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Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry, the stage name of Brianna LaPaglia, made their debut as a couple in July 2023. The country star and podcaster’s relationship made headlines because they were seemingly from different worlds, or at least entertainment sectors — but appeared ever the happy couple during red carpet appearances and on social media. During an interview with in August 2023, LaPaglia said that she had been getting “hate” for dating the country star. “It’s fun. I’m like eating it up,” the influencer said with a laugh. “It was kind of crazy at first, but now, I realize you can’t buy into love — or hate — on the internet. You just kinda got to be yourself and see where it takes ya.” When the couple broke up in October 2024, LaPaglia shared a different side of their relationship, saying she had experienced emotional abuse. TODAY.com has reached out to Bryan for comment about each of LaPaglia’s allegations and has also reached out to LaPaglia for comment. Zach Bryan, 28, is Grammy-winning country artist who rose to widespread popularity in 2022 with his album “American Heartbreak.” Bryan is known for self-deprecating lyrics, like when he refers to himself as a “damaged boy” in “Darling.” Other lyrics praise women who see his positive side. In “Sun in Me,” he sings, “The only bad you’ve ever done was to see the good in me.” Brianna Chickenfry, 25, is the stage name of podcaster Brianna LaPaglia. LaPaglia co-hosts two podcasts on Barstool Sports: “PlanBri Uncut,” alongside her friend Grace O’Malley, and the “BFFs Podcast,” alongside Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards. Portnoy stepped away from the “BFFs Podcast” in November. On Oct. 20, 2024, Bryan posted . “Addressing something: Brianna and me have broken up with each other and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart. She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her,” he wrote. “I have had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things,” he continued. “I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways. I am not perfect and never will be. Please respect Brianna’s privacy and space in this and if you have it in your heart, mine too.” “With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry,” he ended the message with. “I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself.” Later that same day, , detailing how “blindsided” she felt by this announcement. She then posted a entitled “Love you guys, I’ll be back soon.” “I just woke up to Zach posting on his Instagram that we broke up and I had no idea that post was going up, he didn’t text me, he didn’t call me,” she said in the video. “I just woke up to a bunch of texts being like ‘Are you OK?’ And I’m like, ‘Did my f---ing dad die?’ And yeah, so I’m like completely blindsided by that.” LaPaglia added that she’s been “crying for like five days straight,” implying the breakup occurred the week before Bryan took to Instagram to announce their split. She said in the video she didn’t want to speak on details because she wanted to “heal privately,” but promised she would eventually. She gave context to the lead-up to the breakup in the Nov. 7 episode of the .” LaPaglia said Bryan broke up with her over text while she was on tour. “I’m doing so well, I’m so happy, I’m finally feeling like myself again and I just get the (text) ‘I can’t do this anymore, I need you’ and it was like, ‘What? Where is this coming from? Why are you breaking up with me while I’m across the country on my tour?’” she said. When her tour was finished, LaPaglia flew back to her home with Bryan. “I come home and it’s like, ‘Pack your bags,’” she said. They broke up then got back together, LaPaglia said. The morning after a show she had in Boston, Bryan said he was going back home to Oklahoma, where he’s from. She said that was the last time she saw him. Eventually, LaPaglia said they had an official breakup conversation over text. LaPaglia has unpacked her experience of their relationship on the “ ” and on her TikTok page. According to Nov. 7 “BFF’s Podcast” episode, LaPaglia said they met at his concert, but both were seeing other people at the time. When LaPaglia was newly single, Bryan asked her if she wanted to go on a road trip with him and she agreed. She said Bryan began “love bombing” her. Days after the trip began, Bryan got her name tattooed on his arm. “I truly thought he was this great dude because in the first four months of our relationship he was, that’s who he showed me. That’s who I fell in love with. I fell in love with this person who doesn’t exist. This person that he showed me who he was,” she said. But she said there was a “switch” four months in. She alleged the relationship was emotionally abusive, calling it a “crazy, awful cycle.” “I went through literal narcissistic, emotional abuse for a year,” she said on her podcast. “And he made me believe everything was my fault. He isolated me from my whole entire life, he wouldn’t let me be who I wanted to be, he made me hate everything that I loved about myself. He broke me down and then made me feel like he was all I had left, and he just kept repeatedly beating me down and beating me down.” On the same podcast episode, she gave specific incidents of their fights. For example, LaPaglia said Bryan took issue with a dress she wore to the Golden Globes this past January. “He said he didn’t want to date someone who presents themselves that way,” she said. “He makes me believe that I have to change my image to keep up with his, or something, so I was twisted in the head — OK, yeah, he doesn’t want to be with a girl that, I don’t know, has cleavage,’” she said. LaPaglia said on the podcast this was the moment she “lost herself.” According to LaPaglia, another fight happened after she was singing country artist Morgan Wallen’s song “Last Night.” Bryan allegedly said he couldn’t believe LaPaglia was “singing another man’s song under my roof, in this house that I own.” She said the fight lasted a week. LaPaglia also said that she was not allowed to listen to Noah Kahan, an artist Bryan has collaborated with previously, because she “listened to him too much.” In a , LaPaglia said the relationship caused her to lose 15 pounds because she was “physically sick from what I was going through mentally.” Post breakup, LaPaglia said she doesn’t want to be “defined” by their relationship. “I’ll be damned if I let my career be defined by what he did to me,” she on Nov. 20. Also on the Nov. 7 episode of the podcast, LaPaglia said that Bryan wanted her to sign an NDA after their breakup and offered her $12 million and a New York apartment in exchange for her silence. She said she considered the offer “for a second,” but said no because she doesn’t “think you can pay people off that you hurt for them to protect you.” She said Bryan made “the women before (her)” believe “they had no other choice than to take money from you, sign their experiences away, sign what they went through away.” LaPaglia said she didn’t take the money so that she could speak out for other victims of emotional abuse. “It’s not just for me, it’s for anyone else that’s been emotionally abused, it’s for people right now that are being emotionally abused, it’s for people that don’t have a support system that I was luckily enough to have going through this. And the last year of my life has been the hardest year of my life, like dealing with the abuse from this dude,” she said. LaPaglia said she wants to be a voice for survivors in a Nov. 20 . “I want to show people that it’s OK to continue on with your life, and when it’s hard to, that you have to — or you won’t,” she continued. She said she’s gotten “tens of thousands” of DMs a day from men and women who have “gotten the courage” to leave their relationships or “finally felt validated.” Georgina is an editorial intern for TODAY.com, based in New York City.PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter's in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter's path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That's a very narrow way of assessing them," Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn't suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he'd be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter's tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter's lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor's race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival's endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King's daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters' early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan's presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan's Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.

Renee Jankowski did everything she was supposed to do when she was pregnant with her daughter, Mia. She got regular prenatal care and made sure to follow her doctor’s instructions. So when she developed complications that led to premature delivery at 35 weeks it was, of course, unexpected. “I had been in the hospital several times for bleeding, so it wasn’t the best pregnancy,” Renee said. “But I did expect to carry to term.” The baby, though, had other plans. “Renee had a placenta previa,” Dr. Lauren Johnson-Robbins, neonatologist at Geisinger, said. Placenta previa is a problem in which the placenta grows in the lowest part of the womb (uterus) and covers all or part of the opening to the cervix. “Renee came in with some bleeding and it was discovered that her placenta was sitting in a position that placed it at increased risk of detaching from the uterine wall,” Johnson-Robbins said. “Once the placenta separated further it resulted in the lack of oxygen and blood flow to the baby.” As a result, doctors had to perform an emergency C-section followed by immediate intubation and oxygen therapy for Mia. Renee recalled their concerns after Mia’s arrival. “She wasn’t really moving when she was born,” Renee said. “She had a weak heart rate and there was no movement.” When John got the news, he admitted, he was scared. “I found out first things went really poorly, that she came out limp and they had to resuscitate her,” John said. “Renee was out, so it was a while before she came around. The baby wasn’t doing well, and it was hard to tell her.” Part of Mia’s treatment also included the use of a cooling cap, which helps oxygen-deprived babies have a better chance of reduced effects of brain injury. At first, the Jankowski’s were unsure, but they felt blessed to have landed at Geisinger Medical Center. “We had mixed feelings of ‘Oh my God, this is terrible,’ and also we were so relieved we were (at Geisinger) because we knew how tenuous things could be,” John continued. John works for LifeFlight, and so is a part of the Geisinger family, and Renee is a physician’s assistant. Both knew that in the case of a baby suffering from a lack of oxygen and a brain injury, time is of the essence. “It was really the best case scenario that she was right there by the NICU and went immediately,” he said. “It was comforting that we got the ball rolling as quickly as we could as we were having self-doubt that we should have come sooner.” For her part, Renee had some lingering guilt. “I wondered if I should have gone sooner or that I should have realized sooner she wasn’t moving,” she said. “It was a rollercoaster of emotions all at once.” Once Mia was resuscitated, the couple found out she had suffered severe acidosis (her brain went without oxygen for awhile). The recommended treatment was a cooling cap. “The cap, a ‘little hat with cold water circulating through it,’ cools down the brain to a lower temperature to reduce further brain injury,” Johnson-Robbins explained. After 72 hours of cooling, she was allowed to warm back up. Doctors then asked her to do the things full-term babies do. “She did a fabulous job,” Johnson-Robbins said. Mia was able to go home in 11 days. “To say she went home in 11 days speaks to her strengths as a preterm infant,” Johnson-Robbins said. “A lot of babies can spend weeks undoing elements of prematurity.” In order to be discharged, Mia had to maintain a certain body temperature, eat by mouth, and breath regularly. “Obviously she was late enough that we didn’t worry about the things we worry about in much more earlier infants,” Johnson-Robbins said. It was fortunate for the Jankowski family that Geisinger had the necessary equipment to treat Mia and the funds to purchase the cooling cap that helped Mia was purchased through Children’s Miracle Network funding. “In Mia’s case, donations have allowed our NICU to have the most updated cooling technology for premature infants, the first being the cooling cap that was used to help Mia recover for her difficult birth,” Johnson-Robbins said. Now age 11, Mia is “the happiest” kid who enjoys soccer and dance, Renee said. She is in the fifth grade and shows no deficits as far as her mental and physical development thanks to the specialized follow-up care she has received early on. “She has had step by step speech classes checking from the very beginning,” John said. “They’d be checking her hands to see if she could grip things, asking question after question and checking her vision, her hearing; it takes time to figure everything out.” She had speech and physical therapy, too. “She has all sorts of tools for speech and physical therapy,” John said. “It’s really impressive how many specialists came to evaluate and tell us what to do to make sure she wasn’t slipping through the cracks.” Mia is one of 2024 Children’s Miracle Network kids and the family has been open about sharing her story with the hopes that they may help another child who is in need and to spread the word about the importance of prenatal care and the care of premature infants. “We can’t undo the damage children have endured being born prematurely,” Johnson-Robbins said. That’s why prenatal care is vital. “Prenatal care enables us to talk about what can parents do to maintain a healthy pregnancy,” Johnson-Robbins explained. “Prenatal care is a cornerstone of monitoring for complications we can intervene on.” While some expectant moms will often come in and worry they’re “crying wolf ,” Johnson-Robbins said it’s important to get checked out at the first sign of complications. “It allows us to step in to help to intervene when we need to and will minimize the risk the child,” she said. Having a premature baby can be stressful, but the Jankowski’s said they let go of their guilt and instead choose to celebrate the wins and the fact that Mia is a happy, healthy and well-adjusted child. “One of my challenges is that I was so hungry for every detailed bit of information about her vitals and all of the statistics,” John said. “I was reading studies and just became consumed, until the doctor told me none of that matters at all.” What matters is the here and now, he said. “She’s perfect the way she is - she’s ours and we love her all the way, no matter what, and celebrate everything about her,” he said. “We just have to meet the challenges as they come.”

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is temporarily sidelined in his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's legendary NHL goal-scoring record due to a broken left fibula, the team announced Thursday. The injury, incurred during a collision on Monday, is expected to keep Ovechkin out for four to six weeks. The daunting challenge of surpassing Gretzky's 894 career goals remains, with Ovechkin sitting 27 goals shy. Having entered the 2024-25 season needing 42 goals to break the unapproachable record, the 39-year-old Russian made a strong start, leading the league with 15 goals in 18 games. This unfortunate pause marks Ovechkin's longest career absence. (With inputs from agencies.)Melbourne [Australia]: India will need to pull out a record-breaking chase in order to take an upper hand in the series during the final day of the fourth Test against Australia at Melbourne, according to Wisden. ET Year-end Special Reads What kept India's stock market investors on toes in 2024? 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Spain's monarch pays tribute to the victims of Valencia floods in his Christmas Eve speech MADRID (AP) — Spanish King Felipe VI used his traditional Christmas Eve speech to remember the victims of the catastrophic Valencia flash floods , and urged the country to remain calm while addressing hot-button issues such as immigration and housing Suman Naishadham, The Associated Press Dec 24, 2024 2:52 PM Dec 24, 2024 3:20 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message King of Spain, Felipe VI speaks during the ceremony for the awarding of the Honoris Causa Doctorate in Social Sciences and Statistics to His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain, at the San Carlo theater in Naples, Italy, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP) MADRID (AP) — Spanish King Felipe VI used his traditional Christmas Eve speech to remember the victims of the catastrophic Valencia flash floods , and urged the country to remain calm while addressing hot-button issues such as immigration and housing affordability. In a pre-recorded speech that usually reviews the year's most relevant issues, Felipe said Spain “must never forget the pain and sadness" the floods caused. The Oct. 29 floods killed more than 225 people in eastern Spain, damaging countless homes and leaving graveyards of cars piled on top of each other. In some towns, the heavy downpours that caused the floods dropped as much as a year's worth of rain in just eight hours. In early November, as Spaniards' shock at the wreckage turned into frustration, a political blame game began, directed especially at regional authorities who failed to send timely emergency alerts to cell phones on the day of the floods. The frustration of residents in hard-hit Paiporta near Valencia was on display when people tossed mud and shouted insults at the king and government officials in early November when they made their first visit to the town. “We have seen — and understood — the frustration, the pain, the impatience, the demands for greater and more effective coordination," Felipe said about how the disaster was managed. He also addressed the country's housing crunch and high rents, which have become a leading concern in the southern European country that is the eurozone's fourth-largest economy. Fast-rising rents are especially acute in cities like Barcelona and Madrid, where incomes have failed to keep up, especially for younger people in a country with chronically high unemployment. Felipe urged that “all the actors involved reflect” and "listen to each other” so that they facilitate bringing access to housing under “affordable conditions.” Spain's immigration debate should keep in mind the country's European partners and immigrants' countries of origin, Felipe said, warning that “the way in which we are able to address immigration ... will say a lot in the future about our principles and the quality of our democracy.” Felipe said Spain needed to remain calm in the public sphere, even in the face of a “sometimes thunderous” contest in its politics. Suman Naishadham, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Weather News Wild Christmas forecast for B.C. as dozens of wind and rain warnings are issued Dec 24, 2024 2:42 PM California residents on edge as high surf and flooding threats persist on Christmas Eve Dec 24, 2024 2:40 PM Stunning photos show lava erupting from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano Dec 24, 2024 2:25 PM

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As the central intelligence hub of the manufacturing process, the control room is the brain of the organization. When investing in technology to make the process more efficient (i.e., smarter), it is a logical place to start. Control rooms have made a major technological leap in recent years, transforming from on-site, reactive, and highly stressful spaces into professional, digital, and highly flexible environments that proactively avoid potential issues. Although they tended to look spectacular, with lots of screens or even flashing lights, traditional process control rooms were straightforward environments with limited possibilities. Operators monitored and controlled the manufacturing process on-site, based on limited sensor data. Anomalies were typically met with high stress, as it often took time to identify the root cause of the issue. This vision contrasts with that of their modern counterparts. While the screens are still in place, all information is now digitally available and can easily be distributed to any location. This means the control room could be located 100 miles away and even control multiple production plants. Alternatively, multiple small control rooms can handle day-to-day decisions, with a central crisis room managing escalations. Any configuration is possible, which makes contemporary control rooms very flexible. The large amount of available real-time data also allows staff to drastically cut the time needed to pinpoint and resolve issues. For example, in the past an alarm would be triggered when a temperature sensor exceeds a certain threshold. In most cases, a field worker would need to investigate the situation on-site. Today, a lot more information is available, allowing the control room staff to assess what’s happening from behind their desks. Boosting Efficiency The ultimate goal of the control room is to use predictive analytics to proactively prevent all emerging issues. While even the most sophisticated current systems cannot guarantee this, modern technology certainly plays a pivotal role in risk mitigation. This includes not only production hazards but also upholding safety protocols for workers. It is therefore critical that operators have direct access to all the information they need. This may sound basic, but it often isn’t the case; information is often not available in the same system. Organizations may choose to separate networks — for example, placing process data on one network, internal data on another, and a third that accesses the internet. This is a nightmare for operators, who must constantly switch between computers to do their jobs. That’s why state-of-the-art systems can integrate all information into a single (virtual) environment. Although the networks are still separated, the information appears to be in the same environment (“integration at the glass”), and operators only need a single keyboard and mouse to do their jobs, resulting in a more ergonomic way of working. Empowering the Operator The most critical presence in the control room is always the operator. Firms need to avoid overloading staff with an abundance of data. The optimal way to present and visualize the information is important and this will not only increase efficiency it will also enhance the operator’s job satisfaction and retention. For example, in Barco’s Global Control Room Report 2024 , 91 percent of operators working in highly efficient control rooms reported job satisfaction—significantly higher than the 51 percent of satisfied workers in less efficient environments. Smarter Systems, Reduced Risk In the control room every component is expected to function 24/7, and even scheduled interruptions should be minimal. How can organizations achieve this always-on ideal? The Barco report recommends investing in high-quality equipment. Control rooms are typically environments designed for the long haul, and this should be reflected in the hardware and software. Redundancy of all critical components, with seamless takeovers when the original unit fails, also helps ensure uptime. However, not all risks are related to the system. External threats, such as hackers, can arise. Security breaches can result in weeks of downtime or millions of dollars in ransom payments. Systems should therefore be extremely secure, shielding against all possible penetration attempts. Some organizations address this by completely isolating their critical systems (so-called “air-gapping”). However, this is not 100 percent safe and it can create a false sense of security while severely limiting system flexibility. Instead, the modern approach is to deploy a software platform that is completely secure upon installation (“secure by default”). Dr. Tim Sandle is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for science news.Tim specializes in science, technology, environmental, business, and health journalism. He is additionally a practising microbiologist; and an author. He is also interested in history, politics and current affairs.