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USA Today
6 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
2025 Arizona Cardinals training camp roster preview: OL Jeremiah Byers
We will preview every player on the Cardinals roster leading up to training camp. This is about OL Jeremiah Byers. The Arizona Cardinals report to training camp on July 22 and begin the process of preparing for the regular season, forming the roster and determining starting jobs and roles on the team. Leading up to the start of camp, we will take a look at every player on the offseason roster, their background, their contract, their play in 2024, questions they face and their roster outlook. Next up is offensive lineman Jeremiah Byers. Jeremiah Byers background, 2024 season Byers is an undrafted rookie who signed with the Cardinals shortly after the 2025 NFL draft. He played five college seasons, beginning at UTEP for three seasons, followed by two at Florida State. He started 30 games out of 33 played at UTEP as a right tackle. He was All-Conference USA in 2022, his final year there. He transferred to Florida State and appeared in 23 games, starting 22 at right tackle. Last season, he missed three games with a knee injury. He earned the Bobby Bowden Leadership award last year. Jeremiah Byers 2025 contract details Byars signed a standard three-year contract worth just over $3 million. He received $40,000 as a signing bonus and will make $840,000 if he makes the 53-man roster. $234,000 of his salary is guaranteed, which equals the total salary for someone on the practice squad for 18 weeks. He will count a little more than $853,000 against the cap. Questions he faces, roster outlook Byers faces normal rookie questions — can he adjust to the NFL game and its speed and strength? And being an undrafted rookie, the the Cardinals have not invested much in him. Making the roster is a long shot. It is highly unlikely. However, he is all but a lock for the practice squad, as his guaranteed salary is set up to develop him for at least a year. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
Business Journals
17-07-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
Highmark Blue Shield enables digital front door for members with My Highmark app
Roughly two years from its initial launch, Highmark's My Highmark app has proven to be a popular digital front door to the insurer's services. 'If you think about what a typical health insurance experience might have been a couple of years ago, most people had to navigate lots of different apps and websites,' said Stacy Byers, senior vice president of experience, design and digital for Highmark Health. 'You might go to one place for just your insurance transactions. You might go to another place for your wellness program. You might go to another place to access virtual care. It was very fragmented with lots of login IDs and passwords to remember.' My Highmark consolidated all of that, creating a single point of contact for accessing all of Highmark's care and benefits resources. So far, more than 1.3 million users have signed onto the platform. High-tech collaboration Byers and her team were instrumental in Highmark's launch of My Highmark as its digital front door. They partnered with the Ontario-based health care technology company League, Google Cloud, and Highmark Health subsidiary, enGen, to create the app. Their goal: eliminate the need for customers to use multiple platforms to navigate their benefits while delivering a more personalized health care journey. The project required extensive cross-functional collaboration across product, digital product, design, sales, marketing, operations, technology and data. Still, the project moved quickly. It kicked off in May 2022, and the first version was available to Highmark employees and a small segment of members in January 2023. Throughout 2023, the team worked to add capabilities and members to the platform. Now, My Highmark is available to Highmark's commercial, Affordable Care Act, and Medicare Advantage members. Highmark continues to enhance the app and roll out significant updates. This summer, members will have access to a new provider directory with a smoother interface and improved data. 'We've done a massive data clean up, so when you look up a doctor, you can easily find their phone number and see if they're accepting new patients,' Byers said. What's inside My Highmark The My Highmark experience was built using human-centered design, a philosophy that Highmark adopted 15 years ago. This approach begins with understanding user problems and designing thoughtful solutions tailored to real-world needs. 'It is about understanding the problem and then designing the solution for the humans that are going to use a particular service,' Byers said. 'And it's not just for designers. It can actually help business people prioritize what it is that they're going to go do because they might understand that a certain feature is more helpful to their users than another feature.' Byers and her team started with the most common needs members have: find a doctor, check their claim status, understand their benefits and get customer support. Each of those functions is easy to access in My Highmark. Plus, the app's chatbot is programmed to address hundreds of issues. Then, if it isn't able to address a user's question, it seamlessly passes them onto a live customer service agent. Then, they added direct access to Highmark's many virtual care services. For example, members can set up and complete a virtual primary care visit directly through the app. They also can access its mental and behavioral health platform Mental Well-Being Powered by Spring Health and its virtual care platforms Virtual Pelvic Health, Bloom by Sword and Virtual Joint Health, Thrive by Sword. Benefits to employers Highmark's digital transformation isn't just about convenience; it's about improving health outcomes and reducing medical costs. The integration of diverse health benefits into a single platform creates a seamless, engaging experience that encourages preventative care and proactive health management. One of the ways it accomplishes this is by personalizing members' experiences. The My Highmark app prompts users to complete a health assessment and then uses the results to direct people to resources that are most relevant to them. 'We are only prompting you with the things that your coverage actually provides you access to,' Byers said. 'So you never have to have that disappointment of clicking on a link and realizing, 'Oh, it's not for me.'' For employers, the app gives employees a one-stop shop for information about their insurance coverage. This helps cut down on the time human resources team members have to spend answering basic questions. Employers can extend this capability by co- branding the app with their business and having Highmark add custom links to additional benefits programs they may offer, such as a dependent care account, transportation benefit or wellness rewards and incentives. 'Those wellness incentive programs start with the health risk assessment, which allows us to tailor their experience and prompt uses with the right information for how they can take advantage of Highmark resources on their health journey,' Byers said. By transforming health care access from a complicated maze of resources into a unified digital experience, Highmark aims to make navigating health care easier, getting the right care to the right people at the right time.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Yahoo
Family lawyer says he's seeing a new trend of the 'manosphere' leading to divorce
In retrospect, Kenzie Sproat thinks there were warning signs that all was not right in her year-long relationship. She says her partner seemed to shift from a gentleman to someone who controlled and ridiculed her. "I'm kind of ashamed," the 23-year-old university student said. "I totally just listened to him, and then at the end, I was like, 'What am I doing? I don't know what I'm doing.'" She first got involved in the long-distance relationship with an American military man a few years ago. She said the red flags began popping up six months in, when he began shaming her over her appearance, blowing up her phone if she didn't respond to his texts and expressing jealousy over her friendships with other men. She realizes now she didn't see how his behaviour started affecting her. "I got used to it. I got used to the condescension," she said. She thinks the online content he consumed, such as "manosphere" creators like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, was part of what shaped his behaviour. "He would make jokes about how many good points Andrew Tate has," she said, referring to the kickboxer turned controversial social media influencer, who describes himself as a misogynist. When they broke up more than a year later, she felt only fleeting sadness. "The next day I felt physically lighter and I was over it." While Sproat got out of her relationship without headaches or paperwork, not everyone is so lucky. WATCH | Misogynistic content is winning over married men and leading to divorces: Family lawyer Scott Byers, who's based in Swift Current, Sask., said he and his colleagues have started seeing some of the factors Sproat described becoming a reason for divorce. It started with the pandemic and couples having diverging views on things like vaccinations, but that's shifted more recently, Byers said. "As the years have passed since the pandemic, I'm certainly seeing more clients come in telling me, 'My spouse isn't the person that I knew when [we] met. He puts his ear buds in and he's listening to these podcasts and a lot of thinkers associated with the so-called manosphere.'" Byers said he believes online misogyny feeds a culture of coercion and abuse. "It's a new and unsettling dynamic." He said one woman he represented told him that her husband had been injured on the job and, unable to work, started spending more time online and consuming what Byers described as "radical ideas" about gender. "He started to express views about how their children should be raised that my client just couldn't accept," he said. Byers said these men often want to represent themselves during divorce proceedings, animated by a perception that the family court system is biased against husbands and fathers. "They see this as the fight of their lives, and they're fighting the good fight on behalf of men and boys everywhere," he said. Byers said this can make it hard to have practical discussions over important elements of a divorce, like child support and parenting schedules. "Their head is just not there." Neil Shyminsky, is a professor of English at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ont., who has extensively studied the manosphere, describing it as "a misogynist movement that feels that feminism has won." "Women have not just achieved equality, but now women are in the driver's seat and that this is wrong, and it is both natural and good for men to be in positions of power and leadership." The manosphere, broadly, takes the view that men and women should return to what are seen as traditional roles, he said. Influencers who operate in this sphere suggest, "the only thing that women are good for is sex and popping out babies or maybe picking up after you," he said. When these online misogynistic trends began emerging a decade ago, it was really a movement of single men, Shyminsky said. "The greatest predictor of somebody identifying as a member of the manosphere is that they've been rejected by a woman recently," he said. He said it's surprising to see it gaining traction among married men. "This is a sign that those tendrils of the manosphere that I was talking about earlier are just permeating deeper and deeper into spaces that are mostly populated by men." Both Byers and Shyminsky see the manosphere as an issue driven by complex economic and societal problems, to which influencers offer simple solutions. "The problem [in their view] is that men aren't men anymore. You got laid off from your job, because you are not manly, your boss is not [manly]. Maybe your boss is a woman," Shymisnky said. "If we want to fix it, if we want to solve the problem, men just have to be men.… You gotta be that much more manly, that much more masculine. And that's when we slip into being toxically masculine." Byers noted that he's not a relationship counsellor, but said he does have an unique view on relationships through seeing how they come apart. He said couples may be able to get ahead of marital breakdown over misogyny by having honest conversations about what they're reading, watching and listening to online, and what they think about that content. "If it's not enough to salvage that relationship, it would at least allow people to catch this at an earlier stage and make educated decisions about whether to stay and whether to go," Byers said. As bad as her previous relationship became, Sproat hasn't given up on her belief that men can also be uplifting and positive forces for their female partners. "I do wish that there weren't so many men who subscribed to the ideas of public figures like Andrew Tate and the manosphere weirdos, but there's lots that don't," she said. Sproat feels like she can tell a lot about her "wonderful, amazing" current partner by his friendships. He and his closest friends are loyal people who help support their female partners' goals and want them to thrive, she said. "There are good men. You just gotta find them."
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Yahoo
Family lawyer says he's seeing a new trend of the 'manosphere' leading to divorce
In retrospect, Kenzie Sproat thinks there were warning signs that all was not right in her year-long relationship. She says her partner seemed to shift from a gentleman to someone who controlled and ridiculed her. "I'm kind of ashamed," the 23-year-old university student said. "I totally just listened to him, and then at the end, I was like, 'What am I doing? I don't know what I'm doing.'" She first got involved in the long-distance relationship with an American military man a few years ago. She said the red flags began popping up six months in, when he began shaming her over her appearance, blowing up her phone if she didn't respond to his texts and expressing jealousy over her friendships with other men. She realizes now she didn't see how his behaviour started affecting her. "I got used to it. I got used to the condescension," she said. She thinks the online content he consumed, such as "manosphere" creators like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, was part of what shaped his behaviour. "He would make jokes about how many good points Andrew Tate has," she said, referring to the kickboxer turned controversial social media influencer, who describes himself as a misogynist. When they broke up more than a year later, she felt only fleeting sadness. "The next day I felt physically lighter and I was over it." While Sproat got out of her relationship without headaches or paperwork, not everyone is so lucky. WATCH | Misogynistic content is winning over married men and leading to divorces: Family lawyer Scott Byers, who's based in Swift Current, Sask., said he and his colleagues have started seeing some of the factors Sproat described becoming a reason for divorce. It started with the pandemic and couples having diverging views on things like vaccinations, but that's shifted more recently, Byers said. "As the years have passed since the pandemic, I'm certainly seeing more clients come in telling me, 'My spouse isn't the person that I knew when [we] met. He puts his ear buds in and he's listening to these podcasts and a lot of thinkers associated with the so-called manosphere.'" Byers said he believes online misogyny feeds a culture of coercion and abuse. "It's a new and unsettling dynamic." He said one woman he represented told him that her husband had been injured on the job and, unable to work, started spending more time online and consuming what Byers described as "radical ideas" about gender. "He started to express views about how their children should be raised that my client just couldn't accept," he said. Byers said these men often want to represent themselves during divorce proceedings, animated by a perception that the family court system is biased against husbands and fathers. "They see this as the fight of their lives, and they're fighting the good fight on behalf of men and boys everywhere," he said. Byers said this can make it hard to have practical discussions over important elements of a divorce, like child support and parenting schedules. "Their head is just not there." Neil Shyminsky, is a professor of English at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ont., who has extensively studied the manosphere, describing it as "a misogynist movement that feels that feminism has won." "Women have not just achieved equality, but now women are in the driver's seat and that this is wrong, and it is both natural and good for men to be in positions of power and leadership." The manosphere, broadly, takes the view that men and women should return to what are seen as traditional roles, he said. Influencers who operate in this sphere suggest, "the only thing that women are good for is sex and popping out babies or maybe picking up after you," he said. When these online misogynistic trends began emerging a decade ago, it was really a movement of single men, Shyminsky said. "The greatest predictor of somebody identifying as a member of the manosphere is that they've been rejected by a woman recently," he said. He said it's surprising to see it gaining traction among married men. "This is a sign that those tendrils of the manosphere that I was talking about earlier are just permeating deeper and deeper into spaces that are mostly populated by men." Both Byers and Shyminsky see the manosphere as an issue driven by complex economic and societal problems, to which influencers offer simple solutions. "The problem [in their view] is that men aren't men anymore. You got laid off from your job, because you are not manly, your boss is not [manly]. Maybe your boss is a woman," Shymisnky said. "If we want to fix it, if we want to solve the problem, men just have to be men.… You gotta be that much more manly, that much more masculine. And that's when we slip into being toxically masculine." Byers noted that he's not a relationship counsellor, but said he does have an unique view on relationships through seeing how they come apart. He said couples may be able to get ahead of marital breakdown over misogyny by having honest conversations about what they're reading, watching and listening to online, and what they think about that content. "If it's not enough to salvage that relationship, it would at least allow people to catch this at an earlier stage and make educated decisions about whether to stay and whether to go," Byers said. As bad as her previous relationship became, Sproat hasn't given up on her belief that men can also be uplifting and positive forces for their female partners. "I do wish that there weren't so many men who subscribed to the ideas of public figures like Andrew Tate and the manosphere weirdos, but there's lots that don't," she said. Sproat feels like she can tell a lot about her "wonderful, amazing" current partner by his friendships. He and his closest friends are loyal people who help support their female partners' goals and want them to thrive, she said. "There are good men. You just gotta find them."
Hindustan Times
15-07-2025
- Hindustan Times
Virginia Beach Senior Amber Alert: Who is Marian Weaver Byers and where is she? Details here
On Monday, Virginia State Police issued a Senior Alert for Marian Weaver Byers, an 83-year-old woman missing from Virginia Beach, believed to be at risk due to cognitive impairment. She was last seen at around 2:35 PM local time and has been missing since. Virginia Beach Police issued a senior amber alert for an 83-year-old woman on Monday(Virginia Beach Police) Who is Marian Weaver Byers? Marian Weaver Byers, 83, is a Virginia Beach resident. She is 5'2', weighs approximately 120–150 pounds, has hazel eyes and gray hair, and was last seen wearing a yellow button-up shirt, black jeans, black sunglasses, and white shoes, possibly carrying a cane. Read More: New York flash floods: Which major airports are grounded? Here, have a look 'The missing senior suffers from a cognitive impairment and the disappearance poses a credible threat to their health and safety as determined by the investigating agency,' Virginia Beach police noted on a flyer. Where Was She Last Seen? Byers was last seen on Monday, around 2:35 PM EDT at the 700 block of Weich Lane, off Witchduck Road in Virginia Beach. She may be driving a gold 2010 Ford Escape with Virginia license plate GOD4MWB, as per officials. Read More: New York flash flood map: LaGuardia Airport, Westchester, Staten Island, Rockland affected; videos emerge Virginia Beach Police and Virginia State Police are actively searching, using K-9 units and checking local surveillance. The Senior Alert was broadcast via radio, TV, and cellphones through the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). Residents are urged to call 757-385-5000 (non-emergency) or 911 with information. Read More: Scary video shows NYC subway line severely flooded amid heavy downpour Senior Alert vs. AMBER Alert A Senior Alert is issued for missing adults aged 60+ with cognitive impairments. An AMBER Alert targets abducted children under 18. Senior Alerts prioritize health risks; AMBER Alerts focus on abductions. Both use EAS/WEA broadcasts but differ in criteria.
