spring eld, Mass., who has Juul Labs, which is based in San Francisco, says it prior was set up for the families of the drug- and drunk-driving convictions, failed a sobriety test, which is opposed to youth vaping. e company is working on a ballot initiative that would regulate but not ban e-cigarette sales. San Francisco is a city that celebrates its marijuana culture, but it appears deeply opposed to otmen who died and to help with hospital bills for the two who survived - Ray eld Johnson and Kurtis Stitt. A fourth person died at the festival in an unrelated incident. Police are looking into the death of Melissa Havens, 30, should’ve resulted in the automatic termination of the trucker’s Massachusetts license. But the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles didn’t issue any suspension, resulting in the resignation of RMV chief Erin Deveney. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has led a detainer her vices. Last year, voters approved a ban on the on Zhukovskyy, meaning who was found dead. the driver for Massachusetts-based West eld sale of avored tobacco and in 2016, a tax on su- Transport could be deported. He pleaded not guilty to seven counts of gar-sweetened drinks. negligent homicide.
happened,’ mayor says
A week a er a Florida city caved to hackers The Top 4 Party Beaches on the East Coast demanding $600,000 to rid its computer system of a debilitating virus, another Florida city is following suit. Lake City, some 60 miles west of Jacksonville, will pay hackers 42 bitcoins, or around $500,000, following a cyberattack two weeks ago. ough IT sta disconnected computers within minutes, employees were unable to access email accounts while Lake City’s 12,000 residents were prevented from making municipal payments online. South Beach, FL Virginia Beach, VA Witt says taxpayers will be on the hook for $10,000, with the city’s insurer covering the remainder of the payment. “ e insurance rate will probably go up for everybody,” the mayor says, which notes it could still be weeks or months before systems are fully restored. e FBI doesn’t advise ransomware targets pay hackers, noting there’s no guarantee that the consequences of such attacks—known to hit cities, companies, and even hospitals—will be reversed. Still, city o cials say the payment was the most e cient option they had. Hampton Beach, NH Block Island, RI
This Is the First Major US City to Truck Driver in Biker Crash Could Get Deported Ban E-Cigarette Sales Mass. license for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy ought to have been San Francisco has become the rst major US city suspended a er drunk driving arrest to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes a er super- e 23-year-old truck driver charged with killing seven bikers in a horrivisors gave the measure its second and nal vote. c crash in New Hampshire shouldn’t have been on the road. Ukrainian national and permanent resident Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, who police Backers say they hope the legislation will curb un- say plowed into the bikers with his Dodge 2500 pickup towing a atbed derage use of e-cigarettes, but critics say the ban trailer, was arrested for drunken driving in East Windsor, Conn., on May will make it harder for adults to purchase an al- 11 a er a man was seen revving a truck engine and acting erratically ternative to regular cigarettes. E-cigarette maker outside of a Walmart. Zhukovskyy of West Spring eld, Mass., who has Juul Labs, which is based in San Francisco, says it prior drug- and drunk-driving convictions, failed a sobriety test, which is opposed to youth vaping. e company is wor- should’ve resulted in the automatic termination of the trucker’s Massaking on a ballot initiative that would regulate but chusetts license. But the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles didn’t not ban e-cigarette sales. issue any suspension, resulting in the resignation of RMV chief Erin Deveney. San Francisco is a city that celebrates its marijuana culture, but it appears deeply opposed to ot- Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has led a detainer her vices. Last year, voters approved a ban on the on Zhukovskyy, meaning the driver for Massachusetts-based West eld sale of avored tobacco and in 2016, a tax on su- Transport could be deported. He pleaded not guilty to seven counts of gar-sweetened drinks. negligent homicide.
happened,’ mayor says
A week a er a Florida city caved to hackers The Top 4 Party Beaches on the East Coast demanding $600,000 to rid its computer system of a debilitating virus, another Florida city is following suit. Lake City, some 60 miles west of Jacksonville, will pay hackers 42 bitcoins, or around $500,000, following a cyberattack two weeks ago. ough IT sta disconnected computers within minutes, employees were unable to access email accounts while Lake City’s 12,000 residents were prevented from making municipal payments online. South Beach, FL Virginia Beach, VA Witt says taxpayers will be on the hook for $10,000, with the city’s insurer covering the remainder of the payment. “ e insurance rate will probably go up for everybody,” the mayor says, which notes it could still be weeks or months before systems are fully restored. e FBI doesn’t advise ransomware targets pay hackers, noting there’s no guarantee that the consequences of such attacks—known to hit cities, companies, and even hospitals—will be reversed. Still, city o cials say the payment was the most e cient option they had. Hampton Beach, NH Block Island, RI
This Is the First Major US City to Truck Driver in Biker Crash Could Get Deported Ban E-Cigarette Sales Mass. license for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy ought to have been San Francisco has become the rst major US city suspended a er drunk driving arrest to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes a er super- e 23-year-old truck driver charged with killing seven bikers in a horrivisors gave the measure its second and nal vote. c crash in New Hampshire shouldn’t have been on the road. Ukrainian national and permanent resident Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, who police Backers say they hope the legislation will curb un- say plowed into the bikers with his Dodge 2500 pickup towing a atbed derage use of e-cigarettes, but critics say the ban trailer, was arrested for drunken driving in East Windsor, Conn., on May will make it harder for adults to purchase an al- 11 a er a man was seen revving a truck engine and acting erratically ternative to regular cigarettes. E-cigarette maker outside of a Walmart. Zhukovskyy of West Spring eld, Mass., who has Juul Labs, which is based in San Francisco, says it prior drug- and drunk-driving convictions, failed a sobriety test, which is opposed to youth vaping. e company is wor- should’ve resulted in the automatic termination of the trucker’s Massaking on a ballot initiative that would regulate but chusetts license. But the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles didn’t not ban e-cigarette sales. issue any suspension, resulting in the resignation of RMV chief Erin Deveney. San Francisco is a city that celebrates its marijuana culture, but it appears deeply opposed to ot- Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has led a detainer her vices. Last year, voters approved a ban on the on Zhukovskyy, meaning the driver for Massachusetts-based West eld sale of avored tobacco and in 2016, a tax on su- Transport could be deported. He pleaded not guilty to seven counts of gar-sweetened drinks. negligent homicide. 2
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