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The department is working with partners to learn more about reports of a parvo-like virus in northern Michigan dogs and facilitate additional testing

LANSING, MI The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is working in partnership with local animal control agencies, the Michigan Association of Animal Control Officers, local veterinarians, the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (MSU VDL), and U.S. Department of Agriculture to learn more about reports of a canine parvovirus-like illness affecting several dogs in the northern Lower Peninsula. To best keep Michigans dogs safe and healthy, MDARD strongly encourages owners to work with their veterinarian to ensure their dog is up to date on routine vaccinations.

Investigating the details of unusual or reportable animal disease detections is a key part of MDARDs mission, said State Veterinarian Nora Wineland, DVM. When we learn about these situations, we take action and respond. Understanding all of the circumstances surrounding a case is vital because this information will help us better protect both animal and human health.

Recently, MDARD received a report from a veterinarian in northern Michigan who saw a dog that was vomiting and had diarrhea, which are common symptoms of canine parvovirus. Despite having these symptoms, the animal tested negative for the virus at the veterinary clinic. The department also received concerns from animal control agencies in northern Michigan regarding dogs with the same symptoms, the causes of which had not been determined.

MDARD is working with local animal control shelters, area veterinarians, the MSU VDL, and other partners to learn more about these reports and facilitate additional testing to try and determine a cause.

Our team at the MSU VDL has the expertise to lead this diagnostic investigation, including the detection and identification of potential infectious or toxic causes, explained MSU VDL director Kim Dodd, DVM, PhD. Our work starts with looking for known causes of disease, and if none is found, well explore novel explanations such as new virus variants. Our team is working hard to find clear answers, and we will provide an update when we know more.

For context, canine parvovirus is a highly contagious virus of dogs, commonly seen in Michigan. The virus can affect any dog, but a highly effective vaccine is available to protect dogs against the disease. The disease is NOT contagious to people or other animals and is not a reportable disease to the state veterinarians office.

As more information is learned, MDARD is encouraging animal shelter and kennel staff to follow their strictest intake and vaccination protocols when bringing in new dogs/puppies and continue to follow required isolation protocols and recommended cleaning/disinfection procedures for surfaces and equipment.

For dog owners, especially those living in or traveling with pets to the northern Lower Peninsula, MDARD strongly recommends keeping up with routine vaccinations by ensuring dogs/puppies are vaccinated against parvovirus, rabies, canine distemper, adenovirus, parainfluenza, and leptospirosis. Having dogs/puppies fully vaccinated before interacting with other animals will help to keep them healthy and safe.

If dogs or puppies are exhibiting signs of illness, it is best to keep them at home and away from other dogs and contact your veterinarian.

Also, veterinarians are advised to contact MDARD if unusual or reportable conditions in animals are seen.

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Jake Novak Named Deputy Managing Editor, Ali Bradley Joins as Southwest Correspondent, andHayley Turner Named Senior Producer for On Balance with Leland Vittert

Chicago, IL (August 22, 2022) As NewsNation continues to expand its news production operations in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Vice President of News and Managing Editor Cherie Grzech today announced that Jake Novak has joined the cable news network as Deputy Managing Editor, Ali Bradley has joined as a Southwest Correspondent, and Hayley Turner has been named Senior Producer for On Balance with Leland Vittert.

In making the announcement, Grzech said, We are so excited that Jake, Ali, and Hayley are joining the NewsNation team. We are bringing together some of the best minds in the businessskilled and experienced journalists dedicated to delivering fact-based news.

Headquartered in Chicago, NewsNation is expanding its footprint in New York City and Washington, D.C., with production studios currently under construction at both locations. The NewsNation facility in New York will feature two studios, each with large state-of-the art LED video screens, multiple control rooms that have the ability to produce programming from all over the globe, and workspace accommodating 200 editorial and production staffers. The NewsNation Washington Bureau will be adding a new studio in the coming months, which will become the home of NewsNations senior political contributor George Will and the Networks political editor and elections analyst Chris Stirewalt.

Mr. Novak will be based at NewsNations New York City bureau and Ms. Turner will work out of NewsNations Washington, D.C. bureau.

Mr. Novak has been the executive producer of financial news TV programs, an editorial columnist, podcaster, and political analyst for 28 years. Hes created a variety of successful shows, including CNNs In the Money and FOX Business Varney and Company. He was also an executive producer and senior editorial columnist at CNBC for six years. Mr. Novak has developed additional expertise on the Middle East, following a one-and-half year stint at the Israeli consulate in New York, where he promoted economic and cultural partnerships between Israel, its new Arab partners in the region, and the United States. Mr. Novak earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his masters degree in journalism from Northwestern.

Ms. Bradley has worked in television news since 2010. Over the last 12 years, she served as an anchor at K2TV in Casper, Wyoming; WTOL in Toledo, Ohio; WMPT Fox 43 in York, Pennsylvania and at KCPQ Q13 Fox in Seattle. In 2021, she became an independent journalist. Since that time, Ms. Bradley has been covering immigration issues at the southern border of the United States. Ms. Bradleys desire to get answers to her questions led her to walk with a caravan of nearly 6,000 people for two weeks in southern Mexico. She also covered the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, homelessness in Seattle, and the evacuation of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. She will be based in Phoenix, AZ. Ms. Bradley graduated from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University.

Ms. Turner is a former senior producer for Special Report with Bret Baier, where she produced many stories and high-profile interviews, from members of Congress to White House officials and world leaders. Beginning in 2020, she served as interim Executive Producer for Special Report and filled the same role for Fox News Sunday and Fox News at Night. In 2021, Ms. Turner moved to NBC to launch Hallie Jacksons new show on the networks streaming platform.

About NewsNation

NewsNation is a national news and entertainment cable network reaching 70 million television households across the United States. Formerly known as WGN America, the network is owned and operated by Nexstar Media Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST). NewsNation is Americas source for unbiased news, where engaged citizens get news that represents the full range of perspectives across the country. The network draws on the local market, regional and national expertise of Nexstars 5,500 local journalists in 110 local newsrooms across the country. NewsNation is available across a variety of cable and satellite providers, streaming platforms, online, and on the NewsNationNow app.

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Media Contact:Beth FeldmanExecutive Director, CommunicationsNexstar Media Group, Inc/Networksbfeldman@newsnationnow.com917-797-8054

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The AI-driven Vectra platform recognized for its leading detection capabilities that span across network, hybrid and multi-cloud attack surfaces.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced that the company has been named a winner in two categories of the prestigious 2022 SC Awards. The Vectra platform was recognized with the "Best Threat Detection Technology" and "Best Threat Intelligence Technology" in this year's awards. Vectra optimizes Security AI to understand attacker behaviors across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and networks, enabling security teams to detect, prioritize, investigate and respond to threats in real-time.

Now in its 25th year, the SC Awards are the cybersecurity industry's most prestigious and competitive honor, recognizing the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security.Vectra applies patented Security AI to surface and prioritize threats while integrating seamlessly into existing security stacks. Organizations that deploy Vectra gain the coverage, clarity and control required to get ahead and stay ahead of evasive attacks across today's threat landscape. The Vectra platform enables:

"Organizations that prioritize AI detection and response are giving themselves a leg up on today's attacks, especially when the right approach to AI is leveraged," said Kevin Kennedy, SVP Product Management, Vectra. "There are just too many unknowns that security teams are up againstfrom expanding attack surfaces, evasive and evolving attacker methods and overwhelming alert noiseVectra's approach to AI detection and response can neutralize those challenges and turn the tables on attackers. We're honored to be recognized by SC Media in these two categories as threat detection and threat intelligence remain at the core of everything we do."

The recognition comes two months after Vectra was recognized in the 2022 SC Media Awards Europe as the winner in the Best Behaviour Analytics / Enterprise Threat Detection category along with being listed as "highly commended" in three additional categories.

"The last year brought distinct challenges for the customer community, who are still struggling to manage the impact of the pandemic while transitioning to a new security standard," said Jill Aitoro, senior vice president of content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance and editor in chief of SC Media."Winners of our Trust Awards answered the call by delivering technology that could help manage the evolving threat landscape."

This year's SC Award winners will be celebrated at InfoSec World 2022, taking place between September 26-28. For more information about the SC Awards and for a full list of 2022 winners, please visit: https://www.scmagazine.com/sc-awards.

About CyberRisk AllianceCyberRisk Alliance (CRA) is a business intelligence company serving the high growth, rapidly evolving cybersecurity community with a diversified portfolio of services that inform, educate, build community, and inspire an efficient marketplace. Our trusted information leverages a unique network of journalists, analysts and influencers, policymakers, and practitioners. CRA's brands include SC Media, SecurityWeekly, ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert, InfoSec World, Identiverse, Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum, its research unit CRA Business Intelligence, and the peer-to-peer CISO membership network, Cybersecurity Collaborative. Click here to learn more.

About VectraVectra is a leader in cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises. The Vectra platform uses AI to detect threats at speed across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and data centers. Only Vectra optimizes AI to detect attacker methodsthe TTPs at the heart of all attacksrather than simplistically alerting on "different." The resulting high-fidelity threat signal and clear context enables cybersecurity teams to respond to threats sooner and to stop attacks in progress faster. Organizations worldwide rely on Vectra for cybersecurity resilience in the face of dangerous cyber threats and to prevent ransomware, supply chain compromise, identity takeovers, and other cyberattacks from impacting their businesses. For more information, visitvectra.ai.

Media ContactJohn KreuzerLumina Communications for Vectra [emailprotected]

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday announced a 25% price increase for the company's premium driver assistance system, which is marketed under the name Full Self-Driving, or FSD. The price will increase to $15,000 from $12,000 on Sept. 5, Musk said in a tweet.

Today, Tesla charges customers $12,000 upfront for FSD, or $199 per month on a subscription basis.

Musk did not immediately mention an increase in the cost of FSD subscriptions and Tesla did not respond to a request for further information.

All new Tesla vehicles come with a standard driver assistance package called Autopilot, which includes features like "Traffic-Aware Cruise Control" and "Autosteer." These rely on cameras, other sensors, hardware and software to automatically keep a Tesla vehicle centered in its lane and traveling at the speed of surrounding traffic.

Tesla's highest-priced driver assistance option, FSD, includes what the company calls "Traffic and Stop Sign Control" and "Navigate on Autopilot" among its features.

These more advanced features are intended to let Tesla cars automatically detect and slow down for traffic signs and signals; navigate from highway on-ramp to off-ramp while engaging turn signals; make lane changes and take exits.

Tesla tells drivers to remain attentive and be prepared to take over their cars' steering and braking at any time while using Autopilot or FSD. Its technology does not make Tesla vehicles autonomous.

One Tesla feature called Smart Summon allows drivers to use a smartphone and Tesla mobile app like a remote control to call their car from across a parking lot and slowly drive, without anyone behind the wheel, to where they are standing.

While some FSD features are also included in a lower-priced option called Enhanced Autopilot, or EAP, only Tesla customers who buy or subscribe to the premium option can request access to FSD Beta, an experimental version of Tesla's system.

FSD Beta users are supposed to obtain a high "Safety Score" from Tesla to get and maintain access to the system.

Tesla's approach has drawn criticism and regulatory scrutiny from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the California Department of Motor Vehicles alike.

Still, the company is forging ahead and doing a limited release of the latest version of FSD Beta, to a relatively small pool of users, Musk also tweeted on Sunday.

Earlier, he wrote on Twitter, "There are many major code changes, so this will be an extra cautious rollout. Releasing on 8/20 to ~1000 Tesla owners, then 10.69.1 next week to accommodate feedback & release to ~10k customers, then 10.69.2 week after & release to rest of FSD Beta."

Owners who gain access to FSD Beta are able to send feedback to the company via their cars when the system fails or acts glitchy. Tesla previously said 100,000 drivers had already installed FSD Beta.

Tesla is planning to make FSD Beta even more mainstream.

At the Tesla 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting on August 4, Musk said that FSD Beta will be available to anyone who requests it by the end of this year. Here's a quote from Thomson Financial's transcript of the meeting:

"We're still tracking very much to have widespread deployment of FSD Beta this year in North America. So I should say basically, FSD will be available to anyone who requests it by the end of this year."

Among those who are receiving the limited-release update this weekend are widely followed social media influencers who sell Tesla merchandise and run ad-supported videos on YouTube channels where they review Tesla's latest releases and more.

Since 2016, the NHTSA has opened 38 probes into collisions that involved a Tesla vehicle where driver assistance systems including Autopilot and more advanced systems were thought to be a factor. Nineteen fatalities were reported as part of those Tesla-involved collisions under investigation.

Separately, California's DMV recently accused Tesla of deceptive marketing practices with regard to the features in its vehicles, and it is conducting a technical review of Tesla's systems including FSD Beta.

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's director of Autopilot software, said on Twitter this weekend that "Autopilot prevents ~40 crashes /day where human drivers mistakenly press the accelerator at 100% instead of the brakes." Tesla generally does not make data about its systems available to third-party researchers for confirmation of its claims.

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Half-brother of Meghan Markle has filed a request for authority over their father Thomas Markles legal and commercial matters while he recovers from a stroke.

The 78-year-old might be placed under conservatorship, a kind of legal guardianship that was notably used by family members to oversee singer Britney Spears for 13 years.

They are given to people who, for example, have dementia and are no longer able to make their own choices.

Thomas Sr. had a stroke in May and has struggled with his health for some time.

If approved, Tom Jr., 55, would be able to handle a legal battle with British photographer Jeff Rayner over staged pictures that caused Thomas Sr. global shame.

The Sunday Mirror quoted an anonymous source as saying: Tom Snr has had a succession of health scares and his son wants to do the best for him by removing any stress.

Cases in America go on for months or years, so Tom Snr. will feel lighter. He will be able to concentrate on getting well.

The father-daughter relationship deteriorated as a result of the photos, which were shot before Prince Harry and Meghans wedding.

The photos, according to Thomas Sr., were produced in an effort to assist him modify his public image.

The idea was that they would all be casual images, inconspicuous, and nobody would know they were posed or anything, he stated in a Channel 5 program.

It would simply be me going about my everyday business.

The photographer even obtained a restraining order against Thomas Sr. after reading that the former Hollywood lighting engineer had even said in a book that he would think about murdering Mr. Rayner.

Thomas Sr. allegedly said: I got screwed Rayner, according to author Tom Bower of the book Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between The Windsors. I want to destroy him. Ill murder him if they tell me I have terminal cancer because I have nothing to lose.

Thomas Sr. will appear in court in November to ask for $1 million in damages for the harm the faked photos caused. Thomas Sr. has denied suggesting he would murder Mr. Rayner.

Mr. Markles handwritten court file is so plainly frivolous that Mr. Markle and anybody else who republishes the specifics of Mr. Markles court petition will be liable to Coleman-Rayner for defamation, according to a statement from Mr. Rayners photography business.

Thomas Sr. missed the wedding because of a heart attack, and Meghan hasnt talked to her father since the faked photos.

Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, are the children of Meghan, although he has yet to meet them.

Tom Jr. has opted not to respond.

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