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TORONTO (AP) — Hannah Miller scored a power-play goal with 1:38 remaining in the game, lifting the Toronto Sceptres to a 3-1 victory over the Boston Fleet in the Professional Women’s Hockey League season opener on Saturday. With Boston standout Hilary Knight in the penalty box for a vicious boarding penalty on Sceptres defender Renata Fast, Miller made good on her rebound attempt on a shot by Daryl Watts with a half-open net. Fast recovered for an assist on the winner before 8,089 fans at Coca-Cola Coliseum. The Fleet challenged the goal, but video review deemed Miller’s shot was good. Sarah Nurse got Toronto on the board with a short-handed tally 11:50 into the first period and Emma Maltais added an empty-net strike with 12 seconds left. Boston’s Hilary Knight opened the scoring 3 minutes in, sending a slap shot past Toronto goalie Kristen Campbell, who registered 18 stops on the night. Toronto outshot Boston 41-19. Boston goalie Aerin Frankel, a big reason why her team advanced to the Walter Cup final last spring, had 38 saves. Takeaways Sceptres: Billie Jean King MVP Natalie Spooner missed the season opener. The PWHL scoring champion underwent left knee surgery in June after getting injured in Game 3 of Toronto’s first-round series against Minnesota. Fleet: Defender Emma Greco played her first game for Boston. She was part of the Walter Cup-winning Minnesota team that defeated Boston in a three-game series last spring. Key moment With the game tied 1-1, the Sceptres failed to score during a 59-second 5-on-3 advantage midway through the second period. Boston blocked five shots during the span. Key stat Last year, Toronto enjoyed an 11-game win streak en route to its regular-season championship, including three wins against Boston. Up next Boston will play its home opener on Wednesday, a rematch with the Walter Cup-champion Minnesota. Toronto visits Ottawa on Tuesday. ___ AP women’s hockey: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-hockeyWASHINGTON − The White House is urging the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on U.S. telecom providers after at least nine were breached in a massive Chinese hacking and spying campaign that targeted senior government officials. Voluntary compliance with cybersecurity practices are inadequate to protect against hacking from foreign actors, the White House's deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, Anne Neuberger, said on a Friday call. The Biden administration official urged the FCC to impose regulations that would make it harder, riskier and costlier for hackers to access Americans' data in response to the Salt Typhoon hack that affected an unknown number of Americans. More: Apple, Android users on notice from FBI, CISA about texts amid 'massive espionage campaign' "We know that voluntary cybersecurity practices are inadequate to protect against China, Russia and Iran hacking of our critical infrastructure," Neuberger said. The commission is expected to hold a vote on the proposal by Jan. 15, a week before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump . The FCC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. More: Trump taps Brendan Carr, who opposed Kamala Harris' SNL cameo, to lead the FCC Federal authorities first acknowledged the hack in October. After an investigating they revealed weeks later that "a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign" by the Chinese government had taken place. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, pushed telecommunications companies to beef up their security and directed Americans to use encrypted communications in response as they worked to determine the scope of the beach. More: Cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure keep happening. How worried should we be? Previously, the White House said that at least eight companies were impacted. A ninth company, which the White House did not name, has been identified. Verizon, AT&T and Lumen are among the companies previously named. The U.S. government does not know how many people were impacted, Neuberger said. But it is their understanding that "a large number" of individuals in the Washington, D.C. area and Virginia were geolocated, with the aim of identifying who the phones belonged to for "follow on espionage and intelligence collection of communications, of texts and phone calls." 'We will never know' scope and scale of Salt Typhoon phone hack Fewer than 100 individuals are estimated to have been targeted with further spying, she said. Chinese hackers were careful about their techniques, she added. "They erased logs. In many cases, companies were not keeping adequate logs," she said. "So there are details that likely ... we will never know regarding the scope and scale of this." Australia and the UK already have stricter requirements in place, Neuberger said, that may have led to the hacks discovery and containment faster. The U.S. says it believes the Chinese had the capability to geolocate millions of individuals and record phone calls at will because of the broad access they had into networks. The Chinese government has previously denied it was involved in the hack.
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RICHMOND — He boasts that he can ring up Snoop Dogg on speed dial. Samuel L. Jackson depicted him in a Hollywood blockbuster. He commands speaking fees in all corners of the country, carrying trading cards and copies of his own book that he autographs for anyone who asks (and even some who don’t). And on Thursday night, Ken Carter was one of about two dozen people inside a basketball gym, where the only signs a game was taking place were the squeaks of sneakers and four buzzers to signal the end of each quarter. The stands were empty. There was no band, no students but for a few stragglers on their cell phones. Coach Carter is back at Richmond High School . Now 65, a grandfather and 25 years removed from the 1999 season depicted in the 2005 box-office hit, he faces a distinctly different challenge this time around. Look no further than the final score in his first game back on the bench, a 55-31 loss to a seven-player team from a small private Oakland academy. “Back in the day, the stands were full. I mean, totally full,” Carter said. “But I guarantee by our sixth game, we’re going to have this place full.” It was the Oilers’ fourth game of the season and their fourth loss. Carter had other engagements that prevented him from attending the previous three, forcing them to forfeit twice, and at first glance, he didn’t appear to be there Thursday, either. In his initial run with the program, from 1997-2002, Carter gained a reputation for wearing a suit and tie on game days and requiring his players to do the same. It was one of a number of rules set forth, as well as maintaining at least a 2.3 GPA, in a contract he had all of his players sign. Things have changed, and so has Carter’s wardrobe, which featured a navy blue, school-branded sweatsuit and unlaced white sneakers. He pledged to turn boys into men when he took over the program the first time around. Now, it’s about turning boys into basketball players. Back then, he inherited a team that had 45 players to fill out varsity, JV and freshman rosters. The team he took over this fall has 10 members, most of whom were struggling to fill out their jerseys. “Our kids are undersized, some of them their first year ever playing basketball,” Carter said. “I enjoy coaching here now more than I ever did, with the kids and their attitudes. The attitude of the kids is just wonderful. ... We have no problems academically. We’re just physically not a big team. But I think that’s going to change next year. I think we’re going to be pretty good next year.” Richmond has cycled through four coaches the past four years while posting one winning season, including a 1-21 finish last year while being outscored by an average of 48.5 points per game. Senior Jayden Briscoe said he believes Carter, a star player at Richmond in the 1970s, is dedicated to rebuilding the program. While it was Carter’s first time on the sidelines for a game, he has been coaching the team through practice all summer. “He makes us work a lot harder,” Briscoe said. “The other coaches, no hate to them, but their practices were a lot different. It’s a different work ethic. Carter, he’ll have us (scheduled to) practice for two hours and we’ll end up being there for four hours. The other coaches, it would be an hour and 30 minutes.” Carter plans to put his own resources into the program and hopes that his name recognition can prevent some of the area’s most talented players from opting for private school, such as Salesian, the private power just down the road that qualified for the state Open Division tournament. “There’s not a college coach in America that I can’t call that’s not going to return my call,” he said. The setting that inspired the film, where he returned Thursday night, couldn’t feel further from the bright lights of Hollywood. No player on the court had been born when the movie was released. But Carter clearly still carried weight with the current generation. “I wanted to see him so bad,” said Irvelle Winchester, a freshman guard for the opposing Envision Academy. “It was something that was local, so I liked the movie a lot. I didn’t know who he was until I watched it, but I was like, ‘Dang.’ How he turned a trash team into a good team. I lowkey look up to him.” After one physical play, Winchester fell to the floor and Carter jumped from his seat on the bench to go check on him. Afterward, Carter stuck around to take photos, sign autographs and chat with the entire opposing team and its coaches. After the handshake line, he made a beeline for the parking lot and returned with a stack of cards that he signed and passed around, along with a few copies of his book. “I’m one of the so-called celebrities that you can touch,” he said. “People ask me, ‘Why did I return to Richmond?’ First of all, it was just the love of Richmond. I’d like to see this school be extremely successful. Now I have a Rolodex of resources, so we can get things done. ... This completes the circle.”
GRAIL, Inc. is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured. (PRNewsfoto/GRAIL, Inc.) MENLO PARK, Calif. , Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GRAIL, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRAL), a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, today announced that it has granted equity awards in the form of restricted stock units ("RSUs") underlying an aggregate of 115,093 shares of GRAIL's common stock to 46 recently hired non-executive employees as an inducement material to their acceptance of employment with GRAIL. The employment inducement awards were granted under GRAIL's Inducement Equity Incentive Plan and related form of restricted stock award agreement in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). The inducement plan is used exclusively for the grant of equity awards to individuals who were not previously employees of GRAIL, or following a bona fide period of non-employment, as an inducement material to such individuals entering into employment with GRAIL, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). The RSUs vest over an approximately four year period, with 25% of the award vesting November 30, 2025 , and on each one year anniversary of those respective dates thereafter, subject to continued employment with GRAIL (or any successor to or subsidiary of the Company) through the vesting dates. About GRAIL GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art machine learning, software, and automation to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types in earlier stages. GRAIL's targeted methylation-based platform can support the continuum of care for screening and precision oncology, including multi-cancer early detection in symptomatic patients, risk stratification, minimal residual disease detection, biomarker subtyping, treatment and recurrence monitoring. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C. , North Carolina , and the United Kingdom . For more information, visit grail.com . View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grail-announces-inducement-grants-under-nasdaq-listing-rule-5635c4-302321454.html SOURCE GRAIL, Inc.PrairieSky Royalty Declares Quarterly DividendNone
Sports Columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Casey Mittelstadt saw the crowd of familiar Buffalo reporters waiting at his locker early Tuesday afternoon in KeyBank Center and let out a sheepish smile. A few teammates were in the room after the Colorado Avalanche’s morning skate and one said, “It’s your show” as Mittelstadt walked by him and greeted the interlopers as he sat at his stall. Prior to his first game against the Sabres since the March trade that sent him to the Avs for Bowen Byram, Mittlestadt said he went out to dinner with several Sabres here Monday night, just like trade partner Byram was planning to do with his old mates from Colorado. Avalanche center Casey Mittelstadt moves the puck against Stars center Tyler Seguin last week. Mittelstadt and Sabres captain Ramsus Dahlin lived together in a downtown condo for three years, essentially the entirety of their entry-level deals, and were particularly close. Asked who might get the first hit during Tuesday’s game, a smiling Dahlin said, “Me” with no further explanation needed. Told of the prediction and asked for a response, Mittelstadt smirked and said, “I won’t be surprised. He’s dirty.” And then he added the zinger, “Hopefully that means I have the puck.” They troll each other on social media, talk trash following games of Fortnite and grab dinner post-practice. “He’s helped me feel really comfortable here,” Dahlin said. The byplay was always fast and furious between those two − especially once Dahlin mastered the English that Mittelstadt helped him learn when he arrived in Buffalo from Sweden as an 18-year-old. The video games of Fortnite and EA Sports’ NHL series passed the time during lots of Buffalo winters for the former first-round picks. “We’ve chatted the last couple days here. We’re tight friends,” Dahlin said. “He’s having a great time over there, enjoying playing over there in Colorado and I’m super happy for him. “We have so many memories together. We were spending so much time together, really good friends. There’s so much to say about him, honestly, I don’t have enough time. He’s just a unreal human being.” Mittelstadt, Buffalo’s first-round choice in 2017, was dealt after a morning skate in Toronto and only the timing was a surprise. The Sabres were clearly hesitant about giving a third center a big-money deal after Tage Thompson and Dylan Cozens both signed for north of $7 million per season, and Mittelstadt said he felt something was going to happen. The feeling around the league was Mittelstadt was more of a summer trade project but the teams found a match and did the deal at the March deadline instead. “It was a little hectic,” he said. “But I think I probably had a sense that something was coming at some point. Did I expect it to be right then and there? No, but that’s kind of how it happens. And I think it worked out for both sides. I loved my time in Buffalo, and it was probably a good time in my career for a new chapter as well.” Byram has became a top-pair defenseman for the Sabres playing next to captain Rasmus Dahlin. Byram has four goals and 10 assists with a plus-8 rating that's second on the club. Mittelstadt had four goals and six assists in 18 games with the Avalanche after the trade, then added three goals and six assists in 11 games in his first chance at the Stanley Cup Playoffs. “It was a blast. I obviously didn’t fully know what to expect,” Mittelstadt said. “My first game was in Winnipeg and the ‘Whiteout’ (of the fans wearing white), so I think I probably got close to the peak of it. It was awesome.” Avs star Nathan MacKinnon raved about Mittelstadt’s play in the postseason games against Winnipeg and Dallas when I asked him about it during the NHL Awards Show in June in Las Vegas, even calling Mittelstadt the Avs’ best player for much of the five-game victory over the Jets. After winning the Hart Trophy on Thursday night, Colorado center Nathan MacKinnon had high praise for new teammate and former Sabre Casey Mittelstadt, who signed a three-year extension with the Avs this week. The Avs then signed Mittelstadt to a three-year, $17.25 million deal over the summer and he started this season like gangbusters, with goals in the first three games and a line of 6-7-13 for the first 10 games. Since then, however, he’s been quiet. We saw lots of great playmaking from Mittelstadt in Buffalo but we saw some of these stretches, too. Entering Tuesday, he had just one goal and five points in his last 15 games. No points in his last six games. And his rating had plummeted to a team-worst minus-15. The Sabres have played 24 games and have 24 points. They have a trio of three-game winning streaks – after not getting a single one of those last season until late February – and they have a trio of three-game losing or winless streaks. That's 18 of the 24 games tied up in a run or a rut. Your second-line center with a $5.75 million cap hit can’t be a zero offensively. It’s what the Sabres have been going through a lot with Cozens this year as well. “I’ve kind of had stretches like this in my career, to be honest, as you guys know,” Mittelstadt said. “Just keep working hard and trying to get better every day ... trying to work through it faster than maybe in the past.” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said he needs Mittelstadt to keep moving and not become stationary and thus easily checked on the ice. Avalanche center Casey Mittelstadt, shown playing against Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb last week, signed a three-year contract with Colorado over the summer. “When he’s skating and he’s a threat to shoot or pass, I think he’s super dangerous,” Bednar said. “And it seems like right now, he’s trying to defer to his linemates a little bit too much, so kind of takes a threat away, and then he’s easier to check. We’ve been talking to him about not only skating, but also being in attack mentality.” Bednar also noted that the Avs have had a forward group in flux much of the year due to injuries and the recent return of Valeri Nichushkin from suspension. Mittelstadt’s linemates have been in a shuffle but he’s settled in now with Nichushkin and 25-year-old rookie Nikolai Kovalenko, who played the last six years in the KHL. Injuries, poor goaltending and equally poor penalty killing have the Avs on the playoff bubble for now, not where the 2022 Stanley Cup champions figured to be. Still, Mittelstadt is hopeful of another playoff shot. “I think there’s a lot I can learn from the guys here,” he said. “Obviously, a lot of them have won before, and we have some really, really, really talented players here. It’s an opportunity for me to grow, and especially grow as a hockey player. 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