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"That's another guy that I was really appreciative of this year. Last year without him, I wouldn't be where I was this year," Enunwa said. "That's a strong thing to say, but he really helped me. …If he's gone, that's going to be tough, but that's the business. I think we all know that."
On Sunday morning, ESPN's Adam Schefter quoted an anonymous Jets coach as saying rookie quarterback Christian Hackenberg "couldn't hit the ocean" and has regressed this season.
It's in line with what the Daily News previously reported: There's a faction at One Jets Drive that believes Hackenberg will never be a starter.
Bowles discounted that notion after the game Sunday. When asked if his coaching staff actually feels the way Schefter reported, Bowles said, "Not at all."
January 15, 2011 - STAT MedEvac orders five more twin-engine helicopters, the order consist of three EC135 helicopters and two EC145 helicopters and is part of an ongoing strategy at STAT to continually upgrade its fleet with the latest aircraft and the newest technology.
The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in the first half of 2012. STAT MedEvac has been a Eurocopter customer since 1984 and it became the first air medical provider to operate the EC135 in the United States in 1997.
?We value the strong, ongoing relationship that we have developed with STAT MedEvac over more than two and a half decades,? stated Marc Paganini, President and CEO of American Eurocopter.
?As we have continued to incorporate advanced technology to lead the industry and meet the growing needs of our customers, STAT has continually upgraded its fleet with our aircraft and has established itself as a recognized leader in the air medical industry.?
STAT MedEvac has a fleet of 21 aircraft that consists of 14 EC135s and seven EC145s. Throughout the development of the fleet, STAT has developed a strategic upgrade and long-term financial plan that allows it to invest in the newest aircraft and best technology. These new aircraft will be phased into the fleet and will help ensure that STAT has the helicopters and the tools to provide its essential services.
?As we upgrade our helicopters, we always thoroughly evaluate the aircraft available. We chose the EC135?s and the EC145?s from American Eurocopter. It comes down to product performance and support. They currently are the best products for our missions and the team at American Eurocopter works with us to help ensure that our aircraft are available to meet the needs of our crews and our customers,? said Doug Garretson, President and Chief Executive Officer of STAT MedEvac.
Both the EC135 and the EC145 were designed to meet the unique requirements of operators in several industries. Because of their cabin size, flexibility, performance and reliability, the aircraft have become preferred helicopters in a variety of industries in the United States, particularly in the air medical services industry. The EC135 and the EC145 share similar characteristics and their common cockpit layouts and technology can add up to operational cost savings and increased training efficiency within an organization like STAT MedEvac.
?We have standardized on the EC135 and EC145 platforms because they are the products that best meet our needs and the additional efficiencies we have been able to establish,? explains Garretson. ?Using a common helicopter platform allows us to more effectively manage our fleet?s maintenance program. We are also able to cross-train all our pilots on both aircraft, which helps ensure maximum flexibility in scheduling and personnel availability.?
STAT MedEvac was the first helicopter and HEMS FAA Part 135 air carrier to apply and be accepted into the FAA?s Aviation Safety Action Program. STAT?s fleet operates from 17 bases in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. These regional bases link rural and community health resources with advanced tertiary care centers and provide quick access to advanced care.
STAT MedEvac, a service of the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc., is directed by a consortium of hospitals that include: UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Children?s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and UPMC Mercy Hospital.
American Eurocopter is a helicopter manufacturer that produces, markets, sells and supports the broadest range of civil and para-public helicopters offered by any manufacturer in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of EADS North America Holdings, the North American operations of EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services, and is an affiliate of Eurocopter, the largest helicopter manufacturer in the world.
OAKLAND, Calif. – Officials say five friends who were with Oscar Grant when he was fatally shot by a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer have settled a federal lawsuit against the agency.
BART said Jack Bryson Jr., Nigel Bryson, Michael Greer, Carlos Reyes and Fernando Anicete Jr. will split $175,000 as part of the settlement approved by the BART board on May 8.
The men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2009 claiming excessive force. Their attorney, John Burris, said Tuesday the men are relieved the case is over.
The men had been detained on an Oakland train station platform with Grant when he was shot and killed by then-BART police officer Johannes Mehserles, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the New Year's Day 2009 shooting.
SUN School student group -- a group of new immigrants from Somalia and Ethiopia -- is hosting a special event next week that the group hopes to make an annual activity.
'I am Afrika", an African Cultural Night, will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the school, 2735 N.E. 82nd Ave.
The free event is open to all ages. Questions? Call 503-916-5338.
The original post was updated with new information at 2:35 p.m.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. � The pack is back. And so is the Big One.
Kyle Busch edged Tony Stewart in a thrilling finish to the first race of 2012, using a sling-shot pass Saturday night on the last lap of the exhibition Budweiser Shootout to beat the defending NASCAR champion to the checkered flag.
It gave Busch a victory in a wild race that included two incredible saves by the eventual winner to stay in contention in the 75-lap sprint around Daytona International Speedway.
�I don�t know how many times I spun out, but I didn�t spin out, you know?� smiled Busch, who gave Toyota its first Shootout win.
The event was a preview of next weekend�s season-opening Daytona 500, and showed that NASCAR has successfully broken up the two-car tandem racing that dominated restrictor-plate racing last year. Fans were overwhelmingly opposed to that style of racing � NASCAR said earlier this month surveys showed over 80 percent of those polled hated the tandem � and the sanctioning body worked to develop a rules package that would separate the cars.
It was obvious at the start that the new rules worked as the drivers were lumped into a big pack and raced two-and-three wide for almost the entire race. Although it led to two big accidents the drivers were nearly unanimous in their approval of the racing.
�I actually had fun racing at Daytona again, which I haven�t had for a while,� said Stewart.
March 27 (Reuters) - British water utility United Utilities Group Plc said on Tuesday it expected to report higher profit and revenue for the year ending March, helped mainly by regulatory changes in how utilities charge their customers.
Revenue is expected to be “slightly higher” for the year, while underlying operating profit is expected to be “moderately higher”, the company said, adding that current trading was in line with its expectations.
The company’s revenue for the year ended March 31, 2017 was 1.7 billion pounds ($2.42 billion) and profit was 622.9 million pounds.
The utility, which supplies and treats water in north-western UK, maintained its guidance on capital expenditure and outcome delivery incentives - used by Britain’s water regulator Ofwat to push companies to offer better services to customers, improve operations and cut down on costs.
United Utilities said it expected full-year infrastructure renewals expenditure (IRE) to be similar to that of last year, though it rose slightly in the second half of the year. IRE stood at 150.8 million pounds last year.
The company said its regulatory capital value (RCV), a measure of the value of its capital base, is expected to rise by 400 million pounds ($569.4 million) as retail price inflation has increased this year.
The group also expects a small increase in net debt at March 31 compared with its position of 6.71 billion pounds as at Sept. 30, 2017.
United Utilities said it was track to submit its 2019 price review (PR19) business plan in September and it was confident of delivering against Ofwat’s themes.
The PR19 methodology controls the prices companies can charge their customers, with the decisions affecting bills from 2020.
The water industry currently operates within five-year planning cycles and companies submit their business plans prior to the start of each five-year period.
The annual Ipswich Town Open Day will be held on Thursday, July 26 this year, the club have announced.
Supporters will get a chance to watch new boss Paul Hurst and assistant Chris Doig put the players through their paces in a training session on the main pitch at Portman Road, as a new era at the club gets underway.
There will also be a signing session with the first-team squad plus a full range of activities in the FanZone.
Club mascots Bluey and Crazee are likely to take on all-comers in the mascot race, with youngsters also able to take part in fun football coaching sessions as well.
Entry is free, with food and drink available.
Full details of the activities will be released nearer the time, along with confirmation of when gates open, which is likely to be around 9.30am, with the event running until around 2pm.
Last year’s event saw almost 5,000 fans flock to the stadium, and this year will likely be more popular.
Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson laid a wreath at the Anfield memorial on the 30th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster on Monday.
The first team, Under 23s side and Liverpool Ladies all came together to pay their respects outside the stadium.
The players and staff all took their time to read the tributes that had been paid to the 96 fans that lost their lives in 1989.
A minute's silence was held before Liverpool's 2-0 victory over Chelsea on Sunday and Liverpool will fall silent at 3:06pm - the time the game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was stopped - on Monday.
Pictures of the men, women and children who lost their lives in the crush on the Leppings Lane terrace of Sheffield Wednesday's ground were displayed on banners with the words 'Never forgotten' and flowers were laid by family members, local politicians and members of the public.
Liverpool fans held up cards to form a mosaic in the Kop during Jurgen Klopp's side's win over the Blues on Sunday.
A young man stabbed in a gang-related fight at the Westside Pavilion shopping center in Westwood died Monday, police said.
Andres Aguayo, 19, of Los Angeles died at 9:30 a.m. at UCLA Medical Center after undergoing surgery, said Police Detective Bill Humphry.
Aguayo was confronted by a group of gang members at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Westside Pavilion, Humphry said. A fight broke out and Aguayo was stabbed several times, Humphry said. The assailants fled.
Joyus, a startup that's helping shoppers discover goods via short-form videos, just raised a $7.9 million round led by Accel Partners.
Other investors include Harrison Metal, Joel Hyatt, Venky Harinarayan, and Anand Rajaraman.
Joyus was founded in January 2011 by ex-Googler Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. It's targeting women shoppers and is using videos to help them discover and purchase products. The videos resemble infomercials and include interviews with customers, founders, and product demonstrations.
Spotify has revealed the most-streamed artists in the platform’s 10-year history. Drake, followed by Ed Sheeran and Eminem lead its rankings – while Rihanna and Ariana Grande are the only women in its top 10 list.
The streaming giant, which launched in Sweden, the UK, France, Spain and Norway in October 2008, has also listed its users’ favourite songs and albums. It named Sheeran’s 2017 single Shape of You as its most-played track. Sheeran’s 2014 single Thinking Out Loud also features, in fifth place. Drake’s 2016 single One Dance comes second, while the Chainsmokers’ Closer, also released in 2016, comes in third.
Justin Bieber effectively has three tracks in the top 10. He features on Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s 2017 Despacito remix (coming in at 7), and as a solo artist with Love Yourself (8) and Sorry (9).
No female artists have songs in the top 10, however Rihanna became the first artist to reach 1bn streams on Spotify, in 2013. She is the most-streamed female artist globally, followed by Ariana Grande and Sia. Adele and Taylor Swift’s initial resistance to putting their music on Spotify may have contributed to their respective placings at six and seven.
Spotify’s survey of most-streamed albums likewise features no female artists. Sheeran’s 2017 album ÷ leads Justin Bieber’s Purpose and Drake’s Views. Sheeran’s x (4) and Drake’s Scorpion (7), released this year, give them each a second appearance.
The lack of women on Spotify’s 10-year streaming charts correlates with recent research by Baffler critic Liz Pelly, who found the platform’s “most popular and visible playlists to be staggeringly male-dominated”.
Spotify’s high-profile editorial playlists are immensely powerful. A high placement on a playlist such as Rap Caviar or New Music Friday can change a song’s fortunes. Playlist culture has also changed song structure, with verses and choruses hitting sooner to avoid being skipped by listeners.
Pelly concluded that the platform’s algorithmic recommendations meant that “when a user listens to mostly male-dominated playlists, what is produced are yet more male-dominated playlists”.
Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?
The platform’s anniversary coincides with new research by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry that found that 38% of consumers still obtain music through illegal means.
Spotify has 180 million monthly active users in 65 countries, whose combined time spent listening to its 40m-plus songs and podcasts and more than 3bn playlists totals 16,858,080 years. The number of artists the average user streams per month has risen on Spotify at an annual average of about 8%.
When the service launched a decade ago, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida was the opening month’s most-streamed track and their album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends the most-streamed album. Newcomer Lady Gaga was the biggest artist.
By Peter Passi on Mar 25, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.
Duluth and Superior will join in the legal battle against the makers and distributors of opioid drugs.
The city councils for both jurisdictions voted Monday night to hire the same law firm, Keller Lenkner LLC, to represent them in the suit, seeking damages for a wave of addiction that has swept through the nation, saddling cities, counties and states with hefty response costs.
In all, about 1,400 local units of government have filed claims against the opioid drug industry to date, and Seth Meyer an attorney for Keller Lenkner, said that number continues to grow.
Duluth will join Minneapolis, becoming the second city in Minnesota to take on the cause. But Meyer expects more to follow, noting that his firm has had preliminary conversations with Rochester.
As of last week, Superior City Attorney Frog Prell said he knew of no other Wisconsin city pursuing a similar legal remedy yet.
"We view this as a national problem that requires a national solution," said Meyer, noting that his firm is in talks with communities around the nation.
Duluth Mayor Emily Larson said her city has experienced a spike in demand for emergency services, with five overdose deaths in January alone.
The epidemic has spilled into the Duluth's public libraries and parks, as well, where staff have had to deal with people shooting up and clean up after them. Larson said receptacles designed for the safe disposal of sharps have been repeatedly broken into by people looking for needles, despite the serious health risks of reuse.
The city has had to hire security for the downtown Duluth Public Library and is redesigning the building's restrooms to make them easier to monitor at a cost of about $250,000.
"Our public library is of course a universal living room designed to serve everybody. The public library is an intersection, where we have so many people being in that space together, and we are seeing in some cases that we could be going from nursery reading time to administering Narcan," Larson said.
She said it's difficult to put a price tag on the costs the city of Duluth has already incurred as it deals with the opioid fallout.
"To me, it's just not right that companies are getting profits, while our people and community suffer," Larson said.
Duluth Assistant City Attorney Betsy Sellers said the local cases are on track to be heard with hundreds of others from around the country at a federal court in Ohio.
"This is complex litigation that requires specialized knowledge," she said.
Duluth and Superior are poised to sign retainers that would require them to cover certain costs, such as those related to expert testimony. But by and large Keller Lenkner would be taking the cases on contingency, laying claim to one-third of any award or settlement monies it obtains on its clients' behalf. The remaining two-thirds of any funds recovered would go entirely to the respective cities.
Superior Mayor Jim Paine thanked Duluth for working with his city to address the problem of opioid addiction.
"There are a number of people that we can still save from this crisis — those that have not been afflicted yet and those that are currently experiencing the affliction of this crisis — but I think we owe it to the people who have already been lost to provide some measure of justice from this irreparable harm that has happened to our community," he said.
Paine went on to say: "In pursuing litigation, we recognize that not only have we have been victimized but that there is a perpetrator, that somebody knew this would cause harm to our community, that this would do things that we would never recover from — that this would take human lives. But they did it anyway, and they did it for profit."
Bangladesh PR Tells ICP Silva "Not Acceptable" As UN Adviser, He, India & Pakistan Have Told Sri Lanka to "Fix It"
UNITED NATIONS, February 13 -- The Sri Lankan government's first response to the more than two weeks of questions by Inner City Press about the appointment as a UN "Senior Adviser on Peacekeeping Operations" of General Shavendra Silva, whose Division 58 is repeatedly named in connection with war crimes in Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Panel of Experts report, was to sent a letter of complaint to Inner City Press.
The Sri Lanka mission also sent copies to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman as well as to some in the UN press corps.
But the concerns about Silva, Inner City Press has exclusively learned, extend to large Asian peacekeeping countries as well, and the Sri Lankan mission knows this, even as it sends out its missives .
Bangladesh' Permanent Representative Abulkalam Abdul Momen exclusively told Inner City Press, regarding Sri Lanka slipping in Silva as the Asian Group's representative on the Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations, "we were surprised they sent a controversial participant... it's not fair."
So even as Sri Lanka first attacked Inner City Press for calling Silva inappropriate as a UN adviser, then called Pillay "unethical," the Sri Lankan mission knew that three large Asian countries were saying Silva is "not acceptable" and that it must be "fixed."
Other sources say Sri Lanka has been seeking commitments not to push for accountability at the Human Rights Council in Geneva in exchange for switching Silva for Palitha Kohona, who also figures in the UN Panel of Experts report in connection with the White Flag murders of surrendees, in which Ban Ki-moon's own chief of staff Vijay Nambiar also played a role.
But with this Asian opposition known, does Sri Lanka's "leverage" decrease? Watch this site.
Footnotes: India and Pakistan are on the Security Council, which is on a trip this week to Haiti. India's Deputy Permanent Representative has headed back to India to prepare for a visit by the President of the General Assembly.
Inner City Press has repeated ask Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky to describe anything Ban or his team was doing about Silva as an adviser, and nothing has been said. So if and when this "fix" is made, it will be no-thanks to Ban Ki-moon.

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