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Arianespace’s on-time Vega C KOMPSAT‑7 launch, Rhiwbina’s tidy hedges, a Florida TikTok school‑threat arrest, and Wall Street parlaying “price discovery” on Polymarket

Arianespace nails KOMPSAT-7 on Vega C, and yes, the rocket was on time

Arianespace launched South Korea’s KOMPSAT-7 aboard a Vega C, marking the company’s sixth flight of the year. Consider it a rare feel-good headline for punctuality, where the countdown actually counted down and the schedule did not burst into flames. Credit where due, precision matters, and so does getting the payload where it belongs.

Making Tracks in Rhiwbina, Cardiff’s garden village with deep roots and tidy hedges

Fifteen minutes from Cardiff Central, the line to Rhiwbina glides past Birchgrove’s cake leviathan, tens of millions of sponges and a festive blizzard of yule logs, before arriving at a 1912 garden-village experiment that still looks looked after. Inspired by Hampstead and Letchworth, Professor Stanley Jeavons’ humane housing brought gas, water, and generous gardens, built for workers, later priced for professors, now preserved in cream and green. The past lingers underfoot, from a Bloody Ford and a 12th century motte to the shadow of Iestyn ap Gwrgant, and the cultural roll call is sturdy, with writers like Kate Roberts and Dorothy Edwards, W. J. Gruffydd on the street names, plaques for Iorwerth Peate and Cyril Fox, novels from Jack Jones, and musicians from Howard Jones to Andy Fairweather Low. The local Wendy House once doubled as an ARP post, trains still keep wristwatch time, and a 2013 art workshop pulls in learners from Cardiff to the Forest of Dean. By dusk, the platform view politely insists the capital letters are earned.

Florida arrest after alleged TikTok school shooting threat, authorities stress zero tolerance

Walton County deputies arrested 20 year old Ethan Charles Ladner of Santa Rosa Beach after a TikTok livestream with violent statements was flagged and removed. Officials say he acknowledged the account and admitted posting to provoke reactions. He faces a felony charge for making electronic threats of a mass shooting. With students returning from the holiday break, law enforcement reiterated that every school threat is treated as credible, urged parents to discuss online behavior with their children, and said they are coordinating with schools and federal partners to safeguard campuses.

Wall Street bets on Polymarket, because nothing says price discovery like a parlay

Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the NYSE, plans to invest up to 2 billion dollars for as much as a 25 percent stake in Polymarket, valuing the prediction platform around 9 billion and piping its crowd odds into products for institutions. Google Finance and Yahoo Finance will surface the data too, which is one way to dress betting lines in a tie. Polymarket hosts roughly 10,000 yes or no markets across about 15 topics, from sports winners to celebrity milestones, with prices shifting in real time as wagers and news collide. Founder Shayne Coplan touts it as the most accurate thing we have until someone invents a super crystal ball, a bold claim for a company that is not yet profitable and does not charge trading fees. After a 1.4 million dollar CFTC fine in 2022 and a U.S. user block, federal probes were closed in July, and the company acquired a licensed exchange to set up a legal U.S. launch. Critics call it deregulated gambling in a nicer suit, boosters call it disciplined collective intelligence, and Donald Trump Jr. joined the advisory board after his fund reportedly invested about 10 million, because every casino eventually opens a VIP lounge.

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