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AP Sports SummaryBrief at 5:44 p.m. ESTSEOUL, South Korea , Dec. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SOLVIT System, a recognized leader in innovative technology, will participate in CES 2025, taking place January 7–10 in Las Vegas . The company's iSARTM (intelligent Search and Rescue) has been honored with the prestigious CES Innovation Award in the "Smart Cities" category. At CES, SOLVIT System will showcase its groundbreaking technology to dramatically reduce search areas for individuals lost in radio shadow zones. Addressing the Challenges of Rescue Dead Zones Mobile communication shadow areas, often called "rescue dead zones" in current E911 services, pose significant challenges for locating missing individuals due to the absence of technology capable of identifying or narrowing these shadow zones. Wide-area searches without actionable clues often result in unsuccessful rescue attempts despite substantial investments of time and resources. Powered by advanced algorithms, the SOLVIT-iSARTM system reduces the search area to as little as 1/25 the size required by traditional methods. Cutting-edge technology for Swift and Accurate Rescues At CES, SOLVIT System will demonstrate iSARTM's functionality and the innovative algorithms behind its success. The solution leverages advanced mobile communication forensic technologies and intelligent inference, including: These fully automated processes enable rescue operators to complete professional-grade analyses within just 10 minutes, a significant improvement over the three hours typically required by radio forensic experts. The company will highlight its front-end applications for command-and-control centers and mobile devices. These tools enhance operational efficiency, allowing rescue teams to work quickly and effectively in the field. Proven Innovation with Global Recognition SOLVIT System's iSARTM has been celebrated for its groundbreaking contributions to public safety, improving the likelihood of rescuing individuals while ensuring the safety of rescue personnel. Before earning the CES Innovation Award, iSARTM was recognized as an "Excellent Research and Development Innovation Product" by Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. Since its deployment in April 2024 at the Korea National Fire & Disaster Headquarters, the system has demonstrated exceptional efficiency and reliability. Motivation and Vision for the Future "We are proud to be honored with the CES Innovation Award for iSARTM that saves lives," said Yeong-Goo Kim , Founder and CEO of SOLVIT System. "Driven by our commitment to saving lives, we have applied our expertise to the search and rescue field." The company's participation in CES 2025 goes beyond showcasing its product. Mr Kim aims to connect with a wide range of people, agencies, companies, and institutions to explore opportunities for collaboration and the localization of iSARTM in different countries. He also hinted at the development of the next version of iSARTM, promising further groundbreaking innovations. He also hopes that iSARTM's CES Award will serve as a stepping-stone toward establishing legal and institutional frameworks for public access to radio resource information and time-series data. Special thanks go to KCA for providing refined radio resource information, ATDI for supplying a proven radio analysis engine, and the institutions that supported technical validation. Key Features of SOLVIT-iSAR Join Us at CES 2025 For more information, visit SOLVIT System at CES 2025 in LVCC North Hall, Booth 8879 , to experience the award-winning SOLVIT-iSARTM — a revolutionary step forward in rescue operations designed to save lives and resources through advanced technology. About SOLVIT System Since its establishment as a corporation in 2007, SOLVIT System has grown into a small but strong enterprise that provides military communication Modeling & Simulation (M&S), radio analysis, digital twin technology, edge AI, and security solutions. It supplies these solutions to defense research institutions such as the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and the Korea Research Institute for Defense Technology (KRIT) and defense companies like Hanwha Systems and LIG Nex1. The company has been recognized by Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) as a "Defense Industry Innovation Company." More at CES 2025: LVCC North Hall, Booth 8879 ( https://exhibitors.ces.tech/8_0/floorplan/?hallID=A&selectedBooth=8879) Website: https://en.solvitsystem.co.kr/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjBF993Pwc For further information: SOLVIT System: Hansol Kim , +82-2-6241-6667, hansolkim@solvitsystem.co.kr , sales@solvitsystem.co.kr ; View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/solvit-system-wins-ces-2025-innovation-award-illuminating-paths-to-save-lives-in-radio-shadow-areas-302339454.html SOURCE SOLVIT System

To Wall Street, Trump’s Pick to Run Treasury Needs No IntroductionStrictly’s Dianne Buswell breaks down in tears as she hits back at the judges over partner Chris McCausland

(Bloomberg) — Never miss an episode. Listen and follow The Big Take DC on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. After a messy, public competition between hopefuls, President-elect Donald Trump nominated hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be the next Treasury secretary. On today’s Big Take DC podcast, hosts Saleha Mohsin and David Gura discuss why Trump chose Bessent, and how Bessent might approach the job. Listen and follow The Big Take DC on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Terminal clients: click here to subscribe. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation: David Gura: The hedge fund manager Scott Bessent is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick ... to be the next Secretary of the Treasury, and he finally got the nod ... after a very public – and kinda messy! – competition. Saleha Mohsin: It was a knife fight for a very stressful job. Gura: Bloomberg’s Saleha Mohsin covered that contest, as it played out – on television, on op-ed pages, and at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump has been preparing for his second term. And it dragged on for weeks: Mohsin: Scott Bessent looked like he was tipped to get the job, easy peasy. And then, he left town, he left Palm Beach, and Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s transition efforts, and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, he moved in. Gura: And, Saleha says: Mohsin: We had Lutnick out there, talking and having his allies come in for him, and against Bessent, and then you had Bessent doing the same thing... Gura: That strategy backfired. Saleha says it made the president-elect so irritated, that he brought in more candidates, including Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, and Marc Rowan, the CEO of Apollo Global Management. In the end, Trump nominated Lutnick to run the Commerce Department... Warsh reportedly said he’s more interested in the job of Fed chair, when that opens up. So, Bessent got Treasury: Gura: What was it that sort of tipped things in his favor at the end? Mohsin: It might have been that no one really, other than Bessent, really wowed Trump. Gura: Trump has picked someone who knows Wall Street, and that seems to have impressed Wall Street: stocks rose and the dollar weakened, after the president-elect announced his decision. I’m David Gura, and this is the Big Take DC, from Bloomberg News. Today on the show, I’m joined by my co-host Saleha Mohsin to talk through... who is Scott Bessent? And if he’s confirmed by the US Senate, how will he approach the job, and advance his boss’ economic agenda? So President-elect Trump made this announcement after the market closed on a Friday. I think I got the email at 6:55 Eastern time. As you and our colleagues have talked to investors, what are they telling you about the president-elect’s pick? Mohsin: Markets seem happy. They see Bessent as bringing stability, which is something that we had in Trump 1.0. You know, as much turnover as you saw in Trump’s Cabinet, Steven Mnuchin stayed as Treasury secretary for all four years, and he was able to leverage relationships because people knew this man is going to stay, and he understands the plumbing of the global financial system. You know, that’s something that markets really want. They want stability, and if Bessent can somehow manage to provide that, I think he’ll end up being a successful Treasury secretary. Gura: What kind of career has Scott Bessent had up to this point? What’s his background? Mohsin: Yeah so he worked for George Soros. He was involved in the investor bet that broke the pound in the early ‘90s. And so he comes with a keen interest in currency policy. And you can tell he talks about that a lot and Donald Trump talks about dollar policy a lot. He also set up and ran his own hedge fund since about 2015 or 16, I think, he has been overseeing that and it was about a year or a little over a year ago that he re-entered Trump’s orbit, and started looking at Trump’s policies and saw that Trump’s stock was going to go up and he was right. Gura: You said “re-entered” Trump’s orbit. When did they meet? Mohsin: So, Bessent told me that he has known the Trump family for like 30 years, uh, and I think he knew Trump’s brother, and so he said, Oh, well, Donald Trump probably knew my face, but didn’t quite know exactly who I was, but he was close to Donald Trump Jr. That was sort of his door into Trump world about a year ago, and that’s how he got a first meeting with Donald Trump. Gura: What do your sources say about how the work that he’s done, so working with these big hedge funds, is likely to shape his perspective on this job, and maybe it would just be useful for you to describe all that a Treasury secretary has to do. It’s a huge remit. Mohsin: Yeah, it’s, it’s huge. People like to call the Treasury secretary the Chief Financial Officer of the United States, but that actually only refers to one third of the job. A Treasury secretary oversees debt issuance. And that’s somewhere we could see from a Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, a little bit of creativity, maybe in how our massive deficit is issued and how that’s structured and, and sort of the tenor of notes and things. He’s also going to be involved in tax policy and financial stability, international economic diplomacy. So being the representative for that at G7 and G20 meetings. And then the other big component is national security, and foreign policy by way of economic sanctions. Gura: As you talk to investors about him, do any of them express any reservations about him not having experience in Washington, not being a creature of D.C.? Not being someone like Janet Yellen, for instance, who spent the bulk of her career in Washington in a lot of these big, high profile jobs doing quite a bit of management? Mohsin: So there’s always a steep learning curve for a Treasury secretary, particularly when it comes to dealings with Congress. The example that comes up frequently, a more recent kind of screw up there or confusion or misreading of the room is Steven Mnuchin. I think it was 2017, he had to raise the debt ceiling and he went into a room full of Republican lawmakers and it was a private conference and said, just raise the debt ceiling for me. And they burst out of that room telling every reporter that this is what he said, “for me.” We’re not going to do it for you. We serve the American people, not you. And it was such a blunder. You know, Steven Mnuchin came in, he didn’t know any lawmakers very closely or how all this stuff really worked from a Washington perspective, did not have experience in the public sector. Tim Geithner knew. He came from the Federal Reserve. He’d been at Treasury as a civil servant in the 90s. Hank Paulson had no experience on that front. You would, you would hope people like that, they come in without hubris of knowing what you don’t know and then relying on people to help you navigate. And also just understanding that you come from a world where it’s about relationships and deal making, um, and just learning on the fly. You know, Bessent comes from Wall Street, but he doesn’t have the same experience of some of the big heavyweights that we’ve seen as Treasury secretary. So Bob Rubin, Hank Paulson, Steven Mnuchin, they loomed large because of their Goldman experience. Paulson, he was CEO, and he said that something about the way at Goldman you learn about serving the client, not serving your own ego, really prepared him to work in government, where his biggest client was the President. So Bessent doesn’t come from that sort of traditional part of Wall Street. Gura: After the break... What we know about how aligned Bessent is with Trump, and what that could tell us about how Bessent may approach the role of Treasury secretary.... Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next treasury secretary, helped Trump hone his messaging – about the economy – on the campaign trail. And when Trump announced he’d picked Bessent to lead Treasury, he said will quote, “support my Policies that will drive U.S. Competitiveness, and stop unfair Trade imbalances, work to create an Economy that places Growth at the forefront, especially through our coming World Energy Dominance.” How much uncertainty is there, Saleha, about where Scott Bessent stands on the president-elect’s biggest economic priorities? Mohsin: We know quite a bit, David, because he was, Bessent was kind of openly auditioning for this role. He would meet with reporters, do ed boards. He’s written op-eds for the Journal, for The Economist, for Fox, talking about different policies. I think it was Friday, November 15th, Bessent wrote an op ed talking about how supportive he is of tariffs as a tool of foreign policy, trade policy, national security. And so markets now are digging into those comments, things that he’s said, they kind of see someone with a Wall Street pedigree like Bessent as someone who might be a bit of a, a hindrance to Trump’s more protectionist or populist tendencies, but, that’s the open question to me, is how much say will Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary have over tariffs, if you have Howard Lutnick over at Commerce, who’s also overseeing USTR, the US Trade Representative’s office, to focus on tariffs and trade. I think markets should kind of keep an eye on how much sway Bessent really has with tariffs. Gura: We had this knife fight play out in the run up to these nominations of Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent. Are people confident that the fight ends there, that when that moves into the Cabinet room, we’re not going to see the same kind of, of fighting? Mohsin: No, people are not confident in that at all. [laughs] In the first administration, we saw these kinds of knife fights play out. You know, cabinet officers leaking to the press or going on Fox News to make their case for the policy that they want implemented over someone else. And it doesn’t always bode well. Lutnick has secured a pretty big job. He has Commerce secretary, he’s also overseeing USTR, and that’s a new idea. Trump decided to put that under Lutnick’s purview, so the two men do not get along. That’s why it didn’t turn out where one is NEC director and one’s Treasury secretary, because Trump and the team realize these two men can’t work together. Gura: Scott Bessent said in an interview over the weekend, his top priority is going to be taxes. Is he going beyond just pushing for the continuation of the so called Trump tax cuts? Is it, is it bigger than that? Mohsin: Oh, I, yeah, I want, I have so many questions on how tax policy is going to unfold because you know, the first hundred day plan is a huge thing that we’re going to be watching for as we see officials rolled out and policy plans rolled out and, and signals given. Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, some of those tax cuts expire at the end of 2025, I think. Republicans own Congress, both chambers in their hands. So let’s see how far they can get. But I don’t know that Bessett has said anything, in grave detail, uh, about where that would go. We know publicly Donald Trump has talked about a lot of different kinds of tax cuts. Gura: Bessent is someone who has not shied away from talking about the deficit. He talked about it during an interview on Bloomberg Television, back in October: Bessent: I am very concerned about what is happening right now. We have never had a budget deficit like this. We are at 7% of GDP in terms of the deficit. We’ve never had this deficit. When it’s not a recession, not a war. And what do we have to show for it? Gura: How does he plan to reduce the size of the deficit? Mohsin: Yeah, I love deficit talk because everyone comes up with these great ideas of how to reduce the deficit, but Congress needs to do that, right? A Treasury secretary can lead the charge. Congress is the keeper of the purse, when it comes to spending and, and taxes. Any time an administration or a government has accomplished that, it is because Wall Street or investors or markets have thrown a tantrum that you have too much deficit. And I don’t see how a Trump administration or Congress makes the very difficult trade offs and cuts in spending that will be unpopular with voters unless they can blame it on markets or blame it on someone else. Gura: Scott Bessent’s going to play a role in picking the next chair of the Federal Reserve, advising the President elect on that. Mohsin: Yeah, let’s talk about the Fed. Donald Trump thinks that presidents should have a say on interest rates. We don’t know what that really means. And so I don’t know maybe this is some kind of creative thinking on Bessent’s part to say, okay look, he really wants to fire Powell or he really wants to set monetary policy or have a say. Maybe the way to do it where we’re not just causing a constitutional and markets crisis by sacking the Federal Reserve Chair, we do it by creating this shadow Fed Chair situation where you nominate or announce the name of who you will pick, send to the Senate for confirmation to be the next Federal Reserve Chair, and that person is providing forward guidance on what they would do, so markets start to look to that person’s comments over the sitting Federal Reserve Chair. But this is my number one question to Scott Bessent right now, is like how would that play out and how seriously should we take this plan? Gura: Effectively like a Fed chair in waiting. Mohsin: Yeah. Yeah. Gura: You covered the Treasury Department when Steven Mnuchin was running it, and he was there, as you said, for all four years of Donald Trump’s first term. If Scott Bessent is confirmed, what is going to determine how successful he is at the job? Mohsin: With Trump, it’s always maintaining Trump’s trust, and always making sure you’re aware of who he’s meeting with and trying to be the last person in the room as Bessent learned when he left Palm Beach and thought that he had bagged the job of Treasury secretary and then it kind of blew up. Mnuchin learned that. Steven Mnuchin learned that if you leave the president with Peter Navarro, then the trade advisor and like a you know a known China hawk, in the room with president too long, Trump is going to start asking questions like can we aggressively intervene in the US dollar to make it weaker and can we do x y and z that might really blow up, um, foreign relations or economic relations with other countries? So I think Scott, Scott Bessent will have to learn sort of to make sure that you stay in the good graces of the president, stay visible and are keeping tabs and keeping Treasury-related policies firmly in the hands of the Treasury department and not let others encroach on that remit.

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(AP) — Jim Larrañaga has stepped down as Miami’s men’s basketball coach effective immediately. Larrañaga will be replaced by associate head coach Bill Courtney — one of Larrañaga’s best friends for the past three decades or so — for the remainder of the season. The now-former coach says he loves the university but believes it's the right time to step away. Larrañaga says "I’ve tried every which way to keep this going.” Larrañaga joins a long line of prominent college basketball coaches who have left their jobs in recent years citing the changes in the game and the challenge of coaching in the name, image and likeness era. Cowboys shutting down CeeDee Lamb with 2 games to go over receiver's shoulder issue FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys are shutting down CeeDee Lamb with two games remaining after their 2023 All-Pro receiver spent the second half of the season dealing with a sprained right shoulder. The team says additional exams revealed enough damage to keep Lamb off the field Sunday at Philadelphia and in the final game at home against Washington. The team says surgery isn't expected to be required. Dallas was eliminated from playoff contention a few hours before last weekend’s 26-24 victory over Tampa Bay. NBA's Christmas Day ratings skyrocket, even going up against NFL games The NBA got viewers for Christmas, even while going up against NFL games. The NBA’s five-game Christmas lineup was the league’s most-watched in five years, with the games averaging about 5.25 million viewers per game across ABC, ESPN and its platforms, the league said Thursday based on Nielsen’s preliminary numbers. It’s an 84% rise over the NBA’s Christmas numbers from 2023. Pat Riley says the Miami Heat will not trade Jimmy Butler ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — If Jimmy Butler wants a trade, the Miami Heat have no plans to make him happy. 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Warren has 92 receptions this season and has become a threat out of the backfield, rushing for 197 yards and two touchdowns. Organizers say two sailors have died in Sydney to Hobart yacht race amid wild weather conditions SYDNEY (AP) — Organizers said that two Sydney to Hobart sailors have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honors favorite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw among mass retirements. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, which administers the yacht race, has said that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the boom, a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail. The race will continue as the fleet continues its passage to Constitution Dock in Hobart, with the first boats expected to arrive later on Friday or early Saturday morning. Haaland penalty failure and Fernandes red card pile on woes for City and United in Premier League Erling Haaland’s failure from the penalty spot and Bruno Fernandes’ latest red card have compounded the woes of Manchester City and Manchester United on another tough day for the two Premier League giants. City dropped more points in its improbably poor run of form by drawing 1-1 at home to Everton. Haaland had a spot kick saved by England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. The defending champions have only won one of its last 13 games in all competitions. City is languishing in seventh place while United is 14th after a 2-0 loss at Wolverhampton. Fernandes was sent off in the 47th. First-place Liverpool beat Leicester 3-1 in foggy conditions at Anfield and leads by seven points. Simona Halep withdraws from Australian Open qualifying because of knee and shoulder pain MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has pulled out of Australian Open qualifying and a tuneup tournament in Auckland, New Zealand, because of pain in her knee and shoulder. Thursday's news represents the latest interruption of her comeback from a drug suspension. Halep posted on social media that she was feeling poorly after participating in an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi. The 33-year-old Romanian said she is planning to next enter the Transylvania Open in her home country, where play begins Feb. 3. Halep was granted a wild-card entry for qualifying in the Australian Open last week. 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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — If Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh has given any thought to the possibility of clinching a playoff berth in his first season with the team with a win at New England on Saturday, he isn't letting it show. “Just attacking, that’s our mindset. Win the next game," he said. Harbaugh's relative silence on the topic isn't a total departure from his usual business-first approach, but there could also be something else at play. Aside from wrapping up what would be Harbaugh’s fourth postseason trip in five years as an NFL head coach, since the Chargers (9-6) have the tiebreaker over the Denver Broncos but not against the Pittsburg Steelers, Los Angeles would appear destined to be the sixth seed in the postseason. That would mean a trip to Baltimore and a possible Harbaugh Bowl 4 matchup opposite older brother and Ravens coach John Harbaugh. The Ravens beat the Chargers earlier this season 30-23. But first things first. And that's taking care of the Patriots (3-12), who have lost five straight games but showed several signs of offensive improvement during their 24-21 loss at Buffalo last week. Jim Harbaugh sees a dangerous group. And his players say they are locked in on the present. “Always one week at a time. We’ve got a lot of respect for this Patriots team," Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert said. "We know we’re going on the road and have to be prepared for everything.” Turnover prone If the Patriots are going to play the role of spoiler, it must start with rookie quarterback Drake Maye. He has thrown a touchdown pass in seven consecutive games, tied with Jim Plunkett (1971) for the longest such streak by a rookie in franchise history. But he has also thrown at least one interception in each of the past seven games. Overall, the Patriots have a minus-9 turnover margin. The Patriots did score 14 points in the first half during last week’s loss at Buffalo. Still, New England's offense has had trouble finishing drives, scoring touchdowns on only 47.7% of its chances in the red zone. Maye said that doesn't mean he plans to be timid over the final two games. “I think there’s definitely a way we need to cut down turnovers,” he said. “That starts with me protecting the football and throwing it incomplete or throwing it in the dirt or little things like that. I’m still going to be aggressive.” More offensive momentum? The Chargers could have a major weapon return in running back J.K. Dobbins, who has been on injured reserve after suffering a knee injury against Baltimore on Nov. 25. With Dobbins out of the lineup, the Bolts have struggled to have any consistency on offense. Los Angeles has averaged only 74.8 rushing yards in the past four games, which is quite a drop from the 118.1 they were generating before Dobbins’ injury. Dobbins was listed as questionable, while Gus Edwards — who rushed for two touchdowns and a season-high 68 yards in last Thursday’s win over Denver — was ruled out with an ankle injury. Kimani Vidal and Hassan Haskins would likely take over in the backfield if Dobbins also can't play. Justin Herbert, who has 20,466 career passing yards, needs 153 yards to surpass Peyton Manning for the most in a player's first five seasons in league history. Ladd McConkey is 40 yards away from becoming the first Chargers rookie receiver to reach 1,000 yards since Keenan Allen in 2013. Success heading East The Chargers have won 11 of their past 13 when playing in the Eastern time zone, including last year’s 6-0 victory over the Patriots. Los Angeles has five of its nine games on Eastern time this season for the first time since 2005. They are trying to become the ninth team since 1988 on Pacific time to win at least four games when having to travel at least three time zones. Better start needed The Chargers have given up two touchdowns and a field goal on the first possession in the last three games. They allowed only one touchdown on an opening drive in the first 12 games. Another cause for concern is that the Bolts have given up scores on the first two series in back-to-back games. ___ AP Sports Writer Joe Reedy in Los Angeles contributed to this report. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL Kyle Hightower, The Associated PressCollege Football: 8 Coaching Candidates to Replace Gus Malzahn at UCF

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