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Anthony Kennedy doesn’t tip hand in gerrymandering case
Washington (CNN)A deeply divided Supreme Court took up a partisan gerrymander case on Tuesday that could change the way state legislators draw district lines and realign modern day politics.
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Trump says Puerto Rico officials should be ‘proud’ more haven’t died like in Katrina
President Trump on Tuesday told Puerto Rico officials they should feel “very proud” they haven’t lost thousands of lives like in “a real catastrophe like Katrina,” while adding that the devastated island territory has thrown the nation’s budget “a little out of whack.”
Trump’s remarks came as he touched down in San Juan amid harsh criticism of the slow federal response to the natural disaster and after he praised himself earlier in the day for the “great job” and “A-plus” performance he said his administration deserved for its response to Hurricane Maria.
This is Trump’s first visit to Puerto Rico since the storm ravaged the island nearly two weeks ago.
“Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous — hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here, with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody’s ever seen anything like this,” Trump said, before turning to a local official to ask how many people had died in storm. “What is your death count as of this moment? 17? 16 people certified, 16 people versus in the thousands.”
Trump then praised officials in the room over the death toll.
President Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House with First Lady Melania Trump, en route to inspect the storm damaged island of Puerto Rico. (Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)
“You can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together,” he said.
The president also seemed to fault the small island for imperiling the United States’s budget by requiring hurricane relief funds, saying, “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack.
[Trapped in the mountains, Puerto Ricans don’t see help, or a way out]
Before Trump’s impromptu remarks, the president’s visit was intended to be highly scripted, including a briefing on relief efforts, a meeting with senior military personnel — as well as with Govs. Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico and Kenneth Mapp of the U.S. Virgin Islands — and an opportunity to visit with people impacted by the storm and the Navy and Marine Corps.
The president, who was accompanied by the first lady, is not expected to stray far from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital and largest city, where recovery is much farther along than much of the rest of the territory.
[San Juan mayor continues calls for relief after attacks from Trump]
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who has been deeply critical of the government’s relief efforts and whom Trump has criticized on Twitter, also joined Trump for his first briefing on the island. On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Cruz had been invited to participate in Trump’s visit, but the mayor’s name did not appear on the president’s public schedule and it was not clear until Tuesday morning that Trump would encounter Cruz.
Trump’s mixed reviews for his response so far, however, did not stop him from lavishing praise on himself and his administration. As the president, clad in a black windbreaker and khakis, departed the White House, he said Cruz has “come back a long way,” before returning to one his favorite topics — himself and his own performance.
“I think it’s now acknowledged what a great job we’ve done, and people are looking at that,” he said. “And in Texas and in Florida, we get an A-plus. And I’ll tell you what, I think we’ve done just as good in Puerto Rico, and it’s actually a much tougher situation. But now the roads are cleared, communications is starting to come back. We need their truck drivers to start driving trucks.”
He also thanked Rosselló for positive comments he had made about the administration’s work in Puerto Rico, saying, “He has said we have done an incredible job, and that’s the truth.”
[Trump returns to flood-ravaged Texas, this time to try out role of ‘consoler-in-chief’]
Trump’s response to Maria offers a sharp contrast with his actions in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which ravaged Southeast Texas. Trump visited Texas twice in the week after Harvey’s landfall, first in his role as commander in chief, checking in on relief efforts, and then as a “consoler in chief,” offering hugs and prayers.
[Lost weekend: How Trump’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria]
Though Trump and his administration initially offered a flurry of action as Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the president then effectively went dark, decamping for a long weekend at his private club in Bedminster, N.J.
The president at points also seemed to the blame Puerto Ricans themselves for their plight, lashing out at the mayor of San Juan — after she pleaded on cable television for the federal government to “save us from dying” — for her “poor leadership ability” and writing on Twitter that the island’s citizens “want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort.”
Trump’s visit comes as he is facing yet another tragedy not of his own making: a shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas that left at least 59 people dead and hundreds more injured. The mass shooting is the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, and Trump is scheduled to visit Las Vegas on Wednesday.
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A federal law enforcement official earlier said two rifles were outfitted with scopes and set up on tripods in front of two big windows. Another official said that among the weapons were AR-15-style assault rifles. Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details of the investigation.
Sheriff Lombardo said that Mr. Paddock brought at least 10 suitcases into his hotel room over a period of time.
The sheriff said that Mr. Paddock fired through his hotel room door at security guards, striking one in the leg. The guard is still alive, he said. SWAT officers went in after the guard was shot.
In addition to the weapons at the hotel, the sheriff said the police retrieved 19 firearms, as well as explosives, several thousand rounds of ammunition and “electronic devices” from Mr. Paddock’s home in Mesquite, Nev.
Who was the gunman?
Mr. Paddock, 64, was described as a high-flying gambler who lived in a quiet retirement community and played golf. Officials said he had no significant criminal history and drew little attention to himself.
Investigators are trying to piece together his financial history to search for clues that could help determine what set him off.
Details about Mr. Paddock’s career and livelihood were sparse, aside from observations by neighbors and family members that he routinely gambled large amounts of money. “He was a wealthy guy, playing video poker, who went cruising all the time and lived in a hotel room,” a brother, Eric Paddock, said.
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Mr. Paddock and his three brothers were raised by their mother, who told the children their father had died when in fact he was in prison, Eric Paddock said. Mr. Paddock’s father was convicted in 1961 of committing a series of bank robberies and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He escaped from La Tuna federal prison in Texas in 1968 and became a used-car dealer and bingo parlor operator in Oregon.
The family moved around the country, from Iowa to Tucson to Southern California, another brother, Patrick Paddock II, said.
In an interview with CBS, Eric Paddock said that his brother Stephen was “not an avid gun guy at all.”
“The fact that he had those kind of weapons is just — where the hell did he get automatic weapons?” he asked.
‘I’ve never been that scared in my life,’ said one witness.
The police estimated that when the shooting began, there were 22,000 people at the Harvest Festival, listening to Jason Aldean, the final act of the three-day event.
Video of the shooting captured nine seconds of continuous, rapid fire, followed by 37 seconds of silence from the weapon and panicked screaming from the crowd. Gunfire then erupted again and again in extended bursts. Some concertgoers thought the noise was fireworks, but as it became clear what was happening, people fled, many of them unsure where the shots were coming from, or where they should go.
“Everyone was running, you could see people getting shot,” said Gail Davis, one of the witnesses. “I’ve never been that scared in my life,” she added. “To have this happen, I can’t wrap my mind around it.”
Video from the shooting showed Mr. Aldean running off the stage as the gunfire erupted.
Harrowing video of mass shooting during @Jason_Aldean set of #Route91Harvest Festival in #LasVegas. #MandalayBay pic.twitter.com/gaXgDBbZKV
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Oct. 2, 2017
Within minutes, a police officer on the scene radioed “to report cases of gunshot wounds “to the chest, legs, terminal arteries at the medical tent.”
A few minutes later, an officer said, “We’re making tourniquets out of blankets, but I’m running out of blankets here.”
Patients surged into Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, within walking distance of the concert, where at least 124 “met the criteria for trauma activation, said Dr. Jeff Murawsky, the hospital’s chief medical officer. They included patients with single and multiple gunshot wounds to the head, face, chest, body, arms and, in one case, a finger.
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Hitron Launches Video Campaign Focused on Cable Ops
Hitron Technologies has introduced an MSO-focused video marketing campaign that takes aim at the growing need for cable operators to deliver and support whole-home WiFi coverage via a mix of gateways, extenders as well as a mobile app that broadband subs can use to monitor and manage those connections.
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Hitron’s “Unleash Your WiFi” campaign, which features a 14 year-old- “senior scientist” as its spokesperson, details apps such as MyHitron (a WiFi network management tool for customers) as well as the vendor’s EasyInstall app for IoS and Android app, which covers elements such as device configuration, signal-to-noise ration and verification of the WiFi speed and coverage provided in a given home.
Hitron, which doesn’t sell devices through retail channels but is rather focused on direct sales to cable operators, confirmed that this is a campaign aimed at MSOs/affiliates, and that its operator partners are also free to use the videos.
Rogers Communications, Midco and Mediacom are among Hitron’s known North American customers for its DOCSIS 3.1-certified CPE, and GCI has approved certain Hitron D3.1 CPE models.
RELATED: Rogers Rolling Out Hitron’s DOCSIS 3.1 Gateway
Hitron, which counts Arris, Technicolor, Sagemcom, and Ubee Interactive among its cable broadband CPE competitors in the B2B sector, confirmed that four major North American cable operators have launched D3.1 with the vendor this year, and has been picked by three others in the region for D3.1 gateways, including one for business-class service.
The vendor’s marketing and product focus on whole-home WiFi comes as such offerings become a greater priority for operators such as Comcast, which recently launched ‘xFi,’ a cloud-based WiFi management platform.
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Below are a couple of videos from the MSO-focused campaign:
Hitron Labs – Unleash Your WiFi from Hitron Technologies on Vimeo.
Hitron Labs – EasyInstall from Hitron Technologies on Vimeo.
How Virtual Reality is Impacting the Market Place
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when someone mentions the term ‘virtual reality’? People either relate it to a gaming set or a movie. However, the question is what is Virtual Reality (VR)?
It is an artificially generated environment with the help of 3D computer systems which is later presented to its user in such manner that they think that it’s real, and hence it is beyond what we call a video program.
This technology has been influenced by economic, social, and technological dynamics. For example, in the medical field, people use Virtual Reality to improve the traditional methods of therapeutics such as social disorder and PAST.
Virtual Reality and Marketing
Virtual Reality is bringing new opportunities in the business world, especially in helping companies engage their clients better with their content. Companies are often looking out for new and better approaches to improvise their services in the form of
1. Video Marketing and Product Branding
Technology has always played a significant role in marketing. Most businessesare trying to, and many have already adopted video marketing as it is a compelling way to drive potential customers to their websites. Till this date, it is estimated that more than 96% of B2B companies have adopted this video marketing trend, of which 73% acknowledged a positive impact. Virtual Reality comes handy in this field by offering a 3-D experience.
The 360-degree experience is already affecting how people perceive video marketing. It motivates customers to get engaged in the content.
2. Product testing
Virtual Reality is also transforming how companies conduct their product testing. This technology can be used to give customers a real experience of thecompany’s product. This especially comes handy when thecompanyisn’t able to provide the sample, such as law firm and for arranging a meeting.
Many brands have already started using this technique, and they are observing a great benefit from this.
3. Faster production and lesser product’s time at the marketplace
With the help of virtual reality, companies will now have to spend less time to understand their customers’ demands and needs. Marketing practitioners can use this new technology to understand what they should change in their business to attract their potential clients. This will also decrease the production time at an exponential rate.
4. Improved sales
Withthe help of Virtual Reality, companies will be successful in engaging with their clients better, and there is a good probability that their business sales willalso improve. If you believe in data, then by 2022 this industry will probably hit a market value of $33.90 billion. This indeed is a huge amount, and thus people should not resist adapting to virtual reality if they want to be in thecurrent market race.
Some fellow attorneys, like Lamber Goodnow from Phoenix, are even using virtual reality in motorcycle accident legal cases! They use virtual reality to help the jury visualise what the victim went through in an accident.
Regardless, if you are planning a marketing strategy, then try incorporating or considering Virtual Reality which would be highly suitable in this tech-savvy era. For somefirms, it is one of the best things to do. It doesn’t only make marketing the company easier but also helps in improving their viability to win cases,and hence, it enhances their client relationship. Therefore, embracing Virtual Reality is welcoming the future; let us all explore this new field and use this opportunity to the fullest.
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Video Audiences Soar In Latest MPA Report
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by Sara Guaglione
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Magazine media video audiences continue to
grow, despite a dip in print and digital audiences, according to the latest report from MPA – The Association of Magazine Media.
The report shows total magazine media audience
for August 2017 is holding steady compared to last year, with a marginal growth of 0.2%. Most magazine audiences come from print and digital. In August, they made up 51% of the total audience, while
32% came from mobile, 12% from the web and 5% from video.
The report includes 127 magazine brands across 30 companies.
From August 2016 to August 2017, video
audiences — defined by the MPA as unique viewers who watched a video at least once through a player owned or operated by the publisher and/or through a clearly branded video channel — grew
46.8%.
“Video continues the aggressive growth path we have witnessed since Magazine Media 360° reporting began. While still the platform with the smallest share of the
audience for our industry (at less than 5%), video audience development shows no sign of slowing down, unlike the trend across all online brands,” MPA stated in an email.
Print
readers and digital visitors, which include those that consume electronic issues of a publication, such as on an e-reader or app, have also increased year-over-year, by 3.7%.
However, web
audiences consuming content from magazine brands on a desktop or laptop are down 10.2%. Mobile audiences, which are unique visitors that visit a site on a mobile device, fell 5.1%. These numbers are
« consistent with the audience trends of the online industry as a whole, » MPA stated.
These numbers come from comScore, which changed its methodology at the start of the year in an effort to
eliminate non-human audiences.
The top five magazine brands with the most total audience across all platforms for August were ESPN The Magazine, People, Forbes, Time and
WebMD.
The magazine brands with the greatest percentage growth in total audience for August, compared to the same month a year ago, were Entrepreneur, EatingWell, domino,
Texas Monthly and Veranda.
Some brands continued to show “aggressive” growth on both web and mobile, all of which reported increases across all four platforms
(print and digital, mobile, web and video), according to MPA. They include: Architectural Digest, Eating Well, Elle Décor, Golf Magazine, Motor Trend, Outside, Popular Science,
Reader’s Digest, Southern Living, Teen Vogue, The Atlantic, This Old House, Time, Town Country and Travel + Leisure.
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Rock legend Tom Petty pulled off life support after going into cardiac arrest
Tom Petty, the long-haired rocker whose famously nasal voice was behind some of rock’s greatest hits, was in the hospital Monday as unconfirmed reports of his death circulated.
The “Free Fallin’” singer, 66, was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home, and was subsequently taken to the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital Sunday, where he « had no brain activity, » according to TMZ.
The gossip site reported that Petty was taken off life support on a do not resuscitate order from his family, and is currently « clinging to life. »
CBS News first reported that Petty had died, but the Los Angeles Police Department later said they had no information, and had no investigative role in the matter.
Stars react to rock icon Tom Petty’s death at 66
Tom Petty is reportedly on life support at the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital.
(Rob Grabowski/Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP)
Throughout his prolific career, Petty notched three Grammy wins and 18 nominations, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
The Gainesville, Fla., native launched his indelible legacy at 17, when he quit high school to join the Florida band Mudcrutch.
In doing so, he escaped an abusive father; a charming, charismatic man with a violent drunk streak. Music, Petty told Men’s Journal in 2014, was a « safe place. »
Petty performs in 1977.
(Ian Dickson/REX/Shutterstock)
Though the group soon disbanded after heading west to Los Angeles, Petty soon found a better venture in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, for which he served as lead singer and guitarist.
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After the release of their self-titled debut in 1976, the band quickly found fame on the back of the success of the single “Breakdown,” which broke the Top 40.
That album also included the song “American Girl.” Though the track never cracked the charts, it cemented itself as an American classic, aranking 76th on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.”
The band’s profile continued to rise with 1979’s “Damn the Torpedoes,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and included popular singles “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Refugee.”
Throughout the ‘80s and into the ‘90s, Petty and his Heartbreakers churned out album after album, some, like 1981’s “Hard Promises,” achieving more success than others.
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Their most recent effort, 2014’s “Hypnotic Eye,” scored the rockers their very first No. 1 album.
Tom Petty and wife Dana York (right) during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on Monday, March 15, 2004.
(Richard Corkery / New York Daily News)
Petty flirted with a solo career throughout, releasing three albums on his own: “Full Moon Fever” (1989), “Wildflowers” (1994) and “Highway Companion” (2006).
He also found time to help meld together a supergroup in the Traveling Wilburys. The legendary lineup included Petty, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison, all assuming different aliases under the last name “Wilbury.” The band – in which Petty was “Charlie T. Wilbury Jr” – released two albums to massive critical acclaim and commercial success.
Petty’s star hasn’t flicker as he’s aged; if anything, it’s grown brighter, as he admitted in 2014 that old age wasn’t going to slow him down.
Tom Petty performs with his band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers during the Super Bowl XLII halftime show at the University of Phoenix Stadium.
(Antonelli, Ron)
“I run a pretty fast-paced life and I always like having a project to do,” he said in 2014. “I hate to be bored. That is the greatest sin I can commit. I’m sure it irritates a lot of people around me but I like to keep moving.”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers wrapped up a lengthy North American tour just before his death with the bandmates he heaped praise upon in a 2014 interview.
“I don’t see that I have anything to offer as a solo artist that I couldn’t do within the group better,” he told the Sun. “We get along so well it’s embarrassing really. It’s a love fest!”
Petty is also considering releasing a deluxe version of « Wildflowers, » his 1994 solo album, this year, and treating fans to an intimate, acoustic-focused tour.
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Las Vegas shooting: Special education teacher, Navy war veteran, nurse who shielded wife among those killed
Ten of the victims who died in a mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night have been identified.
Among the at least 59 dead in the attack include a registered nurse from Tennessee, a school worker in New Mexico and at least six victims from California, among them a war veteran, a school worker, a special education teacher, a police records technician and a woman who graduated high school in 2015.
Southern California resident Chris Roybal, 28, died after he was shot in the chest, ABC Chicago station WLS reported. Roybal was a Navy war veteran who served in Afghanistan.
Hannah Ahlers, a 35-year-old mother of three from Murrieta, California, died after she was shot in the head, according to WLS.
Jordan McIldoon of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, was killed in the mass shooting, CTV reported.
Riverside Polytechnic High School in California confirmed that Angela Gomez, a former student who graduated in 2015, died in the shooting.
Lisa Romero, a discipline secretary at Miyamura High School in Gallup, New Mexico, also died in the attack, the school confirmed.
Rachel Parker was among two employees from California’s Manhattan Beach Police Department who were shot, according to a police press release. Parker, a records technician, died in the hospital, police said.
Manhattan Beach Police Department« She was employed with the Manhattan Police Department for 10 years and will be greatly missed, » the press release read. The other department employee who was shot — a sworn police officer — suffered minor injuries, police said.
Simi Valley Unified School District employee Susan Smith was also killed while attending the concert. Smith had worked at the Vista Elementary School in Simi Valley, California, for three years and the school district for 16 years, a spokesperson for the school district told ABC News.
Simi Valley School District Sonny Melton, R.N., was killed when a gunman opened fire on a music festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, his employer, Henry County Medical Center in Paris, Tennessee, said. According to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, he died shielding his wife, Dr. Heather Melton, who survived.
« When the bullets began raining down, Sonny shielded her from danger, giving up his life to save hers, » Sanders said at Monday’s press briefing.
Thomas Gee, CEO at Henry County Medical Center, said in a statement, “The thoughts and prayers of the entire HCMC family are with Sonny and Heather’s families.”
Heather Melton, an orthopaedic surgeon, told NBC affiliate WSMV her husband saved her life. « He saved my life. He grabbed me and started running when I felt him get shot in the back, » she said. « I want everyone to know what a kind-hearted, loving man he was, but at this point, I can barely breathe. »
