Avalanche is a decentralized, open source proof of the stack blockchain with smart contract functionality. AVAX is the platform’s native cryptocurrency.

Snowfall began as a protocol for consensus resolution on a network of unreliable machines, where failure could be a crash-fault or Byzantine. The basics of the protocol were first shared in the Interplanetary File System (aka IPFS) in May 2018 by a group of enthusiasts known as “Team Rocket”.

It was later created by a dedicated team of researchers at Cornell University. The research was led by Emin Gunn Sir, a professor of computer science and software engineering, with the help of doctoral students Maufan “Ted” Yin and Kevin Seknik.

Following the research phase, a startup technology company was established to develop a blockchain network that would meet the needs of the complex financial industry.

As pointed out by multiple sources, “The project was in the realm of academic circles, interested in exploring consensus protocols that serve the same purpose of proof of work – secure transactions – but with greater vigor – efficient and likely to provide a basis for democratic development and more users in the consensus process.” To do.

In March 2020, AVA Codebase (Developer Accelerator Program or AVA DApp) became open source for the Avalanche Consensus Protocol and became available to the public.

In September 2020, the company also released its native token, AVAX (short for “Snow”).

Jif peanut butter was recalled in May 21, 2022. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating reports of at least 14 people falling ill from the product in 12 states, while two were hospitalized. No deaths were reported.

The recalled peanut butter products have been distributed in retail stores and other outlets across the country. The states that reported Salmonella cases are Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

How to check if your peanut butter has been recalled?

Look for the place in the peanut butter jar where the label says “best-if-used” date. Just below this, you will see a series of numbers. That’s a lot of code. Recalled products include lot code 1274425 – 2140425 and the products listed below. The FDA recommends that those who have received these potentially contaminated products should dispose of them immediately.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say consumers should double-check their Jif Peanut Butter jars.

Jif’s creamy, wrinkled, natural and low-fat peanut butter has been linked to Salmonella outbreaks in 12 states, with 14 people falling ill and two hospitalized. Side effects of Salmonella poisoning include fever, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.

J.M. Smucker Co. Some GIFs have announced a voluntary withdrawal of peanut butter products for possible Salmonella contamination. Jars with lot codes from 1274425 to 2140425 have been withdrawn and should be disposed of, the agency said.

GF is sold to retailers across the country. The states where Salmonella has been reported are Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, paid a flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct lawsuit against Musk in 2018, Insider has learned.

The assistant worked as a contract cabin crew member for SpaceX’s fleet of corporate jets. He accused Musk of exposing his erect penis to him, rubbing his leg without consent and offering to buy him a horse in exchange for an erotic massage, according to interviews and documents obtained by Insider.

The incident, which took place in 2016, is alleged in a statement signed by a friend of the assistant and prepared to support her claim. The details of this story are drawn from the statement, as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend.

According to the affidavit, the attendant confided in the friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was encouraged to get a masseuse’s license so she could give Musk massages. It was during one of those massages in a private cabin on Musk’s Gulfstream G650ER that she told her friend that Musk proposed to her.

After Insider contacted Musk for comment, he emailed asking for more time to respond, saying there is “a lot more to this story.”

“If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it has come to light,” he wrote, calling the story a “politically motivated success story.”

Insider extended the deadline and reiterated the offer to Musk to comment on the claims. He did not answer.

Reached by cell phone, SpaceX Vice President of Legal Christopher Cardaci said: “I am not going to comment on any settlement agreement.” SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment to its general media contact email address.

An accusation that Musk offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage

The flight attendant told her friend that the SpaceX billionaire and Tesla founder asked her to come to his room during a flight in late 2016 “for a full-body massage,” the statement says. When she arrived, the assistant discovered that Musk “was completely naked except for a sheet that covered the lower half of his body.”

During the massage, the statement says, Musk “exposed her genitalia” and then “touched her and offered to buy him a horse if he would ‘do more,’ meaning performing sexual acts.”

The attendant, who rides a horse, declined and continued with the massage without any sexual conduct. The assistant is “not for sale,” the friend’s statement said. “She will not perform sexual favors in exchange for money or gifts.” The incident occurred during a flight to London.

In an interview with Insider, the friend described the assistant’s accusations in more detail. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing fears for his personal safety, but Insider knows his identity. Insider also knows the identity of the flight attendant, but does not name her because she has claimed to be a victim of sexual misconduct. She declined to comment for this story.

“He pulled out his penis, it was erect,” the friend said, describing the allegations. “And he started propositioning her, as if he touched her thigh and told her that he would buy her a horse. And he basically he tried to bribe her to perform some kind of sexual favor.”
“Punishment for refusing to prostitute herself”

The friend said the assistant told her about the misconduct while they were hiking together shortly after the trip to London. The friend described the assistant as distraught and visibly shaken. “She was really upset,” the friend said. “She did not know what to do”.

The flight attendant told her friend that the job began to dry up after she rebuffed Musk’s advances. “Before the incident, she considered Mr. Musk a person to look up to,” she says in the statement. “But after he exposed himself, he touched her without permission and offered to pay her for sex, she was full of anxiety.”

“She thought things could go back to normal and she would pretend like nothing happened,” the friend told Insider. “However, she started to feel like she was getting some kind of retaliation for her shift reduction and she started to feel really stressed.”

Ultimately, the statement says, the assistant felt that “she was being expelled and punished for refusing to prostitute herself.”

The living room inside a Gulfstream G650ER like the one Musk uses.

Courtesy of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

A la carte massages

SpaceX puts a special emphasis on massage, even going so far as to employ in-house massage therapists as a perk for executives. According to her friend, her superiors encouraged the flight attendant to purchase her own professional massage training for her sessions with Musk.

“They encouraged her to get her massage license, but on her own time, with her own money,” the friend said. “They implied that she would fly more often if she did this because she would be able to give Elon the proper massages. I thought that was a bit strange because you weren’t hired to be a masseuse.

You were hired to be a stewardess. And if Elon likes massages, then she should pay you to go to massage school. But she was so happy and looking forward to having the job and being able to travel.”

A severance package of $250,000

In 2018, after becoming convinced that his refusal to accept Musk’s proposal had diminished his opportunities at SpaceX, the assistant hired a California employment lawyer and sent a complaint to the company’s human resources department detailing the episode. Around that time, the law firm contacted her friend and asked her to prepare a statement to substantiate her claims.

The assistant’s complaint was quickly resolved after a session with a mediator that Musk personally attended. The matter never reached a court of law or arbitration proceedings. In November 2018, Musk, SpaceX and the flight attendant signed a severance agreement that gave the flight attendant a $250,000 payment in exchange for a promise not to sue over the claims.

The agreement also included restrictive non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses that prohibit the aide from discussing severance pay or disclosing any information of any kind about Musk and his businesses, including SpaceX and Tesla.

Musk is currently engaged in a bid to buy Twitter fueled by his professed belief that “free speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy.” Earlier this month, he wrote on Twitter that “sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

“When you choose to remain silent, you become part of that system”

The friend told Insider that she decided to come forward without consulting the flight attendant because, as a sexual assault survivor, she felt compelled to share what she was told about Musk. Unlike the stewardess, her friend is not bound by any confidentiality agreement.

“I absolutely felt a responsibility to introduce it, especially now,” he said. “He is the richest man in the world. Someone with that level of power causing that kind of damage and then throwing some money at the situation, that’s not liability.

There are predators all over the world. But when someone is particularly rich and powerful, they literally have systems that are like a machine that works for them, to set them up so they can do whatever they want.”

Remaining silent, the friend said, would make her an accomplice. “When you choose to remain silent, yes, you become part of that system,” she said. “You become part of that machine that allows someone like Elon Musk to continue to do the horrible things that he has done.”

Nondisclosure agreements are crucial components of that machine. The friend herself said that before contacting Insider, she called the attorney representing the victim. The attorney told her that while she was free to speak to the press, sharing any documents in the case, including her own statement, could put the flight attendant at risk.

“Her main concern was clearly her client,” the friend said. She recalled the attorney saying the confidentiality provisions are “bullshit” and that if Musk has victimized other women, they should report them. But when it came to her client, the attorney urged the friend not to share her statement. “That would be a big problem,” she told the friend.

California, where SpaceX is based, no longer allows companies to require confidentiality clauses in agreements like the one the assistant signed. Just a few months after their deal in 2018, then-Gov. Jerry Brown enacted the Stand Against Non-Disclosure Act, which prohibits the use of NDAs in settlements involving sexual harassment, discrimination, or assault unless requested by the plaintiff.

The attorney did not respond to requests for comment.

“If there was a way for [her] to come forward without putting herself at risk, without endangering her life in any way, I think she would,” the attendee’s friend told Insider. “I hope she feels I did the right thing. I hope she feels like I said the things that she didn’t feel safe enough to say.”

“I would like the truth to be revealed”

This is the only known sexual misconduct allegation and settlement linked personally to Musk.

However, two of his companies have faced allegations of sexual harassment in the past. In December 2021, the same week he was named Time’s Person of the Year, four women who worked at SpaceX spoke out about sexual harassment they said they faced at the company, where Musk is CEO.

One of them, Ashley Kosak, posted an essay in which she recounted being inappropriately groped and touched by male employees while she was an intern. Three others, one of whom said she was bound by a nondisclosure agreement, recounted similar treatment to the New York Times.

In response to the reports, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell sent a company-wide email saying, “Timely reporting of harassment is key to keeping SpaceX a great place to work; We can’t fix what we don’t do.” know,” the Times reported. She added that SpaceX will “rigorously investigate all allegations of harassment or discrimination and will take prompt and appropriate action when we discover that our policy is violated.”

And at least six women have sued Tesla, where Musk is the CEO, alleging sexual harassment at a Tesla factory. Men in the factory would stare at the women and comment on their clothing, according to the allegations, leading some women to wear baggy clothing and use stacks of boxes to obstruct the view of lewd co-workers. Some of the women claimed they were subjected to retaliation when they came forward.

The friend told Insider that if Musk mistreated someone else, she hopes they will tell their story publicly. If there are other victims, she said, “I’d like them to come forward. I would like the truth to be revealed.”

Anthony William Watson MacDonald-Tipunguti is a former professional Australian Rules footballer for the Australian Football League (AFL) Ascendon Football Club. He was drafted by Ascendon with his second election in the 2015 Rookie Draft. McDonald-Tipunguti made their first-round debut in the 2016 season against the Gold Coast Sons. He announced his retirement on 20 May 2022.

McDonald-Tipunguti was born and raised in an Aboriginal Australian family in the Tiwi Islands off the coast of Darwin. He played his junior football for the Timber Bombers in the Northern Territory Football League before moving to Victoria to improve his AFL career prospects at the age of 17. She was adopted by Jane MacDonald in Gipsland and named in recognition of her contributions to the journey.

Joined the family as the youngest brother of the McDonald’s family. After moving to Victoria, he enrolled at Cheroen Christian School in Druin, where he learned to speak English. He played for Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup and Ascendon’s reserve team in the VFL for six years before realizing his dream before being listed by Ascendon in late 2015.