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U.S. Navy Ship Virus Relief Efforts ‘A Joke’ As Hundreds of Beds Lay Empty – Newsweek
U.S. Navy Ship Virus Relief Efforts ‘A Joke’ As Hundreds of Beds Lay Empty – Newsweek

The relief effort of the U.S.N.S. Comfort, a hospital ship deployed to receive patients with conditions other than COVID-19 to create more beds at New York City hospitals for virus patients, has come under criticism following delays in admitting patients.

The ship, equipped with 1,000 hospital beds and 1,200 medical workers, has reportedly only taken 20 patients aboard since it began operations on April 1, with hundreds of beds on the ship remaining unused.

But various military protocols and other red tape, including nearly 49 medical conditions other than the COVID-19 virus that disqualify a patient from being admitted onto the ship (such as those in need of obstetric or pediatric care), have reportedly caused major roadblocks in providing the relief the city’s hospitals need, The New York Times reported.

“The process continues and we are honestly looking forward to seeing a significant increase in patients being transferred to the Comfort,” Capt. Patrick Amersbach, of the U.S.N.S. Comfort, told reporters on Thursday.

The U.S.N.S. Mercy, which docked in Los Angeles with the mission last Friday and is equipped with 800 medical staff, has treated a total of 15 patients, five of whom have been discharged, the ship’s commanding officer Capt. John Rotruck said.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy, Elizabeth Baker, said “We’re bringing [patients] on as fast as we can bring them on.”

Neither ship accepts walk-in patients. All patients must be evaluated at local hospitals first and be tested for the virus before being allowed to board the ships, which adds to the delay in the process of getting patients aboard the ships.

Michael Dowling, the president and chief executive officer of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system, told the Times, “If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke. Everyone can say, ‘Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield.”

Various hospitals have been refitted to create more space for virus patients, making use of lobby space and conference rooms, Dowling explained. His facilities are hosting around 2,800 infected patients, up from 100 on March 20. Nearly 25 percent have serious conditions and are in intensive care units.

With New York placed under lockdown, there are less patients suffering from car accidents and gunshot wounds or other accidents requiring emergency care. Therefore, there are fewer non-virus patients to send to the U.S.N.S. Comfort, as the city copes with thousands of people infected with the virus, Dowling said.

“It’s pretty ridiculous,” he said. “If you’re not going to help us with the people we need help with, what’s the purpose?”

The commanding officers of both ships have said they would accept COVD-19 virus patients if they were ordered to do so.

“If that demand signal ramps up, we’ll certainly be ready to accommodate that,” Capt. Rotruck told reporters Thursday.

Both Capt. Rotruck and Capt. Amersbach have said the ships would need to be reconfigured if COVID-19 virus patients were to be admitted.

Various large public venues in New York City have been converted into hospital spaces since the outbreak to help hospitals cope with the growing number of infected patients, including in Central Park where a field hospital was erected.

Other recent builds include a makeshift hospital at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, the home of the U.S. Open, and at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which has nearly 3,000 beds.

Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Navy for further comment on the latest situation.

The virus, which was first reported in Wuhan, China, has affected over a million people across 181 countries and regions, including more than 245,500 in the U.S., the epicenter of the outbreak. While over 212,000 have recovered from infection but more than 53,100 have died globally.

New York is the worst-hit state in the U.S., with over 92,300 confirmed cases, including more than 51,800 patients in New York City, according to figures released Thursday from the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The graphic below, provided by Statista, illustrates the spread of COVID-19 across the U.S.

Data on COVID-19 cases is from Johns Hopkins University unless otherwise stated.

World Health Organization advice for avoiding spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Hygiene advice

  • Clean hands frequently with soap and water, or alcohol-based hand rub.
  • Wash hands after coughing or sneezing; when caring for the sick; before, during and after food preparation; before eating; after using the toilet; when hands are visibly dirty; and after handling animals or waste.
  • Maintain at least 1 meter (3 feet) distance from anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
  • Avoid touching your hands, nose and mouth. Do not spit in public.
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or bent elbow when coughing or sneezing. Discard the tissue immediately and clean your hands.

Medical advice

  • Avoid close contact with others if you have any symptoms.
  • Stay at home if you feel unwell, even with mild symptoms such as headache and runny nose, to avoid potential spread of the disease to medical facilities and other people.
  • If you develop serious symptoms (fever, cough, difficulty breathing) seek medical care early and contact local health authorities in advance.
  • Note any recent contact with others and travel details to provide to authorities who can trace and prevent spread of the disease.
  • Stay up to date on COVID-19 developments issued by health authorities and follow their guidance.

Mask and glove usage

  • Healthy individuals only need to wear a mask if taking care of a sick person.
  • Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
  • Masks are effective when used in combination with frequent hand cleaning.
  • Do not touch the mask while wearing it. Clean hands if you touch the mask.
  • Learn how to properly put on, remove and dispose of masks. Clean hands after disposing of the mask.
  • Do not reuse single-use masks.
  • Regularly washing bare hands is more effective against catching COVID-19 than wearing rubber gloves.
  • The COVID-19 virus can still be picked up on rubber gloves and transmitted by touching your face.

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Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot snaps at reporters in aftermath of Ella French shooting: ‘Offensive and insulting’ – Fox News
Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot snaps at reporters in aftermath of Ella French shooting: ‘Offensive and insulting’ – Fox News
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot berated reporters during a press conference addressing the shooting death of officer Ella French on Wednesday, saying the media is in a “race to the bottom” and that their reporting on her in recent days has been “sickening.”

Two brothers have been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of 29-year-old French during a traffic stop Saturday night. More than two dozen Chicago police officers turned their backs when greeted by Lightfoot late Saturday at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where French’s partner remains in critical condition.

CHICAGO COPS TURN THEIR BACKS TO MAYOR LIGHTFOOT AT HOSPITAL AFTER TWO OFFICERS SHOT

Asked to address the officers’ protest, Lightfoot lamented that “we are living in a time where people don’t respect each other.”

“Larger than that is this moment where people feel like it is their right to spew hatred at everyone that they don’t agree with or make fun and mock, usually anonymously and cowardly from social media, not confronting somebody directly and talking to them, but using the power of the pen and the keyboard to just spew unbelievable hate,” she said.

“So this is a larger question than what may have happened with 10 or 15 officers on Saturday night,” she continued. “It’s why do we think it is OK for people to engage in such nasty, vicious talk, orally or worse, on social media, and then have it repeated by media as if it is fact and true.

“I think our media plays a very important role in our democracy, but you lose me, you lose me when it’s a race to the bottom and it’s all about the fight and it’s all about the conflict,” she said. “I’ve got to tell you, some of the reporting I’ve seen this week is just sickening. We all need to ask ourselves what we can do better to show our people everywhere that we have the capacity to be human beings again.”

Lightfoot got visibly irritated after another reporter asked her about reports that First Deputy Police Superintendent Eric Carter rushed French’s funeral procession by calling off a traditional honor guard and bagpipe salute.

“The reporting on that is just not true,” the mayor said. “It’s not true.” 

FALLEN CHICAGO OFFICER’S RUSHED TRIBUTE REFLECTS ANTI-POLICE TREND, EX-SUPERINTENDENT SAYS

Lightfoot cited “COVID protocols” by the Medical Examiner’s Office and claimed a protest group that “wanted to hijack the procession” complicated matters outside of the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

However, a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s Office told WGN News that “protocols for processions at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office have not changed since the pandemic began.”

Lightfoot vehemently defended Carter’s decision to skip the tradition.

“Eric Carter made the right call,” she said. “I support what he did. And I’m horrified that in this moment, people are trying to savage him for whatever agenda or purpose.

“And I would just caution you all. Be careful. Be careful,” she said. “Check your sources. Make sure they’re accurate. Get the right context. Because I know firsthand, it’s really hard when the media becomes ferocious in propagating a story that’s just not true.”

Lightfoot then lashed out at another reporter who cited reports she “forced” her way upstairs at the hospital against the injured officer’s wishes.

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“I’m not going to respond to that,” she said. “I don’t force my way anywhere. And that’s offensive, frankly, that you would ask me that question. … I just sat here and talked about the fact that we’ve got to be really careful and you have to be really careful in your reporting and be responsible. And you just keep lobbing this nonsense that’s offensive and insulting and really does a disservice to the moment that we’re in.

“Give me a break,” she added. “What else are you going to mine from the bottom of the chum barrel? Come on. You’re better than that. You’re better than that. You’re better than that.”

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Why Joe Kennedy’s Senate campaign flopped – POLITICO
Why Joe Kennedy’s Senate campaign flopped – POLITICO

“I’ve spent the last weeks and months on the roads across our commonwealth in cities like Lowell, and in Chelsea and in Gloucester. In neighborhoods like East Boston,” Kennedy said. “And not one person in those cities, not one, has asked me why I am running for the Senate. The only thing they ask: What can you do to make this better, and when I need you, will you be there?”

He lost every precinct in East Boston Tuesday.

Kennedy’s failure to lay out a rationale for taking on Markey wasn’t the sole cause of his defeat. Rather, it was symptomatic of a campaign that was too confident, for too long — it didn’t think the usual rules applied, or that the 74-year-old Markey had enough fight in him to fend off one of the Democratic Party’s brightest young stars.

“There was a really strong reason for running. I don’t think they were ever able to articulate it. That’s the problem,” said political consultant Doug Rubin, who supported Kennedy. “I’ve always felt that the best campaigns are the ones with the right candidate at the right moment. I actually thought Joe was the right candidate for this moment, and for whatever reason, they were never able to win that argument and frame the race that way.”

The outcome was a far cry from last summer, when the consensus in Massachusetts political circles was that Kennedy would be so formidable that Markey ought to retire to avoid an embarrassing defeat. Polls showed Kennedy with a double-digit lead, and the running joke was that Markey was more likely to be seen at a Starbucks in suburban Washington than a Dunkin’ Donuts near his home in Malden.

Kennedy built his campaign on the promise that he would show up in Massachusetts, as opposed to his opponent, who spent too much time in Washington. The scion of the state’s iconic political dynasty would win by assembling a coalition of voters of color who didn’t always vote — similar to how Rep. Ayanna Pressley upset a veteran Massachusetts incumbent two years earlier, former Congressman Michael Capuano.

His candidacy was designed around the idea that a vote for Kennedy was an investment in his seemingly limitless political future, while Markey was already on his way out the door.

What Kennedy didn’t envision was the way Markey would reinvent himself as a darling of the progressive left over the course of the year, harnessing the energy of young voters and climate activists.

Sitting on a sizable lead in the polls for much of the race, Kennedy’s campaign was reluctant to go negative on Markey. That gave the low-key incumbent, who lived in the shadow of more prominent Bay State Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and John Kerry, the chance to define himself on his own terms.

His signature look became Nike sneakers and an oversized green jacket straight out of an Urban Outfitters ad campaign. (Markey wore the sneakers with his suit when he declared victory on Tuesday night.)

More important, Markey stepped into the political vacuum created by the departures of Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders from the presidential primary. Progressives were devastated by the collapse of the two campaigns, which came just before the coronavirus pandemic hit Massachusetts, leaving a cohort of newly unemployed presidential campaign staffers and volunteers — and young high school and college activists — stuck at home with time on their hands. They turned their attention to Markey.

“Here is my #1 hot take as a newly-free Warren staffer: THE F—— CO-AUTHOR OF THE GODDAMN GREEN NEW DEAL MIGHT LOSE HIS SEAT IN THE SENATE TO A MODERATE AND YOU’RE ALL JUST SLEEPING ON IT,” tweeted Emma Friend, a staffer on Warren’s presidential campaign. Markey raised $57,000 off the viral post, and he hired Friend to the campaign a month later. Dozens of Markey fan accounts began to pop up on Twitter.

As young activists churned out pro-Markey memes and videos, he brought them into the fold as digital fellows. It helped that Markey won endorsements from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his partner on the Green New Deal, and the Sunrise Movement. The Markey campaign spent almost half a million dollars airing an ad that only featured AOC, and not Markey, in the weeks leading up to the primary.

“Markey and his campaign were very eager to fight that fight with us. We got in early, making it an issues-focused, policy-centered campaign which was mostly centered around Markey’s leadership on the Green New Deal and climate crisis,” said Evan Weber, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement. “We also did a lot of work to rile up young people and the youths and progressives.”

As Markey’s popularity grew, so did frustration within the Kennedy campaign.

In Kennedy’s eyes, Markey’s new image didn’t square with his record, which was more in line with Joe Biden than Sanders or Warren. Kennedy often pointed to Markey’s support of the 1994 crime bill and the Iraq War on the debate stage, but that didn’t matter to Markey’s energetic online base.

“The Markey campaign did a masterful job convincing voters Ed is someone he is not,” one Democratic strategist with Massachusetts ties said after the primary results were tallied.

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Texas van crash probe, Western wildfires, ‘The Suicide Squad’: 5 things to know Thursday – USA TODAY
Texas van crash probe, Western wildfires, ‘The Suicide Squad’: 5 things to know Thursday – USA TODAY

Investigation into deadly Texas van crash expected to continue

At least 10 people were killed and 20 more were injured when an overloaded van crashed Wednesday in Encino, Texas, a town about 100 miles south of Corpus Christi, authorities said. Brooks County Sheriff Urbino Martinez said the van, designed to hold 15 passengers, was top-heavy and tipped over when the driver lost control on a curve. The van held 29 suspected undocumented migrants, he said. Additional details about the crash are expected to come Thursday or in the coming days. The identities of the 30 in the van were being withheld until relatives can be notified, an official with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. No information about the van, including where it was registered or who owned it, was immediately released. A surge in migrants crossing the border illegally has brought about an uptick in the number of crashes involving vehicles jammed with migrants who pay large amounts to be smuggled into the country.

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Red flag warnings prompt more wildfire fears across the West

Firefighters battling dozens of blazes across the West braced for more hot, dry weather as dangerous conditions threatened to spark new wildfires in multiple states. The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for parts of California, Nevada and Oregon until Thursday evening, expecting gusty winds and low humidity that could cause the dry vegetation to burn rapidly. There are 27 active large wildfires in those three states, and across 14 states, 96 large wildfires have burned more than 2,900 square miles, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. In Northern California, the Dixie Fire remains the largest blaze in the state as conditions stoke the flames. The Dixie Fire blazed through Greenville, California, leaving behind only a few structures. The fire primarily burned through most of the downtown area and some surrounding homes in the small mountain community. 

Spirit Airlines bedlam goes on: Hundreds of Thursday flights already canceled

Spirit Airlines, which has canceled more than 1,300 flights and stranded passengers since Sunday as it grapples with a series of issues, said Wednesday cancellations should ease in the days to come as it reboots its operation. However, that day doesn’t appear to be Thursday. The carrier has already canceled 349 of its Thursday flights or 45% of its scheduled flights, as of 6 a.m. EDT, according to flight tracker FlightAware. It will be the fifth consecutive day of frustration for passengers on the budget airline and comes as a busy summer travel weekend looms. The carrier canceled more than 400 flights per day, or a whopping 60% percent of its operation, on both Tuesday and Wednesday alone. The airline apologized to passengers and employees in a statement issued Wednesday and continued to attribute the massive woes to “overlapping operational challenges,” including weather, technology system outages and staffing shortages. 

James Gunn brings ‘The Suicide Squad’ back to the big screen

The body count is high and chaos reigns in writer/director James Gunn’s absurdly delightful and indubitably not-for-kids “The Suicide Squad,”  writes USA TODAY movie critic Brian Truitt. The film, out in theaters and streaming on HBO Max Thursday evening, is a soft reboot of 2016’s “Suicide Squad.” Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn returns and Idris Elba and John Cena will debut new characters. Viola Davis returns as Amanda Waller, who runs survive-or-else missions out of outlaw-filled Belle Reve prison with members of Task Force X. Their newest assignment: venturing to the fictional South American island of Corto Maltese, where the Squad traverses jungles, fights enemy guerrillas, goes disco dancing at a nightclub, and has to infiltrate an old Nazi stronghold from World War II that’s been housing a monstrous experiment. Before tackling this DC project, Gunn was firmly entrenched in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he directed the two “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies. 

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to perform together ‘One Last Time’

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will reunite Thursday at New York’s Radio City Music Hall for the second of two farewell concerts celebrating Bennett’s 95th birthday. The longtime friends and collaborators are playing “One Last Time” shows in the leadup to their second joint album, “Love for Sale,” out Oct. 1. Bennett, who turned 95 on Tuesday, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. But the music legend was as spry and charismatic as ever in a roughly half-hour solo set in Tuesday’s sold-out show. “He’s my friend. He’s my musical companion. He’s the greatest singer in the whole world,” said Lady Gaga during her rendition of “New York, New York.”

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Suspect in Maine shooting rampage is dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot, authorities say – CNN
Suspect in Maine shooting rampage is dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot, authorities say – CNN
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Igor Vovkovinskiy, Who At 7-Foot-8 Was The Tallest Man In The U.S., Has Died – NPR
Igor Vovkovinskiy, Who At 7-Foot-8 Was The Tallest Man In The U.S., Has Died – NPR

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the country’s tallest person at 7-foot-8, died in Minnesota at the age of 38. His family says he died of heart disease.

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Igor Vovkovinskiy, the country’s tallest person at 7-foot-8, died in Minnesota at the age of 38. His family says he died of heart disease.

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ROCHESTER, Minn. — Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died. He was 38.

His family said the Ukrainian-born Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His mother, Svetlana Vovkovinska, an ICU nurse at Mayo, initially posted about his death on Facebook.

Vovkovinskiy came to the Mayo Clinic in 1989 as a child seeking treatment. A tumor pressing against his pituitary gland caused it to secrete abnormal levels of growth hormone. He grew to become the tallest man in the U.S. at 7 feet, 8.33 inches (2 meters, 34.5 centimeters) and ended up staying in Rochester.

His older brother, Oleh Ladan of Brooklyn Park, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that Vovkovinskiy was a celebrity when he arrived from Ukraine because of his size and the flickering Cold War of the late 1980s. But Ladan said Vovkovinskiy “would have rather lived a normal life than be known.”

Vovkovinskiy met President Barack Obama during a health care reform rally in 2009, when the president noticed him near the stage wearing a T-shirt that read, “World’s Biggest Obama Supporter.”

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Vovkovinskiy appeared on “The Dr. Oz Show” and was called out by President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in 2009, when the president noticed him near the stage wearing a T-shirt that read, “World’s Biggest Obama Supporter.” In 2013, he carried the Ukrainian contestant onto the stage to perform in the Eurovision Song Contest.

When he was 27, Vovkovinskiy traveled to New York City and was declared America’s tallest living person by a Guinness World Records adjudicator on Oz’s show. He edged out a sheriff’s deputy in Virginia by one-third of an inch.

He issued a plea in 2012 to cover the estimated $16,000 cost for specially made shoes that wouldn’t cause him crippling pain. At the time, he said he hadn’t owned a pair for years that fit his size 26, 10E feet. Thousands donated more than double what he needed. Reebok provided the custom shoes for free.

Vovkovinskiy was born Sept. 8, 1982, in Bar, Ukraine, to Vovkovinska and Oleksandr Ladan, according to Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Home, which is holding a memorial service on Saturday. His father died earlier.

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The first African-American female mayor in Chicago history will be Lori Lightfoot – CNN
The first African-American female mayor in Chicago history will be Lori Lightfoot – CNN

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Cory Booker (D-NJ) talks about how the 2020 election is about more than just a single candidate during the We the People summit in Washington.”,”descriptionText”:”Sen. 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    At around 6:45 p.m., the driver of the truck got out and walked backward toward police with his hands up. At 7:00 p.m., the suspect attempted to flee the vehicle, but quickly went down. Officers quickly converged on the vehicle and the suspect, who they handcuffed on the ground.

    Gunshots were fired, but it is currently unknown whether the suspect shot himself or if police shot him. He was pronounced dead at around 7:20 p.m.

    Aerial shot of the suspect down on the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

    KPIX 5 reporter Maria Medina said that the suspect was seen making a phone call minutes before he fled.

    The front passenger wheel of the truck appeared to have blown out.

    “UPS is grateful that our driver was released, and we’re thankful to local police who responded to the situation. The safety of our people is our top priority. We are assisting local authorities as we can,” said a UPS spokesperson.

    Commuters traveling eastbound and westbound were most heavily affected by the road closure.

    The incident caused a VTA Light Rail service disruption between Karina and Tasman stations. Alternate bus service is being provided in San Jose for both the Alum Rock/Santa Teresa and the Mountain View/Winchester light rail lines.

    This is a breaking news development. Stay with CBS SF as we update with the latest information. 

    Source Article from https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/02/14/suspect-standoff-san-jose-police-ups-truck/

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    Logan Square marijuana dispensary burglarized, Chicago police say – Chicago Tribune
    Logan Square marijuana dispensary burglarized, Chicago police say – Chicago Tribune

    Just after 8 a.m., Chicago police responded to a report of a burglary that had taken place in the 2800 block of West Fullerton Avenue, which is where MOCA Modern Cannabis is located, while the business was closed. The break-in started in the side door, possibly with a person using a key card, and the person then took off with cash from the shop, according to police.

    Source Article from https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-moca-cannabis-logan-square-burglary-20200106-ldcahbeb7fhgxmrquvoltsd4ay-story.html

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    Usuarios chilenos son los que más consultan noticias online en Latinoamérica – 24Horas.cl (Comunicado de prensa) (Registro)
    Usuarios chilenos son los que más consultan noticias online en Latinoamérica – 24Horas.cl (Comunicado de prensa) (Registro)

    Si eres de los que no toma un diario o ve los noticiarios en televisión hace mucho, estás dentro del resultado de este estudio.

    La empresa especializada en el diseño y desarrollo de estudios de mercado, DatosClaros entregó el informe sobre cuál es el país donde se leen más noticias en Internet en la región.

    Los datos concluyeron que en el uso de las noticias web los chilenos llevan la ventaja: el 78% de los argentinos visita sitios de noticias, mientras que en Chile ese indicador es del 83% y en Perú del 71%.

    Además, se observó que no hay diferencia entre los usuarios chilenos y argentinos al navegar por las redes sociales. En ambos países lo hacen el 87% de los encuestados, mientras que en Perú lo hace el 79% de los entrevistados.

    Respecto de las compras online, el 68% de los chilenos entrevistados eligen esta forma de adquirir cosas, muy por encima de los peruanos y argentinos que reconocen hacerlo el 43 y 34%, respectivamente.

    Por el lado del home banking, en la zona son los chilenos, con el 65% los que lideran. Los siguen los peruanos con un uso del 50% y los argentinos tan solo con el 33%.

    Otros datos concluyeron que el 92% de los encuestados argentinos envía y lee mails, en Chile lo hace el 90 % y en Perú el 79%.

    Sobre la descarga de música/ películas / juegos, lo hace el 57% de los internautas, tanto argentinos como chilenos, mientras que en Perú el porcentaje es un poco menor, con un 52%.

    El análisis fue realizado a 900 internautas mayores de 18 años de las principales ciudades de Argentina, Chile y Perú. La encuesta online, de 15 minutos, se llevó a cabo con su herramienta “Opino”.

     

    Source Article from http://www.24horas.cl/tendencias/tecnologia/usuarios-chilenos-son-los-que-mas-consultan-noticias-online-en-latinoamerica-1760030

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    Mike Bloomberg is paying people to send their friends texts about him – Vox.com
    Mike Bloomberg is paying people to send their friends texts about him – Vox.com

    Bernie Sanders’s internet army is a driving force of his campaign. Mike Bloomberg appears to be trying to replicate it. But while the social media momentum behind Sanders is largely organic, much of Bloomberg’s is paid.

    The former New York City mayor’s campaign is hiring hundreds of people in California to spread the pro-Bloomberg word on social media and via text message, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. His campaign is trying to bring on upward of 500 “deputy digital organizers” to promote Bloomberg to everyone in their phones’ contact lists and on their private social media accounts. And the pay isn’t bad: $2,500 a month for 20-30 hours per week of work.

    The WSJ report lands just days after sponsored Bloomberg memes started popping up on big influencer accounts all over Instagram. It was part of a paid campaign the New York Times described as an effort to build a “self-aware ironic character” around Bloomberg.

    Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is unprecedented in almost every way imaginable, including when it comes to the internet. And thanks to his more than $50 billion fortune, it’s turbocharged by what seems like an unlimited budget, at least when you compare its spending power to that of his Democratic rivals. According to the Washington Post, Bloomberg has already spent $50 million on digital ads, and he’s already spent an estimated $400 million on campaign ads overall. Bloomberg has said he’s prepared to spend up to $1 billion of his own money to defeat President Donald Trump in November, but if his candidacy continues at this rate, he’s on track to spend much more.

    This isn’t entirely new, but Bloomberg’s budget makes it different

    Anyone who is on a presidential campaign list is probably familiar with campaign text messages. Just last week, for example, someone representing the Sanders campaign sent me a fundraising text message, though it was addressed to “Spencer.” (Not sure how that happened.) And supporters of and volunteers for political campaigns post on social media about their preferred candidates all the time — the Trump campaign tries to influence voters through people they know instead of people they don’t.

    As the WSJ notes, it’s common practice for campaigns to use volunteers and paid workers to run phone banks, knock on doors, and get out the word otherwise. Sometimes, groups promoting certain issues pay people to express support. In January, I wrote about a Democratic operative who was charging state parties and potentially others to get progressive celebrities to tweet about certain causes, though it’s unclear the celebrities knew the operative was being paid.

    But Bloomberg paying people to leverage their social connections is unique. It’s one thing to pay someone to staff a phone bank and text phone numbers from voter files; it’s another to pay someone to access their personal contact list.

    It also raises questions about disclosure rules around social media advertising. The Instagram memes Bloomberg is paying for are labeled as ads, but the rules around what counts as sponcon and what’s organic on this latest push are pretty blurry, per WSJ:

    It is not clear if messages like those the Bloomberg campaign is suggesting would need to be labeled as sponsored content under Facebook’s disclosure rules. A Facebook spokeswoman said posts by outside “content creators” would require labels if a campaign paid for them, but that posts by campaign employees wouldn’t need to be labeled as ads. The company didn’t address how it would categorize posts by employees paid to promote content to their personal social networks.

    A review of social media posts by some people being paid by the campaign found they aren’t labeled as sponsored content.

    Federal regulators have said influencers who fail to disclose they’re being paid for ads might be breaking rules around deceptive marketing. A spokeswoman for Bloomberg told WSJ that the campaign doesn’t think the posts from the deputy field organizers require labels because it counts as political organizing and not paid influencer content. Spokespeople for the campaign did not return a request for comment from Recode.

    Bloomberg’s spending makes everything bigger

    Beyond paid digital advertising, political campaigns have a lot of ways of trying to get their message out on social media. Elizabeth Warren’s infamous selfie lines, for example, are a way for her to get thousands of pieces of organic content spread by her supporters online. Her practice of personally calling up supporters for a brief chat — which usually prompts these supporters to brag about it on social media — had a similar effect. And Sanders has an enormous organic online base behind him.

    Bloomberg is trying to generate some of this buzz for his own campaign. On top of the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s spending on ads on television, the radio, and online, Bloomberg’s campaign has managed to do some organic social media work. The content has been weird but also kind of fun to watch.

    But Bloomberg’s budget gives him the ability to basically do everything bigger and to try out strategies to see how they go without worrying about whether he’ll blow his budget. Is it fair? No. But the American political system, especially when it comes to money, isn’t fair.

    It’s not clear whether paying influencers for awkward memes or compensating Californians for texting their friends will be an effective tactic for Bloomberg. But given how 2020 is going so far, it’s unlikely this is the last of Bloomberg’s unconventional campaign methods, on the internet or elsewhere.

    Source Article from https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/19/21144339/mike-bloomberg-debate-social-media-wsj-twitter-facebook-polls

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    Miss Universo: Buenas noticias para Miss Colombia y devastadoras para Miss Filipinas – Univision
    Miss Universo: Buenas noticias para Miss Colombia y devastadoras para Miss Filipinas – Univision

    Al menos cuatro casas de apuestas colocan a
    Miss Colombia, Andrea Tovar, como la ganadora de la corona de Miss Universo, este domingo, durante la edición 65 del certamen.

    Según los sitios de Pinnacle, Betfair, SportsInsights y William Hill, es Tovar de 23 años quien domina sobre las demás aspirantes, seguida por
    Brasil,
    Raissa Santana, a quien los expertos en certámenes de belleza describieron en entrevista con CNN Filipinas como la mejor portavoz que pudiera tener Miss Universo, pues es una comunicadora “natural”. En tercer lugar, se ubica Miss
    Perú,
    Valeria Piazza y le sigue Bélgica, Stéphanie Geldhof.

    Sin embargo, Miss Colombia Andre Tovar, está convencida de que ganará y ya le advirtió al conductor de la competencia,
    Steve Harvey, que no cometa errores este año. Se refería al fiasco ocurrido el año pasado cuando el presentador se equivocó y nombró a Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez, como la ganadora, cuando realmente era
    Pia Wurtzbach, representante de
    Filipinas.

    En entrevista con cadena ‘La W’, Andrea Tovar, de 23 años, hizo gala de su buen humor y aseguró que si Harvey la declara ganadora este domingo, ella saldrá “corriendo” de la arena Mall of Asia, donde se realiza evento, para asegurarse de que nadie le quitará la corona, como pasó con Ariadna Gutiérrez.

    De otra parte, la representante de Filipinas,
    Maxine Medina, quien tiene el reto de retener la corona para su nación, enfrenta un pronóstico adverso, a nivel astrológico.

    En entrevista con la cadena CNN en Filipinas,
    el astrólogo Resty Santiago, advirtió que no habrá triunfo para Medina, pues “
    sus planetas de la suerte no estarán alineados sino hasta dentro de unas semanas”.

    El certamen de Miss Universo se realiza este domingo (lunes en Manila) bajo estrictas medidas de seguridad, con 1,858 oficiales encargados de que el evento fluya libre de inconvenientes.

    Lee también:
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    República Dominicana espera que sus rasgos “asiáticos” le ayuden a ganar Miss Universo

    *
    Estas son las latinas que nos representan en Miss Universo 2017

    Source Article from http://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/miss-universo-buenas-noticias-para-miss-colombia-y-devastadoras-para-miss-filipinas

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    Probe of officer’s KKK item might lead to review of death – ABC News
    Probe of officer’s KKK item might lead to review of death – ABC News

    A prosecutor says an internal investigation of a white police officer whose house had an apparent Ku Klux Klan document on display will help determine whether there will be further review of the officer’s 2009 fatal shooting of a black man.

    The Muskegon Police Department opened an internal investigation of Officer Charles Anderson after a potential homebuyer, who is black, reported seeing a framed KKK application at Anderson’s home.

    Anderson was placed on paid administrative leave.

    MLive.com reports Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson says the investigation’s results will drive reconsideration of the 2009 case.

    Anderson was cleared of fatally shooting Julius Johnson following a traffic stop. Johnson had fought with Anderson, who was beaten. Anderson said he feared for his life.

    Anderson has declined comment. His wife has said her husband isn’t a Klan member.

    Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/probe-officers-kkk-item-lead-review-death-64911812

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    Miami-area building’s concrete deterioration was ‘accelerating,’ April condo board letter reads – Fox News
    Miami-area building’s concrete deterioration was ‘accelerating,’ April condo board letter reads – Fox News
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    Families of missing Floridians visit site of condo collapse

    Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan joins ‘Your World’ with the details

    The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association, in an April letter, wrote that damage to the garage had gotten significantly worse since a 2018 inspection and that the concrete deterioration of the building was “accelerating,” according to reports Monday. 

    At least 11 people have died and more than 150 are still missing after the Miami condo partially collapsed early Thursday in Surfside, Florida. Rescue workers continue to search for survivors in the rubble. 

    In the April 9 letter, the Surfside condo board president, Jean Wodnicki, wrote how the building was in desperate need of repairs, and she urged residents to pay millions of dollars in assessments needed to fix structural problems.

    MIAMI CONDO COLLAPSE LEAVES MAN ASSUMING HE’LL NEVER SEE HIS MOM, GRANDMA AGAIN

    Workers search the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Many people were still unaccounted for after Thursday’s fatal collapse. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

    “A lot of this work could have been done or planned for in years gone by. But this is where we are now,” Wodnicki said, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

    She noted that in fall 2018, engineering firm Morabito Consultants was hired to inspect the building, reports said. The engineering report pointed out flaws of the building ahead of work that would be needed for the building to meet 40-year recertification in 2021, documents showed.

    The report found that the pool deck’s waterproofing had failed and was not sloped to drain water. It also pointed to “abundant cracking” in concrete columns and beams.

    “Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially,” the report stated.

    About a month after the report, former Surfside building official Rosendo “Ross” Prieto told the association, in a meeting, that the building was in “very good shape.”

    “The response was very positive from everyone in the room,” Prieto wrote in the email, which local officials provided to reporters. “All the main concerns over their forty-year recertification process were addressed.”

    But in April, Wodnicki told Champlain South Tower residents that the initial inspection was not enough to determine the full scale of structural issues to the building.

    MIAMI-AREA CONDO COLLAPSE: OFFICIAL SAID BUILDING WAS IN ‘GOOD SHAPE’ DESPITE WARNING

    “It is impossible to know the extent of the damage to the underlying rebar until the concrete is opened up. Oftentimes the damage is more extensive than can be determined by inspection of the surface,” Wodnicki wrote.

    “When you can visually see the concrete spalling (cracking), that means that the rebar holding it together is rusting and deteriorating beneath the surface,” she continued. “The concrete deterioration is accelerating. The roof situation got much worse, so extensive roof repairs had to be incorporated.”

    The firm’s 2018 report noted that some repairs were needed “in the near future,” according to Brett Marcy, the representative for Morabito Consultants.

    Donna DiMaggio Berger, an attorney for the condo association, told the WSJ Sunday that the 2018 engineer’s report didn’t raise any alarms.

    “Concrete spalling, rebar deterioration –these are not unusual events when you have buildings exposed to corrosive conditions,” Berger said.

    The letter’s purpose was to explain the worthiness of construction projects for the building ahead of a meeting on a proposed special assessment of $15 million to be paid by residents, according to the paper. 

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    The cause of the 12-story Miami building’s collapse remains unknown. 

    Fox News’ James Leggate contributed to this report

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/miami-area-buildings-deterioration-accelerating-april-condo-board-letter

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    Georgia law sets ‘defund police’ limits, will ‘stop radical, out-of-control’ towns from slashing funds: Gaines – Fox News
    Georgia law sets ‘defund police’ limits, will ‘stop radical, out-of-control’ towns from slashing funds: Gaines – Fox News
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    Georgia governor bans defunding of police

    Governor Brian Kemp discusses his bill limiting ‘Defund the Police’ efforts and reacts to Stacey Abrams’ plans to run for president.

    Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed into law a bill that sets limits on the amounts by which local governments can cut police departments’ budgets, arguing the movement to “defund” police seeks “to vilify the men and women who leave their families and put their lives on the line to protect” Peach State residents.

    Kemp, a Republican, signed the legislation on Friday at the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office gun range in Bethlehem, with sheriffs and police chiefs by his side. Rep. Houston Gaines, an Athens Republican and the bill’s sponsor, told Fox News on Tuesday he was “proud.”

    “This important measure will ensure that the ‘defund the police’ movement doesn’t take a foothold here in Georgia and will stop radical, out-of-control local governments from slashing police budgets and putting public safety at risk,” he said in a statement to Fox News. “This National Police Week, we’re grateful here in Georgia for our men and women in law enforcement — and we back the blue.”

    GEORGIA LAWMAKERS PASS BILL TO SET ‘DEFUND POLICE’ LIMITS: ‘PUTTING FAMILIES IN THOSE COMMUNITIES AT RISK’

    The law will bar local governments from cutting police department budgets beyond a certain percentage and takes effect on July 1.

    In this Wednesday, June 10, 2020, file photo, a man walk across a “Defund Police” written in front of the Atlanta Police Department Headquarters. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

    Georgia is now one of the only states in the country with such law enforcement agency protections, Gaines’ office said. A similar measure has become law in Florida, while other states are considering them.

    COUSIN OF SLAIN DELAWARE COP RAILS AGAINST MEDIA, POLITICIANS OVER DEFUNDING POLICE, QUALIFIED IMMUNITY

    The law prohibits county governments from decreasing a police department’s annual budget by more than 5% of the previous fiscal year’s funding. But it would also carry certain parameters as to when such limits might no longer apply. For instance, it would not apply if the county’s revenue that year decreased by more than 5%, and cities and counties with fewer than 25 officers are exempt.

    Atlanta and Athens-Clarke County officials debated but rejected plans to cut or redirect spending following racial injustice protests last year. The death of George Floyd launched demonstrations that were also fueled by the death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and several other individuals across the country.

    The measure is a rejection of arguments by protesters nationwide that minority communities are suffering from overpolicing. The critics argue that governments should spend less on law enforcement and more on social services to address problems.

    But Kemp, speaking at Friday’s signing, said it was unfair to “condemn and demonize” police officers.

    “This far-left movement will endanger our communities and our law enforcement officers,” he said, “and leave our most vulnerable at risk.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-law-defund-police-limits-governor-kemp

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    Past, present City Hall staffers take to streets to protest de Blasio – New York Post
    Past, present City Hall staffers take to streets to protest de Blasio – New York Post

    Current and former members of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration took to the streets on Monday in a protest attended by hundreds that called out Hizzoner’s handling of recent unrest in the city.

    “I feel like I am doing my job as a public servant out here today,” Cat Almonte, 28, told The Post of the decision to protest her boss.

    What started as a few dozen workers — representing agencies from the Department of Health to the Department of City Planning — gathered outside City Hall early Monday to bring their grievances to de Blasio’s doorstep.

    “Some of us are risking our livelihood being here, our careers,” Almonte — who formerly worked as de Blasio’s personal aide and now works for a city agency, which she declined to identify — told the crowd.

    “I’m not here to just criticize the mayor. That’s easy,” continued Almonte. “I am coming from a place of deep respect to say we expect better. We are demanding radical change now.”

    Among Almonte’s demands was a $1 billion reduction in NYPD funding for the coming fiscal year — representing one-sixth of the department’s budget — and the shift of that cash to services including rent relief, housing support and food assistance.

    De Blasio — who on Sunday flip-flopped to vow the reallocation of an unspecified amount of funding from the NYPD to youth and social services — has felt the heat amid nationwide protests demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died May 25 after a white Minneapolis cop kneeled on his neck.

    Looting, vandalism and clashes with cops spun off by opportunists and agitators in or around protests have only fueled the fire.

    As the group left City Hall and took to the Brooklyn Bridge, their number swelled into the hundreds, many bearing signs that read “Black Lives Matter.”

    “We aren’t just a group of New Yorkers who are disgruntled who have a right to be disgruntled and angry and hold the mayor accountable,” said Christopher Collins McNeil, a former staffer in the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. “We are a group of people who have worked for this man, currently work for the mayor.”

    A group of past and present City Hall workers march from City Hall to 1 Police Plaza to the Cadman Plaza war memorial to protest the Blasio administration’s handling of the George Floyd protests.

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    Added Michael Cox, who said he formerly worked in the mayor’s office, “He [de Blasio] said he was going to stand against police injustice. … It’s not clear to us what happened.”

    The group made its way over the bridge into Brooklyn before going their separate ways in Cadman Plaza, where de Blasio was jeered heavily last week at a memorial event for Floyd.

    The protest coincided with several groups of current and former city staffers penning open letters of criticism to de Blasio, including from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.

    “At the June 4 memorial service for George Floyd in Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, Mayor de Blasio said that Mr. Floyd ‘cannot have been allowed to die in vain,’ ” that letter read in part.

    “We fully agree with this sentiment. As advisors to the Mayor, we call for action and adoption of the following strategies to use this moment of protest and anger as a catalyst to create the city that New Yorkers deserve, a city where all people are recognized for their humanity.”

    Among the list of demands in the letter signed by dozens of current and former staffers is the reallocation of funds from the NYPD to community groups and greater accountability for the department.

    While his current and former employees took to the streets, de Blasio held a press briefing miles away at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

    “I don’t know who is or who is not,” he said, referring to protesters who are or have been part of his administration. “I say to anyone who has a concern, I want to hear it, senior staff wants to hear it. … I reach out a hand to anyone who wants to do that work together.”

    Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy

    Source Article from https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/past-present-city-hall-staffers-protest-de-blasio-in-nyc/

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    Trump vs. Iran: It’s not over – CNN
    Trump vs. Iran: It’s not over – CNN

    Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/donald-trump-iran-congress/index.html

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