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From the Islamic Middle East across the Indian subcontinent to China and Japan, wrestlers—mostly but not exclusively male—embodied and enacted the values of their cultures. The wrestler’s strength was always more than a merely personal statement. More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to be involved in a religious endeavour. Sports league and tournament are two common arrangements to organize sport teams or individual athletes into competing against each other continuously or periodically. Female participation in sports continues to rise alongside the opportunity for involvement and the value of sports for child development and physical fitness. Despite increases in female participation during the last three decades, a gap persists in the enrolment figures between male and female players in sports-related teams. Female players account for 39% of the total participation in US interscholastic athletics. In all probability, polo evolved from a far...

Agency: Advanced Personal Cybersecurity for Enterprises

Learn how businesses and organizations can work with the FBI to get ahead of the threat and make an impact on our cyber adversaries. As the premature disclosure of the information that will be discussed would be likely to significantly frustrate implementation of proposed agency action, this portion of the meeting is required to be closed pursuant to section 10 of FACA and 5 U.S.C. 552b. If you are using public inspection listings for legal research, you should verify the contents of the documents against a final, official edition of the Federal Register. For complete information about, and access to, our official publications and services, go to About the Federal Register on NARA's archives.gov. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) is designated by the US Department of Homeland Security as the focal point for cyber threat prevention, protection, response and recovery for the nation's state, local, tribal and territorial governments. We provide ...

What are NFTs, exactly? Non-fungible tokens explained

  Essential the same, or similar technology used for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether is used to guarantee the uniqueness of each NFT and to prove who owns it. NFT stands for "non-fungible token." At a basic level, an NFT is a digital asset that links ownership to unique physical or digital items, such as works of art, real estate, music, or videos. It can be online-only assets such as digital artwork or real assets like real estate. Some examples are in-game avatars, digital/ non-digital collectibles, tickets, domain names, and more. When someone buys a non-fungible token, they gain ownership of the content, but it can still make its way over the Internet. If tokenization leads to more proof-of-work-based mining, then could lead to greater environmental damage and electricity costs. Most -- if not all -- NFT platforms use cryptocurrency to trade NFTs. Since the value of an NFT is quoted in cryptocurrency, the risk includes exposure to the fluctuation of the cryptoc...