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Yahoo
16 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Space Florida eyes merging of US operations at Cape Canaveral
As Florida leaders call for moving the nation's space-agency headquarters to Brevard County, Space Florida is launching a study about how NASA and U.S. Space Force operations could be merged at Cape Canaveral. Space Florida President and CEO Robert Long on Wednesday told board members of the state aerospace agency that a 'unified model' would support the ongoing growth of commercial space operations and ensure government missions can be more efficient and sustainable. 'We think that it's time that we ask ourselves as a nation, what is the optimal model to carry the world's most active and capable spaceport into the future and enable America to continue to lead in space,' Long said. How that looks will be up to a 'new Cape Canaveral Spaceport master plan,' which Long said will include participation from NASA and the Space Force. Under Acting Administrator Janet Petro, NASA is looking to consolidate or relocate operations to streamline the organization. Gov. Ron DeSantis has supported moving NASA's headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Florida, with backers saying it would put leaders closer to the agency's operations. The idea has drawn support from most members of Florida's congressional delegation, including through proposed legislation, the Consolidating Aerospace Programs Efficiently at Canaveral (CAPE Canaveral) Act, which calls for placing the headquarters in Brevard County. Meanwhile, members of the Texas congressional delegation have asked President Donald Trump to move the headquarters to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. Long said that 'at this stage, there is no predetermined outcome' for the master plan, with a goal to recommend 'a governance model that will maximize spaceport capacity for the nation and minimize inefficiencies.' The military and NASA have operated separate portions of the spaceport since the 1950s. The model enabled America to win the first space race, land people on the Moon, launch 135 space-shuttle missions, construct the International Space Station and begin to explore the solar system, Long said. But Long added the model has changed as the spaceport has 'rapidly evolved into a commercially driven economic engine that supports both government missions and commercial business cases alike.' This year, there have been 31 successful launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and 13 from the John F. Kennedy Space Center. Last year, there were 67 successful launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and 26 at Kennedy Space Center, up from 58 at Cape Canaveral and 13 at Kennedy in 2023. Space Florida, which is working on upgrading wastewater facilities at the cape and expanding wharf space for the industry at Port Canaveral, manages certain operations at the spaceport through property leased from the federal government, including launch and landing facilities through an agreement with NASA. Long said infrastructure at the cape --- such as utility systems, roads and bridges --- is 'becoming strained' as commercial activity at the spaceport has increased. He estimated $2 billion to $3 billion in unfunded infrastructure improvements will need to be addressed over the next decade at the spaceport. A consultant is expected to be named for the master plan study in June, and the first two phases are expected to be completed in eight months to a year, Long said. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
India.com
2 days ago
- Lifestyle
- India.com
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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
What we know about reports Nancy Mace ordered staffers to create burner accounts to promote her online.
In late May 2025, a rumor spread online that U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, ordered her staffers to create burner accounts on social media to promote her. (A burner account is a social media account created "for the purpose of remaining anonymous.") Claims spread on X, Facebook, Bluesky and Reddit. While some posts presented the claim as an allegation, others presented it as fact. The rumor appeared to originate with reporting from Wired, a reputable tech magazine, which ran a story on May 28 titled, "Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her." The keyword here is claim: The Wired story does not present the statement that Mace ordered her staffers to create burner accounts as 100% factual, instead treating it as an allegation made by anonymous former staff members. Similarly, Snopes cannot put a fact-check rating on this story because there is not enough verifiable public evidence definitively proving or disproving the claim. With that said, here is what we do know about the allegations. Wired's story, written by senior politics writer Jake Lahut, relies on anonymous sources identified as former Mace staffers. These sources requested anonymity "because they fear reprisal from their former boss," per Lahut's article. Snopes could not, as of this writing, independently verify the legitimacy of Lahut's sources; Lahut said via a polite email that he could not make any promises about helping Snopes with its verification process in the immediate future due to his own workload. Here are the claims as presented in the Wired story: A principal—and unusual—use to which Mace put her skills, according to former staffers, was setting up burner accounts on a variety of social media platforms to monitor what people were saying about her and bolster her image. They also claim she requested that staffers make their own burner accounts to defend her online. "We had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, and go and reply to comments, saying things that weren't true—even Reddit forums," a former staffer says. "We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents." Mace's communications director, Sydney Long, disputed the allegations. "Nancy Mace's Communications Director here, can confidently say I've never been asked to make a burner account," Long wrote in a May 28 X post. "This isn't the hit y'all think it is." In an email to Snopes, Long wrote, "I would give you an additional comment but we're too busy creating burner accounts, according to former staff. (sarcasm)." "As Congresswoman Mace's Communications Director, I can say with complete confidence: I've never been asked to create a burner account, and the suggestion is laughable," Long's email continued. Long did not provide Mace's reaction to the story, but Mace appeared to acknowledge the Wired story in a May 29 X post, in which she said: "Comment your burner account below." One popular post on Facebook claimed that Mace's former staff "said under oath" they had to create burner accounts to promote Mace. That's a misunderstanding of Wired's reporting, which instead described an April 28 deposition of a former consultant for Mace, Wesley Donehue, who reportedly said under oath that Mace sets up her own burner accounts and bots on social media. The deposition makes no mention of Mace ordering staff to set up burner accounts or bots. As for the legitimacy of the deposition in question: While it does not seem to appear in Charleston's court case search system, a document available in the system mentions the deposition on Page 7, suggesting it is legitimate. Lawyers named in the deposition did not immediately return a request to verify its authenticity. Here is the relevant portion of Donehue's statement on Page 10 — or Page 40, if you're using the page numbers of the original document instead of the PDF — first published by conservative South Carolina news outlet FITSNews on May 21 (emphasis ours): Nancy Mace is quite the -- when I use the word "nerd" or "geek," it's always favorable, but a computer nerd or a computer geek. She programs her own bots, she sets up Twitter burner accounts. This is kind of a thing she does. She sits all night on the couch and programs bots, because she's very, very computer savvy. She controls her own voter database, she programs a lot of her own website, she programs Facebook bots and Instagram bots and Twitter bots. It's what she does for fun. Lawyers representing Mace's former fiance, Patrick Bryant, deposed Donehue after South Carolina law enforcement reportedly interviewed him in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation into sexual assault allegations made by Mace against Bryant. (Bryant has repeatedly denied these allegations.) While Donehue publicly disparaged Mace and said that he fired her as a client, FITSNews reported that Donehue initially refused to give a statement. Snopes previously examined Mace's claim she was physically accosted by a man who shook her hand and a rumor that she vandalized her own home. Bryant, Patrick. "Patrick Bryant - I Categorically Deny the False and Outrageous..." 20 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Byrd, Caitlin. "Here's What We Know about the 4 Men Accused of Sexual Assault in Rep. Nancy Mace Speech." Post and Courier, 12 Feb. 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Donehue, Wesley. "I Was Very Involved in This Entire Nancy Mace Story and Ultimately It's Why I Left Her Campaign. I've Typed up 40 Different Tweets That I Wanted to Send ..." X (Formerly Twitter), 10 Feb. 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. ---. "You Can Stop Texting Me. I Fired Nancy Mace as Client a Few Months Back Because I'm a Political Consultant and Not a Babysitter..." X (formerly Twitter), 20 Dec. 2024, Accessed 29 May 2025. FITSNews. "Bombshell Deposition: Nancy Mace's Former Strategist Unloads." FITSNews - Politics, Sports and Pop Culture, FITSNews, 21 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Friedman, Amanda. "Mace, Alleging Assault, Shares Nude Photo of Herself during House Hearing She Says Was Taken without Her Consent." POLITICO, Politico, 20 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. "Jake Lahut." WIRED, Accessed 29 May 2025. Kinnard, Meg. "Rep. Nancy Mace Accuses Ex-Fiancé, Associates of Misconduct in House Speech." AP News, 11 Feb. 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Lahut, Jake. "Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her." WIRED, 28 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Long, Sydney. "Nancy Mace's Communications Director Here, Can Confidently Say I've Never Been Asked to Make a Burner Account. This Isn't the Hit Y'all Think It Is." X (Formerly Twitter), 28 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Mace, Nancy. "Comment Your Burner Account Below⬇️." X (Formerly Twitter), 29 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. "Merriam-Webster Dictionary | Burner Account." 16 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025. Mullaney, Marybeth. Jane Doe v. Patrick Bryant, John Osborne, Eric Bowman and Pommer Group LLC. | PLAINTIFF'S MOTION to PROCEED under a PSEUDONYM pursuant to RULE 10 of the SOUTH CAROLINA RULES of CIVIL PROCEDURE. 29 May 2025, Accessed 29 May 2025.
Sydney Morning Herald
4 days ago
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Long way: The making of a Pies star after 17 clubs knocked him back
'I didn't look too closely at interstate [clubs]. I wanted to stay in Melbourne,' Long said. 'I was looking at a few VFL clubs, and I was hoping... I would have chatted to five or six. '[I] was hoping and looking for an opportunity where I would be able to train with the AFL... and Collingwood offered a really good opportunity.' Long's entreaties to the 17 clubs had not yielded so much as a 'maybe'. 'No, there was nothing,' he said. The rejection hurt. Loading 'It was pretty rough. I feel like I'm a reasonably positive person and with a reasonable amount of belief in myself but, yeah, it's definitely a tough thing. You're asking for the littlest opportunity and you can't get it, and... I guess that's where it's important to be positive and focus on what you can control.' Today, Long, 22, is among the best-performed in a team that sat atop the ladder heading into round 12. Last Saturday night, as an undermanned Collingwood overran North Melbourne, Long set a club record with 15 score involvements and became the first AFL player to have 15 involvements and 14 or more tackles in a game. His performance prompted Nathan Buckley to declare that Long would be a 10-year player. Since round five, he ranks in the top three in a raft of Magpie metrics – disposals, handballs, contested ball, clearances, tackles, score assists and involvements. In short, he's killing it in his role as a self-described 'defensive-minded mid', whose primary task is to pressure, tackle and put that big frame in the thick of it. 'I try and bring that and also some contest work... try and get to contests and then that allows the rest of the game to flourish as well,' he said. On Friday night, he will confront his old team, and close friend Josh Ward, with whom Long played at Fitzroy juniors (under 10s through to under 17s), then at the Northern Knights, Melbourne Grammar – Long having crossed from Northcote High on a scholarship in year 10 – and finally with Hawthorn and their VFL affiliate Box Hill. Brett Munro, the AFL player agent, former assistant coach at Carlton and Gold Coast, and ex-head of Carlton's AFLW operation, coached Long and Ward – and his own son – at Fitzroy juniors in the under 14s and 15s. 'He was just the hardest worker,' said Munro, recalling that Long's foot skills weren't as polished as some elite players' – given a higher than ideal ball drop – but he was 'never beaten'. 'He's always been dynamic and, for a bigger kid, an unbelievable runner,' Munro added. Long can cover two kilometres in about six minutes three or four seconds, which is quite imposing for a key position-sized player with a powerful build. He did not play key position in juniors or at school – having his major growth spurt at about 16. Given those physical assets were evident to Hawthorn, what happened there? Long says it was simply that the Hawks had excellent midfielders ahead of him in the pecking order: Will Day, Jai Newcombe, 198cm Irishman Conor Nash, James Worpel – not to ignore his mate Ward and early 2022 pick Cam Mackenzie. 'They had a lot of, I guess, my type of player – the bigger bodied, more contested midfielders, and they're all amazing players and had really strong years,' Long said. 'I did what I could from, I guess, a work ethic and improvement perspective. I didn't quite take my chances at AFL level. And then, just with how their list shaped up, they just didn't have space for another inside midfielder.' Taken as a rookie in 2021's draft, Long's assessment of his Hawthorn time was that he was 'up and down' in year one (2022), improved in 2023 and was playing strongly in the VFL but others – the aforementioned first four midfielders, especially – were playing too well to dislodge. 'And so I came in and played a couple of games here or there, got a little bit of mid-time – not a heap – and wasn't able to take my chance there,' he said. If kicking was a potential issue, this wasn't specified by coach Sam Mitchell. 'It was more the structure of the list but, obviously, there were areas of my game where I could get better.' Long said he had no point to prove against the Hawks. 'I loved my time at Hawthorn and yeah, [I've] got nothing to prove. I'm happy at Collingwood and, yeah, I'll just try and win the game, that's the main thing I'm focusing on,' he said. One could argue, as some within the competition do, that the Richmond-influenced teams – headed by Craig McRae's Magpies and Gold Coast – rely less upon kicking skills for many, since they deploy forward handball, and feed their designated better kicks, such as the Daicoses. Long handballs more than he kicks – and doesn't mind dishing off to Nick Daicos. He says he has 'tidied up some weaknesses' but that the source of improvement was mainly mental. 'I think mental in terms of belief, inner confidence and I guess trusting my own game,' he said. Long reckoned the chance to train with the senior list as a VFL player last year was 'crucial', as he improved his game in the second tier to the point that the Magpies selected him in the mid-season draft of 2024 at pick No.19. As Collingwood had injuries and needed a large body in the clinches, Long played the last seven games of 2024 at senior level for the Pies, and all 11 so far this year. Clearly, he's been another beneficiary – see Billy Frampton – from McRae's creed of focusing on what players can do, rather than what they cannot. 'I think it's something was encouraged, and I think it was encouraged at Hawthorn, but, yeah, Fly is massive on it – playing to your strengths and having belief in yourself,' Long said. 'He's really good at instilling that.'
The Age
4 days ago
- Sport
- The Age
The Long way: The making of a Pies star after 17 clubs knocked him back
'I didn't look too closely at interstate [clubs]. I wanted to stay in Melbourne,' Long said. 'I was looking at a few VFL clubs, and I was hoping... I would have chatted to five or six. '[I] was hoping and looking for an opportunity where I would be able to train with the AFL... and Collingwood offered a really good opportunity.' Long's entreaties to the 17 clubs had not yielded so much as a 'maybe'. 'No, there was nothing,' he said. The rejection hurt. Loading 'It was pretty rough. I feel like I'm a reasonably positive person and with a reasonable amount of belief in myself but, yeah, it's definitely a tough thing. You're asking for the littlest opportunity and you can't get it, and... I guess that's where it's important to be positive and focus on what you can control.' Today, Long, 22, is among the best-performed in a team that sat atop the ladder heading into round 12. Last Saturday night, as an undermanned Collingwood overran North Melbourne, Long set a club record with 15 score involvements and became the first AFL player to have 15 involvements and 14 or more tackles in a game. His performance prompted Nathan Buckley to declare that Long would be a 10-year player. Since round five, he ranks in the top three in a raft of Magpie metrics – disposals, handballs, contested ball, clearances, tackles, score assists and involvements. In short, he's killing it in his role as a self-described 'defensive-minded mid', whose primary task is to pressure, tackle and put that big frame in the thick of it. 'I try and bring that and also some contest work... try and get to contests and then that allows the rest of the game to flourish as well,' he said. On Friday night, he will confront his old team, and close friend Josh Ward, with whom Long played at Fitzroy juniors (under 10s through to under 17s), then at the Northern Knights, Melbourne Grammar – Long having crossed from Northcote High on a scholarship in year 10 – and finally with Hawthorn and their VFL affiliate Box Hill. Brett Munro, the AFL player agent, former assistant coach at Carlton and Gold Coast, and ex-head of Carlton's AFLW operation, coached Long and Ward – and his own son – at Fitzroy juniors in the under 14s and 15s. 'He was just the hardest worker,' said Munro, recalling that Long's foot skills weren't as polished as some elite players' – given a higher than ideal ball drop – but he was 'never beaten'. 'He's always been dynamic and, for a bigger kid, an unbelievable runner,' Munro added. Long can cover two kilometres in about six minutes three or four seconds, which is quite imposing for a key position-sized player with a powerful build. He did not play key position in juniors or at school – having his major growth spurt at about 16. Given those physical assets were evident to Hawthorn, what happened there? Long says it was simply that the Hawks had excellent midfielders ahead of him in the pecking order: Will Day, Jai Newcombe, 198cm Irishman Conor Nash, James Worpel – not to ignore his mate Ward and early 2022 pick Cam Mackenzie. 'They had a lot of, I guess, my type of player – the bigger bodied, more contested midfielders, and they're all amazing players and had really strong years,' Long said. 'I did what I could from, I guess, a work ethic and improvement perspective. I didn't quite take my chances at AFL level. And then, just with how their list shaped up, they just didn't have space for another inside midfielder.' Taken as a rookie in 2021's draft, Long's assessment of his Hawthorn time was that he was 'up and down' in year one (2022), improved in 2023 and was playing strongly in the VFL but others – the aforementioned first four midfielders, especially – were playing too well to dislodge. 'And so I came in and played a couple of games here or there, got a little bit of mid-time – not a heap – and wasn't able to take my chance there,' he said. If kicking was a potential issue, this wasn't specified by coach Sam Mitchell. 'It was more the structure of the list but, obviously, there were areas of my game where I could get better.' Long said he had no point to prove against the Hawks. 'I loved my time at Hawthorn and yeah, [I've] got nothing to prove. I'm happy at Collingwood and, yeah, I'll just try and win the game, that's the main thing I'm focusing on,' he said. One could argue, as some within the competition do, that the Richmond-influenced teams – headed by Craig McRae's Magpies and Gold Coast – rely less upon kicking skills for many, since they deploy forward handball, and feed their designated better kicks, such as the Daicoses. Long handballs more than he kicks – and doesn't mind dishing off to Nick Daicos. He says he has 'tidied up some weaknesses' but that the source of improvement was mainly mental. 'I think mental in terms of belief, inner confidence and I guess trusting my own game,' he said. Long reckoned the chance to train with the senior list as a VFL player last year was 'crucial', as he improved his game in the second tier to the point that the Magpies selected him in the mid-season draft of 2024 at pick No.19. As Collingwood had injuries and needed a large body in the clinches, Long played the last seven games of 2024 at senior level for the Pies, and all 11 so far this year. Clearly, he's been another beneficiary – see Billy Frampton – from McRae's creed of focusing on what players can do, rather than what they cannot. 'I think it's something was encouraged, and I think it was encouraged at Hawthorn, but, yeah, Fly is massive on it – playing to your strengths and having belief in yourself,' Long said. 'He's really good at instilling that.'
