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Tim Allen says Disney is 'a little disappointed' by Pamela Anderson's claim that he flashed her on the 'Home Improvement' set Yahoo! Voices The Link LonkA woman who disappeared while walking her dog has "two little girls that need their mummy home", her boyfriend has said, as a major search continues.
Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen at 9.15am on Friday by a member of the public.
Her mobile phone was found on a bench near where she was last seen on a towpath by the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire. It was still connected to a conference call when it was found.
Ms Bulley's dog, a springer spaniel called Willow, was found loose between the river and bench.
Police said on Monday they were keeping an "open mind" about what happened but they do not believe Ms Bulley was attacked.
Her partner, Paul Ansell, said he spent all of Sunday searching for the mother-of-two.
Mr Ansell, an engineer, said: "It is just perpetual hell. It is just utter disbelief."
"We are living through this but it doesn't feel real," he said from the family home in Inskip, Lancashire.
"All we can say is we need to find her. She's got two little girls that need their mummy home.
"We have got to get some good news now."
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Ms Bulley, also known as Nikki, and Mr Ansell have been in a relationship for 12 years.
Police indicated she dropped her children, aged nine and six, to a local primary school before walking her dog on Friday.
"I got a call from the school regarding somebody who had found Willow, and Nikki's phone and the dog lead and harness on the bench," Mr Ansell, who then called the police, said.
"We take the kids to school and take the dog down there - either myself or Nikki - nearly every day."
Ms Bulley, a mortgage adviser, is originally from Chelmsford, Essex and has lived in Lancashire for 25 years. Police said she speaks with an Essex accent.
Police 'more and more concerned' for Nicola
Superintendent Sally Riley from Lancashire Police told a press conference that fears for Ms Bulley are growing as time passes.
She said: "The police are keeping a really open mind about what could have happened but we do believe that the likelihood is that Nicola has gone missing and this is not a crime inquiry.
"We've mounted a really intensive operation to try to find Nicola. We've got a large area to search.
"People do go missing but clearly as time goes on we become more and more concerned for Nicola.
"But we're very much hoping that we will find something to try to bring her home safe and well soon."
Ms Bulley is described as white, 5ft 3in, with light brown shoulder-length hair.
At the time of her disappearance she was wearing a long black gilet jacket with a hood, black jeans and olive green ankle wellington boots. Her hair was in a ponytail.
Searches have been carried out by Lancashire Police - using a helicopter, drones and dogs - with support from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue team and the North West Underwater Search Team.
Locals have also organised searches in the area.
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A newborn baby was found, wrapped in a blanket, on a small hill in Polk County, deputies said.
According to a news release, early Saturday morning, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office was called to Mulberry after someone reported hearing a baby crying outside.
At about 1:47 am, deputies found the girl, wrapped in a blanket, on a small hill near the Regal Loop Mobile Home Park, just off Bailey Road. She was still attached to the placenta, deputies said.
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Based on the infant’s body temperature, Polk County Fire Rescue medics estimated that the girl had been born approximately one hour before she was found.
Temperatures on Saturday night were in the lower 50s.
The newborn baby girl was transported to the hospital and appears to be healthy and in stable condition.
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“It was by the Grace of God that we found the abandoned baby girl when we did before exposure to the cold or any animals caused her any harm. She was left in an extremely vulnerable condition, but she’s a strong little girl, and it looks like she’s doing great,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
Deputies searched for the mother using K-9s, drones and went door-to-door, but were unable to locate the mother.
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According to a news release, “The Polk County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind mothers about Florida’s Safe Haven Law, enacted in 2000, which allows for parents to leave their unharmed newborn child (under a week old) at any Safe Haven facility (hospitals or properly staffed EMS/Fire Station) anonymously, and without fear of prosecution.
If anyone has any information about the mother of this baby, call the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 863-298-6200.
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New York Magazine’s Sex Diaries series asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives — with comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing results. The column, which began in 2007, is the basis of a new docuseries on HBO.
This week, a divorced woman sleeps with two partners in one day, but finds herself wondering if she wants something more committed: 39, single, Los Angeles.
DAY ONE
6:30 a.m. Wake up to a text from some guy on Feeld I gave my number to too soon. I’m not sure what’s more upsetting, his spelling or his inability to take a hint. I get why people ghost.
8:38 a.m. Cursing myself for taking a client in New York. I’m a creative director for early-stage start-ups, which means dealing with young, overly confident yet needy men way too early in the morning. Especially when they’re on the East Coast. I take a quick call and resolve a small issue for this guy.
10:57 a.m. Microdose and get on my SoulCycle bike. There’s nothing that can’t be accomplished with mushrooms and endorphins.
2:30 p.m. Texting with S, a guy I met on Feeld a few months ago and actually like. I always fall for sarcastic Europeans. Unfortunately, it’s not going anywhere because he’s just out of a relationship, into sex clubs, and he wants kids. (I don’t!) I knew this all going in, but he has one of those faces you just want to sit on.
6:15 p.m. With my friend Casey at our favorite neighborhood bar having our usual debate over whose dating scene is more disappointing. She’s a lesbian, and before I met her I assumed being with women would be easier and more satisfying. It’s apparently neither. I tell her I’m thinking of hiring a matchmaker, and we toast to the hope that not everyone is trash.
9:30 p.m. In bed with a book. Ignoring my phone incessantly lighting up.
DAY TWO
6:30 a.m. Texts from both S and D. D is another Feeld guy who’s into MFM threesomes. I’m not really in the kink scene, but it’s the only app I’m on anymore. People seem much more genuine. I recently changed my profile to say “my hot male friend and I are looking for another dude.” S is the hot friend. This is why I can’t quit him. The sex is great, and he’s totally into helping me fulfill this fantasy.
9:45 a.m. D wants to know what I’m doing for lunch. He’s going to be on my side of town. I told him I wanted to make sure there’s chemistry between us before we get into a threesome situation. So I guess we’re doing this.
12:20 p.m. D shows up at my house. He’s taller and more nervous than I expected. Maybe I should be nervous since I’ve invited a stranger into my home, but I like the power of having men on my turf. He asks if he can smoke some weed. I don’t have a problem with it, but it’s not exactly a turn-on. He kisses me. It’s fine. His dick is fine. The sex is fine. He leaves. I don’t think he’s threesome material.
3:38 p.m. S is texting again, asking what I’m up to. I tell him I’m working, but had time to audition a potential third earlier. He immediately asks if he can come over.
4:02 p.m. S is already at my door. We live dangerously close. I tell him I only have an hour because I have friends coming over for dinner. He says “sure,” and then pushes me up against the wall and kisses me hard. I ask him if it turns him on that I fucked someone else a few hours ago. He says yes very definitively and then makes me cum more times than I can count. He does a thing with his tongue and fingers that everyone should experience. He also makes me laugh. This is my Achilles’ heel.
6:30 p.m. The girls are here, right on time. I’ve been divorced for five years, in L.A. for four, and I’ve never met more smart, hysterical women in my life. Sometimes I think this could be enough, but I miss having a partner.
We overdo it on pasta, Negronis, and many bottles of wine. I have to make numerous promises that none of today’s sex acts happened on any of the surfaces we’re eating on.
11:57 p.m. At a cabaret in West Hollywood. I’ve had more drinks than necessary. I’m pretty sure I let someone lick my boob. It might have been two people.
DAY THREE
8:02 a.m. Misery.
8:05 a.m. More misery. I’m anxiety-reading texts from last night and see I messaged S. Evidently my drunk ass decided we should stop doing this because I don’t think he’s crazy enough about me. Phones should have Breathalyzers.
10:30 a.m. I keep looking at S’s reply. He said he doesn’t know what he said to make me feel that way, but he understands if I want something more committed. He’s not ready to be in another monogamous relationship so soon … blah, blah, blah. I’m not sure what to say back. He knows I want something real, but I don’t want to stop seeing him yet. Between my hangover and this, my clients are not getting my best today.
3:40 p.m. Still hung-over. Get on my bike to try to sweat it out.
6:30 p.m. Officially giving up on the day. Get Taco Bell delivered and watch Fleishman Is in Trouble. At least I got divorced before anyone convinced me to have kids.
DAY FOUR
8:30 a.m. I wake up horny, thinking of S. I need to get my shit together before I ruin my chances of having this threesome. I text him a photo from bed and tell him I thought about it and I still want to fuck him later.
9:08 a.m. He says he’s glad, but not free until 9 p.m. now. I guess that’s fair, since I tried to torpedo the whole thing yesterday.
1 p.m. Tennis with a guy I briefly dated last year. It’s nice to catch up. He’s a total sweetheart who was also just out of a long-term relationship when I met him … and still shares his dog with his ex-girlfriend in New York.
7 p.m. Meet Casey for dinner. She makes valid points about why seeing S is a waste of my time. I make less valid points about why great sex is never really a waste of time.
8:57 p.m. S texts that he’ll be at my house in 30 minutes. I say I’ll meet him there.
9:45 p.m. I rushed home and he’s still not here.
9:55 p.m. He finally shows up, and I’m annoyed. He’s being colder than usual. I get the sense I’m being punished, so I make a martini while he rolls a joint.
10:55 p.m. We’ve been talking for an hour. About his job. I cannot pretend to be interested in the latest crypto drama.
11 p.m. Finally, finally, he stops talking and pulls me toward him. He kisses my neck and turns me toward the window. I’m watching him watch me in the reflection as he pulls down the straps of my dress and grabs both of my nipples hard enough to make me wince. I’m definitely being punished, but now it’s making me wet.
1:30 a.m. We’re back in our groove, getting each other off and laughing. We have off-the-charts chemistry and we’re both kind of goofs. It feels so easy. Then he brings up someone else he recently slept with. Why? Why does he always want to tell me about it?
1:45 a.m. I’m cool until he reveals he’s been having unprotected sex with other people. What the fuck? We’re obviously not exclusive, but that’s not what we agreed. We talked about being tested and using condoms with other people on our first date. If that changes, we disclose it. He disagrees and says I was making assumptions. Yeah, the assumption that he’s a decent person. I ask him to leave.
2:03 a.m. I’m lying awake furious. I text that I don’t want to see him again. His response is nasty, taking no responsibility. He even hits me with the classic “I’m sorry you feel that way.” I could scream. He’s been cavalier with my feelings and my health. And now I have to get an STI test.
DAY FIVE
5:11 a.m. Still awake and inexplicably sad. I knew it wasn’t going anywhere. I just thought this guy was different — funny, thoughtful, kind. Nope. Just another asshole doing whatever the fuck he wants.
9 a.m. I was supposed to meet up with friends for breakfast, but I didn’t sleep at all. I text them what happened and everyone agrees he’s disgusting. This only mildly helps.
10:45 a.m. Drag myself out of bed for my appointment at the spa. Thank God I have this booked today.
11:30 a.m. Quietly crying in the hot tub. And the steam room. And the sauna.
2:30 p.m. After a two-hour scrub and massage, I almost feel like a person again.
8:30 p.m. Nap, yoga at home, and then do absolutely nothing else for the rest of the evening. I realize I’ve barely spoken today. That’s probably for the best.
DAY SIX
6:23 a.m. Awake before my alarm. Scrolling through Feeld. Why does everyone want to be open? Most of the people I know don’t have the communication skills to maintain even one relationship.
8 a.m. Microdose and SoulCycle. Then throwing all my energy into work.
3 p.m. Getting ready for my call with the matchmaker. I was on the fence about whether or not to go for it. It seems so old-school, and maybe a little desperate? But I’m not meeting anyone I could see having a long-term relationship with, and I do want that. I’ve tried all the apps. It’s a wasteland. So I guess it’s time to bring in a professional. It’s what I would do in any other area of my life. Why not this?
4:28 p.m. The call made me feel surprisingly optimistic. Like maybe there could be decent men in L.A. who value partnership and want the same kind of life I do. She suggested there could be a lot of people who don’t have time to swipe or don’t want to have a public dating profile. Maybe this is where the gems are. Or the nerds. Either way, I’m open to the adventure.
7 p.m. Make dinner and talk to my college roommate for two hours. Her small children sound more mature than anyone I’ve dated recently. Our lives couldn’t be more different, but our love is deep. She’s coming to visit in a few weeks. I can’t wait to take her somewhere wild.
DAY SEVEN
6:30 a.m. I thought I might hear from S. An apology, maybe. Of course not. I delete his number.
8 a.m. Crazy workday. I have two projects that need to be finished at the same time. I wish I could focus.
12 p.m. Take a break to email the matchmaker photos of my exes. Apparently requesting Jake Gyllenhaal types is not enough for her to go on. She wants to see real people I’ve been attracted to.
I’m scrolling way back in my photos — the early days with my ex-husband, our wedding, the ones where he starts to look faraway. I choose one from the last party we went to together. He looks unamused, but handsome. I keep scrolling to find one of the young Australian I rebounded with. He was a delight. And absolutely not equipped to be dating someone going through a divorce. I choose a photo of us in Ibiza. I skip my last boyfriend, who was an actor and an addict. There’s been no one significant in over a year. I send her a link to S’s Twitter, too. His charm is more palpable when you see him in action.
12:46 p.m. I send a follow-up email to remind her that anyone who has a snake is a hard no. I will be open-minded. To a point.
4:34 p.m. Text from Casey: “Is it too early to drink?”
4:58 p.m. It is not too early to drink. We’re at our spot. She tells me about the rest of her weekend. I update her on the matchmaker and she laughs at my snake thing. It’s a phobia! And it could eat the cat. (Of course I have a cat.)
9:30 p.m. In bed with a book as usual.
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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Sam Reinhart scored 17 seconds into overtime to cap a late scoring flurry and give the Florida Panthers a 4-3 victory over the NHL-leading Boston Bruins on Saturday night.
The result, coupled with a 3-2 defeat to Tampa Bay on Thursday, gave Boston its first two-game losing streak of the season.
"We're facing a little adversity right now," Boston coach Jim Montgomery said on his postgame interview on NESN. "First time all year that we haven't prevailed in two games in a row. So, we're going to have look at what we're doing wrong, and ways to get better."
After David Pastrnak scored to give the Bruins the lead with 48.6 seconds left in regulation, Florida captain Aleksander Barkov tied it with 2.4 seconds remaining.
The Panthers, the NHL Presidents' Trophy winners last season, won for the first time this season when trailing going into the third period. Florida had been 0-17-1 in such situations while the Bruins were 26-0-1 when leading after the first 40 minutes.
Craig Smith and Charlie Coyle also scored for Boston, and Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves in the loss. The Bruins had won six in a row before their road trip to Florida.
"For me, it's the third period," Montgomery said of both losses this week. "Both teams pushed hard, and I don't think we matched that intensity."
The Panthers received goals from Brandon Montour and Sam Bennett. Alex Lyon, Florida's usual starter for its AHL team in Charlotte, stopped 36 shots, playing for the second time in as many nights.
"I just think we've been due for a game like this, and to earn an outcome like this," Florida coach Paul Maurice said. "We just kept getting kicked in the teeth in that game, and we wouldn't quit."
Coyle was credited with the goal that gave Boston a 2-1 lead late in the second period after Bennett swatted the puck out of the air and scored into his own net.
"We know everyone's going to come gunning for us, and ready to play, whether they're on a back to back, or whatever the case is," Coyle said. "It is up to us, to bring that focus and be prepared for it."
Bennett did redeem himself at 8:29 of the third, tying it with a big wrist shot from the right circle. He was able to fool Swayman a bit as he looked to pass the puck, but instead wound up and let one go from 20 feet out.
Lyon, making his fifth consecutive start in place of the injured Sergei Bobrovsky, lost to the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 on Friday night.
According to ESPN Stats & Information research, this was the first time in franchise history where the Bruins lost when scoring a go-ahead goal in the final minute of the third period.
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The Link LonkSUNRISE, Fla. -- Sam Reinhart scored 17 seconds into overtime to cap a late scoring flurry and give the Florida Panthers a 4-3 victory over the NHL-leading Boston Bruins on Saturday night.
The result, coupled with a 3-2 defeat to Tampa Bay on Thursday, gave Boston its first two-game losing streak of the season.
"We're facing a little adversity right now," Boston coach Jim Montgomery said on his postgame interview on NESN. "First time all year that we haven't prevailed in two games in a row. So, we're going to have look at what we're doing wrong, and ways to get better."
After David Pastrnak scored to give the Bruins the lead with 48.6 seconds left in regulation, Florida captain Aleksander Barkov tied it with 2.4 seconds remaining.
The Panthers, the NHL Presidents' Trophy winners last season, won for the first time this season when trailing going into the third period. Florida had been 0-17-1 in such situations while the Bruins were 26-0-1 when leading after the first 40 minutes.
Craig Smith and Charlie Coyle also scored for Boston, and Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves in the loss. The Bruins had won six in a row before their road trip to Florida.
"For me, it's the third period," Montgomery said of both losses this week. "Both teams pushed hard, and I don't think we matched that intensity."
The Panthers received goals from Brandon Montour and Sam Bennett. Alex Lyon, Florida's usual starter for its AHL team in Charlotte, stopped 36 shots, playing for the second time in as many nights.
"I just think we've been due for a game like this, and to earn an outcome like this," Florida coach Paul Maurice said. "We just kept getting kicked in the teeth in that game, and we wouldn't quit."
Coyle was credited with the goal that gave Boston a 2-1 lead late in the second period after Bennett swatted the puck out of the air and scored into his own net.
"We know everyone's going to come gunning for us, and ready to play, whether they're on a back to back, or whatever the case is," Coyle said. "It is up to us, to bring that focus and be prepared for it."
Bennett did redeem himself at 8:29 of the third, tying it with a big wrist shot from the right circle. He was able to fool Swayman a bit as he looked to pass the puck, but instead wound up and let one go from 20 feet out.
Lyon, making his fifth consecutive start in place of the injured Sergei Bobrovsky, lost to the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 on Friday night.
According to ESPN Stats & Information research, this was the first time in franchise history where the Bruins lost when scoring a go-ahead goal in the final minute of the third period.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A bullish 2023 appears to be in the cards for the stock market, according to a little-known indicator that keys off investor sentiment in January.
The indicator, dubbed by its creators the “January Sentiment Effect,” was introduced in a 2018 study in the International Review of Financial Analysis. It is based on the tendency for a January jump in investor sentiment to have a positive impact on the stock market for the remainder of the year. That’s because more optimistic consumers will tend to increase the equity allocations of their 401(k) and IRA portfolio. And since many make those allocation changes just once a year, in January, the increase in equity allocation at the first of the year will have bullish ripple effects for the next 11 months.
Entitled “The January Sentiment Effect in the U.S. Stock Market,” the study was conducted by Zhongdong Chen of the University of Northern Iowa and Phillip Daves of the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
To test their theory for why the January Sentiment Effect works, the professors focused on the University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment (ICS) back to 1978, when monthly values for the index first became available. In those years since then in which the ICS was higher in January than in the preceding December, the stock market produced above-average performance from February through December—and vice versa.
That’s what bodes well for the remainder of 2023. From a reading of 59.7 in December, the ICS jumped to 64.9 in January, according to the latest numbers from the University of Michigan. That’s one of the bigger monthly changes in ICS’s history—ranking at the 91st percentile among all monthly changes since 1978.
As a further test that consumer sentiment in January is the cause of the “January Sentiment Effect,” the professors repeated their test for each of the other 11 months of the calendar. Unlike for January, they found no correlation between any of those other months’ sentiment changes and the stock market’s returns over the subsequent 11 months. These results increase our confidence that the January-over-December change in consumer sentiment is a helpful indicator.
Note carefully that, even though there is a superficial similarity between the January Barometer and the January Sentiment Effect, the two indicators in fact are quite distinct. The January Barometer is the notion that the stock market’s direction in January predicts the market’s direction over the subsequent 11 months. But, as I’ve pointed out numerous times before, the January Barometer has no statistical significance. Several other months besides January have just as good an “ability,” if not better, to foretell the market’s direction over the subsequent 11 months.
In contrast, the January Sentiment Effect reflects an attribute that January alone possesses.
Since there have been just five years since the professors’ study, we don’t have enough data to conduct a robust real-time test of their results. Of those five years, however, there was just one in which the ICS jumped from December to January. In that year, the stock market’s February-through-December gain was four times larger than the average comparable gain in the other four years.
The bottom line? The fact that January is posed it go down in the history books as an up month for the stock market tells us nothing about the rest of 2023. The fact that the consumer is more upbeat in January than in December tells us a lot.
Mark Hulbert is a regular contributor to MarketWatch. His Hulbert Ratings tracks investment newsletters that pay a flat fee to be audited. He can be reached at mark@hulbertratings.com.
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I’ve been interested in cardiac health since 1966, when my father, Rep. Carl Albert, had his first heart attack. (He recovered and served as House speaker, 1971-77.) I have published many scientific papers and received scores of patents.
I founded AliveCor in 2010 to engage with some of the best minds in technology who share this passion. We created the first electrocardiogram technology for smartphones that gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Apple came calling. Top executives brought us in for meetings, signed nondisclosure agreements and asked all sorts of questions about our technology. In what we thought was a cooperative spirit, we launched KardiaBand in 2016 for the Apple Watch cleared by the FDA. KardiaBand monitors heart rate and activity and can capture a medical-grade EKG in 30 seconds.
But in 2018 Apple made a flashy announcement claiming that it had created its own EKG technology for its watches. And it made its new operating system incompatible with SmartRhythm, AliveCor’s continuous-monitoring feature. Perhaps we shouldn’t have been shocked. As Steve Jobs once said, “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
We had patents and other evidence, so we sought legal recourse. Apple fought back, filing dilatory motions and countersuits. We found ways to move forward with other products even as we poured huge amounts of time and money into the fight with Apple. Many other small businesses told us that when they faced such bullying, they gave in. We didn’t.
In June an administrative law judge for the U.S. International Trade Commission made an initial determination that Apple infringed our patented technology. In December the ITC upheld that finding in its final determination. AliveCor CEO Priya Abani called the ruling “a win for innovation and consumer choice.” The commission ordered a ban on imports of infringing Apple Watches, but suspended the ban while AliveCor faces a separate fight against Apple in the U.S. Patent Office.
But presidents can overrule ITC decisions, and Apple will urge Joe Biden to do so. If he does and hands Apple a victory, it will tell inventors everywhere not to bother creating truly disruptive technologies—even ones that can save lives. IP-intensive industries account for 44% of U.S. employment and 41% of gross domestic product. If Apple wins, the repercussions throughout this ecosystem will be seismic.
The president said days ago that “small businesses are the engines of our economy and the hearts of our communities.” This case gives him an opportunity to show he means it.
Dr. Albert is founder and chief medical officer of AliveCor.
KardiaBand mobile
Photo: Courtesy AliveCor
I’ve been interested in cardiac health since 1966, when my father, Rep. Carl Albert, had his first heart attack. (He recovered and served as House speaker, 1971-77.) I have published many scientific papers and received scores of patents.
I founded AliveCor in 2010 to engage with some of the best minds in technology who share this passion. We created the first electrocardiogram technology for smartphones that gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Apple came calling. Top executives brought us in for meetings, signed nondisclosure agreements and asked all sorts of questions about our technology. In what we thought was a cooperative spirit, we launched KardiaBand in 2016 for the Apple Watch cleared by the FDA. KardiaBand monitors heart rate and activity and can capture a medical-grade EKG in 30 seconds.
But in 2018 Apple made a flashy announcement claiming that it had created its own EKG technology for its watches. And it made its new operating system incompatible with SmartRhythm, AliveCor’s continuous-monitoring feature. Perhaps we shouldn’t have been shocked. As Steve Jobs once said, “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
We had patents and other evidence, so we sought legal recourse. Apple fought back, filing dilatory motions and countersuits. We found ways to move forward with other products even as we poured huge amounts of time and money into the fight with Apple. Many other small businesses told us that when they faced such bullying, they gave in. We didn’t.
In June an administrative law judge for the U.S. International Trade Commission made an initial determination that Apple infringed our patented technology. In December the ITC upheld that finding in its final determination. AliveCor CEO Priya Abani called the ruling “a win for innovation and consumer choice.” The commission ordered a ban on imports of infringing Apple Watches, but suspended the ban while AliveCor faces a separate fight against Apple in the U.S. Patent Office.
But presidents can overrule ITC decisions, and Apple will urge Joe Biden to do so. If he does and hands Apple a victory, it will tell inventors everywhere not to bother creating truly disruptive technologies—even ones that can save lives. IP-intensive industries account for 44% of U.S. employment and 41% of gross domestic product. If Apple wins, the repercussions throughout this ecosystem will be seismic.
The president said days ago that “small businesses are the engines of our economy and the hearts of our communities.” This case gives him an opportunity to show he means it.
Dr. Albert is founder and chief medical officer of AliveCor.
At the United Nations’ annual ceremony to mark the Nazi horrors, Karen Frostig described her work to commemorate a concentration camp where thousands of Jews, including her grandparents, were murdered.
When Karen Frostig made her way to the podium of a packed United Nations General Assembly on Friday, the projections of grainy passport photos of her grandparents, Moses and Beile Samuely Frostig, towered above her.
These images had been in the living room of her childhood home in Waltham, Mass., outside Boston, the only portraits that hung in the house. But they weren’t much discussed. No one in the Frostig home wanted to talk about the Holocaust, about how Moses and Beile, Jews who lived in Vienna, had been loaded onto trains that the Germans sent into the forests of Latvia.
Ms. Frostig said her grandparents’ portraits “hung in silence as an open wound.”
In the decades since, Ms. Frostig, an experimental artist and professor from Newton, Mass., has resurfaced that unspoken history as she traced the last days of her grandparents and of thousands of others who perished at a concentration camp that has been largely forgotten — Jungfernhof, outside Riga, Latvia.
There are no known photos of the camp in operation. Its specific boundaries remain uncharted.
Peter Klein, the co-author of the 2009 book “The Final Solution in Riga,” which references Jungfernhof, said the camp had been “largely neglected” in the histories of places where Jews were transported to their deaths.
But Ms. Frostig has made it her mission to correct that — to spotlight the final destination of her grandparents and many others, deported to their deaths in December 1941, eight years before she was born.
On Friday, at a U.N. ceremony that marked the 1945 liberation of the most notorious Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ms. Frostig in a strong, clear voice described her research into a lesser-known killing ground, one that is now a public park with a splashing fountain and dog runs. Underneath the parkland, she told hundreds gathered for the annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony, there is evidence of a mass grave with the remains of the many who died there.
Now, she said, she and Latvian officials were committed to creating a permanent camp memorial, a sanctuary of grief that would share the park as a “heartfelt place of remembrance.” She also hoped to proceed with plans, interrupted by Covid and travel restrictions, to project photos and names of the deported Jews onto the train station of Skirotava, outside Riga, where the Nazi transports discharged their human cargo.
In her allotted three minutes at the U.N., Ms. Frostig could tell only a bit of what she has discovered about Jungfernhof through her research, which included examining deportation rosters and witness testimonies and a long-hidden box of her own family’s papers.
In a week of record cold in late November to early December 1941, trainloads of 3,985 Reich Jews like her grandparents, who had been rounded up across Austria and Germany, left Nuremberg, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Vienna for Skirotava, where they were marched two miles to the desolate camp. There was no fence; the remoteness and armed patrols by Latvian auxiliaries barred escape. Prisoners were executed or worked to death, starved, or died from disease.
An estimated 60,000 other deported Jews were shot in the nearby Rumbula and Bikernieki forests. In March 1942, the Nazis pretended they were relocating some 2,000 Jungfernhof prisoners to a fictional refuge where they would have jobs and medical care, but instead sent them to their execution, in forests outside Riga, a massacre known as the Dünamünde Action.
By the time the approaching Red Army sent the Germans fleeing in 1944, no more than 28 prisoners at Jungfernhof were left alive, Ms. Frostig established. They were among the 149 people known to have once been at the camp who survived. Six are known to be still alive, she said, including two 93-year-old childhood friends from Würzburg whose video interview last year is online in an extensive project she created, “Locker of Memory.”
Herbert Mai of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Fred Zielberger of Cedarhurst, N.Y., were 12 when they and their families were forced aboard a transport from Nuremberg to Riga in November 1941. There they were marched several kilometers to the camp.
“Anybody that couldn’t walk was shot,” Mr. Mai said.
Seats on a bus were offered. “My mother wanted to get on,” he remembered, but he dissuaded her. “We walked.” Everyone on the bus was taken to be shot.
In 1951, Jungfernhof’s commandant, Rudolf Joachim Seck, was sentenced in Hamburg to life in prison, though he was later released early.
Andrejs Pildegovics, Latvia’s ambassador to the United Nations, credited Ms. Frostig with heroic efforts to illuminate the park’s grim history. He took the lead with Germany, Austria and the United States in arranging her talk at the U.N.’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual ceremony since 2006.
“Karen managed to identify the deportations and possible location of the burial place,” Mr. Pildegovics said in an interview at the Latvian mission near the U.N. He said that the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police collaborated brutally with the Nazis. The Soviets who took over held power for 40 years, but they arranged their own deportations of dissidents to Siberia during that time and later downplayed the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust.
The ambassador said that when the park came to occupy the grounds of the former camp, it became a center for sports activities. “Young kids were running over the bones,” he said.
Latvia is now aggressively advancing Holocaust research and last year appropriated $46 million to reimburse the Latvian Jewish community for buildings expropriated by the Germans.
In interviews, Ms. Frostig recalled how seldom her father, Benjamin, a Vienna-trained lawyer who became an insurance salesman in America, alluded to the horrors of the Holocaust, or to the very personal suffering of his parents. Once, she said, she was in the car with him when he abruptly held up his hand and intoned, “Six million.” She thought he was talking finance.
“We represent the disaster of the Holocaust,” she said. “A family splintered.”
She learned later that her father had narrowly escaped the Gestapo, who had at one time held him in prison in Vienna. He fled to Rotterdam, where he booked passage on ships to Lisbon and then Mexico. In 1939, he boarded a steamer, the Orizaba, from Veracruz to Havana. On board, as it happened, was the Cuban Army’s chief of staff, Col. Fulgencio Batista, soon to be elected the country’s president.
According to Ms. Frostig and a Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatch at the time, Benjamin slipped a letter under Batista’s cabin door asking for help for himself and seven other Jewish refugees aboard. Batista arranged their safe entry into Cuba, and despite some mishaps, Benjamin was able to emigrate to Florida in November 1939. After his escape, he tried to rescue his parents, to no avail. He died at 59 in 1971, Ms. Frostig said, “silenced by trauma and shame.”
Ms. Frostig, who describes herself as a “public memory artist,” holds degrees from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Union Institute and University in Cincinnati and Lesley University. She now teaches graduates and undergraduates at Lesley and is an affiliated scholar with a program at Brandeis University.
In addition to the work she has done regarding Latvia, Ms. Frostig has created other memory projects. In one, she projected the names of more than 88,000 Nazi victims onto the walls of the Austrian National Library at the Hofburg palace in Vienna. In another, she crisscrossed Vienna spray-painting 38 Nazi-linked sites with the slogan, in 12 languages, “What Happens When We Forget to Remember?”
Her work in reconstructing her family’s painful history was aided by her father’s younger brother, her uncle Herman, who also managed to escape Vienna. Other relatives in England shared letters and other documents with her decades after her father had died.
At an art show in 2007, Ms. Frostig met a survivor of the camp who pointed her to information on Jungfernhof. Eager to learn more, she traveled to the site outside Riga, finding an area littered with trash. She returned in 2010 and met with Ilya Lensky, director of the Jews in Latvia Museum, who helped with her research. The site was still a dump then, but when she returned again in 2019, she found a manicured public park and a sign that discussed the history of the grounds, which had once been a farm. Jungfernhof translates roughly as “maiden farm.” Only one sentence on the sign mentioned the concentration camp and it did not list its name.
In 2021, she arranged for geographers and students from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., to use ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography and other technologies to peer under the earth at Jungfernhof. They found evidence of an excavation of about 20 square meters, four to six meters below the surface — possibly the camp’s mass grave. Later research by scholars suggested that it may lie elsewhere but nearby.
On Thursday night, for strength and inspiration, Ms. Frostig said she slept with her remarks for her U.N. appearance tucked beneath her pillow. On Friday, at the podium, she tried to depict for the diplomats, invited guests and Holocaust survivors how her work in Latvia was fueled by her first visit to the tract where the camp once stood.
“This ground,” she said, “contained my grandparents’ bodies somewhere in an unmarked mass grave. It was a chilling moment. And it was also a moment filled with love and a yearning to be close to my grandparents, to protect them with my memory.”
Aside from Oscar nominee Elvis, last year was a bit of a desert in the movie and TV musicals department. Sure, Spirited was fun, but after a big 2021 full of the Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist finale, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake, Encanto’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” torturing parents everywhere, and the unbridled joy of every Broadway star in Schmigadoon!, 2022 left a lot to be desired in the sing-along department.
While 2023 won’t exactly be the next musical renaissance year — these things take time — it does offer a few titles to get excited about. We’ll have to wait until 2024 or later for some other marquee releases like the Wicked two-parter, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, and Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix. And then there are a few that we can cross our fingers for, as no release dates have been announced, but it’s unlikely we’ll see the Beautiful adaptation, Paramount+’s Mean Girls musical, Ryan Murphy’s A Chorus Line Netflix adaptation, the Barry Jenkins–helmed Mufasa: The Lion King, or an RRR sequel in early development before next year.
This year’s musical and music-themed bright spots include Lady Gaga teaming up with Joaquin Phoenix for the Joker sequel, a trip back to Rydell High, a live-action Little Mermaid, and the adaptation of bestseller Daisy Jones and the Six. Here’s a rundown of the musical films and series we know are heading to the big and small screens this year and a few others that will probably take a bit longer — but none quite so long as Richard Linklater’s 20-year plan for Merrily We Roll Along!
And if these aren’t enough for you, there’s always the BroadwayHD streaming service.
- - The Little Mermaid (2023) (Walt Disney Pictures)
Premiere Date: May 26 in theaters
Description: Rising star Halle Bailey stars as Ariel, the mermaid princess daughter of King Triton (Javier Bardem) who makes a deal with Ursula the sea witch (Melissa McCarthy) to be with her land-lubber Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King).
Why we’re looking forward to it: Daveed Diggs is playing Sebastian. This is not a drill. I repeat, Daveed Diggs is playing Sebastian. And with support on the revamped music from Lin-Manuel Miranda, an all-star cast, and direction from musical king Rob Marshall (Chicago), what more could you ask for in a new version of an old favorite?
- - Up Here: Season 1 (2023) (Hulu)
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Premiere Date: Spring 2023
Description: A romantic comedy musical set in the twilight of the millennium in New York City, the series follows Lindsay (Mae Whitman) and Miguel (Carlos Valdes) “an ordinary couple with an extraordinary love story.”
Why we’re looking forward to it: The powerhouse team behind this show includes Frozen and Coco songwriting duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Dear Evan Hanson and Tick Tick.. BOOM! writer Steven Levenson, and Hamilton director Thomas Kail. And with so much ’90s New York nostalgia lately, it seems the perfect formula for a charming musical series.
- - The Color Purple (2023) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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Premiere Date: December 20 in theaters
Description: The musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows Celie (Fantasia Barrino), an African-American woman in the 1900s South, through her friendships, trials, and tribulations. Other bold-faced names in the cast include Taraji P. Henson, H.E.R., Danielle Brooks, David Alan Grier, and Jon Batiste.
Why we’re looking forward to it: This is a novel with an excellent track record for adaptations — Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film version earned Oscar nominations for Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey (in her first acting role), and the 2015 Broadway musical adaptation earned Cynthia Erivo a Tony for her portrayal of Celie. American Idol’s 2004 winner Fantasia Barrino took over from LaChanze in the same role on Broadway and will play Celie in the upcoming film. Spielberg and Oprah are both involved in the latest film adaptation, alongside Quincy Jones.
- - Schmigadoon!: Season 2 (2023) (Apple TV+)
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Premiere Date: April 7
Description: Or should we say Schmicago!? Season 2 of the fun Apple TV+ musical sendup with Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key will have our lovebirds traveling to Schmicago, a land filled with ’60s and ’70s-era musical characters and themes. Jazzhands, Fosse numbers, and maybe even a naked scene à la Hair are in our future. But have no fear, Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth’s wacky mayor and preacher’s wife are back, along with Ariana DeBose and Aaron Tveit and newcomers to the show including Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page.
Why we’re looking forward to it: Season 1’s redux of classic Rodgers and Hammerstein shows was fun, but we’re excited to see what they do with musicals that start to hit on more contemporary themes.
- - Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies: Season 1 (2023) (Paramount+)
Premiere Date: Thursday, Apr. 6
Description: There were Pink Ladies before Rizzo ruled the roost. The new series coming to Paramount+ takes us back to 1954 and gives us the origin story of the baddest misfit girls’ clique at Rydell High. Based on Grease and Grease 2, but written as a prequel, the show is helmed by Annabel Oakes (Edge of Seventeen, Minx). New music is being written for the series, produced by Justin Tranter, a music producer and songwriter for the likes of Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga.
Why we’re looking forward to it: You can never have too much Grease. The original 1972 Broadway musical broke boundaries, putting sex, politics, and peer pressure on stage in new ways. The iconic 1978 movie inspired a generation and skyrocketed the fame of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. And the sequel introduced Michelle Pfeiffer to the world in her first starring role. Pink Ladies has a lot to live up to given its pedigree, but bobby socks and a Pink Lady jacket will always be an excellent Halloween costume choice, now with new names embroidered on the breast.
- - Daisy Jones & The Six: Season 1 (2023) (Prime Video)
Premiere Date: March 3
Description: Adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s rock history bestseller about a band in 1970s Los Angeles, the musical drama follows Daisy Jones (Riley Keough), Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) and their bandmates as they examine their journey to and fall from stardom. Inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s story, the show also stars Suki Waterhouse, who released her debut album in 2022.
Why we’re looking forward to it: As Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, star Riley Keough is sure to have learned a thing or two about being a rock icon. The show includes original songs, so fans of the book who could only imagine what Midnight sounds like will get to see those come to life. Reese Witherspoon named the book to her popular book club and is producing the show under her Hello Sunshine banner. And author Reid is already a fan: “It allowed me an opportunity to sort of be like, ‘Oh, OK, maybe this is why people like this book,’ because I love this show that it’s becoming,” she told Ellen Pompeo on her podcast.
Premiere Date: TBD 2023
Description: While perhaps not a full-on musical — but definitely heavy on the music and musical influence — The Idol is the story of a rising pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) who finds herself in a complicated relationship with self-help guru/cult leader Tedros (Abel Tesfaye aka The Wknd).
Why we’re looking forward to it: Unlike more traditional musical fare, The Idol looks darker, more plot-driven, and more music industry-heavy than the others on ourlist. With The Wknd in his first acting role since Uncut Gems and appearances from Australian singer/songwriter Troye Sivan and K-Pop star BlackPink’s Jennie Ruby Jane, The Idol promises to step in where Euphoria leaves off in the Gen-Z decadence department.
96% Girls5eva (Netflix)
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Premiere Date: TBD
Description: A ’90s girl group gets a chance at redemption when a big-time rapper samples their song. Now in their 40s and missing one member, Girls5eva (starring Sara Bareilles, Busy Philips, Paula Pell, and Renee Elise Goldsberry) hilariously grapples with fame a second time around.
Why we’re looking forward to it: Will Girls5eva leave New York and go on tour? Will Bareilles’ Dawn balance home life, a new baby, and fame? What will Kev and Summer do about Stevia? So many questions were left at the end of season 2, thank goodness Netflix picked up the series after Peacock passed on a third season. The show’s theme song is stuck in our heads foreva.
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