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4 days ago
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Police respond to report that men 'brandished gun' at Ashland MA train station
Two men who are accused of brandishing a firearm on Thursday, May 29, at the MBTA Commuter Rail station platform in Ashland sparked a large police presence, authorities said. Police have charged the two men, who are both in their 20s, according to a press release from the Ashland Police Department. According to the release, police from Ashland, Framingham and Hopkinton, as well as the MBTA Transit Police, responded at 4:23 p.m. Thursday to the platform after fielding a 911 call. The caller told police that Commuter Rail employees removed two men from the train and that the pair 'were observed brandishing a firearm,' according to the release. More: How MetroWest benefits from MA transit agency's $9.8 billion capital investment plan Upon arrival, police, along with several police dogs, soon found the first suspect walking near the station. When the man saw police, he pulled a mask over his face and put both of his hands in his pockets, according to the release. Police stopped the man and took him into custody. When they frisked him, they found a 9mm Glock high-capacity magazine, police said in the release. Witnesses told police the second man had run into some nearby woods. Police found him soon after and took him into custody. He did not possess a gun, police said in the release. 'This incident highlights the dedication and bravery of the men and woman of the Ashland Police Department' Deputy Police Chief Michael Viniciulla said in a statement. 'The residents of Ashland can remain confident in the commitment of their police department to public safety at all times.' The two men, both of Marlborough, are charged with assault with a dangerous weapon; possession of a firearm without an FID card; and carrying a firearm without a permit. More: MetroWest transit agency has new, larger buses for its busiest route One man was also charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. The second man was also charged with possession of ammunition without an FID card and possession of a large capacity feeding device. The case is being investigated by the MBTA Transit Police. They could not be reached for comment on Friday, May 30. Both suspects were arraigned Friday in Framingham District Court. Judge Michael Callahan ordered both held without bail, pending hearings to determine whether they are dangers to the public. One man's hearing is scheduled for Monday, June 2, and the second man's hearing is Wednesday, June 4. Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or nmiller@ For up-to-date public safety news, follow him on X @Norman_MillerMW or on Facebook at This article originally appeared on MetroWest Daily News: Two men charged in gun incident at Ashland MBTA commuter rail station
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Salt Security Named Gold Winner for API Security Excellence in 2025 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity
Only dedicated API security vendor recognized for innovative API protection platform and strategic integration with CrowdStrike NG-SIEM PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Salt Security, a leading API security company, today announced that the company has been recognized as the Gold Award winner for API Management and Security in the 21st Annual 2025 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity. This award celebrates Salt's transformative impact on API security, driven by its revolutionary threat defense innovations and profound dedication to innovative cybersecurity solutions. While APIs are essential for modern applications, connecting enterprises to vital data and services, they simultaneously broaden attack surfaces, necessitating strong security measures. Salt Labs' Q1 2025 State of API Security Report found that 99% of respondents encountered API security issues within the past 12 months. Salt Security's flagship offering, the Salt Security API Protection Platform, stands as the industry's only solution, combining cloud-scale big data and advanced ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks, including the elusive "low and slow" attacks. "We are honored to receive this prestigious Globee Award, which validates our commitment to providing cutting-edge API security solutions," said Michael Callahan, Chief Marketing Officer at Salt Security. "In today's complex threat landscape, robust API security is crucial, and this recognition fuels our dedication to empowering organizations to protect their critical APIs." Salt Security stands alone as the only API vendor to receive this award, further cementing its industry-leading position. Salt's API security platform is designed for operational simplicity, facilitating rapid integration and deployment. Organizations can achieve fast time to value, ensuring that their data and services are protected immediately, even while developers are in the process of hardening APIs. The platform's design allows for both runtime protection and developer insights, creating a comprehensive security posture that adapts to the evolving landscape of API vulnerabilities. "Congratulations to Salt Security for their exceptional contributions to strengthening our digital world," said San Madan, President of the Globee Awards. "Salt Security's dedication, innovation, and leadership are not only driving cybersecurity forward but also inspiring the industry to reach new heights. We are proud to recognize and celebrate their success." In addition to this award, Salt Security recently strengthened its alliance with CrowdStrike, unveiling an expansion of their partnership and becoming the first API vendor to integrate with CrowdStrike's Next-Generation SIEM (NG-SIEM). This collaboration enhances threat detection and response capabilities, providing organizations with comprehensive visibility and context into API activity and broader system-level insights. By combining Salt's advanced API inspection capabilities with CrowdStrike's threat intelligence, the integration facilitates rapid identification and mitigation of sophisticated API-specific threats. Salt's victory in the 21st Annual Globee Awards for Cybersecurity underscores its exceptional achievement, having been selected through a rigorous, data-driven evaluation process. With over 2,085 experts and industry leaders participating globally, the award signifies Salt's ability to meet the highest standards of expertise and innovation. View the full list of 2025 winners: About Salt SecurityAs the pioneer of the API security market, Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Protecting some of the largest enterprises in the world, Salt's API Protection Platform is the only API security solution that combines the power of cloud-scale big data and time-tested ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks. With its patented approach to blocking today's low-and-slow API attacks, only Salt provides the adaptive intelligence needed to protect APIs. Salt's posture governance engine also delivers operationalized API governance and threat detection across organizations at scale. Unlike other API governance solutions, Salt Security's AI-based runtime engine pulls from the largest data lake in order to continuously train the engine. Salt supports organizations through the entire API journey from discovery to posture governance and threat protection. Deployed quickly and seamlessly integrated within existing systems, the Salt platform gives customers immediate value and protection, so they can innovate with confidence and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. For more information, visit: Media ContactSena McGrandICR for Salt Securitysalt@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Salt Security Sign in to access your portfolio
Boston Globe
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Gerd Stern, Beat era poet and multimedia artist, dies at 96
He met Allen Ginsberg in Manhattan when both were briefly checked into Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute. He built musical instruments for avant-garde composer Harry Partch. He worked for paperback publisher Ace Books and arranged the publication of William Burroughs' pseudonymous first novel, 'Junkie.' He managed poet Maya Angelou at the start of her earlier career as a cabaret performer. (They were romantically involved as well.) He also wrote travel articles for Playboy magazine and helped create the Berkeley listener-supported station KPFA-FM. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up With Michael Callahan and Steve Durkee, Mr. Stern founded the artists' collective USCO, which took its name from 'US company.' Members included the photographer and weaver Judi Stern (his third wife), the film and video maker Jud Yalkut, and Stewart Brand, who would publish and edit the 'Whole Earth Catalog,' the popular counterculture resource manual and product guide. Advertisement Communally living in an abandoned church in Garnerville, N.Y., in Rockland County, the group's members helped define the 1960s with performances that were often described as psychedelic. Slide and film projection, kinetic sculpture, strobe lights, and music were all part of the show. Contact Is the Only Love by Mr. Stern and Michael Callahan. Solway Gallery As the collective's spokesman, Mr. Stern was credited with its slogan, 'You've got to go out of your mind to use your head,' although he attributed it to the LSD apostle Timothy Leary, with whom the group did not entirely get along. Leary hired USCO to work on a 'brain activating' light show that he staged in an off-Broadway theater on Manhattan's East Side in July 1965. According to Mr. Stern, the group, playing a taped harangue by French surrealist Antonin Artaud, confounded Leary by drowning out his exhortation that the audience 'turn on, tune in, drop out.' Advertisement 'He wanted to do things like the life of Buddha and the life of Christ, and we said, 'No thanks — we don't do linear,'' Mr. Stern said in an interview with Alastair Gordon for his book 'Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties' (2008). The collective made a stir in late 1965 with its performance of 'Hubbub' at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York. Soon after, the group was commissioned by Broadway producer Michael Myerberg to design a discotheque in a former airplane hangar at Roosevelt Field, on Long Island. The artists' design involved 18 programmed slide projectors, two 16-millimeter film projectors, and a video projector prototype. (By Mr. Stern's account, the proposal was chosen over one by Andy Warhol, who at the time was staging a multimedia event, 'The Exploding Plastic Inevitable,' at the nightspot Dom in the East Village.) The disco, which became known as Murray the K's World, figured in a May 1966 cover story in Life magazine under the title 'New Madness at the Discotheque.' That same year, the collective staged an influential show at the since-closed Riverside Museum on the Upper West Side, in which it coined the term 'be-in' to describe its four-room environment. Highway signs blinked messages, and speakers blared taped audio collages. 'A 14-foot rotating 'cave' pulses with strobe lights,' art critic Grace Glueck reported in The New York Times. 'A machine made of old computer parts plays itself a game of tic-tac-toe.' She described the show as 'jangling' and noted that as folksy as it sounded, 'the 'be-in' isn't easy to take.' 'Its light-up paintings, frenetic machines, and high-decibel noises add up to a kind of programmed pandemonium,' Glueck wrote. Advertisement Mr. Stern's life was as colorful, confusing, and sometimes chaotic as his art. He was born Gerd Jacob Stern in Oct. 12, 1928, to a Jewish family in the Saar, a German-speaking region administered by France and Britain under a mandate from the League of Nations. After the Saar was incorporated into Nazi Germany in 1935, Mr. Stern's father, Otto, a cheese importer, moved his family to New York City, where he reestablished his business. Mr. Stern attended the City College of New York with the intention of studying zoology, but he left after a few weeks. His subsequent stay at Black Mountain College, the experimental interdisciplinary school in North Carolina, where he planned to study poetry, was even briefer. Its rector, painter Josef Albers, was, Mr. Stern recalled, 'out of the same mold as my father: the Germanic disciplinarian.' 'I couldn't take it,' he said, 'so I split.' He was, however, strongly influenced by other Black Mountain instructors, including Buckminster Fuller and John Cage. It was through Cage that Mr. Stern was introduced to Marshall McLuhan's theories, reading the manuscript of what would be published in 1964 as 'Understanding Media,' McLuhan's oracular treatise on the impact television and other modes of communication had on human consciousness . At this point, Mr. Stern recalled, his poems turned nonlinear, 'running off the paper into collage and lights and sounds.' He turned words into slideshows, pasted words around three-dimensional objects, and, with the installation 'Contact Is the Only Love,' constructed a device to blitz viewers with assorted word images. In 1963, he began taking LSD, a further influence on his art, and exhibiting electronic sculptures and staging multimedia performances that segued into his work with USCO. Advertisement The collective performed widely over the next few years, mainly on college campuses, and Mr. Stern — a hirsute, bespectacled, owlish presence, and the most voluble of the group — became regarded as an Aquarian Age savant. In a 1968 profile, The New York Times Magazine characterized him as 'a bearded bard and proselytizer-practitioner of a new art.' That new art became passé in the 1970s. Stern founded a new collective, the Intermedia Systems Corp., and he entered academia, teaching at Harvard University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In the first decade of the 21st century, his work with USCO enjoyed something of a revival. There was a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan in 2005, and that same year, media pieces were included in exhibits at the Tate Museum, Liverpool; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and museums in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris. Mr. Stern was back in the news in 2014 when a long-lost 16,000-word letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac resurfaced after 60 years, reviving a bitter chapter of Beat Generation literary history. Kerouac had called Cassady's amphetamine-fueled letter 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw' and credited it with inspiring the stream-of-consciousness prose style he developed for 'On the Road,' his now-classic 1957 novel. In the early 1950s, Allen Ginsberg sent the letter to Mr. Stern in hopes of having it published by Ace Books, but, some years later, Kerouac accused Mr. Stern of having tossed the letter over the side of a houseboat into Sausalito Bay, across from San Francisco, thus depriving Cassady of the recognition that was his due. Advertisement Mr. Stern recalled receiving the letter as 'part of a stash of about two and a half feet of books and manuscripts that Allen had collected from all of his buddies.' He said he had returned them all except for the Burroughs text published as 'Junkie' in 1953. Soon after, he said, Ginsberg started the rumor that the letter had been thrown overboard, and Kerouac repeated it in an interview with The Paris Review. Once Mr. Stern returned the letter, Ginsberg evidently sent it to another publisher, in whose archives it was discovered, unopened. 'At the best, he forgot that I gave it to him,' Mr. Stern told the Associated Press. 'At the worst, he said it just to stick it to me. But it doesn't matter now. Allen's dead. Jack's dead. Neal's dead. But I'm still alive.' Mr. Stern's first marriage, to Jane Hill, ended in divorce, as did his second, to Ann London; his third, to Judith Wilson; and his fourth, to Sara Shaw. In addition to his daughter, Radha, from his first marriage, he leaves a son, Zalman, from his third marriage; another son, Abram, from his fourth marriage; several grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Three other sons and a grandson died earlier. In his later years, Mr. Stern entered the family cheese-import business, moving the company across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan to Cresskill, N.J. For a time, he was president of the American Cheese Society. Reporting on the society's seventh annual conference for the Times in 1990, Dena Kleiman found Mr. Stern in fine form. When the moderator of a panel discussion asked how one knows if a cheese is any good, Mr. Stern said, 'The flavor is gentle yet penetrating,' then began describing his love for a perfect reblochon, a creamy cow's milk cheese made in the Savoy region of France. 'The substance, when it comes to your tongue, spreads over all your taste buds and affects all the flavors,' he said. 'When you palpate the cheese, and the rind quivers, and the color has a perfection that is unmatched. ...' He stopped midsentence, his intensity having aroused a chuckle from the audience. Catching himself, he said, 'Maybe you can't describe a cheese with words.' It was his aesthetic in a nutshell. This article originally appeared in
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Sport
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Bruins Recall Top Prospect & Make Multiple Roster Moves
With the 4 Nations Face-Off nearing its completion, the Boston Bruins have announced multiple roster moves. View the to see embedded media. Top prospect Matthew Poitras and defenseman Michael Callahan have been recalled from their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Providence Bruins. Forward Riley Tufte has also been recalled from Providence but under emergency conditions. Goaltender Michael DiPietro is also joining the Bruins' NHL roster as a practice player for the remainder of the 4 Nations Face-Off break. Poitras, 20, has appeared in 26 games this season with Boston, where he has one goal and 11 points. He scored a goal in his loan game during his latest trip to Providence and has nine goals and 21 points in 24 AHL games this season. Callahan, 25, has played in eight games this season with Boston, posting zero points, four hits, and nine blocks. In 36 games this season with Providence, he has one goal and six points. He was also named an AHL All-Star this campaign. Tufte, 26, has zero points and a minus-3 rating in three games this season with Boston. He is having a solid season with Providence, recording 15 goals and 28 points in 40 games. As for DiPietro, it is understandable that he has been called up as a practice player. Jeremy Swayman is currently representing Team USA at the 4 Nations Face-Off, so the Bruins having another goalie at practice is smart. The 25-year-old has thrived this season with Providence, as he has a 17-7-4 record, a .928 save percentage, and an AHL-best 2.00 GAA. Stay updated with the most interesting Bruins stories, analysis, breaking news and more! Tap the star to add us to your favorites on Google News to never miss a story.
