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South Dakota's lone congressman has been named the "most effective House Republican" on agriculture for the 117th Congress, according to the Center for Effective Lawmaking.

It's Dusty Johnson's second time in a row receiving the honor.CEL also ranked him 14th out of his 222 House Republican colleagues.

Agriculture is the top industry in South Dakota. My focused efforts to represent our producers well have delivered results to the industry, Johnson said. Im proud to be named the top House Republican in Agriculture policy and will continue to work hard for South Dakota.

During the 117th Congress, Johnson was the Republican lead on many bills passed, including theOcean Shipping Reform ActandStrengthening the Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Act.

Other bills were implemented administratively by the agencies they affected, an often faster process than waiting for Congressional passage. TheFEEDD Actexpands relief under the federal crop insurance program, while theCattle Contract Library Actincreases transparency for producers by allowing them to view price components from different packers.

Johnsonsecured his third term in a landslide victoryover Libertarian Collin Duprel in November. Now months into the 118th Congress, Johnson continues to prioritize his agriculture work in the legislature. It's his third term serving on the agriculture committee, a vital seat on the national stage to represent South Dakota's number-one industry, especially in a year where Congress has to renegotiate the Farm Bill.

Since the session began on Jan. 3, Johnson has re-introduced two cattle-focused bills aimed at helping the ag industry theButcher Block Actand theA-PLUS Act. TheButcher Block Actassists new or expanded livestock or meat processors, allows for financing of cooperative stock and establishes a rural development grant program.The U.S. Department of Agriculture implemented a pilot program mirroring that legislation in July 2021.

He's been outspoken about Chinese Communist Party influence, noting repeatedly that "food security is national security." Johnson is one of 24 lawmakers appointed to the Select Committee on China; he questioned CCP involvement in America's agriculture and farmland productionduring the first hearing on Feb. 28.

Johnson recently visited Wall, wherehe and USDA Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small toured Wall Meat Processing. Co-owner Ken Charfauros said the demand for locally sourced meat has exceeded the capacity of their 2,400-square-foot processing plant. Charfauros and the Wall Meat Processing team have expanded with their subsidiary, I-90 Meats, to create a 30,000-square-foot plant in New Underwood.

I-90 Meats received a $3.3 million federal grant to assist in the plant's creation, a direct impact from Johnson's legislation.

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Presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Monday laid out her plan for tackling the border crisis and the nations debt during a town-hall event in Dover, N.H.

I dont know that our kids are ever going to forgive us for this, Haley said of the nations $31 trillion in debt. Its easy to blame Biden for that, but our Republicans did that to us too, and we need to acknowledge that.

She pointed to the $2.2 trillion Covid stimulus bill that was passed in 2020 with no accountability.

It expanded welfare. We now have 90 million people on Medicaid in this country. Weve got 42 million people on food stamps, she told a full house at Dovers Restoration Church. And so what did Republicans do? Did they try and stop and correct? No, Republicans in Congress doubled down and for the first time in ten years, they went back to earmarks. Seven thousand earmarks they passed through . . . this past December.

Dont let them ever tell you Republicans and Democrats dont agree on anything, because they love wasting our money, she said, before again renewing her call for term limits and competency test for politicians over the age of 75.

If elected, Haley said she would vetoany spending bill that doesnt take us back to pre-Covid levels.

I balanced a budget in South Carolina. You balance a budget at home.Our businesses, we balance budgets. Why is Congress the only group thats exempt from doing that? We have to start balancing a budget, she said. To address the nations finances, we must also undertake entitlement reform, she added.

One such reform, she said, would be raising the retirement age for kids in their 20s, limiting benefits for the wealthy, changing the cost of living to more closely reflect inflation, and expanding Medicare Advantage programs.

National Review spoke to voters across the political spectrum who turned out to see Haley, most of whom said it was too early to say which candidate they will support in 2024. However, all said that the economy and inflation are among their top concerns.

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I love Nikki Haley. Ive been following her since she was in government elsewhere, and so I love her, but I want to hear what other people have to say before I make a decision, said one conservative resident. But I definitely am impressed with her so far over the years.

Diane Weir, a libertarian, said the Republican field looks good and that it has been nice to watch somebody confident like Haley.

She didnt dodge questions. I appreciated that, she said. I also thought the last time I heard [Republican senator] Tim Scott interviewed, he sounded very good. And of course, Im intrigued by Vivek [Ramaswamy.]

She cited the economy and the amount of drugs coming over the border as her top concerns but said she has reservations about Haleys neocon side and her hawkish positions on Ukraine.

Beth Voce, an independent, said she is interested in the prospect of a female candidate for president because Im tired of the good old boys system that is not working for our country.

So Im very excited, she said. Nikki Haley has a good reputation and has proven results.

Elaine Teeters said that she and her husband are still just feeling things out. She said she loves Governor Chris Sununu but would hate to lose him to the presidency. Her husband, John Teeters, said he voted for Trump in 2016 but he didnt vote for him in 2020 and wont vote for him in 2024.

John Teeters said he might trust Vice President Mike Pence to tone down the divisive rhetoric between the parties but added that Pence is a little far right for him. He would be interested in supporting a presidential run from former representative Liz Cheney.

Meanwhile, Haley today also unveiled her plan to tackle the border crisis, another top concern for many voters at the event.

Congress has let us know that they are incapable of figuring anything out, so we have to tell Congress what they need to do, Haley said, telling the engaged crowd at the church that Congress must pass mandatory E-verify to prevent businesses from hiring illegal immigrants.

She pointed to its successful implementation in South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017. They left South Carolina because they couldnt get a job, she said.

She also said the government should hire an additional 25,000 Border Patrol and ICE agents instead of spending money to hire the additional IRS agents called for in the Democrats Inflation Reduction Act.

There should be no more money going to any illegal immigrants in this country whatsoever, she said. Other points in her agenda include a return to Trumps Remain in Mexico plan and the continued use of a Title 42 public-health order that allows for quick expulsions of illegal immigrants.

I will tell you the one thing that youre going to see in America when Im president, were going to stop catch and release and were going to start catch and deport, she said.

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I really do hate pouring fuel on the artificial intelligence (AI) fire, but I have seen quite a bit of panic stricken cries this week about blocking ChatGPT bots from your site. E.g. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/analyticsnerd_chatgpt-activity-7044983361940938752-GSFK/

We had an interesting chat here in the office yesterday and I wanted to share my (possibly very wrong) thoughts on the issue.

The argument for blocking access to the AI bots (mainly ChatGPT for now, but Bard is becoming more of a thing) is very simple why allow them to use your carefully curated content to feed their content monster?

You have, after all, slaved over creating industry leading content and that takes time and a considerable amount of effort. Why on earth should you hand it over to the bots, who will then effectively plagiarise your genius? It feels overly generous to allow your masterpiece(s) to be used as training data for the various AI platforms so that they can produce decent content.

The easiest way to stop the crawlers munching up your content is to block the Common Crawl bot. It does appear that the spider honours such directives, which you can implement in a couple of ways.

Arguably the fastest method, you should add the following to your robots.txt:

Another approach is to add nofollow robots meta tag directives on each page that you wish to protect. the following to all pages that you wish to protect. Although this will give you page by page control, this introduces the risk of accidentally leaving it off the very pages that you wish to hide from the bots, so I would personally recommend a blanket ban using the robots.txt directive.

As mentioned, it does appear that the bots obey requests to prevent crawling.

A very substantial but is the fact that there is currently no way to remove content from the Common Crawl dataset. The same is true for other datasets such as C4 and Open Data.

In other words, it is probably too late for the vast majority of the content that you have already published. I am sorry folks, but you have already helped stoke the AI content fire.

The discussion we had in the office yesterday was triggered by a (very valid) suggestion by Victoria that we should suggest to our clients that they may wish to prevent the AI bots from accessing their content.

Whilst I absolutely understand why this feels like a sensible approach, I found myself fighting the free access to all content corner and, having slept on it, I still think that blocking the AI bots is probably a waste of time.

The first issue is the fact that robots.txt or meta tag directives do not always work and it would be extremely easy for the crawlers to mask their real identify or simply choose to ignore such directives. I really dont want to get into a running battle of banning each new incarnation of bots and it feels fairly pointless when you consider the fact that most of your content has already been crawled.

I am very aware that I may be looking at things from a different perspective. As an agency, we work so hard to create and amplify excellent content that I find it unnatural to want to hide it away. This is generally true to my view of gated content. There are many very valid reasons why you may wish to prevent free access to your content, but I typically err on the side of free access as I am a little bit obsessed about domain authority and appreciate the potential that free content has to build natural links. Preventing access goes against the grain of most SEO focussed people who want to share content as far and wide as humanly possible.

Despite the incessant noise about AI, it is still relatively early days and we do not really know whether attribution will come in the future. A very brief play with Bard (Googles effort) showed that some sources are shown. That is fairly significant in my humble opinion and preventing access to your content could come at the expense of missing out on significant brand exposure.

When you combine that with the very real prospect of Googles AI bots being used to help inform SEO / SERPs, you really wouldnt want to miss out on that party.

Whilst I have sympathy for the plagiarism concerns, the reality is that your content is already being used to inspire other content. Research is a key phase of any copywriting project and the bots are just doing what humans have always done use other content as inspiration. Rather than seeing that as a threat, you may wish to adopt the imitation is the sincerest form of flattery mantra and celebrate the fact that your content is being recognised as being brilliant and therefore used as a stimulus for other content.

It feels extremely difficult to picture the future of AI.

A lot of what I see makes me think that we are already living in the future as some of it is incredibly clever. Worryingly so I have no doubt that the rise of the machines will continue unabated and effectively make a lot of roles redundant.

I also remain adamant that the human brain will always ultimately trump a machine when it comes to content. AI is getting very close, and significantly speeds up the research phase of content production, but subtle nuances or some key features of content such as irony remain the preserve of our grey cells.

I also think that it will always be possible to identify AI content. Google is at it themselves, so they will sure be able to spot signs of spun content and *hopefully* reward the original?

One to watch. I hope that I am right!

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Bengaluru, March 28, 2023: Simplilearn, the worlds #1 online boot camp for digital economy skills training, hosted its 8th convocation with Purdue University to felicitate over 1200 learners for completing their professional certification across various programs. Gracing the event with their presence were Professor Bart Collins, Purdue University, as the Chief Guest and Mr. Kashyap Dalal, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Simplilearn.

The convocation ceremony was held to felicitate the meritorious students on their accomplishments. It was a joint felicitation by Purdue University and Simplilearn congratulating learners on completing the various professional certification programs in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Business Analytics, Data Science, Digital Marketing, Digital Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, Data Analytics and Data Engineering. The convocation ceremony was filled with enthusiastic, energetic, and excited students.

Congratulating the learners, Mr. Kashyap Dalal, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Simplilearn, said, Extremely pleased to be among a group of meritorious students who are focused, sincere and committed to their goals.We are pleased to be a part of their learning journey and to be able to celebrate with them the successful completion of various professional certificate programs. We have partnered with Purdue University to bring together programs that are industry relevant and will give aspirants the extra edge required to be successful in this competitive industry. On behalf of the entire Simplilearn family, I wish the students the best of luck in their future endeavors.

Addressing the post-graduates at the ceremony, Professor Bart Collins, Purdue University, said, Every quarter, Purdue University and Simplilearn come together to congratulate students who have completed their programs in various fields. It gives us immense pride to celebrate the success of these brilliant minds and to have such meritorious students as our alumni. Sincerity is the key to growth; therefore, I would ask all graduates today to continue consistently learning in their respective fields. I hope you all achieve greater heights in your professions in the coming years.

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Munesh J Lamba, a learner from Professional Certificate Program in Digital Marketing, told the audience, It was a great experience being part of this Digital Marketing program with Purdue University in partnership with Simplilearn. I got the chance to sharpen my skills in Digital Marketing while becoming proficient with tools such as SEO, PPC, Web Analytics, and Social Media Management. The instructors were very knowledgeable and offered great insights on the topic. This course was exceptional for providing in-depth information and experience in a way that provided a holistic view of SEO, PPC, Web Analytics, and Social Media Management.

This is the 8th convocation ceremony hosted by Simplilearn and Purdue University. Simplilearn will host a graduation ceremony with IIT Roorkee in June 2023 and Caltech University in May 2023.

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