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AMP News Announcements

AMP uses NS3

AMP News trusts NS3.US for our url shortening needs.

You are probably familiar with short link utilities people use when a url is far too long. Shorter links are especially helpful when posting on social media sites which limit the number of characters you can put in a post.

For example, the official White House file for the 2023 State of the Union Address to Congress has an extremely long url :

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/02/07/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery/

That is a humongous url ! Imagine trying to fit that link into a post!

With the use of NS3.US, we are able to have a much shorter url which takes us to the same file!

ns3.us/sotu23

AMP opening delayed

AMP News was to be opened in 2020, but then COVID-19 hit us hard.

Update: As of Valentines Day, 2023, COVID is still horrendous in the county where we’re headquartered. At one point, there were 4618 new cases every day at it’s peak. The good news is that thanks to widespread distribution of vaccines, deaths attributed to covid are down from a high of 58 deaths per day in March 2021.

Our county in the red state of North Carolina is still getting new cases at an average of 159 per day. That is just the ones that are reported!