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Which hanging hamper is best?
Doing the laundry is a neverending chore. Every day, the pile of dirty laundry grows. Individuals living in a small home or apartment might not have adequate space for a hamper that sits on the floor. If this is your situation, a hanging hamper may be the best option.
A hanging hamper must be durable and sized to fit your needs. The Storage Maniac Hanging Laundry Hamper, for instance, is a two-pack of large hanging hampers that can be conveniently hung inside any closet.
What to know before you buy a hanging hamper
Hamper vs. laundry basket
A hamper is a stationary unit that serves as a collection point for dirty laundry. It must be large enough to store your household’s dirty laundry between washing loads. A laundry basket, on the other hand, is a smaller, lightweight item primarily used to transport dirty laundry from the hamper to the washing machine. One benefit of a hamper is that it can double as a laundry basket, letting you carry your dirty laundry from the bedroom to the laundry room whenever it fills up.
A hanging hamper can hold more than dirty laundry
While the primary purpose of a hamper is to collect dirty laundry, it can be used to hold other items as well. Some people store bed sheets and towels in a hamper. Others use it to stash away shoes. In a child’s room, a hamper can hold toys or stuffed animals.
You can hang a hamper in different ways
A hamper is most often hung from a closet rod or over a door. However, those are not the only ways you can hang one. Some people hang a hamper from wall hooks or over a doorknob.
If you have the room, and don’t mind spending a little more, you can buy a hanging hamper that comes with its own wheeled storage rack. These are designed to hold several hampers and are best for larger households.
What to look for in a quality hanging hamper
Appropriate size
If you are the only one using a hamper, it might be best to get a smaller model. This way, you won’t be tempted to let the laundry collect until washing becomes an overwhelming task.
Durable build
It might not seem that important, but a hamper needs to have a durable build. Hangers can poke through fabric, overstuffed hampers can rip at the seams and models that frequently go in the wash can wear out in a surprisingly short time if they are not made with quality materials.
Breathable material
While you need a rugged hamper, you also want one manufactured using breathable materials. A hamper that lets air circulate through it will help decrease the chance of mildew and mold building up inside.
Wide opening
Some hanging hampers have a small opening. This can become frustrating when you are placing larger items of clothing inside.
Multiple compartments
Multiple compartments are not for everyone. However, if you want to presort lights from darks or delicates from wash-and-wear items, a hamper with two compartments will come in handy.
Zippered bottom
It can be challenging to remove your hanging hamper from its hooks every time you want to empty it. For this reason, the best models have zippered bottoms. This way, you can simply place a laundry basket under the hamper, unzip it and it will be empty in a few seconds without any hassle.
How much you can expect to spend on a hanging hamper
The average hanging hamper may cost anywhere from $10-$20. If you are looking for one that comes with a rack and features multiple compartments, however, you could spend up to $200 for a durable, quality model.
Hanging hamper FAQ
What room is best for a hanging hamper?
A. The room where you place it is up to you. If it is the only one in the house, it should be in a central location, such as the laundry room or the bathroom. However, if each family member does their own laundry, a bedroom closet or behind a bedroom door is a good option.
Do I need to wash my hanging hamper?
A. A hamper is always filled with dirty clothes. This means it is going to get dirty. The good news is, many hanging hampers are designed so they can simply be tossed into the wash with your clothing. While you don’t need to wash it every time you wash clothes, it is a good idea to wash it roughly once each week.
Can I put wet clothes in my hanging hamper?
A. No — the dark, damp conditions are ideal for growing mold and mildew. If you can’t wash wet clothes right away, it is best to hang them up to dry. Once the clothing has dried, you can place it in your hamper.
What’s the best hanging hamper to buy?
Top hanging hamper
Storage Maniac Hanging Laundry Hamper
What you need to know: This two-pack of spacious hampers fits conveniently in your closet.
What you’ll love: These large hampers hold two to three loads of laundry each. They are made of collapsible mesh fabric and polyester canvas. The stainless steel hangers have a 360-degree rotating head for convenience, and they can be removed to quickly turn the hamper into a tote for transport.
What you should consider: The stainless steel hanger can quickly wear through the fabric if you are not careful.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hanging hamper for the money
Smart Design Over-The-Door Pop-Up Hamper
What you need to know: The over-the-door design of this no-frills option makes it an excellent choice if you have a walk-in closet.
What you’ll love: An adjustable strap on this affordable model lets you hang it on any door. The VentilAir mesh material offers breathability, while the large opening and zippered bottom make the hamper easy to fill and empty.
What you should consider: As with other over-the-door products, it may keep some doors from fully opening or closing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Callmybo Hanging Laundry Hamper
What you need to know: This extra-large over-the-door hamper can hold up to a week’s worth of dirty laundry.
What you’ll love: This heavy-duty model is manufactured using high-density woven fabric for durability. It comes in a neutral gray to make it suitable for a variety of decors. The zippered bottom lets you quickly empty the clothes into a laundry basket or a washing machine, and purchase includes all hanging hardware.
What you should consider: As with other over-the-door products, the hooks may make it difficult to shut some doors.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Oscar, Tony-nominated writer-director Douglas McGrath dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Stage, TV and film writer-director Douglas McGrath, who earned a Tony nomination for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and an Oscar nod for the “Bullets Over Broadway” screenplay he co-wrote with Woody Allen, died Thursday. He was 64.
The death was announced by the producers of McGrath’s solo off-Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” which opened last month. A show representative said the cause was a heart attack. McGrath had written and was starring in “Everything’s Fine,” and was directed by John Lithgow.
“The company of ‘Everything’s Fine’ was honored to have presented his solo autobiographical show,” the producers said in a statement. “Everyone who worked with him over the last three months of production was struck by his grace, charm, and droll sense of humor, and sends deepest condolences to his family.”
McGrath began his writing career on the staff of “Saturday Night Live” and went on to pen the plays “Checkers,” “The Age of Innocence” and the musical “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” which ran on Broadway from 2013-2019.
“Doug was smart, funny, talented, kind, a great friend, and a wonderful storyteller who leaves a legacy of love and laughter,” King wrote in tribute on Instagram.
McGrath was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of 1994′s “Bullets Over Broadway,” which he co-wrote with Allen. The screenplay was used as a basis for Allen’s 2014 Broadway stage adaptation.
McGrath’s other films included “Emma” starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and “Nicholas Nickleby” starring Charlie Hunnam, both of which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the 2006 Truman Capote biopic “Infamous,” starring Toby Jones.
He earned two Emmy Awards nominations for directing two documentaries for HBO: “His Way,” about legendary music promoter and movie producer Jerry Weintraub, and “Becoming Mike Nichols.”
He is survived by wife, Jane Read Martin, and son Henry McGrath.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-07T19:04:42+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/11/07/oscar-tony-nominated-writer-director-douglas-mcgrath-dies/ |
Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, autopsy report concludes
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.
Bowie, who won three medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was found dead last month. She was 32.
The report from the office of the medical examiner in Orlando, Florida, said Bowie was estimated to be eight months pregnant and showing signs of undergoing labor when she was found dead on May 2. It said she was found in bed in a “secured residence” with possible complications including respiratory distress and eclampsia. The autopsy report said “the manner of death is natural.”
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded in early May to a home in the area “for a well-being check of a woman in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in several days.” She was later identified as Frentorish “Tori” Bowie.
The toxicology reports were negative and listed bipolar disorder in her medical history.
Bowie grew up in Mississippi after being taken in by her grandmother as an infant. She considered herself a basketball player and only reluctantly showed up for track as a teenager, where she blossomed into an elite sprinter and long jumper. She attended Southern Mississippi, where she swept the long jump NCAA championships at the indoor and outdoor events in 2011.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4×100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
A year later, she won the 100 meters at the 2017 world championships in London. She also helped the 4×100 team to gold.
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MIAMI, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has released its coveted Digital Health Most Wired Survey results for the 2022 data collection period. Nicklaus Children's Hospital is proud to announce its achievement as a certified acute Level 8 hospital.
Among the more than 38,000 organizations surveyed by CHIME, Nicklaus Children's ranked above peers in categories like analytics and data management, population health, infrastructure, and patient engagement. The survey assessed the adoption, integration and impact of technologies in healthcare organizations at all stages of development, from early development to industry leading.
"We are proud to honor your team's exceptional dedication to excellence in digital health," said CHIME President and CEO Russell P. Branzell. "Your pioneering performance in the industry inspires other organizations by example. Patients in communities around the world receive better care when you drive change through digital transformation, as you have proven through your success in this rigorous program."
"Employing technology to advance quality pediatric care is an important focus for Nicklaus Children's Hospital," said Dr. David Seo, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer. "We are honored to again be recognized by CHIME, as this achievement is an important measure of our commitment to implementing technology to enhance safety, communications and optimal medical care."
The Digital Health Most Wired survey and recognition program serves as a comprehensive "Digital Health Check-up" for healthcare organizations across the world. As success in digital health increasingly determines the quality of patient care, the scope of the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired survey reflects the progress of leading healthcare providers as they reinvent healthcare for a new century.
Founded in 1950 by Variety Clubs International, Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children, with approximately 800 attending physicians, including more than 500 pediatric subspecialists. The 309-bed hospital, known as Miami Children's Hospital from 1983 through 2014, is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine with many specialty programs routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. In the 2022-2023 ranking, the hospital tied with two other hospitals as the number one children's hospital in Florida. The hospital is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs), chief innovation officers (CIOs), chief digital officers (CDOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 5,000 members in 58 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 190 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
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Study shows using MURAL increased team productivity through improved employee efficiency, enhanced project quality, and reduced travel costs, saving SAP over $47 million
SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today MURAL revealed that SAP achieved a 404 percent return on investment and a cost savings of $47.3 million by deploying the company's collaborative intelligence software. These findings were part of The Total Economic Impact™ of MURAL at SAP, a May 2022 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of MURAL. This TEI study examines the return on investment enterprises may realize by utilizing the MURAL platform. Based on interviews with SAP employees, all of whom are experienced with MURAL, Forrester Consulting projected a three-year financial outlook and found that through the use of MURAL, SAP improved team productivity, improved employee efficiency, enhanced project quality, and reduced travel costs in a hybrid work environment.
"Teams at global enterprises like SAP rely on MURAL because they know collaboration can't be left to chance. They use MURAL to design how their teams work together, making collaboration intentional, visual, and inclusive," said Mariano Suarez-Battan, co-founder and CEO of MURAL. "SAP has crafted this collaboration culture over the years, using MURAL to deploy collaborative intelligence one space at a time. We believe this study reaffirms the impact MURAL has on team productivity at its core and the business value collaborative intelligence provides at scale."
SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best. It is the largest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendor in the world, with customers who generate 87 percent of total global commerce ($46 trillion). SAP has deployed MURAL across multiple geographies and a wide variety of teams including presales, service sales, UX design, and new employee onboarding. Teams at SAP use MURAL for design thinking projects, which helps them share ideas, understand problems, and solve them. SAP specifically used MURAL to facilitate workshops in its design thinking process with both internal and external participants.
The TEI study found both tangible and intangible benefits from implementing MURAL. Over a three year period, SAP will realize:
- Increased design efficiency in presale, client solutions, and internal solutions applications, providing a combined $36.1 million in value.
- Improved efficiency of employee onboarding, providing more than $1.4 million in value and enabling new employees to be onboarded an average of 2.6 hours faster.
- Increased business value of about $2.0 million from custom design projects that would not have been possible to complete in a hybrid world.
- Avoided travel costs due to effective hybrid remote collaboration, providing more than $19.5 million in value and eliminating 1.9 million kg in carbon emissions.
- Other benefits included more inclusive engagement in meeting settings and less attrition among UX designers who, before MURAL, were often frustrated by inefficient feedback mechanisms.
Collaborative intelligence with MURAL is a new systematic approach designed to increase the innovation capacity of the enterprise. With MURAL, teams can collaborate visually from anywhere and at any time, whether the team is "back" in the office or somewhere in between. Leaders use MURAL to design collaborative experiences that unlock the entire potential of the team so that ideas are never lost.
Key takeaways SAP interviewees shared when asked how MURAL had made an impact:
- "I cannot imagine doing a brainstorming workshop without MURAL … It's really the onsite whiteboard translated into the virtual world. Taking MURAL away would be like taking away my computer. This is something that I really need for work." — Innovation manager
- "Dropping MURAL to go back to [other tools] would basically be like going back in time…. Now that we are more inclusive with MURAL, there are more iterations at the beginning of projects. But then once everybody is on the same page, projects tend to move faster, we discover all the communication issues a lot earlier, and failure rates are ultimately coming down." — Director of design strategy and systems
- "The whole idea [with MURAL] is solid. The customer enjoyed it. They feel like we are teaching them something beyond selling them software. Simply the opportunity to have a conversation through [the MURAL platform] changed the whole buying experience for the customer." — Global learning business partner
- "MURAL can save presales 6 to 10 hours of a workshop with an entire team, and you can do that from your home. It saved my team easily 60 percent to 75 percent of their workshop time. It's crazy." — Global learning business partner
- "The main reason we chose MURAL was the way they supported us. They were strong in enablement. We had a colleague from MURAL in the company who ran a lot of sessions for employees. This was one of the drivers of collaboration with MURAL." — UX designer
- "[Before MURAL], we would have virtual meetings. We would talk a lot, but there was no record of what we discussed. This was dangerous because then four people go off with four different ideas of what we agreed on. MURAL makes us more effective in workshops and, as we do this now more remotely, it saves travel costs. You get productivity gains, shorter and more intense workshops, more engagement from people, and more creativity." — Head of user experience IT
The full TEI study findings will be shared on Wednesday, June 15th at 8:00 am Pacific, where guest speaker Christopher Layton from Forrester will participate in a live Q&A hosted by MURAL. The Total Economic Impact™ of MURAL at SAP is available for download at https://www.mural.co/get/sap-impact.
MURAL is a collaborative intelligence company. We connect teams to unlock their potential, increasing the innovation capacity of the enterprise. MURAL creates a culture of effective collaboration — where everyone is connected, contributing, and empowered to deliver business-driving outcomes. Try MURAL for free www.mural.co.
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On Feb. 1 at around 11 a.m., a fire broke out at The Dog Resort, a popular daycare and boarding facility for dogs in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. When the fire started, neighbors quickly responded to help evacuate the animals from the burning building.
“I thought, ‘I can sit here and watch, or I can go over and see if I can be of help,'” Kenny Robinson, who was working at his office next door to the facility, told the Washington Post. “I knew there could be fire on the other side of that wall, next to the dog run.”
As the dog care center employees rushed to get all the dogs outside, Robinson and other neighbors led them to the fenced parking lot of a nearby business PSR Medical. This required making it more secure so smaller dogs couldn’t escape through the bottom of a chain-link fence.
“It was really chaotic and traumatic — firefighters arrived, and some of the dogs were struggling from the smoke and needed oxygen,” Robinson said. “Another dog got away from me and I had to chase him down. But we got them all out.”
According to a news release by the Seattle Fire Department, the fire was accidental. It started in a dryer and then extended to the back of the building. The department estimated a financial loss of $300,000.
The Dog Resort started a GoFundMe, sharing the details with a photo of the emergency on Facebook. To date, it has raised more than $26,000 in donations. Here’s its Facebook post asking for help.
Happily, firefighters reported no fatalities. Four of the dogs were taken to a veterinary hospital for treatment after firefighters gave them life-saving treatment and seven humans were safely evacuated. Although paramedics assisted a 19-year-old woman who was in the building, she was in stable condition and not transported to a hospital.
All 115 dogs were safely accounted for and evacuated by staff members and animal-control officers. Several were moved to nearby businesses, including Hellbent Brewing Company, Classic Collision and Bowwow Fun Towne, another dog daycare, during the emergency. Seattle Animal Shelter staff took 75 of the dogs to other animal boarding facilities until owners were able to reunite with their pets.
In the GoFundMe, the doggie daycare chain says it plans to create a temporary establishment in the city’s North End while it rebuilds, but all boarding reservations are being honored at its location in the SoDo neighborhood. It says it’s working to provide transportation for both staff and dogs between sites. The daycare part of the business is closed until further notice.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-02-10T15:04:00+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/neighbors-rush-fire-doggie-daycare-saving-dogs |
CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school board member, who is also a retired professional wrestler, is accused of verbally harassing a transgender woman in the industry at a Los Angeles fan event.
Robert Rechsteiner, known as Rick Steiner, was banned Saturday from WrestleCon — a three-day event — after allegedly making transphobic comments to trans wrestler Gisele Shaw, news outlets reported.
Shaw claims Steiner called her a “piece of trash and filth” as she was preparing to sign autographs for fans.
“I was shocked and could not believe that this was even happening,” Shaw said in a Twitter post. “To have someone saying those comments who a lot of people look up to and consider their hero was quite shocking and disheartening.”
Steiner, 62, is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling, where he was a seven- time World Tag Team Champion and two-time winner of the Tag Team Championship under World Wrestling Entertainment.
Since 2006, Steiner has served on the Cherokee County Board of Education in Georgia. He won a fifth term in 2022 and currently serves as vice chairman. He could not be immediately reached Tuesday for comment. Efforts to reach other officials with the district were also unsuccessful as the district is on spring break.
WrestleCon apologized for Shaw’s alleged treatment in a tweet but didn’t specify what happened or whether Steiner was involved.
“WrestleCon regrets the events that took place at yesterday’s convention and apologizes to Gisele Shaw … We aim to promote a safe and inclusive environment for all LGBTQAI+ members of the wrestling community. The issue has been addressed and we hope the remainder of the convention can be a positive experience for all.”
Impact Wrestling, for whom Shaw was representing, said in a statement that it was “saddened by the incident” and hoped “everyone can learn and be better from it.”
Shaw said on Twitter that she had been bullied all her life, but that she was not going to be frightened into hiding anymore.
“The bullies in my life have always silenced me, but that ends today,” she wrote. | 2023-04-05T16:48:30+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/georgia-school-board-member-accused-of-transphobic-comments/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge threw out murder and other charges Tuesday against a former Philadelphia police officer accused of fatally shooting a Black man in the back as he fled, ruling the instructions given to a grand jury were flawed.
Ryan Pownall, 40, had been facing a third-degree murder charge in the 2017 on-duty shooting of 30-year-old David Jones. Court records showed that charge as well as reckless endangering and weapons counts against Pownall were “quashed” Tuesday after a motions hearing before a Common Pleas Judge.
A message left with Pownall's attorneys was not immediately returned.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Judge Barbara A. McDermott said there were “so many things wrong” with how prosecutors instructed grand jurors before they considered the case. She granted a motion from Pownall's attorneys to dismiss the charges.
Jane Roh, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Larry Krasner, said that ruling was made without prejudice, meaning the office “has several options” to move forward with the case.
“The District Attorney’s Office strongly disagrees on many levels with the court’s decision today in this matter, and will be reviewing our options in the coming days,” Roh said.
A trial in the case had been delayed multiple times, most recently after Krasner's office sought a clarification from the State Supreme Court on the state law that governs when police shootings are considered justified.
Police said Pownall was transporting a victim to the special victims unit when he saw Jones riding a dirtbike on a city street. Jones’ bike had stalled and he pulled into the parking lot of a night club. Pownall also pulled into the lot, and when he frisked Jones, he said he felt a gun.
Police officials have said that Pownall tried to shoot Jones during the struggle, but that his gun jammed. Jones threw his gun down and fled, and Pownall fired at him, shooting him in the back and killing him. The grand jury that recommended charges said Jones was "no danger to anyone in his flight.”
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 President John McNesby said the union looked forward to fighting to get Pownall reinstated as a Philadelphia officer. Pownall served on the force for 12 years prior to the shooting.
“From the beginning, we called the filing of criminal charges against officer, Ryan Pownall an absolute disgrace,” McNesby said in an emailed statement. “And today, a Philadelphia judge agreed and dropped all criminal charges against this officer. We promised a vigorous defense against all the charges and happy to see that all criminal charges were dismissed.”
Then-Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross, said during a news conference announcing Pownall’s suspension that Pownall’s first attempt to shoot at Jones was justified under department policy. But Ross said additional shots fired from about 10 feet (3 meters) away — when Jones had clearly dropped the gun and had his back turned — were not.
The city agreed to pay Jones' family $1 million in a settlement agreement in 2018.
According to police records, it was the second time Pownall was involved in an on-duty shooting where a suspect was struck in the back. Carnell Williams-Carney was paralyzed in 2010 after Pownall and a second officer fired shots at him as he fled, hitting him once in the back. A federal jury ruled in a lawsuit that Pownall and the other officer were justified in opening fire. | 2022-10-11T22:36:39+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judges-grand-jury-flawed-murder-charges-dropped-17502659.php |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that a state law mandating life sentences for juvenile homicide offenders is unconstitutional, saying it amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment” and violates the Eighth Amendment.
In a sweeping 21-page opinion, the justices declared Tennessee a “clear outlier” as the only U.S. state to require that juvenile homicide offenders serve more than 50 years in prison before they can be considered for parole. In most other states, they are eligible for release in less than 35 years.
“In short, Tennessee is out of step with the rest of the country in the severity of sentences imposed on juvenile homicide offenders,” Supreme Court Justice Sharon Lee wrote in the 3-2 majority opinion. “Automatically imposing a fifty-one-year-minimum life sentence on a juvenile offender without regard to the juvenile’s age and attendant circumstances can, for some juveniles, offend contemporary standards of decency.”
Justices Jeffrey Bivins and Roger Page argued in a dissenting opinion that state courts should not make “broad moral and social policy judgments” and juvenile sentencing decisions should be left to the legislative branch.
Tennessee has long been criticized for its unusually harsh prison terms for juveniles. More than 100 people have been sentenced to serve 60 years after being convicted when they were children.
National attention particularly grew when criminal justice reform advocates began highlighting the case of Cyntoia Brown-Long, who says she was a sex trafficking victim when she was convicted in 2006 of murdering a 42-year-old Nashville real estate agent. Brown-Long was 16 at the time.
Republican former Gov. Bill Haslam granted her clemency in 2019 and said having to wait 51 years in prison for a parole hearing was “too harsh.”
Under Friday’s ruling, judges may now adjust sentences for young people convicted of first-degree murder. The court also encouraged state lawmakers to consider legislation that would allow for more “discretionary, individualized sentencing.”
However, Republicans control both chambers and have pushed for stricter sentencing requirements. Justice reform experts counter that such tough-on-crime policies don’t reduce crime rates.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, whose office defended the now-unconstitutional law, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The court’s decision stems from the case of Tyshon Booker, who was convicted as an adult while 16 years old for the first-degree murder of G’Metrik Caldwell in 2015.
The ruling does not mean Booker’s 60-year sentence will be overturned. Instead he will be eligible for a parole hearing sometime between 25 and 36 years into his sentence, and his age and other circumstances will be allowed to be considered. | 2022-11-18T21:59:19+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/tennessee-court-juvenile-life-sentencing-unconstitutional/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
COLUMBIA, Md. , May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With its observations of a special pair of stars at a special moment in their lives, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is shedding new light on stardust.
Over an interval of 387 days, a giant star in the constellation Aquarius periodically has a dramatic change in its brightness. This is because the star falls into a category called Mira variables, which pulsate over long periods and surround themselves in a shell of dust.
But this isn't just any Mira variable. The star is one of two in a binary star system known as R Aquarii, where it has a companion white dwarf. The two orbit one another, and the white dwarf crosses in front of the Mira variable every 43.6 years, causing an eclipse from the perspective of a viewer on Earth.
Another feature that's special about R Aquarii is that the periastron, or the point in the orbit where the two stars are closest to each other, happens during the eclipse. This means that as the eclipse occurs – and the pair gets dimmer and dimmer, overall – the white dwarf and the Mira variable get closer and closer together. The white dwarf accretes more and more of the dust surrounding the Mira variable, and, because of this optimal geometry, we get to watch this process occur.
Since 2016, SOFIA, a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR, has been monitoring the onset of the eclipse, which started in 2018, with periastron expected to occur in 2023. The flow of dust can be inferred at mid-infrared wavelengths, and SOFIA's infrared camera, FORCAST, has just the right angular resolution to watch.
By combining what they know about the system – the distance between the two stars, the fact that an eclipse is ongoing, and predictions of how much dust there is – astronomers can figure out the balance between the amount of dust escaping the Mira variable and how much is being accreted by the white dwarf. These are "both very big questions," said Ravi Sankrit, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and first author on a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal about SOFIA's 2018 and 2019 observations of R Aquarii.
"It's an opportunity to see it in a unique way, because the material that's being accreted isn't obscured by the Mira, it's right out in front," added Steven Goldman, a scientist with Universities Space Research Association, based at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. Goldman is a co-author on the paper, which looks at how the onset of the eclipse is beginning to affect the dust surrounding the system.
Since the two stars move from being very far apart to very close to one another, their dust is constantly changing. Continued mid-infrared monitoring is required to fully understand how the dust is affected by the stars' orbit.
"Binarity, winds, jet formation, mass loss, and accretion are fundamental astrophysics," Sankrit said. "So, the real excitement here is that you're getting something that is on a human timescale probing very fundamental aspects of astrophysics."
The physics that Sankrit, Goldman, and their team are uncovering is applicable to more than just R Aquarii. There are hundreds of other similar binaries, and those are just the ones we know of. These other binary systems are likely experiencing the same phenomenon but aren't oriented correctly for us to be able to see their periastron and the changes in their surrounding dust.
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About SOFIA
SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR. DLR provides the telescope, scheduled aircraft maintenance, and other support for the mission. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the SOFIA program, science, and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and the German SOFIA Institute at the University of Stuttgart. The aircraft is maintained and operated by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703, in Palmdale, California. SOFIA achieved full operational capability in 2014, and the mission will conclude no later than Sept. 30, 2022. SOFIA will continue its regular operations until then, including science flights and a deployment to New Zealand this summer.
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April was not a month to remember for New Mexico United.
After a strong start in March, United did not accomplish as much as it might have liked in April. NMU went 0-2-0 in its only two USL Championship matches, went 1-3-0 overall counting two U.S. Open Cup contests, and didn’t score much (one goal in its last three appearances combined).
The good news? April is over and coach Zach Prince’s club is looking to make up for lost time in May.
United ends an 11-day break Wednesday night when it visits Sacramento Republic FC for a West Coast battle. New Mexico (2-2-2) will play three times over the next 11 days and has an opportunity to gain ground in the USL Championship’s Western Division race.
Going into Wednesday, United has played the fewest matches of any team in the league, but Prince felt the latest break came at an opportune time. NMU has been set back by injuries to key players and was not at top form in the second half of its last outing, a 1-0 home loss to San Antonio FC on March 23.
“It was a tough couple days watching film of that one,” Prince said. “I think I was most disappointed in that game than any this season because I felt like in the first half we took it to them and had opportunities. The second half wasn’t nearly as good. There were some really disappointing moments.”
Prince came away from the San Antonio match talking about making changes. Midfielder Daniel Bruce suggested United’s players needed to “look in the mirror.”
But after taking a few days to regroup, the club is ready to tear April off its calendar and move forward.
“It’s important to attack the moment, and this is an opportunity to do that,” Prince said, “not to feel sorry for yourself.”
Prince did not show his cards in terms of any personnel or strategic changes he may implement against Sacramento. Still, the extended break gave United a chance to work through some different combinations as it looks to put an end to its recent scoring funk.
One bright spot in NMU’s most recent contest was the play of 18-year-old forward Cristian Nava, who became the youngest player to start a match for the fourth-year club.
Prince pointed out that Nava – like the rest of his teammates – could have played better, but the speedy Albuquerque native did bring a spark to New Mexico’s front line.
“Cristian’s individual style suits what I want to do,” Prince said. “He’s very instinctive, very aggressive and wants to go right at the defender. Cristian doesn’t always look for combinations when he gets squared up. Sometimes he just attacks and puts the defense under pressure that way. He brings a different aspect to our attack.”
Neco Brett leads United with three goals, but he didn’t start against San Antonio. Prince tweaked his lineup for that match, in part to accommodate injuries and players in need of rest. The recent break figures to help in that regard, he said.
United cannot expect any sort of break at Heart Health Park, where Sacramento is unbeaten (3-0-1).
The one blemish was Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Las Vegas Lights, during which Republic FC racked up 25 shots (10 on goal) but managed just one tally.
“Sacramento’s a good club,” Prince said, “and they run a 4-2-3-1 alignment, which will be different for us to try to break down. But as much as it’s important to always respect your opponent, the focus on us has been massive going into this one. I can’t wait to see how we respond.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
New Mexico (2-2-2): United will be trying to jump-start its sputtering attack at Sacramento and speedy Cristian Nava seems a likely candidate after making his first career start at
home against San Antonio. The Albuquerque native created several scoring chances against SAFC and his quickness created problems for the defense. New Mexico failed to score in its last two USL Championship matches and has just seven goals in six matches. Only three USLC clubs have fewer, though United’s six matches played are the fewest in the league. Even so, midfielder Justin Portillo continues to lead the USLC with 27 chances created. Goalkeeper Cody Mizell has allowed just two goals (one on a penalty) in two matches since returning to the club on loan from New York City FC. Mizell has five saves in that span.
Sacramento (3-2-2): No one jumps off the individual stat sheet for Republic FC, which has been strong at home and shared the on-field wealth effectively this season. Dan Casey leads Sacramento with 11 shots but scored his first goal of the season in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Las Vegas Lights. Douglas Martinez and Rodrigo Lopez share the team lead with two goals apiece, and Lopez has been the top playmaker with 18 chances created. Spanish winger Sergio Gontan Gallardo, better known as Keko, joined the club this season but has yet to score a goal. Like New Mexico, Republic FC has been involved in a lot of tight contests. Sacramento has scored one goal in each of its last three contests and has not posted a clean sheet this season. Goalkeeper Daniel Vitiello has made 13 saves in five appearances.
NOTEWORTHY: United coach Zach Prince called his club “banged up,” after its most-recent match but some of United’s wounded could be returning to action soon. Defender Kalen Ryden, who has not played since the season opener with a lower body injury, returned to training last week, Prince said. Midfielder Sergio Rivas, who did not play versus San Antonio, is considered day to day, while defender Josh Suggs (lower body) remains out for the immediate future. … Wednesday’s match will be United’s first at Sacramento since a 2-1 defeat in the 2019 playoffs.
— Ken Sickenger | 2022-05-04T03:13:35+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2495468/after-time-to-regroup-united-is-at-sacramento.html |
SEATTLE (AP) — Need Plan B? Tap your credit card and enter B6.
Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that’s become more popular on campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion last year. It’s stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
With some states enacting abortion bans and others enshrining protections and expanding access to birth control, the machines are part of a push on college campuses to ensure emergency contraceptives are cheap, discreet and widely available.
There are now 39 universities in 17 states with emergency contraceptive vending machines, and at least 20 more considering them, according to the American Society for Emergency Contraception. Some, such as the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, are in states where abortion is largely banned.
Over-the-counter purchase of Plan B and generic forms is legal in all 50 states.
The 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade “is putting people’s lives at stake, so it makes pregnancy prevention all the more urgent,” said Kelly Cleland, the ASEC’s executive director. “If you live in a state where you cannot get an abortion and you can’t get an abortion anywhere near you, the stakes are so much higher than they’ve ever been before.”
Washington this year became first U.S. state to set aside money — $200,000 to fund $10,000 grants that colleges can obtain next year through an application process — to expand access to emergency contraceptives at public universities and technical colleges through the automatic dispensers.
The University of Washington’s machine was installed after a student-led campaign. It offers boxes of generic Plan B for $12.60, about a quarter of what the name-brand versions sell for in stores, and more than 640 have been sold.
The drug is even cheaper in some machines than it is in UW’s, as low as $7 per box. That’s because it is sold at just above wholesale cost, compared with pharmacy retail prices that might go up to $50.
In Illinois and New York, lawmakers are developing legislation that would require at least one vending machine selling emergency contraceptives on state college campuses.
In Connecticut, Yale had to drop plans to install an emergency contraceptive vending machine in 2019 after learning it would violate state law.
But this year the state approved a measure allowing Plan B and other over-the-counter medications to be sold from vending machines on campuses and other locations.
The machines can’t be placed in K-12 schools or exposed to the elements, and they must have temperature and humidity controls and include plans for power outages and expired items.
“This just enables people to have better access and easier access,” said Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria, one of several Republicans in Connecticut’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly who supported the measure. “You may need Plan B, as we all know, in the middle of the night, and you won’t have access to a pharmacy until the morning.”
Although the morning-after pill has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter sale, many stores and pharmacies keep it behind the counter or locked up, require identification for purchase and make the experience of purchasing it intimidating.
“There is a stigma associated with getting access to these medications,” said Zoe Amaris, a University of Washington pharmacy student and board member of UW Pharmacists for Reproductive Education and Sexual Health. “Having a vending machine is so easy. You don’t need to go to a pharmacy. You don’t need to go through your health care provider.”
Plan B is more effective the sooner it is taken, and vending machine access could be particularly crucial for victims of rape when pharmacies are closed. The anonymity the machines afford may also be important to some assault victims.
“When you have a vending machine, it takes away a lot of those barriers,” Cleland said. “Students can go on their own terms to get it when they need it.” | 2023-07-03T12:52:30+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/morning-after-pill-vending-machines-gain-popularity-on-college-campuses/ |
The Great Chicken Wing Shortage is over and prices in the supermarket have started to drop.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that the price of other things used to prepare your chicken wing order at your neighborhood restaurant have gone up – sometimes way up – and that means wing prices when you dine out haven't come down.
Customers at pizzerias still regularly suffer sticker shock when buying wings nowadays, and Bocce Club is no exception, according to Jim Pacciotti, its president.
"You tell people a party pie and a bucket come to almost 100 bucks these days and they say, 'Oh my God!' " he said. "But you can feed 12 people comfortably. If you price it out per person, it's like going to McDonald's."
And now that wing prices have started to drop, it has customers wondering – why aren't menu prices following?
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It's complicated.
"Wing prices have gone down, but all the items associated with them have gone way, way up," he said.
That goes for the canola oil used to fry them, the labor to cook them, boxes and tin foil for packaging, the blue cheese, butter and sauce for dressing them, and the paper products to go with them.
The sauce Bocce has made specially in California, for instance, has increased in price by $2 per jar, Pacciotti said.
While it's natural that customers might expect menu prices to come down, it makes perfect sense that they haven't, according to Chuck Lindsey, a marketing professor at the University at Buffalo School of Management.
"These restaurants have been hit so hard; inflationary pressures in general, increases in energy prices, labor shortages, and so on," he said. "They've taken such a hit and in many cases, they absorbed a lot of that themselves, as opposed to passing it on to consumers."
During the pandemic, when restaurants closed, many people left the industry for new lines of work. It contributed to a worker shortage that has restaurants devoting a much larger chunk of their budgets to labor costs. And it is just one of many costs of business that have increased, along with things such as insurance and utilities.
"Restaurants have seen a double-digit increase in labor costs – higher than the rate of inflation. And inflation has been incredibly high," Lindsey said.
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That doesn't mean you won't see promotional wing prices during the Super Bowl. Wing specials are already hitting menus around Western New York.
The volatility of commodity prices such as oil and butter mean it's too risky to commit to a permanent price decrease on the menu, but the lower wing prices give stores wiggle room to offer better pricing on promotions, Lindsey said.
Though canola oil has come down from its peak in May, when it tripled in price, it still costs twice as much as it did in 2020, according to federal data. And while wings are down from their peak, they are about a dollar more expensive per pound than they were in August.
"Once you lower the price, and consumers then become acclimated to that lower price, the expectations kind of are set and then all of a sudden, there's really not much you can do," he said.
It's better to hold pat and offer limited promotions that customers expect to be taken away, so as not to upset them with a further price increase if costs go up again.
It's a tightrope walk.
"You have to stay in business. You have to keep your margins at a certain level," said Bob Syracuse, president at Pizza Plant Italian Pub.
Pizza Plant Italian Pub serves a special baked wing, so its price journey has been a little different than restaurants that fry their wings. Still, it hasn't been insulated from the price increases and the troubles that have roiled the industry since the pandemic.
"There are third parties delivering now, Uber and Door Dash, there are staffing issues. Really, the landscape is changing," Syracuse said.
Chicken wing prices on the wholesale level peaked at $3.25 per pound in May 2021, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wings cost $2.25 per pound this week, down from $3.13 a year ago, according to the USDA.
These days, $1 per wing is considered a special. It may take a while for customers to adjust to that idea.
"I remember going to a bar called the Public Library on Bailey and Monday was 10-cent wing night," said Pacciotti. "Those are the things that people get stuck in their head."
Chicken or the egg?
Bird flu outbreaks around the world have led to widespread chicken slaughter and a scarcity of eggs, which drove egg prices to an average of $4.25 in December.
How can chicken wing costs drop while egg costs soar to historic heights?
It all comes down to the types of chickens used for each product and how they are farmed. Chickens raised for eating aren't as susceptible to illness as chickens used for egg production, because different farming styles are used, according to information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. | 2023-02-10T16:45:17+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/business/local/the-great-chicken-wing-shortage-has-ended-the-great-chicken-wing-price-spike-has-not/article_4265684c-a3d4-11ed-9bd7-93f2a893dfd1.html |
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. Please click the PDF link to access the full earnings press release:
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For more than 25 years, eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH) has served American consumers with innovative technology and licensed agent support to help them find health insurance solutions that fit their personal needs. Through its proprietary health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com, eHealth has connected more than eight million members with quality, affordable coverage. eHealth offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D, individual, family, small business, and ancillary plans from approximately 200 health insurance companies nationwide.
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Biden says 1st female armed services chief is ‘about time’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed Adm. Linda Fagan as new Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the armed forces’ first female service chief, declaring during a change of command ceremony on Wednesday, “It’s about time.”
“The trailblazing career of Admiral Fagan shows young people entering the services, we mean what we say: There are no doors — no doors — closed to women,” Biden told around 2,000 cheering guests at Coast Guard headquarters. Those attending included service chiefs from other military branches and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The president added, “This is what an admiral and service chief in the United States armed forces looks like” and thanked Fagan for “all that you’ve done throughout your career to open the doors of opportunity just a little bit wider” allowing “those following behind you a way through.”
“Now we need to keep working to make sure Admiral Fagan may be the first but not the only,” Biden said. “We need to see more women at the highest levels of command in the Coast Guard and across every service.”
Fagan relieved Adm. Karl L. Schultz. In a brief address, Biden didn’t mention Russia’s war with Ukraine but said “the choices the world makes today will “shape the direction of the world throughout the 21st century.”
The president said his administration is “going to be calling on the Coast Guard more frequently” to combat the threats of climate change, given that Wednesday marked the first day of hurricane season that is anticipated to be “the seventh straight year of above-average hurricane activity in the Atlantic.”
Biden also called the Coast Guard an “essential element” of his administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, and said he planned to engage to guard against overfishing by Chinese interests.
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RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- George C. Freeman, III, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Corporation (NYSE:UVV), stated, "We are extremely pleased with our results driven by strong tobacco shipments in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in fiscal year 2022. Tobacco shipments are generally moving smoothly, and we are not seeing the logistical constraints that we saw in the prior fiscal year. Our Ingredients Operations segment also continued to positively contribute to and diversify our results in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022.
"There continues to be significant demand for leaf tobacco with all types of leaf tobacco currently in an undersupply position. Short burley tobacco crops in Africa, largely due to weather conditions, have contributed to the lower leaf tobacco supply. As of December 31, 2022, our uncommitted inventory levels stood at less than 7% of our tobacco inventory, an exceptionally low level. Although it is still early, we are forecasting larger crops in several key tobacco origins in fiscal year 2024.
"In our Ingredients Operations segment, we recently have been experiencing some softening of demand for some of our ingredients products which we believe is temporary and largely due to customers adjusting their inventory levels. Some of our ingredients customers have been carrying higher inventory levels because of supply chain uncertainties. Increased costs, particularly selling, general, and administrative expenses, including costs related to the expansion of sales and product development resources and deferred compensation costs from acquisitions, reduced our results for our Ingredients Operations segment in the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2022.
"We remain excited about the long-term outlook for our ingredients businesses and continue to make significant capital investments to enhance and increase the capabilities of our plant-based ingredients platform. We are ahead of achieving some of the earlier identified operational synergies across the platform and making considerable progress on our vision for the segment. As announced on February 1, 2023, we have appointed a new director with extensive experience in the ingredients and value-added supplier space to our corporate Board of Directors to assist us as we continue to promote and expand this business.
"We successfully refinanced and expanded our bank credit facility in the quarter ended December 31, 2022, positioning us to meet our future financial needs. In line with our previous expectations, we also reduced our outstanding borrowings considerably in the three months ended December 31, 2022, as we moved beyond our peak working capital requirements for fiscal year 2023.
"Our fiscal year 2022 Sustainability Report was published in December 2022 and is available on our website, www.universalcorp.com. Sustainability is an essential pillar of our business at Universal. We are committed to disclosing our operational activities as well as our sustainability performance in a consistent and transparent manner. We are excited about our sustainability achievements and the new and updated information and disclosures contained in our 2022 Sustainability Report."
Net income for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, was $70.3 million, or $2.82 per diluted share, compared with $60.8 million, or $2.44 per diluted share, for the nine months ended December 31, 2021. Excluding certain non-recurring items detailed in Other Items below, net income and diluted earnings per share increased by $1.1 million and $0.04, respectively, for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2021. Operating income of $128.7 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, increased by $25.5 million, compared to operating income of $103.2 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2021. Adjusted operating income, detailed in Other Items below, of $128.7 million increased by $12.2 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to adjusted operating income of $116.5 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2021.
Net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, was $41.7 million, or $1.67 per diluted share, compared with $34.9 million, or $1.40 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. Excluding certain non-recurring items detailed in Other Items below, net income and diluted earnings per share decreased by $3.1 million and $0.13, respectively, for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the quarter ended December 31, 2021. Operating income of $77.5 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, increased by $14.8 million, compared to operating income of $62.8 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. Adjusted operating income, detailed in Other Items below, of $77.5 million increased by $2.7 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, compared to adjusted operating income of $74.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022.
Consolidated revenues increased by $419.2 million to $1.9 billion for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same period in fiscal year 2022, on higher tobacco sales volumes and prices as well as the addition of the business acquired in October 2021 in the Ingredients Operations segment. For the quarter ended December 31, 2022, consolidated revenues were $795.0 million, an increase of $142.4 million compared to $652.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, on higher tobacco sales volumes and prices.
TOBACCO OPERATIONS
Operating income for the Tobacco Operations segment increased by $13.4 million to $119.0 million and by $7.3 million to $77.1 million, respectively, for the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in fiscal year 2022. Tobacco Operations segment results improved primarily due to large shipments of both carryover and current crop tobacco, in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2021. While sales volumes were higher for the Tobacco Operations segment in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in the prior fiscal year, gross profit and operating margins were lower due to sales mix and sales of tobaccos that were written down in prior quarters. Tobacco shipments from Brazil of both carryover and current crops were up significantly in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2021. In Africa, despite some lower burley tobacco crop sizes, tobacco sales volumes were up due to earlier shipment timing in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in fiscal year 2022. Results for our oriental tobacco joint venture were down in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in the prior fiscal year, on lower sales volumes and unfavorable foreign currency comparisons. Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the Tobacco Operations segment were higher in the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2021, primarily due to unfavorable foreign currency comparisons, higher provisions to suppliers, and higher compensation costs. For the quarter ended December 31, 2022, selling, general, and administrative expenses for the Tobacco Operations segment were higher compared to the quarter ended December 31, 2021, largely due to higher compensation costs and larger provisions to suppliers, in part due to lower crop yields, partially offset by favorable foreign exchange comparisons. Revenues for the Tobacco Operations segment of $1.6 billion for the nine months and $724.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, were up $374.1 million and $146.6 million, respectively, compared to the same periods in the prior fiscal year, on higher sales volumes and prices.
INGREDIENTS OPERATIONS
Operating income for the Ingredients Operations segment was $9.9 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to $10.6 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2021. Results for the Ingredients Operations segment were down in the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year, as increased sales and better margins as well as the inclusion of the October 2021 purchase of Shank's Extracts, LLC ("Shank's") were offset by increased costs, mainly higher selling, general, and administrative expenses. Operating income for the Ingredients Operations segment was $0.8 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to $3.5 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, on lower sales, particularly lower sales of extracts, and higher costs. Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the segment increased in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in the prior fiscal year, largely on higher compensation costs, including final deferred compensation costs from acquisitions, as well as costs related to the expansion of sales and product development capabilities of our plant-based ingredients platform. Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the segment also increased in the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year, on the addition of Shank's. Revenues for the Ingredients Operations segment increased by $45.1 million to $233.2 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2021, largely on the addition of the revenues for the acquired business as well as higher sales volumes and prices for the existing businesses. For the quarter ended December 31, 2022, revenues for the Ingredients Operations segment decreased by $4.2 million to $70.5 million, compared to the quarter ended December 31, 2021, on lower sales volumes.
OTHER ITEMS
Cost of goods sold in the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, increased by 32% and 25% to $1.5 billion and $649.5 million, respectively, compared to the same periods in the prior fiscal year, as a result of higher raw material costs. The percentage increases in cost of goods sold were higher than comparable percentage increases in revenues in the same periods primarily due to some lower margin sales in the Tobacco Operations segment. Selling, general, and administrative costs for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, increased by $31.3 million to $206.8 million compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year, on higher compensation costs, additional costs from the acquisition of Shank's in the Ingredients Operations segment as well as unfavorable foreign currency comparisons. Selling, general, and administrative costs for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, increased by $7.7 million to $68.0 million compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year, on higher compensation costs, including final deferred compensation costs from acquisitions, and higher provisions to suppliers partially offset by favorable foreign currency comparisons. Unfavorable foreign currency comparisons were approximately $3.8 million in the nine months ended December 31, 2022, and favorable foreign currency comparisons were approximately $4.5 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to the same periods in the prior year. Interest expense for the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, increased by $12.5 million to $33.3 million and by $6.8 million to $14.3 million, respectively, largely on higher debt balances and interest rates.
For the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2022, our effective tax rate on pre-tax income was 23.2% and 19.3%, respectively. In the nine months ended December 31, 2022, we sold our idled Tanzania operations and recognized $1.1 million of income taxes. Without this item, the consolidated effective income tax rate for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, would have been approximately 22.0%. Additionally, the sale of our idled Tanzania operations resulted in a $1.8 million reduction to consolidated interest expense related to an uncertain tax position.
For the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2021, our effective tax rate on pre-tax income was 21.0% and 23.4% respectively. In the nine months ended December 31, 2021, the Company recognized a $1.7 million income tax benefit related to a final tax ruling at a foreign subsidiary and a $1.2 million benefit in the third fiscal quarter of 2022 due to finalizing the prior year U.S. tax return. Without these income tax benefits, the adjusted effective tax rate for the nine months and quarter ended December 31, 2021, would have been 24.3% and 25.5%, respectively.
On December 15, 2022, we entered into a new bank credit agreement that replaced our existing bank credit agreement dated December 20, 2018. The terms of the new agreement are substantially similar to the terms of the prior agreement. The new agreement established a five-year committed revolving credit facility of $530 million, a funded $275 million five-year term loan, and a funded $345 million seven-year term loan. The new revolving credit facility replaced a $430 million revolving credit facility that would have matured in December 2023 and a $225 million five-year term loan and a $295 million seven-year term loan that would have matured in December 2023 and December 2025, respectively. The financial covenants under the new revolving credit facility are substantially similar to those of the previous facility and require us to maintain certain levels of tangible net worth and leverage. Under applicable accounting guidance, a significant portion of the replacement of the term loans was accounted for as a debt modification rather than a debt extinguishment.
Reconciliation of Certain Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The following tables set forth certain non-recurring items included in reported results to reconcile adjusted operating income to consolidated operating income and adjusted net income to net income attributable to Universal Corporation:
COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT
We continue to monitor global developments related to the coronavirus ("COVID-19" or "COVID") pandemic and have taken and continue to take steps intended to mitigate the potential risks and impacts to us. Mitigating risks from COVID to our employees and our business is critically important. We have assessed and regularly update our existing health and safety protocols, business continuity plans, and related policies and practices, and we continue to work with our suppliers to mitigate the impacts to our supply chain due to the pandemic. To date, we have not experienced a material impact to our supply chain, although we previously experienced delays resulting from COVID in certain operations, we experienced increased volatility in foreign currency exchange rates which we believe in part related to COVID uncertainties and actions taken by governments and central banks, and we experienced and continue to monitor for logistical constraints around worldwide vessel and container availability and increased costs stemming from the COVID pandemic. We remain thankful for the hard work of our employees and the continued support of our customers, growers, and other partners.
Additional information
Amounts described as net income (loss) and earnings (loss) per diluted share in the previous discussion are attributable to Universal Corporation and exclude earnings related to non-controlling interests in subsidiaries. Adjusted operating income (loss), adjusted net income (loss) attributable to Universal Corporation, adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share, and the total for segment operating income (loss) referred to in this discussion are non-GAAP financial measures. These measures are not financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as substitutes for operating income (loss), net income (loss) attributable to Universal Corporation, diluted earnings (loss) per share, cash from operating activities or any other operating or financial performance measure calculated in accordance with GAAP, and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures reported by other companies. A reconciliation of adjusted operating income (loss) to consolidated operating (income), adjusted net income (loss) attributable to Universal Corporation to consolidated net income (loss) attributable to Universal Corporation and adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share to diluted earnings (loss) per share are provided in Other Items above. In addition, we have provided a reconciliation of the total for segment operating income (loss) to consolidated operating income (loss) in Note 3 "Segment Information" to the consolidated financial statements. Management evaluates the consolidated Company and segment performance excluding certain significant charges or credits. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures, which exclude items that we believe are not indicative of our core operating results, provide investors with important information that is useful in understanding our business results and trends.
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company cautions readers that any statements contained herein regarding financial condition, results of operation, and future business plans, operations, opportunities, and prospects for its performance are forward-looking statements based upon management's current knowledge and assumptions about future events, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any anticipated results, prospects, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and new subvariants; success in pursuing strategic investments or acquisitions and integration of new businesses and the impact of these new businesses on future results; product purchased not meeting quality and quantity requirements; our reliance on a few large customers; its ability to maintain effective information technology systems and safeguard confidential information; anticipated levels of demand for and supply of its products and services; costs incurred in providing these products and services including increased transportation costs and delays attributed to global supply chain challenges; timing of shipments to customers; higher inflation rates; changes in market structure; government regulation and other stakeholder expectations; economic and political conditions in the countries in which we and our customers operate, including the ongoing impacts from the conflict in Ukraine; product taxation; industry consolidation and evolution; changes in exchange rates and interest rates; impacts of regulation and litigation on its customers; industry-specific risks related to its plant-based ingredient businesses; exposure to certain regulatory and financial risks related to climate change; changes in estimates and assumptions underlying its critical accounting policies; the promulgation and adoption of new accounting standards, new government regulations and interpretation of existing standards and regulations; and general economic, political, market, and weather conditions. Actual results, therefore, could vary from those expected. A further list and description of these risks, uncertainties, and other factors can be found in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, and in other documents the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This information should be read in conjunction with the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2022. The Company cautions investors not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements as these statements speak only as of the date when made, and it undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made.
At 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on February 8, 2023, the Company will host a conference call to discuss these results. Those wishing to listen to the call may do so by visiting www.universalcorp.com at that time. A replay of the webcast will be available at that site through May 8, 2023. A taped replay of the call will be available through February 21, 2023, by dialing (866) 813-9403. The confirmation number to access the replay is 778598.
Universal Corporation (NYSE: UVV), headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a global business-to-business agri-products supplier to consumer product manufacturers, operating in over 30 countries on five continents. We strive to be the supplier of choice for our customers by leveraging our farmer base, our commitment to a sustainable supply chain, and our ability to provide high-quality, customized, traceable, value-added agri-products essential for our customers' requirements. We find innovative solutions to serve our customers and have been meeting their agri-product needs for more than 100 years. Our principal focus since our founding in 1918 has been tobacco, and we are the leading global leaf tobacco supplier. Through our plant-based ingredients platform, we provide a variety of value-added manufacturing processes to produce high-quality, specialty vegetable- and fruit-based ingredients as well as botanical extracts and flavorings for the food and beverage end markets. For more information, visit www.universalcorp.com.
NOTE 1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Universal Corporation, which together with its subsidiaries is referred to herein as "Universal" or the "Company," is a global business-to-business agri-products supplier to consumer product manufacturers. The Company is the leading global leaf tobacco supplier and provides high-quality plant-based ingredients to food and beverage end markets. Because of the seasonal nature of the Company's business, the results of operations for any fiscal quarter will not necessarily be indicative of results to be expected for other quarters or a full fiscal year. All adjustments necessary to state fairly the results for the period have been included and were of a normal recurring nature. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 (the "2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K").
NOTE 2. EARNINGS PER SHARE
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:
NOTE 3. SEGMENT INFORMATION
The Company conducts operations across two reportable operating segments, Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations.
The Tobacco Operations segment activities involve selecting, procuring, processing, packing, storing, shipping, and financing leaf tobacco for sale to, or for the account of, manufacturers of consumer tobacco products throughout the world. Through various operating subsidiaries located in tobacco-growing countries around the world and significant ownership interests in unconsolidated affiliates, the Company processes and/or sells flue-cured and burley tobaccos, dark air-cured tobaccos, and oriental tobaccos. Flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos are used principally in the manufacture of cigarettes, and dark air-cured tobaccos are used mainly in the manufacture of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products. Some of these tobacco types are also increasingly used in the manufacture of non-combustible tobacco products that are intended to provide consumers with an alternative to traditional combustible products. The Tobacco Operations segment also provides physical and chemical product testing and smoke testing for tobacco customers. A substantial portion of the Company's Tobacco Operations' revenues are derived from sales to a limited number of large, multinational cigarette and cigar manufacturers.
The Ingredients Operations segment provides its customers with a broad variety of plant-based ingredients for both human and pet consumption. The Ingredients Operations segment utilizes a variety of value-added manufacturing processes converting raw materials into a wide spectrum of fruit and vegetable juices, concentrates, dehydrated products, flavors, and botanical extracts. Customers for the Ingredients Operations segment include large multinational food and beverage companies, smaller independent manufacturers, and retail organizations. FruitSmart, Silva, and Shank's are the primary operations for the Ingredients Operations segment. FruitSmart manufactures fruit and vegetable juices, purees, concentrates, essences, fibers, seeds, seed oils, and seed powders. Silva is primarily a dehydrated product manufacturer of fruit and vegetable based flakes, dices, granules, powders, and blends. Shank's manufactures flavors and botanical extracts and also offers bottling and custom packaging for customers.
The Company currently evaluates the performance of its segments based on operating income after allocated overhead expenses, plus equity in the pretax earnings of unconsolidated affiliates. Operating results for the Company's reportable segments for each period presented in the consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income were as follows.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government declared a public health emergency Thursday to bolster the response to the monkeypox outbreak that has infected more than 6,600 Americans.
The announcement will free up money and other resources to fight the virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps on many parts of the body.
“We are prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously,” said Xavier Becerra, head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Indiana Department of Health signup for monkeypox vaccine
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The declaration by HHS comes as the Biden administration has faced criticism over monkeypox vaccine availability. Clinics in major cities such as New York and San Francisco say they haven’t received enough of the two-shot vaccine to meet demand, and some have had to stop offering the second dose to ensure supply of first doses.
The White House said it has made more than 1.1 million doses available and has helped to boost domestic diagnostic capacity to 80,000 tests per week.
The monkeypox virus spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, including hugging, cuddling and kissing, as well as sharing bedding, towels and clothing. The people who have gotten sick so far have been primarily men who have sex with men. But health officials emphasize that the virus can infect anyone.
Earlier this week, the Biden administration named top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat monkeypox.
Thursday’s declaration is an important — and overdue — step, said Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University.
“It signals the U.S. government’s seriousness and purpose, and sounds a global alarm,” he said.
Under the declaration, HHS can draw from emergency funds, hire or reassign staff to deal with the outbreak and take other steps to control the virus.
For example, the announcement should help the federal government to seek more information from state and local health officials about who is becoming infected and who is being vaccinated. That information can be used to better understand how the outbreak is unfolding and how well the vaccine works.
Gostin said the U.S. government has been too cautious and should have declared a nationwide emergency earlier. Public health measures to control outbreaks have increasingly faced legal challenges in recent years, but Gostin didn’t expect that to happen with monkeypox.
“It is a textbook case of a public health emergency,” Gostin said. “It’s not a red or a blue state issue. There is no political opposition to fighting monkeypox.”
A public health emergency can be extended, similar to what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic, he noted.
The urgency in the current response stems from the rapid spread of the virus coupled with the limited availability of the two-dose vaccine called Jynneos, which is considered the main medical weapon against the disease.
The doses, given 28 days apart, are currently being given to people soon after they think they were exposed, as a measure to prevent symptoms.
Becerra announced the emergency declaration during a call with reporters. During the call, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said regulators are reviewing an approach that would stretch supplies by allowing health professionals to vaccinate up to five people — instead of one — with each vial of Jynneos.
Under this so-called “dose-sparing” approach, physicians and others would use a shallower injection under the skin, instead of the subcutaneous injection currently recommended in the vaccine’s labeling.
Califf said a decision authorizing that approach could come “within days.”
That would require another declaration, to allow the government to alter its guidelines on how to administer the vaccine, officials said.
Health officials pointed to a study published in 2015 that found that Jynneos vaccine administered that way was as effective at stimulating the immune system as when the needle plunger deeper into other tissue.
But experts also have acknowledged they are still gathering information on how well the conventional administration of one or two full doses works against the outbreak.
Others health organizations have made declarations similar to the one issued by HHS.
Last week, the World Health Organization called monkeypox a public health emergency, with cases in more than 70 countries. A global emergency is WHO’s highest level of alert, but the designation does not necessarily mean a disease is particularly transmissible or lethal.
California, Illinois and New York have all made declarations in the last week, as have New York City, San Francisco and San Diego County.
The declaration of a national public health emergency and the naming of a monkeypox czar are “symbolic actions,” said Gregg Gonsalves, a Yale University infectious diseases expert.
What’s important is that the government is taking the necessary steps to control the outbreak and — if it comes to that — to have a plan for how to deal with monkeypox if it becomes endemic, he said.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. It does not usually spread easily among people.
But in May, a wave of unexpected cases began emerging in Europe and the United States. Now nearly 26,000 cases have been reported in countries that traditionally have not seen monkeypox.
Stobbe reported from New York City. Associated Press Health Writer Matthew Perrone contributed to this report. | 2022-08-04T22:36:13+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/us-declares-public-health-emergency-over-monkeypox-outbreak/ |
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Front Systems (2F), the public-benefit software company focused on accelerating the delivery of mission-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to government, announces the strategic $2 million investment from UK-based GALLOS Technologies Limited as a secondary close to its Series A funding round.
This funding will support 2F's entry into the UK market and position its fully managed and compliant DevSecOps platform Game Warden as a software bridge between the two allied nations.
"Our British and American armed forces operate closely from humanitarian assistance to crisis response. Yet, the lack of a common accreditation backbone creates an unacceptable gap between our information systems and operating effectiveness," said Peter Dixon, CEO at Second Front, who as a US Marine served alongside 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in Afghanistan.
GALLOS' mission is to invest in and co-build companies in critical security technology areas, supporting them to become the next market leaders. By applying its unique insights, network, and capabilities with patient capital, GALLOS provides companies like 2F with an edge in accessing new markets and accelerating their growth.
"Second Front brings the promise of making both the UK defence, and larger still US defence market, addressable to UK SaaS companies," said Dean Jones, co-founder of GALLOS and former UK Special Forces and Royal Marines soldier. "We couldn't be prouder to partner with this fast-growing software company."
The investment builds on 2F's already oversubscribed Series A funding round, which will be used to expand its Game Warden platform's availability to additional environments and across multiple cloud providers. Game Warden is currently delivered on AWS GovCloud with production environments available in Impact Levels 2, 4, and 5.
This move will further position 2F as the market leader in rapidly onboarding cutting-edge SaaS into an increasingly addressable, and now international, public sector market.
For more information, visit www.secondfront.com
Second Front Systems (2F) fast-tracks government access to disruptive, commercially-proven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for national security missions. Leading software providers — ranging from publicly traded defense contractors to startups — and government agencies trust 2F's Game Warden DevSecOps platform and secure cloud hosting environment to accelerate their delivery and harness the cloud revolution at scale. Founded by former U.S. Marines, this public benefit, venture-backed software company is driven by firsthand experience of the dangers outdated technology poses in combat. For more information, visit https://secondfront.com/
GALLOS Technologies invests in and co-builds early-stage startups in the cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data analytics, sensors, and autonomous systems (UAVs) sectors. GALLOS supports its investments by bringing unique security, science & technology, and commercial optimisation expertise, underpinned by a highly connected network and patient capital at scale.
GALLOS has assembled a world-class team with decades of Nation State level security experience and deep investment and commercial know-how to provide differentiable value. Key amongst these is our unique view of security which gives GALLOS insight into the technologies which can be brought to bear to help commercial and governmental clients manage the systemic security challenges they face.
Following an oversubscribed capital raise in July 2022, GALLOS is investing in high-potential, early-stage (pre-seed through to Series B) companies where it can apply its advantages to help them achieve greater success.
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MIT Technology Review's signature digital transformation event opens next week, as the future implications generative AI and emerging tech continue to captivate the public discourse.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT Technology Review will host its annual EmTech Next virtually from June 13-15. An event designed to explore the emerging technologies reshaping business today, the three-day online event will include sessions from some of the leading changemakers in industry, attendees from a variety of disciplines, and unparalleled networking opportunities.
Artificial intelligence and emerging tech continue to dominate the public consciousness, as leaders, businesses, and individuals try and unravel what it all means. The agenda for the 6th annual EmTech next event covers generative AI, web3, metaverses, leadership strategies for the digital workforce, industry 4.0, and the emerging technologies transforming the customer experience. Speakers from leading organizations such as Google, NASA, Johnson & Johnson, NVIDIA, and the USPS will sit down with MIT Technology Review's editorial team to discuss innovations and impact.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Shreveport’s mayor-elect Tom Arceneaux and city council members will be sworn in Saturday morning at the Shreveport Convention Center.
The city’s first Republican mayor in more than two decades will be sworn in alongside a city council that is as diverse as the city they will take an oath to represent.
- Tom Arceneaux – Mayor of Shreveport
- Tabatha Taylor – District A
- Gary Brooks – District B
- James “Jim” Taliaferro – District C
- Grayson Boucher – District D
- Alan Jackson – District E
- James Green – District F
- Ursula Bowman -District G
The inauguration and city council installation ceremony will start at 10 a.m. at 400 Caddo Street, Shreveport. KTALnews.com will stream the inauguration and council installation ceremony. | 2022-12-29T19:34:50+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/local-news/shreveport-mayor-elect-inauguration-city-council-installation-set-for-new-years-eve/ |
In the first congressional hearing on monkeypox, federal officials were criticized for being slow to act, and struggling to apply the lessons of the pandemic to the current outbreak.
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In the first congressional hearing on monkeypox, federal officials were criticized for being slow to act, and struggling to apply the lessons of the pandemic to the current outbreak.
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Tiger Woods tips his hat to the crowd during a match between Serena Williams and Anett Kontaveit in the second round of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Aug. 31, 2022, in New York.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods and 13-year-old son Charlie are returning to the PNC Championship with hopes of doing one better than last year.
The 20-team field is for winners of majors or The Players Championship and a child or parent. This will be the third time Woods plays. A year ago, he and Charlie finished one shot behind John Daly and his son.
The 36-hole event, televised by NBC, is Dec. 17-18 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando.
"We have been looking forward to this week all year," Woods said. "This is such a special opportunity as a dad to get to compete with my son against so many golfing greats and their family members. It is going to be a very special week and I know that Charlie and I will have a blast."
Woods has not competed since he missed the cut in the British Open at St. Andrews in July. He is playing next week in his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, a 72-hole event against a 20-man field of the world's top players.
He also has a made-for-TV exhibition on Dec. 10 with Rory McIlroy as his partner against Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth.
That will be seven rounds in 18 days.
Thomas and Spieth also will be at the PNC Championship with their fathers. Thomas and his father, longtime club professional Mike Thomas, won in 2020.
Annika Sorenstam is playing again, this time with her son, Will. The PNC field also includes Nelly Korda and her father, Petr, a former Australian Open tennis champion. | 2022-11-26T05:22:49+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/tiger-woods-to-return-to-pnc-championship-with-son-charlie/article_0f5b0094-6d2c-11ed-8621-4747e8aafa92.html |
LONDON (AP) — British and German air force fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian aircraft flying close to Estonian airspace, the U.K. Defense Ministry said Wednesday, amid mounting concerns about confrontation in the skies near Russia and Ukraine.
The U.K. and Germany are conducting joint air policing missions in Estonia as part of NATO efforts to bolster its eastern flank in response to Russia.
The Typhoon jets responded Tuesday after a Russian air-to-air refueling aircraft failed to communicate with Estonian air traffic control, the U.K. ministry said. The Russian plane didn’t enter the airspace of Estonia, a NATO member.
British and German planes are patrolling together as part of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission until the end of April.
Wing Commander Scott Maccoll, Commander of the Royal Air Force’s 140 Expeditionary Air Wing, said “it was great to see the U.K. and German elements operate as one team.”
U.K. armed forces minister James Heappey said “this joint U.K. and German deployment in the Baltics clearly demonstrates our collective resolve to challenge any potential threat to NATO’s borders, whilst demonstrating our combined strength.”
Such interceptions are routine —- even before Russia invaded Ukraine last year, NATO planes were involved in about 400 interceptions a year with Russian aircraft. Germany’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday’s incident was the 28th time Luftwaffe planes had scrambled since German forces were stationed in Estonia last summer.
But the incident comes amid heightened tensions after a collision between a Russian jet and a U.S. drone over the Black Sea.
Washington and Moscow gave conflicting accounts of Tuesday’s incident. The U.S. said a Russian Su-27 fighter jet struck the propeller of a MQ-9 Reaper drone, and U.S. forces had to bring down the unmanned craft. Russia said the drone crashed after making a “sharp maneuver.”
The incident appeared to be the first time since the height of the Cold War that a U.S. aircraft was brought down after an encounter with a Russian warplane. It highlighted the risk of confrontation between Russia and the West amid the war in Ukraine.
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Associated Press writer Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed to this story. | 2023-03-16T01:10:46+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/uk-german-fighter-jets-intercept-russian-plane-near-estonia/ |
The family of Connor Sturgeon -- who was killed after he fatally shot five people Monday morning at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky -- plans to have his brain tested for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, his father and a spokesperson for the family told CNN on Thursday.
"Yes, Connor is being tested for CTE. Probably will take a while to get results," Todd Sturgeon, Connor Sturgeon's father, texted to CNN.
Pete Palmer, a family friend who is speaking for the Sturgeons, said the family and the state medical examiner are looking to have Connor Sturgeon's brain tested.
The medical examiner's office has completed most of its tests, and the process of testing for CTE will now begin, Palmer said.
A spokesperson for the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet, which includes the medical examiner's office, said "several tests and lab results" are pending on the autopsies of those killed in the bank shooting.
"Until all tests are complete and results have been issued no information will be released," spokesperson Morgan Hall said. "This process will take several weeks."
CTE, a neurodegenerative brain disease, can be found in people who have been exposed to repeated head trauma. Studies have found that repetitive hits to the head -- even without concussion -- can result in CTE.
Sturgeon's family thinks he had three significant concussions -- two as an eighth-grade football player and one in basketball as a high school freshman, according to Palmer.
The disease, which can only be diagnosed with an autopsy and neuropathological exam, is pathologically marked by a buildup of tau protein in the brain that can disable neuropathways and lead to a variety of symptoms including memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, aggression, depression, anxiety, impulse control issues and sometimes suicidal behavior.
However, experts note that symptoms like these may not necessarily be caused by CTE; they could be caused by head injuries themselves -- or by something completely unrelated.
Police have not released information about a motive in the shooting.
The testing disclosure comes as more families are talking about their loved ones who were killed.
The daughter of Juliana Farmer, one of the five who were killed, said Wednesday night her mother had just moved to Louisville two weeks prior for a new job at the bank.
"This monster took away my mother, and I'm hurt because my mother moved here to help me, a single mom with four kids. I only got two weeks with her here in Louisville ... a city she knew nothing about," Alia Chambers told CNN. "I'm heartbroken. I hated him. I hated him but I forgive him because my mama is in a better place."
Farmer moved to Louisville from Henderson, Kentucky, and was thrilled to begin her role with Old National Bank as a loan officer.
"My mom went from working at 19 years old at Kmart to sitting with executives at a bank. I'm gonna fulfill my mama's dream. Either I'm going back to nursing school or I'm gonna ask them, can I take over her position at that bank," she said. "She was so excited about that job. She was happy."
Farmer had three adult children and four grandsons, Chambers said.
The day before she was killed, she found out her son, J'Yeon Chambers, was expecting a baby girl, he told CNN. The baby is due in September, the same month his mother was born.
"And so it's just crazy how she gets taken the day after we reveal that we're having the baby. So my child is going to be her basically all over again," her son said. "She gave us the name that she always wanted a girl to be named and we're going to stick with it."
The new details come as CNN has learned more about the victims and wounded in Monday's workplace mass shooting, including the survival of a woman who was seated between two people who were killed.
Sturgeon, a 25-year-old Old National Bank employee, opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle in the bank about a half-hour before it was to open to the public, killing five colleagues before he was fatally shot by a responding officer. Farmer, Joshua Barrick, Tommy Elliott, Deana Eckert and James Tutt were shot and killed, police said.
Of the eight people who were wounded, a 26-year-old police officer remains in critical condition after being shot in the head, requiring brain surgery.
Woman who was seated between two victims released from hospital
One woman who was shot but survived was seated in a conference room between Farmer and Elliott when the attack began, according to the father of her children, Rex Minrath.
Dana Mitchell, an employee at the bank, has returned home from the hospital and is recovering, Minrath told CNN in a phone interview Thursday. She is expected to have surgery in the coming weeks to remove "the rest of the bullet," he said.
"Dana was in the conference room between Tommy and Juliana. She sat between those two," Minrath told CNN. "And then when they hit the ground, they were all on the ground together. She is fortunate because both of them weren't so lucky."
Mitchell's son, Ross Minrath, posted a series of images and updates about his mother's condition on his Facebook page this week.
"After positive results from blood work and her being an all around badass, my Mom was released from the hospital today," he wrote on Tuesday night. "She is very sore but doing well. Her phone has been at the bank and hopes to start reaching out herself tomorrow."
In one Facebook post, he said the gunshot bruised her lung and that doctors were able to clean the wound on her back. His mother, he added, "is the toughest I've ever known."
He thanked those who had reached out to the family with well wishes and asked for people to continue to send prayers for his mother.
In addition, the first person who was shot inside the bank survived, a city official told CNN. In the shooter's Instagram livestream of the attack, which has since been taken down, the female bank worker said "good morning" before the gunman warned her, "You need to get out of here," according to an official familiar with the video.
The woman had her back to the gunman as he struggled to get the safety off and load his AR-15-style weapon properly. He then shot her in the back, an official previously told CNN.
Governor says he's 'empty' after friend's death
At a vigil Wednesday evening, scores of residents and officials gathered to mourn publicly the employees gunned down at their workplace by a coworker.
"It's important that we take time to acknowledge those losses and what they mean for us as people and as a community," Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said during the vigil at the Muhammad Ali Center Plaza. "So, that later we can gather our energies and focus on preventing these tragedies."
Greenberg noted the heartbreaking impacts of gun violence in his city beyond Monday's carnage, which unfolded less than a mile from where the vigil was held Wednesday.
"There will be a time to act. To take steps in honor of those we've lost and to channel our grief and pain into meaningful action. That day is coming," the mayor continued. "Today is to mourn, to lean on each other and support each other."
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at the vigil that Elliott, a senior vice president at the bank, was one of his closest friends.
"I'll admit that while I am not angry, I am empty. And I'm sad. And I just keep thinking that maybe we'll wake up," Beshear said, his voice breaking.
"What I know is, I just wish I'd taken an extra moment, made an extra call, tell him how much I care about him. And I know we are all feeling the same. But I also know they hear us now. And that they feel our love," Beshear said.
Shooter's mother called 911 minutes after massacre began
Louisville police on Wednesday released a series of 911 calls showing the fear and panic both inside and outside the bank during the shooting early Monday morning.
In one emergency call, a woman who identified herself as an employee of a different Old National Bank branch told the dispatcher she saw the massacre happen in real time while she was on a video call with colleagues at the scene.
"How do you know you have an active shooter on site?" the operator asked.
"I just watched it. I just watched it on a Teams meeting. We were having a board meeting," she said. "I saw somebody on the floor. We heard multiple shots and people started saying 'Oh my God,' and then he came into the board room."
Another 911 call came from the gunman's mother, who said her son was headed to the bank with a gun and expressed her shock and confusion.
"My son might be (redacted) has a gun and heading to the Old National on Main Street here in Louisville," she said. "This is his mother. I'm so sorry, I'm getting details secondhand. I'm learning about it now. Oh my Lord."
The woman said her son "apparently left a note" about the incident. "We don't even own guns. I don't know where he would have gotten a gun."
Other calls came from a bank employee speaking in a whisper who was hiding in a closet, a man who fled the building and took shelter at a nearby dental office, and another caller who hid under a desk inside the building.
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– Based on Results from Phase 3 BOSTON Study, Marketing Authorisation Expands Multiple Myeloma Indication –
– Approval Follows Positive Opinion by European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) in May 2022 –
NEWTON, Mass. and FLORENCE, Italy, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, and the Menarini Group ("Menarini"), a privately-held, leading international pharmaceutical company, today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted Marketing Authorisation for NEXPOVIO® (selinexor), a first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, in combination with once-weekly bortezomib (Velcade®) and low-dose dexamethasone (SVd) for the treatment of adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior therapy. With this approval for the extension of NEXPOVIO®'s indication in the European Union (EU), the conditional marketing authorisation is now converted to a full approval. The marketing authorisation, which marks the second indication for NEXPOVIO®, is valid in all 27 member states of the EU as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Northern Ireland. Stemline Therapeutics B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Menarini Group, will be responsible for all commercialization activities in Europe.
The approval follows a positive opinion granted in May 2022 by the CHMP based on results from the Phase 3 BOSTON study that demonstrated once-weekly SVd resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared to standard twice-weekly bortezomib plus dexamethasone (Vd) regimen. The results from the BOSTON study were published in The Lancet (Grosicki, et al.) in November 2020.
"The European Commission's approval of an expanded use of NEXPOVIO® provides another option for patients with multiple myeloma who have relapsed, or become resistant to current treatment regimens," said Richard Paulson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Karyopharm. "Our decision to pursue approval for this patient population is indicative of our commitment to expand access to selinexor across the globe and we look forward to working closely with Menarini who will commercialize NEXPOVIO® in Europe."
"The approval of NEXPOVIO® marks an important step forward for patients in Europe where nearly 51,000 new cases of multiple myeloma are diagnosed each year and therapeutic options are limited," said Elcin Barker Ergun, Chief Executive Officer of Menarini. "We are committed to offering patients and physicians a valuable new treatment option and are working hard to make NEXPOVIO® available in different European countries as quickly as possible."
About the BOSTON study
The Marketing Authorisation is based upon the Phase 3 BOSTON (Bortezomib, Selinexor and Dexamethasone) study, which was a multi-center, randomized study (NCT03110562) that evaluated 402 adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who had received one to three prior lines of therapy. The study was designed to compare the efficacy, safety and certain health-related quality of life parameters of once-weekly SVd versus twice-weekly Vd. The primary endpoint of the study was progression-free survival and key secondary endpoints included overall response rate, rate of peripheral neuropathy, and others. To learn more about this study, please refer to Karyopharm and Menarini's press release on the positive CHMP opinion issued on May 20, 2022.
About Multiple Myeloma in Europe
Multiple myeloma is an incurable cancer with significant morbidity and the second most common hematologic malignancy. According to the World Health Organization, in 2020, there were approximately 51,000 new cases and 32,000 deaths from multiple myeloma in Europe1. While the treatment of multiple myeloma has improved over the last 20 years, and overall survival has increased considerably, the disease remains incurable, and nearly all patients will eventually relapse and develop disease that is refractory to all approved anti-myeloma therapies. Therefore, there continues to be a high unmet medical need for new therapies, particularly those with novel mechanisms of action.
About NEXPOVIO® (selinexor)
NEXPOVIO®, which is marketed as XPOVIO® in the U.S., has been approved in the following oncology indications by the European Commission: (i) in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myeloma in adult patients who have received at least four prior therapies and whose disease is refractory to at least two proteasome inhibitors, two immunomodulatory agents and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, and who have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy; and (ii) in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone for the treatment of adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior therapy.
The expanded NEXPOVIO® indication now allows adult patients with multiple myeloma to be treated in earlier lines of therapy. The indication for NEXPOVIO® is valid in the EU Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Northern Ireland. NEXPOVIO® is also approved in the UK under a Conditional Marketing Authorisation. The extension of indication in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone for the treatment of adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior therapy is currently under review by Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
NEXPOVIO® is a first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor. NEXPOVIO® functions by selectively binding to and inhibiting the nuclear export protein exportin 1 (XPO1, also called CRM1). NEXPOVIO® blocks the nuclear export of tumor suppressor, growth regulatory and anti-inflammatory proteins, leading to accumulation of these proteins in the nucleus and enhancing their anti-cancer activity in the cell. The forced nuclear retention of these proteins can counteract a multitude of the oncogenic pathways that, unchecked, allow cancer cells with severe DNA damage to continue to grow and divide in an unrestrained fashion.
Please see NEXPOVIO® Summary of Product Characteristics and European Public Assessment Report at https://ec.europa.eu/health/documents/community-register/html/h1537.htm
UNITED STATES IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Contraindications: Hypersensitivity to selinexor.
Special warnings and precautions for use:
Recommended concomitant treatments
Patients should be advised to maintain adequate fluid and caloric intake throughout treatment. Intravenous hydration should be considered for patients at risk of dehydration.
Prophylactic concomitant treatment with a 5-HT3 antagonist and/or other anti-nausea agents should be provided prior to and during treatment with NEXPOVIO®.
Haematology:
Patients should have their complete blood counts (CBC) assessed at baseline, during treatment, and as clinically indicated. Monitor more frequently during the first two months of treatment.
Thrombocytopenia:
Thrombocytopenic events (thrombocytopenia and platelet count decreased) were frequently reported in adult patients receiving selinexor, which can be severe (Grade 3/4). Patients should be monitored for signs and symptoms of bleeding and evaluated promptly.
Neutropenia:
Severe neutropenia (Grade 3/4) has been reported with selinexor.
Patients with neutropenia should be monitored for signs of infection and evaluated promptly.
Gastrointestinal toxicity:
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, which sometimes can be severe and may require the use of anti-emetic and anti-diarrhoeal medicinal products.
Weight loss and anorexia:
Patients should have their body weight, nutritional status and volume checked at baseline, during treatment, and as clinically indicated. Monitoring should be more frequent during the first two months of treatment.
Confusional state and dizziness:
Patients should be instructed to avoid situations where dizziness or confusional state may be a problem and to not take other medicinal products that may cause dizziness or confusional state without adequate medical advice. Patients should be advised not to drive or operate heavy machinery until symptoms resolve.
Hyponatraemia:
Patients should have their sodium levels checked at baseline, during treatment, and as clinically indicated. Monitoring should be more frequent during the first two months of treatment.
Cataract:
Selinexor can cause new onset or exacerbation of cataract. Ophthalmologic evaluation may be performed as clinically indicated. Cataract should be treated as per medical guidelines, including surgery if warranted.
Tumour lysis syndrome (TLS):
TLS has been reported in patients receiving therapy with selinexor. Patients at a high risk for TLS should be monitored closely. Treat TLS promptly in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Fertility, pregnancy and lactation
Women of childbearing potential/contraception in males and females:
Women of childbearing potential and male adult patients of reproductive potential should be advised to use effective contraceptive measures or abstain from sexual intercourse while being treated with selinexor and for at least 1 week following the last dose of selinexor.
Pregnancy:
There are no data from the use of selinexor in pregnant women. Selinexor is not recommended during pregnancy and in women of childbearing potential not using contraception.
Breast-feeding:
It is unknown whether selinexor or its metabolites are excreted in human milk. A risk to breast-fed children cannot be excluded. Breast-feeding should be discontinued during treatment with selinexor and for 1 week after the last dose.
Undesirable effects
Summary of the safety profile
The most frequent adverse reactions (≥30%) of selinexor in combination with dexamethasone were nausea, thrombocytopenia, fatigue, anaemia, decreased appetite, decreased weight, diarrhea, vomiting, hyponatraemia, neutropenia and leukopenia.
The most commonly reported serious adverse reactions (≥3%) were pneumonia, sepsis, thrombocytopenia, acute kidney injury, and anaemia.
Description of selected adverse reactions
Infections: Infection was the most common non-haematological toxicity. Upper respiratory tract infection and pneumonia were the most commonly reported infections with 25% of reported infections being serious and fatal infections occurring in 3% of treated adult patients.
Elderly population
Patients 75 years and older had a higher incidence of discontinuation due to an adverse reaction, higher incidence of serious adverse reactions, and higher incidence of fatal adverse reactions.
Reporting of suspected adverse reactions
Reporting of suspected adverse reactions after Authorisation of the medicinal product is important. It allows continued monitoring of the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions via the national reporting system listed in Appendix V.
About Karyopharm Therapeutics
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies. Since its founding, Karyopharm has been the industry leader in oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound technology, which was developed to address a fundamental mechanism of oncogenesis: nuclear export dysregulation. Karyopharm's lead SINE compound and first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, XPOVIO® (selinexor), is approved in the U.S. and marketed by the Company in three oncology indications and has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe and the United Kingdom (as NEXPOVIO®), China, Singapore, Canada, Israel, South Korea, and Australia. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in multiple myeloma, endometrial cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelofibrosis. For more information about our people, science and pipeline, please visit www.karyopharm.com, and follow us on Twitter at @Karyopharm and LinkedIn.
About Menarini Group
The Menarini Group is a leading international pharmaceutical and diagnostics company, with a turnover of over $4 billion and over 17,000 employees. Menarini is focused on therapeutic areas with high unmet needs with products for oncology, cardiology, pneumology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, diabetology, inflammation, and analgesia. With 18 production sites and 9 Research and Development centers, Menarini's products are available in 140 countries worldwide. For further information, please visit www.menarini.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding the ability of selinexor to treat adult patients with multiple myeloma, the commercial launch of NEXPOVIO® in Europe, and expectations related to future clinical development and potential regulatory submissions of selinexor. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Karyopharm's control, that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from Karyopharm's current expectations. For example, there can be no guarantee that Karyopharm will successfully commercialize XPOVIO or that any of Karyopharm's drug candidates, including selinexor and eltanexor, will successfully complete necessary clinical development phases or that development of any of Karyopharm's drug candidates will continue. Further, there can be no guarantee that any positive developments in the development or commercialization of Karyopharm's drug candidate portfolio will result in stock price appreciation. Management's expectations and, therefore, any forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other factors, including the following: the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt Karyopharm's business more severely than it currently anticipates, including by negatively impacting sales of XPOVIO, interrupting or delaying research and development efforts, impacting the ability to procure sufficient supply for the development and commercialization of selinexor or other product candidates, delaying ongoing or planned clinical trials, impeding the execution of business plans, planned regulatory milestones and timelines, or inconveniencing patients; the adoption of XPOVIO in the commercial marketplace, the timing and costs involved in commercializing XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; the ability to obtain and retain regulatory approval of XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; Karyopharm's results of clinical trials and preclinical studies, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies, including with respect to the need for additional clinical studies; the ability of Karyopharm or its third party collaborators or successors in interest to fully perform their respective obligations under the applicable agreement and the potential future financial implications of such agreement; Karyopharm's ability to enroll patients in its clinical trials; unplanned cash requirements and expenditures; development or regulatory approval of drug candidates by Karyopharm's competitors for products or product candidates in which Karyopharm is currently commercializing or developing; and Karyopharm's ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for any of its products or product candidates. These and other risks are described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Karyopharm's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 5, 2022, and in other filings that Karyopharm may make with the SEC in the future. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Karyopharm expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
References
1 World Health Organization. 2020. https://gco.iarc.fr/today/data/factsheets/cancers/35-Multiple-myeloma-fact-sheet.pdf
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Shelterhouse’s second annual Restaurant Week came to a close at the end of April, and according to the organization, it was even better than the first.
Shelterhouse’s fundraiser, which sends community members around the city to various restaurants, ran from April 22-29.
Restaurant Week, during which participating businesses donated a portion of their proceeds to Shelterhouse, is a modified version of the organization’s Chefs for Shelterhouse event that was canceled for two years during the pandemic.
Shelterhouse is a nonprofit organization committed to providing safety, shelter, advocacy and counseling to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Midland and Gladwin counties.
Shelterhouse Director of Philanthropy Alison Baldree said she has received positive feedback from the event, including increased foot traffic and sales for restaurants, and friends getting together to catch up after a long time apart.
“One of our goals that is really hard to measure is wanting people to cultivate healthy relationships over good meals, having good conversations with people (and) checking in on them,” she said.
As of May 17, Shelterhouse had calculated just under $70,000 raised from Restaurant Week, although Baldree said they will likely not finish calculating the funds until mid-June.
She also said the organization had about 23,000 interactions on its social media for Restaurant Week. Fifty passports were submitted, which were used by participants to keep track of where they visited. Passports with a full eight stamps were placed in a prize drawing.
Much of the feedback that Baldree has gotten from participants was that they enjoyed discovering new places and meeting up with friends.
“Some people have said they went out with friends that shared they were a survivor, and it was the first time they had shared it, and they felt that Restaurant Week had prompted the conversation and provided that validation,” Baldree said. “It is really touching. I’m happy to hear that this provided people with a space and they didn’t have to carry that on their own anymore.”
Baldree has also received great feedback from businesses that took part in the fundraiser, including seeing new customers discover their restaurant for the first time and an increase in sales and tips.
“They enjoyed taking part and being able to engage in this unique way, which I appreciate,” she said. “It’s just so nice getting to speak with these restaurant owners and hear and see their passion in wanting to help in some way.”
Carolynn Porritt, co-owner of Stranded Yarn and Coffee, said she enjoyed seeing many new faces as people discovered the coffee shop for the first time.
“Everyone is kind and happy to give a little bit,” she said. “We thoroughly enjoy it every year.”
Porritt also said the shop had an increase in foot traffic and sales - roughly 25%.
“I think it’s the only community program that we participate in that we see an increase in business,” she said. “It’s one of our favorites.”
Many of the restaurants offered specials throughout the week, including free baked goods and percentages off of purchases. Baldree said she heard from some people who received a free cookie with their wine at Grape Beginnings. She also heard good things from those who discovered Idli Dosa and ate Indian food for the first time.
Boomerang Coffee Lounge’s special Shelterhouse Latte was a big hit. Baldree said the drink contained cinnamon and honey as well as other sweet ingredients.
“It was sweet and delicious,” she said.
As for the future of Restaurant Week, Baldree said the goal is to have the fundraiser be all in one location again eventually.
“What that will look like, I don’t know,” she said. “Several people in the community said they miss that, and having big gatherings and being able to connect is so important. So, I see an evolution happening.”
In comparison to last year, there was more online activity on the first day of Restaurant Week, which Baldree felt meant that more people were aware of it this year and excited to participate.
She also said more businesses and volunteers participated this year, helping the event to grow substantially.
“The funding that we’re raising is critical for our services, but also the awareness is just priceless,” she said. “I think those go hand-in-hand, like we need the funding to operate, but we need to let people know that they are welcome here and we exist and it’s okay to ask for help.” | 2023-05-17T20:54:07+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/shelterhouse-restaurant-week-provides-safe-space-18104579.php |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II remains under round-the-clock medical supervision at her castle in Balmoral, Scotland, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Thursday.
According to reports, doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health,” and members of the royal family, including the Queen’s son, Prince Charles, his wife Camilla and the Queen’s grandson, Prince William, are on their way to Scotland.
With more than 70 years on the throne, most alive today will have only seen the queen as Britain’s monarch, but who is next in line?
Prince Charles will become king if the queen gives up her throne, retires or dies. Next in line after him is his eldest son, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Prince George is third in line to the throne, after his father and grandfather.
The royals have made a number of changes to succession rules over the years, making it difficult to keep track of whose next in line.
Up until Duchess Kate’s pregnancy, the crown was passed from monarch to eldest son. Since King George VI had no son, his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, became queen.
But the Succession to the Crown Act was created in 2013, before Prince George was born, to make succession to the throne based on birth order, not gender.
Now, Princess Charlotte will be fourth in line to the throne, and Prince Louis will be fifth. William’s younger brother, Prince Harry, is sixth in line, and his son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, will be seventh with his little sister, Lilibet right behind him.
A number of others are in line to claim the throne. Here are the top 25 in the line of succession:
- Charles, Prince of Wales – married to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge – married to Kate, Duchess of Cambridge
- Prince George of Cambridge
- Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
- Prince Louis of Cambridge
- Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex – married to wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor
- Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor
- Prince Andrew, Duke of York – Queen Elizabeth’s second son
- Princess Beatrice of York – Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York’s daughter
- Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Beatrice’s daughter
- Princess Eugenie of York – Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York’s daughter
- August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, Princess Eugenie’s daughter
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex – Queen Elizabeth’s third son
- James, Viscount Severn – Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex’s son
- Lady Louis Windsor – Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex’s daughter
- Anne, Princess Royal – Queen Elizabeth’s daughter
- Peter Phillips – Princess Anne’s son with Capt. Mark Phillips
- Savannah Phillips – Peter and wife Autumn’s daughter
- Isla Phillips – Peter and wife Autumn’s daughter
- Zara Tindall – Zara Phillips married Mike Tindall, the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth
- Mia Grace Tindall – Zara and Mike’s daughter
- Lena Tindall, Zara and Mike’s daughter
- Lucas Tindall, Zara and Mike’s daughter
- David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowden – Also known as Viscount David Linley | 2022-09-08T16:10:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/britains-royal-line-of-succession-who-is-next-in-line-to-the-throne/ |
Best gifts for BTS fans
After just finishing a visit with President Joe Biden in the White House, BTS has released a new three-disc set called “Proof.” While last year saw the release of the infectious smash hit “Butter” and the ultimate, feel-good track, “Permission to Dance,” along with a few memorable collaborations, the global powerhouse hasn’t released an original album since November 2020. Fans have been waiting for something big, and this septet has delivered. To celebrate, besides buying the music, you can purchase some fun BTS-themed gifts for the A.R.M.Y. member in your household.
What does BTS stand for?
In the early days, BTS was a champion for adolescents. The group wanted to protect young people from criticisms, expectations and stereotypes. BTS stands for “Bangtan Sonyeondan,” which translates to “Bulletproof Boy Scouts.” The band’s original logo was a bulletproof vest that represented this concept. The BTS fandom keeps the military theme going as they call themselves “A.R.M.Y.,” which stands for “Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth.”
A few years later, BTS added a new aspect to its identity by proclaiming the letters could also stand for “Beyond The Scene” and not “Behind The Scenes.” This meant the boys represented a younger generation that was always trying to press forward to move beyond the current scene of reality.
Why do fans love BTS so much?
While the reason to join the BTS A.R.M.Y. may differ for each individual, there are many overarching positives that can be cited.
Talent
Each member of BTS is extraordinarily talented. They can sing and dance, and they radiate charisma. BTS fans recognize that honest talent and embrace it.
Musical diversity
With bits of rap, pop, R&B and more, BTS has a sound that, in many ways, is its own genre. The group is not boxed in or clearly defined because the songs explore and borrow elements from various genres.
Positive message
In an era where lyrics are vulgar, materialistic, self-centered and mean, BTS often sings about stepping up, taking responsibility and traveling the higher road. They are about respecting yourself and others while being free to explore who you are without apologizing.
Positive actions
The positivity of the band goes beyond its lyrical message. Several of the members donate substantial sums of money to worthy causes.
Strong fan bond
BTS understands the reason they exist is because of fans. The band, which has far outgrown the need or ability to respond to individual fans, still makes time to do exactly that. BTS is as loyal to its fans as the fans are loyal to BTS.
Aren’t bound by norms
BTS are genuinely inclusive, as the members profess their acceptance of everyone through fashion without being bound by traditional gender norms.
What is “Proof?”
BTS’s latest release is a three-disc anthology that features 35 tracks. The first disc offers a retrospective of the group’s career and contains 19 singles. The second disc starts with “Run BTS,” and is followed by a variety of material that is either solo offerings or collaborations that do not include all seven members. If you stream, the last disc only has “For Youth,” a love letter to BTS fans. However, if you purchase a physical copy, you get 11 previously unreleased demos and two new songs. Additionally, fans who purchase the physical box set will get bonus album art, photos, lyric sheets, a poster and more.
9 gifts for the BTS fan in your family
While wireless earbuds or headphones would be an excellent gift for any music lover, BTS has so much merchandise that a fan can proudly proclaim they are a member of the A.R.M.Y. in a variety of ways.
If you don’t have the music yet, this should be your top choice. “Proof” is the three-CD set that chronicles the group’s history from 2013 to now. It includes bonus tracks that you can’t get online.
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Mattel Giant UNO BTS Card Game
This is the classic Uno game, only it has oversized cards that feature the members of BTS. The deck has 108 cards, and it is recommended for ages 7 years old and up.
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These figures are from the popular Funko Pop! Rocks series. You have your choice of Jungkook, Jin or V.
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If you’d like to hug and squeeze any or all of the BTS boys, you can do that with these plush dolls. There are seven options (Suga, RM, Jin, J-Hope, Jungkook, Jimin or V), and each comes in its own collector’s box.
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This stylish backpack has six compartments. It is made with durable nylon and features the BTS logo on the back.
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Newton man sues city, claiming he was wrongfully arrested at traffic stop
Newton man sues city, claiming he was wrongfully arrested at traffic stop
OPPORTUNITY CENTER ON DES MOINES SOUTH SIDE. A MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS WRONGFULLY ARRESTED BY POLICE DURING A TRAFFIC STOP IS NOW SUING THE CITY OF NEWTON. WE FIRST TOLD YOU ABOUT TAVON GATLIN, ACTUALLY LAST YEAR WHEN BODY CAM VIDEO OF HIS TRAFFIC STOP WAS RELEASED. HE SAYS OFFICERS INITIALLY PULLED HIM OVER FOR HAVING HIS BRIGHT HEADLIGHTS ON, BUT POLICE THEN GAVE HIM A SOBRIETY TEST AND SAY HE FAILED. BUT THE BODY CAM VIDEO SHOWS GALLANT AS PASSED THE BREATHALYZER. LATER, A DRUG RECOGNITION EXPERT AT THE POLICE STATION DETERMINED THAT HE WAS NOT INTOXICATED. HE WAS NOT INTOXICATED. GATLIN CAN CLAIMS HIS CO
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Newton man sues city, claiming he was wrongfully arrested at traffic stop
A man who says he was wrongfully arrested by police during a traffic stop is now suing the city of Newton.In September 2022, body cam video of Tayvin Galanakis' traffic stop was released. Galanakis says officers initially pulled him over for having his bright headlights on.But police then gave him a sobriety test and say he failed.However, the body cam video shows Galanakis passing the breathalyzer. Later, a drug recognition expert at the police station determined that Galanakis wasn't intoxicated.Galanakis claims his constitutional rights were violated that night.WATCH: Newton man says police wrongfully arrested him at traffic stop
NEWTON, Iowa —
A man who says he was wrongfully arrested by police during a traffic stop is now suing the city of Newton.
In September 2022, body cam video of Tayvin Galanakis' traffic stop was released.
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Galanakis says officers initially pulled him over for having his bright headlights on.
But police then gave him a sobriety test and say he failed.
However, the body cam video shows Galanakis passing the breathalyzer. Later, a drug recognition expert at the police station determined that Galanakis wasn't intoxicated.
Galanakis claims his constitutional rights were violated that night.
WATCH: Newton man says police wrongfully arrested him at traffic stop | 2023-02-08T03:52:04+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-newton-man-sues-city-claiming-he-was-wrongfully-arrested/42795230 |
“I'm practically naked,” Hudgens joked.
Anthony said: “Those stairs are intimidating.”
And if the Met Gala's return feels like one of those what, already moments, it is.
It's been just under eight months since the last gala, an annual fundraiser that raises eight-figure sums for the Met's Costume Institute. Pre-pandemic, about 600 A-listers from fashion, sports, music, film, TV, technology and beyond were invited. This year and last, the numbers were closer to 400. The 2020 gala was canceled.
More than $16.4 million was raised last year. The starry event is the institute's primary budget feeder.
This year's gala coincides with the opening of the second part of a two-part exhibit at the Costume Institute focused on American fashion and style. The evening's dress code is gilded glamour and white tie, a la the Gilded Age, that tumultuous period between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century known for its robber barons, drama and grandeur.
This year's walk up the Grand Staircase at the Met returns the gala to its legendary berth on the first Monday in May, with the official livestream appearing on Vogue's website.
Vogue's Anna Wintour, who has run the gala since 1995, wore feathery Chanel and a jeweled tiara that has been in her family since 1910. She continues as one of the night's honorary co-chairs, along with designer Tom Ford and Instagram's Adam Mosseri. The other official co-chairs for 2022 are Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The cost for a seat at last year's Met Gala started at $35,000, though some attend for free. Celebrities are sometimes accompanied (and their tabs paid) by the designers who dress them or other companies that invite them. A focus on inclusivity in fashion this year may celebrate and include more unsung designer heroes than usual.
The event is the invention of the late Eleanor Lambert, a fashion publicist as powerful as Wintour in her day. In 1948, she needed to come up with a way to pay for the newly formed Costume Institute, the only department at the Met that must raise its own funds.
While many on Wintour's carefully tended guest list follow the dress code, others go their own way. Interpretation is everything. Think Rihanna in a papal hat, Billy Porter as a sun god carried on a litter by shirtless men and Lady Gaga peeling off layers as the fashion world came to a standstill to watch.
The gala also serves as a twisted time capsule of love gone wrong for celebrity couples who didn't make it. Kim Kardashian and Ye, the former Kanye West, first attended in 2013. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes went in 2008. Jennifer Lopez attended with Marc Anthony in 2011, then with Alex Rodriguez in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Ben Affleck joined her inside last year after she walked alone.
Charlize Theron and Sean Penn were among the “it” couples invited in 2014. Selena Gomez and The Weeknd showed up together in 2017.
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Blake Lively attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Vanessa Hudgens attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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La La Anthony attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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This combination of photos shows Regina King, Blake Lively, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ryan Reynolds who will serve as co-chairs of the Met Gala, returning to its traditional berth on the first Monday in May. (AP Photo)
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Vanessa Hudgens attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Vanessa Hudgens attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Vanessa Hudgens attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Vanessa Hudgens attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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La La Anthony attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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La La Anthony attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Anna Wintour attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Anna Wintour attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Blake Lively attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Blake Lively attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Blake Lively, left, and Ryan Reynolds attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Blake Lively, left, and Ryan Reynolds attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Blake Lively attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Precious Lee departs The Mark Hotel prior to attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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Precious Lee departs The Mark Hotel prior to attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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La La Anthony attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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La La Anthony attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Ryan Reynolds attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Ryan Reynolds attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Ryan Reynolds, left, and Blake Lively attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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ATLANTA (AP) — Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry is donating $2.75 million to older homeowners in Atlanta to help ensure they’re able to stay in their homes.
A few weeks ago, Perry reached out to Atlanta Mayor Andrew Dickens about providing assistance for those residents on fixed incomes who could lose their homes as a result of rising real estate taxes, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Perry, ranked third among the world’s highest-paid entertainers by Forbes, is going to pay the back property taxes for 300 low-income seniors in Atlanta, the newspaper said.
The assistance will cover city, county and school taxes. Perry will also cover any increase in taxes over the next 20 years for 100 low-income older residents. He has already donated $750,000 for the first year to cover the back taxes and any increase in property taxes, and has pledged $500,000 each year over the next four years to ensure the residents don’t pay any more in such taxes.
The funds will be administered by Invest Atlanta Partnership, the nonprofit wing of Atlanta’s economic development authority. | 2023-02-16T02:02:42+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-tyler-perry-to-donate-2-5m-to-help-older-atlanta-homeowners/ |
Updated December 2, 2022 at 6:26 PM ET
A Democratic committee on Friday approved a proposal, pushed by President Biden, that would upend the party's presidential primary calendar, elevating South Carolina to the first spot, moving the swing states of Georgia and Michigan up to the early slate, and putting Iowa back in the pack.
The president is calling for South Carolina — a state with a sizable Black population, which notably turned around his fortunes in the 2020 race — to go first, followed in the early window by New Hampshire and Nevada, then Georgia and Michigan.
The plan was first reported by The Washington Post Thursday evening and then confirmed by NPR. It was formally approved Friday by a voice vote of members of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee.
"We feel strongly that this window reflects our values, paints a vibrant picture of our nation, and creates a strong process that will result in the best Democratic nominee," said committee member Minyon Moore of Washington, D.C.
The proposal now goes to the full DNC for ratification early next year.
Biden wants an earlier voice for diverse voters
For decades, presidential hopefuls have faced their first tests with voters in the heavily white states of Iowa and New Hampshire. In a letter to the committee endorsing an overhaul of the calendar, Biden stressed the party's diversity.
"We must ensure that voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window," Biden wrote.
"For decades, Black voters in particular have been the backbone of the Democratic Party but have been pushed to the back of the early primary process," he wrote. "We rely on these voters in elections but have not recognized their importance in our nominating calendar. It is time to stop taking these votes for granted, and time to give them a louder and earlier voice in the process."
Biden added Democrats should "no longer allow caucuses as part of our nominating process," a foundational principle that the Rules and Bylaws Committee had set in weighing which states to elevate to the early window.
Iowa holds caucuses, and Nevada recently moved away from them.
Biden also called on the committee to review the calendar every four years in order to "ensure that it continues to reflect the values and diversity of our party and country."
New Hampshire says it's still going first
Iowa's Scott Brennan and New Hampshire's Joanne Dowdell were the only two committee members to vote against the early window plan.
"While I support the guiding principles established by this committee and reinforced by the president, I cannot support the proposal before us," Brennan said. "We are now faced with a situation in which no state situated in the Central or Mountain time zone is represented in the pre-window."
He warned: "Small rural states like Iowa must have a voice in our presidential nominating process. Democrats cannot forget about entire groups of voters in the heart of the Midwest, without doing significant damage to the party for a generation."
Dowdell of New Hampshire added she agrees with Biden's "bold statement about his vision for this country [and] the importance of diversity."
"I will, however, say that New Hampshire does have a statute. We do have a law and we will not be breaking our law," she said.
New Hampshire state law gives its secretary of state the power to move up the date of the primary to protect its first-in-the-nation status.
Dowdell's pledge echoes the New Hampshire Democratic Party's vow on Thursday, after news of Biden's preferences broke: "We will be holding our primary first."
"The DNC did not give New Hampshire the first-in-the-nation primary and it is not theirs to take away," NHDP Chair Ray Buckley said in a statement. "We have survived past attempts over the decades and we will survive this."
New Hampshire's Democratic U.S. senators also opposed Biden's proposal, with Sen. Maggie Hassan writing on Twitter: "Because of our state's small size, candidates from all walks of life — not just the ones with the largest war chests — are able to compete and engage in the unique retail politics that are a hallmark of our state. This ensures that candidates are battle-tested and ready to compete for our nation's highest office."
Hassan also said "New Hampshire's law is clear and our primary will continue to be First in the Nation."
How the DNC aims to enforce its plan
This sets off an interesting dynamic.
The committee approved waivers to allow South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia and Michigan to hold their primaries in the early window.
The waivers specify the date that each state needs to hold its primary, and are issued on a contingent basis, meaning states must meet the requirements of the waiver in order for them to be able to hold their primary in the early window.
The committee detailed actions the DNC is prepared to take to enforce the waivers and the early state order.
If states don't comply with their waivers, then they are obligated to go in the later primary window. If a state were to hold its primary early anyway, the state would automatically lose half its delegates.
Presidential candidates would also be precluded from campaigning in any state that goes outside the DNC-approved window. The committee noted that in this context, campaigning includes putting a candidate's name on the ballot in that state.
Tom Perez, a former DNC chair, anticipated such a move in an interview with NPR prior to the release of Biden's proposal.
"If the state decides, to heck with what the DNC said, they do that at their peril," he said.
"[Not seating delegates is] a pretty blunt instrument," Perez underscored. "If your delegates don't matter in a convention, you're not going to be very happy as a state."
Long road to change
Criticism of Iowa and New Hampshire's grip on the top two spots of the presidential nominating calendar has been brewing for years.
Many Democrats have long argued the pair don't reflect the party's racial diversity. Technical issues in the 2020 Iowa caucuses that made it difficult to announce a winner only intensified the momentum to adjust the calendar.
In the spring, the DNC approved a resolution that upended the traditional presidential nominating calendar, which places the Iowa caucuses first, followed by primaries in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee invited states and territories to apply to be considered for the early window of states, and 16 states plus Puerto Rico made formal pitches to the committee over the summer.
The committee was transparent about what it's looking for: demographic diversity, states that have primaries rather than caucuses, election administration, and how competitive a state will be in the general election.
"In the case of the Democratic Party, there is a template that the first four states will represent for the four principal regions of the country," Bill Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told NPR ahead of the DNC's meeting. "And so if Iowa is displaced, then the replacement will have to be another state from the Midwest."
Michigan is fresh off of big election wins for Democrats, with a more diverse population than Iowa.
At Friday's meeting, committee member Ray Curry of Michigan touted what the state's new calendar slot would mean for labor.
"Michigan is the home to more than 500,000 union members," he said. "That's more union members than we had in the early window previously, and it's a game changer for working Americans."
Though as a red state it's not competitive in the general election, South Carolina also had a strong argument to remain in the early window.
"South Carolina was the first opportunity for Black voters who are really the backbone of the Democratic Party to have a meaningful say," Perez said. "So I think one thing that needs to happen is we shouldn't be waiting for until the fourth primary or caucus to have Black voters have their opportunity to be heard."
Nevada was also angling for first place. Advocates point to its growing AAPI and Latino populations, a heavy union presence and a mix of urban and rural areas.
DNC member Yvanna Cancela was part of the team that pitched Nevada to the committee over the summer.
"Nevada has a 24-hour economy, and Democrats over the last decade have done the work to ensure our 24-hour economy doesn't hold people back from having as much access to the ballot box as possible," Cancela previously told NPR, pointing to the state's early voting period, mail-in balloting and same-day voter registration.
"It's also a two-media-market state, which makes it affordable to campaign on airwaves," Cancela said. "We are big enough to truly test a nominee, but we are also small enough for candidates who are more of a long shot to be able to compete."
Perez praised Nevada for passing a law last year establishing it will use a primary in 2024 and not a caucus, which he said guarantees higher participation rates.
"Nevada should be in that early mix," he said. "They should be rewarded for doing that because they are embodying a critical principle of maximizing participation."
Committee member David McDonald of Washington raised a concern about having Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day.
"I think we ought to have some kind of flexibility in the calendar to make those separate days," he said. "I think it's a confusing message to have them on the same day, frankly, and it may dilute the importance of each of the states because they will be in a constant comparison with the other side and getting divided press."
What's the big deal, anyway?
Opening states not only get outsized attention from presidential candidates but also get millions of dollars injected into their economy.
"If you're in an early primary or caucus state and you happen to own a hotel, that's really good news for you," Galston said. "Owning a restaurant is a good thing, if you have a rental car company — you've hit the jackpot. It's not just a week, we're talking about months and months."
Candidates and their campaign staff spend a disproportionate amount of time in early states, which means residents not only benefit economically, they also get to spend more time vetting presidential hopefuls.
Generations of voters in New Hampshire have treated the ability to kick the tires of presidential candidates as their political birthright.
"There's a famous story about a new New Hampshire voter who was asked what he thought of a particular candidate," Galston said. "The voter replied, 'Well, it's too early to say yet, I've only met him three times.' "
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One-Hour Crossover Special Featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, Paramount+ Original series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show Animated Series Slated to Bow in November on Nickelodeon
First-Look Clip and Art of Comedy Satire Revealed During Panel that Brought Together SpongeBob Universe Veteran Voice Talent and Executive Producers at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022
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BURBANK, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon will take viewers on a multidimensional adventure deep below the ocean's surface throughout Bikini Bottom with the first-ever SpongeBob Universe crossover special, "The Tidal Zone." The one-hour special encompasses all three animated series within the SpongeBob Universe, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Paramount+ original series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show, and follows GrandPat (The Patrick Star Show) as he makes his way through each dimension. The special is slated to premiere in November on Nickelodeon.
The crossover special was revealed today during an exclusive panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 where SpongeBob fans packed the room for a look at these iconic shows. Moderated by Patrick Gomez (Editor-in-Chief, Entertainment Weekly), the panel brought together legendary voice talent from all three series--Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Jill Talley (Karen, Squidina), Kate Higgins (Narlene), and Carlos Alazraqui (Nobby) —and executive producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller.
"The Tidal Zone," is journey into an hour of television where two dimensions can become three, and French divers can wear black ties. Observe a tale of both comedy and caution, of satire and stupidity. Minds may switch, bodies may shrink, and robots may rise in…"The Tidal Zone."
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The news comes on the heels of the recently announced pickup for a 14th season of SpongeBob SquarePants (26 episodes), which will continue to follow incurable optimist SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Plankton and Squidward, along with all of the denizens of Bikini Bottom. The world will continue to expand with more new episodes of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years coming to Paramount+ on Sept. 30 and The Patrick Star Show continuing to rollout on Nickelodeon, along with three character-driven movies launching exclusively on Paramount+, and a fourth theatrical release from Nickelodeon Animation currently in development.
Since its launch July 17, 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has reigned as the most-watched animated series for nearly 20 consecutive years, while generating a universe of beloved characters, pop culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical and a global fan base. SpongeBob SquarePants is one of the most widely distributed properties in Paramount International history, seen in more than 170 countries, translated in 29+ languages, and averaging more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif. The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurable optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his undersea friends.
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Deployment brings Sanctuary AI one step closer to delivering innovative labor solutions with the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots
VANCOUVER, BC, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation (Sanctuary AI), a company on a mission to create the world's-first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, today announced that it has successfully completed the first ever deployment of a unique system designed to deliver the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots at a customer commercial facility through its partnership with Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC).
The first deployment of its kind in a commercial environment took place at a Mark's retail store in Langley, BC, Canada. The week-long pilot at the CTC-owned store successfully tested the general-purpose robot in a 'real-life' store environment with 110 retail-related tasks completed correctly, including front and back-of-store activities such as picking and packing merchandise, cleaning, tagging, labelling, folding, and more. The tested tasks had previously only been performed in Sanctuary AI's labs, which accurately mirrored the commercial setting to ensure a seamless technology implementation.
"Many organizations are facing labor challenges. Our population is aging, birth rates are declining, and workers have more choice for what they do and where they work than ever in history," said Geordie Rose, co-founder and CEO, Sanctuary AI. "Through our partnership with Canadian Tire Corporation, we worked on analyzing how their work was done and what work people like and don't like doing, in both their retail and distribution center environments. In January we deployed a general-purpose robot to a retail store to attempt to perform many necessary but rudimentary tasks that people note finding unsatisfying or unfavorable. The results were spectacular. We are ecstatic to have accomplished this with Canadian Tire Corporation, one of Canada's leading companies."
"Working with Sanctuary AI has enabled Canadian Tire Corporation to further explore cutting-edge innovations and accelerate operational efficiency. With the Mark's pilot, we were able to focus human resources on higher-value and more meaningful work, like customer service and engagement," said Cari Covent, VP, Data, Analytics and AI, Canadian Tire Corporation. "By making strategic investments and working with partners like Sanctuary AI, we are furthering our customer understanding, customer experience, and operational efficiencies to drive our Better Connected strategy."
Sanctuary AI is at the forefront of a digital transformation that will help its customers operate more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. At the same time, the company is building an ecosystem of external relationships that will usher in this new paradigm and solidify Sanctuary AI as the leader and pioneer of human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. "Sanctuary AI is strategically positioned as a powerful systems-level company that constantly evolves to integrate best-in-class hardware and AI approaches," said Geordie Rose, co-founder and CEO, Sanctuary AI. "We have created a technology platform that has a solid balance of Sanctuary AI-made components and third-party components we have sourced from outstanding companies, many of whom we have exclusivity agreements with. Our approach is built around the philosophy of always working with the best people, organizations, and technologies available."
A human-like AI controlling Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots should be able to perform physical labor across virtually every industry. Sanctuary AI has created a strong ecosystem in a brand new category that, according to Goldman Sachs, has the potential to be a market of up to US$154 billion by 2035.
Sanctuary AI is backed by a number of investors that add even greater strength to their ecosystem. The Sanctuary AI investor list includes: Bell, Canadian Tire Corporation, Evok Innovations, Export Development Canada, Magna, SE Health, Verizon Ventures, and Workday Ventures. Sanctuary AI has now received more than C$100 million in funding since its founding in Vancouver, Canada in 2018, and is active in its next funding round to fuel its mission. Interested parties can learn more at the official Sanctuary website: www.sanctuary.ai
About Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
Founded in 2018, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably, helping to address the labor challenges facing many organizations today. Sanctuary AI's growing list of customers and investors represents a wide variety of industries across Canada, the US, and other countries around the world.
Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). With experience at startups and technology leaders such as Amazon, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung, the team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
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Boeing lost $425 million in the first quarter — more than Wall Street expected — but said Wednesday that it plans to boost production of its best-selling plane, the 737 Max, later this year.
Revenue rose 28% from a year earlier, as airlines scooped up new jets to meet rising travel demand, and the company stood by its forecast of producing $3 billion to $5 billion in cash flow this year.
Shares of Boeing rose nearly 5% before settling to close up less than 1%.
CEO David Calhoun called it a “solid first quarter.”
“We continue to make real progress, steady progress, in our recovery,” he said on a call with analysts. “Challenges remain, there’s more to do, but overall we feel good about the operational and financial outlook.”
Boeing’s passenger jets have been plagued by production problems, and the quarterly loss was due largely to the cost of reworking planes to fix production flaws. It also took a write-down for a military tanker.
Calhoun said again that Boeing will delay deliveries of some planes that airlines were expecting for the busy summer travel season. The delays are due to unapproved fittings that a contractor, Spirit AeroSystems, installed where the tail meets the fuselage on most 737 Max jets built since 2019.
“It’s a gnarly defect,” Calhoun said when an analyst asked why it took four years to discover the flaw. The CEO said a sealant applied over fuselage joints hid the cracks.
Analysts expressed some skepticism about Boeing’s outlook while problems persist in its supply chain. Seth Seifman of JPMorgan wondered whether Boeing can increase 737 production given issues at Spirit.
“You can only go as fast as they can go, and … I don’t think anybody has had a more challenging three or four years than Spirit, other than maybe you guys,” Seifman told executives.
Calhoun replied that Boeing is confident Spirit can meet a faster schedule.
Officials said it would take a matter of days to fix planes that are not yet assembled but longer for about 225 Max jets that were finished and are now sitting in Boeing’s inventory.
Executives didn’t put a precise number on how many 737 deliveries will be delayed beyond the peak summer travel season. Calhoun said last week that 9,000 seats would be missing from airline schedules this summer, which works out to about 50 Max jets.
Despite the setback, Boeing still hopes to hit its goal of delivering 400 to 450 Max jets this year. It delivered 111 in the first quarter.
Boeing said it still expects to increase Max production. The company was building 31 a month at the start of this year and plans to raise that to 38 a month later this year and 50 a month by 2025 or 2026.
Boeing repeated earlier assurances that the fuselage issue on the Max does not affect safety and that airlines can keep using planes that are already carrying passengers.
The company also plans to step up production of the larger, two-aisle 787, which it calls the Dreamliner, from three to five a month. Deliveries of 787s have been paused several times in the last two years for various quality and paperwork issues.
The Arlington, Virginia, company said the loss in core operations worked out to $1.27 per share. Analysts expected the company to lose $1.07 per share, according to a FactSet survey.
The company lost money in its airliner and defense units, although less than a year ago. The defense side was dragged down by a $245 million charge to fix the KC-46A refueling tanker. Boeing’s services business was profitable.
Revenue climbed to $17.92 billion, beating analysts’ forecast of $17.52 billion.
Boeing shareholders are on the hook for a $414 million loss in the first quarter, with another $11 million loss attributed to a noncontrolling interest. Boeing lost $5 billion last year.
“It’s been a tough slog for the company, but the trends appear to be getting better,” said Jeff Windau, an analyst for Edward Jones. “We know there is demand (for planes), there is a solid order book. We should be seeing better performance from them in the second half of the year.” | 2023-04-27T00:56:56+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/boeing-loses-425-million-but-sticks-to-full-year-forecasts/ |
Police: Homeowner pulled gun on woman who backed into his driveway
PALM COAST, Fla. (WESH) – Police say a Florida man was so upset when someone pulled into his driveway, he confronted them and pulled out a gun.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Terry Vetsch charged out of his house in Palm Coast to confront a driver who backed into his driveway before pulling into the driveway across the street.
The incident was caught on Vetsch’s own home surveillance camera.
Mark Strobridge with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said these types of incidents are not uncommon.
“We’ve seen many many times where the anger gets a hold of somebody and they lose control about what they’re supposed to do. The unfortunate thing is sometimes it ends in death,” he said.
Investigators said the driver’s passenger, who was knocking on a friend’s door, heard the commotion and came back. Things escalated soon after. Vetsch allegedly told deputies the woman was the aggressor.
However, deputies said the surveillance video showed something else.
Although the woman walked toward the suspect, deputies said the woman was never on the suspect’s property. Instead, they said Vetsch walked toward her, pulled a gun from his pocket and pointed it at her head.
Investigators said Vetsch told them he believed the vehicle was someone else when he first saw the vehicle backing into the driveway. He reportedly told them he believed it was a neighbor he had had troubles with in the past.
“We ask that people just don’t engage each other when they’re in that kind of state of mind because it just, it never ends very well,” Strobridge said.
Fortunately, no one was hurt.
Vetsch was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Copyright 2023 WESH via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-04T23:30:59+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/06/04/police-homeowner-pulled-gun-woman-who-backed-into-his-driveway/ |
FAYETTE -- Upper Iowa University announced today that the Peacock Athletics Department will be adding women's wrestling in a shift of the department's women's sport offerings.
Upper Iowa will remain at 23 intercollegiate sports including 11 women's sports, 10 men's sports and two mixed gender sports. The women's wrestling program will begin competition in the fall of 2024.
"We are thrilled to bring women's wrestling to Upper Iowa University and offer an opportunity to the student-athletes both in high school and community college to further both their education and athletic careers," said Rick Hartzell, UIU Vice President for Athletics. "We are excited to extend the traditions of success within our men's wrestling program and provide a first-class experience to the next generation of women collegiate wrestlers. We will begin identifying the best candidates for the head coaching position and look forward to being a part of the sport's advancement from NCAA emerging sport to championship sport."
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An emerging sport is a women's sport recognized by the NCAA that is intended to help schools provide more athletics opportunities for women and more sport-sponsorship options for the institutions. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics is charged with the identification, the management and the progression of the sport toward NCAA championship status. In the past 21 years, beach volleyball, rowing, ice hockey, water polo and bowling have become championship sports.
In January 2022, the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union sanctioned girls' wrestling as the state's 11th championship sport and this February the IGHSAU State Wrestling tournament will take place in Coralville. Iowa joined 33 other states in the nation that have girls' wrestling as a sanctioned sport. This winter, 190 high schools will compete in the sport across Iowa.
"While we are excited for the addition of women's wrestling at Upper Iowa and believe it will thrive as a sport for the Peacocks, we are sad to announce that our women's lacrosse program will be discontinued immediately," Hartzell added. "We have worked every day for the last five years to move this program to a sustainable position. Unfortunately, given the roster size issues that we have had over the years and the lack of high school girls' lacrosse teams in the state, we feel that this is the best decision not only for the university, but for the student-athletes."
The Midwest is nationally recognized as the hotbed of wrestling, in particular in Iowa.
Several colleges in Iowa already sponsor women's wrestling programs and will serve as nearby opponents on future Peacock women's wrestling schedules. Four-year programs in Iowa include institutions at several levels including NCAA Division I (one), NCAA Division III (six), NAIA (four). In addition, five community colleges in the state sponsor women's wrestling.
Three schools in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, to which Upper Iowa will be moving beginning in the fall of 2023, already sponsor women's wrestling including McKendree University, Quincy University, and William Jewell College. | 2022-12-28T18:55:31+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/sports/college/college-womens-wrestling-upper-iowa-will-add-womens-wrestling-2024/article_0eba69c2-a145-5803-a9d8-8f459c792dde.html |
RICE LAKE, Wis., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading lever action firearms manufacturer Henry Repeating Arms is proud to announce that its latest Guns For Great Causes campaign raised $36,400 for the family of Danica Brianne Mulholland. After losing their 12-year-old daughter to a three-year battle with brain cancer, the Levittown, Pennsylvania family is receiving a check from the sale of 50 Henry Golden Boy lever action rifles to assist with any outstanding medical and funeral expenses.
Danica was undergoing treatment for a grade IV medulloblastoma when Henry Repeating Arms CEO and Founder Anthony Imperato jumped at the opportunity to assist the family through the company's charitable branch, Guns for Great Causes. Henry Repeating Arms donated all the rifles, and Baron Engraving of Trumbull, Connecticut, donated their services to create the engraved artwork in tribute to Danica's life. The "Danica Strong" edition rifles sold out within two hours of the initial release announcement, and auctions of the first and last serial numbers brought in an additional $4,000 total. Since 2020, the program has distributed over $325,000 to individual families of sick children.
"Danica's memory will live on in all of us at Henry," says Anthony Imperato. "Her tenacity, grace, and unending kindness for those around her is something everyone can learn from and keep with them. My sincerest thanks to all who choose to support our Guns for Great Causes mission."
On top of these individual campaigns for sick children and in celebration of its 25th anniversary this year, Henry Repeating Arms is highlighting its charitable endeavors with a $1,000,000 pledge to benefit several different categories from children's hospitals, organizations supporting military veterans, first responders, law enforcement, wildlife conservation, and hunting and shooting sports education. Recent beneficiaries include the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
For more information about Henry Repeating Arms and its products, visit henryusa.com or call 866-200-2354.
Henry Repeating Arms is one of the leading rifle and shotgun manufacturers in the United States and a world leader in the lever action category. The company motto is "Made in America, or not made at all," and its firearms come with a lifetime guarantee backed by award-winning customer service. The company is also known for its Guns For Great Causes charitable program, which focuses on assisting the families of sick children, children's hospitals, military veteran organizations, Second Amendment advocacy groups, and wildlife conservation organizations. The company currently employs over 550 people and has over 330,000sf of manufacturing space in its Wisconsin and New Jersey facilities. The company is named in honor of Benjamin Tyler Henry, who invented and patented the Henry lever action rifle in 1860 – the first practical repeating rifle and America's unique contribution to the international stage of firearms design. Visit Henry Repeating Arms online at henryusa.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/HenryRepeating, and @henry_rifles on Instagram.
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House Oversight Committee lawmakers launched an investigation into Department of Transportation Secretary Pette Buttigieg over his "apathy" in the face of the dangerous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, after the secretary waited 20 days to visit the site after the initial wreck.
About 50 rail cars operated by Norfolk Southern, including 10 carrying toxic chemicals, derailed on the evening of Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a small town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Officials conducted a controlled release of vinyl chloride from some of the cars three days later to avoid an explosion, sending hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air.
Buttigieg came under fire from local residents and lawmakers for waiting over a full week to publicly acknowledge the incident.
In a letter to Buttigieg Friday, the House Republicans demanded documents and information related to the department's response to the disaster.
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"The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the ongoing crisis that began on February 3, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio," the letter states. "A Norfolk Southern freight train’s derailment and the ensuing response released highly toxic chemical materials into the air, water, and soil — forcing residents of East Palestine to evacuate. This incident is an environmental and public health emergency that now threatens Americans across state lines."
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"Despite the U.S. Department of Transportation’s responsibility to ensure safe and reliable transport in the United States, you ignored the catastrophe for over a week. The American people deserve answers as to what caused the derailment, and DOT needs to provide an explanation for its leadership’s apathy in the face of this emergency," they wrote.
During his first visit to the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment Thursday, Buttigieg admitted that he waited too long to address the accident.
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"The answer to your question is yes," Buttigieg said, acknowledging that letting a week and a half go by before tweeting about the train derailment was too long. He told reporters he had tried to "balance" his desire to get involved with the "norm of transportation secretaries" — which is to permit the proper regulatory authorities to work without his interference.
Buttigieg has also vowed to "hold Norfolk Southern accountable" in a letter sent to the company's CEO Alan Shaw. | 2023-02-27T19:42:15+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/lawmakers-investigate-buttigieg-for-apathy-in-the-face-of-east-palestine-train-disaster/article_a6b4ec20-c349-5c42-88d2-bd6716bd968f.html |
DALLAS (AP) — The 30-year-old man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of two Dallas hospital employees was on parole and had been given permission to be at the medical facility for the birth of a child, a Texas prison official said Sunday.
Nestor Hernandez was granted leave to be with his “significant other” at Methodist Dallas Medical Center during her delivery Saturday, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said he'd been sentenced to prison for aggravated robbery and was released on parole last October, but did not provide additional details on the circumstances of the shooting.
Authorities have said Hernandez opened fire at the hospital around 11 a.m. Saturday and killed two staff members before being shot and injured by a hospital police officer. The victims have not been publicly identified and it's unclear what led to the shooting.
Hernandez, who was wearing an ankle location monitor at the time, was taken to another hospital for treatment, hospital officials said Saturday. He was not listed Sunday in Dallas County jail records and it was not immediately clear whether he has a lawyer.
The Texas prison system's Office of Inspector General is working with police to investigate the shooting, Amanda Hernandez said. Dallas police and a hospital spokesman declined Sunday to provide additional information on the shooting. | 2022-10-23T22:02:21+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/official-dallas-shooter-was-attending-birth-at-hospital/PH4YRJBAD5HLJB5YNLZACPXAGA/ |
As President Joe Biden finds himself struggling with approval ratings that remain stubbornly resistant even to good economic news, Washington’s chattering classes have begun to resurrect a question that was prominent in 2020: Could former President Barack Obama be the magical healer Democrats need to reinvigorate disenchanted Democrats?
Or, as a recent Politico headline put it, “Is Barack Obama Ready to Reassert Himself?”
Last week, Obama filmed a 68-second campaign fundraising video alongside Biden in which the two former running mates laid out “five reasons to donate $5″ to Biden’s current presidential campaign. The contrast in age and vitality between the men was noticeable, but so was their bonhomie. (“Hey Barack.” “Hey Joe.” “Good to see you, man.”) Biden did most of the pitching for ordinary folks’ dollars. Obama laid out the administration’s accomplishments and looked seriously confined by the format, the task and the situation.
The video begged a recurring question. With seemingly endless opportunities and possibilities, what is the former president, who still looks energetic and eager enough at age 61 to have an ambitious agenda that ranges beyond Netflix documentaries and Audible narrations, going to do next?
Which in itself reminds longtime Obama watchers in Chicago of the “Who is Barack Obama?” questions that haunted his rise to the White House.
Obama hinted at his own enigmatic image when he began his bestselling memoir “Dreams from My Father,” with this quotation from the biblical Book of Chronicles: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers.”
A “sojourner” is a person who travels from one temporary stay to another. The young author saw this as an appropriate description for himself and the globe-trotting African father he barely knew.
As author and columnist David Brooks pointed out, it intriguingly described the young “Barry” Obama’s life, too. After a boyhood in Hawaii and Indonesia and his college years in Los Angeles and New York, followed by Chicago for 23 years, including his studies at Harvard Law School, his life was spent largely on the move.
Unlike other presidents who could be firmly associated with a town, state, region, occupation, or racial-ethnic tribe of community, Obama never really joined the crowd at University of Chicago, the Illinois Senate or the U.S. Senate, where he was only beginning to serve his first term as he ran for president.
We can quarrel about the accuracy or fairness of it, but the tribal sense of being “not like us,” haunted his campaign enough to be exploited by his rivals, including Donald Trump’s pushing the baseless rumor that Obama was really born in Kenya.
Obama’s almost-chameleon-like personality, and his ability to fit in comfortably with the most diverse crowds, enabled him to rise through institutions in his life without having to fully engage with them. Even now, his power and influence notwithstanding, most Americans don’t associate Obama with any particular community or issue.
That said, Obama recently has shown signs of deeper engagement with a wider variety of communities and missions than the “sojourner” would indicate.
For example, after rarely taking much interest in counseling lawmakers during his presidential years, he has held a series of informal “no frills” get-acquainted discussions in his Washington office with the latest generation of Democratic lawmakers.
Also, while he has made numerous speeches and endorsements for Democratic candidates, he rarely has played the role of party power broker since leaving the White House or while serving in the Senate. He was known more widely for dipping a toe into institutions through which he rose but seldom allowing himself to be fully engaged.
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In recent weeks, we’ve heard him praise new-generation lawmakers more frequently and enthusiastically. That fits in with his previous stated post-presidential goal as that of a “coach” developing a “whole new generation of talent” to help his team rebuild.
Of course, the Obamas already have set up busy lives for themselves with such post-presidency projects as the Obama Foundation, the planned Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, where construction is well underway, and the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, the organization Obama founded in 2014 to provide opportunities for boys and young men of color.
But whenever Obama surrogates are quoted in the media, they invariably use cautious, leveraging language with phrases such as “picking our moments,” Beltway speak for both maximizing impact and keeping a self-protective distance. In Biden’s upcoming campaign, Obama likely will function much like a celebrity pop-up event, ideally in unconventional and unexpected settings. That’s all designed to motivate young Democratic voters, of course, but it contributes to the sense of Obama as an elusive figure.
Time will tell whether or where the former president is ready to plant new roots after his lifelong sojourn. But there are plenty of places and people, beyond Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, who could use his fully focused help.
He’s building his Obama Presidential Center in one of them.
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Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce, they announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of fashion and football.
Brady and Bündchen posted statements on Instagram late Friday morning, each saying they had “amicably” reached the decision. Checks of court dockets Friday morning in Tampa, Miami and West Palm Beach did not immediately show a divorce petition from either member of the couple, who are entitled to file in any Florida county.
“The decision to end a marriage is never easy but we have grown apart and while it is, of course, difficult to go through something like this, I feel blessed for the time we had together and only wish the best for Tom always,” Bündchen wrote.
Both said their priorities lay with their children and asked for privacy.
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“We arrived at this decision to end our marriage after much consideration,” Brady wrote. “Doing so is, of course, painful and difficult, like it is for many people who go through the same thing every day around the world.”
The divorce landed in the midst of Brady's 23rd NFL season, and amid his first three-game losing streak in 20 years, just months after the seven-time Super Bowl champion put an end to his short-lived retirement. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback — who had long stated a desire to spend more time with Bündchen and his three children — announced his departure from the game in February, only to change his mind 40 days later.
“What more do you have to prove?” Bündchen told her husband on the sidelines after his last, record-shattering Super Bowl victory, as Brady himself recounted shortly after the win.
Despite Brady initially saying his retirement was a chance to focus his “time and energy on other things that require my attention,” part of his motivation to come back was what he has referred to as “unfinished business” with the Buccaneers. The team failed to reach the Super Bowl last season in their effort to repeat as champions.
Bündchen told “CBS This Morning” in 2017 that she was concerned about her husband after he played through a concussion the previous year. Brady's then-team, the New England Patriots, and agent declined to respond to her comments at the time, and an NFL spokesperson said there were no records he had suffered a head injury. Brady later said he preferred to keep his medical history private.
“I mean, we don’t talk about it," Bündchen said during the interview. "But he does have concussions. I don’t really think it’s a healthy thing for anybody to go through.”
She more recently contended that the characterization in reports that she was desperate for her husband to retire carried sexist overtones.
“Obviously, I have my concerns. This is a very violent sport, and I have my children and I would like him to be more present,” the supermodel told Elle magazine in September. “I have definitely had those conversations with him over and over again. But ultimately, I feel that everybody has to make a decision that works for (them). He needs to follow his joy, too.”
Bündchen and Brady were introduced by a mutual friend and married — twice — a little over two years later. They said their first “I dos” in early 2009 at a Catholic church in Santa Monica, California, before family and close friends, followed by an equally small second wedding at her house in Costa Rica nearly two months later.
Their son Benjamin was born later that year, followed by a daughter, Vivian, in 2012. Brady also has a 15-year-old son, Jack Moynahan, from a previous relationship with actor Bridget Moynahan.
Bündchen, who was discovered by a modeling scout at age 13 in Brazil, secured her place as one of the industry's highest-paid models by the 2000s and became a tabloid staple, fueled by a relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio. In addition to walking the runways of top designers, appearing in campaigns for high street and high fashion brands alike, she signed on as a Victoria's Secret Angel and took on small film roles — including in “The Devil Wears Prada."
She took a step back from modeling in 2015, giving up runway work and limiting herself to a few advertising campaigns and magazine covers a year. She made one big exception, wearing a glistening gown and a huge smile in 2016 as she crossed a 400-foot (120-meter) runway at the Rio Olympics while fellow Brazilian Daniel Jobim performed “The Girl from Ipanema.”
Since paring back her modeling commitments, she has dedicated herself to environmental activism, particularly with regard to the Amazon rainforest's conservation, and business ventures like eco-friendly skin care and a lingerie line. She has also been vocal about mental health, disclosing debilitating panic attacks that she said had her contemplate suicide and criticizing unrealistic beauty standards.
Above all, Bündchen told Elle, her top priority was her family.
“I’ve done my part, which is (to) be there for (Tom). I moved to Boston, and I focused on creating a cocoon and a loving environment for my children to grow up in and to be there supporting him and his dreams,” she said. “Seeing my children succeed and become the beautiful little humans that they are, seeing him succeed, and being fulfilled in his career, it makes me happy. At this point in my life, I feel like I’ve done a good job on that.”
After years in Boston — where Brady played for the Patriots — and then moving again to Tampa with him in 2020, she said she had her own plans: “I have a huge list of things that I have to do, that I want to do. At 42, I feel more connected with my purpose.”
Brady turned 45 in August, when he left the Buccaneers for 11 days for unspecified personal reasons. The team supported the leave, calling it a pre-planned break agreed to before the start of training camp in July.
A three-time NFL MVP and the league's all-time leader in yards passing and touchdowns, Brady signed a 10-year contract reportedly worth $375 million to become the lead football analyst for Fox Sports once he hangs up his cleats. When that will be is yet uncertain — while Brady had expressed an interest in extending his playing career beyond his mid-40s if he remained healthy, his now ex-wife had a different idea back in 2017.
“That kind of aggression all the time, that cannot be healthy for you,” she said during the CBS interview. “I’m planning on him being healthy and do a lot of fun things when we’re like 100, I hope.”
Associated Press journalists Curt Anderson and Rob Maaddi contributed to this report. | 2022-10-28T17:10:51+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/tom-brady-gisele-b-ndchen-announce-divorce-after-13-years/article_0aa46f4a-fcb1-5a81-be48-8e0a4815f326.html |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark chased down her 10th rebound for Iowa with 5:18 left in the game and flashed a knowing grin, her 10th career triple-double secured.
The Hawkeyes were all smiles all afternoon. Their second straight Big Ten Tournament title was locked up early.
Clark had 30 points, 17 assists and 10 rebounds for the seventh-ranked Hawkeyes, who built a 37-point halftime lead and beat Ohio State 105-72 on Sunday.
“That’s joy,” coach Lisa Bluder said. “To be able to play like that is so much fun, and I admire her for that. She’s so competitive, but she loves the game so much.”
Monika Czinano scored 26 points on 11-for-12 shooting — a Big Ten Tournament record percentage — as Iowa (26-6) entered the chat about a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament with this championship run.
Clark had 23 points in the first half, just one fewer than the 14th-ranked Buckeyes (25-7). She stepped back for NBA-range 3-pointers from the wing, drove hard to the hoop to draw fouls and dished out a steady stream of laser-like passes that were as devastating to Ohio State's defense as they were beautiful for the Iowa-dominated crowd to watch.
“One area where I think she’s really grown is she’s reading the floor at an extremely high level,” Buckeyes coach Kevin McGuff said.
The announced attendance of 9,505 set the Big Ten Tournament record for a single session, beating the 2004 championship game in Indianapolis between Purdue and Penn State (9,417).
Clark's final assist, one short of her career high, fed Gabbie Marshall for a 3-pointer with 4:43 left that gave the Hawkeyes their 100th point. Just before she was subbed out, Clark cupped her hand to her ear to the rile up her fans once more. A little later, she was on stage taking video of the scene as black and gold confetti showered the players during the trophy ceremony.
The two-time Big Ten Player of the Year recorded the third triple-double in Big Ten Tournament history, joining Janel McCarville (2004, Minnesota) and Amanda Zahui B. (2015, Minnesota). Clark's was the first in the championship game.
Most of those passes were high-low feeds to Czinano, who muscled and maneuvered her way around Big Ten Freshman of the Year Cotie McMahon. McMahon had slowed Indiana star Mackenzie Holmes in the Buckeyes' semifinal comeback from a 24-point deficit.
“Her passing skills are so phenomenal, especially coming into the post. She truly makes my life so easy,” Czinano said.
Sometimes all it takes is a glance.
“We’ve just got telepathy like that,” Clark said.
Taylor Mikesell had 24 points and McMahon added 23 points for the Buckeyes, who shot 4 for 18 in the first quarter and never recovered. Without those shots falling, they weren’t able to set up the full-court press that fueled their rally past the Hoosiers the day before.
With Indiana and Maryland having turned in resumes worthy of No. 1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament, Iowa now has a legitimate aim for the same. The Buckeyes likely solidified at least a No. 3 seed.
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Iowa beat Indiana in the championship game last season. The Big Ten this year brought the tournament to Minneapolis for the first time, and Iowa will be happy to have it held there in 2024, too.
The Hawkeyes made Target Center their home away from home, with black and gold the dominant colors in the arena every day.
“I don’t know if we’d do it without them,” Clark said. “It’s literally home-court advantage.”
The all-time leading scorer for the Hawkeyes men's program, Luka Garza, even showed up in a courtside seat on Sunday. He's currently playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Marshall made all three of her 3-pointers and went 13 for 21 over the three games. Kate Martin added 13 points on 5-for-6 shooting. The Hawkeyes finished 36 for 58 to match the Big Ten Tournament record for shooting percentage (62.1) after starting the game a staggering 17 for 21.
“One of the stories of this tournament, as good as Clark and Czinano were, were the other people who made shots,” McGuff said.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic") (NASDAQ: KRBP) shareholders:
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New York adores novelty food—The Cronut line is basically its own culture at this point—so a burger-shaped like a beloved childhood plaything is sure to attract attention.
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Hosted by Explore Hidden, which stages immersive experiences worldwide, Brick Burger is combining the world of LEGO blocks and beef patties with a brick-themed pop-up restaurant, coming to Hester Street from Friday, November 24 through Sunday, November 26.
The food menu will include burgers and sandwiches (including classic beef burgers, a veggie burger and a crispy chicken fillet, each served on sesame-seed buns with the requisite toppings—pickles, lettuce, bacon, and the like) made in the shape and color of LEGO's iconic interlocking plastic bricks.
Tickets will cost $47 and will include one burger as well as a beverage (a soft drink for the kiddies, beer or wine for the adults), as well as access to the immersive experience, which will be playfully kitted out with LEGO-themed furniture and colorful brick walls, as well as a brick-building station to let guests both young and young-at-heart create and construct their own brick designs. And if you're feeling extra competitive, Brick Burger will be hosting weekly brick-building competitions, so you can potentially take home prizes and LEGO glory.
Along with New York City, Brick Burger locations will also be temporarily popping up this fall in other major cities around the states, including Boston, Cleveland, San Diego, Chicago, Austin, Indianapolis and Columbus.
Brick Burger bookings aren't yet open for the NYC pop-up, but you can currently sign up to be notified when tickets become available. Seatings are in two-hour increments: from 11am to 1pm, 2pm to 4pm, 5pm to 7pm, and 8pm to 10pm. In the meantime, feast your eyes on some of the very bright burgers on offer below, as well as a peek inside the restaurant's LEGO-themed interiors. Your inner child is about to thrive | 2023-05-06T01:22:22+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/lego-shaped-burgers-are-coming-to-new-york-050423 |
BEIJING, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, CMGE, a leading global IP-oriented game-based ecological company, announced that it has completed the investment in Continents Sport, and now CMGE holds 51% of the shares of Continents Sport and officially becoming its controlling shareholder. The flagship development project of Continents Sport is Code: Basketball 3V3, a cross-platform (pc, console and mobile phone) sport game jointly developed by Zhao Yongshuo (Korean), the "Father of Street Basketball" and Liu Jingbin (Chinese), the R&D head of Chinese version of Freestyle, A popular basketball game on PC.It is expected that the game will be tested by the end of 2022 and officially launched in mid-2023. In the meantime, CMGE will build a "street basketball game ecology" featuring Chinese style.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, has attached great importance to sports. In order to further the Healthy China Strategy and the national fitness strategy, China has accelerated its journey towards a leading sporting nation, and built public service systems for national fitness with higher level to give full play to national fitness in improving people's health, promoting human development, driving economic and social development and presenting the soft power in culture. For that purpose, the State Council has launched the National Fitness Program (2021-2025), with the aim to build better public service systems for national fitness, provide more convenient public fitness and increase the size of the national sport industry to CNY 5 trillion. In addition, as 3×3 basketball, a mode of street basketball, has been officially included as an official Olympic sport since the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, it is recognized as the world's most popular team sport in cities worldwide as an emerging sport style.
The popularity of 3×3 basketball among people has set a solid foundation for its development in China. Since China claimed men's and women's gold medals of 3×3 basketball at the 18th Asian Games Jakarta Palembang 2018, women's gold medal of 3×3 basketball at FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019, and women's bronze medal of 3×3 basketball at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the development of 3×3 basketball in China is booming and now embracing a historical moment: the Super 3 league, that is aligned with the CBA 3X3 League, was officially launched on December 11, 2021. Yao Ming, the Chairman of Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), said that the launch of Super 3 is conducive to promoting the popularization and improvement of 3×3 basketball in China and will be a pilot for the event management system reform of the CBA. As a local event IP, Super 3 will also cooperate with the FIBA and countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative to make the event a platform facilitating international sport cultural exchange.
In addition, the total market size of e-sports in China in 2020 was over CNY 145 billion as a result of the rapid development of mobile e-sports game and e-sport ecological market. It is estimated that, by 2021, the market size of e-sports would exceed CNY 180 billion. The inclusion of e-sports as an official sport in the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s landmark move of announcing first-ever Olympic Virtual Series, amazing development of e-sports policies in multiple cities and launch of new e-sports games all are drivers to the continuous development of e-sports. In the future, e-sports will incorporate more sports and technological elements and further integrate with urban cultural development. What's more, e-sports is becoming more and more popular as it is now serving as an important role in people's daily life. As MOBA and tactical competition/shooting game events lead the development of e-sports, other types of e-sport games are also embracing their wonderful future. Among those games, sports games have raised widespread concern since 2020. Taking FIFA events as an example, in China, in addition to FIFA Online 3 Star League (FSL) and Chinese E-sports Football League (CEFL), Chinese Football Association (CFA) also established the national team for e-sports as international FIFA-based events have been launched. Both the member recruitment and establishment of China national e-sports football team and Shanghai e-sports training team indicate that national and local e-sports teams will be a common trend in the future. At the same time, events regarding console and VR games will diversify the ecology of e-sports games.
In the context of the construction of a leading sporting nation, the professionalization of 3×3 basketball and the rapid development of e-sports market, CMGE has made a brilliant decision to set foot in the sports game market. Focusing on 3×3 basketball (street basketball), CMGE determines to independently develop its cross-platform game Code: Basketball 3V3 and build a "street basketball-based e-sport ecology" featuring Chinese style.
The developer of the game Zhao Yongshuo, the "Father of Street Basketball", has over 21 years of experience in game development and profound influence over PC games and mobile games. He led the development of the PC game Freestyle. The game was launched in 2005, and has been operating for 16 years so far, boasting over 200 million players and a total revenue of over CNY 3.5 billion. In the e-sports industry, Freestyle has been included in the World Cyber Games (WCG) as a game, and given birth to three major events of Freestyle Professional League (FSPL), Super Freestyle Association (SFSA) and Freestyle International Association (FSIMA), making itself a popular on-line basketball game with over 125 million players. The development of Code: Basketball 3V3 is undertaken by the original developers of PC game Freestyle, Liu Jingbin and Zhao Yongshuo, whose partnership has lasted for years. This perfectly ensures the game quality and experience.
Similar to Freestyle, Code: Basketball 3V3, according to its developer, features street basketball bullfighting and gameplay of 2V2, 3V3, Olympic mode and others. The game uses Unity 3D engine for the special high definition rendering pipeline (HDRP) and elements of AAA games. While presenting realistic images and remaining street cultural elements, the game also combines elements of Chinese style in terms of audio-visual senses and world outlook. Street basketball gaming experience aside, Code: Basketball 3V3 also boasts DIY settings. Player skins, balls and courts can be personalized, including the colors and patterns of balls and styles of the court floor, walls and billboards of and around the court. Besides, the game also allows content creation. Players can upload design works and download them at the Design Workshop to develop personal styles.
Xiao Jian, the Chairman and CEO of CMGE said that, "We really appreciate the partnership with the two outstanding designers Zhao Yongshuo, the 'Father of Street Basketball' and Liu Jingbin. As a leading global IP-oriented game-based ecological company, CMGE actively responds to the 'National Fitness Program (2021-2025)' and will combine its strength and Continents Sport's rich experience in R&D and operation to develop Code: Basketball 3V3, a cross-platform Chinese-style street basketball game featuring Chinese style and related e-sports game events for basketball fans. With our efforts in the game and related events, we are looking forward to deepening our development in the global sports game market."
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This story was originally published in May 2020.
Watering is one of the most important parts of gardening. If you are a first-time gardener, it can be difficult to tell if you are watering your plants enough — or too much, as the case may be. Figuring this out, though, is essential to the health and output of your plants.
Kate Garland, horticultural specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, said that plants may be more forgiving of too much or too little watering depending on whether you are gardening in the ground, in a raised bed or in a container.
“When you’re gardening in the ground — and I include raised beds in that situation — it’s typically a lot more forgiving because your moisture can migrate to other places away from the roots pretty easily,” Garland said. “You tend to not have as many situations where you’re overwatering. Container gardening, especially early in the season there is a risk, even if you have drain holes in your pots.”
There are a few signs of overwatering that you can watch out for in your garden.
“Yellowing of leaves is really a common one,” Garland said. “That’s showing that you’re leaching a lot of the nutrients right out of the soil. Your plants might not have a robust root system because of that. Sometimes the symptoms almost look like drought systems because plants can’t take up the water that’s there.”
Underwatering has signs, too, but plants can recover more quickly from a little dryness.
“Definitely you’ll see wilting leaves in a lot of cases,” Garland said. “Plants can recover pretty readily from experiencing wilting leaves. You don’t want it to happen very regularly in your plants but it’s not the end of the world if your plants are a little underwatered occasionally. Overall, it will reduce your yield.”
Underwatering can be more of a problem in container gardens, though.
“In the case of certain crops you may get blossom end rot in container gardens or well-drained gardens, [where] plants aren’t able to take up calcium, which is really important for developing fruit,” she said. “For container gardens, it can be really helpful to mulch [with an] extra layer of compost on top or straw [to] encourage more consistent soil moisture.”
The best technique, regardless, is to water deeper and less frequently.
“Less frequent, deep waterings are preferred,” Garland said. “That will help the plants establish a deeper root system. If you do frequent, shallow watering, they will have a more shallow root system.”
A good rule of thumb for growing plants, Garland said, is to water at least one inch deep per week. She has a test that she likes to use: the finger test.
“After I water, just stick my finger in a little ways just to see if I have soaked through to at least that depth for young seedlings,” Garland said. “Root system of established plants is usually in the top six to eight inches.”
Once you have figured out how long it takes to water to that depth, you can start going by time instead of measuring. For children’s gardening classes that she used to teach, Garland said that she would tell kids to sing the ABCs three times as they watered their raised beds.
“Once you know how long it takes you to do it and get a good deep watering you can maybe time yourself instead of doing a finger test every time and do it that way,” Garland said. “It’s hard to give a blanket statement. It depends on your water pressure basically.”
Garland also recommended buying a rain gauge for your garden to get a sense of how much watering nature is accomplishing at any given time.
“Most people are really surprised at how little rain we typically get,” Garland said. “It oftentimes is only a tenth to a quarter of an inch per rain event. Supplemental water is typically needed for most gardens. [Plus,] it seems to be a dry season so far. I’m not a meteorologist or anything but I’m surprised how dry the soils are already.”
For container gardens, you can also tip your pot to gauge how much water has been added by weight.
“If it’s a smaller pot you can tip the pot a little bit,” Garland said. “You get to know the weight of the pot and how much a well-watered pot will weigh. Even if you’re lazy and in a hurry, tip it over with your foot a little bit.” | 2022-07-07T01:26:20+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/06/homestead/how-to-tell-if-youre-watering-plants-right/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man and his family “have faced threats of violence and live in fear” since the movie “2000 Mules” falsely accused him of ballot fraud during the 2020 election, according to a federal lawsuit.
The widely debunked film includes surveillance video showing Mark Andrews, his face blurred, depositing five ballots in a dropbox in downtown Lawrenceville, a suburb northeast of Atlanta. A voiceover by conservative pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza says: “What you are seeing is a crime. These are fraudulent votes.”
In fact, a state investigation found, Andrews was dropping off ballots for himself, his wife and their three adult children, who all live at the same address. That is legal in Georgia and a state investigator said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Andrews.
D'Souza's film uses research from the Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote and suggests that ballot “mules” aligned with Democrats were paid to illegally collect and deliver ballots in Georgia and four other closely watched states. An Associated Press analysis found that it is based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data.
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State and federal officials have repeatedly confirmed that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election that could have changed the outcome of the presidential race.
The lawsuit names D'Souza and True the Vote, as well as the organization's executive director Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who has served on its board. Both Engelbrecht and Phillips appear throughout the film and served as executive producers and producers, the lawsuit says.
D'Souza did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment submitted through his website. Engelbrecht and True the Vote have not responded to emails seeking comment, and contact information for Phillips could not be immediately located.
“At all times, Defendants knew that their portrayals of Mr. Andrews were lies, as was the entire narrative of 2000 Mules,” the lawsuit says. “But they have continued to peddle these lies in order to enrich themselves.”
Their social media accounts and website continue to promote the film using Andrews “as an example of a criminal ‘mule,’” the lawsuit says. While Andrews' face was blurred in the film, video shown when the defendants were interviewed sometimes clearly showed his face and the license plate on his SUV, the lawsuit says.
The false accusations have caused distress for Andrews and his family, the lawsuit says.
“They feel intimidated to vote and have changed how they vote because of that fear," it says. "They worry that again they will be baselessly accused of election crimes, and that believers in the ‘mules’ theory may recognize and seek reprisal against them, and that they may face physical harm.”
Andrews, who is Black, grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, before federal voting rights laws were passed and his “family taught him that his community and ancestors had fought, marched, and died for the right to vote," the lawsuit says. Because of the “conspiracy to defame and intimidate him," the suit says, “he will never again be able to vote without looking over his shoulder.”
Among other things, the lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount in damages and asks that false and defamatory statements about Andrews be removed from any website or social media accounts that the defendants control. | 2022-10-28T17:11:28+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/georgia-man-sues-over-false-ballot-fraud-claim-in-film/article_6a05b783-9e5f-5238-930a-44ae0b58b6d9.html |
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This product is the answer to your pet hair problems
You adore your pet. There’s no question about that. But, you can still get sick of looking like the star of a low-budget Sasquatch movie after every cuddle. The right pet hair remover or lint roller for pet hair keeps your clothes fur-free — not to mention other fabrics, such as couches, bed sheets and rugs.
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They were also impressed with how little effort it took to remove hair from smooth fabrics and how well it got hair off most materials. After trying it out on car seats, they said the car looked like it had just been detailed. Although it’s unsuitable for knitted materials and can struggle with deep carpets, it’s appropriate for most fabrics.
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San Diego State ousts No. 1 overall seed Alabama from NCAAs
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.
Trammell scored 21 points while Miller, whose outstanding season was marred by off-the-court complications, was held to nine points on 3-of-19 shooting and had six turnovers.
The fifth-seeded Aztecs (30-6) will face either Creighton or Princeton on Sunday in the West Region final as they seek their first Final Four in program history. With fellow No. 1 seeds Purdue and Kansas losing during the tournament’s first weekend, Houston — which played Miami on Friday night — was the only top-seeded team remaining.
San Diego State trailed 48-39 midway through the second half before going on a 12-0 run and controlling the game from there. The Aztecs finished with eight blocked shots — five by Nathan Mensah — and forced 14 turnovers.
The March Madness run of Alabama (31-6) was clouded by its response to the Jan. 15 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman in Tuscaloosa, which led to capital murder charges against a then-Crimson Tide player, Darius Miles.
Miller was at the scene of the shooting and has not been charged, but police have said in court documents that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun. Authorities have said Miller is a cooperating witness, and he did not miss any playing time. Miller has received armed security protection during the tournament.
Mark Sears had 16 points and Jahvon Quinerly and Charles Bediako scored 10 each for Alabama, which shot 32% overall and a miserable 3 of 27 (11.1%) from 3-point range. The Crimson Tide fell short of the second Elite Eight berth in school history.
“Alabama’s a great team. They have a lot of talented players and individuals,” Trammell said. “We knew it was going to be hard. It was a dogfight. Very physical.”
Sears’ layup got Alabama within 66-64 with 46 seconds remaining, but Matt Bradley made two free throws and Micah Parrish followed by making three of four attempts, including two with 17 seconds left.
Jaedon LeDee finished with 12 points for the Aztecs.
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2023 Genesis Scottish Open Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 2
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- Start Time: 2:15 AM ET
- Venue: The Renaissance Club
- Location: North Berwick, United Kingdom
- Par/Distance: Par 70/7,237 yards
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), provides an update to KSF's continued investigation into FibroGen, Inc. (NasdaqGS: FGEN).
On April 6, 2021, the Company disclosed that cardiovascular safety data it had previously submitted for the Phase 3 program of its Roxadustat product "included post-hoc changes to the stratification factors." Then, on July 15, 2021, the FDA's Advisory Committee unequivocally concluded that the Company's own undisclosed, prespecified sensitivity analyses demonstrated that Roxadustat's efficacy over Epogen was inconclusive at best, that it caused "greater rates of some important adverse events [] than even [Epogen]," including a higher rate of death and other major side effects, and that the Committee had voted virtually unanimously against approval for Roxadustat for any patient population, even with a "Black Box" warning.
The Company was subsequently sued in a securities class action lawsuit for failing to disclose material information, violating federal securities laws.
Recently, the court presiding over that case denied the Company's motion to dismiss in part, allowing the case to move forward.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether FibroGen's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of FibroGen shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-fgen/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking to recover investment losses due to corporate fraud and malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RUMOR Rosé is proud to announce today that the premium rosé brand will be an exclusive partner for all amfAR events this year. Intertwining the worlds of music, business, art, and international society, RUMOR Rosé will be served exclusively across all amfAR events.
The first event the brand will be poured at is the prestigious amfAR Gala in Cannes on May 25th, hosted by Queen Latifah, with performances by Halsey, Gladys Knight, Adam Lambert and Bebe Rexha. Guests will enjoy sipping on the RUMOR Rosé and signature cocktails. Additional events include the highly anticipated amfAR Venezia gala in Venice on September 3rd. These impactful events are vital to support amfAR's mission to end the global HIV/AIDS epidemic through innovative research.
"We are thrilled to kick off a year-long partnership with RUMOR Rosé", said amfAR CEO Kevin Robert Frost. "It was important to us to work with a brand that has a deep-rooted commitment to philanthropy. RUMOR has quickly developed a reputation for itself across the world as a high quality and discerning brand, and we are very pleased to be able to offer it to our guests this year."
In addition to having a branded RUMOR Rosé bar during the alfresco cocktail hour outside the iconic steps of Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, a RUMOR Rosé Spritz will be offered throughout the evening at each bar. "amfAR has done such tremendous work in the global fight against AIDS, that it's truly an honor to be considered a partner," said Barry Bayat, founder of RUMOR Rosé.
RUMOR Rosé is currently available in 11 countries and on nationwide delivery services such as Drizly, ReserveBar, Wine.com among other retailers. To learn more about amfAR please visit https://www.amfar.org and to learn more about RUMOR Rosé, please visit https://rumorrose.com. Follow RUMOR Rosé and amfAR on Instagram @rumorrose @amfAR.
ABOUT RUMOR ROSÉ:
RUMOR is an independent, premium rose chosen by consumers seeking authentic products and new experiences. With a sophisticated yet light flavor profile suitable for all occasions, RUMOR Rosé has captured the imagination of the world's most experienced sommeliers and consumers alike. RUMOR Rosé is entirely rooted, produced, and bottled in Côtes de Provence, a region synonymous with best-in-class winemaking.
ABOUT amfAR:
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, is one of the world's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and advocacy. Since 1985, amfAR has invested nearly $617 million in its programs and has awarded more than 3,500 grants to research teams worldwide.
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It feels like fall doesn't it? The lingering cold front has carried clouds and rain through most of the day for our area today, along with cooler temps in the 50s and low 60s. But that fall cold front is moving away soon! Some folks will catch some sunshine in the afternoon as the clouds pull away at the end of the day.
We drop into near the upper 40s overnight before another below average day Sunday, albeit with a bit more sunshine. A low pressure system wrapped up in our cold front will swing some of this cloudy and rainy weather back our way later Sunday and into early Monday, but this will be primarily closer to Wisconsin - well east of I-35.
The first half of the workweek looks fantastic with very low humidity and mostly sunny skies with highs in the 70s as winds are lightly out of the north. Thursday onward, we will be watching low but widespread chances for scattered thunderstorms as we experience a more summer-like setup for rain. This means that there will likely be some opportunities to get outside and soak up sunshine and warmer temps despite what your phone weather app might say. This is the opposite of the lingering rain we have seen this Friday/Saturday. | 2022-09-10T21:12:41+00:00 | kimt.com | https://www.kimt.com/news/top-stories/stormteam-3-tracking-clearing-skies-and-how-long-this-autumn-feeling-sticks-around/article_d143fd8c-3145-11ed-995d-2368c3c55bd8.html |
PHOENIX (AP)Nick Sirianni often credits Frank Reich for his development as a head coach.
The mentor also learned from the student.
Before leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl in just his second season as a head coach, Sirianni spent three years as the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts under Reich from 2018-20. They also worked together as assistants for three years with the Chargers.
While Reich focuses on evaluating his new team in Carolina, Sirianni is preparing the Eagles (16-3) for the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs (16-3) on Sunday.
Reich hasn’t been surprised by Sirianni’s quick rise.
”He’s got an incredible ability to connect with players and it’s just authentic, it’s genuine,” Reich told the AP Pro Football Podcast. ”It’s easy for him because he cares. He’s just really good at that. He’s also an elite offensive mind. He’s a great game-planner. He’s got that coaching pedigree. We worked together for six years. It was a real highlight. I know he’s always complimentary because I’m like the older brother who mentored him, but trust me, this was a two-way street. We both benefited from it and I’ve learned a lot from that.”
With the biggest game of his life approaching, Sirianni draws from the lessons he learned from his time working with Reich.
”Frank would always say this to me: `No man suddenly becomes different than his cherished thoughts and habits.’ Meaning no one suddenly becomes different. You are who you’ve been the whole time,” Sirianni said. ”This is a bigger game than this or this. They’ve all been big. I show a picture to the team every week of a mountain. There’s the top of the mountain, you can see it, but the guy’s vision is just on the steps right there (ahead). Your focus doesn’t change because the situation or the game around you or the opponent changes. You still focus on one step at a time. The higher you climb on the mountain … it gets windier, the conditions get tougher, it gets a little steeper, it gets a little harder to breathe. So now what an unbelievable time to just focus on the next step and don’t look up.”
Sirianni’s success in Philadelphia is largely due to the development of quarterback Jalen Hurts, who was a finalist for AP NFL MVP and Offensive Player of the Year. Hurts took a giant leap in his second season in Sirianni’s system.
Reich didn’t have the opportunity to coach the same starting QB two seasons in a row in Indianapolis after Andrew Luck abruptly retired in 2019. He went from Luck to Jacoby Brissett to Philip Rivers to Carson Wentz to Matt Ryan.
The Panthers used three starting quarterbacks while going 7-10 in 2022. Reich knows finding a franchise quarterback is a top priority. He’s working with general manager Scott Fitterer and owner David Tepper to identify the right one.
”It’s a big deal,” Reich said. ”It’s just a question of having a plan and executing the plan. Looking forward to that process. That’ll be very enjoyable, studying the quarterbacks both in college and free agents, everybody that’s available. Every option is open. But the main thing, as we’ve talked about, it’s really looking for stability there. That’s really what you need for the consistency that we want to show.”
Reich’s return to Carolina where he was the franchise’s first starting quarterback in 1995 allows him to expand ”kNot Today,” a nonprofit that works to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. Reich and his wife, Linda, formed the organization a year after he became the head coach with the Colts.
”This is a massive problem,” Reich said. ”Fifty million people are estimated to be victims of modern slavery, over 10 million of those are children. Human trafficking and slavery is a $150 billion industry, which should make us all sick. … Our response is to join together as a team, and everybody do our part. For `kNot Today,’ we’re about really trying to do three things. We want to push legislation that will protect children. We want to really focus on prevention education. That’s a really big deal. Last year in the state of Indianapolis, we helped do prevention education for many students. And then we want to help support law enforcement.”
The Reichs are partnering with International Justice Mission to also help trafficking victims on an international level.
”They’ve been leaders in this industry for a long time and we’re trying to play our part,” Reich said. ”But each one of us have a part, parents, coaches, we all have a part in the process. This is all hands on deck. Let’s each play our part in protecting children from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking.”
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) sent a memo to House Republican colleagues Wednesday urging them to “hold the line” with continued support for the conference’s sweeping debt limit bill in the face of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden aiming to negotiate a compromise that would likely strip out many conservative priorities.
In the memo, Roy listed major policies from the bill passed in April, dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which paired a $1.5 trillion debt limit increase with around $4.8 trillion in deficit reductions over a decade and many conservative policy reforms.
“Each are critical and none should be abandoned solely for the quest of a ‘deal,'” Roy wrote.
Some Republicans saw the bill as a starting point for negotiations and a way to drag Biden to the negotiating table on the debt limit, with the expectation that not everything in the bill would be in a final deal. But Roy’s letter represents growing vocal resistance among the House GOP’s right flank to McCarthy striking a compromise deal with Biden that includes fewer cuts and policies than what was in the House GOP bill.
Some of the measures Roy cited in his letter are now at the forefront of debt limit negotiations, like reverting spending to fiscal 2022 levels, rescinding unused funds authorized to combat the effects of COVID-19, and beefing up work requirements for public assistance programs.
But Roy brought up a number of other measures that were in the bill, too.
The Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act would give Congress increased ability to regulate or reject regulations and rules from federal agencies and was included in the GOP debt bill.
The GOP package would also rescind funds from an $80 billion boost to IRS funding for tax enforcement that Democrats passed last year, overturn Biden’s action to forgive student loans, and repeal clean energy tax credits passed by Democrats last year.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said the Republican debt bill was dead on arrival in the Senate, but that has not stopped the House GOP’s right flank from insisting that the Senate pass or modify it rather than willingly strip out measures from the bill in negotiations.
Roy’s memo follows the House Freedom Caucus last week urging McCarthy and Senate Republicans “to use every leverage and tool at their disposal to ensure the Limit, Save, Grow Act is signed into law.”
Roy also noted in his memo that he hopes talking points in it will “help as Speaker McCarthy continues to pressure President Biden to do what is right for the American people.”
“While House Republicans are fighting for hard-working American families facing a woke, weaponized government at odds with our way of life, President Biden and Democrats have been dragging their feet for weeks to fight for rich liberal elitists who want more spending, more government, more corporate subsidies, and less freedom,” Roy said. | 2023-05-24T17:02:25+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/hill-politics/key-republican-urges-mccarthy-gop-to-hold-the-line-in-debt-ceiling-talks/ |
CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlloSource®, one of the largest allograft providers creating innovative cellular and tissue products to help surgeons heal their patients, today announced positive prospective clinical outcomes for the repair of focal articular cartilage defects in the knee using ProChondrix® CR, a readily available full thickness intact living cellular articular cartilage allograft.
The prospective clinical study recorded pre and postoperative International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC – assesses overall patient function) and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score scores (KOOS – assesses pain, functions in daily living and sports and quality of life). These patient-reported outcomes showed sustained positive result scores with statistical significance achieved at the 6-, 12-, 24- and 36- months postoperatively. Most notably at 36 months, IKDC scores improved by 86.3% (Figure 1) and KOOS Quality of Life scores improved by 132.5% from the preoperative scores (Figure 2).
"ProChondrix CR has demonstrated promising data in the laboratory. This clinical data continues to tell the story of the positive impact ProChondrix CR can have on patient recovery," said Carolyn Rorick, AlloSource Senior Director Product Development, Innovation and Clinical Affairs. "The study is ongoing, so we will continue to gather additional data to confirm the longer-term results."
ProChondrix CR is a living intact hyaline cartilage product that contains functional chrondrocytes and other biological components necessary for repair and replacement of damaged articular cartilage tissue.1 Created with AlloSource's proprietary cartilage cryopreservation process, ViaTrue™, ProChondrix CR has an average of 94.97% chondrocyte viability after two years of cryopreserved storage. 2 The two-year shelf life helps to alleviate inventory management challenges and provides surgeons with more flexibility for their patients.
For additional detail on ProChondrix CR's clinical outcomes visit booth #6627 at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting in Las Vegas March 7-11, 2023 or allosource.org.
Founded in 1994, AlloSource is a nonprofit leader in providing allografts that maximize tissue donation to help surgeons heal their patients. The company has grown into one of the largest tissue networks in the country creating more than 200 types of precise bone, skin and soft-tissue allografts for use in an array of life-saving and life-enhancing medical procedures. As a leading manufacturer of cartilage tissue for joint repair and skin allografts to help heal severe burns, AlloSource's products bridge the proven science of allografts with the advanced technology of cells. The company is accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks and is headquartered in Centennial, CO. For more information, please visit allosource.org.
- Data on file.
- Rorick et al. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research - 2020.
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CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 years ago.
The corridor — on the northern side of the Pyramid of Khufu — was discovered using modern scanning technology. It measures 9 meters (nearly 30 feet) in length and is 2 meters (over 6 feet) wide, perched above the main entrance of the pyramid.
Archaeologists do not know what the function was of the chamber, which is not accessible from the outside. In 2017, scientists announced the discovery of another sealed-off corridor, a 30-meter chamber — or about 98 feet — also inside the Pyramid of Khufu.
Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and the country’s Minister for Tourism Ahmed Eissa, announced the discovery Thursday at an unveiling ceremony outside the pyramid. The Scan Pyramids project, an international program that uses scans to look at unexplored sections of the ancient structure, was credited for the find.
Scientists from the project — which began in 2015 — attended the unveiling.
According to Christian Grosse, Professor of Non-destructive Testing at the Technical University of Munich and a leading member of the project, various scanning techniques were deployed to locate the chamber, including ultrasound measurements and ground penetrating radars. He hopes these techniques will lead to further findings within the pyramid.
‘’There are two large limestones at the end chamber, and now the question is what’s behind these stones and below the chamber,’’ Grosse said.
The Pyramid of Khufu — named after its builder, a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. — is one of three pyramids that make up the Great Pyramids at Giza complex. It is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that has survived to this day.
Experts are divided over how the pyramids were constructed, so even relatively minor discoveries generate great interest. Authorities often publicly tout discoveries to attract more tourists, a major source of foreign currency for this cash-strapped Middle eastern country.
Egypt's tourism sector suffered a long downturn after the political turmoil and violence that followed the 2011 uprising that ousted the country's longtime autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, and further setbacks following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
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MORE TOP STORIES: Harry, Meghan asked to leave UK home in further royal rift | 2023-03-02T15:32:47+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/great-pyramid-of-giza-discovery-chamber-revealed/507-9bef83ec-6c72-4939-be86-f279b4d7f16d |
Hockey Canada CEO Smith out, board of directors resigns
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Hockey Canada has ousted CEO Scott Smith. Its board of directors has also resigned over a series of scandals that have rocked the sport’s national federation to its core. Smith spent nearly three decades climbing the ladder at Hockey Canada and lasted just three months at the top. The organization is dealing with fallout related to how it handled sexual assault allegations and how the organization paid out settlements. Former board chair Michael Brind’Amour resigned in August and interim chair Andrea Skinner stepped down Saturday. | 2022-10-11T20:53:48+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/10/11/hockey-canada-ceo-smith-out-board-of-directors-resigns/ |
A 71-year-old Clear Lake man was injured on Monday morning in Cerro Gordo.
According to a release from the Cerro Gordo Sheriff's department, Randall Perriera was driving a 2017 Buick Enclave northbound on Grouse Avenue when 21-year-old Connor O'Tool of Clear Lake allegedly failed to yield while driving east in a 2008 GMC pickup on 300th Street, colliding with Perriera.
Perreiera was transported to MercyOne North Iowa with a minor injury. O'Tool was uninjured. Both drivers were wearing seat belts and the collision remains under investigation.
The Clear Lake Fire Department assisted at the scene. | 2023-04-18T03:49:24+00:00 | globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/minor-injury-after-monday-morning-collision-near-clear-lake/article_be3470f4-938c-5a49-b64c-dd80fa5c6d91.html |
If you’re going to book a hotel in Sydney, where better than by the water? And when it comes to beachside hotels, Coogee Bay Boutique Hotel is about as close to a shoreline as you’re going to get.
No matter the vibe you’re after, this coastal abode can cater, thanks to its two distinct styles of accommodation. If you're young at heart and want to be in the thick of the action, check out their Coogee Bay rooms above the bar. These playfully refurbished rooms come with a cool beach vibe while paying homage to the hotel's 147-year-old heritage and colourful history of hosting live music. Walls are adorned with art and photography showcasing the famous musos who have graced the stage at the pub’s live music venue, Selina's. Just a little bit of rock ’n’ roll to go with the bar noise that may just drift up from the bar below. And note: there’s no lift so you’ll be taking the stairs.
If you're after a calmer stay (i.e. romance, a family vaycay or business travel), book into the four-star Boutique Hotel, which is nestled back from the main building and hubbub of the Coogee beach strip. The large rooms have a coastal chic vibe. They’re large and elegant, yet comfy like home.
As mentioned, the location is ace. Just cross the road and you’re on the sands of Coogee Beach. And just a short stroll away from the Coogee to Bondi coastal walk, the popular Coogee Pavilion and, of course, the Coogee Bay Hotel itself, and their restaurant Marra Bar & Grill. | 2023-04-07T08:46:22+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/sydney/hotels/coogee-bay-boutique-hotel |
CLEVELAND (AP) — Amed Rosario was never viewed as Cleveland’s long-term shortstop — more of a temporary fix.
On Wednesday, he became a former one.
Eager to give young infielders Tyler Freeman and Gabriel Arias more playing time, the Guardians traded Rosario to the Los Angeles Dodgers for pitcher Noah Syndergaard and nearly $1.9 million in a deal that addresses major needs for both contending clubs.
Rosario came to Cleveland from the New York Mets in the blockbuster deal for Francisco Lindor a few years back. And while he has been a reliable player and leader for the defending AL Central champions, the Guardians felt it was time to turn to their future.
Rosario started slowly at the plate this season, but is batting .265 with six triples, three homers and 40 RBIs. However, his defense has been lacking — he’s ranked among baseball’s worst shortstops in several categories — and the Guardians feel it’s better to see what Freeman and Arias can do.
“We felt that this made sense for us and now is the right time to give Gabby and Tyler some more opportunities,” said Chris Antonetti, Cleveland’s president of baseball operations. “We also wanted to be respectful to Amed. We recognize his place on our team and as a veteran leader and his expectations of himself and transitioning him to a lesser role would had an impact on him and the team and we were very mindful about doing that.”
Rosario, who is eligible for free agency this winter, has been the subject of trade speculation for months, and Wednesday he sat out Cleveland’s 8-3 win over Kansas City. Arias started at shortstop and had two hits.
The Dodgers are sending Cleveland $1,873,118 as part of the trade, in effect equalizing the salaries. Syndergaard is owed $4,682,795 from his $13 million salary and Rosario is owed $2,809,677 from his $7.8 million deal.
The move shores up the Dodgers’ current issues at shortstop.
All-Star Mookie Betts has played some short, but he’s the team’s primary right fielder. The Dodgers found themselves in need after Gavin Lux went down with a season-ending knee injury in spring training and Miguel Rojas has struggled offensively at the spot.
On Tuesday, the NL West-leading Dodgers acquired utilityman Kiké Hernández from the Boston Red Sox.
“I know he’s a heck of a ballplayer,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said before the deal was finalized. “I do know that I like him as a ballplayer.”
Cleveland, which trails first-place Minnesota by two games, needed to add a pitcher with starters Shane Bieber, Triston McKenzie and Cal Quantrill all dealing with injuries.
The 30-year-old Syndergaard should be able to eat up some innings for Cleveland — if he’s healthy. He’s been on the injured list with a blister on his right index finger since early June and pitching in rehab games for Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Antonetti said Syndergaard is ready to join Cleveland’s rotation. The right-hander will join the Guardians in Chicago on Thursday for the opener of a four-game series, but it’s not clear when he’ll make his debut.
Earning the nickname “Thor” with a devastating fastball and long, blond hair, Syndergaard was once one of the game’s rising pitching stars. However, injuries have sidetracked his career. He signed a one-year deal with the Dodgers before the season and posted a 7.16 ERA in 12 starts before getting hurt.
The Guardians have been leaning on rookies Tanner Bibee, Gavin Williams and Logan Allen and the club needs to closely monitor their workloads down the stretch. They’re hoping Syndergaad can help.
Antonetti said the club will recall outfielder Oscar Gonzalez from Triple-A Columbus to fill Rosario’s roster spot. Gonzalez, who was a postseason star for Cleveland in 2022, was sent to the minors after batting .192 in 25 games.
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AP Sports Writer Beth Harris in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-27T15:21:37+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-guardians-agree-to-trade-shortstop-rosario-to-dodgers-for-pitcher-syndergaard-ap-source-says/ |
MONTERVILLE, W.Va. (WBOY) — A man was killed in a logging accident near Monterville on Thursday.
The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office announced on Thursday that deputies were called to a logging accident off Turkey Bone Road around 2 p.m. on June 1. When they arrived at the scene, which was four miles down a logging road and another mile into the woods, they confirmed that a male victim had died.
The victim, identified as 54-year-old David Moreland, of Scherr, had 15 years of logging experience, according to the post.
Moreland was killed when a tree uprooted and fell on him while he was working to secure a felled log, deputies said. Deputies are investigating alongside the State Medical Examiner—who was also on the scene—and OSHA.
Moreland’s body was recovered by the Valley Head, Huttonsville and Mill Creek fire departments and Randolph County EMS and brought to Davis Medical Center in Elkins.
“Prayers to the family of Mr. Moreland and the witnesses and the Logging Company’s owner and family,” Randolph County Sheriff Elbon said. | 2023-06-02T19:27:25+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/emergencies/logger-killed-while-on-job-in-randolph-county/ |
What weightlifting equipment is best?
Weightlifting does more than build muscle and burn fat. It may boost energy, increase flexibility and reduce your risk of injury in other sports or exercises. Active people often invest in home weightlifting equipment so they won’t interrupt their progress if they can’t get to the gym. The Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbell, for example, is a space-savvy weight set that lets users lift up to 90 pounds.
What to know before you buy weightlifting equipment
Types of weights
There are free weights, kettlebells, Olympic barbells and plates. You may want to begin with a few weights or go all-in by investing in an entire set.
Weight benches lend themselves to dynamic use. Olympic weight benches, for example, have adjustable seats to execute different exercises.
Power cages, also called squat racks, are ideal for heavy-lifting routines. They’re often used by people who exercise on their own and don’t have a spotter.
Home weightlifting equipment pros
Many fitness enthusiasts feel it’s easier to maintain progress when weightlifting equipment is within reach, whether it’s in their basement, garage or guest room. Rain or shine, there isn’t much standing in the way of their workouts.
Some people prefer the privacy of working out at home, especially since they avoid common gym distractions such as loud music or conversations. It also means there’s no need to share gym equipment during peak times.
Home weightlifting equipment cons
One of the pitfalls of home weightlifting equipment is its large footprint. Those without much spare room may be limited in which equipment they can buy. If you have a studio apartment, for example, it may be challenging to fit a full-weight rack or power cage.
Some weightlifting equipment designed for home use lacks the quality construction of gym machines. Certain pieces have poor-quality metal components, and others have seats that are prone to ripping or compressing after minimal use.
Shipping and delivery
Because most weightlifting equipment is heavy or bulky, consider shipping, delivery and assembly before you buy.
Larger specialty pieces, such as gym-quality weightlifting machines, may require scheduled delivery. Some companies offer free delivery and assembly, while others charge as much as a few hundred dollars.
Weightlifting equipment that arrives in smaller pieces, such as power cages or benches, typically requires user assembly. If you want a professional to handle it, be prepared to pay hourly for labor, which may run as high as $200.
What to look for in quality weightlifting equipment
Construction
Well-made weightlifting equipment makes a world of difference in your training. Quality pieces hold up well to rugged use without wobbling, breaking or bowing. They’re generally safer than poorly assembled equipment that has subpar, unreliable components.
Weight increments
Before you invest in weights, think about your lifting goals and expectations. If your goal is to lift heavier, invest in sets whose weight increments accommodate your progress. You may need to upgrade their set once you max out your current one.
Weight capacities
You’ll need to examine weight capacity with some types of lifting equipment. Weight benches usually list two capacities, one for the user and one for the weight rack. Power cages list the maximum weight they can support, provided the weight is evenly distributed.
Adjustable features
Many types of lifting equipment are adjustable, such as rack heights or seat angles. Less expensive pieces often has less adjustability than premium pieces. Some people aren’t bothered by only having a couple of options, while others, who do different types of exercises, may benefit from more adjustability.
How much you can expect to spend on weightlifting equipment
Small sets of free weights and kettlebells cost $50 and below, but you’ll spend closer to $100-$300 on most entry-level free weight sets, benches and power cages. Gym-quality weightlifting equipment costs $500-$2,500.
Weightlifting equipment FAQ
Does weightlifting equipment come with a warranty?
A. Most quality weightlifting equipment comes with manufacturer warranties. However, it’s important to read the fine print. Some companies only cover parts, while others cover the entire frame. Some premium equipment offers in-home tech support, too.
What other equipment will I need for weightlifting?
A. Many lifters invest in weightlifting gloves to protect their hands and achieve a better grip. If you’re buying a power cage or weight bench, look for equipment mats to protect floors.
What’s the best weightlifting equipment to buy?
Top weightlifting equipment
What you need to know: If you don’t have the room for a full dumbbell set, this select-a-weight set is a space-savvy solution.
What you’ll love: The weights adjust from 10 to 90 pounds in 5-pound increments, and a dial system offers seamless transitions between weights. The set comes with a workout DVD and a one-year membership in an app that offers full-body strength classes.
What you should consider: The dial system is user-friendly, but it has a modest learning curve.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top weightlifting equipment for the money
Fitness Reality 810XLT Super Max Power Cage
What you need to know: This well-made, affordable power cage has an 800-pound weight capacity to accommodate heavy lifting.
What you’ll love: The cage is adjustable to 19 height levels to suit standing, squatting and seated exercises. It has a wide design to give users enough room to walk and squat inside it. It has several safety features, including rear stability bars.
What you should consider: It doesn’t come with J hooks to protect your bar, and it has a large footprint.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Body Champ Olympic Weight Bench with Preacher Curl
What you need to know: This dynamic weight bench is ideal for the lifter who wants a gym-quality heavy-duty set without a large footprint.
What you’ll love: The backrest is adjustable to seven positions, including ones for leg extensions, left lifts and arm curls. The set integrates seamlessly with most home gyms because it’s compatible with most 6- and 7-foot sets.
What you should consider: Because it’s a compact design, taller users may have difficulty using it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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A confirmed case of polio in Rockland County, New York, has officials urging residents to be sure they are vaccinated against the disease and to get vaccinated as soon as possible if they are not.
The virus is also present in wastewater, indicating that more people in the community may have the disease.
Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with Jennifer B. Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, talks about the case and risk of a broader outbreak.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-08T19:51:47+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2022-08-08/officials-confirm-case-of-polio-in-rockland-county-new-york |
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marlinspike Partners, a venture capital investment firm focusing on disruptive dual-use technology companies advancing national security and commercial interests of the United States, today announced that Charles Carmakal has joined its Advisory Board.
With over 20 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, Charles is a one of the world's pre-eminent cybersecurity experts. He is currently CTO for Mandiant Consulting, where he oversees a team of incidence responders, analysts, and consultants that have helped thousands of organizations respond to complex security breaches orchestrated by foreign governments and organized criminals. Charles led the teams that discovered and responded to some of the most impactful security events, including the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the Colonial Pipeline cyber disruption. Charles provides strategic security guidance to executive leadership and boards of directors, helping Fortune 500 organizations build and enhance security programs to combat advanced cyber-attacks.
"I am very excited to be joining Marlinspike's Advisory Board. Cybersecurity is an integral part of our nation's defense strategy. Marlinspike is investing in technologies that provide the United States with a technological edge and national security, and I am excited to contribute to the mission," said Carmakal.
"Cybersecurity challenges continue to be one of the most pressing issues for our nation's public and private sectors. We are very pleased to have world-class expert like Charles join our Advisory Board," said Mislav Tolusic, Managing Partner and CIO of Marlinspike. Neil Keegan, Managing Partner and CEO of Marlinspike, emphasized Carmakal's onboarding as part of a broader strategy to continue growing the Marlinspike Advisory Board with world-class experts.
About Marlinspike:
Marlinspike is a venture capital investment firm, focusing on investing in disruptive dual-use technology companies advancing national security and commercial interests of the United States.
Marlinspike uses a private equity approach to investing, focusing on adding value and driving growth post-investment. A unique approach, an experienced management team, and dedication to the mission makes Marlinspike a preeminent dual-use technology investment firm.
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Pelosi receives Communion in Vatican despite abortion stance
ROME (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights.
Pelosi attended the morning Mass marking the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, during which Francis bestowed the woolen pallium stole on newly consecrated archbishops. She was seated in a VIP diplomatic section and received Communion along with the rest of the congregants, according to two people who witnessed the moment.
The issue is significant given Pelosi’s home archbishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, has said he will no longer allow her to receive the sacrament in his archdiocese because of her support for abortion rights. Cordileone, a conservative, has said Pelosi must either repudiate her support for abortion or stop speaking publicly of her Catholic faith.
Pelosi has done neither. She called the recent Supreme Court ruling removing constitutional protections for abortion an “outrageous and heart-wrenching” decision that fulfils the Republican Party’s “dark and extreme goal of ripping away women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions.”
And she has spoken openly of her Catholic faith, including at a diplomatic reception at the residence of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See on Tuesday evening marking Independence Day.
Speaking to a crowd of ambassadors, Vatican officials and other Rome-based Americans, Pelosi spoke about the Catholic virtues of faith, hope and charity and the important role they play in the U.S. Embassy’s mission.
“Faith is an important gift, not everyone has it but it is the path to so many other things,” she told the crowd.
Pelosi met with Francis on Wednesday before the Mass and received a blessing, according to one of the Mass attendees.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NIO Capital celebrated its "Five and Beyond" fifth anniversary in Suzhou on August 5.
At the gathering, William Li, Ian Zhu and Nathan Yu, the firm's managing partners, shared their experience, insights, and NIO Capital's achievements over the past five years. Carl Guan, Li Yao, and Adair Lv, the investment firm's managing directors, released NIO Capital 2022 Investment Outlook. This white paper focuses on investment opportunities in Automobiles and Logistics, Energy and Deep Technologies sectors in the next five to 10 years. Representatives from NIO Capital's portfolio companies shared ideas on the industries they are involved in.
William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, and managing partner of NIO Capital, delivered the opening speech. As an investor and entrepreneur, Li has been involved in the automotive industry for many years. He gave his take on the industry and talked about starting a business from his own experience.
Li said the intelligent electric vehicle (EV) sector had entered a "speed-up" stage, behind which the core driving force is technological advancement. The automotive industry has reached the commanding height of scientific and technological innovations again, and it will create more opportunities for the Chinese market. He added that the sector is full of possibilities and will open up more chances for entrepreneurs. He also said while staying prudent, optimistic, and aggressive, NIO Capital will seize the opportunities with real actions rather than be caught in anxiety.
As LPs vary, their demands focus not only on financial returns but also on multi-dimensional values. Since its inception, NIO Capital has been expanding its investment in an industry-oriented way. Meanwhile, the company offers its portfolio companies multi-dimensional support, with the vision "Invest in Innovations that Sustain and Advance Humankind".
Nathan Yu, managing partner of NIO Capital, spoke on the changes in the automotive industry over the past five years. He said the sector is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. Both individuals and companies need to embrace changes and transformation.
The anniversary also witnessed the release of NIO Capital 2022 Investment Outlook, a white paper summarizing and reflecting on the company's focus industries and comprehensively reviewing its development process.
The paper covers three topics, namely energy, automobiles and logistics, and deep technologies. These topics are subdivided into 11 parts, including the production of clean energy, energy storage, the application of lithium batteries, electric vehicles, autonomous driving, intelligent cockpits, automotive semiconductors, internationalization, etc.
Later in the day, Professor Li Daokui, director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) at Tsinghua University, delivered a keynote speech on China's economy over the next five years. Professor Li said the competition in the technology sector, especially green and low-carbon technologies, will become fiercer in the next five years. In addition, he analyzed the key trends influencing economic development and shared his predictions and expectations, providing a reference for investors and entrepreneurs to plan their development strategies.
Li Yao, NIO Capital's managing director, hosted the automotive and logistics roundtable discussion themed on the implementation and development of autonomous driving. He was joined by Bao Junwei, CEO and co-founder of global supplier of image-grade LiDAR Innovusion; Cao Xudong, CEO and founder of autonomous driving technology company Momenta; Julian Ma, founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Inceptio Technology; Joe Xia, CEO of intelligent automobile company JiDU; and Yan Jun, founder and chairman of computer vision and intelligent sensing technology developer IICT. The guests shared their ideas about the development trend and commercialization of autonomous driving. They said the autonomous driving sector has not entered "the second half" of its development stage and that the sector will create companies with greater potential than those in the mobile internet industry. In the future, data, vehicle-road network coordination, and technologies that can help a company develop an ecology in its specific sector will be some of the core competencies of a company.
NIO Capital's managing director Adair Lv hosted the roundtable discussion on how the automobile industry is shaping the future semiconductor industry. He was joined by Hank Sun, CEO of chip developer CIX Technology; Sunny Siu, chairman and CEO of DPU developer Jaguar Microsystems; Michael Xu, founder and CEO of autonomous driving high-performance chip developer Huixi Technology; Yang Jian, general manager of semiconductor SiC (Silicon Carbide) wafer developer TankeBlue; Zhang Linglan, COO and co-founder of semiconductor startup Biren Technology; and YL Zhou, vice president of sales of Nexchip Semiconductor Corporation, a semiconductor foundry specializing in integrated circuit production. The guests said the intelligent EV sector will be an important incremental market for the global semiconductor industry. China's huge application ecosystem provides a broad development space for the semiconductor sector. Recent years have seen the consistent development of semiconductor technologies, guided by relevant policies and driven by the development of intelligent automobiles.
Carl Guan, managing director of NIO Capital, hosted the energy roundtable discussion focusing on changes in the global energy mix and chances for China's new energy industry. He was joined by Bai Houshan, chairman of lithium battery cathode materials manufacturer Ronbay Technology; He Zhonglin, chairman of chip and secret key technology developer RT-HITECH; Alfred Wang, CEO of energy storage solution and service provider AlphaESS; and Yu Huigen, general manager of Welion New Energy, hybrid solid-liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries and all-solid-state lithium batteries developer and producer. The guests said each industrial chain will have its leading enterprises, and all companies have the potential to become the leading ones. They added that as the technology transformation accelerates, companies need to invest more in R&D, emphasizing that only when the quality of R&D and products are ensured, can a company stand out in the fierce competition.
NIO Capital over the past five years
NIO Capital aims to be a high-quality investment firm in the new era of equity investment, said Ian Zhu.
In 2017, NIO Capital raised its first RMB fund. At that time, the company implemented an industry-oriented plan, selecting high-quality companies in the energy, automobile, and deep technology sectors. It also invested in some leading companies and participated in their growth process. Meanwhile, NIO Capital learned that LPs have multi-dimensional demands.
In 2018, the company raised the first US dollar fund, NIO Capital Eve ONE LP, and used the capital for some early-stage projects. When applying capital from this fund to invest, NIO Capital has held up to its independent and market-driven principle. The company was recognized by leading western LPs for its capability to manage funds under its professional decision-making and governance systems.
The investments paid off. After years of accumulation, NIO Capital raised its second US dollar fund, NIO Capital Eve ONE Fund II LP, in 2021. The fund was oversubscribed since the first US dollar fund had performed well.
In 2022, the company completed the initial closing of its second RMB fund. NIO Capital will continue to make investment plans with its professional decision-making and management.
For an investment firm, teams are its major asset. NIO Capital established its core teams in 2016 and began to invest in 2017. The teams are rather stable. Members of the company's middle- to top-level management teams have worked together for an average of 4.8 years. 35% of the investment and post-investment team members have expertise in the energy, automobile, and cutting-edge technology sectors and 65% have experience in the investment sector. All these professionals are well organized and capable of achieving higher work efficiency.
The major task for an investment firm is to introduce suitable resources to innovation projects or companies. NIO Capital aims to empower its partners with more than just funds. So far, the firm has invested in some leading companies in the energy, automobile, and deep technology sectors. It has also established a complete and sustainable ecosystem to guide and assist these companies to build industrial linkage, constantly promoting the development of companies and accelerating industrial transformation.
NIO Capital is grateful for the trust of its investors, portfolio companies, and partners and will continue to work with them for a sustainable future.
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CAIRO, Egypt — The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: The Rosetta Stone.
The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after it was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801.
Now, as Britain's largest museum marks the 200-year anniversary of the decipherment of hieroglyphics, thousands of Egyptians are demanding the stone’s return.
‘’The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western cultural violence against Egypt,” said Monica Hanna, dean at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, and organizer of one of two petitions calling for the stone's return.
The acquisition of the Rosetta Stone was tied up in the imperial battles between Britain and France. After Napoleon Bonaparte’s military occupation of Egypt, French scientists uncovered the stone in 1799 in the northern town of Rashid, known by the French as Rosetta. When British forces defeated the French in Egypt, the stone and over a dozen other antiquities were handed over to the British under the terms of an 1801 surrender deal between the generals of the two sides.
It has remained in the British Museum since.
Hanna’s petition, with 4,200 signatures, says the stone was seized illegally and constitutes a “spoil of war.” The claim is echoed in a near identical petition by Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s former minister for antiquities affairs, which has more than 100,000 signatures. Hawass argues that Egypt had no say in the 1801 agreement.
The British Museum refutes this. In a statement, the Museum said the 1801 treaty includes the signature of a representative of Egypt. It refers to an Ottoman admiral who fought alongside the British against the French. The Ottoman sultan in Istanbul was nominally the ruler of Egypt at the time of Napoleon’s invasion.
The Museum also said Egypt’s government has not submitted a request for its return. It added that there are 28 known copies of the same engraved decree and 21 of them remain in Egypt.
The contention over the original stone copy stems from its unrivaled significance to Egyptology. Carved in the 2nd century B.C., the slab contains three translations of a decree relating to a settlement between the then-ruling Ptolemies and a sect of Egyptian priests. The first inscription is in classic hieroglyphics, the next is in a simplified hieroglyphic script known as Demotic, and the third is in Ancient Greek.
Through knowledge of the latter, academics were able to decipher the hieroglyphic symbols, with French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion eventually cracking the language in 1822.
‘‘Scholars from the previous 18th century had been longing to find a bilingual text written in a known language,’’ said Ilona Regulski, the head of Egyptian Written Culture at the British Museum. Regulski is the lead curator of the museum’s winter exhibition, “Hieroglyphs Unlocking Ancient Egypt,” celebrating the 200th anniversary of Champollion’s breakthrough.
The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum. A large percentage were obtained during Britain’s colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953.
It has grown increasingly common for museums and collectors to return artifacts to their country of origin, with new instances reported nearly monthly. Often, it’s the result of a court ruling, while some cases are voluntary, symbolizing an act of atonement for historical wrongs.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum returned 16 antiquities to Egypt in September after a U.S. investigation concluded they had been illegally trafficked. On Monday, London’s Horniman Museum signed over 72 objects, including 12 Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria following a request from its government.
Nicholas Donnell, a Boston-based attorney specializing in cases concerning art and artifacts, said no common international legal framework exists for such disputes. Unless there is clear evidence an artifact was acquired illegally, repatriation is largely at the discretion of the museum.
‘‘Given the treaty and the timeframe, the Rosetta Stone is a hard legal battle to win,’’ said Donnell.
The British Museum has acknowledged that several repatriation requests have been made to it from various countries for artifacts, but it did not provide The Associated Press with any details on their status or number. It also did not confirm whether it has ever repatriated an artifact from its collection.
For Nigel Hetherington, an archaeologist and CEO of the online academic forum Past Preserves, the museum’s lack of transparency suggests other motives.
‘‘It’s about money, maintaining relevance and a fear that in returning certain items people will stop coming,’’ he said.
Western museums have long pointed to superior facilities and larger crowd draws to justify their holding of world treasures. Amid turmoil following the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Egypt saw an uptick in artifact smuggling, which cost the country an estimated $3 billion between 2011 and 2013, according to the U.S.-based Antiquities Coalition. In 2015, it was discovered that cleaners at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum had damaged the burial mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun by attempting to re-attach the beard with super glue.
But President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s government has since invested heavily in its antiquities. Egypt has successfully reclaimed thousands of internationally smuggled artifacts and plans to open a newly built, state-of-the-art museum where tens of thousands of objects can be housed. The Grand Egyptian Museum has been under construction for well over a decade and there have been repeated delays to its opening.
Egypt’s plethora of ancient monuments, from the pyramids of Giza to the towering statues of Abu Simbel at the Sudanese border, are the magnet for a tourism industry that drew in $13 billion in 2021.
For Hanna, Egyptians’ right to access their own history should remain the priority. “How many Egyptians can travel to London or New York?” she said.
Egyptian authorities did not respond to a request for comment regarding Egypt's policy toward the Rosetta Stone or other Egyptian artifacts displayed abroad. Hawass and Hanna said they are not pinning hopes on the government to secure its return.
‘‘The Rosetta Stone is the icon of Egyptian identity,’’ said Hawass. ‘‘I will use the media and the intellectuals to tell the (British) museum they have no right.’’ | 2022-11-30T13:48:36+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/egypt-rosetta-stone-return/507-ff0680eb-1220-4071-ab8b-91bf4c9d869c |
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp has left her humiliated and scared for her life from multiple death threats, and said she just wants “Johnny to leave me alone.”
Heard was the final witness in the six-week libel trial Depp brought against his ex-wife. With cameras in the courtroom, millions of people have followed the trial, and interest seemed to gain momentum as the weeks went on and both Depp and Heard testified about the ugly details of their relationship.
Online and at the courthouse, Depp’s fans have overwhelmingly dominated the narrative, with groupies lining up overnight to get one of the few spots in the courtroom and wave at Depp as he walks in and out. Heard has been booed by spectators on the street as she enters and leaves the courthouse.
“The harassment and the humiliation, the campaign against me that’s echoed every single day on social media, and now in front of cameras in the showroom — every single day I have to relive the trauma,” Heard said as she fought back tears. “Perhaps it’s easy to forget I’m a human being.”
On cross-examination, Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez told Heard that “your lies have been exposed to the world” and questioned her about people who contradicted portions of her accounts.
“I know how many people will come out of the woodwork to be in support of Johnny,” Heard responded.
Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
Heard said she hopes the lawsuit will allow her to regain her voice, and said she had the “right as an American” to publish an article that described her experiences and how they relate to the national debate over domestic violence.
“Johnny has taken enough of my voice,” she said. “I have the right to tell my story.”
She said Depp has been fixated on revenge ever since she filed for divorce and obtained the restraining order against him. She referenced earlier testimony in which Depp texted Heard’s disgruntled former personal assistant and urged her to “come over for a spot of purple and we’ll fix her flabby a— nice and good!!!”
“Johnny promised me — promised me — that he’d ruin my life, that he’d ruin my career. He’d take my life from me,” Heard said.
Depp has denied he ever struck Heard, and says she was the abuser in the relationship. Heard has testified about more than a dozen separate instances of physical abuse she says she suffered at Depp’s hands.
The final witness Thursday morning for Depp’s side was a hand surgeon, Richard Gilbert, who said he thinks the injury that occurred to Depp’s middle finger could have occurred as Depp describes it.
The tip of the finger was severed during a fight the couple had in Australia. Depp says it occurred when Heard threw a large vodka bottle at him. Heard says Depp did it to himself in a drug-fueled rage on a night when he also sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.
Jurors will hear closing arguments on Friday. | 2022-05-27T00:44:06+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/local/amber-heard-ends-testimony-asking-depp-to-leave-me-alone/ |
FROM THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022
Top Tier Clinicians and Researchers Find the Tests Are:
- Full of Revolutionary Potential
- Valuable Now For Research and Treatment Trials
- Not Ready Yet for the Healthcare Provider's Office
CHICAGO and SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alzheimer's disease blood biomarkers (BBMs) may revolutionize the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in the future, but are not yet ready for widespread use, according to a newly-published article by leading international clinicians and researchers convened by the Alzheimer's Association®. At the same time, they are important and valuable for current research trials and cautious initial use in specialized memory clinics.
"Blood-based markers show promise for improving, and possibly even redefining, the diagnostic work-up for Alzheimer's," said Maria C. Carrillo, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association chief science officer and a co-author of the article. "Remarkable progress has been made, but additional data are needed before BBMs can be used as a stand-alone test for diagnosis, and before considering broad use in primary care settings."
"In this article, the expert workgroup clearly defines both short- and long-term research priorities needed to fill significant knowledge gaps that still exist, such as how well these blood-based markers work in diverse communities and in those living with multiple health conditions," Carrillo added. "Also included are consensus appropriate use recommendations for use of BBMs in the clinic and in research trials."
"The Alzheimer's Association Appropriate Use Recommendations for Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease," by Oskar Hansson, M.D., Ph.D., et al, is published online today by Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. The recommendations will be reported today and tomorrow at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®) 2022 in San Diego and online.
"Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's are already improving the design of clinical trials, and they are very likely to revolutionize the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in the future," said Oskar Hansson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases at Lund University and Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden, and first author on the newly published article. "That said, the implementation of such markers in trials and practice must be done in a careful and controlled way so as not to accidentally cause more harm than good. Much more research is needed before widespread clinical use of BBMs."
According to the article, BBMs show "great promise" — especially markers for Alzheimer's-related brain changes related to nerve cell damage/death, and tau and beta amyloid accumulation — for "future use in both clinical practice and trials. However, few prospective studies have investigated the implementation of such BBMs in more heterogeneous populations."
Not ready for "prime time"
The workgroup points out that no studies have extensively evaluated BBMs for neurodegenerative diseases in primary care, and calls for "well-performed BBM studies in diverse primary care populations." Such studies should also evaluate the impact of BBMs on diagnostic accuracy and change in patient management.
In addition, use of BBMs for general population risk screening and as direct-to-consumer risk tests are not recommended.
The workgroup also says that BBMs should not yet be used as primary endpoints in pivotal treatment trials. However, this does not preclude the use of certain BBMs for decision making in clinical trials with adaptive design, where they could be used to inform decisions on continuing a trial or not.
Many current uses
There are current uses for Alzheimer's BBMs, according to the workgroup. For example, they "recommend use of BBMs as (pre-)screeners to identify individuals likely to have Alzheimer's pathological changes for inclusion in trials evaluating disease-modifying therapies, provided Alzheimer's status is confirmed with positron emission tomography (PET) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing."
BBMs can be used as exploratory outcomes in most clinical trials in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative dementias. In non-Alzheimer's trials, BBMs can be used to identify patients who likely have Alzheimer's-related brain changes, if that is a condition of exclusion from the study.
"We also recommend cautiously starting use of BBMs in specialized memory clinics as part of the diagnostic work-up of patients already experiencing cognitive symptoms, as long as the results are confirmed whenever possible with CSF or PET, which are the current reference standards," said Charlotte E. Teunissen, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Neurochemistry Laboratory at Amsterdam University Medical Centers, the Netherlands and senior author on the article.
"The implementation of BBMs in primary care will likely take a much longer time because there are very few relevant and high-quality research studies on Alzheimer's-related BBMs conducted in this setting, but more prospective studies are expected to launch in the coming years," Teunissen added.
Establishing the path for BBMs in research
The appropriate use recommendations (AURs) provide specific guidance for current use of, and research needed on, the four most advanced types of Alzheimer's plasma biomarkers: plasma amyloid-beta 42/ amyloid-beta 40 (Aβ42/Aβ40), phospho-tau (p-tau), neurofilament light (NfL), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), as well as potential combinations of markers. For example, the need for:
- Real-world studies on the robustness of plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 as a diagnostic test for cerebral Aβ pathology.
- Head-to-head studies comparing the performance of different forms of p-tau in different clinical contexts and across disease stages.
Most important and enlightening are the recommendations repeated by the authors throughout the AURs or those they say apply across the biomarkers, including:
- Perform prospective studies in primary care settings, including representative and diverse populations with cognitive symptoms. Evaluate the causes of false positives and negatives; the reference standard must be of high quality and preferably include CSF or PET.
- Study whether BBMs outperform what is already available today in primary care, and if they also improve diagnosis and management, including treatment decisions.
- [Gain] better understanding of biological and disease-associated variability and potential impact of medical comorbidities and concomitant medications.
- [Learn whether] certain BBM-based algorithms can be used alone to support an Alzheimer's diagnosis, or should they only be used as a gatekeeper to CSF/PET.
- Eventually (a) perform head-to-head comparisons of different plasma biomarker assays, and (b) establish the most optimal combinations of easily accessible biomarkers.
Defining the need
According to the workgroup, about 25-30% of patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia are misdiagnosed when assessed at specialized dementia clinics, and the accuracy of clinical diagnosis is similar or even lower for other dementias, including frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular dementia. In fact, in most countries, most patients with cognitive or behavioral symptoms are managed in primary care where the misdiagnosis is even higher. The problem is especially acute in the earliest stages of the disease.
"There is a great global need for accurate BBM-based diagnostic and prognostic algorithms that can substantially improve the accuracy of a diagnostic work-up of Alzheimer's, particularly in the early stages of the disease," said Reisa Sperling, M.D., professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a co-author of the article.
The established CSF and PET measures have excellent diagnostic properties, but are less useful outside very specialized clinics due to limited accessibility, invasiveness (e.g., CSF measures require a lumbar puncture, and PET requires infusion of stable isotopes and exposure to radiation) and high costs. This precludes use of CSF and PET biomarkers in most primary and secondary care settings worldwide.
"A major benefit of the use of blood-based biomarkers is that the collection of blood is less invasive and likely less costly than CSF or neuroimaging markers, and more feasible for primary care practitioners," said Adam Boxer, M.D., Ph.D., Endowed Professor in Memory in Aging at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco and a co-author of the article. "This may enable earlier and more equitable referral of individuals to dementia specialists and participation in clinical trials of potential new therapies."
For full disclosures from all authors, please see the published article.
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association bridges the knowledge gaps across a wide range of bench-to-bedside investigations. Content emphasizes interdisciplinary investigations and integrative/translational articles related to: etiology, risk factors, early detection, disease modifying interventions, prevention of dementia and applications of new technologies in health services.
About the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®)
The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) is the world's largest gathering of researchers from around the world focused on Alzheimer's and other dementias. As a part of the Alzheimer's Association's research program, AAIC serves as a catalyst for generating new knowledge about dementia and fostering a vital, collegial research community.
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About the Alzheimer's Association®
The Alzheimer's Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer's care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer''s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer''s and all other dementia®. Visit alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
At AAIC 2022, the talk on The Alzheimer's Association Appropriate Use Recommendations for Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease will be held during the developing topics session on Sunday, July 31, 2022 starting at 8 a.m. PT. They will also be discussed briefly as part of the symposium titled, "The Road To Clinical Implementation Of Plasma Biomarkers," on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT.
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New integration between iGO e-App and Sircon for Carriers powers in good order applications and producer compliance for life insurance in real time
DENVER and EXTON, Pa., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vertafore® and iPipeline®, leading providers of software solutions for the insurance industry, today announced a strategic alliance to make the sales process for life insurance policies quicker and more streamlined.
iPipeline's iGO® e-App, one of North America's most widely used e-application for life insurance, now integrates with Sircon® for Carriers, the leading distribution management platform from Vertafore.
By adding iGO's capabilities to the front end of Sircon for Carriers, agents now have an e-App that makes applying for life insurance easier and reduces cycle times—within a platform that simplifies and automates onboarding, credentialing and compensation with their carrier partners. Together, the integration can improve efficiency and productivity for agents while increasing their placement ratios.
Benefits of the integration from iGO:
- A simplified, accelerated and digital process that speeds up application processing
- Application confidence by eliminating Not in Good Order (NiGO) applications
- Reduced cycle times and an increased placement ratio
- Flexible access, at any time, from anywhere, and on any device
Benefits of the integration from Sircon for Carriers:
- Quickly and easily get producers onboard and authorized to sell
- Reduced risk of regulatory non-compliance and time spent manually tracking licensing and accreditation
- Enhanced experience for agents by ensuring accurate and timely commission compensation
"Our partnership with iPipeline brings together the power of two leading solutions to truly enhance life insurance distribution for insurers and their producers," said James Thom, chief product officer at Vertafore. "With this integration Vertafore and iPipeline are working to make it easier for carriers and agents to stay compliant and improve the quality of the data in the sales process, so that they can better serve the end-insured."
"We are excited to partner with Vertafore to help improve the application process for our mutual customers," added Bill Hunter, senior vice president of sales at iPipeline. "iGO's smart technology helps guide agents through the application process and guarantees all applications—100 percent—are in good order. The integration with Vertafore's solution gives our clients an automated way to ensure all compliance, licensing, and accreditation are completed in the e-application process."
Vertafore and iPipeline share a focus on driving innovation that simplifies and modernizes complex insurance processes. The partnership builds on the benefits of being business units of Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) and provides a natural opportunity for iPipeline and Vertafore to work together to improve compliance and distribution for their shared customers in life insurance and annuities.
About Vertafore
As North America's InsurTech leader for more than 50 years, Vertafore is modernizing and simplifying the insurance life cycle so that our customers can focus on what matters most. Vertafore's solutions provide end-to-end connectivity across the distribution channel, improve the client and agent experience, unlock the power of data, and streamline essential workflows to drive efficiency, productivity, and profitability for independent agencies, MGAs and carriers. For more information about Vertafore, visit www.vertafore.com.
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About iPipeline
iPipeline is building a comprehensive digitized ecosystem for the life insurance and wealth management industries, which will enable millions of those who are uninsured or under-insured to secure their financial futures as part of a holistic financial planning experience. The firm is working to optimize all application and processing workflows—from quote to commission—and consolidating them within one of the most expansive straight-through processing platforms, significantly reducing paper, saving time, and increasing premiums and placements for insurance agents. iPipeline is also committed to offering premier subscription-based tools to help financial institutions and advisors automate and digitize financial transactions, comply with regulations, and seamlessly incorporate life insurance and annuities into client accounts.
The iPipeline digital ecosystem incorporates one of the industry's largest data sets to enable advisors and agents to optimize their businesses. Since its establishment in 1995, iPipeline has facilitated 1.5 billion quote responses, $32 billion in savings on printing and mailing costs, the collection of 55 billion premiums, and the protection of 25 million lives. For more information, please visit https://www.ipipeline.com/.
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What you need to know about 3 new initiatives funded in Cumberland County's budget
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved its 2024 budget on Wednesday, keeping property tax rates the same for residents.
The budget, which totaled just under $576 million, also introduced some new initiatives aimed at improving retention for county employees, creating opportunities for community members and addressing public health and safety concerns.
Here’s everything you need to know about the county’s 2024 budget.
Retention and recruitment
One area of focus for the 2024 budget was county employee recruitment and retention.
According to a county news release, $200,000 of the new budget will go toward bonuses for Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office employees — $100,000 for $2,500 hiring bonuses for new deputies and Detention Center employees, and $100,000 for $2,500 recruitment bonuses for current deputies and Detention Center employees who successfully recommend someone to join their ranks.
County employees can also expect a 4% cost-of-living pay increase, according to the release. Results from a countywide study on how county employees are compensated are expected in August.
Education and expenses
Local schools can expect additional funding in the year to come, according to the release.
Fayetteville Technical Community College will see a $1.2 million increase in funding, with $15.47 million in total expenses, while Cumberland County Schools will receive $3.2 million in additional funding out of an $87.5 million budget, the release said.
Some of the county’s expenses will tackle logistical issues, such as $50,897 to hire a custodian crew leader for the Spring Lake Resource Center and $1.4 million for 21 county vehicles in need of replacement, according to the release.
The expansion of the Ann Street Landfill, which has operated since 1980 and will run out of space by 2030; and the cost of the Solid Waste Department’s daily operations are responsible for a $37 increase in annual solid waste fees, which will rise from $56 to $93, the release said. That fee is only charged to residential properties with seven units or less, according to the release.
New ventures
The budget also includes several new community initiatives, according to the release.
Just under $135,000 will fund a Healthy Conversations campaign that will train local barbers and hairstylists in health education and encourage “positive health behaviors” in residents, the release said. In a similar vein, $100,090 has been earmarked to address maternal mortality disparities in the county, according to the release.
Residents can also expect a coffee shop at the West Regional Library on Century Circle that will offer “hands-on job learning and experience” to disabled people, the release said.
Public safety reporter Lexi Solomon can be reached at ABSolomon@gannett.com. | 2023-06-14T13:13:56+00:00 | fayobserver.com | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/local/2023/06/14/cumberland-county-board-of-commissioners-approves-575-million-budget/70309248007/ |
Multiple Washington, D.C. residents have reported their vehicles stolen, claiming thieves used a tow truck late at night to carry their cars away.
In one case, video from a home security camera showed the moments late at night as a tow truck pulled up in front of a D.C. residence and carried away a man's brand new 2022 Honda Accord he said he only had for a little over a month.
Lyndon Bilal said he had just started to get comfortable parking his new car in front of his home.
“I’ve lost something that I had just fallen in love with,” Bilal said. “It took less than two minutes for them to steal it,” he told NBC Washington.
That crime was captured on camera at around 4:30 p.m. ET early that morning.
In another case before that, D.C. resident Jaclyn Baker said in late February, her doorbell camera caught the moments when, at around 3 a.m. ET, a tow truck could be seen pulling up to the new Corvette she had just purchased.
She described how she was very attached to the car, saying, “As soon as this model of Corvette came out, I saw it at the D.C. Auto Show, and I immediately knew that that was my dream car."
"To see it be pulled off in the middle of the night at 3 in the morning, it was shocking," Baker said.
What was even more shocking was that police told her they later found the car but that “Somebody had been shot and killed in the front seat,” Baker said.
D.C. police are investigating the cases, trying to determine if they are connected.
"I'd hate for other people to have to go through what I went through, getting my car stolen," Baker said. | 2022-09-02T01:54:04+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/another-alleged-car-theft-by-a-tow-truck-reported-in-the-us-capital |
Rep. Nick LaLota is calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to freeze fellow New York Republican Rep. George Santos’s campaign accounts amid escalating scrutiny of the new lawmaker’s false claims before and during his successful House bid last year.
“To the extent there is actually any real money in the campaign account of Congressman George Santos, the funds should be immediately frozen by the United States Department of Justice or Federal Election Commission,” reads LaLota’s statement, which he posted on Twitter on Sunday. “If those federal agencies need more authority to do so, I’ll take the lead.”
LaLota, along with six other House Republicans, has called on Santos to resign over his falsehoods. LaLota also called for the House Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Santos last month.
“Congressman Santos fraudulently solicited these funds and Santos shouldn’t be allowed to drain his campaign account while multiple authorities investigate the very fraud that induced these contributions,” LaLota said in the statement.
“After Congressman Santos receives the proper Due Process — such as a House Ethics investigation or criminal proceedings or both — the funds should be returned to the contributors he duped,” he added. “The DOJ or FEC must act now to ensure there is something to actually return to the victims of Santos’ financial scam.”
Santos has faced scrutiny over the past month since revelations that he fabricated large parts of his resume and biography were made public by news reporting. He admitted to lying about his experiences, including his education and previous employment, in an interview with The New York Post last month.
Since then, Santos has faced public scrutiny into his finances. In 2022, he donated $700,000 to his own campaign that apparently came from his $750,000 that came from his company, the Devolder Organization, according to his most recent disclosure report. But just two years earlier in his first unsuccessful run for Congress, he reported no assets and a $55,000 salary.
Reports from CNN and CBS News last month found that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York was investigating Santos’s finances and financial disclosure filings. Last week, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan ethics-watchdog, filed a complaint with the FEC to urge the agency to investigate Santos for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. | 2023-01-17T03:10:35+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/ny-republican-calls-for-doj-fec-to-freeze-santos-campaign-funds/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — President Joe Biden is taking action to help those convicted federally of simple marijuana possession, announcing Thursday he would be erasing prior convictions through pardons.
It's a major step toward decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level.
Nationwide, the political landscape is ever-changing on marijuana use and possession as more states pass laws to expand access. 19 states allow it for recreational use. In Indiana, marijuana is still illegal.
Now, Biden is calling on the remaining states where simple marijuana possession is illegal to make similar changes in pardoning previous offenses.
"There are thousands of people who are convicted for marijuana possession who may be denied employment, housing or educational opportunities as a result of that conviction. My pardon will remove this burden on them," President Biden said.
A senior member of the president's administration said they believe more than 6,500 federal convictions will be pardoned as a result of Thursday's action.
Locally, attorneys estimate most Hoosiers won't feel an impact from these pardons.
"This is not a huge number of people who have simple possession convictions in federal court, but there is a substantial number, several thousand," said Ross Thomas, a criminal defense attorney in Indianapolis and member of the legal committee for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
Thomas said Biden's action is a major step toward loosening federal classifications of the drug, although these pardons won't impact that many Hoosiers.
"I had a case once in the VA parking lot of the Veteran's Administration which is federal land. So that person, instead of having a misdemeanor in state court, he was hauled into federal court. And a similar case up in the Indiana Dunes National Park," Thomas said.
State arrests and convictions on the state level in Indiana are far more common, according to Thomas. Under Indiana law, you can face jail time and hefty fines for possession. It's why Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said his office stopped prosecuting simple marijuana possession years earlier, impacting thousands in Marion County.
"At the time that we made the decision to no longer prosecute these cases, we had 350 pending criminal cases and that was just a snapshot of one moment in time. Just in Marion County alone, thousands of people were arrested and charged for possession of marijuana each year. So when you extrapolate that out around the state, we're talking tens of thousands of people who could ultimately receive that benefit," said Mears.
Along with the federal pardons, Biden called on governors nationwide to do the same in pardoning simple marijuana convictions.
But first, Indiana would need to stop arresting and convicting people on those charges. Mears said Black and brown people in the community are charged with marijuana possession more often and more severely than their white counterparts. And those charges will create negative consequences for them years down the road.
“Unfortunately, we encounter people every day in our community who are being held back by prior conviction related to marijuana," Mears said. "The collateral consequences really impact people’s ability to get financial aid in particular on student loans, it sometimes serves as an impediment to people getting into housing. And it’s got a long history of keeping people from either being employed or underemployed.”
Those who are convicted of simple marijuana possession in Indiana can often seek to get those records expunged, but it's a lengthy process and often an option many Hoosiers don't know they have in the courts. It's why Mears and Thomas agree seeing the state take action on pardons could greatly benefit people around Indiana.
“Something like this, where it’s automatic, where people don’t have to take those steps, it’s a tremendous opportunity for a lot of people," Mears said. "The expungement is a great tool, but access to justice is a real problem for a lot of people because it’s difficult for those people to get into the courtroom because they don’t know what’s expected of them and they don’t have the resources to file the appropriate paperwork."
And following the federal presidential pardons, Thomas said he'd like to see Indiana take steps to catch up with its neighbors in terms of marijuana regulations and use.
“Indiana is behind the curve on this. All the states around us in some manner or another have decriminalized marijuana or hemp and we are losing tax dollars to all of those states that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana. It’s simply time to change that. And I hope that the president’s action today and his words to the governor and to all the governors to follow that lead and lets go down a different track on how we’re going to deal with marijuana,” Thomas said.
As Hoosiers watch and wait to see how Indiana leaders handle next steps for marijuana convictions around the state, Mears said he's hopeful this will open the door for the state to shift resources away from marijuana, focusing on violent crime convictions instead.
"We don't want to see people in jail because of marijuana," Mears said. "It doesn't make our community safer and it doesn't make our community more fair."
13News also reached out to Prosecutor Mears' opponent, Cyndi Carrasco. She sent us a statement saying "Many Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana and oppose penalizing people for simple use and possession. It's up to Congress and state legislatures to make any further changes they see fit. I look forward to these conversations."
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita issued the following statement late Thursday:
“Joe Biden’s values are some of the worst things to be perpetrated on the youth of this state and nation – and that is saying something, given Hollywood and the fake press destroying our values and culture daily. He teaches that you need not be accountable for your commitments (loan abandonment), that you can deny and hide things (like your gender) from your parents, and now – breaking the law simply doesn’t matter. Besides that, drugs, including marijuana, are terribly dangerous, especially to our children. Disgusting people are competing for their souls all for the sake of lining their drug-laden pockets. Marijuana is a gateway for all of this. Biden, as an old man, should know better.” | 2022-10-07T06:00:42+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/prosecutor-indy-attorney-hope-presidential-pardons-in-marijuana-cases-lead-to-indiana-expungements-down-the-road-law-decriminalize-pot/531-9eb59ab0-64e3-4fff-96bc-1f4929aad685 |
A year ago, tens of thousands of Afghans were airlifted to safety following the Taliban's takeover. Canada pledged to resettle 40,000 Afghans but many remain in limbo.
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A year ago, tens of thousands of Afghans were airlifted to safety following the Taliban's takeover. Canada pledged to resettle 40,000 Afghans but many remain in limbo.
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Historic partnership brings brand that was born in an NHL locker room and co-founded by veteran player, back to its roots
TORONTO, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. (BioSteel), the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) announced a new multi-year partnership naming BioSteel the Official Hydration Partner of the NHL and the NHLPA. The milestone partnership will debut during the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal, where BioSteel is a presenting sponsor of national coverage across Rogers Sportsnet in Canada. The new partnership will provide the BioSteel brand with League-wide rinkside marketing and product supply rights, retail activation rights, community engagement platforms, player marketing and activation rights and more. This marks the sports hydration company's first partnership with a League as it continues to bring Clean. Healthy. Hydration. to communities, athletes and fans across North America.
Beginning in the 2022-23 NHL regular season, fans will see NHL players hydrating with BioSteel during every NHL game in North America. BioSteel products will be featured on each bench, penalty box and goal net. In addition, BioSteel will have a year-round platform to activate brand programming with NHL marks, logos, teams and players, including at the NHL Scouting Combine and NHL Draft, which includes a new BioSteel-sponsored Prospects Portal on NHL.com aggregating next-generation content, including NHL Central Scouting's rankings, player reports, NHL Scouting Combine statistics and results, interviews and more, about potential future NHL players. BioSteel will also be a presenting partner of a marquee NHL social platform to be announced at a later date. As a part of its continued efforts to hydrate the next generation, BioSteel will also be the presenting partner of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given to the top NCAA men's ice hockey player in the nation.
BioSteel was born in an NHL locker room when retired NHL player, Michael Cammalleri, and his business partner John Celenza, a former NHLPA intern, set out to offer a "better-for-you" hydration option for athletes. After establishing a zero-sugar formula that features essential electrolytes and no artificial flavors or preservatives, the brand quickly became highly sought-after in professional sports, regularly found in athletes' lockers throughout North America, including many in the NHL. Fast forward to today, BioSteel is seeing its story come full circle from its authentic hockey roots as the brand continues to cement itself as the go-to sports drink for those seeking a cleaner, healthier hydration option.
"Hockey has been an integral part of the BioSteel brand since day one, when we set out to offer a cleaner, healthier hydration product for both myself and athletes everywhere," said Michael Cammalleri, NHL Veteran and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of BioSteel. "To see this brand become the Official Hydration Partner of the NHL is truly a full circle moment, and we're so proud to partner with the League and the Players' Association to support players hydration both on and off the ice and to introduce a new generation of fans to our brand and products."
"We are thrilled to announce our new long-term partnership with BioSteel – an authentic brand that was born in the locker room, built by and for hockey players," said Keith Wachtel, NHL Chief Business Officer and Senior Executive Vice President. "BioSteel is an extremely motivated and engaged partner who is going to bring our sport to fans through their distribution channels like never before. This landmark deal includes a commitment to execute against extensive retail activations and through all the League's media platforms, and as such, the NHL, our players and our fans are going to benefit significantly from this partnership."
"We are thrilled to announce this partnership that makes BioSteel the official sports hydration partner of the NHLPA and NHL," said Mathieu Schneider, NHLPA Special Assistant to the Executive Director. "BioSteel has a long connection with NHL players, being created in and around NHL locker rooms and we are excited to now have the opportunity to utilize the profile and reach of our players to grow and strengthen this partnership with BioSteel and the NHL."
Founded in 2009 by Cammalleri and Celenza, BioSteel has achieved a reputation for being the hydration product of choice for athletes and consumers looking for a zero-sugar alternative. The brand is committed to using premium ingredients, maintaining product transparency, and delivering essential electrolytes needed to support physical activity. Each electrolyte-packed sports drink comes in an eco-friendly 16.7 fl oz Tetra Pak, and the range of flavors includes Blue Raspberry, Mixed Berry, Peach Mango, Rainbow Twist and White Freeze to keep athletes and health-conscious consumers hydrated throughout the day.
BioSteel products are available in stores across North America, globally with select retail partners or direct to consumers online through biosteel.com.
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About BioSteel
BioSteel is a North American beverage brand committed to delivering premium Clean. Healthy. Hydration. to consumers and athletes across the globe. Each BioSteel sports drink is sugar-free and comes in an eco-friendly Tetra Pak filled with premium ingredients, natural flavors and essential electrolytes needed to support physical activity. Perfect for everyone from health and environmentally conscious consumers to world class athletes, BioSteel hydration products are currently readily available across North America, globally with select retail partners and direct to consumers online through www.biosteel.com.
About the NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 32 Member Clubs. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup®. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 191 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including ESPN, Turner Sports and NHL NetworkMC in the U.S.; Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada; Viaplay in the Nordic Region; and CCTV and Tencent in China; and reaches fans worldwide with games available to stream in every country. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL® App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. NHL Original Productions and NHL Studios produce compelling original programming featuring unprecedented access to players, coaches and League and team personnel for distribution across the NHL's social and digital platforms.
The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities using the sport of hockey to celebrate fans of every race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. The NHL's Hockey Is For Everyone™ initiative reinforces that the official policy of the sport is one of inclusion on the ice, in locker rooms, boardrooms and stands. The NHL is expanding access and opportunity for people of all backgrounds and abilities to play hockey, fostering more inclusive environments and growing the game through a greater diversity of participants. To date, the NHL has invested more than $100 million in youth hockey and grassroots programs, with a commitment to invest an additional $5 million for diversity and inclusion programs over the next year.
About the National Hockey League Players' Association
The National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), established in 1967, is a labour organization whose members are the players in the National Hockey League (NHL). The NHLPA works on behalf of the players in varied disciplines such as labour relations, product licensing, marketing, international hockey and community relations, all in furtherance of its efforts to promote its members and the game of hockey. In 1999, the NHLPA launched the Goals & Dreams fund as a way for the players to give something back to the game they love. Over the past 22 years, more than 80,000 deserving children in 34 countries have benefited from the players' donations of hockey equipment. NHLPA Goals & Dreams has donated more than $25 million to grassroots hockey programs, making it the largest program of its kind. For more information on the NHLPA, please visit www.nhlpa.com.
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Once upon a time, jetting out of Denver International Airport on the first flight of the day was a breeze — but now, travelers who get up early may face strong headwinds.
Sunday, September 18, offered a prime example. The date wasn't part of a holiday weekend, yet by 5:30 a.m., traffic on Peña Boulevard, the roadway leading to DIA, was stop-and-go for miles simply because of heavy volume. And inside the terminal, the security line was so long that it looped into the baggage area. The queue moved steadily, but progress was slow, with one passenger reporting grumbling and complaints from many frustrated fellow travelers as their takeoff times grew closer. Between 45 minutes and an hour passed before she was given the all-clear, and she made it to her gate shortly before boarding — happy to have beaten the deadline but still dizzied by the clusterfuck of it all.
What's going on? The usual, insists DIA spokesperson Alex Renteria. "Since a large number of flights leave in the morning, we see higher passenger volumes at that time," she says. "This has been the trend for many years, so nothing has changed in that regard."
Maybe not — but the perception that flying is no longer as reliable as it once was is leading to intermittent early-morning crushes at airports across the country, including DIA.
On July 18, according to tracking data from the FlightAware service, more than 25,000 global flights were delayed and approximately 3,100 were canceled — and DIA hasn't been immune from such phenomena. Federal stats reveal that in 2022 through June, the most recent month for which numbers are available, just 76.48 percent of arriving flights were classified as having been on time, and the 3.05 percent of flights canceled so far this year — 3,947 that never arrived — was higher than any year in the last ten, other than 2020, when the pandemic was at its peak. Meanwhile, on-time departures for DIA in the first half of 2022 landed at 67.89 percent, easily the worst performance since 2013, and departure delays hit 37,708, far outdistancing the 26,159 arriving flights that were late. Departing-flight cancellations reached 2.92 percent, the poorest mark in a decade for any year other than 2020; so far in 2022, 3,778 flights that were supposed to leave Denver's airport didn't.
When problems like these continued to flare up throughout the summer, passengers began looking for ways to lower the risk that they'd spend part of their trip stranded — and the tactic of flying early is well supported by data. According to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the most predictable take-off times are between 6 and 7 a.m., and a study by the FiveThirtyEight website found that each hour after that could add extra delays, topping out at an average of twenty minutes by 6 p.m. Bloomberg recently shared figures from the AirHelp service confirming that that largest number of cancellations tend to occur from 4 to 10 p.m.
Carriers have noticed these trends, too. "In general, there are more flights in the morning than in the afternoon and evening, and this is based on the airlines’ schedules," notes Renteria. "Currently, we are seeing a heavier bank of flights around 9 a.m., but that could change based on airline flight schedules."
The Transportation Service Administration and DIA "adjust staffing levels based on airline schedules and expected passenger volumes," mornings included. And given the recent swarms, getting to the airport early is more important than ever. Renteria stresses that "no matter the time of day, we encourage passengers to be inside the airport at least two hours before their boarding time, not their departure time. Passengers can check live TSA wait times at www.flydenver.com to help determine the best checkpoint to go through."
She adds that "at this time, we are not seeing significant impacts to parking. However, passengers can also see live parking availability on our website. When one of the economy lots fills, which does not happen often, there are still many on-site parking options, including the shuttle lots at $8 a day."
In other words, plan ahead — because the days of early risers getting a jump on the crowds is over. | 2022-09-20T19:07:12+00:00 | westword.com | https://www.westword.com/news/denver-international-airports-early-morning-craziness-15044052 |
Welti, Robert
Robert (Bob) Welti, 68, of Dayton, Ohio, lost his battle with liver cancer and passed away on January 28, 2023, surrounded by family and friends. Bob was born to Eugene and Lucille Tucker Welti, on January 28, 1955, in Dayton, Ohio. Bob is survived by his children, Justin Welti and Maranda Heil (Daylen), and his granddaughter, Reille. His brothers, Chuck Welti (Linda) and Larry Welti (Sandy), and sisters, Patricia Welti, Paula Ward (Dave), Pamela Smithers (Bob), Catherine Taylor (Dennis), Mary McHenry (John), and Amy Welti, along with many other family and friends. Bob was predeceased by his parents, Eugene and Lucille Welti, brothers Merle (Mick) Welti and William (Bill) Welti, and his grandson Lane Burrows. Join us as we honor and celebrate Bob's life on Sunday, May 28th at 2pm at Carriage Hill Park at Cedar Lake Shelter. We will have a brief service at 2:15 pm and fellowship and fishing to follow. If you want, bring your own chair and fishing pole (no fishing license required). | 2023-05-17T05:33:12+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/obituaries/welti-robert/KWJR4DAY2BEZFLZCSYEWRW3BRQ/ |
Texas police: Teacher closed propped-open door before attack
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Robb Elementary School teacher who propped open an exterior door that law enforcement said a gunman used to get inside and kill 19 students and two teachers had closed the door but it did not lock, state police said Tuesday.
Investigators initially said the teacher had propped the door open before Salvador Ramos, 18, entered the school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. Investigators have now determined that the teacher, who has not been identified, propped the door open with a rock, but then removed the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus, said Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety. But, Considine said, the door did not lock.
Investigators confirmed the detail through additional video footage reviewed since the Friday news conference when it was first stated the door had been left propped open. Authorities did not state at that time what had been used to prop open the door.
Considine said the teacher initially propped the door open but ran back inside to get her phone and call 911 when Ramos crashed his truck.
“She came back out while on her phone, she heard someone yell, ‘He has a gun!’, she saw him jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside,” removing the rock when she did, Considine said.
He continued: “We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock.”
San Antonio attorney Don Flanery told the San Antonio Express-News that the Robb Elementary School employee, whom he’s not naming, closed the door shut after realizing that a gunman was on the loose.
“She saw the wreck,” Flanary told the newspaper. “She ran back inside to get her phone to report the accident. She came back out while on the phone with 911. The men at the funeral home yelled, ‘He has a gun!’ She saw him jump the fence, and he had a gun so she ran back inside.
“She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting. She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked.”
Flanary told the newspaper that the employee had initially propped open the door to carry food from a car to the classroom.
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BEIJING, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akso Health Group. (NASDAQ: AHG) ("Akso Health" the "Company" or "we"), today announced that the Company received a written notification (the "Notification") from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") on August 16, 2022, indicating the Company is not in compliance with the timely filing requirement for continued listing under Nasdaq Listing Rules 5250(c)(1) since the Company has not yet filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 (the "Filing") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), the Company has up to 60 calendar days to either cure the deficiency or to submit a plan to Nasdaq showing how it intends to regain compliance. If the plan is accepted, Nasdaq can grant the Company an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the Filing's due date, or until February 13, 2023, to regain compliance.
The Company's business operations are not affected by the Notification and the Company intends to either cure the deficiency or submit the plan as soon as practicable but no later than October 17, 2022. This announcement is made in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(b), which requires prompt disclosure of receipt of a notification of deficiency.
About Akso Health Group
Akso Health Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AHG), formerly known as Xiaobai Maimai Inc., operates a social e-commerce platform in China that collaborates with other domestic e-commerce platforms and offers users a wide selection of high-quality and affordable products. In addition, the Company plans to develop a new business as a cancer therapy and radiotherapy oncology service provider with operations in the U.S. The Company plans to open 2 vaccine research centers and 100 radiation oncology centers to be located on the east coast serving cancer patients in need of varying stages of treatment, including specialized radiation therapy centers for radiotherapy (RT), personalized consultation, conventional treatment planning, and other cancer related treatment services.
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(AP) — Greyson Parisien’s time on earth was short. But the boy with dark-rimmed eyeglasses who was enchanted by the music in “Frozen,” the sound of ripping paper and his dad playing the guitar is having an outsized impact on his tribal community in the far reaches of North Dakota.
His journey to correct a heart defect led the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to add an organ donation box to tribal IDs, which it unveiled during a November ceremony.
The rate of organ donations among Native Americans is much lower than other ethnic groups. For some tribes, cultural beliefs are a factor. In rural communities, time, distance and spotty internet access can hinder the process.
“You don’t think about donation and how many people are not donors,” said Greyson’s grandmother, Joan Azure. “I was thinking, ‘There has to be more donors.’ When you’re going through this personally, you don’t want someone to die but you also want your child to live.”
Fewer than 1% of the 100,000 people nationwide waiting for organ transplants are Native Americans, who make up nearly 3% of the U.S. population.
The figures are higher in some states, including New Mexico where 1 in 5 people on the waiting list are Native American. In South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota, nearly 5% of patients awaiting an organ donation are Native American.
Greyson had surgery at 5 months to correct a heart defect, and then he needed an external device to pump blood through his small body. A heart transplant allowed him to leave the hospital after a year and return to the Turtle Mountain reservation, headquartered in Belcourt, North Dakota.
Suddenly, pneumonia ended his life in September 2019. He was 21 months old.
Greyson’s story and spirit live on in parades, powwows and conversations in the community. Azure promotes organ donation during congenital heart week and with trivia games.
Tribal members knew him well through updates posted on social media.
In one, Greyson’s mother, Reeanne Parisien, asked the community to choose Greyson’s eyeglasses. The overwhelming vote was the dark-rimmed, boxy ones that he wore with bow ties and khakis, his hair combed in a mohawk. When he died, the community sought understanding and assurance that it wasn’t because of his new heart.
His tribe passed a resolution this year in honor of Greyson. During a November event at the tribal college, it encouraged people to check the new organ donor box on tribal IDs and waived the $10 fee.
“Today is a monumental day that people will remember, especially Native nations, for decades to come,” tribal Chairman Jamie Azure said, standing next to Grayson’s photo that was taken after he got a new heart — smiling with arms stretched to the sky.
The tribe believes it could be the first of the 574 federally recognized Native American nations to designate a spot on tribal IDs for organ donors.
Susan Mau Larson, the chief strategy officer for LifeSource, part of a network of nearly 60 organ procurement organizations, said she hopes other tribes follow suit. Several are working with tribal communities to raise awareness of organ donation and transplant.
Those conversations can be tough, especially when personal or traditional beliefs don’t align with western medicine. They happen in tribal communities, at events and in hospital rooms as someone nears the end of their life. And there are guidelines: Identify the decision maker in a family. Tell a story, don’t explain the process. Give the family time to discuss. Be comfortable with silence. And comfort families, regardless of the decision.
In the Southwest, Darryl Madalena encourages tribal members to think about becoming organ donors by making a connection between kidney disease — which afflicts Native Americans at higher rates than the U.S. population — and organ donation and receipt.
He talks about tribes’ increasing reliance on western medicine and asks, hypothetically, if members would be prevented from journeying on if they had a pacemaker or an artificial hip. If not, why not donate or receive an organ?
“So much of westernized medicine is in the fabric of our communities, our lives, our culture,” said Madalena, the Native American liaison for New Mexico Donor Services. “If you pull one string, that may be very detrimental to the health of Natives.”
Madalena’s work is partly driven by the memory of his partner, Mylia Phouamkha, a Hopi woman who died within a week of being hospitalized with liver problems in 2019, without enough time to seriously consider a transplant.
She and Madalena had a son together, Micca, who was two years old at the time.
“If your heart tells you and you have it within yourself to have a transplant if you need it …I would say yes, do it,” said her father, Myron Ami, as Micca sat on his lap.
Madalena has faced criticism for mentioning death, which can be a taboo topic. His community of Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico believes that people enter this world physically and spiritually whole, and that they should leave the same way.
“That’s what we’re taught, that’s what the beliefs still are,” he said.
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians doesn’t hold the same beliefs, Joan Azure said. About 40% of people in Rollette County where the tribe is based have signed up to become organ donors, compared to 65% overall in North Dakota.
Education, means or opportunity are big factors, said Mau Larson. Simply getting a driver’s license means traveling 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the Turtle Mountain reservation. But tribal IDs are renewed every two years, giving tribal members a more frequent opportunity to choose organ donation.
Studies show that organ recipients are best matched with donors of similar genetic makeup, Mau Larson said. Kidneys are especially needed in Native American communities, where one-quarter of the population is diabetic, she said.
Greyson and his family spent much of his life in Rochester, Minnesota, for his medical care, hundreds of miles from the rolling hills and lakes of the Turtle Mountain reservation. His heart came from a girl named Coralynn, whose picture on a puzzle piece was interlocked with Greyson’s on a parade float banner reading “Not all Heroes Wear Capes!”
After Greyson died, his family asked a Turtle Mountain elder to to bestow a traditional name upon him, through their creator. The elder was in a sweat lodge praying when it came to him: “Waasizo Gichi Anong Ningaabii’ Anong,” or “Shining Big Star in the West,” said Joan Azure.
“Even in his worst moments, his smile shined brightly, his presence brought happiness and light to everyone he came into contact with,” she said. “And he provided guidance to many with that bright shining light through his bravery and strength.” | 2022-12-20T02:32:53+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/boy-who-got-new-heart-inspires-tribe-to-boost-organ-donation/ |
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Texas and the rest of the Gulf and East coasts are most likely to see a “near-normal” hurricane season this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Federal forecasters are predicting between 12 and 17 named storms will form this season, the agency announced Thursday. One to four of those storms could be hurricanes rated Category 3 or higher, meaning they will have wind speeds of at least 111 miles per hour.
NOAA defines an average Atlantic hurricane season as one with 14 named storms, of which three are those stronger hurricanes.
“It’s time to prepare,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said at a news conference Thursday. “Remember, it only takes one storm to devastate a community.”
This year’s forecast stands out because meteorological conditions that both suppress and encourage hurricane development are at play, scientists said.
The agency expects a so-called El Niño pattern to develop, which has been known to dampen hurricane activity in the Atlantic and was not in place in recent years. But other factors in the Atlantic Ocean such as warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures can fuel storm development. Warming sea surfaces are linked to climate change.
Scientists are still studying expectations for how El Niño will affect future hurricane seasons as the planet warms, NOAA forecaster Matthew Rosencrans said.
“It’s definitely kind of a rare setup for this year,” Rosencrans said, explaining that this was why the certainty for a near-normal season was only 40%.
Hurricanes are more likely to be stronger and rains more likely to be heavier because of climate change. It’s also possible that more hurricanes will continue to get stronger over a short time close to landfall.
“The risks of these storms are different than the risks that [communities] faced 10 years ago,” Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said at the news conference.
Texas is of course vulnerable to the impacts of storms, made worse by rising sea levels. A $31 billion plan that includes blocking off the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel with giant gates ahead of storms is far from fruition, if it happens at all.
Texas legislators have been debating during this legislative session whether to set aside about $1 billion for that and other flood prevention projects — a fraction of what is needed to protect communities better against storms.
The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves praised NOAA’s improved forecast accuracy and urged residents to prepare. Experts suggest that residents should plan a potential evacuation route, create a disaster supply kit and consider buying homeowners and flood insurance.
Hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, though storms can also form ahead of and after that time frame.
“NOAA and FEMA are prepared for the upcoming season,” Graves said. “Now it’s time for communities to prepare as well.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office quit Tuesday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged to launch a staff shake-up amid high-level corruption allegations during the war with Russia.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko asked to be relieved of his duties, according to an online copy of a decree signed by Zelenskyy and Tymoshenko’s own social media posts.
Neither gave a reason for the resignation.
Deputy Defense Minister Viacheslav Shapovalov also resigned, local media reported, alleging his departure was linked to a scandal involving the purchase of food for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko also quit.
Tymoshenko joined the presidential office in 2019, after working on Zelenskyy’s media and creative content strategy during his presidential campaign.
Zelenskyy had promised personnel changes in the government, regional administrations and security forces following corruption allegations that emerged after Russia’s invasion last February.
Tymoshenko last year was under investigation relating to his personal use of luxury cars. He was also among officials linked last September to the embezzlement of humanitarian aid worth more than $7 million earmarked for the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
He has denied all the allegations.
Zelenskyy vowed to drive out corrupt officials in comments on Sunday, when a deputy minister was dismissed for being part of a network embezzling budget funds. Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry later identified the dismissed official as Vasyl Lozynsky, a deputy minister there.
In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s focus on the war would not stop his government from tackling corruption.
Zelenskyy, who came to power in 2019 on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform, pointed to suspicions in the areas of energy and military procurement.
He said he intended the deputy minister’s dismissal to send “a signal to all those whose actions or behavior violate the principle of justice.”
“I want to be clear: There will be no return to what used to be in the past,” Zelenskyy said.
Oleksandr Kubrakov, the infrastructure minister, said Lozynsky was relieved of his duties after Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency detained him while he was receiving a $400,000 bribe for helping to fix contracts related to restoring infrastructure facilities battered by Russian missile strikes.
A statement by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine described Lozynsky as part of “an organized criminal group involved in the embezzlement of budget funds.”
It said its detectives were working to identify the group’s other members.
In other developments:
Russian shelling overnight killed one civilian and wounded two others near the eastern city of Bakhmut, the epicenter of the fighting in recent months, regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said Tuesday.
Russian forces also shelled nine towns and villages in the northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, killing a young woman and wounding three other people, local Gov. Dmytro Zhyvytskyy reported on Telegram.
He said the casualties all lived in the same house, which suffered a direct artillery hit.
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The Chicago Bears figured to be in the market for a running back when David Montgomery exited via free agency and they signed two, adding D’Onta Foreman and Travis Homer.
That provided competition for Khalil Herbert, who led all NFL running backs averaging 5.7 yards per carry in 2022, his second season. While that might have seemed like a full backfield, the Bears then dipped into a talented group in the draft, selecting Texas’ Roschon Johnson in the fourth round, an investment that hints to high hopes for his future.
“Not really,” Herbert said when asked if the addition of Johnson surprised him. “You know how things go in the NFL now. They’re doing things running back by committee. You need one, two, three really good guys that really carry the rock and there be no drop-off. We’ve got a really strong group. I’m excited to see what we can do.”
Running backs coach David Walker said Herbert will get the first reps with the starters as the Bears get rolling. Then the competition is on, and among the variety of options is Trestan Ebner, a 2022 sixth-round pick.
The Bears have more depth at the position than in recent seasons as they hope to maintain a strength a year after leading the NFL with 3,014 rushing yards. No one, Justin Fields included, wants the quarterback to rush for 1,143 yards again. If that goal is achieved — and Fields will certainly remain a threat on the ground on designed runs and scrambles — the backs will need to be more productive for the offense to remain elite at running the ball.
Foreman is on a one-year, $2 million deal with half of it guaranteed. He stepped in as an able replacement for Christian McCaffery in Carolina after the Panthers traded the star to the San Francisco 49ers. Homer got a two-year, $4 million deal with $1.75 million guaranteed. He’s projected to be a core special teams player and could factor in on third downs.
Johnson was an interesting addition as he comes with low mileage playing behind Bijan Robinson, the first-round pick of the Atlanta Falcons, at Texas. General manager Ryan Poles said the team was surprised Johnson was still available at No. 115.
How it all plays out will be interesting for more than just fantasy football enthusiasts wondering who will be RB1 and how the workload will be divided. Foreman is a bruising back between the tackles. Herbert has a little more speed and ability to make big plays. Neither is elite in the passing game.
“Obviously I want to be the starter,” Herbert said. “Just coming in with the mindset of leading and doing what I’ve got to do and doing what I do every day. I feel like things will work out.”
Herbert said he’s added about 5 pounds in the offseason. He was listed at 5-foot-9, 212 pounds last season.
Herbert had a career-best game in the Week 3 victory against the Houston Texans when he carried 20 times for 157 yards and two touchdowns. He had 19 carries for 77 yards the following week in a road loss to the New York Giants. Those were the two games Montgomery missed with ankle and knee injuries. In the six games Herbert had 10 or more carries, he produced 50 yards or more and averaged 5 or more yards per carry in every game except against the Giants.
“Just his ability to hit the home run,” coach Matt Eberflus said when asked what he liked about Herbert. “He’s got great vision. He’s got great cutback ability. He can take the ball outside and bounce it outside, but he’s really good at cutting it back when it’s there. We’re excited where he is.”
Where Herbert needs to expand his game is as a receiver and pass blocker. He averaged 19.5 snaps per game when Montgomery was healthy, and to carve out a larger role, he’s going to need to be more multidimensional.
The Bears need to do a better job involving the backs in the passing game. Montgomery was targeted 40 times (34 receptions for 316 yards) and Herbert had 12 targets, nine catches and 57 yards. Herbert also needs to be more effective in pass protection. He said he did boxing training this offseason to improve his effectiveness as a blocker, something that caught the attention of former Bears fullback Jason McKie.
“It helps with your endurance and conditioning in terms of being ready for the season,” McKie said. “I did that a lot before camp. But the main thing it helps with is your footwork. It’s different footwork — boxing and football — but it enables you to get your feet in different positions more quickly. So it enables your feet to work with your hands and that’s what you’ve got to have in pass protection.
“Then having the ability to have that good hand-eye coordination to punch and strike at a moment’s notice. Now I can punch his hip to widen him if he’s trying to use a speed rush around me and if he’s bullrushing, it allows me to punch and recoil, something you have to do fast.”
Given the opportunity, Herbert should be able to improve on the 731 yards he had last season.
But the Bears have a lot of options beyond Fields to carry the ball, so it will be fascinating to see how things unfold in training camp and preseason and what backs are trusted in passing situations.
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Live call and webcast will occur on February 23 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRUE) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022 in a stockholder letter, which is available HERE and on the TrueCar investor relations website at ir.truecar.com.
The company will host a question and answer session to discuss its fourth quarter results on Thursday, February 23 at 9:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. PT. A live webcast of the call will be available through TrueCar's Investor Relations website and the link below.
TrueCar Fourth Quarter 2022 Live Call and Webcast Details:
An archived version of the call will also be available upon completion on the Investor Relations section of TrueCar's website at ir.truecar.com.
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TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace that lets auto buyers and sellers connect to our nationwide network of Certified Dealers. With access to an expansive inventory provided by our Certified Dealers, we are building the industry's most personalized and efficient auto shopping experience as we seek to bring more of the process online. Consumers who visit our marketplace will find a suite of vehicle discovery tools, price ratings and market context on new, used and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles. When they are ready, shoppers in TrueCar's marketplace can connect with a Certified Dealer in our network, who shares our belief that truth, transparency and fairness are the foundation of a great auto shopping experience. As part of our marketplace, TrueCar powers auto-buying programs for over 250 leading brands, including AARP, Sam's Club, Navy Federal Credit Union and American Express.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
6-5-0-6, FIREBALL: 4
(six, five, zero, six; FIREBALL: four)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
6-5-0-6, FIREBALL: 4
(six, five, zero, six; FIREBALL: four) | 2022-12-26T20:09:55+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Day-game-17678149.php |
2023 RBC Heritage Schedule: Thursday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Tune in to see the first round of the 2023 RBC Heritage on Thursday, April 13 in Hilton Head, South Carolina at the 7,121-yard, par-71 course at Harbour Town Golf Links, as the golfers fight for a piece of the $20M purse. Jordan Spieth is the event's defending champion.
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- Start Time: 7:00 AM ET
- Venue: Harbour Town Golf Links
- Location: Hilton Head, South Carolina
- Par/Distance: Par 71/7,121 yards
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Since Allan Trimble became the Jenks head coach before the 1996 season, and since current Mustang coach Lee Blankenship was a 10-year-old in Spiro, a Tulsa County team has captured every championship in Oklahoma’s largest classification.
In Class 6A (1996-2013) and 6AI (since 2014), a non-Tulsa County team has been involved in only nine of the 26 championship games.
In a Friday quarterfinal, and in sub-freezing conditions at Bronco Stadium, Mustang hosts defending 6AI champion Jenks. If Jenks prevails at Mustang and if Bixby wins as expected over Enid, next week’s semifinals would include a Jenks-Bixby neutral-site rematch.
Consider the discrepancy in football achievement: Jenks has 18 state titles. Mustang has none. In 1996-2021, Jenks was involved in 21 championship games. Mustang was involved in one (a 2005 loss in Union’s final game with Bill Blankenship as its coach).
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Because the 2022 Trojans (9-2) have a hot offense and ended Bixby’s 58-game win streak on Nov. 3, the natural inclination is to expect a Jenks victory on Friday.
Mustang, however, is a dangerous and confident opponent.
When the Trojans and Broncos were matched in a 2021 semifinal, Jenks won by only seven points — 17-10 — and went on to capture its second consecutive state title.
“We’ve had explosive growth in Mustang, but it still feels like a small, close-knit community,” Lee Blankenship said. “We don’t have a movie theater in Mustang, believe it or not. On Friday nights in Mustang, the greatest show in town is right there on the football field.”
Of the eight head coaches in the 6AI quarterfinals, three are members of the Blankenship family: Bill, whose Owasso Rams visit potent Norman North on Friday; Bill’s son Josh, whose Broken Arrow Tigers play a rivalry game at unbeaten, top-ranked Union; and Mustang’s 36-year-old Lee Blankenship. Bill’s father and Lee’s grandfather were brothers.
Mustang has stars like wide receiver/defensive back Jacobe Johnson (an OU commit) and QB Tristen Russell (who against Edmond Memorial two weeks ago passed for 281 yards and four TDs on only 12 completions).
Because Mustang (8-2) had a first-round bye last week, Lee Blankenship and his staff were at Allan Trimble Stadium to watch Jenks batter Edmond North 68-14 in a first-round contest.
In spite of a lousy forecast, the Mustang side of Bronco Stadium is expected to be jammed with vocal fans who are sick of Tulsa County’s stranglehold on 6A/6AI championships.
“I used to live in the eastern half of the state,” said Lee Blankenship, who was the Beggs head man in 2013-17 and the Bartlesville coach for one season before becoming accepting Mustang’s top job. “I don’t know why it is, but Oklahoma City just feels colder. It’s supposed to be dry here on Friday, but it’s also supposed to be really cold.”
Blankenship was only stating a fact. It does feel colder in that part of the state. The wind in Canadian County has sharp teeth. Even if it was unintentional gamesmanship, his weather report might plant a seed of dread in the minds of the visiting Trojans. For the 7 p.m. kickoff, the temperature is expected to be in the upper 20s.
Cold rain pelted the Mustang High School campus on Monday. So that Mustang’s players could get a productive practice before such a big game, there was a two-hour turf rental at a Let’s Play Soccer facility in OKC. Four busloads of Bronco personnel and gear transported to that facility.
In 2019, Blankenship’s first Mustang team had 100 varsity players. Before he arrived, offseason weight-lifting was not mandatory. In Blankenship’s program, there is a high level of commitment to offseason strength work.
This season, there are 140 Bronco players. That total is roughly equal to what is seen at Broken Arrow and Union. Mustang’s development of an elite program is ongoing.
Against Tulsa-area 6AI programs, Blankenship’s Mustang record is 3-8. In 2019, the Broncos scored their first victory over Union. In 2021 and again this season, Mustang’s Blankenship conquered Owasso’s Blankenship.
Against all other 6AI opponents, the Blankenship Broncos are 22-6.
Because of the Trojans’ history of success, most opponents have a two-touchdown psychological deficit before the opening kickoff. Blankenship implores his Mustang players to ignore the Trojans’ reputation.
For several years, there was the mystique of Jenks.
Then, the mystique of Jenks and Union.
More recently, Owasso won a pair of titles and Broken Arrow got one in 2018. After having owned Class 6AII, Bixby is a 6AI rookie that was ranked No. 1 for most of the 2022 season.
As Tulsa County is sustained as the Oklahoma’s hottest pocket of high school football, a collective mystique has been developed. That’s what west-side-of-the-state 6AI programs like Mustang and Norman North are up against.
“We can’t focus on a helmet logo or a fancy graphic on the side of a bus,” Lee Blankenship said. “We can’t focus on the facility that we’re playing in. None of that matters. What matters is us being the best version of ourselves. That’s the strategy in beating (Tulsa County) schools.
“Don’t get me wrong. We’ve gotten our heads thumped by the Tulsa teams, but we have to approach those games like any other games. The other team’s logo or big stadium or fancy chartered bus — we don’t let that beat us.” | 2022-11-18T00:33:43+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/sports/high-school/football/bill-haisten-in-a-cold-quarterfinal-mustang-encounters-the-jenks-mystique/article_4202e848-663f-11ed-872e-b308dcd4c3db.html |
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. , Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Leading global integrated risk management firm Crisis24, a GardaWorld company, announced today the appointment of Mark Niblett to the position of Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Chief Security Officer.
In his role, Niblett will oversee a team providing security and medical operations and response at a global level as the firm continues to grow and strengthen its position as the leading integrated risk management company to the world's most influential people, disruptive brands and prominent organizations.
Coordinating closely with Crisis24's Medical Director and Medical Team, Niblett will also ensure that Crisis24 delivers integrated support to our customers. In addition, he will oversee the implementation of a long-range strategy to maintain the company's financial health and create sustainability.
Bringing decades of expertise across multi-site international and high-risk operations, Niblett recently held the role of Vice President, Security & Resilience at Weatherford International, where he led Global Security, Business Continuity & Crisis Management, across a multi-national enterprise with over 40,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Previously, he was Chief Security Officer for large Fortune 100 corporations, including Halliburton Energy Services and AECOM, which greatly contributed to his experience managing corporate resilience functions across multiple industries.
"Mark has spent his entire career in risk and security management. After a career in the UK Armed Forces, Mark became a highly-skilled corporate security and resilience executive with a demonstrated record of leading effective business continuity and risk management strategies for global players in the most challenging environments," declared Gregoire Pinton, Managing Director and Global Head of Integrated Risk Management, Crisis24. "Mark's rich network and unique industry experience will make him a true Crisis24 ambassador as we continue to build a first-class global team. We are thrilled to have him with us as his unmatched expertise will be an enormous benefit to our operations and our clients."
Crisis24, a GardaWorld company, is widely regarded as the leading integrated risk management, crisis response, consulting and global protective solutions firm, serving the world's most influential people, disruptive brands and prominent organizations. Championed by our advanced Global Operation Centers and our highly skilled team of intelligence analysts, we offer highly specialized services, 24/7 security and consulting, with the technology and AI to power it all across the globe.
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TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from hospital Saturday evening.
Before Sunday’s game, Angels manager Phil Nevin said Ward did not have vision damage. Surgery is an option for Ward, but no decision has been made. It was not clear when Ward would be able to return to California. The Angels play a three-game series at Atlanta this week before returning home Thursday to host Seattle.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
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Louisville vs. Ole Miss Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - NCAA Tournament Sweet 16
Published: Mar. 21, 2023 at 11:42 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Friday's game between the Louisville Cardinals (25-11) and the Ole Miss Rebels (25-8) at Climate Pledge Arena is expected to be a competitive matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 66-64, with Louisville coming out on top. Tipoff is at TBA on March 24.
The Cardinals are coming off of a 73-51 win against Texas in their most recent game on Monday.
Louisville vs. Ole Miss Game Info
- When: Friday, March 24, 2023
- Where: Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington
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Louisville vs. Ole Miss Score Prediction
- Prediction: Louisville 66, Ole Miss 65
Louisville Schedule Analysis
- The Cardinals took down the No. 10-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 64-38, on March 4, which goes down as their best win of the season.
- The Cardinals have tied for the 11th-most Quadrant 1 wins in the country (10), but also have tied for the 25th-most Quadrant 1 defeats (10).
- Louisville has tied for the 16th-most Quadrant 2 wins in the nation (seven).
Louisville 2022-23 Best Wins
- 64-38 over Notre Dame (No. 10/AP Poll) on March 4
- 71-63 over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on November 20
- 73-51 on the road over Texas (No. 15/AP Poll) on March 20
- 62-55 at home over North Carolina (No. 20/AP Poll) on February 5
- 82-75 on the road over Florida State (No. 28) on January 15
Ole Miss Schedule Analysis
- The Rebels picked up their signature win of the season on March 19, when they defeated the Stanford Cardinal, who rank No. 5 in the AP's Top 25, by a score of 54-49.
- The Rebels have six wins versus Quadrant 1 opponents, tied for the 24th-most in the country.
Ole Miss 2022-23 Best Wins
- 54-49 on the road over Stanford (No. 5/AP Poll) on March 19
- 66-58 on the road over Georgia (No. 32) on January 12
- 78-63 at home over Mississippi State (No. 35) on January 26
- 61-50 on the road over Mississippi State (No. 35) on January 1
- 57-55 on the road over Alabama (No. 41) on February 26
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Louisville Performance Insights
- The Cardinals have a +348 scoring differential, topping opponents by 9.7 points per game. They're putting up 73.1 points per game to rank 47th in college basketball and are allowing 63.4 per contest to rank 150th in college basketball.
- Offensively, Louisville is scoring 69.9 points per game this year in conference tilts. To compare, its overall average (73.1 points per game) is 3.2 PPG higher.
- The Cardinals are posting 77.2 points per game this year when playing at home, which is six more points than they're averaging in away games (71.2).
- At home, Louisville is surrendering 1.6 fewer points per game (62.4) than away from home (64).
- The Cardinals have seen a downturn in scoring lately, racking up 71.6 points per game in their last 10 outings, 1.5 points fewer than the 73.1 they've scored this season.
Ole Miss Performance Insights
- The Rebels put up 68.8 points per game (106th in college basketball) while allowing 56.3 per outing (20th in college basketball). They have a +415 scoring differential and outscore opponents by 12.5 points per game.
- In conference play, Ole Miss is putting up fewer points (66.5 per game) than it is overall (68.8) in 2022-23.
- At home, the Rebels average 74.6 points per game. Away, they score 62.5.
- In 2022-23 Ole Miss is conceding 4.9 fewer points per game at home (53.3) than on the road (58.2).
- The Rebels are posting 64.1 points per contest over their past 10 games, which is 4.7 fewer points than their average for the season (68.8).
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Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged with state crimes for their roles in the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, whose death authorities initially blamed on a car crash until The Associated Press published long-withheld body-camera video showing the Black motorist being stunned, beaten and dragged.
Here is a look at the officers involved and the counts they face:
KORY YORK: NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE, 10 COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE
Master Trooper York, 50, is seen in the video dragging Greene by his ankle shackles, putting his foot on his back to force him down and leaving the heavyset man face down in the dirt with his hands and feet restrained for more than nine minutes. Use-of-force experts say these actions could have dangerously restricted Greene’s breathing, and the state police’s own force instructor called the troopers’ actions “torture and murder.”
After joining the state police academy in 2003, York wrote that the ethics of Louisiana’s elite law enforcement agency were something he learned as a child.
“My dad was a Louisiana State Trooper. So my childhood I was raised in a Trooper family,” he wrote. “Being raised by a Trooper, I was taught the difference between right and wrong.”
York was suspended without pay for 50 hours following an internal investigation into his role in Greene’s arrest. Col. Lamar Davis, who took over as State Police superintendent in 2020, wrote York that his suspension had been decided by his predecessor, Kevin Reeves, adding he “would have imposed more severe discipline.”
York was placed on leave after his indictment Thursday. His legal defense said he expects to be found not guilty at trial.
JOHN CLARY: MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Lt. Clary was the ranking officer on the scene of Greene’s arrest and falsely denied the existence of his own body-camera video from that night for nearly two years.
That 30-minute video is the only footage that shows the moment a handcuffed, bloody Greene moans under the weight of two troopers, twitches and then goes still. It also shows troopers ordering Greene to remain face down on the ground while restrained for more than nine minutes.
Clary’s video reached state police internal affairs more than a year after Greene’s death, but it was long unknown to detectives working the criminal case and missing from the initial investigative case file they turned over to prosecutors in August 2019.
Detectives say Clary falsely claimed he didn’t have any body-camera footage of his own and instead gave investigators a thumb drive of other troopers’ videos. However a state police internal investigation into him resulted in no discipline, with the head of the agency saying they “could not say for sure whether” Clary “purposefully withheld” it.
Clary was placed on leave after his indictment. His attorney did not respond to a request for comment in the courthouse.
DAKOTA DEMOSS: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Trooper DeMoss, 30, had attempted to pull Greene over for speeding and running a red light in Monroe. After a lengthy pursuit, he rushed Greene’s SUV alongside Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth, who immediately deployed his stun gun. Greene was stunned seven times for a total of 19 seconds before being taken into custody, internal records show.
DeMoss told investigators he “survived a fight for his life” taking Greene into custody — an account contradicted by his own 46-minute body-camera video. DeMoss claimed Greene “never gave up resisting” and was “hollering and being belligerent” throughout the arrest, according to internal State Police records obtained by AP.
Troopers left Greene prone for so long because of his “physical size and strength and the fear that Greene would harm someone else should he regain his footing,” DeMoss said.
State Police fired DeMoss last year after arresting him in a separate excessive force case in which troopers beat another Black motorist following a high-speed chase.
Reached by phone, DeMoss declined to comment on the indictment, saying, “You guys always get it wrong.”
CHRISTOPHER HARPIN: THREE COUNTS OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE
Harpin, a Union Parish sheriff’s deputy, arrived at the scene after the troopers had begun struggling with Greene. He can be seen on body-camera video helping troopers handcuff Greene. Afterward Harpin can be heard telling him, “Yeah, yeah, that s— hurts, doesn’t it?”
Harpin was placed on leave after his indictment. His legal defense said Thursday that he, too, expects to be found not guilty.
JOHN PETERS: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Capt. John Peters, the regional troop commander at the time, was accused by state police detectives in legislative testimony of telling them to conceal evidence in Greene’s case.
Peters, who was also among the commanders to sign off on the use-of-force reports in the case, told investigators that approving such documents without watching the body-camera video was his “common practice,” disciplinary records show.
Peters retired last year after acknowledging he approved use-of-force reports that glossed over another Black motorist’s beating without reviewing video, according to records.
Peters also declined to comment on the indictment.
CHRIS HOLLINGSWORTH: DECEASED. NOT CHARGED.
Widely seen as the most culpable of the officers, Master Trooper Hollingsworth was not charged because he died in a high-speed, single-vehicle car crash in 2020 just hours after he was told he would be fired over his actions in Greene’s death.
Hollingsworth was seen on the video repeatedly bashing Greene in the head with a flashlight and was later recorded by his own camera calling a fellow officer and saying, “I beat the ever-living f— out of him, choked him and everything else trying to get him under control. … All of a sudden he just went limp.”
Under questioning by internal affairs days before his death, Hollingsworth said he feared for his life while arresting Greene. “I was scared,” he said in the recorded interview. “He could have done anything once my hold was broke off him — and that’s why I struck him.”
Detectives then showed Hollingsworth autopsy photos and asked him to describe several cuts on Greene’s head.
“They’re like a little half-moon,” Hollingsworth said.
“You don’t think your flashlight caused those cuts?”
“It could have,” the trooper said.
Despite his involvement in the case, the 46-year-old Hollingsworth was allowed to be buried with full honors. | 2022-12-16T09:57:36+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-who-are-officers-charged-in-ronald-greenes-deadly-arrest/ |
Dr. Jamal Bryant Calls for Complete Accountability Following the Death Tyre Nichols Bryant Led Special Prayer for Mothers Who Lost Children to Violence During Sunday’s Service
Following the shocking and disturbing body camera footage of the attack that claimed the life of Tyre Nichols, New Birth Senior Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant is calling for a complete accountability of all those involved in the events leading to his death. Despite the charges levied against five onsite police officers, Bryant is calling for a thorough investigation to determine the culpability of all first responders and other officers who failed to protect and serve Nichols.
“When we were participating in national protests following the murder of George Floyd, we were not protesting against White police officers. We were protesting against bad policing,” said Bryant. “It doesn’t matter what color they are if they are not operating in integrity. We have to hold all officers, who are sworn to
protect and serve, accountable.”
Bryant issued a call to action to encourage his congregation and community to demand a higher level of accountability for all who threaten the idea and
practice of justice. “We witnessed Black police officers operating in a spirit of White supremacy,” said Bryant.
“Thugs are not always on street corners. Sometimes we have thugs in suits. We have thugs in uniform. If we believe Black lives matter, then we have to hold our
entire community to a higher standard.”
During his sermon, Bryant also addressed mothers in his congregation who have lost children to violence. He noted that while his heart and mind remain with Nichols and his grieving family, he is aware that there are many families who suffered violent losses and may not have gained the same attention and
acknowledgement. “It’s a critical time in our community and nation. I’m tired of watching videos that make violence against our people normal. Today we declare enough is enough,” Bryant said.
To access audio and video from Bryant’s Jan. 29 message, click the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/t/bILOgyM9A8zpaEPY. | 2023-01-31T06:05:40+00:00 | atlantadailyworld.com | https://atlantadailyworld.com/2023/01/30/dr-jamal-bryant-calls-for-police-accountability-black-or-white-following-death-of-tyre-nichols/ |
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Long View Equity (the "Company") in partnership with Endeavor Real Estate Group announced the acquisition of a 5.6 acre commercial parcel that fronts Highway 290 W in Austin, TX. The property is in the ETJ of Dripping Springs. The commercial development, called Sawyer Ranch, will be a retail and office mixed-used development. It is anticipated there will be roughly 14,000 sf of retail and 13,000 sf of office space upon completion of the project. The development is aimed at breaking ground Q1 2023 with a Q4 2023 delivery. To-date, there has been strong interest in new retail at the project, which is currently 55% pre-leased.
Long View Equity is actively pursuing acquisition opportunities across office, industrial, and retail asset classes in major Texas markets. Daniel Campbell, Managing Director at Long View Equity, commented "With Sawyer Ranch, we have the opportunity to further invest in the Dripping Springs market which has experienced significant growth over the last 5 years that we expect to continue. Dripping Springs has very limited supply of new retail and office product and we expect to be able to put this project in production quickly in order to meet this demand and lack of supply."
Long View Equity, LLC, founded in 2010, is an Austin, Texas based investment management company that oversees investment decisions and operations of real estate investment funds and other syndicated investment vehicles. Long View Equity's core purpose is to create long-term value for its 100+ investors by making well-thought-out investment decisions, exercising diligence in management, and continually seeking out opportunities to create value. The Company pursues strategies involving the direct acquisition of core-plus and value-added investments and has a proven 10+ year track record of operating over 50 office, retail, or industrial real estate properties located primarily in metropolitan markets in Texas.
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OAKLAND PARK, FLA. (WSVN) - The Broward Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested a man Tuesday on 11 charges related to child pornography.
On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office said SWAT and ICAC served a search warrant in the residence of Dylan Kenyon-Jones located on Northeast 5th Avenue in Oakland park.
According to detectives, a laptop found in the suspects’ room had over 100 images of child pornography depicting children ages six to 12 years of age engaging in sexual acts or posing in a sexual manner.
The investigation began when they received tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that the 28-year-old suspect was possessing and transmitting pornography on social media.
Kenyon-Jones was booked at the BSO main jail.
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