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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a device that enables you to polish shoes with minimal effort," said an inventor, from Brooklyn, N.Y., "so I invented the SHOE BOX POLISH SYSTEM. My design would offer a portable and convenient alternative to conventional shoe shine appliances, manual brushes and shoe polish."
The patent-pending invention provides a practical and efficient means of polishing various articles of footwear. In doing so, it eliminates the hassle of manually polishing shoes. As a result, it saves time and effort and it could enhance the appearance of shoes. The invention features a portable design that is convenient and easy to use so it is ideal for various members of the labor force including white collar workers such as flight attendants, police officers, teachers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Manhattan sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-MTN-3048, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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CHICAGO, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was engaged by Integral Senior Living (ISL), the Nation's 9th largest operator of seniors housing, to identify a strategic capital partner who possessed the financial wherewithal to help grow ISL's platform, and who also aligned with ISL's future goals, company culture, and senior leadership.
Founded in 2002 and based in Carlsbad, California, ISL has established itself as a versatile and best-in-class provider of senior care services throughout 26 states with over 12,000 units under management.
Blueprint approached a targeted and select number of groups, and positioned the deal as a truly rare opportunity to partner with an industry leading seniors housing management company and establish a new paradigm for providing quality care to seniors across the country.
Blueprint advised ISL to move forward with a joint venture between Lee Equity Partners and Coastwood Senior Housing Partners, two specialized investment firms that are uniquely equipped to execute on a synergistic growth strategy for ISL.
As part of the investment, ISL will partner with Discovery Senior Living and form the fifth largest senior housing operator in the United States with nationwide presence and preeminent management capabilities. Lee Equity and Coastwood recently completed the recapitalization of Discovery Senior Living, and viewed this transaction as an extraordinary chance of creating a synergistic relationship with the two highest quality operators in the country. Combined, the two leading operators will manage approximately 27,000 senior housing units with a presence in 36 states nationwide.
Amy Sitzman, Ryan Chase, Giancarlo Riso, and Kevin Lukehart from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors acted as exclusive advisors to ISL on the recapitalization.
"Our partners at Blueprint have been by our side through this entire process. We couldn't have had a more professional, dynamic, and personable team to work with." stated Sue Farrow, Founder & Owner, ISL.
For more information, please contact: egehring@blueprinthcre.com.
Chicago-based Blueprint was founded in 2013 with a mission to elevate healthcare real estate brokerage through collaboration and data. They have since become the most active advisor in the seniors housing and healthcare space, with a proven track record of 570 transactions valued at over $9.8 billion. The company's proven model intersects broad market coverage with unrivaled analytics. Blueprint has comprehensive industry expertise in skilled nursing, seniors housing, medical office, behavioral healthcare, and capital markets.
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Oklahoma pot farm illegally obtained permit before 4 slain
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials say the Oklahoma marijuana farm where four people were killed was operating under an illegally obtained license. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics says Friday that the license application by Kevin Pham fraudulently stated that the operation was 75% owned by an Oklahoma resident, as required by state law. Pham has been arrested on drug and weapons charges. Court documents do not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf. The man wanted in the Nov. 20 shooting deaths of four people at the farm has been extradited back to the state from Florida. Wu Chen, also known as Chen Wu in jail records, was booked into the Kingfisher County jail on Thursday. | 2022-12-02T21:04:06+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2022/12/02/oklahoma-pot-farm-illegally-obtained-permit-before-4-slain/ |
President Biden defends pending visit to Saudi Arabia in opinion piece
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President Joe Biden, preparing for a trip to Saudi Arabia amid criticism of its poor human rights record, defended his decision in a newspaper opinion piece, insisting that he had long supported reforms and sought to "reorient but not rupture" relations with a longstanding strategic partner.
In the article posted online Saturday night by The Washington Post, Biden pointed to developments in the Middle East that he contended had made the region more stable and secure than when the Trump administration ended, among them intense diplomacy as well as military action against state-sponsored attacks. But his framing of the Saudi relationship in particular appeared defensive, especially with some in the U.S. demanding that he not lend legitimacy to the government with a visit.
Biden linked U.S. strength and security to countering Russian aggression and competition from China, then argued that engaging directly with countries like Saudi Arabia could help promote those efforts. The president said he aimed to strengthen a U.S.-Saudi partnership "going forward that's based on mutual interests and responsibilities, while also holding true to fundamental American values."
"I know that there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to Saudi Arabia," Biden wrote. "My views on human rights are clear and long-standing, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when I travel abroad, as they will be during this trip, just as they will be in Israel and the West Bank."
It was notable that Biden's op-ed appeared in the Sunday opinion section of the Post, whose writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents in 2018.
On that issue, Biden contended he had responded with sanctions against the Saudi forces involved in the killing and issued scores of visa bans for anyone found harassing dissidents abroad. The president also noted that he released a U.S. intelligence report that asserted Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved of the operation that led to Khashoggi's murder.
Biden is expected to meet with the crown prince during his trip. | 2022-07-10T15:59:13+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/president-biden-defends-pending-visit-to-saudi-arabia/40566635 |
(The Hill) – The COVID-19 pandemic turned absentee voting into an essential part of the 2020 elections, with more than 39 million Americans choosing to cast their ballots by mail.
States have been reckoning with the consequences ever since.
Former President Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud in his loss to President Biden included suggestions that absentee voting was partly to blame, leading his allies in GOP-led states to enact limits to mail-in voting.
Other states have made temporary pandemic measures permanent, making it easier to send in votes ahead of elections.
It remains to be seen what role mail-in voting will play in the 2022 midterms, but it is certain to be closely watched, especially in crucial swing states.
Here are five states where mail-in voting — and changes made over the past two years — could play a decisive role in close races.
Arizona
Following the 2020 presidential election, Arizona enacted several laws changing vote-by-mail process and procedures.
Many of these laws won’t go into effect until 2023 and beyond, however, a law that will be in effect requires mail ballots missing signatures to be thrown out if they are not fixed by 7 p.m. on Election Day.
The law codifies what for many precincts in the state was already commonplace, however some precincts previously granted a “cure period” for missing signatures.
Arizona will still have a 5-day cure period for mailed ballots on which the signature does not match the voter’s signature on file.
The bill making the changes, S.B. 1003, was heavily litigated but ultimately upheld by Arizona’s 9th Circuit Court.
Liz Avore, senior adviser for the nonprofit Voting Rights Lab, said that the law would disenfranchise voters and be particularly harmful to Indigenous voters in Arizona — a constituency that leaned liberal in 2020, according to precinct level data.
“A lot of these ballots are going to be coming in, you know, on Election Day or just before Election Day, and so requiring voters to fix the problem by 7 p.m. on Election Day is obviously going to exclude a lot of voters,” said Avore.
“It’s going to exclude a lot of voters particularly on tribal lands where mail is more inconsistent and often the P.O. box is further away for folks to get to.”
Arizona has a number of closely watched races pitting Trump-backed election deniers against more moderate Democratic candidates in the increasingly purple state.
Democrat Katie Hobbs is tied with Republican Kari Lake in recent polls of the governor’s race, while incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D) is maintaining a significant lead over GOP nominee Blake Masters. There is also a close House race between Democrat Kirsten Engel and Republican Juan Ciscomani.
Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has avoided saying whether the 2020 election was rigged, but has nonetheless taken numerous actions to crack down on alleged election fraud.
In May 2021, he signed S.B. 90, which requires those voting by mail to provide a driver’s license or state identification card number or the last four digits of their social security number to receive an absentee ballot. The number provided then must be verified by an election official to make sure it matches the number on file in the voter’s registration for the voter to be mailed a ballot.
Avore said many voters may not have those numbers on hand, as they were not previously necessary when registering to vote by mail or making a mail-ballot request.
“They would no longer be able to vote by mail unless they were to, you know, take action to go and actually add those numbers to their voter registration file,” said Avore.
Other provisions of the law require absentee ballot requests to be received at least 10 days before the election, or be rejected. Any issues with ID numbers must also be sorted out before the 10-day deadline for mail ballot requests to get processed in time.
In April, DeSantis signed off on a law replacing ballot drop boxes with secure ballot intake stations, which are only open during early voting hours and must be manned by an elections official when they are open.
Avore said that restrictions on drop boxes could disproportionately impact voters of color.
“There’s also research that shows that when drop boxes … are equitably placed throughout an area, it actually particularly is helpful to voters of color,” said Avore. “Voters of color tend to disproportionately rely on drop boxes.”
Voters of color also disproportionately vote for Democrats. In the 2020 presidential election, 89 percent of Black and 53 percent of Hispanic voters in Florida voted for Biden, according to an NBC exit poll.
Florida’s new election laws also make it a third-degree felony for an individual to possess more than two mail-ballots, aside from their own and the ballots of immediate family members, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 dollar fine.
“I think what it does is it’s going to limit the ability of voters to ask, you know, either a trusted friend or caregiver to pick up or drop off a vote by mail ballot for them, and that’s going to have an impact on elderly, working, and mobility impaired voters in the state of Florida,” said Bobby Hoffman, deputy director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Democracy Division.
While DeSantis is maintaining a wide lead over Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, other high-profile races are closer, including Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) bid to keep his seat against Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla).
Georgia
Georgia officials refused Trump’s entreaties to overturn his loss to Biden in 2020, but have been much more willing to pass laws targeting potential election fraud.
Under S.B. 202, which was passed last year, those voting by mail in the state are required to provide some form of ID in order to receive and cast a mail ballot. The bill also shortens the time frame that someone can request an absentee ballot from 180 days before an election to 78 days.
Additionally, all absentee requests must be received at least 11 days before an election for a voter to receive a ballot, up from the 4-day deadline that was in place in 2020.
“Many folks won’t be aware that they’re going to be unable to vote in person in that time frame, so it shortens the period for them to request a ballot by mail,” said Hoffman. “For some of those folks it may unfortunately mean that they’re unable to vote because of that.”
In Georgia’s legislative elections last November, 52 percent of applications for mail ballots were rejected because voter requests were made within the last 11 days before the election, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, while only 26 percent of those who had absentee requests rejected went on to cast ballots in person on Election Day.
Another provision of the bill also limits the hours which drop boxes can be open, changing it from 24/7 to whenever polling locations are open for early in-person voting. Additionally, the bill also has a provision limiting drop boxes.
An analysis by NPR, WABE and Georgia Public Broadcasting tracking this change to drop boxes found “more than half of the roughly 550,000 voters who cast their ballot using a drop box in the state’s 2020 general election lived in four metro Atlanta counties — Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett — where about 50% of the voters are people of color.”
The analysis also found that in these four counties alone the number of drop boxes had dropped from 107 to 25 under the new law, and that overall, a quarter of the state’s voters (1.9 million people) have seen their travel time to drop boxes increase from 2020.
Mail voting has typically skewed more in favor of Democrats in Georgia. In 2020, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) won his Senate seat after receiving 395,037 more mail ballots than his Republican challenger Kelly Loeffler.
Warnock is locked in a close race this year with Trump-backed former football star Herschel Walker. Democrat Stacey Abrams, a leading voting rights advocate in the state, is also making a second bid to beat Gov. Brian Kemp (R), whom she lost to in 2018.
The Georgia Democratic Party said in a statement provided to The Hill that it was committed to making sure the new law doesn’t prevent anyone from voting.
“While no eligible voter should have to face challenges in casting a ballot, we are working hard to educate and empower voters, defend access to the ballot box, and protect every vote so that all Georgians can have their voices heard.”
Nevada
Democratic-controlled Nevada has moved in the opposite direction, passing policies likely to increase turnout in the 2022 elections.
In 2021, lawmakers passed A.B. 321, which requires county clerks to mail all active registered voters a ballot at least 14 days before an election, making Nevada one of eight states to offer universal mail-in ballots.
“It’s going to provide them [Nevada voters] increased convenience,” said Hoffman. “In states that have vote by mail processes we usually see some increase in turnout as well amongst the electorate.”
The Nevada Senate race will be among the most closely watched, with Trump-endorsed former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt taking on incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.). Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) is also in a tight reelection race against Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, the GOP nominee.
Robert Uithoven, a consultant for Laxalt’s campaign, said the universal mail system meant some ballots were being delivered to homes where people hadn’t lived for years.
“There’s videos all over online of hundreds of ballots piling up in apartment complex mailboxes, you know, mail room garbage cans, and mail ballots being littered all over the state. That does not garner encouragement in an election process,” Uithoven said.
“I don’t think it puts us at a disadvantage from our opponent, but that’s certainly not an endorsement of the policy,” he added.
Texas
Like Florida and Georgia, Texas also passed a law in 2021 that would require voters to provide a form of ID to receive a mail ballot. But the Texas law also requires an ID to return a completed ballot — and the numbers must match.
Critics of the policy have pointed out that voters in Texas could provide a valid form of ID and still have their votes thrown out for simply forgetting which form of ID they used when requesting an absentee ballot.
S.B. 1 has already become a source of confusion for many Texas voters. According to NPR, 24,636 mail-in ballots were rejected during the March 1 primary in Texas, which amounts to a 12.38 percent rejection rate for mail ballots.
The rejection rate for mail ballots was less than 1 percent in the 2020 presidential election, according to previous reporting by The Texas Tribune.
Democrats had more ballots rejected in the primary, with 14,281 compared to 10,355 for Republicans, however, the rejection rate was similar for voters of both parties.
“What we saw play out in Texas disproportionately impacted voters of color in terms of excluding them from the democratic system,” Avore said.
And as in other states, voters of color more often voted Democratic in Texas. In 2020, 93 percent of Black, 63 percent of Asian, and 58 percent of Hispanic voters in Texas voted for Biden, according to a CBS exit poll.
S.B. 1 also puts new restrictions in place severely limiting who can assist a voter in filling out a ballot and under what circumstances.
Gov. Greg Abbott currently has a healthy lead over Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in the polls. However, there is a closely watched House race for control of the 34th District, between Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Republican challenger Mayra Flores. | 2022-10-16T17:16:54+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/mail-in-voting-changes-could-play-a-decisive-role-in-these-swing-states/ |
Standoff ensues at southeast OKC Plaza Inn after report of possible kidnapping Tuesday
The troubled Plaza Inn of southeast Oklahoma City was the scene of a standoff early Tuesday after police were called about a possible kidnapping.
Police said a woman called 911, telling dispatch she had been kidnapped. Officers responded to the motel at 3200 S Prospect Ave and tried to establish contact with a man inside a room.
But the man refused to leave the room and barricaded himself inside, according to News9. Police worked to negotiate with the man, and by 9:37 a.m., the standoff had ended, according to KFOR.
More:Police investigating fatal shooting at troubled southeast Oklahoma City motel
The Plaza Inn has been a hotspot for criminal activity for many years, with frequent shootings, assaults, thefts and overdoses reported on the motel grounds.
This is a developing story and will be updated. | 2023-04-04T18:54:43+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/crime/2023/04/04/standoff-with-okc-police-at-plaza-inn-after-kidnapping-report-tuesday/70079942007/ |
While President Biden observed the tradition of pardoning turkeys, there was a side helping of snipe between the administration and a big farm lobby group over the price of Thanksgiving dinner.
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While President Biden observed the tradition of pardoning turkeys, there was a side helping of snipe between the administration and a big farm lobby group over the price of Thanksgiving dinner.
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DUBAI, UAE, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AugmentLabs DAO has recently launched AugmentDEX, a decentralized exchange that aims to provide USC holders with a seamless trading experience. While existing platforms like Uniswap and PancakeSwap already offer USC swaps, AugmentDEX takes decentralization to the next level by focusing on user experience and fostering a stronger sense of community ownership. Boasting a combined liquidity of over 3,000,000 USDT, AugmentDEX creates a tailored and efficient trading environment for cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
Recent events involving Binance and its stablecoin, BUSD, highlight the risks of centralized platforms and third-party custodianship, as emphasized by the SEC's regulatory actions. To address these concerns, AugmentLabs DAO offers a decentralized option for USC holders, ensuring transparency, security, and control over one's digital assets.
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AugmentLabs DAO's pursuit of innovation extends beyond conventional boundaries into the gaming industry. Upcoming game releases serve as a testament to the versatility and extensive potential of USC, transcending traditional use cases. These developments underscore AugmentLabs DAO's unwavering dedication to pushing boundaries and reshaping the cryptocurrency landscape through immersive gaming experiences.
Looking towards the future, AugmentLabs DAO remains committed to expanding the use cases of USC across diverse industries such as marketplaces, cybersecurity, finance, health, and F&B, cementing its position as a widely accepted stablecoin cryptocurrency. To achieve this, AugmentLabs DAO will forge strategic partnerships with key players in these sectors, further augmenting the reach and applicability of USC.
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Conservatives plan protest of drag queens at Royal Oak bookstore
A group of conservatives based in Grand Rapids said they planned to stage a protest starting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday outside a Royal Oak bookstore that holds storytelling events for children featuring drag queens.
A group called the Grand New Party — whose name is a word-play on Grand Old Party, or GOP, a traditional nickname for the Republican Party — said in a news release that its members will “demonstrate against grooming and the sexualization of children.” The news release asks members to “please show up with signs, be polite but firm, and stand peacefully against this child-grooming agenda.”
Grooming is a term used by opponents of LGBTQ+ lifestyles when opponents accuse gays of trying to prepare straight youth for alternative sexual orientations.
Events called Drag Queen Story Hour began decades ago in New York City and San Francisco, then spread nationwide in an effort by organizers to demonstrate gender diversity to children accompanied by their parents in safe and entertaining situations.
Critics have said that by showcasing drag queens — generally thought to be gay men dressed as women — the story hour events make extreme examples of gay lifestyles seem normal and fun. Protests of Drag Queen Story Hours had largely died down in recent years, and the expectation of protesters in Royal Oak was a surprise, said Jenny Carney, co-owner of Sidetrack Bookshop, which is steps away from railroad tracks that bisect downtown Royal Oak. Carney said she opened the store in May.
“My wife and I own it,” she said. “My parents actually own the building. My mother opened a store here called the Enchanted Plant in 1975, so opening our bookstore was like coming home.”
She said the bookstore, which has window displays of children’s books, has “four queens coming” to Saturday’s event that starts at 2 p.m., its second story hour.
“But it’s just for kids and their parents. We won’t be allowing any adults not accompanied by children,” she said.
The protesters will need to stay outside, she said.
The city is aware of the planned protest and will be monitoring it, Royal Oak City Manager Paul Brake said.
“We respect everyone’s right to free speech. We sincerely hope it’s an entirely peaceful demonstration,” Brake said.
Contact Bill Laytner: blaitner@freepress.com | 2023-03-10T13:04:22+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2023/03/10/royal-oak-protest-planned-over-drag-queen-storytelling/69991492007/ |
Here are the key election results from Alaska By NPR Staff Published November 7, 2022 at 11:01 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email NPRAlaska State Election Results 2020 View live election results for key contests in Alaska. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Loading... | 2022-11-08T06:10:43+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2022-11-07/here-are-the-key-election-results-from-alaska |
Wheat for May was up 14 cents at $6.9650 a bushel; May corn rose 10.25 cents at $6.7650 a bushel, May oats gained 6 cents at $3.42 a bushel; while May soybeans advanced 16.50 cents at $15.17 a bushel.
Beef, pork higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Apr. live cattle rose 1 cent at $1.7575 a pound; Apr. feeder cattle gained 2.15 cents at $2.0555 a pound; while Apr. lean hogs was up .12 cent at $.7187 a pound. | 2023-04-17T21:04:45+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/grains-livestock-higher-17902305.php |
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman MLP and Energy Income Fund Inc. (NYSE American: NML) (the "Fund") has announced a distribution declaration of $0.02266 per share of common stock. The distribution announced today is payable on September 30, 2022, has a record date of September 15, 2022 and has an ex-date of September 14, 2022.
The Fund currently intends to make regular monthly cash distributions to holders of its common stock at a fixed rate per share, to be determined based on the projected net rate of return of the Fund's investments as well as other factors, subject to ongoing review and adjustment from time to time. The Fund currently intends to pay its regular monthly distributions out of its distributable cash flow, which generally consists of (1) cash and paid-in-kind distributions from master limited partnerships ("MLPs") or their affiliates, dividends from common stocks, interest from debt instruments and income from other investments held by the Fund less (2) current or accrued operating expenses, including leverage costs, if any, and taxes on its taxable income.
The Fund expects that a portion of its distributions to stockholders will constitute a non-taxable return of capital. A "return of capital" is a distribution by the Fund which represents a return of a common stockholder's original investment, and should not be confused with a dividend. To the extent the Fund pays a return of capital, a common stockholder's basis in Fund shares will be reduced, which will increase a capital gain or reduce a capital loss upon sale of those shares. There is no assurance that the Fund will always be able to pay a distribution of any particular amount, or that a distribution will consist solely of the Fund's current and accumulated earnings and profits.
In compliance with Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, a notice would be provided for any distribution that does not consist solely of net investment income. The notice would be for informational purposes and not for tax reporting purposes, and would disclose, among other things, estimated portions of the distribution, if any, consisting of net investment income, capital gains and return of capital. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions paid in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
The Fund is subject to federal income tax on its taxable income, unlike most investment companies. Any taxes paid by the Fund will reduce the amount available to pay distributions to stockholders, and therefore investors in the Fund will likely receive lower distributions than if they invested directly in MLPs.
About Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $418 billion in client assets as of June 30, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
Statements made in this release that look forward in time involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets or a decline in the Fund's performance, a general downturn in the economy, competition from other closed end investment companies, changes in government policy or regulation, inability of the Fund's investment adviser to attract or retain key employees, inability of the Fund to implement its investment strategy, inability of the Fund to manage rapid expansion and unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations.
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Girl, 8, hit by flying cell phone while riding roller coaster
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) - An 8-year-old California girl had to get stitches after riding a roller coaster. Her family says a fellow rider’s phone flew out of his hand and hit her in the forehead.
Evie Evans, 8, and her mother, Della White, started their Fourth of July weekend trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain on the Twisted Colossus roller coaster, their favorite ride.
But a fellow rider apparently didn’t follow directions to secure loose items, and his cell phone flew out of his hand while riding the roller coaster, according to Evie’s family.
The 8-year-old started screaming for help after the flying phone hit her, smacking her in the forehead between her eyes and causing a bloody wound.
“You know, we were enjoying the ride... And then, she started screaming about her eye hurting, and I thought maybe something flew in her eye, like a piece of dirt. I didn’t see what had happened. I just heard her start screaming about her eye,” White said.
When the ride ended, the family called for help from park employees, and EMTs soon arrived. Evie then went to the hospital, where she had to get 10 stitches and a CT scan.
The family claims the man allegedly responsible was more concerned about his phone than Evie’s injury.
Police say what happened to the 8-year-old is not a crime, but her father, Josh Evans, says he thinks it should be considered similar to a hit-and-run.
“If you injure someone and leave the scene, it’s the same thing to me,” he said.
Despite being season pass holders, the family says they won’t be returning to the theme park any time soon, as Evie is now too afraid to ride roller coasters.
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg barred from future office after impeachment conviction in pedestrian death.
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- A look at Seattle during the Klondike Gold Rush, when the population surged | 2022-06-21T23:54:02+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Alert-South-Dakota-Attorney-General-Jason-17256510.php |
New investors include Outpost Ventures – a Neuberger Berman fund, Xerox Ventures, and G Squared. Continuing investors include Foundation Capital, Point72 Ventures, and Cervin Ventures.
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anvilogic, a modern Security Operations Platform that brings a cloud-based security data lake to life, announced today the company's $25 million Series B funding. The round was led by Outpost Ventures – a Neuberger Berman fund, with participation from Xerox Ventures, G Squared, Foundation Capital, Point72 Ventures and Cervin Ventures. This round brings Anvilogic's total funding to $40 million.
"In this emerging new world of cloud-first applications and multi-cloud workloads, it's important to bring about similar modernization in security operations architectures, specifically when it comes to understanding the signals from newer cloud applications and correlating across them to weave together a complete picture of the threat landscape. Additionally, building out and operationalizing a security data lake to deliver threat detection and triage automation for the SOC is becoming mainstream," said Karthik Kannan, Founder/CEO of Anvilogic. "Enterprises need a bridge to get to the modern world as there is far too much institutional knowledge and investment that cannot be thrown away overnight in favor of a new architecture. This is exactly what Anvilogic brings – an automation platform that bridges the legacy world to the cloud world and transforms security operations to a new, cloud-based modern architecture."
Anvilogic is a cloud-based, modern, and automated Security Operations Center (SOC) platform. It enables security operations to function across on-prem, hybrid and multi-cloud workloads as well as security data lakes, while automating the majority of the traditional security workflows – detect, hunt, triage and response – all in a single platform. Security practitioners no longer have to worry about disparate tools or coding in tool-specific languages. Instead, they can work in a single detect & respond continuum fully enriched with context and integrated with downstream ticketing and case management systems like ServiceNow.
Purpose-built for security teams by security professionals, Anvilogic is designed to eliminate legacy approaches of traditional SIEMs. The AI-driven, community-connected threat detection, investigation and response capabilities help customers quickly navigate the threat detection journey, from maturity scoring to alerts to action, and create a modern, future-proof SOC.
"We are happy users of the Anvilogic SOC platform – it provides us the perfect force-multiplier effect we need in our detection engineering automation, and we look forward to the journey with their hunting & triage capabilities this year."
- Steven Sterns, Senior Director of Information Security at eBay
"The Anvilogic Threat Detection Platform uses robust industry frameworks like the MITRE ATT&CK to empower SOC analysts to cut through the high noise and low signal problem plaguing most SIEMs in use today. The Anvilogic team is very customer-focused and their modern SIEM approach is an extension of our team and helps us remain defensive against any adversary."
- Mark Eggleston, CISO at a leading global business services company
Anvilogic is building strong partnerships in the journey to become the leader in security operations automation and modernization. Anvilogic's key partner, and market leader, in providing security data lakes is Snowflake, on whose platform Anvilogic has built an architecture for enterprise security transformation.
"Anvilogic's quick growth is a testament to their commitment to solving difficult challenges the industry and its customers face. Snowflake looks forward to continuing to mobilize the world's data in partnership with Anvilogic by delivering a security data lake strategy that bridges legacy enterprise stacks to modern cloud architecture, lowers costs and improves our joint customers' overall security posture."
- Omer Singer, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Snowflake
New investors, Outpost Ventures – a Neuberger Berman fund, and Xerox Ventures, see the innovative and promising nature of Anvilogic's automation platform. Their support, network, and knowledge of the security industry is going to benefit Anvilogic in our growth over the next few years.
"The Neuberger Berman team values Anvilogic's ability to leverage data and alerts from various sources and apply artificial intelligence to supercharge SOC analysts by automating the process of detecting advanced threats and triaging them successfully. I've known Karthik from the very beginning of this venture and the Neuberger Berman investment represents a continuation of my belief in the company. I'm excited to double down based on the product and strong, positive customer feedback. Karthik and the Anvilogic team have been at the forefront of securing the enterprise and modernizing the SOC. This team has the technical and industry chops to build the next big thing in this market."
- David Dubick, Partner at Outpost Ventures, a Neuberger Berman fund
"Anvilogic's AI-driven purpose-built platform automates detection, hunt, triage and response workflows and helps SOC teams mitigate threats. Xerox Ventures is dedicated to supporting the company as it further expands the team and continues to tackle the challenge of modernizing security operations across cloud data environments."
- Dean Mai, Investment Director at Xerox Ventures
Anvilogic is a Palo Alto based cybersecurity startup founded by veterans from across the security industry. Our mission is to help unify people, process, and technology across the Security Operations Center and the business to protect organizations from cybersecurity threats. Anvilogic's modern SOC Platform enables efficiency by unifying and automating threat detection and incident response so security teams can quickly detect, hunt, triage, and respond to threats.
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Temperatures expected to dip into mid-30s in metro Detroit after welcome warmth
A surprising but welcome bout of warmth is set to leave the Detroit area this week, leaving us for the cold embrace of winter.
We still have another day of warmth upon us Wednesday, which is forecast to reach a high of 55 degrees with potential rain showers and dip into the mid-30s at night. Temperatures are expected to range into the weekend from the high 30s to the high 20s.
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Forecasts include rain showers for Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon, then we're offered relief from precipitation until Thursday night, when chances of snow appear. Snow showers are set to reappear Saturday, but less than an inch is expected. After Saturday, chances of any precipitation are slim for the following week.
While conditions may seem unseasonably warm, we're still far from record temperatures. The highest temperature recorded in southeast Michigan at the end of December was 65 degrees in 1889, according to the National Weather Service.
The return to temperatures fluctuating between mid to high 30s puts us back on track with normal temperatures for this region at this point in the season.
mmarini@freepress.com | 2023-01-03T21:06:29+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/01/03/detroit-michigan-weather-forecast/69774914007/ |
Louisiana-Pacific Announces Expansion of Smartside Line at Houlton Facility
HOULTON, Maine (WAGM) -
Louisiana-Pacific (LP) has announced an expansion project at its LP Houlton facility, adding a second SmartSide line that will give the facility an additional 340 million square feet per year in siding production capacity.
This expansion will add roughly 100 new jobs to the Houlton community and is contingent on state and local approvals. This project will feature $400 million in capital investment from LP; construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2023.
The additional square footage produced will bring LP’s total SmartSide production capacity to roughly 2.6 billion square feet, with more than 500 million square feet at Houlton alone. The project will add a new forming line and press to the facility, which will join LP Hayward as LP’s second two-line siding facility.
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In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves
DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Back in Mudville, when mighty Casey took an unheeded pitch for a strike, there went up a muffled roar: “`Kill him! Kill the umpire!’ shouted someone on the stand.”
Even in 1888, well before pitch clocks, $17 beers and instant replay, a common thread for the fans in baseball’s most epic poem was how much they loved to threaten umpires.
These days, 135 or so years after writer Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s renowned verse, one Little League in New Jersey is taking a hands-on approach. Its target: those watching 10- and 11-year-olds play baseball who curse at the volunteers behind the plate.
You want some of this? they’re saying. Well, come get some. In Deptford, the umpire recruiting slogan sign may as well read: If you can’t berate them, join them.
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The April Facebook post hardly seemed like national news at the time for league president Don Bozzuffi. He’d lost patience when two umpires resigned after persistent spectator abuse. So he wrote an updated code of conduct.
It specified: Any spectator deemed in violation would be banned from the complex until three umpiring assignments were completed. If not, the person would be barred from any Deptford youth sports facilities for a year.
In G-rated terms (unlike the ones that will get you tossed), the mandate just wants helicopter parents to calm the heck down. No 9-year-old will remember, as an adult, being safe or out on a bang-bang play at first. But how deep would be the cut of watching dad get tossed out of the game and banished for bad behavior?
The league doesn’t want to find out. “So far, it’s working like I’d hoped and just been a deterrent,” the 68-year-old Bozzuffi said.
The problem, though, isn’t limited to Deptford and its handful of unruly parents.
Outbursts of bad behavior at sporting events for young people have had frightening consequences for officials at all youth levels. Pick a town, any town, and there are adults assaulting referees or chasing umpires into parking lots looking for a fight, all available on the social feed of your choice.
The videos pop up almost weekly: inane instances of aggressive behavior toward officials. Like in January, when a Florida basketball referee was punched in the face after one game. Or last month, when an enraged youth baseball coach stormed a baseball field in Alabama and wrestled an umpire to the ground. Other adults and kids tried to break up the melee that took place in a game — at an 11-and-under tournament.
Jim McDevitt has worked as a volunteer Deptford umpire for 20 years. But he turns 66 this month and won’t call games much longer. He wonders where the next generation of officials will come from, especially when the job description includes little pay and lots of crap.
Youth officiating is in crisis. According to a 2017 survey of by the National Association of Sports Officials, nearly 17,500 referees surveyed said parents caused the most problems with sportsmanship at 39%. Coaches came in at 29% and fans at 18%.
Barry Mano founded the association four decades ago to advocate for youth officials. Mano, whose brother Mark was an NBA referee, has watched fan conduct become “far worse” than he could have imagined.
“Sports is simply life with the volume turned up,” Mano says. “We’ve become louder and brasher. We always want a second opinion on things. That’s where the culture has gone. I don’t think we’re as civil as we used to be toward each other, and it plays out in the sporting venues.”
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In Deptford, things seem to be working — at least in attracting non-mandatory umps. Bozzuffi says that since his rule grabbed national headlines, three umpires have joined the league. More volunteers want to be trained.
And those who might get sentenced to umping? McDevitt puts it less delicately. “We’ll see how their sphincter feels when they have to make a tight call and the parents are all screaming and hollering at them.”
The Deptford Little League playoffs, a time when tensions rise, are under way, and Bozzuffi has urged his umps to show restraint. Bozzuffi, who has served as league president for 14 years and been connected to the league for 40, doesn’t want any fan to get ejected. He just wants to get them thinking.
Because in a culture where violence visits schools, churches, movie theaters, clubs and many social gathering spots, the irate fan pressed against the fence spewing four-lettered tirades at the ump could easily escalate.
“People are just a little bit more sensitive to it,” said Sherrie Spencer, a lifelong Deptford resident who had two sons and grandsons play. She has noticed an uptick in abusive language to umpires through the years. “Now,” she says, “you have things that are going on in our world that people are more fearful when you see someone getting upset like that.”
Part of the problem is this: Thanks to technological advances, perfection in baseball can sometimes seem more attainable than ever.
In the major leagues, computers and their precision have become a vital part of baseball’s fabric. Gone are the days when a manager like Billy Martin or Earl Weaver would burst out of the dugout and kick up a cloud of dirt, curse a blue streak and maybe even walk away with a base or chuck one into the outfield over a missed call.
Blow one now? The manager barely reacts, asking for a replay review while a command center makes the dispassionate final call. Oh, and robo umps are coming. They’re already calling the shots in the minor leagues, with computerized strike zones that leave no room for argument. Where’s the messiness, the fallibility, the human emotion steeped in baseball tradition? Where’s the fun of baseball in umpire perfection?
That’s not the way some parents see it. For many, every “safe!” when the tag is missed, every called strike on a pitch below the knees is another reason to blow a fuse in a youth sports culture full of hefty fees and travel teams that have already heightened financial and emotional attachment and encouraged a sense of parents as constituents who have a right to be heeded.
That’s why Deptford is experimenting with its attempt at preventative medicine. This is interdicting the parents before the kids get older. This is, at its core, potential assault prevention.
It’s getting attention all the way up the youth baseball chain. Little League President Stephen D. Keener had this to say: “We applaud the volunteers at Deptford Township Little League for coming up with a creative, fun solution to shine a light on the importance of treating everyone with respect, on and off the Little League field.”
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OK. But here’s the fine print.
Beyond the headlines that suggest Fuming Father No. 1 is going to get the call from the bleachers and suddenly start ringing up strike three, there’s this: It’s too much effort. The risks! The potential safety problems! The insurance!
Bozzuffi and the town’s mayor teach a three-hour safety certification class each offender must complete before receiving an assignment. Rookie umps must pass a background check and complete an online concussion course. After all that, a qualified umpire would be stationed next to the replacement ump to ensure accuracy and fairness.
It hasn’t happened — yet.
“The first person that we have to do this to, nobody is else is going to challenge this,” Bozzuffi said. “Nobody wants to go through all this.”
So for now, at least on a recent weeknight in Deptford, parents, grandparents and friends, were on their best behavior. They cheered. They clapped. They caught up with neighbors.
They groused a bit, too. While other Little League officials across America reached out to Bozzuffi for input into their own policies, some fans in Deptford are sick of the perception that’s it’s a town full of baseball bullies.
One fan waved off an interview request because he “didn’t want to hear anymore about how bad we all are.” Parent Dawn Nacke found it unfair that the town was labeled as “obnoxious parents when we’re just caring about our kids.”
“We know that they ump for free,” she said, “but sometimes bad calls are made and they cost us the game.”
Has she ever been guilty of popping off too much?
“Mouthy, yes. But we all have to bite our tongues over here because of the new rule,” she said. “I just have to keep my mouth shut more. Scared me straight. I’m more angry that they call us obnoxious parents. That really upset me when I read it in the news. But this is their rule and I’m going to follow it.”
Just the way Deptford drew it up.
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Chuck Morrell knows it’s a coaching cliché.
He said it anyway.
When asked what he wants his unit’s reputation to be this week, Morell, UW’s co-defensive coordinator, said, “I want everybody in the stands, I want the officials, I want the opponents to know that we play hard. I know every coach in America says that, but then there’s a different level of recognition after the game. If people can recognize how hard we play, then I’ll be pleased.”
Ultimately, that comes down to the players.
So, as the season opener against Kent State on Sept. 3 steadily approaches, let’s dive in to the two-deep depth chart for UW’s defense.
Defensive line
Tuli Letuligasenoa, jr., 6-1, 307, Concord, Calif.
Faatui Tuitele, soph., 6-3, 302, Honolulu, HI OR
Voi Tunuufi, soph., 6-1, 258, South Jordan, Utah
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Ulumoo Ale, jr., 6-6, 333, Tacoma
Kuao Peihopa, rs. fr., 6-3, 304, Makakilo, HI
Analysis: UW’s defensive line certainly has something to prove, after finishing near the bottom of the Pac-12 in every relevant rushing defense statistic last fall, then losing starter Sam “Taki” Taimani to an Oregon transfer this offseason. All-Pac-12 honorable mention Tuli Letuligasenoa returns, and massive gap-plugger Ulumoo Ale swapped sides of the line and is expected to make an immediate impact. Redshirt freshman Kuao Peihopa is expected to carve out a role, as should sophomore Faatui Tuitele — though his status is somewhat uncertain after being limited this month with an injury.
The wild card is sophomore Voi Tunuufi, an undersized but uniquely explosive interior pass rusher.
“He’ll be in there no matter the down and distance. He’ll be in there on third down,” UW defensive line coach Inoke Breckterfield said. “He might not be as big, but he’s strong and he’s twitchy and he’s got punch. It’s just tweaking his technique and letting him play within himself and not asking him to do what big men do.
“It’s about allowing him to play … I wouldn’t say (Aaron Donald)-like, but slippery. You can’t ask him to go in there and sit on these combination blocks. It’s about being ahead of it and trying to use what his gifts are.”
Edge
Bralen Trice, soph., 6-4, 269, Phoenix, Ariz.
Zion Tupuola-Fetui, jr., 6-4, 249, Pearl City, HI
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Jeremiah Martin, jr., 6-4, 267, San Bernardino, Calif. (Texas A&M)
Sav’ell Smalls, soph., 6-3, 259, Seattle
Analysis: UW has three legitimate edge rushers — Bralen Trice, Jeremiah Martin and Zion Tupuola-Fetui — and two starting spots.
But according to position coach Eric Schmidt, that shouldn’t be a problem.
“Ultimately we’re trying to win football games,” Schmidt said. “So they know at the end of the game they’re going to be playing a lot. There’s going to be packages where all three of them are on the field together. I think there’s situations where three of those guys are in our top 11. It’s our job as coaches to make sure they’re on the field in those situations.”
The question is how much sophomore Sav’ell Smalls will see the field in his third season in Seattle. The former five-star recruit has had an encouraging preseason, and Morrell said, “I’m really pleased with his progress. He’s very engaged, very on top of his job and his assignments. And he has a phenomenal attitude and loves football.”
Linebacker
Cam Bright, sr., 6-0, 222, Montgomery, Ala. (Pittsburgh)
Kristopher Moll, grad student, 6-0, 217, Miami (UAB)
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Alphonzo Tuputala, soph., 6-2, 238, Federal Way
Carson Bruener, soph., 6-2, 225, Woodinville
Analysis: UW co-defensive coordinator William Inge said he likes to “healthily rotate” his linebackers.
Which means, while Pittsburgh transfer Cam Bright and sophomore Alphonzo Tuputala are expected to start, UAB transfer Kristopher Moll and sophomore legacy Carson Bruener should carve out contributing roles. (Sophomore Daniel Heimuli is likely fifth in line.)
Bruener, for one, is an intriguing option — a local product who emerged in the second half of last season, before needing to prove himself again to a new coaching staff.
“We love how Carson is coming along,” Inge said. “The beauty of Carson, as a smart player, he can drive the defense, he can make the plays that he needs to make, and he can get everything called at the line and adjusted. That’s what we love, and he’s very dependable. So he’s thick in the mix as far as what’s going to happen on game day for me.”
Cornerback
Jordan Perryman, sr., 6-0, 202, Hanford, Calif. (UC Davis)
Elijah Jackson, rs. fr., 6-1, 184, Carson, Calif.
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Mishael Powell, soph., 6-1, 204, Seattle
Davon Banks, rs. fr., 5-11, 185, San Jacinto, Calif.
Husky
Dominique Hampton, jr., 6-3, 221, Glendale, Ariz.
Kamren Fabiculanan, soph., 6-1, 191, Camarillo, Calif.
Analysis: These positions seemed to be all but settled after the spring, with sophomore Mishael Powell and UC Davis graduate transfer Jordan Perryman claiming the cornerback vacancies and Dominique Hampton an obvious fit at the “husky” hybrid linebacker/nickel role. But Banks, for one, could conceivably push Powell after an impressive preseason. Redshirt freshman Elijah Jackson is also in the mix, though he has missed the past several practices with an undisclosed injury.
Through the course of preseason camp, the 6-0, 202-pound Perryman has established himself as a standout performer.
“You ask anybody to go from playing Big Sky football up to Pac-12 football, and that’s a significant jump,” Morrell said. “He hasn’t batted an eye from the second he stepped on campus. He plays with a lot of confidence. He’s got phenomenal football intelligence, and he’s got some elite physical traits. He’s going to do some great things for us this year.”
Safety
Alex Cook, sr., 6-1, 196, Sacramento, Calif.
Julius Irvin, jr., 6-1, 179, Anaheim, Calif. OR
Vince Nunley, rs. fr., 6-1, 188, Oakland, Calif.
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Asa Turner, jr., 6-3, 201, Carlsbad, Calif.
Cameron Williams, jr., 6-0, 207, Bakersfield, Calif.
Analysis: Though veterans Alex Cook and Asa Turner have long been expected safety starters, the staff has experimented with numerous combinations in the back end and it’s possible veterans Julius Irvin and Cameron Williams could also crack the lineup.
A dark horse is Oakland’s own Vince Nunley, an intriguing athlete who did not appear in any games as a true freshman last fall.
“I love his range, smart player, has some really good all-around tools and length,” Morrell said. “I think we’re just pressing him every day to be a factor back there.”
Placekicker
Peyton Henry, sr., 5-11, 197, Danville, Calif.
Addison Shrock, rs. fr., 6-1, 183, Bellingham
Punter
Kevin Ryan, sr., 6-0, 167, Mesa, Ariz. (Idaho State)
Jack McCallister, rs. fr., 6-0, 215, Edmonds
Punt returner
Giles Jackson, jr., 5-9, 185, Antioch, Calif. (Michigan)
Jalen McMillan, soph., 6-1, 186, Fresno
Kick returner
Giles Jackson, jr., 5-9, 185, Antioch, Calif. (Michigan)
Jalen McMillan, soph., 6-1, 186, Fresno OR
Will Nixon, rs. fr., 5-11, 192, Waco, Texas (Nebraska)
Analysis: UW should mostly maintain the status quo on special teams, with sixth-year senior Peyton Henry handling kicking duties and junior Giles Jackson a consistent return threat. The one newcomer is Idaho State transfer punter Kevin Ryan, who finished fifth in the FCS with an average of 45.6 yards per punt in 2021. He has just one season of remaining eligibility. | 2022-08-19T13:53:44+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/projecting-uws-defense-and-special-teams-depth-chart-ahead-of-season-opener-against-kent-state/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Think about the best ’90s birthday party you’ve ever had: X-Men cartoons on a Saturday morning, cereal for breakfast and all your best buds coming over to play Nintendo 64. Garbed in colorful tracksuits and luminous sunglasses, local musicians Glenn Bell and Schuyler Horn time travel back to that birthday party through their rhythm and blues project SEA.LVL (pronounced “sea level”). The self-described “bad boys of instrumental R&B” evoke this nostalgia with smooth jazz guitar, cool rhythmic trumpet, and by adhering to the golden rule of SEA.LVL: no rehearsals.
“SEA.LVL is self-care; self-care is SEA.LVL,” Bell says.
This is a music project that invites you to put on their EP as you draw up a luxurious – albeit simple – bubble bath. Their repertoire mixes gentle instrumental ballads like “Daydream” with hard grooves and experimental funky sounds found in their singles “Stunna” and “Diggin.” The duo draws inspiration from several modern R&B tunes and musicians, including the likes of jazz trumpeter Theo Croker.
The no-rehearsal rule emerged from the circumstances under which the band formed. Bell and Horn also perform as members of the popular local group the BASSment band, but the pandemic put a hard stop on all performances in March 2020. “It was dark, because I was sitting at home and I couldn’t do what I loved which is to play for people and to share the gift of music in a communal space,” Bell recalls.
Horn and Bell found themselves on the phone one day, talking about how R&B made them feel. Soon, the pair recorded their first independent, self-financed EP, which was released in 2021.
SEA.LVL’s live performances are full of youthful energy, which is symbiotic with both Horn and Bell’s day jobs as youth development professionals. “It’s about the next generation and that’s something that SEA.LVL can stand by,” says Bell, who teaches music at the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Horn, meanwhile, is co-founder of the non-profit Lacrosse the Bay.
Thus far, SEA.LVL has released two EPs, both of which are available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music. A third is on the way, and a new single “Diggin’” (recorded live in Sand City) is out now. | 2023-04-13T08:29:45+00:00 | montereycountyweekly.com | https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/entertainment/music/local-r-b-group-sea-lvl-brings-fun-youthful-energy-to-the-stage-by-adhering/article_fae320a2-d968-11ed-980c-9ff6a8deaace.html |
CHEYENNE – Students from Cheyenne’s South, East and Central high schools took home multiple awards after their speech and debate tournaments last weekend.
South and East High teams competed in the same tournament in Rock Springs. The Tiger Classic tournament took place from Nov. 4-5.
East High
The East High speech and debate team was one of 12 teams from around Wyoming attending the Rock Springs event. East students won first place in 4A Sweepstakes.
“East had their best performance at this event ever,” coach Marcus Viney said. “This was the first time for many students getting in front of the community, sharing their public speaking skills, stories and arguments.”
Ben Woolsey won second place in Varsity Humor, and Alyvia Hardy took third. Kaylee Fisbeck won first place in Novice Humor, with Jazzy Matthews taking second.
Martin Mata finished in second place in Varsity Oratory. Ellie Kerschner took home first place in Novice Oratory, and Ash Beasley was awarded third. Beasley also won first place in Novice Extemp.
First place for Varsity Poetry was awarded to Rachel West. Dani Schulz won second place, and David Ro was third. Taylor Turpin came in first place for Novice Poetry, and Madelyn Artery took second. Analise Gallardo finished third.
Camila Rivera took home first place for Varsity Extemp. Ella Goodman won first for Varsity Info, with Rosie Zubrod earning third. Sierra Schildmeier was award first place for her performance in Novice Info.
Oakley Simons received second place for Varsity Impromptu. Simons also won third place for Varsity Duo with Chloe Fitzgerald. Jacob Schwartz and Deacon Steiner were awarded Supers for the Congress Debate. Schulz won first place for Varsity Drama, and Artery took second place for Novice Drama.
Kenzie Wilson and Austin LaVanway were awarded second place for Novice Duo. Kerschner and Samantha Jordan received third.
Ro won first place for Varsity POI, which Schulz was second and West finished third. Jordan took home first place for Novice POI, with Matthews second and Anya Neeley third.
Steiner and Zubro were tied for first in the Varsity Lincoln-Douglas close-out debate. Schwartz finished in third place. Natalyia Kopack won first place for the Novice Lincoln-Douglas.
Patrick Coggin and Aliyah Muzquiz won third place for Varsity Public Forum. Artery and Kaelyn Ronnau took third in the Novice debate.
Luke Zacharias and Brayden Lyday finished in third place in the Varsity Cross-Examination debate. Uriah Graham and Wyatt Wilson, as well as Adam Pierson and Vanessa Burnley tied for third in Novice CX.
Schulz took home first place for Varsity Triple Threat, with Simons second and Ro third. Artery earned second place in the Novice Triple Threat debate.
Lyday was recognized with a first-place Varsity Debate Speaker Award for Policy. Zubrod received second place in Lincoln-Douglas, and Zacharias took second in Policy. Schwartz received the third-place speaker award for Lincoln-Douglas, and Rivera was awarded third for Public Forum.
Graham received the first-place Novice Speaker Debate Award for Policy. Schildmeier won second for Lincoln-Douglas, and Johnson was third. Wilson received third for Policy.
South High
Tyler Will, the coach of the Bison forensics team, said he was excited that some of their newest competitors made their mark in the Novice division of the Rock Springs tournament.
“Our Humor students continue to punch above their weight and reach the podium consistently against larger programs,” Will said in a statement. “Varsity competitors also acquitted themselves well in Congressional Debate and Original Oratory, and future tournaments will only improve their performance.”
Aidan Levesque-Vickrey took home second place in Novice Humor. Jackson Artery won third place in the Congressional Debate, and Dakota Clark came in third for Original Oratory.
Central High
Central High Director of Forensics Andy Dennis applauded his students for their performance in Loveland High School’s Drums of War debate tournament. This was the first varsity meet of the year.
Isabelle Conwell won first place in Drama. Chloe Johnson and Brooklyn Ispas took third place for Duo, and Ispas finished in second in Informative. Austin Winstead was awarded second place for Humor.
Saimaa Widi took home first place in Poetry, and Addisyn Bean won second. Anuradha Glennie received second place for Domestic Extemp. Widi and Glennie also won first place for the Public Forum Debate.
Meredith Paul took third in Oratory. Breauna Wright won first place for POI.
Brayden Metcalf was awarded outstanding speaker for the Congressional Debate. Kempton Perriton won first in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Gwen Hargett took home second. | 2022-11-09T04:10:06+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/east-south-and-central-high-speech-and-debate-teams-win-awards/article_969b0322-5fcd-11ed-8a98-1fd4ebba5c80.html |
The No. 13 Miami Hurricanes (2-0) will face a new starting quarterback Saturday night in College Station, Texas, according to published reports.
Texas A&M (1-1) will name LSU transfer Max Johnson as the starter, according to multiple reports, including ESPN.
In the Aggies’ 17-14 upset loss to Appalachian State last weekend, quarterback Haynes King managed just 97 yards passing with no touchdowns. Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher said after the home loss that he was considering making changes, but there was no announcement by Friday afternoon.
The Aggies fell from No. 6 in the AP Top 25 to No. 24 after the loss.
Johnson has played in one game this season, against Sam Houston, going 3 for 4 for 23 passing yards. He also rushed once for 11 yards.
Last season at LSU, Johnson started all 12 games and finished the season 225-of-373 for 2,815 yards and 27 touchdowns. He is the son of former FSU quarterback Brad Johnson, who won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers, and the the nephew of former Georgia and Miami football coach Mark Richt.
The Miami-Texas A&M game starts at 9 p.m. Saturday and will be televised on ESPN.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Neighbors who live on the near north side of Indianapolis are looking for more ways to keep the area safe.
Some recommend having more than one surveillance camera in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. park.
"It definitely puts a different change to the park for sure," said Aaron Williams.
Williams says a second set of eye will provide comfort for those living in the area.
"I've seen this park gentrified over the years and it's pretty interesting to see how now we have cameras in the park," said Williams.
More could be on the way. IMPD recently put a mobile surveillance camera in the park to help curb crime.
It's something Macy Ross appreciates.
"You can never be too safe. I'd rather be safe than sorry," said Ross.
On May 31, a group on the basketball court exchanged gunfire with people driving by. Police recovered at least 45 shell casings. No one was injured.
It's one of three shootings at Indy Parks within two weeks.
On May 29, a teen was shot near the basketball courts at Riverside Park. And on May 16, a teen shot a man at Bertha Ross Park.
"When they get a gun, they think it's all cool and everything until they accidentally do something dumb and it becomes a whole entire situation," said Williams.
Indy Parks is working with IMPD to identify other parks to put cameras.
IMPD tells 13News the cameras stream video in real time in high trafficked areas.
Ross says more cameras would give her peace of mind.
"The perimeter of this park is about a mile long. I would say we have the one in the middle, maybe one on the end and one on that end down there might suffice," said Ross.
IMPD says they will continue to evaluate where the cameras should be placed, including park locations. | 2023-06-21T23:51:53+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/indy-parks-in-talks-with-impd-to-add-more-cameras-to-parks-indianapolis/531-32772503-c94d-4478-9a47-8524c7e59cc1 |
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UVALDE — Uvalde’s interim school superintendent said Monday night that the district has made significant progress in encircling campuses with secure fencing and gates in the wake of the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School — but the work won’t complete until the spring.
Supply shortages are causing the hold-up, Superintendent Gary Patterson told board members of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
He also said some of the new security cameras planned for Uvalde schools won’t be installed until the spring, and that a new security operations center won’t be completed until then, either.
Patterson made the comments as he briefed the board on the results of an intruder detection audit and provided an update on mental health resources and police officers at the district.
As required by state law, all districts in Texas are subject to random Texas School Safety Center intruder detection audits. Uvalde was selected for one a couple weeks ago.
As part of the audit, a person attempted to gain access to three of Uvalde CISD’s campuses over a two-day period. The person succeeded once, entering a school through a back door during a food delivery near the cafeteria.
The area was not fenced in because of the loading dock, Patterson said.
“That is really 100 percent my responsibility to see that didn’t happen,” Patterson said. He said he’ll be training staff the first week of January to insure such a breach won’t happen again. “We have got to secure those areas.”
About 40 people listened to the presentation, including nearly a dozen family members of victims of the mass shooting.
A gunman killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers in classrooms 111 and 112 after walking into Robb Elementary through an unlocked side entrance.
The school board has spent or set aside almost $5 million for fencing, gates, doors, locks and other door parts, portable buildings, equipment, campus monitors, counselors and nurses so far this year. The money came from a mix of charitable donations, including funds from the Las Vegas Raiders, and government grants.
Uvalde High School and Morales Junior High are still waiting on replacement doors. At most other campuses, all of the new fencing has been installed, but some school are still waiting for gates to be completed.
Crossroads Academy, however, is still waiting for both fences and gates.
“I hate that, but we are making progress — just not as quickly as we’d like,” Patterson said.
About 350 of the 500 new security cameras have been installed.
When the new security center opens next spring, two monitors will display real-time security camera footage and staffers will be assigned to watch the video feeds around the clock. Another monitor will track social media activity, looking for threats to school campuses.
Patterson and new district police Chief Josh Gutierrez are currently accepting applications for the Uvalde CISD police force.
The district hired two additional counselors this year, which means each campus now has one licensed clinician on site.
In February, the district will resume the practice of unannounced safety drills. Since the massacre, school officials have given notice 24 hours ahead of the drills to help students and families with struggling with anxieties brought on by the school shooting.
“I realize that may raise anxiety again, and I’m sure it will,” Patterson said. “But there is a difference in practicing the drills. When it is an emergency, it is unannounced.”
claire.bryan@express-news.net | 2022-12-20T14:51:00+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/security-upgrades-uvalde-delay-17665549.php |
Updated September 1, 2022 at 8:31 PM ET
On her very first day in Antarctica, one woman was warned to avoid a certain building at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station "unless [she] wanted to be raped."
Another was so "freaked out" by the pervasive sexual harassment that she began carrying around a hammer.
Sexual assault and sexual harassment "are a fact of life" in Antarctica, another woman said, "just like the fact that Antarctica is cold and the wind blows."
These are among the accounts published in a newly released report, commissioned by the National Science Foundation, that shows just how pervasive stories of harassment and assault are at the bottom of the world.
And it comes to a damning conclusion about the agency's operations in Antarctica: "Sexual harassment, stalking, and sexual assault are ongoing, continuing problems."
The report, which was presented to the NSF in June and publicly released last week, is based on more than 80 interviews with individuals and focus groups, along with a survey of 880 current and recent employees. Many of the report's interviewees are anonymous.
"It wasn't surprising to me to hear some of the stories that we heard," said Roberta Marinelli, the director of the NSF's Office of Polar Programs, in an interview with NPR. "It's certainly disappointing."
Many employees view sexual harassment as a problem
The NSF oversees all American operations in Antarctica. Each year, more than 3,000 scientists, contractors and military personnel are sent to the continent for programs under NSF's jurisdiction. About one in three of them are women.
Every woman I knew down there had an assault or harassment experience that had occurred on ice.
In the report's survey, 72% of female respondents agreed that sexual harassment was a problem. Just under half agreed that sexual assault was a problem. (Among male employees responding to the survey, about half and a third, respectively, agreed that harassment and assault were problems.)
"Every woman I knew down there had an assault or harassment experience that had occurred on ice," one interviewee told the report's authors. Although incidents involving female victims were "much more frequent and severe," the report stated, several men also recounted experiencing sexual harassment by men and women.
Officials at the NSF commissioned the report in April 2021 after years of individual reports of sexual harassment.
A remote and difficult workplace
Antarctica is an unusually challenging environment for these kinds of allegations. Its remoteness often means people are unable to leave for weeks or months at a time.
"You're so isolated and so detached from the normal roles in society that often it makes it, for lack of a better word, easier to get away with inappropriate behavior," said Meredith Nash, an Australian researcher who did not participate in the NSF report.
"When people are out doing deep field work, not only do they not have the capacity to report, because you can't call someone or send an email or whatever – if you're working with your harasser, you literally can't get away from them," said Nash, who now serves as an associate dean of Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion and Equity at the Australian National University.
Up until now, incidents have been reported as one-offs. In 2018, the name of a seven-mile-long glacier was changed after its namesake, the geologist David Marchant, was accused of sexually harassing female graduate students. He was later fired from his job at Boston University. In a statement at the time, he denied the allegations.
In a separate incident, the NSF says it received a report of a rape at one of its facilities within the past five years. The agency says it "promptly" referred the allegation to the Department of Justice.
The problems go well beyond scientists. Of the thousands of people working in Antarctica under the NSF each year, about 800 are researchers. The rest are support staff, including cooks, janitors and maintenance workers, many of them employed on seasonal contracts.
Challenges of reform
Throughout the report, respondents describe a pervasive environment of harassment and assault – and a workplace that is unfriendly to those who report incidents.
"People on station fear, and rightfully so, that if they are harassed or assaulted and report it, they will be the ones who will be going home," one person told the report's authors. "When things happened on ice, the number one thing I heard was 'don't report it or you will go home and be blacklisted from the program.'"
Particularly at risk were people who felt that their livelihoods could be at stake, like seasonal employees who depend on contract renewals, or Ph.D students who are reliant on lead researchers – a fact that officials acknowledged.
"The research shows us that even when we have the best sort of the best practice around reporting, the best possible sort of system, people still don't report because the power dynamics are such that it's not usually in the interest of the victim," Nash said.
Changing the power dynamics at these remote bases will be challenging, officials acknowledged. The infrequent availability of flights and ships means there's no simple way to separate victims from their harassers. And the numerous contractors and institutions that operate under NSF's oversight each has its own human resources policies and procedures around assault and harassment.
But officials at NSF say they are committed to reforming their operations.
"I don't feel I have a choice but to do anything other than meet this challenge head on," said Marinelli. "We have an obligation to provide a safe work environment, to provide workplace safety and workplace development opportunities for anyone who wants to come to Antarctica."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-02T02:30:15+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/science-technology-and-environment/science-technology-and-environment/2022-09-01/sexual-harassment-and-assault-plague-u-s-research-bases-in-antarctica-report-says |
The annual Point-In-Time count provides a snapshot of homelessness on a single night. And this year’s count for Santa Barbara County shows an increase in people experiencing homelessness, which housing advocates say is largely because of a lack of affordable housing and the pandemic.
In Santa Barbara, people with nowhere else to go often find their way to the Fr. Virgil Cordano Center for a safe, welcoming space during the day.
“In the morning, everybody starts lining up at about 7:30 or 8 o’clock, but we don’t open our doors until 9:00. We greet everybody by name,” Debbie McQuade said.
McQuade is the program director. She said the center opened in 2019 to serve as a drop-in location for the local unhoused population.
They do not provide overnight housing, but they do have laundry machines, computers and outreach programs. They also serve breakfast and lunch.
“Every morning we make somewhere between 10 to 15 dozen eggs and serve it up with beans or hashbrowns or something like that,” McQuade said.
She said many of the people she sees on a regular basis are getting jobs now, and that’s great news — except they still can’t afford or find housing in Santa Barbara.
The number of unhoused individuals counted this year in Santa Barbara County was almost 2,000. That’s about a 4% increase from 2020. The count did not happen in 2021 due to the pandemic.
The increase for the county may seem slight overall, but numbers went up considerably in Santa Maria, Lompoc, and Isla Vista.
No one is more aware of the county’s growing homeless population than Sylvia Barnard, executive director of Good Samaritan Shelter.
“We serve, unduplicated, 3,000 people a year with over 40 different locations,” Barnard said.
Good Samaritan Shelter is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Santa Maria that operates emergency shelters, drug and alcohol programs, and case management services on the Central Coast.
Barnard said the pandemic made congregate living more difficult, and increased the need for housing in an already tight market.
“In the pandemic, housing costs were through the roof and we were already, before the pandemic, below 2% vacancy rate,” she said.
With numbers up and reports of many people living outdoors, her organization now sends Encampment Response Teams to do outreach near freeways and river beds.
She said getting people into a shelter is the first step in the process of transitioning to more permanent housing, but that’s assuming housing is available.
“There isn’t enough affordable housing and there aren’t enough subsidies. Many of the population we serve definitely need a subsidy to be able to survive on their own, in their own housing,” Barnard said.
Modular, portable housing is a new approach to temporary transitional shelters. The single units are easy to install, and advocates say they make sense during the pandemic. They have been used in Lompoc and Isla Vista, and currently in downtown Santa Barbara.
Ed Barber said the temporary modular housing in Isla Vista got him off the streets.
“I was homeless for about 5 years and it was very hard to get any kind of housing except for staying in homeless shelters,” he said.
Barber grew up in Santa Barbara County, but he said a death in the family and strained relations with other relatives left him without housing and not enough money to afford rent.
He said he chose to live outdoors – moving between Santa Barbara and Isla Vista, rather than in a group shelter for fear of getting sick during the pandemic. Then in February 2021, he and a friend found interim housing in Isla Vista’s modular village.
“They got us into a safe environment where we were taken care of if we needed any kind of [medical] help, and Good Samaritan provided showers and laundry services,” he said.
Barber said he worked closely with a case manager to prepare for living on his own, and then he received a housing voucher for an apartment. He now works at Hedges House of Hope, a shelter in Isla Vista also managed by Good Samaritan.
Like Barber, many unhoused people sleep outside in Isla Vista. Point-In-Time numbers in the area increased from 69 in 2020 to 112 this year. That’s an increase of more than 60%. Spencer Brandt with the Isla Vista Community Services District said many people also live in their cars.
“My understanding is this is the first time in a really long time that the number of people sleeping in vehicles has been so high,” he said.
Brandt is board president of the district and a recent UCSB graduate. He said the Point-In-Time survey showed that, currently, most unhoused people in the county are locals — meaning they list their last permanent address as Santa Barbara County.
He said recent research that connects high housing costs to high rates of homelessness is not a surprise.
“I think what that really shows is what homelessness advocates have been saying loud and clear for a long time, which is that the high cost of housing is what’s driving increases in homelessness in Santa Barbara County,” Brandt said.
He said there’s been no affordable housing built in Isla Vista in the last decade since the elimination of state Redevelopment Funds.
“We have high housing costs and we have very low availability, up to the point where people are cramming more and more people into the same size space to make ends meet just to have a roof over their heads,” he said.
Brandt said establishing another source of funding is greatly needed — and it might happen.
Cities throughout Santa Barbara County are working on their 2023 Housing Element updates as required by the state of California. Shelter and transitional housing needs are included in future projections, as is affordable housing.
At the July 26, 2022, Santa Barbara City Council meeting, city planner Rosie Dyste presented the housing goals drafted for South County.
“The third goal is all about providing housing assistance for folks who need it. And this specific program is to create an affordable housing trust fund that’s envisioned as a one-stop shop for any kind of funding that we take in that could be then handed out to nonprofits to build affordable housing,” Dyste said.
Housing Element updates must be finalized by early 2023 outlining regional housing goals and priorities for the next several years.
As we wrap up this series, it’s fair to say that housing is out of reach in Santa Barbara County for most income levels and it will take some time to correct with new building and policy updates needed. But with added pressure from the state, local agencies are motivated to find solutions to the housing crisis.
Lisa Plowman is director of planning and development for the County of Santa Barbara. We heard from her earlier in the series about the county’s great need for more housing. She said the fabric of the community depends on finding solutions for people at all income levels.
“It’s really important that we, as public servants, find ways to provide housing particularly for people in significant need,” she said.
With homelessness on the rise and the high cost of rent affecting families and the local workforce, it’s clear housing is on everyone’s mind in Santa Barbara County. If you live or work in the region, this affects you, and you can help to find solutions by participating in the Housing Element update process happening throughout the year.
Out of Reach is made possible by a grant from the Sunflower Foundation. Senior editor Marisa Waddell and editor Benjamin Purper edited this story.
Housing Element update for Santa Barbara County
Housing Element update for Santa Barbara City
Housing Element update for Santa Maria | 2022-08-17T23:20:42+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/infrastructure-housing-and-development/2022-08-17/out-of-reach-advocates-say-high-housing-costs-are-driving-sb-countys-increase-in-homelessness |
Joan Bang, 87, died Thursday, April 20, 2023, at her home in a Clear Lake. Arrangements: Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 310 1st Ave. N., Clear Lake.
Earl Beshey, 69, of Britt, died Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Clear Lake. Arrangements: Cataldo Funeral Home.
Elvira D. Kuhlers, 98, of Meservey, died Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Rehabilitation Center of Belmond. Arrangements: Ewing Funeral Home, Belmond. | 2023-04-21T06:52:36+00:00 | globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/globe-death-notices/article_6e9874c1-7e81-5095-b5c9-ec5a904c0d03.html |
MADRID (AP) — A senior Spanish government official on Monday rebuked Spain’s former king, saying Juan Carlos should have used his first trip home from exile to clear the air over investigations into his financial affairs.
Government spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez said the ex-monarch “missed an opportunity” to “provide explanations and ask for forgiveness.”
Juan Carlos’s conduct in recent years had been “neither ethical nor exemplary,” she said in an interview with Spanish public radio RNE.
On the other hand, she repeated the Socialist-led coalition government’s support for Juan Carlos’ son and current monarch, Felipe VI, for his efforts to increase financial transparency at the royal household.
Her comments came as Juan Carlos made what was called a private visit to the Zarzuela royal palace in Madrid on Monday, after three days attending a regatta with friends in northwest Spain.
The financial investigations brought some awkward moments for the government and the royal family. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said Juan Carlos owes the people of Spain an explanation about his financial affairs. But the former king came back without providing one.
The financial scandals that swirled around 84-year-old Juan Carlos compelled him to move almost two years ago to Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, where he has close relationships with local royals.
Juan Carlos's four-day trip to Spain came after Spanish and Swiss prosecutors shelved their investigations into his finances.
Spanish prosecutors didn’t find evidence to take the former monarch to court because much of the alleged misbehavior, involving millions of euros in undeclared accounts, happened when Juan Carlos had legal immunity as Spain’s king. Other acts of potential fraud fell outside the statute of limitations. | 2022-05-23T11:58:56+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Spanish-govt-chides-ex-king-for-failure-to-17191741.php |
Carpets may be softer and cozier than hard floors, but they’re magnets for dirt and debris, especially if you have pets. Maintaining clean carpets helps your home look and feel fresher, and it removes allergens and odor-causing bacteria for a healthier home.
Carpet shampooers and steam cleaners are both widely available and can easily deep-clean carpets, but they offer different benefits in different situations. Most notably, a steam cleaner may be able to clean more than just carpets.
In this article: Dupray Neat Steam Cleaner, Hoover Power Scrub Deluxe Carpet Cleaner and Hoover PowerDash Pet Compact Carpet Cleaner
How carpet shampooers work
Carpet shampooers, also called carpet cleaners, combine water and specialized soap into a solution that’s sprayed into the carpet, then scrubbed and vacuumed away, bringing dirt with it. Carpet shampooers are equipped with spinning brushes that pull up embedded dirt and stains more effectively than a vacuum.
Benefits and drawbacks of carpet shampooing
Carpet shampooers leave carpets looking and feeling cleaner and fresher. They also usually come with attachments that help clean upholstered furniture or difficult-to-reach areas, such as carpeted stairs or curtains.
However, carpet shampooers are usually more effective if the carpet is vacuumed first, which takes additional time. Carpet shampoos often have a strong fragrance, which irritate those sensitive to scent. Plus, carpet shampooers are usually intended for use only with carpet shampoos from the same brand.
How steam cleaners work
Steam cleaners use boiling water instead of soap to clean and deodorize carpets. The heat softens and loosens debris in the carpet fibers so it can be vacuumed away. Steam cleaners can also clean and sanitize appliances, hard floors, tile and other surfaces, making them versatile appliances for almost everywhere in the home.
However, if you want to clean carpets, shop carefully because many steam cleaners are designed only for cleaning hard surfaces. Carpet shampooers are less multipurpose but more widely available.
Benefits and drawbacks of steam cleaning
Since steam cleaning uses only water, it’s ideal for those sensitive to the scented chemical solutions associated with shampooing. Its ability to eliminate allergens, mold, and germs also makes it a good pick for those with asthma or compromised immunity. Steam cleaning doesn’t leave residue behind, and it generally uses less water than shampooing, which means you won’t have to worry about soaking your flooring.
The high temperatures help ensure it kills bacteria, mites, mold, bedbugs and more. However, this depends on how long and how carefully the steam cleaner is used since the steam has to thoroughly penetrate the carpet to eliminate them. And since steam cleaners rely on high heat, they need to be operated with caution to prevent burns.
FAQ
Q. How long does it take carpets cleaned with shampooers or steam cleaners to dry?
A. It depends on what type of carpet you have as well as the thickness of the pad underneath. Carpets cleaned with both methods can dry in as little as six hours or up to 24 hours. Remember to fully rinse shampoo from carpeting, or it could end up leaving noticeable residue.
Q. How often should I shampoo or steam-clean my carpets?
A. Depending on the number of people and pets in the home, your carpets should get cleaned using either method every six to 12 months. Clean high-traffic areas or rooms where pets and kids tend to cause messes more frequently.
Best steam cleaners
McCulloch MC1275 Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner
This compact cleaner can easily clean hard-to-reach areas, thanks to its 15-foot cord and 9-foot hose. It weighs 12 pounds, but wheels make it easy to move around the house. It comes with 18 accessories, so it can be used for a variety of chores.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Lightweight and easily portable, this cleaner can tackle stains in carpets as well as upholstered furniture, appliances and other surfaces. It heats up in about eight minutes and can eliminate carpet stains with its included attachments.
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Poulan Pro PP270 Portable Power Steam Cleaner with Steam Mop Attachment
This cleaner comes with a variety of attachments, including a steam mop head and squeegee tool, making it well-suited to more than just carpets. The 6-pound unit can clean for up to 30 minutes at a time.
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Best carpet shampooers
Bissell ProHeat 2X Revolution Max Clean Pet Pro Full-Size Carpet Cleaner
This top-selling upright carpet cleaner is popular because it can easily tackle stains, pet messes and more. It has two cleaning modes and comes with tools to help remove tough stains and clean upholstery.
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Hoover Power Scrub Deluxe Carpet Cleaner Machine
This budget-friendly model offers a 20-foot cable and attachments for cleaning stairs, upholstery and more. Heated elements help speed up the drying time.
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Bissell SpotClean ProHeat Portable Spot and Stain Carpet Cleaner
A portable carpet shampooer such as this can address pet messes or other spills with less effort. This powerful model heats water while it works for more effective cleaning. It comes with three tools for scrubbing out tough stains.
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Hoover PowerDash Pet Compact Carpet Cleaner
Another budget-friendly yet powerful carpet cleaner, this is especially effective on pet hair. It has an antimicrobial brush roll and heated drying for quicker deep-cleaning, and its compact format makes it a good choice for smaller homes or apartments.
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BEIJING, March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In February 2023, the eighth class of leading talents in international production capacity cooperation, led by Yang Guang, Director of the Silk Road Promotion Center for International Production Capacity Cooperation (BRICC), visited Oriental Yuhong and met with its General Manager of Overseas Business Department Hu Zhongqiu for discussion and exchange, so as to further promote international production capacity cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and bear fruit.
Concerning grasping the opportunity to go global for broader and deeper cooperation, Yang briefed on the BRICC in detail at the meeting and analyzed the current obstacles to globalization as well as its correct direction. He proposed, in the face of the new development situation and new development pattern, that it has become a major issue for enterprises to "go global" excellently and deeply integrate into the trend of globalization. He emphasized that if enterprises want to get a head start in the new development pattern, they need to accelerate the implementation of three localization strategies: talent specialization and internationalization; product customization and differentiation; and service optimization and localization.
Hu gave a detailed introduction of Oriental Yuhong's going-global strategy and planned measures under the BRI. He explained that Oriental Yuhong, over the past nearly 20 years since it entered the global market in 2005, has established branches or offices in Malaysia and Canada, and contributed to many large-scale overseas projects such as the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan, airport expansion in the Maldives, and Angola's State Intelligence and Security Service. In the past two years, with the reshaping of the global competitive landscape, Oriental Yuhong has sped up its efforts to expand its global footprint in terms of ever-updating localized product and services, and highly-valued external cooperation. Now it hopes to take this opportunity to have deeper and multi-dimensional exchanges and cooperation with the BRICC, so as to share the benefits of green construction materials with BRI participating countries and regions.
Ouyang Leqi, Director of the Overseas Marketing Department of Oriental Yuhong, shared the current situation and future planning of Oriental Yuhong's going-global strategy. He said that in a large overseas market of many competing products, Chinese enterprises are confronted with more complex market demand and more ferocious competition when going global. Hence, differentiation and collaboration in the industrial chain are powerful moves to improve the overall overseas operation capabilities and achieve win-win development.
After the meeting, more than 20 people from the eighth class of leading talents visited the key national laboratory, China Building Waterproofing Museum, exhibition hall of the Oriental Yuhong Civil Building Materials Co., Ltd. and exhibition hall of the Oriental Yuhong Building Renovation Group, to learn more about Oriental Yuhong's growth and development, as well as modern and ancient Chinese waterproofing wisdom.
As a pioneer of "going global" in the construction materials industry, Oriental Yuhong will continue to upgrade its localization strategy to provide specialized and localized products and services; strengthen industrial cooperation and build an ecosystem for high-quality development; and deeply integrate the industrial chain and innovation chain to improve product and service capabilities in overseas markets, and to promote high-quality development.
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SOURCE BEIJING ORIENTAL YUHONG WATERPROOF TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | 2023-03-22T06:37:45+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/03/22/oriental-yuhong-bricc-look-new-opportunities-going-global/ |
GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using the pitch, died Thursday. He was 84.
Perry died at his home in Gaffney at about 5 a.m. Thursday of natural causes, Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said. He did not provide additional details.
The native of Williamston, North Carolina, made history as the first player to win the Cy Young in both leagues, with Cleveland in 1972 and San Diego in 1978 just after turning 40.
Perry went 24-16 in his debut season with Cleveland after 10 years with the San Francisco Giants. He was 21-6 in his first season with the Padres in 1978 for his third and final 20-win season.
“Before I won my second Cy Young I thought I was too old — I didn’t think the writers would vote for me,” Perry said in an article on the National Baseball Hall of Fame website. “But they voted on my performance, so I won it.”
Perry, who pitched for eight major-league teams from 1962 until 1983, was a five-time All-Star who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991. He had a career record of 314-255, finished with 3,554 strikeouts and used a pitching style where he doctored baseballs or made batters believe he was doctoring them.
The Texas Rangers, whom Perry played for twice, said in a statement Thursday that the pitcher was “a fierce competitor every time he took the ball and more often than not gave the Rangers an opportunity to win the game.”
“The Rangers express their sincere condolences to Gaylord’s family at this difficult time,” the team’s statement said. “This baseball great will be missed.”
Perry’s 1974 autobiography was titled “Me and the Spitter,” and he wrote it in that when he started in 1962 he was the “11th man on an 11-man pitching staff” for the Giants. He needed an edge and learned the spitball from San Francisco teammate Bob Shaw.
Perry said he first threw it in May 1964 against the New York Mets, pitched 10 innings without giving up a run and soon after entered the Giants’ starting rotation.
He also wrote in the book that he chewed slippery elm bark to build up his saliva, and eventually stopped throwing the pitch in 1968 after MLB ruled pitchers could no longer touch their fingers to their mouths before touching the baseball.
According to his book, he looked for other substances, like petroleum jelly, to doctor the baseball. He used various motions and routines to touch different parts of his jersey and body to get hitters thinking he was applying a foreign substance.
Perry was ejected from a game just once for doctoring a baseball — when he was with Seattle in August 1982. In his final season with Kansas City, Perry and teammate Leon Roberts tried to hide George Brett’s infamous pine-tar bat in the clubhouse but was stopped by a guard. Perry was ejected for his role in that game, too.
After his career, Perry founded the baseball program at Limestone College in Gaffney and was its coach for the first three years. | 2022-12-01T19:21:12+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/gaylord-perry-master-of-the-spitball-and-two-time-cy-young-winner-dies-at-84/ |
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Here are my five takeaways from the Buffalo Bills’ 31-23 victory against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday at Ford Field in Detroit:
1. After a shaky start, the Bills shook off the doldrums from minimal practice time and the logistical nightmare created by the snowstorm that forced the game to move from Highmark Stadium.
They transitioned from the team that had found a way to lose its previous two games to one that performed closer to its talent level in picking up an important AFC triumph. And they did so despite all the machinations involved with getting snowbound players from their homes to the buses that would carry them to the airport, despite the distraction of leaving family members behind and despite swirling questions about whether their preseason designation as a Super Bowl favorite was vastly overstated.
The win was hardly a thing of beauty. Their initial first down of the game didn’t come until the 8:12 mark of the second quarter. Stefon Diggs wasn’t targeted until his 5-yard touchdown catch with 14 seconds left in the half. During the drought, a CBS camera caught him having an emotional exchange with Sean McDermott on the sidelines.
There also were some anxious moments for the Bills when the Browns scored a touchdown with 25 seconds left and came close to recovering an onside kick that could have set them up for the tying points at the end of regulation.
Still, the Bills had to be happy that:
- They snapped a three-game streak of no second-half touchdowns.
- Josh Allen snapped a three-game streak of throwing interceptions. He wasn’t great, generating 197 yards and a touchdown through the air. However, he merits credit for bouncing back from terrible showings against the Jets and Vikings, and a first half when he repeatedly overthrew receivers before settling down. The turning point for Allen was his deft operation of the two-minute drill at the end of the second half, culminating with his red-zone TD throw to Diggs after four red-zone interceptions in the previous three games.
- They did an impressive job of stopping the Browns’ vaunted run game, holding Nick Chubb, who entered the game ranked third in the NFL in rushing, to 19 yards on 14 carries.
- They ran the ball well, with rookie James Cook and Devin Singletary each gaining 86 yards. Singletary also ran for a TD.
- They blocked a 34-yard field-goal attempt.
2. Matt Milano led a defense that answered growing criticism of its inability to stop the run by stuffing the Browns’ ground attack.
Milano was credited with 12 tackles, including eight initial hits and three tackles for loss. He also had a sack and a fumble recovery. One of the better ball-hawking players to ever wear a Bills uniform, Milano nearly intercepted a deflected pass in the fourth quarter.
It was going to take a highly physical defensive effort to deal with the Browns’ power-oriented approach, and the Bills brought it.
3. It needs to be pointed out that the Browns’ run defense is awful, but the Bills at least showed they can move the ball on the ground when the opportunity arises.
It was particularly noteworthy that James Cook had his best rushing game of his young NFL career. Cook showed a good deal of quickness and elusiveness that likely will persuade offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey to give him more chances to carry the ball.
If nothing else, the Bills’ ground production can build confidence as they approach the stretch run, with their final six games — beginning Dec. 1 against New England — in outdoor stadiums where weather could impede their ability to pass.
4. The sequence that caused the most dramatic momentum shift came when the Bills, leading 16-10 with six minutes remaining in the third quarter, twice stuffed Jacoby Brissett on quarterback keepers on third-and-1 and fourth-and-1 at the Buffalo 27.
On the first, Jordan Phillips and Tyrel Dodson combined for the stop. On the second, it was Boogie Basham and Dane Jackson.
After that, the Browns imploded. The Bills needed four plays and a roughing-the-passer penalty to drive 73 yards for Singletary’s 5-yard scoring run to make it 22-10.
5. The Bills seem to have taken the best approach possible to a bad situation.
They took criticism for not departing for Detroit on Thursday, putting them ahead of the impending storm. Not surprisingly, however, they received plenty of community help to make the trip late Saturday afternoon.
They’re wise to try to create as much of a familiar routine as possible for their Thanksgiving game against the Lions by choosing the visitor’s dressing room and the visitor’s sideline at Ford Field.
Given the short flying time between Buffalo and Detroit, it also made sense for them to return home Sunday night before traveling back to Detroit Wednesday. Another smart move was being able to return to the same Detroit hotel where they spent Saturday night.
Of course, final determinations will undoubtedly be made after Thursday’s game. | 2022-11-21T01:07:03+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/bills/vic-carucci-take-2-buffalo-bills-beat-cleveland-browns-nfl-week-11/71-3a5c3a49-c4d4-48a4-b416-721abdf31c0c |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Another $50.75 million was added to the total settlement reached by survivors in the Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case Friday.
According to the law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, the total settlement is now up to $126.35 million. That includes $55 million from the diocese and parishes, $20.6 million from insurers LMI and LMI Underwriters, $50 million from insurer Interstate, $750,000 from insurer First State, and the latest $50.75 million sum.
Victims also retain the option to pursue legal action against Continental Insurance Company, which has not settled in the case.
The settlement has not yet been approved by a court.
More than 450 sexual abuse claims were filed in the case against the diocese after the Child Victims Act extended the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases. | 2023-07-22T02:08:11+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/50-75-million-added-to-settlement-for-survivors-of-diocese-of-rochester-clergy-abuse/ |
Company extending its One Click MRI™ acquisition software to other anatomies to make MRIs faster, easier and accessible to all
CHICAGO, Nov. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HeartVista, a pioneer and leader in automated MRI solutions, today announced that it has changed its name to Vista.ai as the company broadens its sights to simplify and enhance MRI exams for anatomies beyond the heart. A major academic medical center has already begun a clinical study to evaluate the software for use with the prostate, and Vista.ai plans to launch a similar study for musculoskeletal scans in the near future. The company made the announcement from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 108th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting held Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2022, in Chicago.
Vista.ai's One Click MRI AI-driven software-only solution makes it easier to acquire high quality MRI images by automating the exam workflow. The company initially targeted cardiac MRI (CMR) as it is increasingly considered the gold-standard cardiac diagnostici, yet the heart is a notoriously difficult and time-consuming anatomy to scan. Today, specially-trained CMR technologists need to perform an exam, and in the U.S., there is only one such technologist for every 20 MRI machinesii. One Click MRI's benefits include simple, streamlined workflows and improved image consistency, so any MRI technologist can complete a cardiac scan in a regular mixed-use MRI time slot.
Vista.ai is demonstrating One Click MRI this week at Booth 5143 in the AI Showcase during RSNA exhibit hours. In addition, Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH, FACC, FSCMR Director of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will share case studies and research findings using the software in his clinical cardiac MRI practice. Dr. Kwong will present at noon CST, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, in the RSNA AI Theater (#5149).
Vista.ai developed One Click MRI using sophisticated and versatile AI-based algorithms that would be scalable to other types of MRI scans. The company chose the prostate and spine as its next candidates because of known challenges with those exams and the number of people who could benefit. In the U.S., more than 10 million people receive prostate and spine MRI scans annually, 25% of the total MRI volume.iii
"Given the complexity of manual CMR, and the millions of patients who could benefit from the exam, it was clear that applying our automation technology to the heart would create enormous value in the market. Despite the evidence-backed advantages of MRI for diagnosing a myriad of heart conditions, only 2% of scans today are CMRsiv yet 700,000 people are dying of heart disease each year in the U.S.v," said Itamar Kandel, Vista.ai's CEO. "But we always knew it was just the beginning. Once we had the most complex anatomy tested, validated, adopted and endorsed by several elite medical institutions, we planned to roll out to other anatomies that would share in the benefits we have shown for numerous heart diseases."
Each year clinicians in the U.S. conduct almost 40 million examsvi on the approximately 12,000 MRI machines installed in the country.vii But MRI scanners are only beneficial if trained healthcare professionals are available to run the exam, which is an escalating concern. In 2019, the U.S. had 20,000 fewer healthcare professionals than necessary to meet the needs of Americansviii, a situation that only worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Radiologist and technologist burnout is at a breaking point, which has only worsened since the pandemic given the exodus of medical professionals, backlog of imaging cases and increasing incidence of COVID-related illnesses, such as myocarditis and pericarditis," said Dr. Scott Flamm, Section Head of Cardiovascular Imaging at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. "To address the staffing shortages – particularly for challenging, time-consuming procedures like CMR – we are in earnest need of automation technologies like Vista.ai's One Click MRI to ensure patients anywhere can receive the quickest possible diagnosis and treatment."
Vista.ai is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to offer clinicians an easy, cost-effective and less stressful way to conduct MRI studies. The company's FDA 510(k) cleared One Click MRI™ software-only solution automates and dramatically simplifies a CMR exam, enabling a hospital to obtain greater scanner throughput or get a CMR program off the ground cost-effectively. One Click MRI is available for use on Siemens Healthineers and GE Healthcare MRI scanners. Vista.ai is funded by Khosla Ventures and the National Institute of Health's Small Business Innovation Research program.
For more information, visit www.vista.ai. For Vista.ai's RSNA media toolkit, visit rsna.vporoom.com/HeartVista.
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ii Goldfarb JW, Weber J. Trends in Cardiovascular MRI and CT in the U.S. Medicare Population from 2012 to 2017. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2021 Feb 25;3(1):e200112. doi: 10.1148/ryct.2021200112.
iii Spine MRI Results and Medical Decision Making: Consider All Your Options. Elite Pain & Health. https://epainhealth.com/spine-mri-get-options/. Accessed Oct. 26, 2022.
iv Kalorama Information. MRI: World Market Analysis. November 2014.
v Heart Disease. Heart Disease Facts. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm. Accessed Oct. 24, 2022.
vi Conor Stewart. Number of MRI scans in the U.S. in 2016 and 2017, by facility type. Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/820927/mri-scans-number-in-us-by-facility-type/. Accessed Oct. 20, 2022.
vii Conor Stewart. Number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units in selected countries as of 2019. Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnetic-resonance-imaging-units-by-country/. Accessed Oct. 20, 2022.
viii Association of American Medical Colleges. The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections from 2019 to 2034. June 2021. https://www.aamc.org/media/54681/download?attachment. Accessed Oct. 20, 2022.
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SOURCE HeartVista | 2022-11-27T17:31:26+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/11/27/heartvista-expand-beyond-heart-mris-changes-name-vistaai-reflect-wider-focus/ |
Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right group were convicted Thursday on seditious conspiracy charges stemming from the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right group were convicted Thursday on seditious conspiracy charges stemming from the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Twin brothers arrested for home invasion
Published: Jun. 12, 2023 at 12:57 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Police have arrested twin brothers for allegedly breaking into a home in Shreveport.
On June 11 around 3:40 p.m., officers responded to a fight inside an apartment in the 2000 block of Grimmett Drive. The person who called 911 told police two men went into the apartment and began fighting.
Officers arrested William and Willie Cade, both 18. Officials say the brothers went into the apartment without permission and attacked the victim, who had to be taken to a hospital to be treated for their injuries. The victim is expected to recover, police say.
The Cades are each charged with home invasion.
CRIME IN THE ARKLATEX
Copyright 2023 KSLA. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-12T19:03:22+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/12/twin-brothers-arrested-home-invasion/ |
Abortion providers sue Kansas over new medication rule, longstanding waiting period
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion providers sued Kansas on Tuesday, challenging a new law requiring them to tell patients that an abortion medication can be stopped but also existing restrictions that include a decades-old requirement that patients wait 24 hours to terminate their pregnancies.
The lawsuit, filed in state district court in Johnson County in the Kansas City area, argues that Kansas has created a “Biased Counseling Scheme” designed to discourage patients from getting abortions and to stigmatize patients who terminate their pregnancies. The lawsuit contends that the requirements have become “increasingly absurd and invasive” over time and spread medical misinformation.
Kansas voters in August 2022 decisively affirmed abortion rights, refusing to overturn a state Supreme Court decision three years earlier that declared access to abortion a matter of bodily autonomy and a fundamental right under the state constitution. The providers hope the state courts will invalidate the entire state law that spells out what they must tell patients — in writing — and when, with a single, specific style of type mandate for the forms.
Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, one of the providers filing the lawsuit, said the Republican-controlled Legislature’s approval of the new abortion medication law caused providers to look at the broader law and restrictions they have always found problematic. Under the new law, set to take effect July 1, providers would be required to tell patients about a regime for stopping medication abortions that major medical groups consider ineffective and potentially dangerous.
“We thought about the fact that the voters were very clear in the fact that they want providers able to speak directly and honestly to their patients,” Wales said in an interview. “This addition would really harm patients potentially, so we felt compelled to do something.”
Last year’s vote and the 2019 state Supreme Court decision mean that Kansas lawmakers cannot greatly restrict or ban abortion, in sharp contrast to other states with Republican-controlled Legislatures following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision against abortion rights in June 2022. The new Kansas law was enacted over the veto of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, an abortion rights supporter.
The medication abortion-reversal regime, touted for more than a decade by abortion opponents, uses doses of a hormone, progesterone, commonly used in attempts to prevent miscarriages. Supporters of the new law — and Kansas’ entire Right to Know Act — argue that they are making sure that patients have the information they need to make informed decisions about ending their pregnancies.
Anti-abortion groups and lawmakers also are likely to be upset about the lawsuit because of the campaign leading up to the August 2022 vote. The measure on the ballot was a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have declared that it does not grant a right to abortion. Abortion opponents pitched it as a way to preserve reasonable restrictions. But as written, the Legislature would have gained the power to ban abortion — and that point was emphasized by abortion rights supporters.
Abortion foes warned repeatedly that without a change in the state constitution, the state risked having even longstanding restrictions reversed. Parts of the law being challenged — including the 24-hour waiting period — were enacted in 1997.
“With today’s lawsuit, the profit-driven abortion industry has launched an unprecedented attack on a woman’s right to informed consent before an abortion is performed on her,” Danielle Underwood, spokesperson for Kansans for Life, the state’s most influential anti-abortion group, said in a statement.
Underwood added that with the attack on the waiting period, “they’re aggressively working to speed up the decision-making process, seemingly forcing women into abortion without discussion of alternatives.”
The lawsuit was filed by the Planned Parenthood affiliate, which operates two clinics in the Kansas City area and one in Wichita; another center offering abortion services in the Kansas City area; its owner and another doctor working there. The defendants are state Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican who has vowed to defend state abortion laws; district attorneys in the Kansas City and Wichita areas who would enforce the restrictions; and the top staffer and chairman of the state medical board.
However a district court judge rules, the case is likely eventually to go to the Kansas Supreme Court. The seven justices already are reviewing a ban enacted in 2015 on the most common second-trimester abortion procedure and a 2011 law setting special health and safety regulations for abortion providers. Neither has been enforced.
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This story has been corrected to show that the lawsuit was filed in Johnson County in the Kansas City area, not Shawnee County, home to Topeka.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The fight between the state of Florida and the Walt Disney Company over the status of the Reedy Creek Improvement District is intensifying, following a new announcement from the governor.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a new plan to change how the quasi-governmental control of the land surrounding Walt Disney World is run. Rather than allow the Reedy Creek Improvement District to propose a plan for regaining its special district status, as required by the special session which stripped it away, DeSantis is instead proposing a state-controlled board be put in place.
RCID has been the governing body for the land that surrounds Disney’s Florida operation since the 1960s, when the Walt Disney Company made a deal with the state to come into the area between Orange and Osceola counties and build the resort and nearby cities.
“People have to remember that the pitch to create Reedy Creek was Disney saying, ‘We’ll build a city if you give us city powers,’’’ and then they didn’t build a city. I think they intended to. I don’t think it was bad faith, but they didn’t follow through,” Rep. Randy Fine (R-Brevard) told Nexstar’s WFLA.com in December.
Fine authored the legislation that stripped special districts of their status if they were created before Florida’s state constitution was ratified in 1968.
“In fact, the two times they created a city, in the case of Golden Oak and in the case of Celebration, they actually kicked those areas out of the special district,” he said at the time.
The deal between Florida and Disney was largely untouched until 2022, when the company came out against House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill, decried as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by its opponents, and intended to limit discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in public school classrooms for students younger than third grade.
Following Disney’s response to the bill, even saying they sought to have it repealed, DeSantis and state lawmakers drew their line in the sand and introduced the special districts bill. The governor has since continued on his path of targeting what he calls “woke corporations.”
The ripple effect of Disney’s protracted fight with Florida over the bill added to pressures on then-CEO Bob Chapek. His predecessor, Bob Iger, returned to company leadership in November.
After the switch in CEO, some state lawmakers said reconciliation was a possibility, with bill author Randy Fine (R-Brevard) saying a new CEO meant a potential for new discussion.
“I think it’s easier to move forward with the guy who didn’t make the mistake than the guy who did,” Fine told WFLA.com shortly after Iger’s return. “Iger, I think, has already acknowledged it was an error, and that we move forward.”
However, DeSantis said through a spokesperson that there would be “no U-turns.”
Now, that stance has not only remained, but gotten more rigid.
Friday’s announcement of plans to introduce new legislation that would create a board to oversee the Reedy Creek Improvement District complicates the politics surrounding Disney in Florida.
As written, the bill that stripped Disney and the other districts of their authorities created a mechanism for renewal. The districts would have to submit new filings to regain the status or preserve it, albeit with potentials for change. Now, however, DeSantis is singling out Walt Disney World directly, whether in the coming general session or a special session afterward.
Regardless of how Disney’s resubmission process goes, it appears the governor is not willing to keep the status quo, even with adjustment. If the legislation DeSantis is seeking is written and passed in the state legislature, the advisory board would control everything from managing bond obligations to taxation to permits and regulations, as well as District boundaries, names, and other governmental activities currently handled by the existing system.
The goal would be to amend, reenact, and repeal existing Florida law regarding RCID, as well as creating more state oversight, accountability, and transparency in the district, while removing or revising powers it currently holds, according to the announcement.
In response to request for comment on the announced legislative intention, Taryn Fenske, the governor’s communications director, provided the following statement:
“The corporate kingdom has come to an end. Under the proposed legislation, Disney will no longer control its own government, will live under the same laws as everyone else, will be responsible for their outstanding debts, and will pay their fair share of taxes. Imposing a state-controlled board will also ensure that Orange County cannot use this issue as a pretext to raise taxes on Orange County residents.”
WFLA has reached out for additional comment from both the Walt Disney Company and the Reedy Creek Improvement District. | 2023-01-06T22:42:13+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/desantis-vs-disney-florida-governor-proposes-state-run-board-take-over-disney-districts-governance/ |
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — No one had an easier time Saturday morning at the Masters than Brooks Koepka. He didn’t have to play, and he still had the lead going into a cold, soggy and brutally difficult weekend at Augusta National.
Jon Rahm did remarkably well to stay close. Tiger Woods managed to survive, tying the Masters record by making the cut for the 23rd consecutive time.
Cameron Young summed it for some three dozen players who were forced to handle the rain, the cold and a course that played longer than it ever has.
“It’s basically impossible,” Young said. “I really don’t know what you’re supposed to do.”
Rahm played the entire back nine in severe conditions and finished off a 3-under 69 to get within two shots of Koepka, who was among the fortunate to get his second round out of the way on Friday before the bad weather moved in and changed everything.
Temperatures dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius). Shots were skidding into the rain-soaked greens. The golf ball was going nowhere. Players were hitting fairway metal into the the par-4 18th and hardly anyone could reach the par 5s in two.
Koepka missed all of this, having played bogey-free in the breezy warmth Friday for a 67 that put him at 12-under 132. Rahm was two shots behind at 134, making this the first time in Masters history that two players were at double digits under par through 36 holes.
This was all about survival, and no one paid a price quite like Justin Thomas. He was at 2 under for the tournament when he returned Saturday morning on the 10th hole. And then he got plenty of attention for all the wrong reasons.
Thomas went from helping Woods make the cut to missing out himself with a bogey-bogey to shoot 42 on the back nine.
Woods also went bogey-bogey for 73 and was outside the cut line. He needed either Thomas or Sungjae Im to bogey coming in for him to make the weekend.
Thomas narrowly missed an 8-foot par putt on the 17th hole, and that did the trick for Woods. On the 18th hole, Thomas hit a fairway metal left toward the gallery, and missed his par putt from 10 feet. He shot 78 and missed the cut at 4-over 148.
“It’s hard out here. There’s really no other way to say it,” Thomas said during a walk-and-talk with broadcasters while playing the 14th hole.
Rahm didn’t drop a shot until the final few holes. He holed a short birdie on the par-3 12th and beautifully judged his wedge to the par-5 15th that set up a 4-foot birdie putt.
“Man, I’m really happy to play that 1 under,” he said of the back nine. “I would have taken even.”
Rahm three-putted for bogey up the slope on the par-3 16th, holed a birdie putt from off the green on the 17th to get within one and then finished with a bogey on the 18th, a hole that played closer to a par 5.
“I hit a 3-iron into 18, and I only had 186 (yards) to the front, and it didn’t even pitch to the front,” Adam Scott said. “So it’s playing long. Normally that club flies 240.”
Augusta National decided to send players off both sides in threesomes for the third round, unusual but not unprecedented — there was a two-tee start for the final round because of a forecast for storms in 2019, the year Woods won his fifth green jacket.
The forecast for Sunday should allow for the Masters to finish as scheduled. The trick was getting through Saturday, however much golf could be played.
The color at Augusta came from all the umbrellas — most of the blooms began to fade earlier in the week — and the predominant sound was raindrops, not roars.
Koepka is atop the leaderboard at a major for the first time since he won his fourth title at the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black. He was playing in the final group with Rahm and U.S. Amateur champion Sam Bennett.
Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland were six shots behind, followed by a large group that included Young, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day.
Nine major champions were in the top 10 — Phil Mickelson, included — though there was a lot of ground to catch up to Koepka. And it wasn’t going to be easy.
“It’s just going to be a battle,” Young said. “You can’t afford to make doubles — bogeys can be OK. You kind of just have to be thankful when you have a putt for birdie because it’s going to play really long and no one’s going to be very comfortable out there.
“Mentally, it’s obviously hard just because you’re generally not having the most fun out there.”
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CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SetPower, a company that provides an innovative and high-quality portable fridge, is thrilled to announce the launch of its newest product, the PT Series 12V Portable Dual Zone Fridge & Freezer.
Designed with a focus on convenience and practicality, the PT Series boasts an array of features that make it the perfect choice for outdoor enthusiasts and those on the go.
One of the key features of the PT Series is its dual-compartment design, which allows users to store different types of food and beverages without mixing flavors. The two compartments are completely separated, ensuring that there is no cross-contamination of odors or flavors. This feature makes it ideal for situations where different types of food and drinks need to be stored separately, such as extended camping trips or outdoor events.
Another unique feature of the PT Series is its independent temperature control for each compartment. Users can set different temperatures for the two compartments to suit their specific needs. For example, the freezer compartment can be set to a lower temperature for ice cream or frozen food, while the fridge compartment can be set to a higher temperature for drinks and other perishables.
Additionally, the PT Series comes in multiple size options (37/47.6/58Qt) designed to cater to all your cooling needs. It also features an advanced compressor that provides rapid cooling and temperature control, dropping the temperature down from 70°F to 32°F in as little as 15 minutes and maintaining a steady temperature for an extended period. This feature makes it ideal for camping trips, road trips, and more. No ice is needed, which means less mess and hassle for users.
The PT Series also features MAX and ECO modes, triple battery protection, and dual interior LED lighting, making it the perfect combination of functionality and efficiency. Its special grain leather lid, sturdy handles, and metal exterior further enhance its durability and practicality, making it the perfect choice for outdoor use.
"We're excited to launch the PT Series and introduce a new level of convenience and comfort to our customers' outdoor adventures," said a spokesperson for SetPower. "We believe that our commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction will make the PT Series the go-to choice for outdoor enthusiasts and those on the move."
SetPower is committed to providing the best possible products and services to its customers, with a focus on quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction. The compressor comes with a three-year warranty, and the other parts has a one-year warranty, along with a 30-day free return and exchange policy. SetPower also offers 24-hour customer service and safe payment and purchase channels.
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A University of Notre Dame professor has filed a defamation lawsuit against a student-run publication over news coverage of her abortion-rights work. The case is raising questions about press freedom and academic freedom at one of the nation’s preeminent Catholic universities.
Tamara Kay’s suit, filed in May, alleges falsehoods in two articles published by The Irish Rover in the past academic year. The Rover defended its reporting as true in a motion filed earlier this month to dismiss the case, under a law meant to protect people from frivolous lawsuits over matters of public concern.
Kay, a professor of global affairs and sociology, asks for unspecified punitive damages after she “has been harassed, threatened, and experienced damage to her residential property” and “continues to experience mental anguish” because of the two articles.
Published in October and March after public events in which Kay participated, the articles cover her remarks about her support for abortion rights. The lawsuit alleges that the articles contained “false and defamatory” information, arguing that they misinterpreted a sign on her door about helping students access healthcare and denying two quotes about academic freedom and her work at a Catholic institution.
“The note on my door referenced sexual assault, and the inadequate resources and support for student survivors at Notre Dame,” Kay told The Associated Press via email.
She added that she had asked the Rover’s faculty advisors to retract or correct the story, and that Notre Dame officials refused to intervene on her behalf.
“All of this is utterly devastating,” Kay said. She said her public writing and public speech “are all fair game for reporting and critique, as long as that reporting is accurate. It has not been.”
Notre Dame’s Office of Media Relations didn’t answer repeated requests for comment from the AP. Neither did Kay’s attorney in the lawsuit.
In the motion filed under Indiana’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) law, the Irish Rover argued that – as an “independent, non-profit, student publication ‘devoted to preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame’” – its coverage of a Notre Dame professor’s public statements and actions about abortion qualify under the law’s public interest and free speech criteria.
The motion added that the stories were “at least substantially true” and “did not contain defamatory imputation.” Exhibits include a transcript of the March event and since-deleted tweets by Kay last fall referring Notre Dame colleagues to websites with information on where to find abortion providers and how to procure abortion pills.
That “targeted advocacy” — just as Indiana’s abortion ban first went briefly into effect — motivated Notre Dame student W. Joseph DeReuil, 21, to seek comments from Kay and write a news story, he told the AP.
DeReuil, the Rover’s editor-in-chief during the last academic year, said he is a practicing Catholic and believes the Church’s teaching that life starts at conception and thus abortion is intentional killing.
“I do wish at times that, I guess, Notre Dame would take, as an institution, a stronger stance in favor of the Catholic position on some of these issues,” he said.
He added that he condemned harassment of abortion rights advocates and specifically the threats mentioned in the lawsuit by Kay.
DeReuil said he was confident his reporting was factually correct and hoped the suit would be dismissed, instead of consuming his senior year.
“You’ll face pushback, but you can still be a normal, cheerful, happy student,” he said. “It’s not going to affect you negatively in the long term if you’re standing up for what you believe is true.”
The Rover’s attorney, James Bopp, Jr., said lawsuits like this can create a chilling effect.
“If we fail, it will send the message that if you speak out about the abortion issue, then you risk punishment through the legal system, and particularly if you speak out on the pro-life side,” said Bopp, who has worked on major national cases on behalf of anti-abortion and free speech causes.
While the Church’s position on abortion is unwavering, not all Catholics agree with it. Some oppose it based on their sense of Catholic teachings about individual conscience or social justice, said professor Samira Mehta, an expert on gender and religion at the University of Colorado.
It’s rare to have faculty sue students for libel over an issue broaching “diametrically opposed worldviews,” said Jonathan Gaston-Falk, an attorney with the Student Press Law Center. The organization defends press freedom rights for high school and college journalists and their advisors; it is not involved in this litigation.
“Libel can be boiled down to a false statement of fact that harms somebody’s reputation” – and is published with knowledge of that falsity and malice if the person is a public figure, Gaston-Falk added.
According to Indiana law, courts have six months to rule on an anti-SLAPP motion.
Indiana was the first state to enact sweeping abortion restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Navy Mutual Aid Association ("Navy Mutual") is proud to announce its sixth year of participation with Military Makeover with Montel® airing on Lifetime TV. This season follows the renovations of the Stupar family home. Staff Sergeant Michael Stupar retired after 20 years of service in the U.S. Army; he deployed four times and the process to award him a Purple Heart for an injury received while deployed in Iraq is underway. SSG Stupar lives with his wife, Crystal, and their two daughters.
Navy Mutual staff members Bill Wooten and Michelle Ramos Domingue, Esq. travelled to Michigan City, Indiana, where the Stupar family home is located, to meet with the Stupar's and offer their support and gratitude for each family member's service.
"As an organization that was created by military members for military members, we appreciate the ability to give back to the military community in a personal way," said Ramos Domingue. "We are honored to provide the lighting fixtures for the Stupar family's home. Coming home and having the lights on provides a sense of comfort and safety, and that's what we're all about at Navy Mutual."
Season 31 of Military Makeover airing on Lifetime TV premieres on August 12 at 7:30 a.m. ET/PT. Navy Mutual features in episode 4, which airs on September 2. All episodes can be watched on YouTube after airing on Lifetime TV.
Navy Mutual is a nonprofit, member-owned mutual association established in 1879 to provide affordable life insurance and peace of mind to members of the military and their families. As the nation's oldest federally recognized Veterans Service Organization, its mission and commitment to protect those who defend us remains unwavering. Financially strong, Navy Mutual is proud to be a first-choice provider of life insurance to servicemembers and their loved ones. Through quality life insurance products, no-cost educational and veterans services programs, and unparalleled service, Navy Mutual has earned the loyalty and support of its membership. For more information, visit navymutual.org.
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RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE SOME BREAKING TRAFFIC NEWS THIS MORNING. THIS IS IN GREENSBORO, A SECTION OF GUILFORD COLLEGE ROAD IS CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS AFTER A CRASH DOWNED POWER LINES THERE. AND NOW THIS IS BETWEEN SOUTH SWING ROAD AND BRADFORD PARKWAY. POLICE DID NOT SAY WHAT CAUSED THAT CRASH OR IF ANYONE WAS HURT. THEY ALSO DID NOT PROVIDE A TIMELINE ON WHEN THE ROAD WOULD
Guilford College Road closed after crash
Updated: 9:51 AM EST Feb 19, 2023
Greensboro police shut down Guilford College Road Sunday morning after a crash. Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking hereGuilford College Road was closed in both directions between South Swing Road and Bridford Parkway around 3 a.m., according to a news release from the Greensboro Police Department. Police said two cars were involved in the crash but no injuries were reported. Top Stories Greensboro assault on Autumn Drive leaves one person dead, police sayGreensboro assault on Autumn Drive leaves one person dead, police saySamaritan's Purse to airlift more than 18 tons of emergency relief supplies to Turkey from GreensboroThe crash brought down power lines, so crews were called to make repairs that are expected to take hours, according to police. Watch: NOWCAST streaming newscastsNAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Watch NOWCAST TV | Local News | National | News We LoveAs of 9 a.m., police did not know when the road would reopen.The cause of the crash remains under investigation.This is a developing story that will be updated as we get more information.Keep up with the latest news and weather by downloading the WXII app here.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro police shut down Guilford College Road Sunday morning after a crash.
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Guilford College Road was closed in both directions between South Swing Road and Bridford Parkway around 3 a.m., according to a news release from the Greensboro Police Department.
Police said two cars were involved in the crash but no injuries were reported.
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As of 9 a.m., police did not know when the road would reopen.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
This is a developing story that will be updated as we get more information.
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How to Watch Auto Racing Streaming Live - Saturday, June 10
Published: Jun. 10, 2023 at 5:38 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
For lifelong auto racing fans, the more races you have the opportunity to watch, the better. That's why we've compiled the list below, which tells you how to watch or live stream every event that's airing on Fubo on Saturday, June 10.
Watch even more auto racing action with ESPN+!
Auto Racing Streaming Live Today
Watch the DoorDash 250 - Qualifying
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Watch the Toyota / Save Mart 350 - Qualifying
- Series: NASCAR Cup Series
- Game Time: 5:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Watch the DoorDash 250
- Series: NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series
- Game Time: 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX Sports Networks
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
Make sure you're following along with racing action all year long on Fubo and ESPN+!
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Hamlin’s recovery continues, still in critical condition
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors described Damar Hamlin’s neurological function as “excellent” Saturday, as the Buffalo Bills safety continued making progress in his recovery after having to be resuscitated on the field in a game at Cincinnati on Monday.
In providing their daily update on Hamlin, the Bills said the player continues to breathe on his own but remains in critical condition at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Hamlin took a major step forward in his recovery on Friday when he was taken off a ventilator and showed an ability to speak.
The 24-year-old also made a brief live videoconference appearance Friday for his teammates, making several hand signs and saying, “Love you boys.”
Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and his heart stopped on Monday night after making what appeared to be a routine tackle in the first quarter against the Bengals. The game was initially suspended before officially being canceled later in the week.
The Bills are planning to pay tribute to Hamlin and the first-responders and medical staff who treated the player when they close the season Sunday by hosting the New England Patriots.
The NFL also will show support for Hamlin during all Week 18 games, which start Saturday afternoon, including a pregame moment of support, painting Hamlin’s No. 3 on the 30-yard line and pregame shirts with “Love for Damar 3.” The Bills will also wear “3″ jersey patches.
On Saturday, the Steelers paid tribute to Hamlin, who is from the Pittsburgh area, by delivering toys, books and teaching supplies to Kelly & Nina’s Daycare, where the player hosts an annual toy drive. Fans, players and team owners have also made donations to Hamlin’s Chasing M’s Foundation, which has raised just more than $8.2 million by Saturday afternoon.
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Leading foundation repair company opens sixth location in the Midwest
DECATUR, Ill., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Groundworks®, the nation's leading and fastest-growing foundation and water management solutions company, announced the opening of their new Foundation Recovery Systems (FRS) office in Decatur, Ill. For more than 30 years, FRS has provided world-class foundation repair and water mitigation services to customers in Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. This expansion will bring that standard of care to Illinois.
"Foundation Recovery Systems has been serving customers in the Midwest since 1992. This expansion into Illinois is a natural fit for FRS and is a testament to our incredible team," said Matt Malone, founder and chief executive officer at Groundworks. "FRS will bring a new standard of excellence to foundation repair and water management to the consumers of central Illinois."
FRS has received many honors for their service, including the Top Workplace Award in St. Louis and Angi Super Service in 2022. They have been named Best Foundation Repair Company from the St. Joseph News Press and are an A+ accredited business with the Better Business Bureau.
Throughout its three-decade tenure, FRS has made an impact in the community beyond foundation repair, most recently partnering with Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity. Their expertise and commitment to customer service will only continue as they expand to a new territory.
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Groundworks®, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Va., is the nation's leading and fastest-growing foundation and water management solutions company. Groundworks Companies provide residential foundation and water management solutions, including foundation repair, basement waterproofing, crawl space repair and encapsulation, plumbing, gutters installation, and concrete lifting services. Since inception, our combined brands have helped nearly 1.5 million homeowners protect and repair their most valuable asset: their home. Groundworks operates more than 50 offices across the country and has been named numerous times to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies, Qualified Remodeler Top 500, BBB integrity award, and Best Places to Work. For more information, please visit www.Groundworks.com, and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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By TOM WITHERS
AP Sports Writer
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The franchise quarterback who brought baggage and Super Bowl dreams to Cleveland won’t play for two months.
It’s always something with the Browns.
Deshaun Watson’s acceptance of an 11-game suspension and $5 million fine in a settlement with the NFL over alleged sexual misconduct has left the Browns wondering what will become of a season they thought could end with a championship.
Watson won’t be back until December, at the earliest, and only then if the three-time Pro Bowler satisfies the league’s requirements that he undergo an evaluation by behavioral experts and follows their treatment program.
The Browns have always known there was a strong possibility they’d be without Watson for an extended period. They signed him for five years despite the lawsuits brought by two dozen women in Texas.
And now that they know exactly the time frame for his absence, the question becomes can they survive until Watson’s eligible to return on Dec. 4 — against, of all teams, the Texans.
“We still have 17 games to play,” Browns general manager Andrew Berry said Thursday, shortly after Watson’s punishment became public. “We think we have a number of talented players and coaches who are in that locker room. Our expectation is still to have a competitive team and go and try to win every game.”
Jacoby Brissett is Cleveland’s new starting quarterback, and the 29-year-old has a proven track record of being a capable replacement. He’s done it with New England, Indianapolis and Miami while posting a 14-23 record as a starter.
Not nearly as flashy or dynamic as Watson, he’s more of a game manager. His experience is a huge plus — on and off the field. Brissett is a leader, and by all accounts well-liked and respected by his teammates and coaches.
“A pro’s pro, somebody who is going to lead from out in front, works very hard at his craft and just is an outstanding teammate,” coach Kevin Stefanski said, essentially repeating comments he’s made about Brissett throughout training camp.
Stefanski believes the Browns can still accomplish their goals with Brissett.
“The guys have trust in each other, and I know they have trust in Jacoby,” he said. “Ultimately, this is the best team game there is.”
Brissett began getting the majority of the snaps with Cleveland’s first-team offense earlier this week as the Browns enacted their plan with Watson’s suspension imminent.
Brissett threw mostly short passes during the Browns’ practice against the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday, and he’ll get more work against them Friday before sitting out Sunday’s exhibition game between the teams.
Stefanski plans to treat next week’s final preseason game against Chicago as a dress rehearsal for the Sept. 11 opener against Carolina — and probably former Browns starting QB Baker Mayfield.
It might also be something of a final audition for Brissett to prove he’s ready to take the reins in the regular season.
With a somewhat soft early schedule, the Browns felt comfortable Brissett could handle subbing for Watson for six games or even eight, if that had been the resolution. But 11 might be asking a lot of him.
In signing Watson for $230 million and fully guaranteeing his contract, Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have shown they’re willing to do whatever’s necessary to win, even at the expense of tarnishing their reputations and their team’s image.
This Watson move was risky and to this point hasn’t paid off.
Now that he’ll miss 11 games, the Browns could be tempted to make a run at Jimmy Garoppolo, a QB they’ve considered before and who might be available via trade or when San Francisco waives him later this month.
Garoppolo is appealing on several levels for the Browns. He’s 33-14 as a starter and has the playoff experience Brissett lacks. He’s also looking to restart his career following offseason shoulder surgery and being displaced as the 49ers starter by Trey Lance.
In the Browns, Garoppolo would be joining a team with a well-rounded roster.
For now, Berry’s sold on Brissett.
“We feel very good about Jacoby,” Berry said. “We like what we have seen throughout the spring and we have liked what we have seen throughout the summer so we have a high degree of confidence in him.
“No different than any other position on the roster, we will continue to evaluate our team over the course of the camp, but really pleased with Jacoby.”
NOTES: All-Pro Myles Garrett missed his fourth consecutive practice to be with an ill family member. Stefanski said he expects Garrett back “soon.” … The Eagles and Browns were well-behaved during the practice in which there was no tackling to the ground.
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As Sharon Wilson pulled up to the BP site in Texas last June, production tanks towered above the windblown grass roughly 60 miles southeast of San Antonio. Cows and pumpjacks lined the roadsides.
All looked placid. But when Wilson flipped on a high-tech video camera, a disquieting image became visible: A long black plume poured from a flare pipe. Her camera, designed to detect hydrocarbons, had revealed what appeared to be a stream of methane — a potent climate-warming gas, gushing from the very equipment that is supposed to prevent such emissions.
“It’s very discouraging and depressing, but mostly it’s infuriating,” said Wilson, a field advocate for Earthworks, which promotes alternatives to fossil fuels. “Our government is not taking the action that needs to be taken.”
Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas. Measured over a 20-year period, scientists say, it packs about 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide. And according to the International Energy Agency, methane is to blame for roughly 30% of the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution. Aerial surveys have documented huge amounts of methane wafting from oil and gas fields in the United States and beyond.
It’s a problem the Biden administration has sought to attack in its recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act. One of the law’s provisions threatens fines of up to $1,500 per ton of methane released, to be imposed against the worst polluters. Perhaps most crucially, the law provides $1.55 billion in funding for companies to upgrade equipment to more effectively contain emissions — equipment that could, in theory, help the operators avoid fines.
Yet some of the best equipment for reducing emissions is already installed on oil and gas infrastructure, including at the BP site that Wilson filmed. And critics say such equipment is failing to capture much of the methane and casting doubt on whether the Biden plan would go far to correct the problem.
What Wilson saw at the BP site was an unlit flare. It’s among the types of equipment the EPA recommends companies consider installing to reduce methane emissions. Resembling a tall pipe, a flare is supposed to burn off methane before it can escape. Flames typically burn from the top of the flares.
But in this case, the flame had gone out, so methane was pouring from the pipe. The flare’s mechanisms are supposed to alert the operator if it stopped working. That didn’t happen in this case, according to a report by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
“Energy companies have made pledges, but I’ve got to tell you, I haven’t seen anything from a practical standpoint that makes me believe there’s any reality to reductions on the ground,” said Tim Doty, an environmental scientist and former air quality inspector for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. “Maybe they’re making progress, but are they making enough progress to slow down climate change? I don’t think so.”
The spewing methane that Wilson detected was among more than a dozen such scenes she documented over three days in the Eagle Ford Shale, an oil and gas field in south Texas. The methane poured from unlit or broken flares, storage tanks, vapor recovery units and compressors. She found it escaping at sites owned by companies including BP and Marathon Oil, both of which have pledged to reduce methane emissions.
“They have the technology, but for some reason, whether they don’t maintain it, whether the technology doesn’t work, I don’t know, but if find it not working,” Wilson said.
BP did not respond to questions about the methane leaks Wilson documented. The company says it plans to eliminate routine flaring in U.S. onshore operations by 2025 and is advocating for policies to reduce methane emissions.
Marathon Oil disputed that it violated any regulations. A spokeswoman said the company recognizes the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the global climate and prioritizes concern for the environment.
Sometimes, methane escapes because the equipment designed to contain it hasn’t been properly calibrated or maintained. Emissions aren’t immediately stopped once new equipment is installed. Companies must still invest in properly designing the system and continuously monitoring and maintaining the equipment. This requires money and staff, which experts say many companies neglect.
The Biden administration hasn’t yet specified which types of equipment it recommends. But the EPA, which is working with the administration on the law’s methane reduction program, has recommended technologies for reducing methane emissions. Whether that equipment actually succeeds in capping emissions is an open question.
“There’s lots of technologies, but the reality in the field is it just doesn’t work,” Doty said.
That’s frequently also the case with another type of equipment the EPA recommends: vapor recovery units. These are systems of pipes and seals that are supposed to capture methane before it can escape from tanks. In Doty’s field work, which spans decades, he estimates that he’s seen vapor recovery units leaking some amount of methane or other hydrocarbons 75% to 85% of the time.
And hydrocarbons like methane, because they are corrosive, inevitably degrade the tanks, pipes and equipment that are supposed to contain them.
“All this stuff is going to be prone to leak — that’s just the way it is,” said Coyne Gibson, who spent about two decades as an engineer inspecting oil and gas equipment. “That’s mechanics. And there’s there’s not really any way to avoid it.”
One reason it’s hard for the industry to control methane emissions is that many leaks come from the nation’s vast gas distribution network. Millions of miles of pipelines are next to impossible to completely monitor. What’s more, Gibson said, pipelines are often buried, making leaks harder to detect.
That gas distribution network, which includes pipelines and compressor stations, is responsible for most methane emissions in the energy industry, said Antoine Halff, chief analyst at Kayrros, an energy analytics company. Using satellite data, Kayrros identified one compressor station — which adjusts the pressure of gas to move it through pipelines — that emitted methane continuously for eight days.
“It’s way too common,” Halff said.
Some large companies have invested in infrared cameras, like Wilson’s, that can detect methane leaks at facilities. They use them on the ground, or on drones or aircraft.
The process can help operators find and fix leaks. But it’s typically done only periodically, with cameras that don’t run continuously. Every few months, some companies will send a team with an infrared camera to check for leaks from the ground or a helicopter.
Much of the time, though, there is no such surveillance. Leaks or even planned methane releases can occur during these periods, as when companies open a stretch of pipeline to release methane before doing repairs. The staffing it would take to continuously survey the nation’s 3 million miles of natural gas pipelines would likely be prohibitively expensive.
Malfunctioning flares like the one Wilson found are also a major contributor to methane pollution. Flaring is supposed to burn off 98% of the methane that would otherwise shoot directly into the atmosphere. But whether because of malfunctions or poor design, flares are releasing five times that amount of methane into the atmosphere, according to a study by the University of Michigan.
“Flares often go out,” said David Lyon, senior scientist with Environmental Defense Fund. “They’ll be unlit and venting all the gas. Or they’ll just not be burning the gas properly. So that’s that’s a really big source of methane. And often I think the operators are not aware that the flare’s out.”
The Environmental Protection Agency is writing rules on methane reduction that will further detail what would be required of companies starting in 2024 under the Inflation Reduction Act.
The American Petroleum Institute, the main lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, says methane emissions intensity declined by nearly 60 percent across the nation’s major producing regions from 2011 to 2020. But companies base their reported methane emissions on estimates, not actual measurements, another custom that the Inflation Reduction Act seeks to change.
Climate scientists have shown, using satellite data, that methane emissions are often two or three times above what companies reported. Under the new law, companies would have to actually measure and report their methane emissions. But it’s still unclear how such a measurement program would work.
“Us and many others in this field, over and over again, have shown the huge gap between reporting by countries and companies and what can actually be detected,” Halff said.
Even so, he thinks there’s reason to hope that the methane provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act will make some difference.
“Emissions keep going up,” he said. “We’re moving in the wrong direction…but the potential, the conditions, to change course seem to be here.” | 2022-11-06T12:40:35+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-equipment-thats-designed-to-cut-methane-emission-is-failing/ |
Initial pilots show significant enhancements to customer experience, including reduced handling and response times, improved agent experience and increased customer satisfaction
NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teleperformance, a global leader in digital business services, today announced that it has signed a multi-year, $185 million Azure Cloud commitment with Microsoft to deliver comprehensive Microsoft Cloud infrastructure solutions to clients. Through the partnership, Teleperformance is also leveraging Microsoft Azure artificial intelligence (AI) to launch TP GenAI, a new suite of AI solutions that enable faster, more efficient, and improved business processes that deliver enhanced customer experience.
TP GenAI seamlessly empowers organizations to rapidly and precisely pinpoint customers' needs and pain points across various touchpoints. Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) through Microsoft Azure OpenAI, this comprehensive suite of generative AI tools allows advisors to accelerate response times and focus on customer needs with greater empathy. Teleperformance is also embedding TP GenAI to optimize its internal back office and support functions including HR, Recruitment, Finance, IT and Training.
Initial client programs piloting the use of TP GenAI have produced significant efficiency, accuracy and customer experience benefits across a variety of industries. The company's initial TP GenAI-powered programs have seen up to a 25% reduction in call handling time and a 20% reduction in email response times; increased customer satisfaction scores, and 90% improvement in accurately addressing customer needs, 35% increase in sales conversions, and near real-time insights on customer interactions.
"The launch of TP GenAI is just one more step in our transformation as a digital business services leader," said Daniel Julien, Chairman and CEO of Teleperformance Group. "We are a big promoter of blending 'high tech' with 'high touch,' combining artificial intelligence with real people and human empathy to deliver a more supportive and compassionate, human-centered customer experience. As an industry leader, we're pleased to offer generative AI solutions to organizations to help automate simple, low-value tasks and enable our staff to focus on what matters most – building brand loyalty."
The expanded Microsoft partnership also is fueling enhancements to Teleperformance's existing AI-powered services using Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Services. This includes:
- TP Interact – an interaction analytics platform which leverages Azure Cognitive Services to extract and harness insights from all interactions including audio and digital conversations, to help create actionable business insights and drive customer experience enhancements.
- TP Digital Floorwalker – a chatbot leveraging machine learning and analytics capabilities that helps Teleperformance's experts resolve customer requests faster and more accurately.
- StoryfAI - a multi-lingual translation engine which delivers automated translation services in real-time in more than 100 languages, thereby enabling customer care experts to respond across multiple languages more quickly and accurately.
ABOUT TELEPERFORMANCE GROUP
Teleperformance (TEP – ISIN: FR0000051807 – Reuters: TEPRF.PA - Bloomberg: TEP FP), is a global leader in digital business services, blending the best of advanced technology with human empathy to deliver enhanced customer care that is simpler, faster, and safer for the world's biggest brands and their customers. The Group's comprehensive, AI-powered service portfolio ranges from front-office customer care to back-office functions, including Trust and Safety services that help defend both online users and brand reputation. It also offers a range of specialized services such as collections, interpreting and localization, visa and consular services, and recruitment process outsourcing services. With more than 410,000 inspired and passionate people speaking more than 300 languages, the Group's global scale and local presence allows it to be a force of good in supporting communities, clients, and the environment. In 2022, Teleperformance reported consolidated revenue of €8,154 million (US$8.6 billion, based on €1 = $1.05) and net profit of €645 million.
Teleperformance shares are traded on the Euronext Paris market, Compartment A, and are eligible for the deferred settlement service. They are included in the following indices: CAC 40, STOXX 600, S&P Europe 350, MSCI Global Standard and Euronext Tech Leaders. In the area of corporate social responsibility, Teleperformance shares are included in the CAC 40 ESG since September 2022, the Euronext Vigeo Euro 120 index since 2015, the EURO STOXX 50 ESG index since 2020, the MSCI Europe ESG Leaders index since 2019, the FTSE4Good index since 2018 and the S&P Global 1200 ESG index since 2017.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Australian university students that China must not help Russia in its war against his homeland and remain at least neutral.
Zelenskyy addressed 21 Australian universities Wednesday in an online discussion hosted by the Australian National University in Canberra. Questioned by a student about China’s stance, Zelenskyy said he would prefer Beijing join countries including the United States and Australia that have condemned the Russian invasion that began in February.
“As for now, China is balancing and indeed has neutrality and, I will be honest, this neutrality is better than China joining Russia,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter from Ukraine.
“It’s important for us that China wouldn’t help Russia,” Zelenskyy added.
China has refused to criticize Russia’s war in Ukraine or even to refer to it as an invasion in deference to Moscow, while also condemning U.S.-led sanctions against Russia and accusing the West of provoking Moscow.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said imposing sanctions could act as a “double-edged sword,” and that the global community would suffer from “politicizing, mechanizing and weaponizing” global economic trends and financial flows.
Zelenskyy has addressed similar online university forums: in Canada in June and in Japan last month.
He thanked the Australian government for providing Ukraine with more support than any other country outside NATO. | 2022-08-03T09:14:45+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ukraine-President-Zelenskyy-says-China-must-not-17347579.php |
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
European approval for Kinpeygo®
"On May 19th, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that it had adopted a positive opinion regarding the application for conditional approval of Kinpeygo® for the treatment of IgA nephropathy, and on July 15th the European Commission issued the market authorization for Kinpeygo in the European Economic Area (EEA).
This is the first time that any drug has achieved approval for this rare disease in Europe and we are delighted that we can contribute a piece of the puzzle in the broader effort to improve care for patients with orphan diseases. We have now initiated the transfer of our market authorization to our partner, STADA, and look forward to seeing Kinpeygo being launched in Europe. Having now received approval in both the US and
Europe we are looking forward to the regulatory process in China, where our partner, Everest Medicines, plans to file for approval with the NMPA in the second half of this year.
In the US we continue to have significant success in our early commercial efforts. Net revenues from TARPEYO® grew by over 250% when compared to Q1, resulting in net revenues of SEK 63.6 million ($6.6m) from TARPEYO for Q2. This reflects the continued strong interest from nephrologists, with unique prescribers growing from 111 in Q1 to 314 prescribers during Q2 with enrolments growing significantly from 134 in Q1 to 315 in Q2. This is a testament both to the unmet medical need perceived by nephrologists for this patient group as well as significant interest from prescribers generated due to the strong proteinuria and eGFR data associated with our product.
We are thrilled to be another step closer to bringing the first approved medication in IgAN to patients around the world, and look forward to continuing to expand access for patients with an unmet medical need for the rest of the year and beyond."
CEO Renée Aguiar-Lucander
Summary of Q2 2022
April 1 - June 30
- Net sales amounted to SEK 64.0 million, whereof TARPEYO net sales amounted to SEK 63.6 million, for the three months ended June 30, 2022. No net sales were recognized for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
- Operating loss amounted to SEK 209.8 million and SEK 159.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
- Loss per share before and after dilution amounted to SEK 3.62 and SEK 3.22 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
- Cash amounted to SEK 846.8 million and 709.3 million as of June 30, 2022 and 2021 respectively.
Significant events during Q2 2022, in summary
- In May 2022, Calliditas announced that the first patient had been randomized in the Group's proof-of-concept Phase 2 study in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) with the NOX 1 and 4 inhibitor, setanaxib.
- In May 2022, Calliditas announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of a conditional marketing authorisation for Kinpeygo for the treatment of IgA nephropathy.
- In May 2022, the Annual General Meeting of Calliditas was held and, among other things, the meeting decided on the election of Henrik Stenqvist and Elisabeth Björk to the Board of Directors and the establishment of a U.S. At-the-Market framework, pursuant to which Calliditas may, at its option, sell American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") in the United States.
Significant events after the reporting period
- In July 2022, Calliditas announced that the European Commission (EC) granted conditional marketing authorization for Kinpeygo for the treatment of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) in adults at risk of rapid disease progression with a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) ≥1.5 g/gram. Kinpeygo is an orphan medicinal product and became the first and only approved treatment for IgAN in Europe. Kinpeygo will be marketed in the European Economic Area (EEA) exclusively by STADA Arzneimittel AG.
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About Calliditas
Calliditas Therapeutics is a commercial stage biopharma company based in Stockholm, Sweden focused on identifying, developing and commercializing novel treatments in orphan indications, with an initial focus on renal and hepatic diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Calliditas' lead product, developed under the name Nefecon, has been granted accelerated approval by the FDA under the trade name TARPEYO® and conditional marketing authorization by the European Commission under the trade name KINPEYGO®. Additionally, Calliditas is conducting a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in primary biliary cholangitis and a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial in head and neck cancer with its NOX inhibitor product candidate, setanaxib. Calliditas' common shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CALTX) and its American Depositary Shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker: CALT).
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, without limitation, statements regarding Calliditas' strategy, commercialization efforts, business plans, regulatory submissions, clinical development plans and focus. The words "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "project," "potential," "continue," "target," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and important factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, including, without limitation, any related to Calliditas' business, operations, continued and additional regulatory approvals for TARPEYO and Kinpeygo, market acceptance of TARPEYO and Kinpeygo, clinical trials, supply chain, strategy, goals and anticipated timelines, competition from other biopharmaceutical companies, and other risks identified in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Calliditas' reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Calliditas cautions you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Calliditas disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in expectations or in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release represent Calliditas' views only as of the date hereof and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date.
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Why are nostalgic trends so popular?
Nostalgia is a powerful sentiment. Perhaps it is because it gives us a taste of the one thing we can never have again: the past. This year, when it comes to shopping and gift giving, nostalgia is having a noticeable impact on what people are buying. Ugg slippers, Tamagotchi toys, flair jeans and more have all made a comeback this year.
In this article: Tamagotchi Pix, Pre-Lit Hand-Painted Ceramic Tabletop Christmas Tree and Crosley 3-Speed Bluetooth Suitcase Turntable
Why nostalgia sells
Selling nostalgia is almost foolproof. It appeals to every generation, so the demographics are expansive. If you lived through a period of history, revisiting it through items you can own has been proven to foster happiness and reduce anxiety. In short, it can help you travel back to a simpler time. Consequently, for individuals who were born too late to experience a certain trend, there is a curiosity and desire to travel to an era that they missed.
Where to find flashback items
Nostalgia is trending this holiday season. However, you might not see as much of it in brick-and-mortar stores as you do online. This is partially because online stores can better utilize strategies, such as dropshipping, which allow products to be shipped directly from the manufacturer. This means they do not need to set aside storage space in a physical location, so they can be a little more fluid and adaptable to meet consumer demands.
Additionally, some online retailers may be better equipped to move faster and jump on trends that come about quickly. Brick-and-mortar stores, however, tend to focus on moving the inventory they had to order before the holiday season even began.
Expect a subtle new twist
Nostalgic items do not always make a triumphant return exactly as you remember them. Often, they are upgraded in some way. An old-fashioned toy, for instance, may no longer be made of wood, while a vintage piece of tech, such as a record player, might feature an upgrade like Bluetooth connectivity. This helps keep older items relevant, affordable and useful in modern times.
Nostalgic products that are popular this holiday season
Believe it or not, the initial UGG line was inspired by boots worn by sheep shearers over 100 years ago. These cozy slippers have a sheepskin lining and a pure wool insole for supreme comfort.
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Urban K Women’s Classic High-Waist Denim Bell-Bottom Jeans
The silhouette on these stylish retro jeans is extremely flattering. They are made of a blend of fabrics that stretch to have a snug but comfortable fit.
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Lands’ End Upcycled Supima Hair Scrunchie (3 Pack)
Besides being a refreshing and stylistic throwback, these upcycled scrunchies minimize impact on the earth by using leftover fabric that resists fading, shrinkage, wrinkles and pilling.
Sold by Kohl’s
Women’s Chunky Mid Heel Chelsea Fashion Ankle Bootie
A platform shoe instantly transports you to a bygone era of fashion. These adorable ankle boots feature elastic side panels, which allow you to easily slip your foot in and out. The sole is 1.5 inches thick, and the shaft measures roughly 5 inches high.
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This next-generation Tamagotchi Pix has a built-in camera so you can take pictures of yourself with your character. By using the new interactive features, you can play games, pet and bathe your Tamagotchi. You can even take your friend on playdates to meet other Tamagotchis.
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Play-Doh Drill ‘n Fill Dentist Playset
This innovative throwback toy has a new spin: Kids can use the hand-powered tool to drill out cavities. The set comes with everything your kid needs to play dentist, including tweezers, a mirror, toothpaste and more.
Sold by Kohl’s
Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Servin’ Up Fun Food Truck
Fisher-Price toys never truly go out of style. This food truck activity center has over 20 removable pieces for learning shapes, colors, counting and more. It also comes with over 125 songs and phrases that help make playtime even more exciting.
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This fun playset was inspired by Polly’s own home in Pollyville. It has five rooms, four stories, 11 accessories and three figures. The numerous interactive features make imaginative play even more engaging.
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Pre-Lit Ceramic Tabletop Christmas Tree
If you didn’t have one of these light-up trees growing up, chances are you knew someone who did. This 15-inch model has a star on the top and 50 lights.
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Crosley Cruiser Deluxe Vintage 3-Speed Bluetooth Suitcase Turntable
If you have any vinyl that you’ve been itching to listen to, this portable record player will let you do just that. It has three speeds, pitch control and a built-in Bluetooth receiver for wireless streaming.
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3A semistate: Guerin Catholic leans on bigs to knock off defending state champ Beech Grove
SEYMOUR – The dense crowd packed inside Seymour’s Lloyd E Scott Gymnasium rattled Guerin Catholic’s Bryson Cardinal momentarily Saturday afternoon.
Then, the 6-7 sophomore remembered the lessons learned from his father, Brian Cardinal, a former Purdue standout, and everything fell into place once the ball was tipped for the Class 3A Semistate 4 semifinals.
“He’s taught me so much from the mental state, from being locked in and knowing what’s going on to the inside work and shooting,” Bryson said. “One of the main things I learned from him is the hustle.”
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Cardinal and the 12th-ranked Golden Eagles (19-8) channeled their pregame nerves and transmuted them into production, breaking three first-quarter ties with defending state champion Beech Grove (17-7) to advance into tonight’s semistate final against No. 11 Scottsburg with a 58-46 semifinal win.
A week after the Golden Eagles utilized a pair of “20 pieces” from junior Robert Sorensen (20 points) and senior Kamea Chandler (21 points) to claim the program’s fifth regional title, they shifted their attention inside against the Hornets to pull one win away from a potential third semistate title in 11 years.
Cardinal led the Golden Eagles with a game-high 15 points and eight rebounds, including a 3-pointer to tie the score at 9-9 in the first quarter and a putback basket minutes later to make it 11-9.
Guerin Catholic never trailed afterwards.
“Watching the first game, it was a little bit nerve-racking just because there are so many people here,” Cardinal said. “I finally got settled into that atmosphere.
“It’s a brand-new experience for me, and a brand-new experience for a lot of people on our team.”
The Golden Eagles didn’t let much derail their focus, as 6-7 junior Dylan Murans finished with 12 points, 6-4 senior Lucas Parker had 11 points and Cardinal shot 5-of-6 from the floor and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line.
Guerin Catholic minimized Beech Grove’s second-chance opportunities with 24 defensive rebounds and totaled 12 assists compared to the Hornets' four.
“We felt like all week we were preparing to have an advantage in the paint. We told our bigs there’s no reason for them not get any rebound they want to,” Guerin Catholic coach Bobby Allen said. “We’ve been right on the boards for three weeks now. Don’t let the other team out tough you, and fortunately for us, it hasn’t happened yet.”
The Golden Eagles made their push with an 8-2 run to open the second quarter before a 11-2 run to start the third increased their lead to 38-24.
Junior Jack Cherry, who played during Guerin Catholic’s 54-46 semistate loss to Silver Creek in 2021, had five points and a team-high five assists. Sorensen added eight points and six rebounds, while Chandler finished with four points and three rebounds.
“The bigs had to come up big today because their guards were pressuring us really hard around the 3-point line, so we had to step up on the inside and get the rebounds,” Cardinal said. “Our guards really help our bigs. Kamea and Cherry did a really good job of dishing the ball off to us on the inside. We work really well together.”
Quick foul trouble in the third quarter hurt Beech Grove, as the Hornets were whistled for four in the first 1 minute, 50 seconds and reached seven by the 2:12 mark.
A buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Parker kept the Golden Eagles’ lead at 14 points to end the third quarter, while Guerin Catholic converted 13-of-20 free throws in the second half and 16-of-26 overall.
“Lucas Parker hitting that three at the buzzer at the end of the third was just huge momentum,” Allen said. “We kind of rode that thing out.”
Beech Grove shot 29% and were limited to eight free-throw attempts. The Hornets had five points in the second quarter and nine in the third.
“We didn’t attack. I thought if we attacked, we’d be able to get into the bonus like they were, but we were settling,” Beech Grove coach Joe Rihm said. “We weren’t able to get up and get into it (defensively). It’s a tough way to end a season. It’s a tough way for these eight seniors to walk out.”
With the game in hand, the Golden Eagles dribbled out the final 35 seconds with the Scottsburg Warriors (22-5) in mind. The Warriors, who have never won a semistate title, defeated North Daviess, 47-45, in the morning semifinal with a strong home-crowd presence on hand.
Scottsburg’s regional title in Washington last weekend was the program’s first in 23 years and sixth all time.
“It’s a big challenge, but I think we’re up to the challenge,” Cardinal said. “I think we’ve proven that we can play with anybody.”
Beech Grove was led in scoring by senior Cameron Brown with 11 points and five rebounds. Senior Jeremiah Alexander had 10 points and four rebounds. Senior Jaleel Edwards finished with nine points and four rebounds. Senior Jeremiah Tate added six points and Rylan Horen had five.
“These eight seniors fought their (tails) off their whole career. I’m proud of this group,” Rihm said. “These guys are 13-2 just in the state tournament in their career. They got a sweet 16 their sophomore years and a state championship last year and got to the elite eight this year. They have almost 60 wins in their career at Beech Grove. They’ve taken this program to a new level. They set the standard and now the expectation is where it’s at.
“You know, coach (Matt) English had the vision. Gosh, it was 14 or 15 years ago, and we have taken his vision. He saw this group coming, and this group has taken to that level.” | 2023-03-18T20:26:23+00:00 | indystar.com | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/03/18/ihsaa-basketball-class-3a-semistate-guerin-catholic-beats-beech-grove-indiana-high-school/70004792007/ |
(NerdWallet) – Disgruntled Airbnb guests are taking to Twitter and TikTok to vent about everything from cleaning fees to misleading listings. But they aren’t the only ones with complaints: Airbnb hosts themselves have become increasingly disillusioned with the platform and its disrespectful guests.
On message boards and Facebook groups, hosts are sharing their own challenges and horror stories. One host claimed that a group of guests was unwilling to leave the property despite receiving a full refund from Airbnb.
“I went to the apartment to check what was going on, and I was in shock to discover that the tenants were still in the apartment,” the host wrote on the website AirbnbHell. “They immediately called the police on me and I was kicked out of my own apartment by a team of the police — a complete shock.”
While these anecdotes might seem like the natural byproduct of the largely unregulated short-term rental industry, they speak to larger trends impacting hosts. A 2021 report from Bloomberg detailed how Airbnb’s secretive crisis team spends millions of dollars to cover up crimes and other publicity nightmares in its listings. And the platform recently launched “anti-party technology” in an effort to defray hosts’ frustrations with large, destructive gatherings.
These issues raise the question: Is Airbnb itself the problem — or are the guests?
Silly String and Foul Odors
In May of this year, Airbnb launched a new “AirCover” protection plan for guests and hosts. It promises quick reimbursement for hosts and up to $1 million in damage protection. And while many hosts consider this policy generous, it still comes with plenty of gray areas.
Emily Muskin Rathner, a digital marketing professional living in Cleveland, began renting her house on Airbnb in August 2021. She says that hosting has been a pleasant and profitable enterprise overall, but a few guests have caused major problems, including a family that rented the house this June.
“They left the house a mess,” she says. “There was human feces on our laundry. They sprayed Silly String all over the place. I don’t care about Silly String, but can you pick it up? It left stains, oddly.”
Muskin Rathner received reimbursement from Airbnb for most of her claims. But some damage, such as nail polish smeared on the bathroom tile, didn’t qualify for reimbursement because she wasn’t able to provide documentation for the cost of the tile. And then there was the smell.
“It really, really stunk. The air conditioning had been left off for a week — in June.”
Red tape everywhere
The early days of short-term vacation rentals offered hosts a simple proposition: Rent your home and earn some extra money. Yet as the industry has matured, it’s been met with regulation efforts from local governments.
Cities such as Denver and Portland, Oregon, have been cracking down on unlicensed short-term rentals, levying fines against hosts and requiring expensive permits. These policies allow local governments to collect taxes and regulate problematic behavior, but they add one more layer of complexity for hosts, many of whom have little experience in hospitality.
Furthermore, many local governments place the burden of tax collection on hosts, not Airbnb. A 2022 analysis by the National League of Cities, an advocacy organization composed of city, town and village leaders, estimated that 82% of cities require hosts to remit taxes themselves, while only 5% require the platform to do so on hosts’ behalf.
Hosts must now not only act as full-time customer service agents and hospitality experts, but also navigate local regulations and master convoluted taxation laws.
» Learn more: NerdWallet’s analysis of Airbnb pricing trends
Competition from management companies
The romantic notion of home sharing as a means for homeowners to pay their mortgages has given way to management companies inserting themselves and aiming to maximize profits. And small-time hosts can’t keep up with these corporate competitors.
A study of short-term rentals in the U.K. found that the number of listings managed by hosts with a single property dropped from 69% in 2015 to 39% in 2019. And data from the nonprofit Inside Airbnb suggests that only 39.1% of properties in Los Angeles are managed by single-property hosts.
These mega-hosts are able to operate at scale, maximizing efficiency on everything from pricing adjustments to cleaning staff. Single-property hosts can’t keep up, or are unwilling to deal with the hassle, and are being elbowed out of the ecosystem. | 2022-10-02T04:13:43+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/airbnb-hosts-are-sick-of-airbnb-too/ |
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) — CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Ansys Inc. (ANSS) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $257.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based company said it had profit of $2.95. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $3.09 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.79 per share.
The maker of engineering-simulation software posted revenue of $694.1 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $694.7 million, which also topped Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $646.4 million.
For the current quarter ending in March, Ansys expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.53 to $1.71. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $2.95.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $482.5 million to $507.5 million for the fiscal first quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $671.6 million.
Ansys expects full-year earnings in the range of $8.34 to $8.86 per share, with revenue ranging from $2.24 billion to $2.32 billion.
Ansys shares have increased 10% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $266.78, a decline of 12% in the last 12 months.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and European Union agreed Monday to intensify talks to resolve EU concerns over major subsidies for American companies contained in a U.S. clean energy law.
Although no deal was reached at a meeting of the bilateral bilateral Trade and Technology Council, the two sides pledged to continue work on preliminary progress and said they would push for a solution that benefits both U.S. and European firms, workers and consumers as well as the climate.
“We acknowledge the EU’s concerns and underline our commitment to address them constructively,” the two sides said in a joint statement after the meeting at the University of Maryland in College Park, located just outside Washington.
“We underline the TTC’s role in achieving this and in supporting a successful and mutually supportive green transition with strong, secure, and diverse supply chains that benefit businesses, workers, and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic,” it said.
The dispute revolves around the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act offers about $375 billion in new and extended tax credits to help the the U.S. clean energy industry as well as buyers of qualifying electric vehicles made in North America.
But European leaders have expressed alarm that the subsidies would be an enormous setback for European companies. French President Emmanuel Macron raised the issue directly with President Joe Biden during his state visit to Washington last week during which Biden and other U.S. officials said they were willing to address the matter, including “glitches” in the law.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted that as soon as the U.S. became aware of the EU’s concerns it set up a task force to deal with them.
“Today, I think we advanced that discussion,” said Blinken, who co-chaired the meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai along with European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager.
“Coming out of these conversations and feeding into the work of the task force, I’m convinced that we’re continuing to give momentum to that conversation and to working through the differences,” he said.
Vestager agreed, saying Monday’s discussion was “really helpful to show that there is a real concern.”
“To have the discussions that we have had today, to have the feedback from our U.S. partners, I think that is of critical importance to enhance the relationship that we have created within the framework of the Trade and Technology Council,” she said.
And, she said that as the U.S. and EU continue to cooperate on the subsidy issue while opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. commitment to fighting climate change was even more welcome.
Democrats included the tax credits in the expansive climate law as a way to encourage domestic battery and electric vehicle production. But manufacturers in Europe and South Korea, which sell millions of vehicles in the U.S., have threatened to lodge legal complaints with the World Trade Organization.
And, thus far, congressional Democrats have said they have no intention of reconsidering the climate law, which passed after more than a year of negotiations without any Republican support. | 2022-12-06T14:46:43+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-eu-agree-to-intensify-talks-on-green-subsidies-dispute/ |
PARIS (AP) — Models did their best to strut the cobblestoned banks of the Seine Tuesday as Chanel showed off its fall-winter collection and celebrated the soul of Paris.
Here are some highlights of Tuesday’s fall couture collections, including when The Associated Press caught up with French actress Clemence Poesy.
CHANEL’S PARIS
“This collection is the portrait of a sensitive yet bold Parisienne,” said Virginie Viard, Chanel’s creative director. “It’s like standing on a line between strength and delicacy.”
Tuesday’s assembly of tweeds, silk chiffons, organza and inlaid lace, in a myriad of floral and graphic motifs, was a testament to Viard’s vision of this rich and feminine universe.
Despite the sparkle and gleam of golden heels and buttons, the collection embraced a comforting simplicity.
Assured yet understated colors, flat-pleated golden tweed skirts, masculine-inspired overcoats, and delicately structured jackets all played into the subtle allure of the show. A standout piece was a dark blue asymmetrical coat-skirt with feathery tulle cascading from the lapel, fusing asymmetry with Chanel’s codes of rigor.
At one point, a model sauntered down the runway walking a black Alsatian dog, a seemingly whimsical addition that had onlookers snapping away on their cameras. But perhaps the most quintessential Parisian touch was a fruit basket — a homage to the Parisienne of the 1970s.
Viard described her approach as, “Handing down emotions, bringing the most unlikely elements together, doing things your own way, just dreaming.” And through this collection, she masterfully transported us all to Paris, offering an emotional tribute to the enduring allure of the Parisienne, right on the quayside of the Seine.
POESY ON CHANEL’S BOOKSTALLS: ‘NOT YOUR USUAL BOUQUINISTE!
French actress and “Harry Potter” alum, Clémence Poésy was in attendance at Chanel, and it seems the allure of the Seine-side “bouquinistes” had her under a spell. The scene, recreated by the house, was a charming tribute to Paris’ iconic riverside bookshops, so beloved by locals and tourists alike.
“There was a Parisian essence, being on the quayside of the Seine and having the bouquinistes in the beginning,” Poésy told the AP, her eyes alight with the magic of the show. “It felt like traveling through many eras of Parisians.”
The actress was especially enchanted by the French stalwart’s playful nod to Paris’ past, which invoked images of both the ’70s and new wave cinema. But it was the bouquinistes — a regular fixture of her weekends — that truly captivated her.
“You stroll along the Seine and go into all these vintage and secondhand bookshops along the river and bridges,” she explained, recalling her routine. “You usually find something you would never buy anywhere else.”
Chanel’s unique on-brand installation, she chuckled, was decidedly “not your usual bouquiniste.” She added, with a fond smile, “I hope it stays there forever. It’s such a precious thing.” | 2023-07-04T14:20:12+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-chanel-haute-couture-makes-a-subdued-ode-to-parisian-elegance-in-fall-winter-collection/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Taco Bell certainly knows a good promotion when it sees one.
After finding success with a similar promotion last year, Taco Bell has announced plans to bring back a discontinued item — and fans will get to decide which one makes it on the menu.
This time around, fans can vote on resurrecting one of two items from the not-too-distant menu: the Beefy Crunch Burrito, made with seasoned beef, sour cream, rice and Fritos Flamin’ Hot corn chips; or the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco, which comes in a taco shell seasoned with Doritos Cool Ranch flavoring.
The Beefy Crunch Burrito was a fixture of the Taco Bell menu from 2010 to 2018. The Doritos Locos Taco had a slightly shorter run, from 2013 to 2019.
Voting is currently open for Taco Bell Rewards members, who can submit votes for their favorite item daily in the Taco Bell app through April 12.
The winning item will be reintroduced to the Taco Bell menu for a limited time later this year, the company said.
“Our fans rigorously turn to our social media to voice their menu item love and we’re excited to give them the opportunity to redistribute that passion through this unique in-app voting experience that impacts real change on our menus!” said Dane Mathews, the chief digital officer at Taco Bell, in a press release issued Thursday.
Taco Bell last ran a similar promotion between September and October 2022, asking fans to vote on resurrecting either the Enchirito, a smothered burrito item, or the Double Decker Taco. The Enchirito won out, securing 62% of the votes (around 765,000 votes in total) as well as a spot on the Taco Bell menu in November of that year.
Meanwhile, it hasn’t been all good news for other “-ito”-suffixed items at Taco Bell. Earlier this month, the chain announced its Quesarito (essentially a burrito wrapped in a quesadilla) would be removed from menus as of April 19.
In a press release shared with Nexstar in early March, Taco Bell did not disclose why its Quesarito — described as a “cheesy delight” — was being removed from the menu nor whether it may return at a later date. | 2023-03-30T20:46:50+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/taco-bell-to-bring-back-one-of-2-discontinued-items-based-on-fans-votes/ |
A former US Army soldier accused of plotting to "physically remove" Black and brown people in several North Carolina counties is now facing up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty to a separate, gun-related charge, federal prosecutors announced.
Noah Edwin Anthony, 23, pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle during his Tuesday arraignment, a release from the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of North Carolina said.
When the illegal firearm was discovered in March 2022, Anthony was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina as an intelligence analyst, according to records provided by the Army. He was involuntarily separated from the military in February 2023.
Anthony's attorney, Christopher J. Locascio, declined to comment on the case when reached by CNN.
The illegal firearm -- a 3D-printed rifle with no serial number -- was found during a search of Anthony's room after Fort Bragg officers found an unregistered "ghost gun" in his car during a random vehicle check, the release said. The ATF Firearms Laboratory later determined the firearm was shorter than 16 inches and violated the National Firearms Act.
A more thorough search of his car by Military Police uncovered an American flag emblazoned with a Swastika, "Nazi type patches," two extended magazines and ammunition, it said.
The search of Anthony's room also uncovered: White supremacist literature, t-shirts and patches; magazines for various firearms; and several electronic devices, the prosecutor's office said.
On his electronic devices, investigators found evidence of "a preliminary self-titled 'operation'" aimed to "physically remove as many of [black and brown people] from Hoke, Cumberland, Robeson and Scotland Counties by whatever means need be," the release said.
He has faced no federal charges related to the alleged plot.
Anthony was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of possession of an illegal firearm related to the weapon violation.
After pleading guilty to the charge, Anthony faces up to 10 years in prison, the release said. His sentencing is scheduled for July 25, court records show.
Calls for comment to Fort Bragg about the incident have not been returned.
The case was handled by the US Attorney's Office instead of the military judicial system due to initial concerns "over activity occurring in the community and potentially with other civilian actors within the community" and because Anthony was accused of bringing in items from off base, Don Connelly, a spokesperson for the office, told CNN.
Connelly noted their strong relationship with military colleagues helped to resolve the case.
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A Moscow court sentenced on Monday Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison over his criticism of the war in Ukraine — the harshest prison term delivered yet to a government opponent since the Kremlin launched its invasion in February 2022.
With the ruling, the judges awarded prosecutors the full 25-year prison term they had requested. Kara-Murza pleaded not guilty to the charges.
"For a person who has not committed any crimes, acquittal would be the only fair verdict," Kara-Murza said at the closing session of his trial last Monday. "But I do not ask this court for anything. I know the verdict. I knew it a year ago when I saw people in black uniforms and black masks running after my car in the rearview mirror. Such is the price for speaking up in Russia today."
Kara-Murza, 41, was among a small group of high-profile opposition figures who remained in Russia, determined to be a voice for those against the war. Most are now in prison, facing lengthy sentences.
Vedant Patel, a State Department spokesperson, said in a statement that the U.S. condemns the sentencing. "Mr. Kara-Murza is yet another target of the Russian government's escalating campaign of repression. We renew our call for Mr. Kara-Murza's release, as well as the release of the more than 400 political prisoners in Russia," Patel said.
Kara-Murza was initially detained in April last year on charges of spreading "false information" about the Russian army. In making the initial arrest, authorities pointed to a speech Kara-Murza had given to the Arizona state legislature in which he detailed alleged atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Russian authorities later added charges of treason and participating in a banned pro-democracy group.
Kara-Murza's health has been a constant source of concern throughout the trial — with the dissident losing 37 pounds and suffering from numbness in his extremities.
While in pretrial detention, a doctor diagnosed the condition as polyneuropathy — a malfunctioning of peripheral nerves throughout the body. It's a condition that can be caused by many different triggers, including diseases, drugs or toxins.
Kara-Murza had suffered from two separate poisoning attacks that nearly took his life in 2015 and 2017.
"Given the sophisticated type of poison, I think it's people who have been or are connected with the Russian special services," he told NPR in a 2017 interview.
Indeed, Kara-Murza has been no stranger to the risks of opposition politics in Russia. In 2015, his friend and mentor, former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down by assassins in central Moscow.
Kara-Murza was a key figure in lobbying Congress to pass the U.S. Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act in 2016 — legislation that initially targeted those involved in the death of a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in prison.
Kara-Murza formed a close friendship with Arizona Sen. John McCain in pushing for the legislation — later serving as a pallbearer at McCain's funeral in 2018.
In a sign of the political nature of Kara-Murza's trial, one of the trio of judges had been sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act.
Yet, even from pretrial detention, Kara-Murza maintained a public presence — authoring opinion pieces for the Washington Post in which he expressed confidence that Russia would ultimately emerge from the latest repressive chapter in its history.
"The night, as you know," he wrote, "is darkest just before the light."
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The devastating heat wave which has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely due to climate change, according to a study by an international group of scientists on Monday. This, they say, is a glimpse of what the future holds for the region.
The World Weather Attribution group analyzed historical weather data and suggested that early, long heat waves that impact a massive geographical area are rare, once-a-century events. But the current level of global warming, caused by human-caused climate change, has made those heat waves 30 times more likely.
If global heating increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) more than pre-industrial levels, then heat waves like this could occur twice in a century and up to once every five years, said Arpita Mondal, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, who was part of the study.
“This is a sign of things to come,” Mondal said.
The results are conservative: An analysis published last week by the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office said the heat wave was probably made 100 times more likely by climate change, with such scorching temperatures likely to reoccur every three years.
The World Weather Attribution analysis is different as it is trying to calculate how specific aspects of the heat wave, such as the length and the region impacted, were made more likely by global warming. “The real result is probably somewhere between ours and the (U.K.) Met Office result for how much climate change increased this event,” said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London, who was also a part of the study.
What is certain, though, is the devastation the heat wave has wreaked. India sweltered through the hottest March in the country since records began in 1901 and April was the warmest on record in Pakistan and parts of India. The effects have been cascading and widespread: A glacier burst in Pakistan, sending floods downstream; the early heat scorched wheat crops in India, forcing it to ban exports to nations reeling from food shortages due to Russia’s war in Ukraine; it also resulted in an early spike in electricity demand in India that depleted coal reserves, resulting in acute power shortages affecting millions.
Then there is the impact on human health. At least 90 people have died in the two nations, but the region’s insufficient death registration means that this is likely an undercount. South Asia is the most affected by heat stress, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of a dataset published Columbia University’s climate school. India alone is home to more than a third of the world’s population that lives in areas where extreme heat is rising.
Experts agree the heat wave underscores the need for the world to not just combat climate change by cutting down greenhouse gas emissions, but to also adapt to its harmful impacts as quickly as possible. Children and the elderly are most at risk from heat stress, but its impact is also inordinately bigger for the poor who may not have access to cooling or water and often live in crowded slums that are hotter than leafier, wealthier neighborhoods.
Rahman Ali, 42, a ragpicker in an eastern suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi earns less than $3 a day by collecting waste from people’s homes and sorting it to salvage whatever can be sold. It's backbreaking work and his tin-roofed home in the crowded slum offers little respite from the heat.
“What can we do? If I don’t work...we won’t eat,” said the father-of-two.
Some Indian cities that have tried to find solutions. The western city of Ahmedabad was the first in South Asia to design a heat wave plan for its population of over 8.4 million, all the way back in 2013. The plan includes an early warning system that tells health workers and residents to prepare for heat waves, empowers administrations to keep parks open so that people can shade and provides information to schools so they're able to tweak their schedules.
The city has also been trying to “cool” roofs by experimenting with various materials absorb heat differently. Their aim is to build roofs that’ll reflect the sun and bring down indoor temperatures by using white, reflective paint or cheaper materials like dried grass, said Dr. Dileep Mavalankar, who heads the Indian Institute of Public Health in western Indian city Gandhinagar and helped design the 2013 plan.
Most Indian cities are less prepared and India’s federal government is now working with 130 cities in 23 heat wave-prone states across India for them to develop similar plans. Earlier this month, the federal government also asked states to sensitize health workers on managing heat-related illnesses and ensure that ice packs, oral rehydration salts, and cooling appliances in hospitals were available.
But Mavalankar, who wasn't part of the study, pointed to the lack of government warnings in newspapers or TV for most Indian cities and said that local administrations had just not “woken up to the heat.”
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Congratulations are in order for Ne-Yo and Crystal, who tied the knot for the second time! The "Miss Independent" singer took to Instagram and revealed the extravagant wedding that happened Sunday night in Sin City.
Ne-Yo marries wife Crystal at Resorts World Las Vegas in 2022.
The lavish affair included a rooftop ceremony at Resorts World Las Vegas overlooking the famed strip. Ne-Yo looked dapper in a black tuxedo, but the spotlight belonged to Crystal, who looked stunning in her wedding gown that featured a lengthy train and veil.
Ne-Yo marries wife Crystal during a rooftop ceremony at Resorts World Las Vegas overlooking the famed strip in 2022.
The ceremony and reception was flooded with thousands upon thousands of roses throughout. There was also a towering wedding cake that included the flavors salty caramel, chocolate and pumpkin. Ne-Yo reposted on his Instagram Story several of his guests' posts and stories. He also posted a video that showed the happy couple heading back to their suite after the event. The video shows the suite decorated with hundreds, if not thousands, of roses. The singer says he's "honored and beyond happy" following the nuptials.
Ne-Yo and wife Crystal with their children during wedding ceremony at Resorts World Las Vegas in 2022.
Crystal also looks into the camera and expressed how much the weekend meant to her.
"This weekend means the world to me," she said. "Everything that it’s about, everything that it is and the fact that I get to do it with you. I love you forever and always a million times, a million years. I will always choose you."
The celebration comes nearly a year after the couple welcomed their third child together, Isabella. He and Crystal share two sons -- 6-year-old Shaffer and 3-year-old Roman -- while Ne-Yo is also dad to 11-year-old daughter Madilyn and 10-year-old son Mason, whom he shares with ex Monyetta Shaw.
Ne-Yo and his children during the wedding ceremony at Resorts World Las Vegas in 2022.
The big event also comes following a brief split. Ne-Yo revealed back in February 2020 that he and Crystal decided to divorce. They reconciled a month later. They tied the knot for the first time in 2016, and the singer reportedly proposed to Crystal again on New Year's Eve 2020.
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Which gluten-free bagels are best?
If you or someone you love struggles with celiac disease or has non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), you know how challenging it can be to find a great-tasting bagel. Bread products are difficult to replicate in gluten-free form because flour needs the consistency and bonding that comes from gluten. But don’t despair; many companies recognize the need for delicious, gluten-free bagels that will satisfy your cravings. Several have created a chewy, crispy bagel that’s perfect with a thick spread of cream cheese.
For a gluten-free bagel that mimics traditional bagels in size, flavor and texture, reach for a Canyon Bakehouse Gluten-Free Everything Bagel.
What to know before you buy gluten-free bagels
Flavors
As with traditional bagels, gluten-free bagels come in various flavors. The most popular ones seem to be everything bagels, which have a combination of salt, seeds, garlic and onion. But fruit-flavored options with blueberries and raisins are also a hit.
Neutral flavors offer the most flexibility when it comes to toppings. Think whole-grain or plain bagels.
Size
Gluten-free bagels are notoriously small, but many bakeries have figured out how to use gluten-free flours and proteins to remedy this situation.
However, if you prefer less bread, there are many delicious bagel thins out there, too. Bagel thins comprise of a toasty crust with just a hint of chewy bread in the middle and all of the same great toppings you’d find on a full-size bagel.
Price
It may seem counterintuitive, but gluten-free bread often costs more than its gluten-packed counterpart. Gluten-free products generally come in smaller packages or with fewer items in each package, too. This makes it even more important to get the most bang for your buck by choosing the best gluten-free bagels you can find.
What to look for in quality gluten-free bagels
Free from common allergens
If you are eliminating other foods in your diet, such as eggs or dairy, take a look at the ingredients list first. Luckily, even if you have food allergies, some of the best gluten-free bagels are also free from common allergens, including dairy, corn, soy and nuts.
Another ingredient that can be challenging for some people is gums. Xanthan gum is a common additive in gluten-free bagels. If this is not an option for you, look for bakeries that use psyllium instead.
Delicious fresh or frozen
If you struggle with celiac disease or have been gluten-free for a long time, you know that freshness is key for gluten-free bread. Nothing is worse than opening up a pack of bagels and finding them dry or crumbly.
The best gluten-free bagels use stay-fresh packaging that keeps them fresher for longer in the fridge or freezer.
Pre-sliced
Pre-sliced bagels are best if you plan on storing them in the freezer. No need to defrost — simply pop them into the toaster for a quick, crunchy snack.
How much you can expect to spend on gluten-free bagels
Like most gluten-free products, gluten-free bagels are not cheap. Prices may seem random, but they often vary based on ingredients, bakery and quantity. Expect to spend $6-$8 on a pack of four or five bagels.
Gluten-free bagels FAQ
What does gluten actually do for bread?
A. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley and triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye). Breadmakers rely on its stretchy nature to help them build a chewy texture into bagels and bread. Gluten allows the dough to stretch without breaking, which means the yeast can ferment and create air bubbles in an artisan loaf without collapsing in on itself.
Without gluten, bakers have to find alternative flour combinations that closely resemble the lightness and net-like structure that gluten provides.
Are gluten-free bagels healthier than regular bagels?
A. For celiac sufferers, eating anything with gluten can mean either a debilitating stomach ache or even a trip to the hospital. When it comes to those who want to eliminate traditional bread products from their diet, it really depends on moderation. For many, a healthy diet is one that balances plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, healthy whole grains and lean protein. In moderation, processed and packaged foods such as gluten-free bagels can be a part of a healthy diet, especially if they use whole grains.
What are the best gluten-free bagels to buy?
Top gluten-free bagels
Canyon Bakehouse Gluten-Free Everything Bagel
What you need to know: The traditional topping of garlic, onion and poppy combines with sunflower seeds on a deliciously chewy bagel that is very close to the original.
What you’ll love: The bagels in this four-pack are the same size as most regular bagels. They capture the chewy texture of gluten bagels, especially when toasted. Not a fan of everything bagels? Choose from other flavors like plain, cinnamon raisin and blueberry.
What you should consider: Four bagels per pack is not very much for the price.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top gluten-free bagels for the money
New Grains Gluten-Free Blueberry Bagels
What you need to know: Add a little fresh fruit to your breakfast on the go.
What you’ll love: They have a great chewy texture and good exterior crunch when toasted. The blueberries are fresh, not dried. These are also free of soy, dairy and nuts.
What you should consider: Using fresh blueberries means strict expiration dates. Make sure to check them when you purchase.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
O’Dough’s Thins Gluten-Free Everything Bagels
What you need to know: This is the best choice if you want great bagel flavor but are watching your calorie intake.
What you’ll love: It comes with three packs of six that are ready to toast and eat at any time. You can also store them in the freezer. Other popular flavors include sesame, pumpernickel, whole grain and plain. The flavor is identical to gluten bagels, and these are also egg-free and milk-free. Toast lightly to achieve a great texture.
What you should consider: These are very thin and not a good choice for hearty sandwiches.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(Green Car Reports) — Despite strong sales, dealership EV inventories are growing, according to data from Cox Automotive (via Automotive News).
EVs are approaching 7% of the U.S. new car market, and they’re on track to surpass sales of one million units in the U.S. for the first time this year, Cox Automotive estimates. But the data also show that EVs aren’t flying off dealer lots.
Through the end of the second quarter, EV inventory in the U.S. is expected to surpass 90,000 units for the first time. For context, last year, when the EV supply was much tighter, the national inventory was around 21,000 units. As Cox Automotive notes, EV sales have increased, but not as quickly as the supply of vehicles.
Several factors are still holding back greater EV sales growth. In a June survey of dealers and consumers, Cox also found that dealers still aren’t as ready for the electric future as consumers are. And while consumers may be more enthusiastic than dealers, EV interest is far from universal.
Ipsos has concluded that consumer interest in EVs is lagging, in part because of cost misconceptions over the overall ownership cost of EVs, which may in fact be much lower than gasoline cars. Confusion over the federal EV tax credit price cap and rules that appeared to shift several times over the past year could be an issue as well.
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- Review: 2023 Jaguar I-Pace is a better EV than it was on arrival
- Fisker points to suppliers in slow production ramp of Ocean EV
- GM has issues with EPA rules seeking 50% EVs by 2030
The actual cost picture may ultimately favor EVs, though. Led by Tesla’s 20% price cut at the beginning of the year, some have suggested an EV price war is already happening, even as higher battery and manufacturing costs potentially push price parity with internal-combustion vehicles further toward 2030. For now, ample supply likely means EV deals may finally be coming—and at the very least, the price gouging is gone. | 2023-07-16T17:25:20+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/automotive/report-ev-inventories-are-swelling-and-prices-may-drop-soon/ |
The calendar may still say summer, but at Krispy Kreme, it’s about to be fall!
The doughnut shop is launching its pumpkin spice collection earlier than ever this year, with the doughnuts hitting shops nationwide on Aug. 8. The collection includes some returning favorites — Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed Doughnut, Pumpkin Spice Original Filled Cheesecake Doughnut and Pumpkin Spice Cake Doughnut — plus a new Pumpkin Spice Latte Swirl Doughnut.
The Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed Doughnut and Pumpkin Spice Cake Doughnut are the simplest treats in the collection. The first is a classic Original Glazed doughnut with pumpkin spice flavoring and the second is a spiced old-fashioned cake doughnut covered in glaze.
The Pumpkin Spice Original Filled Cheesecake Doughnut is a pumpkin spice glazed doughnut with cheesecake filling, decorated with cheesecake icing. The brand new Pumpkin Spice Latte Swirl Doughnut is a pumpkin spice doughnut that is dipped in a pumpkin spice/sugar blend, then topped with a swirl of vanilla and coffee buttercream.
Along with the doughnuts, you’ll also find Krispy Kreme’s Pumpkin Spice Latte and the new Pumpkin Spice Iced Coffee, which is iced coffee blended with pumpkin pie sauce.
While the pumpkin spice doughnuts will hit shops Aug. 8, you’ll still be able to get Krispy Kreme’s summer doughnuts until Aug. 17. The summer Ice Cream Truck Doughnut Collection is inspired by classic Popsicle flavors and includes a Firecracker Popsicle, Vanilla King Cone and the beloved Creamsicle.
The Popsicle Firecracker doughnut is a glazed doughnut with blue raspberry sugar and creme inspired by the Popsicle Firecracker, while the Vanilla King Cone doughnut is filled with vanilla custard creme, dipped in chocolate icing, topped with sugar cone pieces and chopped peanuts and has a drizzle of chocolate icing. The Creamsicle doughnut is filled with vanilla custard creme, has icing inspired by the orange-flavored treat and is topped with a drizzle of white icing and mini sprinkles.
Are you excited for fall treats or hoping to hold on to summer a bit longer?
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-08-04T15:13:56+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/krispy-kreme-pumpkin-spice-season-new-doughnut-collection |
GREAT NECK, N.Y., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law LLC filed a class action Civil RICO lawsuit against the New York City Police Department Police Commissioner, the NYPD, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection ("Consumer Affairs"), and Runway Towing Corp. ("Runway") for participating in, maintaining and continuing to operate a racketeering enterprise in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (19 USC §1961), a Federal Statute which has usually be used against organized crime figures.
The 154- page class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of consumers, businesses and former employees of Runway in New York State Supreme Court alleging that the NYPD, Consumer Affairs and Runway caused consumers and businesses to lose millions of dollars by Runway's overcharging of consumers and businesses for towing services on New York City highways.
The lawsuit alleges that NYC turned a blind eye while a Queens towing company monopolized highways and ripped off thousands of drivers. The lawsuit alleges that for many years, the NYPD, Consumer Affairs and Runway maintained the racketeering enterprise by forcing motorists to use only Runway to remove their disabled vehicle off of nine (9) arterial highways in New York City: (i) the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, from the Queens side of the Kosciusko Bridge to Clinton Street, in Brooklyn; (ii) the Cross Island Parkway; (iii) the Gowanus Expressway; (iv) the Prospect Expressway; (v) the Belt Parkway; (vi) the Staten Island Expressway; (vii) the West Shore Expressway in Staten Island; (viii) the Richmond Parkway in Staten Island; and (ix) the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway in Staten Island (the "Highways"). There are approximately over 1,300,000 vehicles per day that utilize the Highways for which Runway holds the exclusive right to tow and remove disabled vehicles from the Highways.
The NYPD has permitted Runway to operate with a no-bid monopoly for over ten years, and ignored and closed their eyes to complaints of Runway's overcharging of consumers and businesses.
It is alleged that Runway, who admits to towing over 26,000 vehicles per year, overcharged consumers and businesses in excess of $10,000,000 while the NYPD and Consumer Affairs stood by and permitted Runway to operate in an illegal manner.
While the law only permits Runway to charge a motorist $125 for a tow of up to 10 miles from the New York City Highways, Runway routinely charged motorists $250, $400 or more for the ten (10) mile tow. As Runway towed over approximately 150,000 vehicles over the past several years, these few hundred dollars overcharges per tow, generated millions of dollars in revenue to Runway. Runway also charged the consumers (i) illegal, unlawful, excessive tow rates and charges, (ii) unlawful credit card charges, (iii) unlawful "pull-out fees", (iv) unlawful storage fees, and (v) unlawful administrative charges, and the NYPD and Consumer Affairs was aware of this for years.
A copy of the complaint is available at:
For information: Gary Rosen, Esq., Rosen Law LLC, 516-437-3400 X223
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SOURCE Rosen Law LLC | 2022-09-19T15:02:16+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/09/19/civil-rico-racketeering-lawsuit-filed-against-new-york-city-police-department-ignoring-complaints-millions-dollars-overcharges-consumers-by-towing-company-holding-exclusive-permit-tow-vehicles-nine-new-york-city-highways/ |
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Shop With A Cop program helps kids in need buy Christmas gifts for their families. It’s a program that takes all year to plan, and is entirely donation-based.
A few hundred kids participate in the program, but Community Hero Johnson City Officer Brittney Eberhardt, says more are out there, and she’s determined to help them.
“If we don’t raise the money we can’t take the kids shopping. We can’t take care of them,” Officer Eberhardt says.
Eberhardt constantly thinks of how she can help more kids. She’s in charge of the Johnson City Shop With A Cop, and the Home Run Derby that raises money so more kids can get involved in the program. She says it’s a team effort.
“We really rely on the teachers and the counselors,” she says. “They know which families are struggling and who need it the most. And so we rely heavily on them to decide.”
It’s a lot of work to plan both events. But, she knows the end result is worth it.
“It’s a lot of work. You get to the point sometimes where you’re like, ‘Man, I’m just tired’,” she says. “And then, the big night, the big Shop With A Cop event, we get finished with it, and you realize why you’re doing this. They are so excited. They are so happy. It’s such a positive relationship between the kids and the officers, and that’s really what we want to foster, is that positive.”
That positive is returned in stories from children who shop.
“We had a little boy and he refused to spend anything on himself,” she remembers. “We could not make him go to the toy aisle and pick up anything. Everything single thing that he got, he spent to buy gifts for his family members and his siblings. We took him back through and told him he had to get something for himself. He was so selfless. You just don’t see that that often.”
Those stories keep Eberhardt working every year to help more kids.
“We don’t want any kids to be left out,” she says. “We don’t want children with families who are struggling to not be able to participate and be with everybody else that’s their own age.” | 2022-08-24T21:51:51+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/community/community-heroes/community-hero-jcpd-officer-helps-kids-through-shop-with-a-cop-program/ |
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Judge to decide if Air Force veteran’s killer can be released from state mental hospital
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - The family of an Air Force veteran is waiting to see whether or not an El Paso County Judge will free their loved one's killer.
Timothy Hagins was found not guilty by reason of insanity on February 6, 2018, after multiple psychologists, Dr. B. Thomas Gray and Nicole Glover on behalf of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, said "paranoid delusions led to his actions, killing David Stechman and attempting to kill the McDonald family."
Hagins has now requested to be released from the Colorado Mental Health Institute after he was permanently committed there following his not-guilty verdict.
Hagins, who was not from Colorado, walked into the Falcon home of David Stechman on August 25, 2016. He proceeded to brutally kill him with various wooden utensils and an ice cream scraper. Stechman's wife found him lying on the floor of their home covered in blood.
Shortly after, Hagins traveled 12 miles north to Elbert County and tried to harm John McDonald and his family, but John was able to detain Hagins before police arrived and took him into custody.
Two years after he was committed to the Colorado Mental Hospital in Pueblo (CMHIP), on February 21, 2020, a coordinator filed a “Notice of Temporary Physical Removal for Treatment and Rehabilitation – Supervised," court documents say. The court later denied the request for temporary removal and ordered a hearing to be set.
Since then, there have been various hearings in front of El Paso County Judge Linda Margaret Billings Vela as Hagins has continued to request his release from CMHIP. Under Colorado law, people found not guilty by reason of insanity, who are then committed to a mental hospital for restoration, can petition a judge for their release at any time.
If granted by the judge, Hagins would earn "off-campus supervised release," where he would have to be under the supervision of members of CMHIP in the community. Eventually, that release would turn into "off-campus unsupervised release," which means Hagins would no longer be under the supervision of CMHIP.
Several family members have sent letters to Judge Billings Vela pleading with her to not release him. One person, Judith Westphall, expressed her frustration that Hagins is not being re-tried for Stechman's murder, instead of being released back into the community.
"Hagins in my opinion lost his privileges when he murdered my friend," Westphall wrote to the judge. "Hagins does not deserve special benefits from the judicial system, the Stechman family sure did not get any special privileges."
Janis Stechman, David's widow, wrote a letter to Judge Billings Vela which she ended with the verbiage, "Hold him accountable."
"In August, it will be seven years without my husband David G. Stechman. I miss him every day," Janis said.
During Friday's hearing a psychiatrist with CMHIP, Dr. Jennifer Bundrick, said that she did various tests on Hagins. During those, she found that Hagins has been fully restored and does not need further hospitalization.
She recommended that Hagins be on what's called "conditional release." That means if Hagins is released from CMHIP with various rules in place like requirements to take certain medicines and make all necessary meetings.
Dr. Bundrick said his risk assessment showed that Hagins had a very low risk to re-offend. She said that this assessment concluded that he is not a psychopath, and lies within the lowest percentile of people who are in his position.
She concluded that Hagins now does know the difference between right and wrong, which was an issue when he was tried for murder back in 2018. Dr. Bundrick testified that she does not believe that Hagins is a dangerous person any longer.
When Dr. Bundrick was cross-examined by the prosecution, she outlined that Hagins had multiple "psychotic breaks" in 2005 and 2013. In both instances, he had to be hospitalized and told people that he did not have a mental illness.
During that 2013 psychotic break, he attempted to light himself on fire with gasoline because he was feeling threatened at the time. The prosecutor then outlined that Hagins suffered another break in 2016 when he killed Stechman.
Dr. Bundrick testified that Hagins has a "life-long mental illness," that can only be helped with medication. She added that it only helps with symptoms and is not a cure for his disorder.
The psychiatrist said that if Hagins were to go off of his medication, he would be highly likely to be a danger to himself or others once again. This opinion garnered noticeable nods from family members of the victim inside the courtroom Friday.
At Friday's hearing, Judge Billings Vela announced she'll make a decision next week in writing.
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CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich. (WJMN) – A Chippewa County man is facing multiple felony charges, including assault with intent to murder, following his arrest by Michigan State Police (MSP).
According to MSP, troopers from the MSP Sault Ste. Marie Post were dispatched on Monday, June 26, to a report of a man holding his ex-girlfriend against her will.
The suspect, 48-year-old Jason McRorie, allegedly traveled to a location he knew the victim would be, waited for her there, and then restrained her in a residence using a firearm, according to MSP’s investigation.
During the altercation, police allege that McRorie also committed additional felonious acts against the victim.
Eventually, the victim was able to contact nearby family members.
A traffic stop was later initiated after MSP troopers in the area located the vehicle McRorie was in and took him into custody.
McRorie has been charged with multiple felonies, including assault with intent to murder, criminal sexual conduct 1st degree, kidnapping, home invasion 1st degree, assault to do great bodily harm by strangulation, and several weapons offenses.
McRorie was arraigned in the 91st District Court in Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday, June 27 and a $1 million cash bond with conditions was set. He is currently lodged in the Chippewa County Jail.
Troopers were assisted by UPSET, MSP Emergency Services Team, and the Sault Ste. Marie City Police. | 2023-06-27T21:52:45+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/chippewa-county-man-facing-multiple-felonies-after-kidnapping/ |
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Moving day at the Masters was mostly about everyone leaving on Saturday.
A cold, relentless rain was too much for Augusta National to handle, leading to one of the earliest finishes for a Saturday — just 15 minutes after CBS came on the air — and setting up a marathon finish for Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm and anyone able to catch them.
Koepka, who began the third round with a two-shot lead over Rahm, extended it to four shots when the Spaniard made consecutive bogeys. They made it to the seventh green, already filled with tiny pools of water, before play was suspended for the day.
The round was to resume at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, followed by another two-tee start.
Tiger Woods was relieved to make the cut — his 23rd in a row at the Masters, tying the tournament record — and then looked as though he couldn’t get off the course fast enough after making back-to-back double bogeys for the first time ever at Augusta National. He was in last place, 22 shots behind.
Koepka was at 13-under par and faced a 10-foot par putt on the seventh green. Rahm was at 9 under and had about 8 feet for birdie. There was a long way to go.
“I’m not too concerned about playing 29 holes or however many holes we’ve got left,” Koepka said. “It’s part of the deal. I’m pretty sure I’ll be up for it considering it is the Masters. So I don’t think anybody should have a problem with that.”
The lasting image was thousands of spectators under their green-and-white Masters umbrellas moving slowly in unison toward the exit.
There was plenty of entertainment in the short window of golf, most of it in the morning when the second round was completed.
Temperatures didn’t quite reach 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius). The rain and wind made it feel worse, and playing conditions were so severe that hardly anyone could reach the par 5s. Some players were hitting fairway metal on the par-4 18th.
Rahm did remarkably well to close the gap on Koepka, getting to within one shot when he holed a birdie putt from just off the back of the 17th green. But he came up short of the 18th with a 4-iron — he hit 8-iron into the 18th hole in warm weather on Thursday — and made bogey for a 69.
“Those two holes at the end, 17 and 18, were two absolute monsters,” Rahm said.
Cameron Young summed it for some three dozen players who were forced to handle the rain, the cold and a course that played longer than it ever has on Saturday morning.
“It’s basically impossible,” Young said. “I really don’t know what you’re supposed to do.”
Players lost tee shots to the right because of water on the face of the club — even after wiping it dry before they hit. Shots were skidding across rain-soaked greens. The ball was going nowhere.
Koepka was among the fortunate who finished his second round in the warm breeze on Friday before the bad weather moved in and changed everything.
While it was the first time at the Masters that two players finished 36 holes at double digits under par, this felt more like survival.
No one paid the price quite like Justin Thomas. He returned to the course at 2 under for the tournament and began losing ground quickly, with a shot into the water on the 11th for a double bogey, a tee shot over the back of the green on the par-3 12th and a three-putt bogey on the par-5 15th from 45 feet.
Woods had his own issues. He was hovering around the cut line — he had never missed the cut as a pro at Augusta — when he finished bogey-bogey to fall outside the top 50 and ties. He needed either Thomas or Sungjae Im to bogey one of the last two holes to make it.
Both obliged, but Thomas wound up making bogey on Nos. 17 and 18. He had to hit 5-wood into the 18th, pulled it into the gallery and missed a 10-foot putt for a 42 on the back nine and a 78, matching his worst score in the Masters.
There was a brief respite in the rain, and then out came the umbrellas not long after the third round began.
U.S. Amateur champion Sam Bennett, who at 8-under 136 had the lowest 36-hole score by an amateur since Ken Venturi in 1956, promptly bogeyed his opening two holes.
“It was brutal out there,” Bennett said. “I think they honestly could have called it about 45 minutes earlier, but they tried their best.”
Koepka and Rahm each birdied the par-5 second hole, but then Rahm got out of position on the par-3 fourth for bogey, and three-putted from long range on the fifth. But he ended his day with two good swings and then was done for the day.
Having to complete the third round on Sunday morning is not unusual. The last two times for weather delays on Saturday (2005 and 2006), play resumed and was stopped by darkness. This time it was 3:15 p.m., an abrupt and early end.
The forecast for Sunday should allow for the Masters to finish as scheduled. But even as rain clears, it is sure to leave a softer Augusta National that can be attacked.
“It looks like it’s good weather tomorrow — so we’re going to have good weather conditions and most likely a soft golf course,” Rahm said.
Patrick Cantlay and U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick were 3 under for the second round, the best of scoring on this miserable day. They were tied for fourth, along with Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland, still eight shots behind.
Phil Mickelson also was in the mix. The three-time Masters champion had two early birdies before giving them back. He was in the group at 4-under par and headed to the back nine when play was stopped.
Woods ended Saturday morning with two bogeys and started Saturday afternoon — he was in the last group on the back nine — with another one. But it really got ugly at the end. His wedge to the 15th spun off the green and into the water. And on the par-3 16th, with a front right pin, he went well left and into the water.
But in only his fourth tournament since last year’s Masters, he was still playing. He joined Fred Couples and Gary Player in the Masters record book with his 23rd straight cut made. Couples carved out his own spot in the book. At age 63, he became the oldest player to make the cut at the Masters. | 2023-04-08T21:56:54+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/sports/2023/04/2023-masters-third-round-rain-halts-play-yet-again-making-sunday-a-long-day.html |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 20, 2023
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TORNADO WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
446 PM CDT Thu Apr 20 2023
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL MCLENNAN...NORTHEASTERN BELL AND WEST CENTRAL FALLS
COUNTIES...
At 445 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Moody, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.
This dangerous storm will be near...
Bruceville-Eddy around 500 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include Cego
and Mooreville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a
vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter now! Get to an
interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid
windows.
Heavy rainfall may hide this tornado. Do not wait to see or hear the
tornado. TAKE COVER NOW!
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
East central Kerr County in south central Texas...
Central Gillespie County in south central Texas...
* Until 530 PM CDT.
* At 446 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over
Kerrville-Schreiner Park, or over Kerrville, moving north at 25
mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Center Point, Tivydale and
Kerrville-Schreiner Park.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN MCLENNAN AND EAST CENTRAL CORYELL COUNTIES...
At 447 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Mother Neff
State Park, or near McGregor, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect damage
to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles.
Locations impacted include...
Waco, Hewitt, Robinson, Woodway, McGregor, Beverly Hills, Lorena,
Bruceville-Eddy, Moody, Crawford, Lake Waco, Mother Neff State Park,
Oglesby, Whitson, Willow Grove, Leon Junction, Spring Valley and
Mound.
Heavy rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash
flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Northern portions of Kaufman Co. in North Texas
* WHEN...Until 715 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This
will likely cause urban and small stream flooding. Low lying
and/or poor drainage areas will experience minor flooding in
the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have
fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Dallas, Mesquite, Terrell, Seagoville, Forney, Kaufman,
Sunnyvale, Crandall, Combine, Talty, New Terrell City Lake,
Elmo, Oak Grove, Post Oak Bend City, Oak Ridge, Lawrence,
Heartland, Ola, Rand and Lake Ray Hubbard.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR UVALDE COUNTY...
At 449 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Blewett, or 9
miles west of Uvalde, moving east at 25 mph.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Uvalde, Knippa, Uvalde Estates, Blewett and Cline.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL BANDERA...SOUTHEASTERN
KERR AND WESTERN KENDALL COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However heavy rain is
still possible with this thunderstorm.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
south central Texas.
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-04-20T22:27:46+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-dallas-ft-worth-warnings-watches-and-17909507.php |
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – The Middle Path offers dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), an innovative new method that allows clients to become the best versions of themselves.
September is Suicide Awareness month, a time where we all take stock and do what we can to help others in need within our community. At The Middle Path, they specialize in giving clients the tools that are required to overcome life’s many challenges. From anger management to trauma mediation to music therapy, The Middle Path customizes your wellness journey to your personal needs doing away with the “One Size Fits All” mentality. You are never alone when you walk beside The Middle Path.
For more information visit The Middle Path website. | 2022-09-12T22:00:39+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/living-east-tennessee/the-middle-path-helps-you-to-lead-your-best-life/ |
Report: Man arrested after being discovered inside garage
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Authorities say a 31-year-old man was arrested after the victim found him in the garage.
Kyle Phillips was charged with first-degree assault and battery, first-degree burglary, financial transaction card theft and possession of metal knuckles, jail records show.
A report states officers responded to the 500 block of Saint Andrews Blvd just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday night in reference to a burglary in progress.
Officers say when they arrived the victim had already subdued Phillips who was then detained and removed from the home.
A report states the victim said he arrived home to find items inside the home out of place and a drawer inside the bedroom scattered before finding Phillips standing in the garage.
According to a police report, Phillips allegedly grabbed a hammer and swung it near the victim’s head before the victim was able to grab Phillips by the waist, pull him to the ground and hold him until officers arrived.
Officers say a search of Phillips revealed numerous items taken from the home as well as debit cards registered to other people.
Phillips was being held in the Al Cannon Detention Center.
Copyright 2022 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2022-04-15T16:37:23+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/04/15/report-man-arrested-after-being-discovered-inside-garage/ |
LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak faced the opposition in Parliament for the first time as Britain’s prime minister Wednesday, promising to restore economic stability after his predecessor’s tax plans triggered market tumult.
Sunak ripped up more of predecessor Liz Truss’ flagship policies, reinstating a moratorium on fracking for shale gas that Truss had lifted. Plans for large-scale deregulation of the economy, part of Truss’ vision to unleash economic growth, are also under review, Sunak’s spokeswoman said.
Sunak, who took office Tuesday, has appointed a government that mixes allies with experienced ministers from the administrations of his two immediate predecessors, Truss and Boris Johnson as he tries to tackle Britain’s multiple economic problems. One of his first acts was to delay a key economic statement by more than two weeks, until Nov. 17, so the government can use the most accurate possible forecasts as it seeks to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.
“We will have to take difficult decisions to restore economic stability and confidence,” Sunak told the House of Commons. “We will do this in a fair way.”
“I will always protect the most vulnerable. We did it in COVID and we will do it again,” he said.
Opposition politicians focused on the baggage his new government carried: ministers from the Cabinets of Johnson — who quit in July after a slew of ethics scandals — and Truss, whose government lasted just seven weeks.
A package of unfunded tax cuts Truss unveiled last month spooked financial markets with the prospect of ballooning debt, drove the pound to record lows and forced the Bank of England to intervene — weakening Britain’s fragile economy and obliterating Truss’ authority within the Conservative Party.
Sunak is seen by Conservatives as a safe pair of hands they hope can stabilize an economy sliding toward recession — and stem the party’s plunging popularity.
Sunak brought in people from different wings of the Conservative Party for his Cabinet. He removed about a dozen members of Truss’ government but kept several senior figures in place, including Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
He faces a backlash for reappointing Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who resigned last week after breaching ethics rules by sending a sensitive government email from a private account. She used her resignation letter to criticize Truss, hastening the then-prime minister’s departure.
A leading light of the Conservatives’ right wing who infuriates liberals, Braverman is tasked with fulfilling a controversial, stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers arriving in Britain on a one-way trip to Rwanda.
Sunak denied an allegation by Labour leader Keir Starmer that he had made a “grubby deal” with Braverman in return for her support in the leadership contest.
Opponents expressed astonishment that Braverman could be back in her job less than a week after her resignation, and before an investigation of her breach of the ethics rules.
Sunak said he was happy to have Braverman back in government. he said she “made an error of judgment but she recognized that, she raised the matter and she accepted her mistake.”
Sunak also kept in place Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt, whom Truss appointed two weeks ago to steady the markets. His removal likely would have set off new tremors.
Hunt, who had planned to deliver a statement on Oct. 31, will now have a few more weeks to outline the government plans to come up with billions of pounds (dollars) to fill a fiscal hole created by soaring inflation and a sluggish economy, and exacerbated by Truss’ destabilizing plans.
Cabinet minister Michael Gove, brought back to government by Sunak after being fired by Johnson and sidelined by Truss, said it was time for the Conservatives “to get back to the business of Government in a quiet way.”
“After 12 months of turbulence, after a rolling news buffet, an all-you-can eat story extravaganza … boring is back,” he said during a speech in London.
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From its headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on August 4, 2022, Absen launched its latest breakthrough product series, Micro LED KLCOB, in a livestream event viewed by over 300 stakeholders across the world. The event, hosted by Absen's European Brand and Marketing Director, Jessica Golding, gave Ruben Rengel, Absen's Vice President for Global Business Development, the platform to deliver his insights into the future of LED, before Darren Banks, Absen's Industry Development Director of Corporate, guided viewers through the breakthrough details of Absen's latest product series: the KLCOB.
The New Era of Micro LED
Jessica Golding explained that advancements in LED technology over recent years and the acceleration in 5G + 8K technology, have ushered in the Era of Micro LED, once considered the future of displays. Actively developing IMD and COB technologies since 2016, Absen's depth of knowledge honed through two generations of Micro LED products launched to global success by 2021, paves the way for the groundbreaking KLCOB series.
New trends in display
Presenting insights into the future trend of Micro LED display products, Ruben Rengel predicted accelerated replacement of traditional technology, as well as a 34.2% compound growth rate in market size over the next four years. Absen anticipates an expansion in channels of distribution by 2023 due to COB/MIP dual line technology, large-scale all-in-one screen sizes and pixel pitch reduction to 0.5mm.
To Absen's value added partners who play a vital role in Absen's go to market strategy, Ruben promised, "As the global leading LED product and service provider, we have spared no effort in product innovation."
The product Launch
Darren Banks, Absen's Industry Development Director of Corporate, took up the mantle to deliver the detail of the product innovation with the product launch itself.
A New Era of Image Quality
The key to Absen's new KLCOB display, which combines extraordinary deep blacks with brilliant image, strong against impact – as well dust and moisture resistant – and maintaining cool for longer viewing periods, is Absen's flip chip technology.
The technology offers lower power consumption at the same brightness, high contrast and high brightness uninterrupted by shadows or other obstacles, for a display with triple contrast and a screen four times stronger than traditional LED, 40% more power efficient with reliability doubled. A screen radiant and robust for business settings such as conference room, lobby, TV studio and beyond.
KLCOB's black surface coating brings amazing black consistency improving the visual performance to an unprecedented level for greater viewer immersion but without the glare and reflection. The non-glare surface light source brings a softer and more uniform light to relieve the eye fatigue experienced when watching the screen for a long time.
Absen's image optimization enhances visuals
The KLCOB integrates multiple Absen image optimization technologies for realistic and incredible images enhanced in clarity and visibility: HDR 10, stunning 15000:1 contrast with 600Nits maximum brightness, 1.07 billion colours and cinema level color gamut at DCI-P3. An ultra-high refresh rate of 120Hz and 22-bit greyscale transitions, combine with 3840Hz operation for perfect low moiré in-camera performance suitable for TV studios and lecture halls.
Super strong and stays cool for breathtaking immersion
Full flip chip COB technology and Absen's HBB common cathode technologies keep the KLCOB cool for stunning visuals without the heat. The investment into the strength of KLCOB assures a collision and oxidization proof panel whilst supporting its breathtaking proportions. The KLCOB Ultra High Definition screen is available at a staggering size of 433". The cabinet adopts a 16:9 display ratio which can be easily spliced into 2K, 4K or 8K screens for a truly immersive viewing experience.
Absen Green
Yet this mighty display treads lightly through the world, easy on our eyes in every sense and easy on the earth's resources. It's full energy saving potential is achieved through a combination of four technological innovations, which reduce energy consumption by forty percent compared to traditional screens under the same conditions. KLCOB practices the "Absen Green" concept.
"Absen will promote the innovation and development of the technology and products," concluded Jessica, "and together with global partners, accelerate the widespread application of Micro LED display."
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CDC reports declining interest in COVID boosters
(CNN) - There’s declining interest in COVID vaccine boosters, even among older adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported seniors in the U.S. are more likely to be vaccinated than any other age group, but uptake has declined with each additional shot.
About 93% of people ages 65 and older have completed their initial vaccine series, according to the CDC. However, only about 72% of those eligible have kept up to date by getting their first booster and less than half have gotten their second booster shot.
As for the updated bivalent booster shots, which target the original strain and two omicron subvariants, less than 10% of the population ages 5 and up have gotten it.
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ATLANTA, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- UCB (Euronext: UCB), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has published a final rule stating that FINTEPLA oral solution is no longer subject to the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This change is immediate.
The DEA rule means all federally controlled substance restrictions have been removed for FINTEPLA. UCB will now begin the process of updating the compendia in states where they hold licensure. Once this process is completed, in most cases prescribers will be able to write a prescription for a full year's supply versus the current limitation of six months. Additionally, the descheduling will enable prescribers to send a prescription to pharmacies electronically.
"We are pleased that FINTEPLA, which has a unique mechanism of action different from and complementary to other anti-seizure medications, has been descheduled and can help even more patients and families living with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome manage the impact and burden of seizures," said Brad Chapman, Head of U.S. Epilepsy and Rare Syndromes, UCB. "Physicians will now have the option to issue an electronic prescription for FINTEPLA rather than requiring patients to obtain a written prescription to access this important therapy, which may be simpler and a better experience for all involved."
FINTEPLA is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of seizures associated with Dravet Syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) in patients 2 years of age and older.1 Following FDA approval, FINTEPLA was initially placed in Schedule IV of the CSA. Following receipt of this DEA rule, UCB has filed a labeling supplement with the FDA to remove Schedule IV designation from FINTEPLA.
"It is vitally important that our patient community has easy access to medicines that potentially reduce life-threatening and deadly seizures," said Mary Anne Meskis, Executive Director of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation. "We are pleased to hear of the descheduling of FINTEPLA, which will remove roadblocks to access and ease caregiver burden."
FINTEPLA was approved by the FDA for the treatment of DS in patients 2 years and older in June 2020 and for the treatment of LGS in patients 2 years and older in March 2022. FINTEPLA was developed by Zogenix, Inc., which was acquired by UCB in March 2022. The acquisition is consistent with UCB's sustainable patient value strategy and continued commitment to providing world-leading patient value to all people living with epilepsy, with an increasing focus on creating value and new solutions that address the unmet needs of people with certain specialized or rare types of epilepsy, where few or no options exist.
About Dravet Syndrome
Dravet syndrome is a rare, devastating and life-long form of developmental and epileptic encephalopathy that generally begins in infancy and is marked by frequent, treatment-resistant seizures, significant developmental, motor, and behavioral impairments, and an increased risk of mortality and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Most patients follow a course of developmental delay with cognitive, motor, and behavioral deficits that persist into adulthood. Dravet syndrome severely impacts quality of life for patients, families, and caregivers due to the high physical, emotional, caregiving, and financial burden associated with the disease.2,3,4
About Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe childhood-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by drug-resistant seizures with high morbidity5 as well as serious impairment of neurodevelopmental, cognitive, and motor functions.6 LGS affects an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 patients in the U.S.7 LGS has far-reaching effects beyond seizures, including issues with communication, psychiatric symptoms, sleep, behavioral challenges, and mobility.8 Additionally, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a major concern for people living with LGS.9
About FINTEPLA® (fenfluramine)1
In the U.S., FINTEPLA is approved for the treatment of seizures associated with Dravet syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in patients 2 years of age and older.
FINTEPLA is available in the U.S. through the FINTEPLA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Program. Further information is available at www.FinteplaREMS.com or by telephone at 1-877-964-3649.
Please see full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning, for additional important information on FINTEPLA.
INDICATION
- FINTEPLA is a prescription medicine used to treat seizures associated with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in patients 2 years of age and older.
- It is not known if FINTEPLA is safe and effective in children less than 2 years of age.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
FINTEPLA can cause serious side effects, including:
1. Problems with the valves in the heart (valvular heart disease) and high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs (pulmonary arterial hypertension) have been associated with fenfluramine, the active ingredient in FINTEPLA. Your healthcare provider will do a test called an echocardiogram to check your heart and to evaluate for high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs before you start taking FINTEPLA, again every 6 months during treatment, and one time 3 to 6 months after you take your last dose of FINTEPLA.
Call your healthcare provider right away if you develop any of these signs and symptoms of heart or lung problems during treatment with FINTEPLA:
- shortness of breath
- chest pain
- tiredness or weakness, especially with increased activity
- sensations of a rapid, fluttering heartbeat (palpitations)
- lightheadedness or fainting
- irregular pulse
- swollen ankles or feet
- bluish color of your lips and skin (cyanosis)
Because of the risk of heart valve problems (valvular heart disease) and high blood pressure in arteries of lungs (pulmonary arterial hypertension), FINTEPLA is only available through a restricted program called the FINTEPLA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Program. Before you or your child receives FINTEPLA, your healthcare provider or pharmacist will make sure you understand how to take FINTEPLA safely. If you have any questions about FINTEPLA, ask your healthcare provider, visit www.FinteplaREMS.com, or call 1-877-964-3649.
2. Decreased appetite and decreased weight. Decreased appetite and decreased weight are both serious and common side effects of FINTEPLA in people with Dravet syndrome (DS) or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS).
- Your weight should be checked regularly during your treatment with FINTEPLA.
- Your healthcare provider may need to make changes to your FINTEPLA dose if your weight decreases. In some cases, FINTEPLA may need to be stopped.
3. Sleepiness, sedation, and lack of energy (lethargy). These are both serious and common side effects of FINTEPLA in people with Dravet syndrome (DS) or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). Taking FINTEPLA with central nervous system (CNS) depressants, including alcohol, may increase sleepiness. Do not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how FINTEPLA affects you.
4. Like all other antiepileptic drugs, FINTEPLA may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people (about 1 in 500).
Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of these symptoms, especially if they are new, worse, or worry you:
- thoughts about suicide or dying
- new or worse anxiety
- trouble sleeping (insomnia)
- acting on dangerous impulses
- attempts to commit suicide
- feeling agitated or restless
- new or worse irritability
- an extreme increase in activity and talking (mania)
- new or worse depression
- panic attacks
- acting aggressive, being angry or violent
- other unusual changes in behavior or mood
How can I watch for early symptoms of suicidal thoughts and actions?
- Pay attention to any changes, especially sudden changes, in mood, behaviors, thoughts, or feelings.
- Keep all follow-up visits with your healthcare provider as scheduled.
Suicidal thoughts or actions can be caused by things other than medicines. If you have suicidal thoughts or actions, your healthcare provider may check for other causes.
5. Do not stop taking FINTEPLA without first talking to your healthcare provider. Stopping a seizure medicine such as FINTEPLA can suddenly cause you to have seizures more often or seizures that do not stop (status epilepticus).
Call your healthcare provider between visits as needed, especially if you are worried about symptoms.
Do not take FINTEPLA if you:
- are allergic to fenfluramine or any of the ingredients in FINTEPLA. See below for a complete list of ingredients in FINTEPLA.
- are taking or have stopped taking medicines called monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) in the last 14 days. This may cause a serious or life-threatening problem called serotonin syndrome. If you are not sure whether or not you are taking one of these medicines, contact your healthcare provider.
Before taking FINTEPLA, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have heart problems
- have or have had weight loss
- have or have had depression, mood problems, or suicidal thoughts or behavior
- have kidney problems
- have liver problems
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you become pregnant while taking FINTEPLA. You and your healthcare provider will decide if you should take FINTEPLA while you are pregnant.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if FINTEPLA passes into your breast milk. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby while taking FINTEPLA.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them to show your healthcare provider or pharmacist when you get a new medicine.
How should I take FINTEPLA?
- Read the Instructions for Use for information on the right way to use FINTEPLA.
- Take FINTEPLA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it.
- Your healthcare provider will tell you how much FINTEPLA to take and when to take it.
- FINTEPLA may be taken with or without food.
- Measure your dose of FINTEPLA using the dosing syringe that is provided by the pharmacy. Do not use a household teaspoon or tablespoon.
- FINTEPLA can be given through gastric and nasogastric feeding tubes.
What should I avoid while taking FINTEPLA?
- Do not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how FINTEPLA affects you. FINTEPLA may cause you to feel sleepy.
What are the possible side effects of FINTEPLA?
FINTEPLA may cause serious side effects, including:
- See "FINTEPLA can cause serious side effects" above
- mental status changes such as seeing things that are not there (hallucinations), agitation, or coma
- changes in blood pressure
- tight muscles
- fast heartbeat
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- high body temperature
- trouble walking
- red eyes
- seeing halos or bright colors around lights
- nausea or vomiting
- decreased vision
- eye pain or discomfort
- blurred vision
If you have any of these symptoms, call your healthcare provider right away.
- decreased appetite
- diarrhea
- low energy
- respiratory infection
- decreased weight
- fever
- constipation
- abnormal echocardiogram
- sleepiness
- problems with movement, balance, and walking
- increased drooling
- increased blood pressure
- vomiting
- falls
- seizures that do not stop
- weakness
- diarrhea
- tiredness
- vomiting
- sleepiness
- decreased appetite
These are not all the possible side effects of FINTEPLA. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1–800–FDA–1088.
Keep FINTEPLA and all medicines out of the reach of children.
General information about the safe and effective use of FINTEPLA.
Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Medication Guide. Do not use FINTEPLA for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give FINTEPLA to other people, even if they have the same symptoms that you have. It may harm them.
What are the ingredients in FINTEPLA?
Active ingredient: fenfluramine hydrochloride
Inactive ingredients: cherry flavor, citric acid, ethylparaben, hydroxyethylcellulose, methylparaben, potassium citrate, sucralose, and water.
FINTEPLA contains no ingredient made from gluten-containing grain (wheat, barley, or rye) and contains not more than 0.1% of carbohydrates, which is from the cherry flavoring.
Please see full Prescribing Information, including Medication Guide, for additional Important Safety Information on FINTEPLA.
For further information, contact UCB:
Corporate Communications
Becky Malone, U.S. Media Relations
T +919.605.9600
Becky.Malone@ucb.com
Investor Relations
Antje Witte
T +32.2.559.9414
antje.witte@ucb.com
About UCB
UCB, Brussels, Belgium (www.ucb.com) is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines and solutions to transform the lives of people living with severe diseases of the immune system or of the central nervous system. With approximately 8,600 people in approximately 40 countries, the company generated revenue of € 5.8 billion in 2021. UCB is listed on Euronext Brussels (symbol: UCB). Follow us on Twitter: @UCBUSA.
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Actor Brett Goldstein, who recently stole viewers’ hearts as foul-mouthed soccer player and coach Roy Kent on the Apple TV series “Ted Lasso,” is preparing to embark on his first U.S. stand-up comedy tour. He’ll be here, he’ll be there, he’ll be every-effing-where — including Denver.
In fact, Goldstein’s “The Second Best Night of Your Life” tour kicks off at the Mile High City’s Buell Theatre on Oct. 5. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. via axs.com following a pre-sale that begins on Wednesday.
In 2021, Goldstein notched two Emmy Awards for his role on “Ted Lasso” and he’s nominated for a third in the category for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series this year. But the wholesome show — during which viewers watch the stone-cold Kent transform into a soft-on-the-inside coach over the course of three seasons — is hardly the only character he’s played recently.
Fans of Marvel movies will also recognize Goldstein as Hercules from 2022’s “Thor: Love and Thunder.” He also co-created the Apple TV+ series “Shrinking” starring Jason Segel and Harrison Ford.
Still, Roy Kent won’t be totally absent from Goldstein’s comedy act. “There will be swears,” he promised on Instagram.
Earlier this year, Goldstein performed a few select stand-up dates on the West Coast. The San Francisco Chronicle said it was “jarring to see the Emmy-winning actor and director step outside of the role that made him famous” all while using fewer F-bombs than characteristic — a sentiment to which we can only assume Roy Kent would have a few choice words.
After Denver, “The Second Best Night of Your Life” tour hits Boston, Minneapolis, Sacramento, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Portland. See the full schedule at brettgoldsteintour.com. | 2023-07-24T19:21:52+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/07/24/brett-goldstein-roy-kent-ted-lasso-comedy-tour-denver/ |
Bain & Company's mid-year M&A report shows market leaders are using this time of volatility to improve competitive positions
BOSTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a cooling pace of dealmaking in the first half of the year, 2022 could be on track to reach $4.7 trillion in strategic M&A deal value by year-end. While this would represent a 20% decline from 2021's record-breaking $5.9 trillion, it would still make 2022 the second-best year for dealmaking on record. These are among the findings of Bain & Company's 2022 mid-year M&A report, published today.
Bain & Company's estimates for a strong market are due in part to the rebound in deal activity in recent months, with market leaders using this time of turbulence to improve competitive positions. In the first quarter of 2022, deal value totaled only $599 billion, a steep drop from fourth-quarter 2021's $970 billion. However, the second quarter of 2022 brought with it a healthy recovery, with deal value totaling $702 billion in April and May.
"The keyword for dealmakers this year has been turbulence, as inflation has soared, interest rates have continued to rise, and the cost of capital has increased, not to mention mounting supply chain issues and geopolitical tensions," said David Harding, an advisory partner at Bain & Company. "Such an environment makes it easy to overlook the fundamentals that still exist for robust M&A opportunities: capital is generally available for deals, most businesses have strong cashflow and balance sheets, and private equity pockets remain deep. We're seeing market leaders continue to do M&A to add much-needed capabilities amid these turbulent times."
A sign of this year's unprecedented volatility: oscillating valuations. 2021 saw record deal valuations, with median enterprise value/EBITDA multiples at 15.4 times. Looking deeper at 2022, valuations stumbled in the first quarter, down to just 11 times, only to rebound in the second quarter to 16.7 times.
"In the face of such turmoil, it's easy for dealmakers to get conservative, but that would be a mistake," said Andrei Vorobyov, a partner at Bain & Company. "Our research shows that the greatest competitive market shifts take place during times of turbulence. Companies that invest throughout the economic cycle have the opportunity to help set the shape of their industries for years to come and realize far superior returns than those that participate sporadically."
Bain & Company's study of nearly 3,900 companies revealed that recession winners average 14% in compounded annual EBIT growth in the 13 years following a downturn, compared with zero for recession losers. As the winners adjust their corporate strategies for times of uncertainty, they continue to use M&A as one of the big levers to gain and strengthen their competitive advantage.
Companies willing to act must start with revising their M&A playbooks and deploying scenario planning so that executives have a clear view of the full range of potential outcomes.
Editor's Note: To arrange an interview, contact Katie Ware at katie.ware@bain.com or +1 646 562 8102.
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Dozens of dogs arrive in US from meat farm, will need adopters
WASHINGTON (Gray News) – Dozens of dogs have arrived in the United States this week after they were saved from a dog meat farm overseas.
The Humane Society International/Korea and its partners rescued 34 dogs from a meat farm in South Korea. The dogs arrived Thursday at Washington Dulles International Airport and were taken to a Humane Society rehabilitation center for care.
According to a press release, the Humane Society said the dogs “will receive the love and comfort that the dog meat industry denied them, including beds, a nutritious diet, enrichment and veterinary care.”
Eventually, the dogs will be transferred to a Humane Society rescue shelter and be put up for adoption.
The Humane Society said an estimated 1 million dogs are killed per year for meat in South Korea, bred on farms where they are locked in metal cages without proper food or water. Most are killed at around 1 year old, according to the Humane Society.
“For these dogs flying to the United States, South Korea’s dog meat industry will soon be a distant memory. But hundreds of thousands of other dogs are still languishing in terrible conditions on dog meat farms for a meat that very few Koreans want to eat and most want banned,” Sangkyung Lee, dog meat campaigner for Humane Society International/Korea, said.
An opinion survey by Nielsen Korea published in October shows that 85% of Koreans said they have never eaten dog meat or will not do so in the future. In addition, 56% said they support a dog meat ban.
Since 2015, Humane Society International/Korea has permanently closed 17 dog meat farms and rescued more than 2,500 dogs who found adoptive, forever homes.
The group has helped dog farmers transition to new livelihoods such as chili plant and parsley growing or water truck delivery.
“As these rescued dogs arrive in the United States and move into our rehabilitation center, we look forward to the next chapter: preparing them to be adopted into loving homes where they can finally enjoy life as all dogs should,” Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and CEO of Humane Society International, said.
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The Solana Foundation announces Amsterdam for the flagship conference of the Solana Ecosystem, October 30 - November 3
NEW YORK, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Solana Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana network, today announced the initial speakers list and general admission ticket availability for Solana Breakpoint 2023. In addition, applications developer, creator and student tickets and the first-ever open call for artists in the Solana community.
The third annual Breakpoint conference will take place in Amsterdam from October 30 through November 3 at the Solana Campus, a pop-up gathering ground located at TAETs Art and Event Park approximately 15 minutes from central Amsterdam. The Solana Campus will feature three stages for keynote speakers, educational developer sessions, and creator success stories. In addition, the campus will feature activations and events from Solana ecosystem teams such as art installations, project showcases, and beyond.
"Breakpoint 2022 was a seminal moment for the Solana community and we're excited to host the most advanced and innovative blockchain developers this year. It's been invigorating to collaborate and communicate with the Solana community since last year's Breakpoint," shared Dan Albert, Executive Director, Solana Foundation. "We are extremely excited for the community to come together, this time in Amsterdam, to engage in discussions, educate one another and join forces to bring the world of blockchain technology forward. It's time to build the future."
Last year, Breakpoint saw builders, enthusiasts, and dreamers descend upon Lisbon, where the event hosted over 3,600 attendees and 250 speakers across 125 sessions. This year's edition will be even bigger, with the world's most innovative minds collaborating throughout the Solana Campus across five days of presentations, workshops and community events. Breakpoint 2023 initial group of speakers will include:
- Sandra Persing, Vice President, Developer & Ecosystem Marketing, Circle
- Armani Ferrante, CEO and Founder, Coral
- Peter Moore, formerly of Electronic Arts
- James Tromans, Engineering Director, Web3, Engineering, and Strategy, Google
- Amir Haleem, Founder, Helium
- Kanav Kiraya, President, Jump Crypto
- Kevin Bowers, Chief Science Officer and Head of Research and Development, Jump Trading
- Pascal Gauthier, Chairman and CEO, Ledger
- Nuseir Yassin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nas Company
- Thomas Lambertz, CEO, Neodyme
- Ori Kwan, Co-Founder, Orca
- Jules Urbach, CEO and Founder, OTOY
For speaking opportunities please visit here. Projects looking to inquire about sponsorship of Solana Breakpoint 2023, can visit here.
More information on tickets, travel, visas, flights, or hotels, can be found on the Breakpoint website here.
About Solana Foundation
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana network. For more information, please visit https://solana.org/.
About Solana
Solana is a global state machine, and the world's most performant blockchain. It gives developers the confidence to build for the long term by delivering predictable scaling without compromising security or composability. Solana's performance is driven by a single global state, which is capable of processing tens of thousands of smart contracts at once, and by Proof of History, a distributed clock that unlocks low-latency, sub-second finality across the global state. To learn more, please visit https://solana.com/.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-6-3, FIREBALL: 2
(two, six, three; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
2-6-3, FIREBALL: 2
(two, six, three; FIREBALL: two) | 2023-01-14T01:18:15+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17717139.php |
Police investigate suspected homicide near SW Albuquerque gas station
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police officers are investigating a suspected homicide Thursday morning in the area of a southwest Albuquerque gas station.
Officers responded just after midnight Thursday to the intersection of Bridge and Old Coors. There, they found a person shot and killed before they arrived.
Homicide detectives closed Old Coors at Bridge after launching their investigation.
This is a developing story. Stay with KOB.com and KOB 4 Eyewitness News for updates. | 2023-04-13T14:15:11+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/police-investigate-suspected-homicide-in-sw-albuquerque/ |
The religious battle at a Kyiv monastery By Julian Hayda Published April 16, 2023 at 3:34 PM MDT Facebook Email Print Listen • 4:15 Ukraine's Orthodox Christians, divided by war and politics, stake their claim to the country's most important religious site — Kyiv's Caves Monastery. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-04-16T22:19:35+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/2023-04-16/the-religious-battle-at-a-kyiv-monastery |
HONOLULU (AP) — Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died on Sunday. She was 96.
Her death was announced Monday morning outside ʻIolani Palace, America’s only royal residence, where the Hawaiian monarchy dwelled but now serves mostly as a museum. As it rained, Paula Akana, executive director of the palace, and Hailama Farden, of Hale O Nā Aliʻi O Hawaiʻi, a royal Hawaiian society, both walked down the palace steps and driveway to read the announcement in Hawaiian.
A news release later said she died peacefully in her Honolulu home with her wife, Veronica Gail Kawānanakoa, at her side.
“Abigail will be remembered for her love of Hawai‘i and its people,” her 69-year-old wife said in a statement, “and I will miss her with all of my heart.”
Kawānanakoa held no formal title but was a living reminder of Hawaii’s monarchy and a symbol of Hawaiian national identity that endured after the kingdom was overthrown by American businessmen in 1893.
“She was always called princess among Hawaiians because Hawaiians have acknowledged that lineage,” Kimo Alama Keaulana, assistant professor of Hawaiian language and studies at Honolulu Community College, said in a 2018 interview. “Hawaiians hold dear to genealogy. And so genealogically speaking, she is of high royal blood.”
He called her “the last of our alii,” using the Hawaiian word for royalty: “She epitomizes what Hawaiian royalty is — in all its dignity and intelligence and art.”
James Campbell, her great-grandfather, was an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners.
He had married Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine Bright. Their daughter, Abigail Wahiika‘ahu‘ula Campbell, married Prince David Kawānanakoa, who was named an heir to the throne.
Their daughter Lydia Kamaka‘eha Liliu‘okulani Kawānanakoa Morris had Abigail with her husband William Jeremiah Ellerbrock.
After the prince died, his widow adopted their grandchild, the young Abigail, which strengthened her claim to a princess title. She acknowledged in an interview with Honolulu Magazine in 2021 that had the monarchy survived, her cousin Edward Kawānanakoa would be in line to be the ruler, not her.
“Of course, I would be the power behind the throne, there’s no question about that,” she joked.
Known to family and close friends as “Kekau,” she received more Campbell money than anyone else and amassed a trust valued at about $215 million.
She funded various causes over the years, including scholarships for Native Hawaiian students, opposing Honolulu’s rail transit project, supporting protests against a giant telescope, donating items owned by King Kalākaua and Queen Kapiʻolani for public display, including a 14-carat diamond from the king’s pinky ring, and maintaining ʻIolani Palace.
“As a longtime benefactor for the Friends of ʻIolani Palace and many other Native Hawaiian causes, Princess Abigail’s generosity and contributions have greatly benefited our lāhui,” state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole and Rep. Daniel Holt, leaders of the Legislature’s Hawaiian caucus, said in a statement, using a Hawaiian word that can mean “Hawaiian community.”
Gov. Josh Green ordered the U.S. and Hawaii state flags to be flown at half-staff at the state Capitol and state offices until sunset this Sunday, saying “Hawaii mourns this great loss.”
Critics have said because there are other remaining descendants of the royal family who don’t claim any titles, Kawānanakoa was held up as the last Hawaiian princess simply because of her wealth and honorific title.
Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte said many Hawaiians aren’t interested in whether she was a princess and that her impact on Indigenous culture was minimal.
“We didn’t quite understand what her role was and how she could help us,” Ritte said.
Many Hawaiians couldn’t relate to her, he said. “We call it the high maka-maks,” he said using a Hawaii Pidgin term that can mean upper-class.
Born in Honolulu, Kawānanakoa was educated at Punahou, a prestigious prep school. She also attended an American school in Shanghai and graduated from the all-female Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California, where she was a boarding student.
She was engaged briefly to a man, but most of her long-term relationships were with women.
“She was always curious about what people would do for money,” said Jim Wright, who was her personal attorney since 1998 until she fired him in 2017 during a bitter court battle over control of her trust.
He recalled a time when the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu asked for a $100,000 gift to mark the canonization of St. Marianne. She told him she would give the church the money only if she could get a photo of Pope Benedict XVI accepting her check, Wright said.
When the bishop agreed, Kawānanakoa was disappointed. “She was really hoping they would tell her to buzz off,” Wright said.
Meanwhile, she found the Dalai Lama’s refusal to accept her monetary gifts in 2012 pleasing, Wright said: “She was so pleased that somebody actually had some integrity.”
One of her passions was breeding racehorses.
She was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2018, with the American Quarter Horse Association noting she was the industry’s “all-time leading female breeder at the reins of an operation that has produced the earners of more than $10 million.”
One of her horses, A Classic Dash, won $1 million in 1993 in New Mexico’s All-American Futurity.
Aside from drawing attention with her racehorses, Kawānanakoa gained notoriety when she sat on an ʻIolani Palace throne for a Life magazine photo shoot in 1998. She damaged some of its fragile threads.
The uproar led to her ouster as president of Friends of ʻIolani Palace, a position she held for more than 25 years.
The battle over control of her trust began when a judge approved her lawyer Wright as a trustee after she suffered a stroke. She claimed she wasn’t impaired, fired Wright as her lawyer and married Veronica Gail Worth, her partner of 20 years.
In 2018, Kawānanakoa attempted to amend her trust ensure that her wife would receive $40 million and all her personal property, according to court records.
In 2020, a judge ruled that Kawānanakoa was unable to manage her property and business affairs because she was impaired.
For hearings in the case, her wife would drive them to a handicapped stall near the back entrance of a downtown Honolulu courthouse in a black Rolls Royce.
“My wife? Oh, wifey,” she said in a video interview her publicist released in 2019 to respond to allegations raised in the court case, including how her wife was treating her. “If it wasn’t for Gail, I wouldn’t be as normal as you see me now,” she said in the video showing her coiffed hair, made-up face and red manicure.
It was “heartbreaking,” she said, to be unable to fulfill her obligation to the Hawaiian people amid legal wrangling over her trust.
“My heritage dictates that I must take care of the Hawaiian people,” she said during one court hearing.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas have added a second show at Yankee Stadium.
The Jonas Brothers will now perform on Aug. 13 in addition to their Aug. 12 concert.
The band plans to play music from their five albums each night, including their upcoming album titled “The Album,” which is set to release May 12.
If you want to hear the Jonas Brothers live this summer, here is everything you need to know.
Where can I get Jonas Brothers concert tickets?
Jonas Brothers fans can buy tickets for the band’s Aug. 13 show on April 14 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
However, fans also can find tickets on secondary market sites, like StubHub and TicketNetwork.
It’s common for speculative tickets to be available on the secondary market first. But, they may be more expensive than the ones sold to the general public.
A complete list of the Jonas Brother’s tour dates is available here.
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March 31, 1933 —Jan. 18, 2023
JEROME—Nila Irene Burash, 89, of Jerome, Idaho passed away peacefully in her home on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Nila was born on March 31, 1933, to Weslie John Woodall and Norma Irene Poulsen at the home of a midwife in Rupert, Idaho. She grew up on a ranch in Albion, Idaho where she learned to ride horses and relished the life of a tomboy.
After graduating from Burley High School, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. She rented a room and began her life as a single adult. She worked in a local restaurant and at the Woolworth store.
Nila attended the county fair in the summer of 1951 where she met Daniel George Burash, a young soldier stationed at Dugway Proving Grounds. The two fell in love and were married on January 3, 1952. They began their life together in Streator, Illinois. Together they raised their four daughters: Linda, Diane, Debra, and Dawn.
In 1964 the family moved to Saugus, California and on September 16, 1967, they were sealed as a family in the Los Angeles temple.
While in Saugus, Nila served in many callings, including Relief Society President, Stake Relief Society Board, and Visiting Teacher. She loved organizing and participating in the bazaars that were held in those days.
In 1985, Nila and Dan moved to Jerome, Idaho. Nila was caring and giving and loved to be surrounded by her family. She loved vacations, holidays, camping, and road trips with Dan and the family. Nila loved sewing, quilting, and crafts of all kinds. She especially loved making blankets and giving them to family and friends. Nila was involved in numerous humanitarian projects. Nila will be missed by all who were lucky enough to know her.
In November of 1998, Nila and Dan were called to serve as Senior LDS Missionaries in Albuquerque, New Mexico where they served faithfully. After returning home they began working in the Boise, Idaho temple followed by the Twin Falls, Idaho temple for over 16 years.
Nila was preceded in death by her parents; siblings; husband, Dan Burash; daughter, Debra Burash; and grandson, Richard Ray.
She will be lovingly remembered by her three daughters, Linda Hays, Diane (Fred) Lawrence, and Dawn (Kevin) Higley. She leaves a legacy of 16 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren, and 7 great-great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 12:00 p.m., with a viewing beginning at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, January 28, 2023, at Farnsworth Mortuary, 1343 S Lincoln, Jerome. Grave dedication will conclude at the Jerome Cemetery.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Nila’s memorial webpage at www.farnsworthmortuary.com. | 2023-01-25T06:52:03+00:00 | magicvalley.com | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/nila-irene-burash/article_db6062be-c480-564e-931d-3b19dea85139.html |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
10-17-18-20-25
(ten, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-five)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
10-17-18-20-25
(ten, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-five) | 2022-05-30T03:55:23+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17207209.php |
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Abrazo Homes may be a newer homebuilder for the New Mexico community, but the company’s employees say it has already established a great team environment that makes them feel valued.
The Albuquerque-based firm placed first in the small category for the Journal’s list of Top Workplaces. This is the third consecutive year the company has placed in Top Workplaces and the second time they have placed first.
“I have been able to grow at Abrazo,” said one employee, according to surveys conducted by research firm Energage. “They are my family and I am grateful to work for such an amazing company.”
“I get to be a part of creating neighborhoods, not just homes, where childhood memories will be made, where families will gather for important life events, and where adults will someday return to show their own children where they grew up!” said another employee.
Co-owner and co-founder Mackenzie Bishop calls Abrazo Homes a “networking company,” adding that they bring together a list of partners — customers, lenders, subcontractors — to build homes and communities they are proud of.
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Bishop, whose comments have been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
What has Abrazo homes been up to in the past year?
“I mean, housing has been really, really hot — insatiably hot. People can’t find a house right now. Sales have not been the bigger challenge, though that is going to change here pretty dramatically; it already is changing with rates going where they are.
“But it’s been an operational challenge. One of the things we’ve really been focused on is going after and putting resources and attention behind the constrained supply in our business.
“So, whether that be land, lots, appliances, lumber, skilled labor — all the different aspects that have been so constrained over the past 18 months. That’s been a really big focus for our organization. It’s also been a really big drain on our organization.
“Sometimes, our people feel as if they’re banging their head against the wall on a daily basis. And so, you know, one of the things that’s really been a focus for us in terms of keeping our employees — even as they’re incredibly frustrated and, you know, bordering on burnout in certain circumstances — is how do we keep those people engaged, keep it light, make them feel appreciated, and keep them coming back? Because our team is how we accomplish all of the things we want to accomplish.”
How have you overcome some of those challenges?
“All workplaces have been going through some massive changes and experiments over the past two years. So, the reentry to work environment — people are doing that in different ways. Elon Musk is dealing with it one way, certain companies are dealing with it in other ways.
“Short of requiring people to come to work — because we have a very physical business, you know, we need to be on site for the most part, but we do have folks who can work remotely or flexibly.
“So, we’ve really tried to not over-legislate those things and give people the flexibility they need because childcare is an issue, and the world is different. So, we have to be realistic with and support people through that, but also accomplish the things that we want to accomplish.” | 2022-06-25T17:48:25+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2511354/home-builder-is-no-1-small-company-in-top-workplaces-for-2022.html |
This dinosaur had a neck longer than a school bus
(CNN) – Paleontologists think they’ve identified a dinosaur with a neck longer than a school bus.
The plant-eating sauropod has a neck that could extend 10 feet past a school bus, and it comes with a scientific name that’s just as long: Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum.
The dinosaur’s almost 50-foot-long neck might be a record holder, accordion to an analysis out in the Journal of Systemic Paleontology Wednesday.
The scientists said they inferred the length using three preserved vertebrae, computerized topography, and comparisons to similar dinosaurs.
Experts said the animal’s bones are hollow, like those of birds, and this feature probably helped it to support its neck.
Paleontologists believe this dinosaur lived in what’s now China some 162 million years ago.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-15T23:35:23+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2023/03/15/this-dinosaur-had-neck-longer-than-school-bus/ |
In response to a recent surge in fentanyl overdoses, Travis County plans to start providing bars in Austin with Narcan, a nasal spray used to reverse the effects of opioids.
In the first six months of 2022 alone, there were 118 overdoses in Travis County related to fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, according to county data. That’s the same number the county saw in all of last year.
Travis County Judge Andy Brown says a state law prohibits the county from directly giving bars funding to buy Narcan, so the county found a loophole. The county will give a nonprofit, such as Integral Care, the drug, and that organization will then partner with businesses to distribute it.
“What we're doing is enabling our community members to be first responders,” said Christie Mokry, a community health worker with Integral Care. “What that means is that in the bars, they'll have [Narcan] just available for anyone. And so if there's an overdose in a bar or something like that, they will be able to get medication at that time.”
Thirteen bars through FBR Management, an Austin organization that owns and supports a number of local bars, will be getting a total of 180 Narcan doses in this first round of distribution.
Max Moreland, the chief operating officer of FBR Management, said that especially with staffing shortages in the Austin Police Department and among first responders, using Narcan at bars can “extend that lifeline” for folks who may have overdosed.
“We'd like to be prepared and hopefully save some lives,” Moreland said.
During a Travis County Commissioners Court meeting this week, county officials are also planning to pass $175,000 in funding for peer recovery programs for survivors of overdose, through the local nonprofit Communities for Recovery.
Brown also says he plans to support legislative efforts this upcoming session to overturn the law that labels fentanyl strips as drug paraphernalia, as well as support bills that combat fentanyl overdose. | 2022-11-29T21:44:54+00:00 | kut.org | https://www.kut.org/health/2022-11-29/travis-county-to-provide-austin-bars-with-narcan-to-prevent-overdose-deaths |
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