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Racist Remarks Made At Fairfield County Meeting Being Investigated As Hate Crime, Police Say Racist Remarks Made At Fairfield County Meeting Being Investigated As Hate Crime, Police Say
Racist Remarks Made At Fairfield County Meeting Being Investigated As Hate Crime, Police Say A hate crime investigation is underway in one Fairfield County town after an unknown person joined a video conference meeting and allegedly made racist remarks. The incident took place on Thursday, April 22, during a meeting of the Racial Equity and Justice Task Force in Fairfield, Police Chief Robert Kalamaras said. According to Kalamaras, the task force was hosting a virtual meeting among its members when an unknown person who had joined the meeting began to share a screen using images of slaves before making racial epithets and racist remarks to the group.  "Some of the r…

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by Kathy Reakes
Lifestyle
Zoom, Other Video Conferencing Services May Have This Downside, Study Says Zoom, Other Video Conferencing Services May Have This Downside, Study Says
Zoom, Other Video Conferencing Services May Have This Downside, Study Says Zoom and other video conference services may not be as much of an environmentally-friendly alternative to in-person meetings as many people assumed, according to a new study. But there’s a simple trick to make video conferencing even greener - turn off your camera. Despite a record drop in global carbon emissions in 2020, a pandemic-driven shift to remote work and more at-home entertainment still presents a “significant environmental impact” due to how internet data is stored and transferred around the world, according to a study by Purdue University, Yale University, and the Massachus…

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by Kristin Palpini