Edenton Gazette

07/19/2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/g-s1-12222/microsoft-outage-banks-airlines-broadcasters

A stark reminder concerning how reliant business is on computers to run their operations. This issue affects only Microsoft Windows computers, Mac and Linux machines are not affected as it was due to a software update gone wrong.

A cyber expect highlighted; “There are going to be deaths because of this. It’s inevitable”

While it’s very important to keep your systems updated, companies that do not have a process for validating and testing theses or poor disaster planning - simply will not be able to operate.

How many businesses cannot transact if they loose internet connectivity in our area?

The problem affected airline communications, causing the Federal Aviation Administration to ground major carriers in the U.S., including American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines.

05/22/2024

Good article related to an archeological dig I have been involved in. In one of the photos, I’m the one in yellow pullover - this was Dec/Jan so it was freezing temps and cold on the bluff overlooking the Chowan River Visit Edenton, NC, Chowan County, NC

New archeological discoveries locate another possible satellite settlement of the "lost" colonists of Roanoke. Learn more about this 2020 study.

05/19/2024

Good evening Visit Edenton, NC and Chowan County, NC! Two types of potato’s showing their blooms. Spectacular evening sky’s in the spring!

04/06/2024

RIP…. “True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow. That’s what courage is.” – General Norman Schwarzkopf

From a General I served under.

A part-time firefighter with the Virginia Department of Forestry collapsed and died Easter Sunday in Scott County, authorities said.

01/11/2024

What are your thoughts retaliating to Insurance lobbyists seeking rate increases in NC?

How can you get involved concerning the potential 25.6 % rate increase for Chowan County ?- collectively raise your voice with the local, state representatives, vote for those leaders who look out for such detrimental lobbying.

There is a reason for why the state does not allow insurance companies to police themselves.

Here is where you can get involved;

A public comment forum will be held to listen to public input on the North Carolina Rate Bureau’s rate increase request at the North Carolina Department of Insurance’s Jim Long Hearing Room on Jan. 22 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Jim Long Hearing Room is in the Albemarle Building, 325 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, N.C. 27603.

A virtual public comment forum will be held simultaneously with the in-person forum on Jan. 22 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The link to this virtual forum will be: https://ncgov.webex.com/ncgov/j.php?MTID=mb3fe10c8f69bbedd2aaece485915db7e

Emailed public comments should be sent by Feb. 2 to an email at [email protected]. (NOTE: This email address did not appear to work as of Jan. 6)

Written public comments must be received by Kimberly W. Pearce, Paralegal III, by Feb. 2 and addressed to 1201 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1201.

01/06/2024

Pet food recall heads up.

The Blue Ridge Beef pet food company said on January 3 that it was "expanding their recall to include additional lot numbers" thus encompassing additional states that said lots—of the 2lb Kitten Grind, 2lb log of Kitten Mix and 2lb log of Puppy Mix—were distributed to.

Products, the recall order says, were "packaged in clear plastic and sold primarily in retail stores" in Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The Blue Ridge Beef pet food company said it was "expanding their recall to include additional lot numbers."

01/01/2024

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