Stubblefield accounts for 4 TDs, South Carolina State runs past Norfolk State 53-21The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Joseph Octave scored 24 points as Stony Brook beat Maine 74-72 on Saturday. Octave also added five rebounds for the Seawolves (4-8). Ben Wight shot 4 of 7 from the field and 3 for 3 from the line to add 11 points. CJ Luster II shot 3 for 8 (2 for 5 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 11 points. Kellen Tynes led the way for the Black Bears (8-6) with 15 points, four assists, four steals and two blocks. Jaden Clayton added 15 points, four assists and three steals for Maine. AJ Lopez finished with 13 points and four assists. Stony Brook went into halftime leading Maine 34-30. Octave put up 10 points in the half. Octave led Stony Brook with 14 points in the second half as his team was outscored by two points over the final half but held on for the victory. Both teams next play Sunday. Stony Brook visits Albany (NY) and Maine plays Boston University at home. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Can Cucumbers Really Fix Puffy Eyes? What TikTok Gets Right — And Wrong
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If not for Z80 Labs, Buffalo billion-dollar “unicorn” startup ACV Auctions may never have existed. And chances are that some of the other startups that went through the tech incubator would not have become sustainable entities either. But since funding expired for Z80 Labs several years ago, some leaders of the Buffalo entrepreneurial ecosystem have been looking for another way to help local early stage entrepreneurs who don’t have much more than an idea with potential. Dan Magnuszewski, co-founder of ACV Auctions, has been named CEO of the 43North Foundation venture studio. That’s where the 43North Foundation comes in. As the foundation explored how it could use the funds it has raised from its 5% stake in the 43North competition’s winning startups, an idea to help fill this void in the entrepreneurial space began to take shape. The foundation, which is 43North’s philanthropic arm, announced in May that it would be making a 10-year, $100 million commitment to build on the growth of the area’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and part of that was to create a venture studio that aims to produce a local inventory of early stage startups. But the plan is also to change the playbook a tad. The venture studio will take things a step further than Z80 Labs ever did, creating a team that can take an idea through validation, product build and getting it out and scaling – all under one roof. Dan Magnuszewski, who co-founded ACV Auctions after leading Z80 Labs, was named the CEO to lead the venture studio. It’s an important get for this new initiative and somewhat of a full-circle moment for Magnuszewski. Eric Reich, a longtime entrepreneur and investor who’s helping lead this effort, said Magnuszewski’s experience in early stage companies as both an employee and founder and as a community advocate for entrepreneurship will help the studio “hit the ground running and be successful and sustainable going forward.” “Z80 Labs laid the seeds and foundation and proved a lot of things, but it also proved that there needs to be a little bit of a different model as well,” said Magnuszewski, who worked as chief technology officer of ACV until fall 2021 and is now an active startup investor. “What it did show is that you can build these types of massive companies that can raise money and hire a lot of people and do it in Buffalo without having to move to wherever else is trendy these days,” he added. Z80 Labs got its start around 2012, under Magnuszewski and venture capitalist Jordan Levy, using $5 million in state money from Innovate NY to invest and as a place where startups could go to get mentoring and advising. Among the many business ideas spawned there was ACV Auctions, an online dealer-to-dealer wholesale vehicle auction platform. Magnuszewski found the idea so compelling that he left Z80 Labs to join Joe Neiman and Jack Greco in co-founding the startup, which won the 43North competition in 2015 – about a year after getting its start. By 2021, ACV Auctions became publicly traded and was valued at over $3 billion. But for all it did to help build startup companies like ACV Auctions, Z80 Labs lacked a hands-on approach to building the products and providing a team that could help get an idea off the ground, according to Magnuszewski. The venture studio will take care of those shortcomings. It also will add to the resources already available in the startup ecosystem helping to make entrepreneurship more accessible for the community – like 43North, Endeavor WNY, University at Buffalo’s Cultivator and Launch NY. Its focus will be on entrepreneurs at the idea level and not the companies that have already been established. “It became apparent that the best way to invest in companies, grow companies, build new companies and have them scale quick and de-risk them is to own the whole process,” Magnuszewski said. “If you can have a team that has been there and done that and knows the playbook and is three steps ahead, you move a lot quicker and go a lot farther if you build it that way, while also having the capital to invest in all these companies. You have all the ingredients there to bake the cake.” The 43North Foundation was formed three years ago and is funded by the proceeds that are realized from the 5% ownership stakes that 43North takes in all the winners of its competition – now in its 10th year. The success of the billion-dollar stock offering by ACV has made up a large part of that funding. Dan Magnuszewski, right, is pictured with ACV chief executive officer George Chamoun, left, chief customer success officer Joe Neiman in 2019. The foundation is trying to build on the success of 43North with one of the largest investments ever made in the entrepreneurial sector. It will result in the establishment of Lightning Strike, a series of investments to accelerate the region’s startups, focused on not only creating the venture studio, but also a talent pipeline, corporate connectivity and a storytelling effort with the goal of ensuring the entrepreneurial ecosystem is “equitable, ambitious and built to last,” said Bill Maggio, board chair for the 43North Foundation. “We’re at a point where we have blossomed this entrepreneurial spirit and a lot of people are now thinking about what they can do to create the next technological giant or the next ACV,” Maggio said. “The venture studio is a critical component of the overall initiative. I think people will quickly see the potential, if managed and structured in the right way, it can have on our startup ecosystem.” Even as the 43North competition has succeeded in bringing companies to Buffalo, some still leave after the one-year required commitment of moving here. But venture studio companies are certain to stay in Buffalo because they will come from ideas of Western New Yorkers and then be built by local people. “We’re going to have all the benefits of the 43North concept without the challenge that sometimes comes with moving people here who come from somewhere else,” Reich said. “There’s always the inherent challenge of what happens when the program ends, and will they stay in Buffalo? Fortunately, the majority of them do, but not all of them.” The venture studio will allow someone with an idea that could be industry disrupting the opportunity to bring it forward to a place where all the pieces are there for early execution and where the idea can get the chance it deserves. And that’s without that person having to quit their job and invest all their time and money in the idea. That person can come back and join the idea as it progresses or just become an adviser. Ideas that the staff bring to the table also will be worked on at the venture studio. Everyone employed there will become an early stage founder at some point. The venture studio will take a 5% stake in any company that pushes forward, much like the 43North competition model, and that cut will be used to continue to sustain the 43North Foundation. “ACV only existed because Joe Neiman had a place to bring an idea and for that idea to be evaluated and talked through with someone like Dan,” Reich said. “And for the last number of years, that place to go has been unclear. The venture studio will bring that clarity.” The next step will be to build the core team. The plan is to hire “tech all-stars” who have vast experience in this space and are trained analysts who can look at a company and industry and attempt to validate an idea, Reich said. Maggio said he anticipates hiring six to 10 people in the next six months and start cultivating the first prototype companies by the end of the year. Since it was announced a few weeks ago that Magnuszewski will be coming aboard, he’s already heard from people with ideas – some Buffalo expats looking to move back for an opportunity – and others from the private and public sector looking to help fund the project. “Our goal is to get rolling and we’ll learn along the way what works and what doesn’t work,” Magnuszewski said. The business news you need Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly. Reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.Stubblefield accounts for 4 TDs, South Carolina State runs past Norfolk State 53-21
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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that's he's preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect's threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park." Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn't a trolling-free zone for Trump's adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A." In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden's spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump's taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 10, 2024-- Hologic, Inc., (Nasdaq: HOLX) a global leader in women’s health focused on developing innovative medical technologies that effectively detect, diagnose and treat health conditions, today issued the following statement regarding the United States Preventive Services Task Force draft guidelines for cervical cancer screening: “Today’s recommendations are an important acknowledgement of the role of Pap testing combined with HPV testing, which is the gold standard of care and the most effective method of identifying cervical cancer,” said Jennifer Schneiders, PhD, President, Diagnostic Solutions at Hologic. “Eliminating cervical cancer is within our reach and history has shown us that safeguarding the most comprehensive screening available is critical to that effort.” Once the leading cause of cancer death in women, cervical cancer mortality rates have plummeted by 70% mainly due to cervical cancer screening. 1 Despite this progress, cervical cancer incidence is no longer declining and cases continue to disproportionately impact Black and Hispanic women, making a focus on routine screening and vaccination imperative. 2-4 Multiple studies and other research representative of real-world screening practices in the US demonstrate that screening women ages 30-65 with the Pap test combined with HPV test identifies more cervical pre-cancer and cancer than either test used alone. 5-8 The draft recommendations reinforce the value of all three cervical cancer screening strategies for women including Pap testing for women ages 21-29 years old. 9 The draft recommendations also continue to allow for shared decision-making between healthcare providers and patients and help ensure that women can continue to access the preventive care they need and deserve. Hologic is committed to working with USPSTF and others within the cervical cancer community in support of final screening guidelines that preserve all screening options, improving our ability to combat this preventable cancer and save more women’s lives. About Hologic Hologic, Inc. is a global leader in women’s health dedicated to developing innovative medical technologies that effectively detect, diagnosis and treat health conditions and raise the standard of care around the world. To learn more, visit www.hologic.com and connect with us on LinkedIn , Facebook , X (Twitter), Instagram and YouTube . SOURCE: Hologic, Inc. References View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241210733407/en/ CONTACT: Investor Contact Ryan Simon Vice President, Investor Relations +1 858.410.8514 ryan.simon@hologic.comMedia Contact Bridget Perry Senior Director, Corporate Communications +1 508.263.8654 bridget.perry@hologic.com KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: RESEARCH WOMEN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY BIOTECHNOLOGY HEALTH CONSUMER GENERAL HEALTH SCIENCE ONCOLOGY SOURCE: Hologic, Inc. Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/10/2024 04:01 PM/DISC: 12/10/2024 04:02 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241210733407/en2,306 Shares in The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:HIG) Acquired by Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
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Lawmakers face deepfake threatsThe Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to media freedom and the protection of Nigeria’s civic space, calling on journalists to exercise their freedoms responsibly. Idris, who spoke at the 2024 Annual General Congress of the International Press Institute Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday stressed the press’s critical role in sustaining democracy while advocating greater accountability in its practices. The conference, with the theme “Democracy, Media Freedom, and the Imperative of Protecting Nigeria’s Civic Space,” brought together media professionals, policymakers, and stakeholders. Idris praised the press as one of the world’s most fearless institutions, highlighting its historic role in securing the country’s independence, ending military rule, and sustaining the fourth republic. “In this very important journey of democracy, the media has been a constant presence and companion. The Nigerian press is one of the most assertive and unyielding in the world, and it has always been so,” he said. However, Idris stressed that media freedom must come with responsibility. He urged journalists to balance their watchdog role with accountability and professionalism, warning against the misuse of the immense power they wield in shaping public opinion and discourse. “Let me stress that the civic space must be a civil space. There must be room for nuance, for healthy debate, for not always rushing to demonise those we disagree with. Related News Tax Reform debates key to strengthening democracy – Minister Nigeria’s tax system long overdue for reforms, says minister Minister condoles with Niger over Minna Chief Imam’s death “At the same time, there is ample room for holding institutions to account, whether public or private. And yes, those elected and appointed to public office must always understand that they keep these offices in trust for the people, and owe it to these owners to be accountable at all times. “These truths can and must all coexist, if we want to forge a stronger democracy, as the foundation for the strong and prosperous Nigeria of our dreams,” the minister explained. Idris pointed to President Bola Tinubu administration’s track record on media freedom, citing his personal interventions to uphold press rights since assuming office in August 2023. He also highlighted Tinubu’s legacy as a media entrepreneur and a champion of democracy, noting the administration’s unwavering commitment to safeguarding the civic space and fostering open dialogue. The minister linked media freedom to the success of Nigeria’s broader reforms under the “Renewed Hope Agenda.” He urged journalists to support the government’s efforts aimed at fostering inclusive growth and redirecting funds from wasteful subsidies into infrastructure, education, and social investments.