Great White Sharks Washing Up Dead in Canada With Brain Swelling
Great White Sharks Washing Up Dead in Canada With Brain Swelling
The first great white shark was found dead in August 2023 on a beach in a national park on Prince Edward Island, Canada: a young male, 500 pounds, 8 feet 9 inches from snout to tail. Park workers soon arrived with a pickup truck, loaded the carcass and drove it to a cooler at the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island. Aside from some scrapes acquired en route, the shark showed no signs of injury.
Dr. Megan Jones, a veterinary pathologist at the college and regional director of the ********* Wildlife Health Cooperative, or C.W.H.C., began a necropsy early the next morning, while the body “was really, really fresh,” she said. “When we look through the microscope at the tissues, they’re very well preserved.”
The C.W.H.C., a network affiliated with Canada’s veterinary schools, studies wildlife health issues. In 30 years, however, the group had never come across a great white, and it was not at all obvious how this one had died. Starvation was ruled out from the very first incision, when the shark’s 76-pound liver, where the animal stores ****, spilled onto the examination table. Other organs showed no sign of trauma. Only later, after microscopic testing, did the cause of death become apparent: meningoencephalitis, an inflammation of brain tissues.
At first Dr. Jones found the diagnosis more interesting than alarming. Then came the other sharks. Over the next few months the C.W.H.C. received either whole animals or tissue samples from four more white sharks found beached in eastern Canada. “Three of these five seem to have the same potentially infectious disease affecting their brain,” Dr. Jones said. “We need to know more about what that is.”
Those five white sharks are among nine known deaths dating from a shark found on July 4, 2022, in Massachusetts; most of those had brain inflammation. Such inflammation has been seen in other shark species, but the cause in those cases — bacterial infection, for instance — was obvious, unlike in white sharks. Dr. Jones is now part of a small group of scientists in the United States and Canada who are trying to untangle the mystery — and determine whether white sharks are facing a broader threat.
“I feel very strongly that there’s something significant going on,” said Dr. Alisa Newton, the chief veterinarian for OCEARCH, a shark research organization based in Florida that developed Shark Tracker, a popular app that monitors the movements of sharks. But Dr. Newton’s alarm is tempered by the fact that so little is known about the base-line incidence of shark deaths along the Atlantic Coast.
As research subjects, the sharks of the western North Atlantic population, which ranges from southern Florida to Newfoundland, are less understood than white sharks in other areas, and far less understood than marine mammals such as whales and dolphins. Shark science is relatively underfunded, and there are few protocols to connect local officials with scientists when a white shark is found beached on the eastern coast of North America. As a result, information — including tissue samples — tends to move slowly.
Dr. Newton was the first scientist to observe meningoencephalitis in white sharks on the Atlantic Coast, in 2022. She spotted it in a sample of brain tissue that she received at her lab in Jacksonville, Fla.: reddish cubes taken from a shark found on Long Island, N.Y., on July 20 of that year.
She also found swelling in the brain of the shark found on July 4, 2022 — although the tissue samples didn’t reach her lab until early 2023 — and in another recovered in South Carolina in April 2023. Six other earlier cases of beached sharks are being evaluated for possible meningoencephalitis. She wonders whether there are still more samples out there, sitting on shelves in jars of formalin, perhaps collected by state wildlife officials who don’t know that she’d like a piece of their brain.
The brains of white sharks are big, by fish standards, although considerably smaller than those of dolphins. They are smooth on the surface and knobby, roughly the size and shape of three Ping-Pong ****** in a row.
Meningoencephalitis, an inflammation of the brain and surrounding tissues, is a symptom of an underlying issue. With nowhere for swollen tissue to go in the hard skull, the brain is squeezed and its normal functioning disrupted. In a shark, that may mean it is unable to feed, Dr. Jones said, or it loses its balance while swimming and gets stuck in shallow water, becoming beached when the tide goes out. But given the paucity of knowledge, it could be normal for white sharks to live with some amount of brain swelling.
“We know lots of animals that live with parasites or bacteria and they’re good, they’re fine, they always have sort of a natural load,” said Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, or MARS, the organization that is called when animals are discovered beached in eastern Canada. “You should see the lungs of harbor porpoises: They’re chock-full of really icky worms, but it’s natural for them.”
The organization performed necropsies on three of the five beached sharks, including two that could not be moved to a lab and had to be dissected on sand that quickly soaked with blood. The group also enlisted a dive team to recover the head of the most recent casualty, a white shark found dead in November of 2023 in 30 feet of water near Halifax. (Its time in the water degraded the brain tissues too much for the C.W.H.C. to make any diagnosis about swelling.)
One juvenile male had eaten just before it died, and there were “big chunks of porpoise” in its stomach, including a flipper and part of the head, Ms. Wimmer said. And it showed no sign of meningoencephalitis under the microscope. Another white shark, which made ********* headlines in October 2023 for its death throes, swimming erratically around a harbor and bumping into the wharf before beaching, seemed like a clear case of brain inflammation. But testing again showed none.
To further the investigation, Dr. Newton has submitted brain tissue from the South Carolina shark to the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory for genetic sequencing. The procedure catalogs all the DNA in the tissue to establish whether there is evidence of another organism, such as a virus or bacteria, inside the shark that could be causing the meningoencephalitis. That sequencing has not been completed yet, leaving the mystery open.
Ms. Wimmer is optimistic that the “baffling” wave of deaths could actually be a positive sign, the natural result of a population upswing for an animal that is listed as an endangered species in Canada. More white sharks might be turning up on beaches simply because there are more white sharks in the water.
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Great White Sharks Washing Up Dead in Canada With Brain Swelling
Great White Sharks Washing Up Dead in Canada With Brain Swelling
The first great white shark was found dead in August 2023 on a beach in a national park on Prince Edward Island, Canada: a young male, 500 pounds, 8 feet 9 inches from snout to tail. Park workers soon arrived with a pickup truck, loaded the carcass and drove it to a cooler at the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island. Aside from some scrapes acquired en route, the shark showed no signs of injury.
Dr. Megan Jones, a veterinary pathologist at the college and regional director of the ********* Wildlife Health Cooperative, or C.W.H.C., began a necropsy early the next morning, while the body “was really, really fresh,” she said. “When we look through the microscope at the tissues, they’re very well preserved.”
The C.W.H.C., a network affiliated with Canada’s veterinary schools, studies wildlife health issues. In 30 years, however, the group had never come across a great white, and it was not at all obvious how this one had died. Starvation was ruled out from the very first incision, when the shark’s 76-pound liver, where the animal stores ****, spilled onto the examination table. Other organs showed no sign of trauma. Only later, after microscopic testing, did the cause of death become apparent: meningoencephalitis, an inflammation of brain tissues.
At first Dr. Jones found the diagnosis more interesting than alarming. Then came the other sharks. Over the next few months the C.W.H.C. received either whole animals or tissue samples from four more white sharks found beached in eastern Canada. “Three of these five seem to have the same potentially infectious disease affecting their brain,” Dr. Jones said. “We need to know more about what that is.”
Those five white sharks are among nine known deaths dating from a shark found on July 4, 2022, in Massachusetts; most of those had brain inflammation. Such inflammation has been seen in other shark species, but the cause in those cases — bacterial infection, for instance — was obvious, unlike in white sharks. Dr. Jones is now part of a small group of scientists in the United States and Canada who are trying to untangle the mystery — and determine whether white sharks are facing a broader threat.
“I feel very strongly that there’s something significant going on,” said Dr. Alisa Newton, the chief veterinarian for OCEARCH, a shark research organization based in Florida that developed Shark Tracker, a popular app that monitors the movements of sharks. But Dr. Newton’s alarm is tempered by the fact that so little is known about the base-line incidence of shark deaths along the Atlantic Coast.
As research subjects, the sharks of the western North Atlantic population, which ranges from southern Florida to Newfoundland, are less understood than white sharks in other areas, and far less understood than marine mammals such as whales and dolphins. Shark science is relatively underfunded, and there are few protocols to connect local officials with scientists when a white shark is found beached on the eastern coast of North America. As a result, information — including tissue samples — tends to move slowly.
Dr. Newton was the first scientist to observe meningoencephalitis in white sharks on the Atlantic Coast, in 2022. She spotted it in a sample of brain tissue that she received at her lab in Jacksonville, Fla.: reddish cubes taken from a shark found on Long Island, N.Y., on July 20 of that year.
She also found swelling in the brain of the shark found on July 4, 2022 — although the tissue samples didn’t reach her lab until early 2023 — and in another recovered in South Carolina in April 2023. Six other earlier cases of beached sharks are being evaluated for possible meningoencephalitis. She wonders whether there are still more samples out there, sitting on shelves in jars of formalin, perhaps collected by state wildlife officials who don’t know that she’d like a piece of their brain.
The brains of white sharks are big, by fish standards, although considerably smaller than those of dolphins. They are smooth on the surface and knobby, roughly the size and shape of three Ping-Pong ****** in a row.
Meningoencephalitis, an inflammation of the brain and surrounding tissues, is a symptom of an underlying issue. With nowhere for swollen tissue to go in the hard skull, the brain is squeezed and its normal functioning disrupted. In a shark, that may mean it is unable to feed, Dr. Jones said, or it loses its balance while swimming and gets stuck in shallow water, becoming beached when the tide goes out. But given the paucity of knowledge, it could be normal for white sharks to live with some amount of brain swelling.
“We know lots of animals that live with parasites or bacteria and they’re good, they’re fine, they always have sort of a natural load,” said Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, or MARS, the organization that is called when animals are discovered beached in eastern Canada. “You should see the lungs of harbor porpoises: They’re chock-full of really icky worms, but it’s natural for them.”
The organization performed necropsies on three of the five beached sharks, including two that could not be moved to a lab and had to be dissected on sand that quickly soaked with blood. The group also enlisted a dive team to recover the head of the most recent casualty, a white shark found dead in November of 2023 in 30 feet of water near Halifax. (Its time in the water degraded the brain tissues too much for the C.W.H.C. to make any diagnosis about swelling.)
One juvenile male had eaten just before it died, and there were “big chunks of porpoise” in its stomach, including a flipper and part of the head, Ms. Wimmer said. And it showed no sign of meningoencephalitis under the microscope. Another white shark, which made ********* headlines in October 2023 for its death throes, swimming erratically around a harbor and bumping into the wharf before beaching, seemed like a clear case of brain inflammation. But testing again showed none.
To further the investigation, Dr. Newton has submitted brain tissue from the South Carolina shark to the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory for genetic sequencing. The procedure catalogs all the DNA in the tissue to establish whether there is evidence of another organism, such as a virus or bacteria, inside the shark that could be causing the meningoencephalitis. That sequencing has not been completed yet, leaving the mystery open.
Ms. Wimmer is optimistic that the “baffling” wave of deaths could actually be a positive sign, the natural result of a population upswing for an animal that is listed as an endangered species in Canada. More white sharks might be turning up on beaches simply because there are more white sharks in the water.
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RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
Thermal Grizzly has updated its cooling solutions with an all-new 44 x 37mm KryoSheet optimized for the RTX 5090’s GB202 die. The new size costs $24.96 and comes with the KryoSheet and Kapton tape to protect the PCB and capacitors from electrocution.
KryoSheet is a thermal paste alternative with a thermal pad to cool a CPU or GPU. The product is made out of graphene, a non-liquid material that is competitive with thermal paste in terms of thermal conductivity. Its thermal pad likeness gives KryoSheet immunity to the “pump-out effect” commonly seen in thermal paste. This allows KryoSheet to stay thermally conductive for the lifetime of its cooling product without performance degradation.
Thermal Grizzly states that the pump-out effect is even more pronounced on large dies such as GB202, requiring more thermal paste replacement intervals if the RTX 5090 model isn’t using liquid metal.
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The only major downside of graphene is its electrical conductivity, which can pose a threat if not applied correctly. If the KryoSheet touches any part of a CPU or GPU, it is not supposed to; it is highly likely to kill the cooling components altogether. The 44 x 37mm Kryosheet reportedly overlaps GB202, ensuring maximum thermal conductivity, even on the very edges of the die. Kapton tape is required to use KryoSheet to ensure the thermal pad doesn’t contact any surrounding components or the PCB.
KryoSheet provides another avenue for RTX 5090 customers to help maintain their GPU’s cooling performance. The RTX 5090 Founders Edition could be swapped from liquid metal thermal interface material to thermal paste, yielding only a two-degree increase in GPU temperatures.
GB202 is one of the largest dies Nvidia has produced for the consumer market, measuring 750mm^2. The only other dies that approach GB202’s dimensions are TU102 and GV102, used in the RTX 2080 Ti/RTX Titan and the Titan V, respectively. The only GPU using GB202 is the all-new RTX 5090 (for now), featuring 21,760 CUDA cores, 32GB of VRAM, and a 575W TBP.
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NOAA releases outlook for February, active weather pattern expected
NOAA releases outlook for February, active weather pattern expected
Peoria, Ill. (WMBD) — The month of January was a cold month, and while we received snow on 11 days of the month, we only managed to pick up 5.3 inches of snow putting us more than 2.0 inches below average bringing our seasonal snowfall deficit to more than 8 inches. The start of February doesn’t look as cold as January, but all signs point to a fairly active month of weather.
NOAA’s February Outlook
Weak La Niña conditions are present across the eastern Pacific Ocean and this is expected to have a big influence on the weather pattern across North America over the next month or two. While specific details such as how cold we’ll get or how much snow we’ll see are unknown, NOAA’s predictions are based on probabilities; they tell us what our chances are of being near, above, or below average when it comes to temperatures and precipitation.
Temperature OutlookTheir outlook for calls for greater chances of above average temperatures across the south, Ohio River Valley, and New England while saying there’s a better chance for temperatures to be below average across the northern U.S. In Central Illinois the forecast is more uncertain and they give us an “Equal Chance” of experiencing near average, above average, or below average temperatures. While this is a complicated way of saying they don’t know what will happen in the end, it does suggest we could be in for some big fluctuations in temperature throughout the month.
Precipitation OutlookNOAA has a little more confidence in this forecast and calls for greater chances of above average precipitation across the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest, including Central Illinois, while chances for below average precipitation are higher across the deep south. This is the pattern that is fairly typical for La Niña winters.
It’s important to note that this does not mean we will experience above average snowfall. It just means that precipitation as a whole is more likely to end up above average. It appears the storm track is going to be quite active through the month of February which will likely lead to everything from snow and freezing rain to thunderstorms throughout the Midwest, and this forecast very much references that.
As an interesting side note…Seven of our top 10 snowiest Februarys have all occurred since 2007. Out of those seven, four of those occurred during La Niña winters. Those La Niñas were generally moderate to strong while this year’s La Niña has been weak. Is there a correlation or just coincidence? To answer that is going to take a more thorough study to figure it out, but it is an interesting observation.
Top 10 Snowiest Februarys on Record
Year
Observed Snowfall
La Niña
El Niño
Neutral
Unknown
2014
22.9 Inches
√
2011
20.9 Inches
√ (Strong)
2022
19.2 Inches
√ (Moderate)
2010
18.3 Inches
√ (Moderate)
2008
17.0 Inches
√ (Strong)
1893
16.5 Inches
√
1989
15.2 Inches
√ (Strong)
2021
14.7 Inches
√ (Moderate)
1986
13.9 Inches
√
2007
13.3 Inches
√ (Weak)
NOAA’s Early Spring Outlook
With Gertie and Phil’s predictions just a few days away, here’s NOAA’s thoughts on the next few months. Their three month outlook that runs from February through April carries much of the same themes we’re seeing in February, greater chances for above average precipitation across the Midwest and an uncertain temperature outlook.
Guidance suggest that Central Illinois could be in for an active Spring and it wouldn’t be surprising if we have an active severe weather season. La Niña will be on it’s way out this spring and studies have shown that parts of the Midwest as well as the southeast tend to see above average severe weather seasons during the transition.
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She Was Chosen to Help Rebuild Notre-Dame. Then Fire Hit Her Adopted City, Too.
She Was Chosen to Help Rebuild Notre-Dame. Then Fire Hit Her Adopted City, Too.
The story of Notre-Dame’s restoration starts with a fire, as Claire Tabouret is well aware.
Officials in France have chosen her, a Frenchwoman who, for the last 10 years, has called Los Angeles home, to help bring its $900 million, yearslong resurrection project to the finish line. She will create stained glass windows in several of the southern bays.
And as Tabouret has watched the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history burn her adopted hometown, the parallels have become inescapable.
It all “starts with a fire, which starts a conversation,” she said — a conversation about how “to transform this destruction into a new rebirth, new life.”
The little piece of Notre-Dame’s rebirth that Tabouret, 43, is contributing to is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: Add a contemporary touch to an almost 1,000-year old cathedral.
The only reason Tabouret is getting this chance is because a fire engulfed the cathedral’s roof and spire in 2019. Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, then raised the idea of installing new stained glass windows, and, on a visit to the construction site in 2023, President Emmanuel Macron of France signed off.
The French culture ministry, he said, would run a yearlong competition to pick the artist who would design them. The windows, the ministry said, would fill six of the seven chapels on the side of the nave, joining one figurative window in one of the chapels that would remain. Officials said the commission was not to replace anything that had been lost, but to give the cathedral a flavor of the contemporary gesture that had been promised in the wake of the fire.
Preservationists lodged vociferous objections, in part because the windows being replaced — from the 19th-century renovation orchestrated by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc — had survived the fire. (Other windows in the cathedral, including celebrated rose windows, remain intact.)
“I never applied for any competitions before,” Tabouret said in an interview. “And I think when I saw this, I was like, ‘OK, if I’m going to try once in my life to apply for something, it should be this. Because there’s nothing *******, more historic or incredible.”
Tabouret grew up in the South of France and knew even as a child that she wanted to be a painter. She fed her interest with books filled with 19th-century landscapes. And around the time she turned 18, she took the train to Paris, where she was admitted to the venerated École des Beaux-Arts.
She visited New York as an exchange student at the Cooper Union before heading back to Paris, where she modeled for art classes, worked as a telemarketer and waited tables to stay afloat. One day in 2013, the French billionaire businessman and collector François Pinault noticed one of her paintings, she said. He bought all of her work at the show. “The next morning my life was different,” she said.
A little more than a year later, she moved to Los Angeles, where she quickly discovered one of of the city’s core charms: “That feeling that you can be in a town, but also be very solitary,” she said.
Since then, much of her work has been filled with figures: sometimes miners, sometimes wrestlers, sometimes children (who are sometimes in groups and sometimes wearing makeup), sometimes young women and sometimes herself. Her figures are often filled with “body language” and “inside feelings,” as she put it, and they have been exhibited in Paris, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and elsewhere. A painting of young debutantes in blue dresses sold at auction for $870,000 in 2021, and several of her other works have also sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Claire has always kind of taken from her personal life as she creates her paintings. But they transcend her personal narrative,” said Davida Nemeroff, the owner of Night Gallery in Los Angeles, which will host an exhibition of Tabouret’s new work (“Moonlight Shadow”) from Feb. 15 to March 29. “We can all see ourselves in the paintings, which I think is why they’re so powerful and also why I think she’s such great candidate to do the Notre-Dame project.”
Tabouret, whose dark sweater and jeans were splattered with paint on a recent weekday, knows that some stiffly oppose her new work replacing cherished windows.
But she considers herself a researcher at heart. And she knows Notre-Dame’s history. She notes that it was built long before the 19th century, when the last renovation (which preservationists embrace) occurred. And even at its founding hundreds of years earlier, a church at the site was purposely destroyed so its stones could be used to build something better.
“The idea of using and reusing and transforming is part of the history of this building,” she said. “Each renovation does modify what was before. So it would be kind of weird to freeze it in time.”
“We have to trust our art,” she added, “the same way every century before us trusted our artists.”
A committee running the competition Tabouret ultimately won gave the final eight contenders a specific assignment with specific parameters: Paint the Pentecost. Each large window, with its many panels, must represent one sentence from the ******; follow the story; make it figurative work; when considering colors, respect the beautiful, neutral white light; whatever you make should be easily understood.
In Tabouret’s Los Angeles studio, her vibrant sketches of each of the six windows were displayed on the wall and on the floor. They were accompanied by pieces that zoomed in on some of the human faces offering a life-size, more detailed look at how the work will eventually appear inside the cathedral.
She had made her work on plexiglass. And then, using a press, Tabouret created the prints on paper of each design. The ink displayed differently on each print, offering insights into color, texture and shadows. “There is an element of unpredictability and surprise,” she said. “Like playing between what you can actually control and what you can’t.”
One of the six windows she had sketched depicts “tongues of fire,” Tabouret said. It is the reason officials chose the Pentecost and the passages they did, she said. They wanted to tie the project to the fire that forced the restoration.
At this, Tabouret took a moment to consider the fires in Los Angeles that have burned not far from her studio and the life she has created here for herself and her family.
Across the studio, a large painting of a group of children leaned against the wall. Tabouret had recently pulled it out from storage and had decided to spritz it with blue-gray liquid acrylic paint, without quite knowing why. She had added a blanket over the children, too.
Now, she said, the streaks created by the spray suddenly looked to her like ash. The blanket felt like a form of protection. “Maybe not a lot of coincidence,” she said.
“What is truly shattered for everyone in L.A. is that we did feel safe and certain,” she lamented. “It’s so densely populated here, we thought fire could never come to us.”
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How To Survive February As A Gamer
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Analysts say January may hat tip what's next for the S&P 500 – TheStreet
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Trump says he ordered airstrikes on Islamic State in Somalia
Trump says he ordered airstrikes on Islamic State in Somalia
Donald Trump says he ordered military airstrikes on a senior Islamic State attack planner and others from the organisation in Somalia.
“These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump posted on social media.
“The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.”
Trump did not name any of the people targeted in strikes.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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Former Federal Reserve adviser indicted and arrested for alleged espionage in dealings with China
Former Federal Reserve adviser indicted and arrested for alleged espionage in dealings with China
Federal authorities have arrested a former Federal Reserve senior adviser for allegedly giving inside economic information to China.
A grand jury indictment accuses John Harold Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, of stealing Federal Reserve trade secrets and selling them to ******** intelligence officials for at least $450,000 by posing as a university professor in China. He is also accused of lying to Federal Reserve investigators and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials.
The Department of Justice announced Rogers’ indictment and arrest on Friday, the same day he made his first appearance before a Washington court. Rogers is being held without bond and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, according to court records.
“As alleged in the indictment, Rogers betrayed his country while employed at the Federal Reserve by providing restricted U.S. financial and economic information to ******** government intelligence officers,” said Assistant Director Kevin Vorndran of the FBI Counterintelligence Division in an announcement of Rogers’ indictment and arrest.
“This information could allow adversaries to illegally gain a strategic economic advantage at the expense of the U.S. This indictment sends a clear message that the FBI and our partners will hold accountable those who threaten our national security,” Vorndran said.
A public defender listed in court records as being assigned to Rogers’ case did not immediately respond Saturday to a request for comment.
The Justice Department said the information “could allow China to manipulate the U.S. market … in a manner to insider trading.” The department noted that China, as of October 2024, held about $816 billion in U.S. foreign debt and that ******** financial players could benefit from inside knowledge of U.S. economic policy, such as advance notice of federal funds rate changes, when making decisions about buying and selling U.S. debt instruments.
Rogers, a U.S. citizen with a doctorate in economics, worked for the Federal Reserve from 2010 until 2021, according to the indictment.
According to the indictment, Rogers, a U.S. citizen with a Ph.D. in economics, worked as a Senior Adviser in FRB’s Division of International Finance of the FRB from 2010 until 2021, where he would have had access to a range of classified information.
Prosecutors allege that Rogers and two ******** co-conspirators began communicating as early as 2013. The indictment asserts that Rogers later forwarded protected information to his personal email or made print copies to pass along to his co-conspirators. The cache allegedly included proprietary economic data and analysis, briefing books written for Federal Reserve governors, details of Federal Open Market Committee deliberations and future announcements, and accounts of conversations about tariffs targeted at China, according to the indictment.
Rogers is accused of meeting co-conspirators in China for multiple visits, under the guise of him being an academic instructor teaching them as students. The indictment alleges that in 2023, Rogers received $450,000 as a part-time professor at a ******** university. ___
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Liverpool 2-0 Bournemouth (Feb 1, 2025) Game Analysis – ESPN
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Liverpool 2-0 Bournemouth (Feb 1, 2025) Game Analysis ESPNSalah double sinks Bournemouth to send Liverpool nine points clear The GuardianArne Slot reaction — What did Liverpool boss say after Salah-inspired win at Bournemouth NBC SportsLIVE: Bournemouth vs Liverpool – English Premier League Al Jazeera EnglishConfirmed Liverpool lineup vs. Bournemouth: 9 changes, Jota IN squad This Is Anfield
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FAA Report on D.C. Plane ****** Is Out—and It’s an Indictment of Trump
FAA Report on D.C. Plane ****** Is Out—and It’s an Indictment of Trump
A preliminary report on Wednesday night’s plane and helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. contradicts Donald Trump’s favorite DEI scapegoat.
An internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration found that in reality, the tower’s staffing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to The New York Times. There was only one air traffic controller to handle both helicopters and planes in the airport’s vicinity, a job usually assigned to two people.
Having to handle both types of air traffic can be complicated, the Times report states, because air traffic controllers can use different radio frequencies for helicopter and airplane pilots. In such cases, while the controller is communicating with pilots of both kinds of aircraft, the pilots may not be able to talk to one another.
Staffing levels at the airport’s control tower have been below adequate levels for years, like many of the U.S.’s other airports. DCA’s tower only had 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, according to congressional reports. This is well below the FAA and air traffic controller union’s preferred number of 30, and is due to employee turnover and budget cuts, according to the Times.
As a result, many air controllers at the airport work up to 10 hours a day and six days a week. Those levels probably have not been helped by Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze, his gutting of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and the FAA chief’s resignation at Elon Musk’s behest. As much as Trump and the right might try to blame DEI or something else ludicrous, perhaps they should look in the mirror.
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Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust – CNN
Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust – CNN
Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust CNNAbundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu Nature.comNASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients NASAScientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx samples, discover potentially dangerous asteroid NASASpaceflight.comAsteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds New Atlas
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The flight path that the ****** Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines ****** was flying isn’t complicated, US Army official says
The flight path that the ****** Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines ****** was flying isn’t complicated, US Army official says
The US Army ****** Hawk that collided with an American Airlines flight was training on a familiar flight path.
The 12th Aviation Battalion frequently navigates Washington DC airspace for VIP transport.
Pilots were flying with night vision goggles and are trained to deal with those challenges.
The US Army crew of a UH-60 ****** Hawk helicopter that fatally collided with an American Airlines passenger jet on Wednesday was on a routine training flight on a well-known flight path at the time of the incident, an Army official said Thursday.
Jonathan Koziol, a retired Army chief warrant officer aviator with nearly three decades of military flight experience, said during a media roundtable this flight would have likely been deemed “low risk,” not medium or high risk.
Such designations are required elements of pre-flight risk assessments and briefings to military mission approval authorities and take into account variables like weather, mission type, and potential hazards. Koziol, the Headquarters Department of the Army Aviation Directorate Chief of Staff, was not involved in flight operation or oversight.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said earlier in the day that the flight was “routine” and conducted along a “standard” corridor. The flight was along Route 4, a commonly used flight path, and “should not have been a problem,” Koziol said.
Crews from the Army’s 12th Aviation Battalion, based in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, are well acquainted with Washington, DC and the surrounding areas, said Koziol. Much of this unit’s mission includes ferrying government and military VIPs throughout the National Capital Region (NCR) and being ready to move officials during crises.
Speaking of the ****** Hawk’s flight path, Koziol said “this is a relatively easy corridor to fly because you’re flying down the center of the river.”
Emergency response units assess aircraft wreckage in the Potomac River after an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas collided with a helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
He said that the dark river flight path, with urban lights on either side to act as informal guardrails, makes the task simple for pilots. The battalion’s ****** Hawk was also equipped with an in-flight map, meaning the pilots could track their position throughout the flight.
“You have the darkness of the river, and you have the lights on either side of you and obviously the rotating beacon on Reagan National to point out the airfield and all the traffic on it for them to know exactly where they’re at,” he said.
There are several routes for helicopters in the NCR which government aircraft traverse daily and includes airspace that is off-limits to non-approved aircraft, including areas near the Pentagon, White House, National Mall, and Naval Observatory.
Each flight requires coordination with surrounding air traffic control, including the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which assigns each flight a four-digit tracking number to chart its movements. Within the aviation unit, flights are meticulously planned for and managed, Koziol said.
Koziol said the ****** Hawk pilots were training with night vision goggles, which can cut down a wearer’s peripheral vision and impact depth perception. Soldiers train regularly with these capabilities to limit the impact.
“They are helpful at night, obviously, and in an urban environment, they’re still useful,” Koziol said. City lights can make seeing with night vision more difficult, but flying over the river where the ****** Hawk was shouldn’t have posed any problems with light, he said.
All three crew members, two pilots and a crew chief, were experienced aviators, he said. Both pilots had at least 1500 combined flight hours between them. One pilot served as the flight commander and instructor, overseeing an annual training requirement for the second pilot, who held 500 hours and had previously served as a flight commander.
The cause of Wednesday’s deadly ******, in which there were no survivors, is unknown and under investigation.
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Democrats are electing a new leader as their party struggles to repair its brand – The Associated Press
Democrats are electing a new leader as their party struggles to repair its brand – The Associated Press
Democrats are electing a new leader as their party struggles to repair its brand The Associated PressOpinion | Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound. The New York TimesWhat the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party The Nation
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Fallout: New Vegas vet returns to Obsidian
Fallout: New Vegas vet returns to Obsidian
Following his departure from Fantastic Pixel Castle back in October, John Gonzalez is returning to Obsidian Entertainment. Prior to his departure, he led the writing on what has been considered among the best Fallout games — Fallout: New Vegas.
Announcing on LinkedIn, Gonzalez is returning to the studio as its creative director. Unfortunately, it is confirmed by him that no, he’s not working on a Fallout: New Vegas sequel. Considering his pedigree even post-Obsidian; working on Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Horizon Forbidden West, we’re sure whatever he’s working on or overseeing will be a solid project.
We doubt he’ll be too heavily involved in either of the existing games releasing this year — Avowed, which is due out this month, and The Outer Worlds 2. Granted, it’s possible, he’ll now have some sort of hand in the latter, as the game doesn’t currently have any sort of release beyond this year.
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Seven killed in US medevac plane ******, officials say
Seven killed in US medevac plane ******, officials say
At least seven people died when a medevac plane crashed in Philadelphia, including six Mexicans aboard the plane and one person who was on the ground, Mexico’s president and Philadelphia’s mayor say.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker told a press conference that the person who died on the ground on Friday had been in a car at the site of the ******.
“Thus far, our count is that there are 19 injured victims,” Parker said.
Separately, ******** President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a post on X that she had asked consular officials to support the families of the six ******** citizens who were on the plane and died when it crashed.
Lamento el fallecimiento de seis mexicanos en el accidente aéreo en Filadelfia, Estados Unidos. Las autoridades consulares están en contacto permanente **** los familiares; he pedido a la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores que apoye en todo lo que se requiera. Mi solidaridad ****…— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) February 1, 2025
Authorities sifted through burned cars and charred debris on Saturday to gather clues that might explain why the plane exploded into a fiery ball as it crashed to the ground.
Philadelphia city’s managing director Adam Thiel said it could be days until authorities are able to confirm the number of dead and injured.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, based in Mexico and licensed to operate in the United States, on Friday said its aircraft crashed with four crew members, one pediatric medical patient and the patient’s mother on board.
The child was a girl on her way home with a final destination of Tijuana, Shai Gold, who works on corporate strategy with Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, told CNN on Friday.
Her mother was also aboard, he said.
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INTERVIEW: LAT Scrap and Ghosty on Being The CDL’s ‘Godlike’ Super Team
INTERVIEW: LAT Scrap and Ghosty on Being The CDL’s ‘Godlike’ Super Team
The LA Thieves just destroyed the Miami Heretics on (sort of) home turf, pushing them down into the elimination bracket following a complete sweep. The 3 – 0 scoreline was probably easy enough to predict, but it came a little closer than some would have expected, with the Heretics putting up a considerable fight.
In the aftermath of the win, which pushed LA Thieves further towards the grand final, I caught up with Dan ‘Ghosty’ Rothe and Thomas ‘Scrap’ Ernst to learn how they were handling the expectations of being the CDL’s ‘Super Team’ this season.
Shouldering It
For the opener, I asked Scrap and Ghosty whether they felt extra pressure trying to live up to these lofty expectations and whether they believed they had. In the run-up to the CDL kicking off, the LA Thieves’ squad was billed as being a Super Team, with Nadeshot making it very public (even if in jest) just how much securing the talented roster had cost the organisation.
Here’s what they had to say:
Ghosty: I feel like there’s always a sense of pressure as a competitor to be the best version you can be. There’s definitely more external pressure from other teams, fans, whatever – but it still doesn’t amount to the personal pressure you put on yourself as a competitor.
Scrap: For myself, from how much ***** I talk, there’s just pressure from the whole community on me, no matter what team I play for. People can call us a Super Team, yeah, I’ll call myself a Super Team because my team is godlike. You know, we have pressure on us, but we go into every match taking no-one lightly.
Following that, Scrap walked me through his growth in the CDL since entering the League as a rookie during the MWII season. He was painted as (and loved being) the villain, going on a notorious arc that set his profile ablaze.
Scrap: I don’t think I’ll ever change. Honestly, I’m just being myself up on that stage, to be honest. If it comes out, it comes out. I feel like over the past couple of years in the League I’ve grown into more of a leadership role of a sort, not like the kid that just flies around. Now that I’m on a younger team that has a lot of young players and I’m just trying to work as best around them.
Like OpTic Texas’ Shotzzy, the pair agreed that the crowd in Madrid is one of the most energetic they’ve ever seen, and they are ‘down for some more’ EU tournaments.
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This Never-Before-Seen New Balance Sneaker Is Expected to Be Released This Year
This Never-Before-Seen New Balance Sneaker Is Expected to Be Released This Year
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In recent years, the lion’s share of New Balance’s trendiest sneakers have been culled from its retro catalogue — models like the 2002, 1906 and the ever-evolving 990 line have shouldered hype for the brand. There are exceptions, though, such as the chunky 9060 and the streamlined 327 silhouettes. Another new model that could potentially make waves this year was quietly unveiled on Instagram Thursday.
Shared in on-feet shots by Brazilian stylist Gustavo Soares, the new model is believed to be called the New Balance 2000 Abzorb. It was previewed in a light blue and white colorway which revealed an upper that combines mesh with fused synthetic overlays.
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But the key element of the sneaker, as its name suggests, is its vis-tech midsole which combines five pods of the brand’s Abzorb cushioning. The spring-like design uses New Balance’s proprietary blend of rubber and foam, but it’s too early to discern how the shoe will actually feel on foot.
New Balance 2000 Abzorb (on-foot).
Many social media users have compared the design of the 2000 Abzorb with the aforementioned 9060 sneaker, but there are key differences. The 9060’s suede mesh and segmented Abzorb midsole give it a retro feel, while the 2000 Abzorb takes a more technical approach with modernized materials.
It’s also worth mentioning that New Balance has previously offered a different sneaker known as the 2000. That iteration was a predominantly leather build which also featured Abzorb cushioning, albeit in a much more traditional form.
Reshared on social media by New Balance designer Yue Wu, it’s evident that the 2000 Abzorb will be arriving sometime in 2025. Readers can check back for more updates, including an official release date and price point, soon.
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