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Updated: December 15, 2022 @ 3:52 pm
LEXINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 15, 2022–
Frequency Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FREQ), a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing therapeutics to activate a person’s innate potential to restore function, today announced that it has dosed a first patient in the Phase 1b study of FX-345, the Company’s second hearing restoration candidate for sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
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Sami Valimaki of Finland has taken a two-shot lead at the Mauritius Open after setting a course record of 62. The 24-year-old Valimaki shot a bogey-free 10 under at Mont Choisy Le Golf to finish the first round two strokes ahead of playing partner Oliver Bekker of South Africa. Valimaki’s 10 birdies included two runs of four in a row. Pierre Pineau of France was three strokes off the lead in third, and JC Ritchie of South Africa was a further shot back in fourth.
LGBTQ representation took a hit in 2021, though the year also saw the first transgender character in a major release in five years, according to a new report from GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy group.
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FIU has given coach Mike MacIntyre an extension through the 2027 season, the university announced Thursday. MacIntyre went 4-8 this season, his first with the Panthers. The school had lost 18 of its last 19 games before his arrival, and winning four games was enough to convince FIU that the program is back in the right direction.
A former Texas police officer has been convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019. The jury on Thursday found Aaron Dean not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson. The verdict comes more than three years after the white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old woman dead while responding to a call about an open front door. The 38-year-old man faces up to 20 years in prison on the manslaughter conviction. He had faced life in prison if convicted of murder.
Sami Valimaki of Finland has taken a two-shot lead at the Mauritius Open after setting a course record of 62. The 24-year-old Valimaki shot a bogey-free 10 under at Mont Choisy Le Golf to finish the first round two strokes ahead of playing partner Oliver Bekker of South Africa. Valimaki’s 10 birdies included two runs of four in a row. Pierre Pineau of France was three strokes off the lead in third, and JC Ritchie of South Africa was a further shot back in fourth.
LGBTQ representation took a hit in 2021, though the year also saw the first transgender character in a major release in five years, according to a new report from GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy group.
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Serbia has formally demanded that its security troops return to the breakaway former Serbian province of Kosovo, despite warnings from the West that such calls are unlikely to be accepted and only add to tensions in that part of the Balkans. Serbia’s government said in a statement Thursday that it asked NATO-led peacekeepers stationed in Kosovo since 1999, when the Western alliance pushed out Serb troops from the region, to allow the return of up to 1,000 Serbian army and police officers to the Serb-populated north of the country. Serbian officials claim a U.N. resolution that formally ended the Kosovo war allows for Serbian troops to return to Kosovo.
Virginia regulators have granted a critical approval for Dominion Energy’s plans to construct and operate a 176-turbine wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean. The State Corporation Commission effectively signed off Thursday on an agreement Dominion reached this fall with the Virginia attorney general and several other parties. In the agreement, the company agreed to implement several consumer protections in connection with the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. Dominion thanked the commission in a statement. The company says the project will have many benefits for customers, including the fact that it will be emissions free. But the project will come at an enormous expense.
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A suspect in a Reno drug-trafficking case who fled to Mexico in 2014 has been arrested and is expected to be returned to Nevada to face drug and money-laundering charges involving more than 140 pounds of methamphetamine. 64-year-old Nassrollah Behmard was indicted by a federal grand jury in Reno in June on eight criminal counts, including distribution of meth and conspiracy to launder money. Behmard also went by the name Michael Holt. He was arrested on a federal warrant in Mexico and was returned to Southern California where he made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. His next court appearance is Dec. 27.
New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services has started a wastewater surveillance program to monitor COVID-19 levels in communities. The department’s Division of Public Health Services says the program will collect data to help track trends in changing levels of the virus over time, and potentially provide an earlier warning signal of rising levels. The participating wastewater treatment facilities are in Berlin, Dover, Durham, Hampton, Hanover, Keene, Manchester, Merrimack, Newmarket, Newport, Peirce Island and Pease in Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sunapee.
The parents of a University of Virginia football player killed in a shooting last month are calling for stricter gun laws and more mental health support to prevent future gun deaths. Happy Perry is the mother of D’Sean Perry. She told reporters at a news conference in Coral Gables, Florida, on Thursday that she wanted to advocate on his behalf for «mental health and our gun violence laws.” She also urged the football world to take a stand join her in the fight. Perry and teammates Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were killed Nov. 13 on a bus returning to Charlottesville from a field trip. Police say that fellow student Christopher Jones was behind the shooting.
Diplomats have told The Associated Press that the European Union has approved a new package of sanctions aimed at ramping up pressure against Russia for its war in Ukraine. The three diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the sanctions have not been unveiled. The package, whose details have not been revealed, was approved during a meeting of the 27-nation bloc’s ambassadors. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, last week proposed travel bans and asset freezes on almost 200 more Russian officials and military officers as part of the new round of measures. The targets of the latest recommended sanctions included government ministers, lawmakers, regional governors and political parties.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit accusing an Alabama housing authority of steering residents to different low-income communities based on race. A federal judge this week approved the consent decree resolving the discrimination claims against Housing Authority of Ashland and the private owners and agent of two of its low-income housing communities. The defendants disputed the accusations of discrimination but agreed to make changes to settle the case, according to the consent decree. The Justice Department in 2020 filed a lawsuit accusing the defendants of steering Black applicants away from four overwhelmingly white communities and toward two predominantly Black communities.
Gold Glove-winning centerfielder Kevin Kiermaier finalized a $9 million, one-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. The 32-year-old slumped to a .228 average with seven homers and 22 RBIs in 63 games this year in a season cut short by left hip surgery in August. Tampa Bay declined a $13 million option for 2023. His addition provides some outfield stability after the departure of slugger Teoscar Hernández, who was traded to Seattle. The Blue Jays also allowed outfielders Raimel Tapia and Bradley Zimmer to go free. A three-time Gold Glove winner, Kiernaier has 82 homers, 316 RBIs and 112 stolen bases over 914 games, all with Tampa Bay.
Guyana’s government says it has asked world police agency Interpol to help it investigate the background of a Nigerian national who tried to illegally enter the residence of President Irfaan Ali and ended up trading gunfire with guards, wounding one seriously. Ali was at home at the time when a man identified as Bethel Ikenna Chimezie approached guards at the official residence near the British embassy and demanded an audience with Guyana’s president. After arguing with guards, he stabbed one of them several times to the neck and upper body. Then he grabbed the pistol of guard and exchanged gunfire with others. He was eventually shot.
With the final three episodes of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix docuseries, the couple doesn’t ruminate about distancing themselves from the royal family so much as explain — in further depth than has already been reported — what they were thinking and feeling at the time.
Billie Moore, who coached America’s first women’s Olympic basketball team to a silver medal at the Montreal Games in 1976, has died at age 79. UCLA, where Moore won 296 games over 16 years including a national title in 1978, announced her death on Thursday. Moore also won a college title at Cal State Fullerton in 1970, a year before the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) began. She was the first coach in women’s basketball history to lead teams from two different schools to national championships. Moore was inducted in both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Hillenbrand Inc. has reached an agreement to sell its Batesville Casket Co. subsidiary to an affiliate of a Connecticut-based private equity firm for $761.5 million. Thursday’s announcement of the deal with an affiliate of LongRange Capital provided no guidance on what impact the sale might have on Batesville Casket, its employees or its holdings in southeastern Indiana. But the Indianapolis Business Journal reports Hillenbrand said that both it and Batesville Casket would continue to be headquartered in Batesville, an Indiana community about 60 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Batesville Casket is the largest producer of caskets in the U.S. The casket-making business began operation in 1884.
EU has approved new package of sanctions against Russia for its war in Ukraine, diplomats say.
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Israel’s designated prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to seek full diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia once he takes office. Netanyahu spoke in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya network on Thursday. He claimed that normalized relations with the powerful Gulf Arab country would also promote peace with the Palestinians. Netanyahu also said he would be open to behind-the-scenes peace talks with the Palestinians. The comments in a rare interview with an Arab news outlet appeared to be aimed at easing concerns over the far-right makeup of the government that Netanyahu is forming.
One of Cleveland’s offseason priorities was to find a better hitting catcher. The Guardians got one in Mike Zunino. An All-Star for Tampa Bay in 2021, Zunino signed a one-year contract with the AL Central champions. Zunino hit 33 homers for the Rays in ‘21 but was limited to 36 gams last season before undergoing surgery on his non-throwing arm. The 31-year-old said he’s made progress in his recovery and expects to be ready for spring training. He’ll be the Guardians’ primary starter while 22-year-old Bo Naylor gets experience.
Harvard University has named Claudine Gay as its next president, making her the first Black person and the second woman to lead the Ivy League school. Gay is currently a dean at the university and a democracy scholar. She will become president July 1. Gay replaces Lawrence Bacow, who is stepping down and has said he wants to spend more time with family. Penny Pritzker is senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee. She calls Gay a “remarkable leader” who is dedicated “to sustaining and enhancing Harvard’s academic excellence.”
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The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will hold its final meeting Monday, wrapping up its year-and-a-half-long inquiry by asking the Justice Department to investigate potential crimes. The committee is expected to release its final report on Wednesday. The chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, has said the committee will make criminal referrals to the Justice Department recommending prosecution, but he hasn’t disclosed who the targets would be or whether former President Donald Trump would be among them. The committee has focused squarely on Trump and efforts by the-then president in the weeks before the attack to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
A Missouri man seeking freedom after nearly three decades in prison for a murder he denies committing testified Thursday that he was with his girlfriend on the night of the crime, except for a few minutes when he stepped outside to sell drugs on a corner several blocks from where the victim was killed. A hearing in St. Louis this week will determine if Lamar Johnson’s conviction should be vacated. An investigation conducted by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and the Innocence Project convinced Gardner that Johnson is innocent. She filed a motion in August to vacate his conviction. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is seeking to keep Johnson incarcerated.
Green Academy and Wine Tourism Lab – which will enrich the Consortium’s activities with new strategic instruments for its members, the region and the community
The Dallas Cowboys travel to Jacksonville for the first time since 2006. Dallas can clinch an NFC playoff spot with a victory. The Jaguars are trying to keep pace or close the gap on Tennessee in the dismal AFC South. Dallas has won four in a row and six of seven, including beating Indianapolis and Houston from the AFC South the past two weeks. Jacksonville has won three of five to get back in its division race while relying on rising star QB Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence has 10 TD passes and no interceptions over his past five games.
The Boston Red Sox have agreed to terms with Japanese outfielder Masataka Yoshida. Yoshida won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and twice led Japan’s Pacific League in batting. The deal will pay him $90 million over five years. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Red Sox designated infielder Jeter Downs for assignment. Downs had been acquired in the trade for Mookie Betts. Yoshida led Orix to a victory in the Japan Series in October, homering twice in Game 5 – including a walk-off to help Buffaloes rally from a ninth-inning deficit.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is making preliminary budget recommendations to incoming Gov.-elect Wes Moore at a time when the state has a big budget surplus. Hogan, a term-limited Republican, outlined highlights in his budget proposal Thursday to the incoming Democratic governor. The state has roughly $2.5 billion in budget surplus. Maryland also has about $3 billion in its Rainy Day Fund. Hogan’s budget team has been working with the incoming administration on the budget for the next fiscal year. Moore will submit his budget plan to the General Assembly on Jan. 20, two days after he takes office.
Robert Saleh is always quick to remind people he’s an eternal optimist. That’s why it wasn’t necessarily so stunning to hear the New York Jets coach declare after his team’s loss to the Buffalo Bills last Sunday that the squads would meet again in the playoffs. Saleh is also a realist. He knows in order for the Jets to snap their 11-year postseason drought, which is the NFL’s longest active skid, they’ve got plenty more winning to do. And it needs to start Sunday at MetLife Stadium against a roaring Detroit Lions squad that has won five of its past six and is also in the NFC playoff hunt.
The Atlanta Falcons are hanging on in the NFC South race as they look to avenge a season- opening loss to the Saints in a Week 15 clash in New Orleans. The Falcons are expected to give rookie quarterback Desmond Ridder his first NFL start in the Superdome. Both teams had a bye last weekend. The Saints are trying to snap a two-game skid and win for just the second time in six games. Ridder’s maiden start comes against a Saints defense which ranks 11th in the NFL and has played well the past several weeks. But the Saints have struggled at times against mobile QBs and Ridder was a good scrambler in college at Cincinnati.
Ever since the pandemic began the U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum. It’s called Title 42. And it’s been used more than 2.5 million times to expel migrants since going into effect in March 2020. But because of a judge’s ruling, starting next Wednesday immigration authorities can no longer use the rule to quickly expel prospective asylum-seekers. Conservative states have filed a last-minute appeal to keep it in place, so a decision will come down to the wire. The change comes at a time of surging numbers of people seeking to enter the country through the southern border.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — «My mother tested positive for COVID-19 and I wanted a quick and easy way to sanitize her house,» said an inventor, from Waco, Texas, «so I invented the WIPE OUT. My design increases sanitary conditions and it ensures that the sanitizer is evenly dis…
There’s a reason to hold off on naming things after people who are still alive: Paul Haggis’ birthplace finally voted this week to strip the Oscar winner’s name off a park in his Canadian hometown, a month after he was found liable for raping a woman in New York City.
