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Release aids developers in confidently deploying software, increasing stability and improving time-to-market
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company today announced the availability of its CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release. The 2.28 release supports Armory's commitment to empowering development teams to easily, reliably, safely and continuously deploy software at any scale.
Armory's CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release encompasses new features, optimizations, and contributions from the Spinnaker community to ensure development teams can deploy code with even greater confidence than ever before.
This release embodies Armory's commitment to providing enterprise-grade Spinnaker and addressing the increasingly complex use cases elite development teams encounter. This includes exhaustive functional testing of all community code commitments, enhanced plug-ins and CVE remediation. This resulted in a Long Term Support (LTS) release assuring platform teams can provide developers with a stable platform that delivers reliable deployments at high velocity. CD Self-Hosted addresses the two most common pain points companies encounter: growth and scale.
"Armory has invested heavily in our test automation infrastructure so the reliability and performance of the platform provides the stability that elite development teams demand," said Jim Douglas, Armory president and CEO. "This latest 2.28 release empowers dev teams to accomplish continuous deployment at scale while providing them the best user experience."
Release 2.28 includes new features created to address common customer pain points within Terraform outputs and parallel pipelines. Specific features include:
- Terraformer Show Stage - Allows the pipeline to automatically enforce infrastructure policies and test for quality with every infrastructure change, reducing operational risk and increasing stability.
- Remote backend support for Terraform Enterprise and Terraform Cloud - Helping users have unique access to assistance within the platform.
- Max Concurrent Pipeline Executions - Customers can control the amount of maximum parallel pipeline executions, accelerating deployment frequency and velocity while speeding up time-to-market with exciting new features and products.
"Elite developer teams know and love the power of Spinnaker when it comes to deploying their software continuously," said Adam Frank, VP Product at Armory. "The Spinnaker community is a part of Armory's DNA, and it's evident in how we've built CD Self-Hosted and Managed. We've taken the best of Spinnaker and combined it with our world-class approach to continuous deployment to give developers a complete and reliable end-to-end solution from the moment they commit code."
This announcement comes on the heels of yet another milestone for Armory in its mission to make software deployment reliable, scalable, and safe; and ultimately help developers Commit, Deploy, Repeat: the launch of Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service, which delivers declarative deployments across multiple environments that support advanced progressive strategies, allowing developers to focus on building great code rather than deploying it.
To accommodate the release of Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service into Armory's growing continuous deployment solutions, the self-hosted and managed offerings of Armory Enterprise have been renamed:
- Armory Enterprise becomes Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted
- Armory Enterprise Managed becomes Armory Continuous Deployment Managed
- Armory Agent for Kubernetes becomes Armory Scale Agent for Spinnaker & Kubernetes
To learn more about Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28, visit: https://www.armory.io/blog/self-hosted-and-managed-v228.
Armory enables developers to continuously improve and assure their customers' experience through scalable, safe, reliable, secure, and continuous software deployment. Armory makes continuous deployment achievable and effortless, at any scale, for all developers by providing easy-to-use continuous deployment solutions that eliminate the need to migrate away from existing tools, minimizing disruption to an existing software delivery lifecycle. Developers can easily and declaratively deploy new versions alongside live versions, incrementally scale up new versions, enable manual reviews prior to scaling up, effortlessly rollback to an old version, and manage the deployment across multiple targets and environments; continuously improving and protecting their customer experience.
Founded in 2016, Armory is funded by B Capital, Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Mango Capital, Y Combinator, and Javelin Venture Partners. Learn more at www.armory.io.
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Source: Illinois Department of Revenue real estate transfer declaration sheets were submitted with the deeds recorded in the Macon County Recorder’s Office. Dollar amounts represent the net sale price. Documents processed in Decatur. | 2022-12-16T12:07:47+00:00 | herald-review.com | https://herald-review.com/lifestyles/search-the-latest-macon-county-real-estate-transfers/article_c9c7fe3e-7a40-11ed-8890-47ebdc40f58e.html |
The U.S. Men's National Team tied Wales, 1-1, in their first game of the World Cup, which is being played in Qatar.
Tim Weah put the U.S. up 1-0 after 35 minutes of play. The U.S. would hold onto the lead until the 82nd minute.
Wales secured a penalty shot after one of their players was fouled in the penalty box. Gareth Bale would not squander the opportunity, putting the ball in the back of the net.
No team would score in the game's remaining minutes.
Both teams earned one point in Group B.
The U.S. will play its next game on Friday against England.
This is the first appearance in a World Cup for the U.S. since 2014. They failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
In its prior two World Cup appearances, the team advanced to the Round of 16. In 2002, they advanced to the quarterfinals. They made it to the semifinals in 1930.
The U.S. men have never won a World Cup. | 2022-11-21T22:55:55+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/usa-ties-wales-1-1-in-their-opening-world-cup-match |
Upon further review, this year’s Super Bowl ended up setting a viewer record.
Nielsen released a revised number of 115.1 million for Fox Sports’ broadcast of the Kansas City Chiefs’ 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in February.
The previous record was the 2015 game between New England and Seattle at 114,442,000 viewers, not including streaming. It also supplanted the 2017 Super Bowl between Atlanta and New England (113,668,000) as the most-watched of Fox’s 10 Super Bowls.
Nielsen revised this year’s original figure of 113.1 million by 2 million after a review that revealed encoding irregularities as well as issues with out-of-home measurement.
“I really appreciate their diligence in conducting the review and coming to the most correct number possible. Super Bowl Sunday is the most difficult day for them because you have not just the scale but people are watching on English and Spanish, in and out of home, online and all of that has to be stitched together into a credible number. I give them credit for acknowledging the issue, being transparent about it and get to the most correct number they can get to,” said Fox Sports Executive Vice President Michael Mulvihill, who is head of strategy and analytics.
The review was initially triggered when NFL Network was credited with over 1 million viewers during the game at a time when their usual number is 80,000. A second review found errors with out-of-home measurement.
The total includes the broadcasts on Fox and Fox Deportes as well as streaming on Fox and the NFL’s digital sites.
“It was a little deflating when it seemed like we didn’t get the record but now that we know that we did, it’s validating. It gives us pride in the year that we had,” Mulvihill said.
The numbers for Rihanna’s halftime show were also revised from 118.7 million to 121 million.
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Plante Moran, an international accounting firm with local operations, has moved its Boulder offices to Broomfield.
The new 13,000-square-foot office is at 8001 Arista Place. About 50 employees work in the Broomfield office “serving clients in a variety of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, financial institutions, technology, health care, private equity, nonprofit, public sector, consumer goods and services, and real estate and construction,” a company spokesman told BizWest.
Plante Moran moved into the Broomfield office, which is roughly the same size as the Boulder office, on Aug. 1.
“While the square footage of our Broomfield office is comparable to the former Boulder location, the Broomfield office provides an open concept design that provides more usable space and room for future growth,” Plante Moran said through a spokesman.
“When searching for new space, we were looking for an office that would accommodate a streamlined design that encourages teamwork and productivity, was in a location that was easily accessible for both staff and clients, and provided room for future growth,” the company said. “Our new Broomfield office met all these criteria and is the perfect fit for us.”
Plante Moran’s spokesman did not say whether price was a factor in the decision to leave Boulder.
The local Plante Moran operation was formerly EKS&H LLP. The companies merged in 2018, forming what was then the 11th largest accounting, tax, consulting and wealth management firm in the nation with 2,300 employees in offices in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Japan, India and Mexico.
This article was first published by BizWest, an independent news organization, and is published under a license agreement. © 2022 BizWest Media LLC. | 2022-08-03T23:29:26+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/08/03/accounting-firm-plante-moran-moves-boulder-office-to-broomfield/ |
A Playful Vibe, Eclectic Interior Design, and Four New
Dining and Drinking Venues from the Team Behind Broken Shaker
NEW YORK, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moxy Williamsburg debuts today as the brand's first hotel in Brooklyn, featuring interiors by BASILE Studio in collaboration with Lightstone Design Studio and four new dining and drinking venues from Bar Lab Hospitality, the creative force behind Broken Shaker. The heart of New York's creative class, Williamsburg is a fitting location for Lightstone's growing collection of boundary-pushing Moxy Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy's portfolio of 30 extraordinary hotel brands.
The new property's inventive design plays on the neighborhood's history as a magnet for mavericks, immigrants, and creators, while becoming a new center for Brooklyn's contemporary social scene.
"Moxy embraces being bold through authentic self-expression and Moxy Williamsburg is the perfect place for free-spirited travelers to live in the moment and do just that," said Matthew Boettcher, Vice President and Global Brand Leader of Moxy Hotels.
Moxy Williamsburg is a 216-room boutique hotel located in the heart of Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue, near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge and easily accessible from Manhattan. The hotel's timeless architecture, light-filled interiors, space-saving design solutions, flexible co-working and meeting studios, and range of restaurants and bars reflect the easygoing spirit of its trendsetting surroundings to attract discerning locals and cool-hunting guests with a playful and young-at-heart attitude.
The four new dining and drinking venues conceived and operated by Bar Lab Hospitality reflect the wide-ranging tastes of in-the-know Brooklynites. This includes Mesiba, a festive, Tel Aviv–inspired restaurant serving Levantine cuisine; Bar Bedford, a destination cocktail bar and all-day café; Jolene; a high-energy sound room with a state-of-the-art audio and light system; and opening this spring, LilliStar, an indoor/outdoor rooftop bar whose vast terrace will feature breathtaking views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Manhattan skyline.
"Williamsburg is a flourishing hub for all the creativity and innovation for which New York is known. As its international reputation has blossomed, it has become the place to visit and stay," said developer Mitchell Hochberg, President of Lightstone. "Our ambition with Moxy Williamsburg is to create a hotel that welcomes visitors with an authentic experience—one that Brooklynites themselves will embrace with open arms."
DESIGN
Moxy Williamsburg was designed by BASILE Studio, a boutique design firm based in San Diego, in collaboration with Lightstone Design Studio. The hotel's diverse public spaces reflect the area's melting pot character, finding inspiration in both past and present with influences from both near and far.
The 11-story building, designed by the eminent New York architecture firm Stonehill Taylor, has a clean, industrial-inspired look that recalls the neighborhood's warehouse lofts. The glass front façade opens completely onto the sidewalk and Bedford Avenue, merging indoors and outdoors, putting the energy of the lobby and Bar Bedford on display. The building's southern façade is distinguished by a massive Pop Art–style mural by acclaimed British street artist D*Face; visible from the Williamsburg Bridge, it depicts a woman in a car, stuck in traffic, crying out: "GET ME TO THE MOXY!!"
The lobby's 20-foot exposed ceilings and natural materials capture the open, airy feel of a converted warehouse. Foliage hangs from the ceiling and spills from planters, creating a biophilic feel that offsets the room's clean lines and industrial proportions. An art installation by Rare Culture rises behind two blackened steel check-in pods and spreads across the ceiling. Made of thousands of colored crayons, it's a pointillist depiction of the underbelly of the Williamsburg Bridge at sunrise, looking from Brooklyn toward the Manhattan skyline. Hanging on the wall behind the self-check-in pods is a series of hand-painted skateboards by local artists.
Bar Bedford, Moxy Williamsburg's cocktail bar and all-day café, is a comfortable living space that reflects Brooklyn's forward-thinking, creative vibe. Its showpiece is the bar itself: motorized liquor risers made of blackened metal rise 20 feet behind glass and white oak panels, holding 1,500 bottles of wine and liquor. The shelves move up and down like dumbwaiters, giving bartenders access to special bottles and providing patrons with a show. This custom-fabricated system was inspired by New York's old Automats, fast food restaurants popular in the first half of the 20th century where customers would pick up their food from a wall of glass-fronted cubbies.
As found in Lightstone's other Moxy hotels, Moxy Williamsburg features three Meeting Studios, breakaway spaces designed to be used for private events and co-working. The Studios feature modular sofas and worktables that fold down to become credenzas — all designed to be easily rearranged, transforming the spaces as day turns into night. The rooms can be combined to accommodate larger groups, and open onto Bar Bedford Garden, an adaptable alfresco space in the rear of the hotel. Inspired by the backyard gardens tucked behind many Williamsburg apartment buildings, it has a lively, residential vibe that feels like an oasis in the urban jungle.
Flooded with daylight through floor-to-ceiling windows, the 216 bedrooms at Moxy Williamsburg are smartly designed to strip away the superfluous and focus on comfort and functionality. Streamlined shapes and organic materials such as birch and steel feel warm and welcoming, while moments of surprise lend a distinctively Moxy sensibility. Rooms range from 165–210 square feet and include Kings, Executive Kings, Double Queens, and Quad Bunks. Ingenious storage solutions include wall-mounted pegs that guests can fold open or close as needed, an open closet and under-bed cubbies. A desk folds down from the wall to provide a workspace.
EAT + DRINK
Conceptualized by Bar Lab Hospitality, the creative force behind the popular Broken Shaker bars in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago, the restaurants and bars at Moxy Williamsburg are as worldly and welcoming as the neighborhood they call home. Founded by Elad Zvi and Gabe Orta, Bar Lab creates venues that are unpretentious and laid-back, yet still fashionable and sophisticated.
"For Moxy Williamsburg, we envisioned an eclectic grab-bag of experiences that mirrors Williamsburg's diversity. Once you enter, you don't want to leave," said Zvi and Orta. "You can start with a drink at Bar Bedford, meet some friends for dinner at Mesiba, head up to the rooftop for a drink with a view, and finish up the night dancing at Jolene. Moxy Williamsburg offers a multitude of narratives that create a sense of discovery and anticipation."
Mesiba is a festive space that pays homage to Tel Aviv's lively energy and Bauhaus architecture, animated by the flavorful cuisine and celebratory "breaking bread" culture of the Levant region and Israel. Taking inspiration from Bar Lab founding partner Elad Zvi's memories of growing up in Tel Aviv, Israeli chef Eli Buli designed the menu as a modern play on traditional dishes from the area, which encompasses Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine and the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean. Creative cocktails with a culinary flair complement the fresh, seasonal cuisine. The warm, verdant dining room centers around a curved marble bar, with plants hanging from the double-height ceiling lending a bohemian vibe, while Hollywood-style booths ensure a spirited atmosphere.
Inspired by the retro leisure lifestyle, Jolene is a high-energy sound room with a state-of-the-art audio and light system that draws top talent from Brooklyn's thriving nightlife scene — the ideal spot to dance to the sounds of local and global DJs. Jolene is inspired by Dolly Parton — not just her signature song "Jolene" but her image as a powerful, self-assured woman and impact on the music industry and the culture at large. Miami-based nightlife impresarios David Sinopoli, Davide Danese, and Coloma Kaboomsky — collectively known as the Space Invaders and best known for their seminal Club Space — are Bar Lab's partners in Jolene.
Opening this spring, LilliStar, Moxy Williamsburg's indoor/outdoor rooftop bar will blend contemporary Indo-Aussie beach culture with Brooklyn energy, creating a unique setting for tropical-inspired cocktails, Balinese beach barbecue, and dramatic views. Giant lotus flowers carved from copper, glass and leather form a dramatic ceiling sculpture in the lounge, where floor-to-ceiling windows open onto an expansive roof deck with show-stopping views of the Manhattan skyline and the iconic steel trusses of the Williamsburg Bridge. Playful cocktails, including large-format drinks for the whole table to share, incorporate tropical fruits and Southeast Asian spices.
Moxy Williamsburg follows on the success of Lightstone's other award-winning Moxy hotels in New York — consistently named by Condé Nast Traveler as among the best in the city — including Moxy Times Square, Moxy Chelsea, Moxy East Village, and, most recently, Moxy Lower East Side.
"Williamsburg is a microcosm of everything that's trendsetting about New York City: It has the edgiest boutiques, the most innovative restaurants, the most daring bars. That's why more and more people are putting it on their must-visit lists — and it's why we've opened Moxy Williamsburg," says Hochberg. "Not only can Moxy guests stay in the heart of the neighborhood, but by breaking bread at Mesiba, toasting the Manhattan skyline at LilliStar, and dancing the night away at Jolene with Brooklyn's best DJ's, they'll get a strong dose of Williamsburg's energy, all within the walls of the hotel."
Located at 353 Bedford Avenue, Moxy Williamsburg offers rates starting from $179 per night. For more information or to make a reservation, visit moxywilliamsburg.com.
ABOUT MOXY WILLIAMSBURG
Unconventional, playful, and approachable, Moxy Williamsburg is a 216-room boutique hotel whose easygoing spirit fits seamlessly into its trendsetting neighborhood. The hotel's timeless architecture, light-filled interiors, and restaurants and bars attract discerning locals and cool-hunting guests in equal measure. Bright, airy rooms emphasize natural materials and space-saving design solutions, a large backyard garden provides a spot to unwind alfresco, and flexible co-working and meeting studios serve the needs of Brooklyn's creative class. Developed by Lightstone and designed by Lightstone Design Studio in collaboration with BASILE Studio and Stonehill Taylor, the hotel references the past while remaining firmly contemporary — an approach aligned with Williamsburg's retro-loving aesthetic. Moxy Williamsburg's industrial-inspired architecture melds with the Williamsburg cityscape, from the area's converted 19th-century warehouses and nearby Domino Park to the Williamsburg Bridge just a stone's throw away. Conceived and operated by Bar Lab, the creative force behind Broken Shaker, Moxy Williamsburg's dining and drinking venues include Mesiba, a festive restaurant serving Levantine cuisine and inspired by Tel Aviv's lively energy and Bauhaus architecture; Bar Bedford, a destination cocktail bar and all-day café whose motorized liquor risers nod to New York's old Automats; Jolene, a high-energy sound room with a state-of-the-art audio and light system; and, opening in Spring 2023, LilliStar, an indoor/outdoor rooftop bar whose terrace has breathtaking views of the Williamsburg Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. Moxy Williamsburg is Lightstone's sixth Moxy hotel opening, following the successful launches of Moxy Times Square, Moxy Chelsea, Moxy East Village, and Moxy Lower East Side, all in New York City, and Moxy South Beach in Miami. Moxy Downtown Los Angeles and AC Hotel Downtown Los Angeles are due to open in 2023.
ABOUT MOXY HOTELS®
Moxy offers a playful hotel experience for the young at heart. With over 120 properties open across 23 countries and territories, Moxy boldly breaks the rules of a conventional hotel stay across the globe. The nontraditional experience starts with check-in at Bar Moxy and comes to life throughout its social public spaces, like the Lounge and Library, and the small but smart bedrooms. Moxy provides stylish, industrial design and sociable service at an attractive price point, so that guests can splurge on the experiences that matter most to them during their travels. Moxy celebrates nonconformity, open-mindedness, and originality above all – forever giving its guests permission to Play On #atthemoxy. For more information, visit www.moxyhotels.com and join the fun #atthemoxy on Instagram. Moxy is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy®, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments, and unparalleled benefits including free nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit marriottbonvoy.com.
ABOUT LIGHTSTONE
Lightstone, founded by David Lichtenstein, is one of the most diversified privately held real estate companies in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, Lightstone is active in 26 states across the country, developing, managing, and investing in all sectors of the real estate market, including residential, hospitality, commercial, and retail. With 182 existing properties, Lightstone's over $7.5 billion portfolio currently includes over 11.6 million square feet of industrial, logistics, life sciences, and commercial properties; over 25,000 residential units; and over 4,400 hotel keys. Lightstone's development portfolio includes over $3.5 billion currently under development in the residential and hospitality sectors spread across New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. Following the award-winning openings of Moxy Times Square, Moxy Chelsea, and Moxy East Village, Lightstone opened Moxy Miami South Beach in 2021, Moxy Lower East Side in 2022, and Moxy Williamsburg in 2023. Moxy Downtown Los Angeles, and AC Hotel Downtown Los Angeles will open in Spring 2023.
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Lucid on Tuesday revealed a few more details regarding its upcoming Gravity electric SUV—and it’s promising to shake up the world of electric SUVs much in the same way it has with its range- and efficiency-topping Air sedan.
The Gravity will be built on the same platform and underpinnings of the Air, and even though it will follow a taller form, Lucid says that the SUV will offer “more range than any other EV on the market—other than its stablemate, Lucid Air.”
At present, Lucid Air driving range spans up to 516 EPA miles in its Grand Touring guise, while even the base Pure and mid-range Touring versions detailed today reach 425 miles and 410 miles, respectively, in dual-motor form.
In 2020, Lucid teased Project Gravity (above), a drivable concept vehicle that previewed the design direction of the SUV. At that time Lucid design VP Derek Jenkins told Green Car Reports that the design was still very much a work in progress as the team aimed to find the right balance between a raised driving position, cargo space, and capability, while keeping it aerodynamically optimized at speed.
Based on the set of somewhat obscured images released with this announcement, it’s clear that the roofline and profile of the vehicle have changed significantly since then
Lucid promises that the Gravity will offer next-generation Glass Cockpit displays, a new generation of its interface, and “a previously unattainable combination of supercar performance and seating for up to seven adults.”
“It is both a supercar in disguise and an SUV with flexible passenger and cargo space that seems impossibly big relative to the exterior size of the vehicle,” stated Jenkins in a press release.
The Gravity will be offered in two- or three-row configurations, with seating for five, six, or seven. Based on the size of the Air, the Gravity is expected to compare very closely with the Tesla Model X. The Model X is also offered in five-, six-, or seven-passenger configurations, and it starts at $122,190 in its standard dual-motor form, with a 351-mile range and claimed 3.8-second 0-60 mph time. The tri-motor Model X Plaid has a 333-mile range rating and claimed 2.5-second 0-60 mph time, at a price of $140,190.
Reservations are set to open in early 2023 for the U.S. and Canada, and the announcement confirms that a reveal of the final design will happen then. Meanwhile, the company says that it’s currently “finalizing the vehicle design and specifications.”
Lucid says that the Gravity is due for production in 2024 at its Arizona factory.
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A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds a huge spike in accidental consumption of edible weed among children 5 and younger. While most suffered mild impacts, about one in five were hospitalized.
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A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds a huge spike in accidental consumption of edible weed among children 5 and younger. While most suffered mild impacts, about one in five were hospitalized.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-01-03T11:52:52+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/2023-01-03/study-more-than-3-000-young-children-accidentally-ate-pot-edibles-in-2021 |
MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Saturday, July 8
If you're looking for Saturday's probable pitchers, you've come to the right spot. Keep reading to find a breakdown of the day's expected starting pitchers, which features a showdown between Mitch Keller and the Pirates versus Zac Gallen and the Diamondbacks.
Keep scrolling to find the probable pitching matchups for every game on the calendar for July 8.
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Cubs at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Drew Smyly (7-5) to the mound as they take on the Yankees, who will give the start to Gerrit Cole (8-2) for the game between the teams Saturday.
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- CHC Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 8 runs
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Blue Jays at Tigers Probable Pitchers
The Toronto Blue Jays will send Kevin Gausman (7-4) to the bump as they take on the Tigers, who will counter with Matt Manning (2-1) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Blue Jays at Tigers
- TOR Odds to Win: -225
- DET Odds to Win: +180
- Total: 8 runs
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Orioles at Twins Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Tyler Wells (6-4) to the mound as they face the Twins, who will look to Sonny Gray (4-2) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Twins
- MIN Odds to Win: -125
- BAL Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Cardinals at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Miles Mikolas (4-5) to the hill as they play the White Sox on Saturday.
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Rockies at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Colorado Rockies will send Connor Seabold (1-5) to the mound as they face the Giants on Saturday.
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Rangers at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Andrew Heaney (5-5) to the mound as they take on the Nationals, who will hand the ball to Jake Irvin (1-5) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Nationals
- TEX Odds to Win: -175
- WSH Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 10 runs
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Phillies at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Ranger Suarez (2-3) to the mound as they play the Marlins, who will give the start to Braxton Garrett (4-2) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -110
- PHI Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8 runs
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Royals at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Kansas City Royals will send Brady Singer (5-7) to the bump as they play the Guardians, who will look to Gavin Williams (0-1) when the clubs play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Royals at Guardians
- CLE Odds to Win: -175
- KC Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Athletics at Red Sox Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send Paul Blackburn (1-1) to the mound as they play the Red Sox, who will look to James Paxton (4-1) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Athletics at Red Sox
- BOS Odds to Win: -225
- OAK Odds to Win: +180
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Reds at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Luke Weaver (2-2) to the mound as they take on the Brewers, who will counter with Colin Rea (5-4) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -130
- CIN Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Pirates at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send Keller (9-4) to the mound as they face the Diamondbacks, who will give the start to Gallen (11-3) for the game between the clubs on Saturday.
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Mariners at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Bryan Woo (1-1) to the mound as they play the Astros, who will look to Framber Valdez (7-6) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mariners at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -140
- SEA Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Braves at Rays Probable Pitchers
The Atlanta Braves will send Spencer Strider (10-2) to the hill as they play the Rays, who will give the start to Taj Bradley (5-4) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Braves at Rays
- ATL Odds to Win: -150
- TB Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Angels at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Reid Detmers (2-5) to the mound as they take on the Dodgers, who will hand the ball to Michael Grove (0-2) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
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Mets at Padres Probable Pitchers
The New York Mets will send David Peterson (2-6) to the mound as they face the Padres, who will hand the ball to Blake Snell (5-7) when the teams face off on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mets at Padres
- SD Odds to Win: -175
- NYM Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Astros vs. Mariners Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 8
Saturday's contest between the Houston Astros (49-40) and the Seattle Mariners (44-43) at Minute Maid Park should be a tight matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 5-3, with the Astros securing the victory. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET on July 8.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Astros will send Framber Valdez (7-6) to the mound, while Bryan Woo (1-1) will answer the bell for the Mariners.
Astros vs. Mariners Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Astros vs. Mariners Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Astros 5, Mariners 4.
Total Prediction for Astros vs. Mariners
- Total Prediction: Over 7 runs
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Astros Performance Insights
- The Astros have played as the favorite three times over their past 10 games and won each of those contests.
- Houston and its opponents have combined to hit the over five times in its last 10 games with a total.
- The Astros have not played a game with a spread over their last 10 outings.
- The Astros have won 32, or 57.1%, of the 56 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Houston has a record of 30-21, a 58.8% win rate, when favored by -120 or more by oddsmakers this season.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 54.5% chance of a victory for the Astros.
- Houston has scored the 10th-most runs in the majors this season with 413.
- The Astros have a 3.69 team ERA that ranks fourth among all league pitching staffs.
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Geronimo family home hit with severe storm damage
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A family in Geronimo is also dealing with severe damage to their home following Sunday night’s storms.
One of the home’s owners, Amy Harrison, said her family was initially enjoying the storms and taking videos of the lightning when she received a call that it was getting closer to their home.
She then said she and her two daughters were going to head to a relative’s house for shelter when something hit their car, shattering the windshield.
”My girls and I got in the car, backed up, it was dark and then we just hear this big thump,” Harrison said. “The glass busted, kind of exploded and so we parked the car, and ran back in the house. High winds were coming at us, and we got in the house, and we quickly realized that part of the roof was off at that point.”
She added that she’s just happy her family is safe.
Though they have not received any quotes yet, Harrison said she believes it will be around six months before they’re able to live in their home again.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s first-ever extreme heat warning is in effect for large parts of England as hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past week moves north, disrupting travel, health care and schools.
The “red” alert will last throughout Monday and Tuesday when temperatures may reach 40 C (104 F) for the first time, posing a risk of serious illness and even death among healthy people, according to the U.K. Met Office, the country’s weather service. The highest temperature ever recorded in Britain is 38.7 C (101.7 F), a record set in 2019.
While Monday is likely to bring record highs to southeastern England, temperatures are expected to rise further as the warm air moves north on Tuesday, Met Office CEO Penelope Endersby said. The extreme heat warning stretches from London in the south to Manchester and Leeds in the north.
“So it’s tomorrow that we’re really seeing the higher chance of 40 degrees and temperatures above that,’’ Endersby told the BBC. “Forty-one isn’t off the cards. We’ve even got some 43s in the model, but we’re hoping it won’t be as high as that.”
Hot weather has gripped southern Europe since last week, triggering wildfires in Spain, Portugal and France. Almost 600 heat-related deaths have been reported in Spain and Portugal, where temperatures reached 47 C (117 F) last week.
Climate experts warn that global warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events, with studies showing that the likelihood of temperatures in the U.K. reaching 40C is now 10 times higher than in the pre-industrial era. Drought and heat waves tied to climate change have also made wildfires harder to fight.
Officials in southern France’s Gironde region announced plans to evacuate an additional 3,500 people from towns threatened by the raging flames. More than 1,500 firefighters and water-bombing planes are trying to douse the flames in the region’s tinder-dry pine forests.
In Britain, train operators are asking customers not to travel unless absolutely necessary because the heat is likely to warp rails and disrupt power supplies, leading to severe delays. Some medical appointments have been canceled to relieve strain on the health service. While some schools have closed, others are setting up wading pools and water sprays to help children cool off.
Britain is unaccustomed to the temperatures forecast this week, and few homes, schools or small businesses have air conditioning. Across the U.K., average July temperatures range from a daily high of 21 C (70 F) to a low of 12 C (53 F).
Nightfall will bring little relief from the heat, with the Met Office forecasting temperatures of 29 C (84 F) at midnight in London.
Monday night will be “very oppressive” and it will be difficult to sleep, Chief Meteorologist Paul Davies said.
“Tomorrow is the day where we are really concerned about a good chance now of hitting 40 or 41C, and with that all the health conditions that come with those higher temperatures,” he said.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Awalé Resources Limited ("Awalé" or the "Company") (TSXV: ARIC) is pleased to provide the following update on ongoing exploration activities at the Odienné gold-copper project in Cote D'Ivoire (Figures 1 and 2). The Odienne Project is subject to an earn in joint venture agreement ("JV") with Newmont Ventures Limited ("Newmont") (see Company News Release dated May 31, 2022). The JV is now fully operational, and the Company is pleased to report the discovery of a new 4km-long high-tenor copper (+molybdenum & arsenic) anomaly at the Lando prospect (Figure 3). The Lando prospect is located approximately 18km due N of the Sceptre copper-gold anomaly, and was identified as an area of interest from initial soil sampling completed in the area by Randgold in the 1990's.
The Lando anomaly is a 4km long, >99ppm (80th percentile) copper ("Cu") anomaly with a 1km >387ppm Cu core (98th percentile), The Lando copper anomaly, defined through pXRF analyses, is also associated with elevated values of both molybdenum and arsenic. These latest results are indicative of a third significant copper footprint at Odienne with similarities to both the Sceptre and Charger targets in the south of the permit area. Legacy soils from a small 600x600m soil grid completed by Randgold in the area returned up to 350ppb gold – old trenches (with no data) have been located at Lando and the soil grid is thought to cover the same locality. Approximately 836 samples covering this pXRF anomaly have been sent for 52 element ICP and gold analysis and results are expected in 4 to 6 weeks.
Furthermore, the company has now collected around 75% of a planned c.2800 sample soil and termitaria program along the 'BBM' prospect to the east and southeast of Lando (Figure 2). The BBM prospect covers some 17 strike kilometers along the interpreted belt-basin margin between deep water sedimentary rocks to the east and northeast and a volcanic/volcaniclastic series to the west – a typical setting for gold mineralization in west Africa. Initial pXRF* results for this program are anticipated to be available by the end of Q3.
View Attached Figures: https://www.awaleresources.com/_resources/images/20220823-Lando-Final.pdf
Company CEO Glen Parsons commented today:
"The JV is allowing the company to aggressively develop new and existing drill targets with a continued sound and systematic exploration approach at the Odienné project. As per our last release we are refining the compelling Sceptre and Charger drill targets whilst maintaining a focus on new target potential and pipeline in the district to meet the JV objectives, as per our agreement with Newmont.
Lando is the result of this approach and is a new and exciting target developing with encouraging copper grades of up to 0.2%, we await the gold and multi-element ICP results. We see the Lando geochemical footprint as consistent with the ICOG setting of the Odienne Project and it is 18km to the North of Charger and Sceptre, highlighting the potential scale of the system as we uncover it.
While we await full results the company will refine drill targeting at Sceptre and Charger with planned IP geophysics with a view to drilling in Q4 2022. Further to this we will have results flow from the BBM geochemistry program as well as the gold and ICP results from pitting at Sceptre"
*Notes:
- A Handheld InnovX Vanta X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer or pXRF was used for the analysis reported in this release. pXRF analysis is considered indicative of metal grades. All samples reported air dried and sieved to -80 mesh before analysis.
Lando prospect is a significant size and tenor copper geochemical footprint, like Sceptre. The mineralization sits close to a high strain intrusive contact to the west with the highest grades coincident with a left stepping flexure of this high strain zone. Active traditional artisanal gold workings have been located close to the core of the mineralization where they are exploiting quartz breccias with iron oxide fill, presumably after sulphide. The breccias are hosted in a series of high strain basaltic rocks and schists.
Based on the regional geological setting of Odienné, the soil/termitaria data from the Sceptre, and now Lando prospects as well as the initial drill results and newly found gossan from the adjacent Charger prospect, the Company interprets the geological setting of the Odienné district to be comparable to that of other significant IOCG provinces globally. IOCG deposits are significant contributors to global copper and gold inventories, and the Company considers the Odienné project to contain significant potential for the discovery of the first major IOCG style known in west Africa.
Planned exploration for the remainder of the 2nd half of 2022 will include ground geophysics – consisting of targeted IP surveys (gradient array and pole dipole sections) at both Charger and Sceptre. This will be accompanied by targeted pitting and/or trenching. These surveys will commence as soon as the monsoon season abates in late September 2022. If warranted, these surveys will be followed with scout drilling in Q4. All pitting or trenching samples will be submitted for Gold and multielement analysis.
At the BBM prospect collection of soil and Termitaria samples is ongoing. Results expected in c. 2 months. However, in the interim all samples are being analyzed by pXRF and will be reported in the ensuing weeks.
Precambrian IOCG provinces globally (e.g., Olympic Dam- Gawler Craton, Australia and Carajás - Amazonian Craton, Brazil) are important sources of copper and gold, and are characterized by their association with iron-oxides such as hematite and magnetite. These IOCG deposits formed during brief episodes of extension that postdated accretion of Paleoproterozoic terranes onto an Archean craton nucleus (Hayward and Skirrow 2010, Porter 2010).
These periods of extension and mineralization in the Gawler craton were characterized by bimodal volcanism and plutonism characterized by the Gawler range volcanics and the Hiltaba Suite plutons. The Olympic dam province hosts Carapateena (Proven and Probable Reserve 220Mt at 1.1% Cu, 0.45g/t Au, 4.4 g/t Ag – Oz Minerals Mineral Reserves statement June 2020) and Prominent Hill (Proven and Probable reserves of 62 Mt at 0.9% Cu, 0.6 g/t Au and 2.5 g/t Ag – Oz Minerals Resources and Reserves statement June 2021) along with the giant Olympic Dam deposit (Proven and Probable Reserves of 448Mt @ 1.88% Cu, 0.69 g/t Au, 4 g/t Ag, 0.57 kg/tonne U3O8– BHP Annual report 2021) – Olympic Dam has a current projected mine life of some 43 years and has been operating since 1988*.
The Carajás IOCG province is developed on the NE margins of Southern Amazonian Craton, although older than the Gawler has a similar setting is similar with accreted terranes, bimodal volcanism and plutonism and similar age to the Leo-Man Craton in west Africa. The deposits are located within the east-southeast trending 150 km long Itacaiúnas Shear Belt, which cuts obliquely across the bimodal, but mainly mafic to intermediate volcanism which overlies the Mesoarchaean granitoid nucleus of the Amazonian craton (Porter 2010). Combined, all the Carajás deposit have been estimated to contain combined resources of >8 Gt @ 0.9 wt.% Cu and 0.2 g/t Au (Xavier et al., 2010)*.
Awalé has now adopted an IOCG model as the setting of the Odienné Project which consists of a suite of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of basaltic to felsic composition that are synchronous or intruded by a series of late plutons. The Odienné Project sits on the margins of an interpreted deep seated major crustal structure along which Paleoproterozoic rocks have accreted on to an Archean nucleus (Man Craton) that extends from Côte d'Ivoire westward into Guinea for over 200km. Recent studies by Grenholm et. al. (2019) show that a large igneous intrusive province has formed along this paleosuture zone, and this province extends through Odienné.
The similarities in Odienné crustal setting to the Major Olympic Dam and Carajás IOCG provinces in Australia and Brazil are convincing. The Sceptre and Sceptre East and Charger Prospects are associated with a sequence of late bimodal intrusions likely coeval undeformed bimodal volcanic rocks along with hematite breccia within magnetite altered diorite at the Charger prospect. When paired with the Cu, Au and Silver (Ag) mineralization and polymetallic zonation containing pathfinder elements typically associated with IOCG systems (including bismuth, silver, molybdenum, and tungsten) all provides compelling evidence for the comparison to the major global IOCG provinces.
*References made to mines and analogous deposits provide context to the prospectivity for the Odienné Project but are not indicative that the Odienné Project host similar tonnages or grades of mineralization.
The Odienné project JV is subject to an earn-in agreement with Newmont Ventures Limited ("Newmont"; see Company News Release dated May 31, 2022) through which Newmont retains the option to earn-in to a minimum of 65% interest, from Awalé, in the project in return for USD 15M of exploration expenditures. Newmont is sole funding the exploration program at Odienné.
pXRF analysis is completed by the company with an Innov-X Vanta Handheld XRF Analyser, samples are hand crushed and dried where necessary and sieved to -80 mesh (passing 170 micron) and analysed for 90 seconds using 3beam 'soil mode'. Standards are used in the stream every 50 analyses; field duplicates are also routinely analysed Laboratory analytical work for auger/soil and termitaria geochemical samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek Laboratories Australia Ltd. an ISO 17025 (2017) Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company's field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company's secure Bondoukou or Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their laboratory in Tarkwa, Ghana for preparation. Samples are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried, and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Australia where 10-gram split is analysed by ICP/MS with an Aqua Regia digest. Blanks, duplicates, and certified reference material (standards) are being used to monitor laboratory performance during the analysis. Analytical work for drill samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek Laboratories Ghana Ltd. an ISO 17025 Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company's field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company's secure Bondoukou or Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their preparation laboratory in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire for preparation. Samples are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried, and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Ghana where a 50g charge is Fire Assayed with an AAS finish. Blanks, duplicates, and certified reference material (standards) are being used to monitor laboratory performance during the analysis. Any ICP analysis on drill cores are conducted in the same manner as the geochemistry samples reported above.
The technical and scientific information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved for release by Andrew Chubb, the Company's Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr Chubb is the Company's Chief Operating Officer and holds an Economic Geology degree, is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and is a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Mr Chubb has more than 18 years of experience in international minerals exploration and mining project evaluation.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
AWALE RESOURCES LIMITED.
"Glen Parsons"
Glen Parsons, President and CEO
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by such information. The statements in this news release are made as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information except as required by applicable law.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit. The group hopes to put pressure on officials to keep their word and to restore funding that was dropped after a group of white farmers filed legal challenges arguing their exclusion was a violation of their constitutional rights.
The lawsuit filed in October remains active even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture moves forward with another effort to help farmers in financial distress in addition to paying farmers who the agency discriminated against.
John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association and one of four plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said that the new programs don’t match the USDA’s earlier offer to pay off 120% of the debt of farmers who are socially disadvantaged.
According to the lawsuit, this definition applies to more than 6,500 farmers who have “traditionally suffered racial or ethnic prejudice,” and are saddled with federal loan obligations. The lawsuit says this includes Native Americans or Alaska Natives; Asian Americans; Black Americans or African Americans; Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders; and Hispanic Americans or Latino Americans.
“My dad always said, if you give somebody your word then you should own up to it,” Boyd said. “They gave us their word. We signed a contract and sent it back in and then they repealed the whole measure. I see it as a broken promise.”
The proposed payments and lawsuits follow a long history of the USDA refusing to process loans from farmers of color, and in some cases foreclosing more quickly than usual when such farmers who obtained loans ran into problems.
The federal government settled a lawsuit in 1999 filed by Black farmers and paid more than $2.4 billion, but court filings later acknowledged there were persistent problems in the USDA farm loan programs.
In 1910, Black farmers owned more than 16 million acres (6.5 million hectares) of land, but today they have less than 4.7 million acres (1.9 million hectares).
Boyd was just 18 years old when he assumed an existing USDA loan upon buying his first farm in the early 1980s. He says walking into his local USDA office was like a return to the Jim Crow era.
The lawsuit filed by Ben Crump, a Florida-based civil rights attorney known for representing family members of George Floyd and other Black people killed by police, stems from congressional approval of $5 billion in debt relief for thousands of farmers of color. The money was included in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package in 2021.
White farmers in several states then filed lawsuits arguing that the law violated their rights, which prompted judges to halt the program in June 2021.
Faced with the likelihood of a lengthy court battle that would delay payments to farmers, Congress amended the law and offered financial help to a broader group of farmers. The new law allocated $3.1 billion to help farmers struggling with USDA-backed loans and $2.2 billion to pay farmers who the agency discriminated against.
In a statement, the USDA said that litigation likely would have continued for years if they hadn’t changed the law.
“Congress provided $3.1 billion that will allow USDA to be able to work with distressed borrowers to provide help with their farm debts in new and more effective ways to help … borrowers as much as possible stay on the land, stay in agriculture, and maintain eligibility for future assistance,” the statement said. “Additionally, for those farmers that have suffered discrimination by the USDA farm loan programs, Congress allocated $2.2 billion to provide additional financial assistance.”
The USDA completed a comment period on the discrimination component last month and is now drafting proposed rules for the program.
Boyd, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat on his 1,500-acre (607-hectare) farm in Baskerville, Virginia, said the federal government sent letters to minority farmers asking them to sign up for the payments, and it should have moved faster to provide the financial help. By changing the rules after farmers sent back their signed documents, the government violated a contract, Boyd said.
“We see it as a whole lot of empty promises and broken promises,” Boyd said.
He said the guarantee of future federal debt relief caused some farmers to invest in their farms, only to be left in worse financial condition after the law changed and payments were delayed.
The lawsuit is pending in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and Boyd said he hopes it will put pressure on the government to act.
Jermaine Walker, who grows corn, wheat and other crops near Pinewood, South Carolina, said the promised federal payments would enable him to save his farm from a bank foreclosure. Walker ran into trouble after he invested $1.5 million in a chicken operation and then had a dispute with a poultry company that canceled his contract.
Walker said he had other options to resolve the farm’s financial problem but then local bank officials assured he would be OK because of the upcoming federal debt relief payments. One year later, the original plan has been replaced and the new plan is still in the works. Walker said he’s frustrated with the government.
“I, Jermaine Walker, want them to do what they told me they were going to do,” he said about the federal government’s promise to pay his farm’s debts. “I want my neighbor, Black or white, to succeed, but now … my family farm is on the brink.” | 2022-12-07T13:09:04+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-farmers-of-color-sue-government-for-promised-federal-aid/ |
WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 12, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
348 AM EST Mon Dec 12 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Snow is ending across the region with no additional accumulation.
However, any untreated roads may be slippery as temperatures are
in the 20s. Motorists should be prepared for slippery travel this
morning, and drive with caution.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-12-12T09:02:18+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CT-WFO-BOSTON-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17647545.php |
908th AW sustains readiness, with a little help from friends
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE — The 908th Airlift Wing’s 25th Aerial Port Squadron recently acquired a high-line dock, which is material handling equipment, from the 76th Aerial Port Squadron assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.
The high-line dock was initially delivered August 16, 2022, by the 445th Air Lift Wing assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and was ready for use in time for the December Unit Training Assembly.
Backstory
As the mission of the 908 AW is transitioning from C-130H tactical airlift to MH-139A flight training, the mission of 25 APS remains relatively the same. They are responsible for the management and movement of cargo and passengers transported on aircraft.
They make this possible by preparing air cargo and load plans, loading equipment, rigging for airdrops and much more. But as the last C-130H departed the wing in April 2022, they didn't have aircraft readily available to train and work with.
As an innovative way of thinking, Senior Master Sgt. Gary Ramey, assistant aerial port manager and Chief Master Sgt. Tracey Piel, aerial port manager assigned to 25 APS, came together and conceptualized ways for the members to continue to train and complete tasks for if and when they need to deploy.
They reached out to multiple wings to see if they had equipment that could be used to stage and simulate aircraft. Fortunately, the 76 APS was interested in giving away a high-line dock they no longer used.
After exchanging a few photos, Ramey did a temporary duty assignment up there to observe the high-line dock in person.
“The process to make this come to life was lengthy and took a lot of manpower and effort from both wings,'' said Ramey. “It took approximately seven months to coordinate the logistics, but the important thing is that old equipment isn’t going to waste.”
As of now, the 25 APS is not anticipating the highline-dock to be used for any 908th missions but can support other missions and units that may require assistance.
What is a high-line dock?
“A high-line dock is a piece of equipment simulating rolling pallets onto the back/inside of aircraft such as a C-5, C-17 or C-130,” said Ramey. “We can fit four pallets instead of just one or two that we did with next generation small loader and forklift. Having this piece of equipment gives us increased flexibility in building, prepping, and loading or unloading multiple pallets.”
The highline-dock has features that make it a vast improvement to the old method they were using. It is a steel frame with gravity roller conveyors and handrails positioned on each side of the dock and an access ladder for side-entry capability.
As opposed to web-based training, the high-line dock provides them with hands-on, team-building opportunities.
Senior Airman Chad North, an air transportation specialist with the 25 APS, expressed his appreciation.
“I believe that having the equipment has made it easier and more efficient to train and learn a hands-on portion of the job since we lost the C-130s,” he said. “It is going to be easier for me to learn how to spot a k-loader up to it and push cargo onto the highline dock.”
Why is this important?
Instead of having the high-line dock sit unutilized, passing the equipment to a sister wing exhibits interoperability and the conservation of resources and tax dollars that would have gone into purchasing a newer one.
The high-line dock that the 25 APS received will be used to sustain and improve mission readiness. It allows their personnel to work at a considerably faster rate by eliminating the step of using a forklift for loading each cargo pallet individually and onto a NGSL. This saves valuable time and enhances the movement of palletized cargo.
“I believe this helps us complete the mission because it gives us the necessary training to learn how to do our job,'' said North. “Our roles and jobs are still going to be needed at some point in time and with this high-line dock, we are receiving training on how to do it before the real mission comes.”
The 25 APS understands the value of training and seized the opportunity to hone skills and discover alternative ways to develop and deliver multi-capable Airmen and accelerate and sustain readiness. | 2022-12-29T22:22:16+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/12/29/908th-aw-sustains-readiness-with-a-little-help-from-friends/69765303007/ |
Flood channel construction closures hurting businesses near Charleston, Eastern
By Drew Andre
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — The city of Las Vegas is closing the intersection of Charleston and Eastern for six days to install concrete culverts. It’s part of the massive $51 million flood control improvement project that eventually will take stormwater under the street along a large section of Charleston Boulevard and parts of Maryland parkway.
“There’s a lot of traffic, and the sales have gone down recently,” the owner of the dress and photo store Miss 15 Leidy Muniz said.
The store Muniz has owned for nine years is near the intersection of Charleston and Eastern. She said sales during the construction have gone down as much as 70 percent in the last few months and said when the main intersection is closed it could be even worse.
“When it’s closed down [there’s] more traffic less clients,” Muniz said.
That’s echoed by several businesses in the area FOX5 spoke to.
Down the strip mall, the owner of Maxi Mart Liquor said it’s been a struggle for not only customers accessing their location but employees and delivery drivers.
He estimates business is down about 35 percent but being open 24 hours is what’s helping his store.
The goal of the project is to eliminate flash flooding issues during the summer monsoons in this older part of Las Vegas. There was flooding near Charleston and Eastern from a storm earlier this month.
The business owners told FOX5 they understand why the project is being done but the construction could have several years of impact to their livelihood.
Businesses will remain open during the closure that starts Wednesday at 9 p.m. and ends at 5 a.m. Monday.
The roadwork started in October of last year and the city said it’s expected to be completed in January of 2024.
The city said the recommended detour to avoid the construction area goes south along Maryland to Sahara, where you can reach Boulder Highway.
Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform. | 2022-08-25T00:41:09+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/cnn-regional/2022/08/24/flood-channel-construction-closures-hurting-businesses-near-charleston-eastern/ |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — North Carolina A&T's Chancellor Martin sent a letter to students, staff, and alumni following a shooting that claimed the life of a freshman and a 15-year-old.
One alum said this isn't the first time they received a letter like this and sadly, they don't think it will be the last.
Some students said they heard about the deadly shooting that happened Tuesday night and now, they are scared to go to parties themselves.
"It is surreal. I never would’ve thought that would happen to anybody," sophomore Hasad Willaims said.
Students on NC A&T's campus are surprised and confused by a shooting on Circle Drive that took the life of one of their own.
"I think that’s lame people are still shooting in 2022. It’s supposed to be fine. I don’t get what can make someone so mad when they feel they need to start shooting,"
Williams said his girlfriend lived in the apartment complex where the shooting happened.
Freshman Maliyah Ijames said, “That was kind of crazy because it was just unexpected. I was texting her and making sure she was OK."
The shooting took the lives of 19-year-old Kaneycha Turner and a 15-year-old male.
Freshman Naylah Maple said, “She posted two days ago and now she’s gone, so I think everybody is just in a moment where we’re not really sure if we want to go out and party or not because we don’t want that to happen to us."
Both current students, alumni, and the school itself are all upset after what happened.
2018 alumn Courtney Hood said this isn't her first time receiving an email like that from chancellor Martin.
“I think it was well written," Hood said. "Unfortunately, that’s not the first letter or email I ever got pertaining to a student being lost. I think the school always handles it and they do a good job. I know they provide counseling for students that were affected and definitely I’m praying for the family of the young girl that passed away because that was unfortunate."
NC A&T spokesperson, Todd Simmons said, “Chancellor Martin was indeed very moved by this event as I think all of us were on campus. I certainly went home with a knot in my stomach and a cloud over my head last night. Everyone is extraordinarily sad for Kaneycha, for her family, and for all of her friends and teammates who knew her. So, it’s just an incredible tragedy one that you would hope would never befall A&T or anyone you know."
NC A&T encourages students to take extra steps to ensure safety both on and off campus.
"But we encourage people if they may be at off-campus events or somewhere else in town, [to] know their surroundings. Does it feel safe to you? If it doesn’t, don’t second-guess that feeling, leave. Exercise your own personal agency and take your role, and responsibility for the safety and security of all around you," Simmons said.
The Chief of Campus police, Jermaine Cherry, spoke to students last night about the incident.
Cherry offered advice on how to stay safe during homecoming as well as how important it is to keep your eyes open when you are in large crowds.
"One thing that we are doing this week and particularly in line with some of the larger gatherings are doing our best to learn about these events before they happen," Simmons said.
The school said they have nothing against large parties but there are issues surrounding the number of people in one confined space.
"We will certainly have enough security and police personnel on-site for all of the events. It really is up to the patrons to ensure that we stay safe so everybody enjoys the event as they should," Simmons said.
NC A&T said they don’t want to prevent students and alumni from having fun. But they encourage everyone to be vigilant and leave if they don’t feel safe or comfortable.
The students have ideas as to how the campus and student housing could be safer.
"Maybe stricter restrictions on when the gates are open and when they’re closed. I think could really help," Maple said.
"Stay safe. Watch out. Watch your surroundings have a good time have each other‘s back that’s the best thing you can do," Williams said.
"Current students I definitely want you guys to have a good time during homecoming please don’t be discouraged make sure that you’re being safe and make sure you always have somebody with you or someone has your location and knows exactly where you are just in case or incidents where life may potentially be in danger," Hood said.
Now as far as the football game this weekend, NC A&T said, per the usual, everyone attending will be wanded down and only clear bags are allowed inside the stadium.
I also asked NC A&T about party promoters on campus passing out flyers and advertising large events. The school said they try to nip that in the bud but can't control what is posted online.
That’s why they keep law enforcement informed on whatever parties they hear about. | 2022-10-28T00:11:54+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/aggies-respond-to-chancellor-martins-letter-following-shooting/83-730cbb23-8d76-4257-b85e-bf1af15266df |
Final second shot puts Furman on top, No. 9 in SportsCenter Top 10
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Late game heroics from Furman senior guard Mike Bothwell put the Paladins on top Saturday 72-70. Bothwell drained a jumper from the left baseline with less than a second remaining to secure the win over defending WAC regular season champion Stephen F. Austin.
The game was full of late dramatics as the two teams traded final shots in the final minute. With 40 seconds remaining Stephen F. Austin had a three called back after video review showed the shot clock had expired before the shot was released.
With less than 20 seconds to play, Furman forced a turnover and called a timeout, but they had no timeouts remaining and were charged with a technical foul.
Stephen F. Austin would tie the game on the ensuing technical foul shot and Furman was then given the ball.
Bothwell took it the length of the court and drilled a jumper off the dribble from 13 feet to break the deadlock. Capping off a 21-point second half and finishing the night with a career high 36 on 12-of-14 shooting from the field and a perfect 11-for-11 at the free throw line.
According to Furan, the fifth-year senior became the first NCAA Division I player to score 35 or more points on 85% shooting from the field and a 10-of-10 or better night at the foul line in a decade. Bothwell is the first Paladin to finish perfect from the line on 11 or more attempts since Jordan Lyons went 13-for-13 at Alabama during the 2020-21 campaign, and the guard is the first Paladin to score 35 or more in a game since Lyons tallied 40 at VMI on January 1, 2020.
Copyright 2022 WHNS. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-19T00:31:26+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/12/19/final-second-shot-puts-furman-top-no-9-sportscenter-top-10/ |
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In Nigeria, it is virtually impossible to get hold of cash. Old bank notes of specific denominations were made invalid earlier this month, and the new notes that replaced them are scarce. Authorities say the policy is meant to target corrupt figures who hoard illicit funds. But in a country where millions of people rely on cash, frustrations are at boiling point. And this, just days ahead of elections. NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu reports from Lagos.
(SOUNDBITE OF HORN HONKING)
EMMANUEL AKINWOTU, BYLINE: If you want to know what ordinary people are talking about in Lagos, there are few better places than a busy newspaper stand.
There's a crowd of men poring over the front pages here. It's almost a daily ritual to read and debate the news of the day. And almost all the headlines are dominated by the naira crisis. One reads "Naira Chaos Grounds Economy." And that's the one story people here want to talk about.
MOGU KINGSLEY: Just because of the incoming election, and they are making us to look as if we are fools. We have not ever in life experienced the issue of scarcity of cash. So I don't know how governments want the citizens of the country to survive.
AKINWOTU: That's Mogu Kingsley, a civil servant, and his frustration is echoed by everyone else. The trigger for the crisis has been a controversial policy by outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's central bank. Most old notes were made invalid in February, but the banks are barely dispensing the new notes, so people can't get money from their accounts, and businesses relying on cash sales are being hurt. I'm here in Obalende, a busy intersection of small businesses, market traders and bus stops. Across the road from the newsstand, bus drivers wait for passengers and call out destinations, but it's taking longer than usual because many of the passengers don't have the cash to make the journey.
UNIDENTIFIED BUS DRIVER: By now, on a normal day, supposed to be loading my second trip because I arrived here, I think, around 6. If I don't see full load now, I'm considering I will discharge my passenger and go home.
AKINWOTU: Over the last month, anger in the country has been mounting, and now it has reached a tipping point.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting in non-English language).
AKINWOTU: People have taken to the streets all over the country. In some places, banks have been set alight and ATMs destroyed. And the man many blame for this chaos, President Buhari, has asked for calm.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI: I'm fully aware of the current hardship you are facing as a result of some policies of the government which are meant to bring overall improvement to the country. God willing, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
AKINWOTU: At this stage in the election, campaigns are usually awash with cash. Buhari said that the target of the policy are figures who have hoarded illicit funds and to stop politicians rigging elections. But many ordinary people feel caught in the crossfire.
(CROSSTALK)
AKINWOTU: There are around a hundred people here crowded around the only ATM machine that's working in the area. It's about 12:30 in the afternoon, and people have been here for hours. Some people even slept here overnight. Occasionally, there are fights breaking out, and frustrations are boiling over. Days ahead of the elections, scenes like this have become depressingly familiar.
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AKINWOTU: They're saying you can't take more than 2,000.
ACHE KOO: Yes, for all the banks. Look at all the banks here. None of them are paying. Look at them. They're not paying.
AKINWOTU: Mr. Ache Koo, like everyone else here, wants to talk and voice their frustration to me, to each other, to anyone who will listen. Amid all the shouting, one man walks quietly over and introduces himself.
EMEKA DAVID: My name is Emeka David. I am a citizen of Nigeria. I'm not a proud citizen, though.
AKINWOTU: Why are you not a proud citizen?
DAVID: No, no. I cannot be proud of this country because the country has messed a lot of people up.
AKINWOTU: Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR News, Lagos. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-03-08T14:37:22+00:00 | publicradioeast.org | https://www.publicradioeast.org/2023-02-23/nigerians-are-furious-as-the-country-switches-currencies-creating-a-cash-shortage |
It’s pride month in Chicago, and there are plenty of events to attend and enjoy around the city in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Some pride events have already begun, but there are still plenty more to attend throughout the rest of the month, including the annual Chicago Pride Parade and more.
Chicago Pride Fest
Chicago Pride Fest returns to Halsted Street and Waveland Avenue on June 18. The fest runs from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. June 18-19. The festival will feature live music, food, drinks, drag shows, and other activities. Click here for street closure information.
Chicago Pride Parade
The 51st annual Chicago Pride Parade will begin at noon on June 26 at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood and will travel through the city's Boystown neighborhood.
Pride in the Park
Local
Pride in the Park will return to Grant Park on June 25. The event runs from 2-10 p.m. Saturday and from 3-10 p.m. Sunday that weekend. The two-day event will feature outdoor music and performances along the city's lakefront, including major headliners like The Chainsmokers, Alesso and more.
Drag Story Time
Children's story time featuring drag performers reading their favorite stories. The Bezazian Library's Commercial Club Park, located at 1845 W. Rice St., at 10:30 a.m. on June 13.
Pride Bar Crawl
An eight-location bar crawl with an afterparty and specials will begin at 4 p.m. on June 11 at The North End, located at 3733 N. Halsted St.
Drag Me to the Fairmont
Lady Bunny and Miz Cracker will headline the drag show from 8:30-10:30 p.m. on June 18 at the Fairmont Chicago, located at 200 N. Columbus Drive.
The Chicago Drag Show Presents: PRIDE
A drag show that combines traditional drag, cabaret, and performance art into one show. The Newport Theater, at 956 W. Newport Ave., will host the event from 9:30-11:30 p.m. on June 18.
Adults Night Out: Pride Party!
After-hours LGBTQ+ party at Lincoln Park Zoo with drag bingo and a live DJ from 6:30-10 p.m. on June 23.
Chicago is A Drag Festival
Local drag kings, queens, and queer performers will perform from 4-10 p.m. on June 24 at the Cheetah Gym Parking Lot at 5248 N. Clark St.
Proud to Run
The 40th annual Pride 5k and 10k race will be held at 8 a.m. on June 25 at 601 W. Montrose Ave.
90’s Pride Drag Brunch
Brunch with a 90's theme. This event begins at 10 a.m. on June 25 at The Walnut Room, 111 N. State St.
Navy Pier Pride
Explore storytelling, music, dance, and other activities on Navy Pier from 12-11:30 p.m. on June 25.
Pride Parade: Drag Queen Make Your Own Bagel Brunch
Complimentary strawberry mimosas and a bagel making class with drag queens. This event runs from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 26 at Get in the Kitchen, located at 3617 N. Broadway.
Story Jam & Outspoken Celebrate Pride
Guests will be entertained with five personal stories as well as music in honor of Pride Month. This event takes place from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Artifact Events, located at 4325 N. Ravenswood Ave.
Chicago Cubs Pride Night
The Pride Night Special Ticket Offer includes a ticket to the Cubs-Reds game at Wrigley Field at 7:05 p.m. on June 29. There will also be a special-edition Cubs hat. | 2022-06-09T18:29:18+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/15-pride-events-happening-in-chicago-this-month/2853525/ |
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PHOENIX (AP) — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had four hits, including a tying homer in the ninth, and pinch-hitter Pavin Smith walked with the bases loaded to force in the winning run as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Washington Nationals 8-7 on Saturday night.
Gurriel hit his third homer of the season on the first pitch from Kyle Finnegan (1-2). The play was challenged by Washington because left fielder Stone Garrett leaped to catch the ball and hit a fan in the process, but the call stood.
Gurriel said he talked to hitting coach Joe Mather before the at-bat, getting information about Finnegan.
“He ran down some of the pitcher's repertoire and I put a good swing on it,” Gurriel said through a translator.
Gurriel also made a sliding catch on a ball in foul territory in left field. He finished 4 for 5 at the plate.
“Just a good approach but also putting in a lot of work with the coaches, coming in early and getting that work in,” he said.
Christian Walker followed Gurriel's homer with a single, and Corbin Carroll walked. After Dominic Fletcher sacrificed and Geraldo Perdomo was intentionally walked, Smith took a 3-1 pitch out of the zone to end the game.
Miguel Castro (1-0) got one out for the victory.
Washington trailed 6-2 before it scored five runs in the ninth, including four with two out. Lane Thomas' two-run homer off Andrew Chafin gave the Nationals a 7-6 lead. Keibert Ruiz, who drove in three runs for Washington, also homered in the inning against Scott McGough.
“We made it a battle,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said of the ninth-inning rally. “I can't say enough about what our team did, it showed a lot of fight.”
As for Gurriel's home run, Martinez said: “It was tough to see from our angle. You gotta ask and let them make a judgement.”
The score was 2-2 going into the bottom of the seventh. Arizona's Alek Thomas tripled leading off against Carl Edwards Jr. and scored on Ketel Marte's single.
Thomas, who entered the game batting .170, also hit an RBI single during the Diamondbacks' three-run eighth against Mason Thompson. Carroll knocked in the first run of the inning with a pinch-hit single, extending his hitting streak to 11 games.
Diamondbacks starter Tommy Henry pitched six innings of two-run ball, lowering his ERA from 6.52 to 5.17. He allowed six hits, struck out three and walked two.
Emmanuel Rivera put Arizona in front with a solo homer against MacKenzie Gore in the first. The drive to left was his first homer of the season.
Washington rallied with two runs in the fourth on Ruiz’s double. Luis García and Joey Meneses singled ahead of Ruiz’s line drive to left.
Arizona tied the game in the sixth. Gurriel led off with his third single of the game and advanced to third on Walker’s bloop single to right. Gurriel scampered home on a wild pitch.
Gore struck out nine in six innings. He permitted two runs and eight hits.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: 3B Jeimer Candelario was out of the lineup after being hospitalized briefly for dehydration following Friday’s game. Martinez said before the game everything was fine and that Candelario would be at the ballpark on Saturday. ... CF Victor Robles was removed for pinch-hitter Alex Call in the fourth. Robles walked and was thrown out stealing in the third. Martinez said after the game that Robles hurt his back on the slide.
Diamondbacks: Carroll began the game on the bench after homering on Friday in his first start after he missed three games earlier in the week with a left knee contusion. He batted for DH Evan Longoria in the eighth.
NEXT UP
Washington RHP Trevor Williams (1-1, 3.41 ERA) starts against Arizona RHP Ryne Nelson (1-2, 6.39 ERA) in Sunday’s series finale.
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NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) — Askew’s Ace Hardware won first place in the national Ace Bucket Display Contest, which benefits local Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.
Askew’s Hardware was previously chosen as one of the top three stores in the nation competing in the contest. During the fundraiser, customers could donate $5 to Children’s Miracle Network and get a free five-gallon CMN logo paint bucket and 20% savings on most items as a thank you. Askew’s Hardware customers donated $1,575 this year.
Askew’s Ace Hardware was chosen as one of the top three stores in the nation, and the store eventually won a contest in which their bucket display had to receive the most likes on Facebook and Instagram.
The third-place prize was, $2,500, second place was $5,000 and first place was $7,500. Askew’s will donate $7,500 plus the customer donations to Maynard Children’s Hospital at ECU Health.
Askew’s also won the contest in 2020, and placed third in 2020. | 2022-08-30T22:06:26+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/local-news/new-bern/askews-ace-hardware-wins-national-cmn-fundraiser/ |
Trevor Larnach Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Marlins - April 3
Published: Apr. 3, 2023 at 12:25 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
After going 3-for-4 with an RBI in his most recent game, Trevor Larnach and the Minnesota Twins face the Miami Marlins (who will start Johnny Cueto) at 6:40 PM ET on Monday.
In his most recent appearance, he racked up three hits (going 3-for-4 with an RBI) against the Royals.
Trevor Larnach Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Monday, April 3, 2023
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on fuboTV!
- Marlins Starter: Johnny Cueto
- TV Channel: BSFL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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Trevor Larnach At The Plate (2022)
- Larnach hit .231 with 13 doubles, five home runs and 19 walks.
- Larnach reached base via a hit in 25 of 51 games last season (49.0%), including multiple hits in 19.6% of those games (10 of them).
- Including the 51 games he played in last season, he went yard in five of them (9.8%), leaving the ballpark in 2.8% of his trips to the plate.
- Larnach drove in a run in 14 of 51 games last season (27.5%), including four occasions when he drove in multiple runs (7.8%).
- In 19 of 51 games last season (37.3%) he scored a run, and in three of those games (5.9%) he scored more than once.
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Trevor Larnach Home/Away Batting Splits (2022)
Marlins Pitching Rankings (2022)
- The pitching staff for the Marlins had a collective nine K/9 last season, the eighth-best in the league.
- The Marlins' 3.86 team ERA ranked 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combined to surrender 173 total home runs at a rate of 1.1 per game (17th in the league).
- Cueto makes his first start of the season for the Marlins.
- The 37-year-old right-hander started and threw seven innings in his last appearance on Tuesday, Oct. 4 against the Minnesota Twins.
- Last season he finished with a 3.35 ERA and a 1.219 WHIP over his 25 games, compiling an 8-10 record.
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Oklahoma ranks in the top five states for babies born with syphilis, but that could change soon. The governor signed a bill that will require more frequent screenings for pregnant patients.
The CDC estimates from 2016 to 2020, the rate of babies born with syphilis in Oklahoma went up by nearly 2,000 percent. There are a few reasons for that, but chief among them is syphilis was rare in women until about 2014, when cases began to skyrocket.
Syphilis is a treatable infection. Left untreated, it can be passed on to babies, which can cause serious health problems such as muscular and skeletal deformities and neurological issues.
Current state law requires one syphilis screening: right at the beginning of pregnancy. Public health and medical experts have been pushing for more screening throughout pregnancy.
Last week, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office announced he signed Senate Bill 292, which requires doctors and health care providers to follow CDC screening recommendations.
"Currently, recommendations are screening at the first prenatal visit, re-test at 28 weeks’ gestation, and at delivery if at high risk," said Senator Brenda Stanley, the bill's author.
In 2021, the latest figures on record, Oklahoma ranked fourth in the nation for reported cases of syphilis. | 2023-05-08T13:13:03+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/health/2023-05-08/new-oklahoma-law-will-increase-syphilis-screening-for-pregnant-patients |
The Integrated Dental Organization now owns and operates 21 locations in the western U.S.
DENVER, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Espire Dental, a fast growing, doctor-led Integrated Dental Organization (IDO), is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of La Costa Dental Group in Encinitas, CA.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Espire aims to reshape the industry with its 21 practices located throughout Colorado, California, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The company acquires practices with a clinical philosophy that focuses on the patient experience, while placing significant emphasis on elevated, quality clinical care and employee fulfillment. Adding La Costa Dental Group strengthens Espire's position in the Southern California market while expanding the quality of dental care available to patients throughout the state.
Tim Hill, CEO of Espire Dental, is thrilled about the synergy between Espire and this new practice. "We're proud to partner with a practice that has such a longstanding history of providing exceptional dental care to the community. This location is an ideal fit with our existing presence in the area, and we couldn't be more excited to work with Dr. Anisso to advance the dental care quality available to patients."
La Costa Dental Group has been providing excellent patient care to the people of Encinitas and surrounding areas since 1975. Dr. Omer Anisso, D.D.S., owner of La Costa Dental, said, "When I first met the team at Espire, I knew that they were the best fit for our practice and patients. We were searching for a business partner who would not only help our practice grow but support our team members and elevate our patient experience, too. Espire is elevating the entire dental industry, and we are proud to join the cause."
Espire Dental supports its practices with best-in-class business services including practice operations, clinical training, human resources, marketing and accounting. This allows Espire's dentists to focus on what matters most: patient care and elevating their teams' experience. For Hill, Espire sets itself apart from other group dental partners by offering the guidance practices need while delivering exceptional patient and team experiences. He said, "We're proud of our positive and unique culture and the way it effortlessly integrates with our exceptional business support systems. We're committed to raising the bar on the quality of support that integrated practices should expect from their business partner."
About Espire Dental
Espire Dental is a group of practices founded by doctors with a vision to create something extraordinary: a dental setting where excellence in dentistry meets inspired hospitality. Espire is pioneering a new practice category, operating as an Integrated Dental Organization (IDO) instead of a DSO to create a large, top quality and unique group practice operating under a single, trusted brand. With a focus on elevated quality care, multi-specialty and creating exceptional experiences for patients and employees, Espire believes that when you love what you do, work does not feel like work. Espire is a fast-growing group of 21 practices, looking to build its presence in the Western United States. Learn more at www.espiredental.com.
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Dentists interested in joining Espire Dental may complete an inquiry form: EspireDental.com/practice-transition
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas police detective accused of preying on Black women and girls for decades will be released from jail pending his trial on charges involving two accusers who say he repeatedly sexually abused them, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S Magistrate Judge Rachel Schwartz acknowledged the allegations against Roger Golubski represented “reprehensible conduct” and the underlying facts were “shocking,” but said he is not as much of risk as he would have been when the alleged crimes occurred. Prosecutors had also argued that he might try to flee, but Schwartz said his serious medical issues tie him to the community.
Golubski, 69, was arrested and charged Thursday on six counts of civil rights violations alleging that as an officer with the Kansas City, Kansas, police department, he sexually abused a Black woman and a teenager more than two decades ago. Five counts allege that Golubski kidnapped or tried to kidnap the victims.
Schwartz ordered Golubski to remain at home except for religious services and medical care, to be monitored around the clock, and to have no contact with possible victims or potential witnesses.
Prosecutors filed a motion Friday that included graphic details of his encounters with the two accusers and that added complaints from seven other females who say Golubski harassed and abused them.
Golubski has not been charged in those seven cases, but prosecutors argued they provided more evidence that he is dangerous and has shown “nothing but utter contempt for the law.”
Several women who say they or their relatives were victimized by Golubski attended Monday's hearing.
Golubski, who retired in 2010, has pleaded not guilty. He faces a possible life sentence on each of the six counts.
The case is being tried in federal court, rather than state court, because federal law does not have a statute of limitations for civil rights violations, former U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
At the time of the alleged crimes, Kansas had a five-year statute of limitations for rape and aggravated sodomy. Kansas no longer has a statute of limitations for rape, but that doesn't apply retroactively, McCallister said.
Golubski's attorney, Tom Lemon, said Golubski needs medical care for diabetes and to recover from quintuple bypass heart surgery. He also said it would be difficult to provide an adequate defense if Golubski remains jailed. The case requires “intensive” work because it appears prosecutors have no physical evidence, just victim statements, Lemon said.
“Now that he is sick and infirm, now the claim is that he is dangerous,” Lemon said. “I don’t see how he is a danger to anyone.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Hunting argued that Golubski's medical care could be worked out.
“Mr.Golubski has terrorized a community for a long, long time,” Hunting said.
The motion filed Friday alleges Golubski displayed his gun while demanding sex and told the victims he would have them or their relatives imprisoned or killed if they ever told anyone what he did, prosecutors said.
The charges accuse Golubski of sexually assaulting a girl more than 10 times over about three years. He repeatedly told the girl, who was 13 when the abuse allegedly began, that he would kill her or her grandmother. He told her he would throw her in a river and sang a version of childhood song with the phrase, "where they won’t find her until she stank,” according to the motion.
The other victim in the charged case, Ophelia Williams, was raped and sexually assaulted several times over two or three years, according to the motion. He initially abused Williams shortly after her two sons were arrested, prosecutors said.
The Associated Press generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault, but Williams has told her story publicly.
The seven other victims were abused or threatened by Golubski between 1980s and 2004, prosecutors said.
One woman said she called the Kansas City, Kansas, police internal affairs department to report her encounter with Golubski but was told “there was nothing they could do because it was (her) word against the defendant’s,” prosecutors wrote.
The police department said Monday that Chief Karl Oakman would not have any comment on the motion. Mayor Tyrone Garner has said he is committed to pushing for improvements in police-community relations to restore trust.
Another victim said Golubski sexually assaulted and raped her periodically between the mid-1990s and 2004 while threatening to take away her children, prosecutors said. In 2016, the woman was in the hospital when Golubski showed up and said, “Long time no see,” according to the indictment, prompting her to change hospitals, according to the motion.
Civil rights groups for years sought an investigation into Golubski. The allegations gained attention after Lamonte McIntyre, who spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he didn't commit, sued Golubski and other Kansas City, Kansas, officers. McIntyre and his mother, Rose McIntyre, alleged that Golubski framed Lamont in 1994 because she refused the detective's sexual demands.
The local government agreed in June to settle the lawsuit for $12.5 million.
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Stafford reported from Liberty, Mo.
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One goal of long-term care policy is to keep the disruption of daily routines short-term, whenever that’s possible. In Hawaii, where nearly 1 in 5 residents are 65 or older, this focus needs a greater emphasis in the health-care sector.
It’s this need that Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, in association with The Queen’s Medical Center, hopes to address with its 42-bed facility in Honolulu. What’s called “short-term rehabilitation” is a capacity that the Alexander Street center has developed over the course of the pandemic, though the demand does exist independently of COVID-19.
The problem is one of scale: Specialized care of this type, outside the hospital setting, is hard to deliver in a market as small and isolated as Hawaii is, in a sustainable way.
But Queen’s this week discharged the first patient needing short-term rehabilitation to this facility, freeing up space at the hospital that, as the tide of virus infections once again begins to mount, will be needed for more acute cases.
Otherwise, this inaugural patient — Enriqueta Yacas, 80 — would have to stay in the hospital or go for short-term rehabilitation far from home, such as in San Francisco, Los Angeles or Seattle. That is not an outcome loved ones or anyone who cares for the aging population would want.
This niche has been part of the skilled-nursing sector on the mainland for some time: Providers have seen short-term rehabilitation centers as a pathway to claim a larger share of the Medicare pool. As a therapy course prescribed by a physician, short-term rehabilitation is covered by Medicare.
Further, officials navigating the early pandemic nationally leaned on these facilities to open additional beds so hospitals could discharge more patients.
In some states in the Midwest and Southwest, the rush has led to overbuilding, according to the 2019 Healthcare & Senior Housing Commercial Real Estate Trends Report, a publication of Integra Realty Resources.
Hawaii is facing the opposite reality. People such as Yacas are consigned either to stay in an acute-care setting or relocate entirely to a place that can deliver the more involved care they require.
In her case, the requirement was for dialysis, treatment for a tracheostomy and a ventilator, a grouping of services not generally available outside the hospital setting.
When COVID-19 first began straining the health system here in March 2020, Queen’s was casting about for alternative sites delivering respirator care. Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, which did have that service, took on some patients. And in the discussions with Queen’s in the months that followed, the expansion to short-term rehabilitation was accomplished.
According to its website, the center can assemble a program that also can include physical, speech and other kinds of therapies, social work, nutritional counseling and the basic critical-care nursing. Although some patients do require a longer-term stay, the aim is to help patients transition “to as normal a life as possible.”
Should this trend continue to build across this state as is needed, the imperative would be to train patients and their families fully for proper care in the home environment.
AARP Hawaii’s position has been one of concern about how patients are discharged from hospital, ill-trained to adapt to a new normal, said spokesman Craig Gima. But if short-term rehabilitation can be conducted successfully, the results would be something to endorse.
“We encourage efforts trying to bring people back home, where they want to be,” Gima said.
So do we all. In the continuum of care, anything that lights the way back to recovery in familiar settings deserves support. | 2022-05-20T10:15:09+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/20/editorial/our-view/editorial-more-options-for-post-hospital-care/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea added to its barrage of recent weapons tests on Thursday, firing at least three missiles including an intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains.
The launches are the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests in recent months that have raised tensions in the region. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North firing an ICBM from an area near its capital Pyongyang around 7:40 a.m. and then firing two short-range missiles an hour later from the nearby city of Kacheon that flew toward its eastern waters.
The longer-range missile appeared to be fired on a high angle, possibly to avoid entering the territory of neighbors, reaching a maximum altitude of 1,920 kilometers (1,193 miles) and traveling around 760 kilometers (472 miles), according to South Korea’s military.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the launch was successful.
Japan’s Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada announced similar flight details but said that his military lost track of the weapon after it “disappeared” in skies above waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
Choi Yong Soo, a South Korean Navy captain who handles public affairs for Seoul’s Defense Ministry, didn’t answer directly when asked whether the military believes the launch might have failed with the missile exploding in midair, saying that the test was still being analyzed.
Citing anonymous military sources, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that the missile possibly failed to maintain normal flight following a stage separation.
The Japanese government initially feared the ICBM would fly over its northern territory but later adjusted its assessment. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the alerts were based on a trajectory analysis that indicated a flyover.
The office of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida broadcast alerts through television, radio, mobile phones and public loudspeakers to residents in the northern prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata, instructing them to go inside firm buildings or underground.
There have been no reports of damage or injuries from areas where the alerts were issued. Bullet train services in those regions were temporarily suspended following the missile alert before resuming shortly. Kishida condemned the North’s launches and said officials were analyzing the details of the weapons.
The office of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his national security director Kim Sung-han discussed the launches during an emergency security meeting where members talked about plans to strength the country’s defense in conjunction with its alliance with the United States.
The office said South Korea will maintain its combined military exercises with the United States in response to North Korea’s intensifying testing activity, which it said would only deepen the North’s international isolation and unleash further economic shock on its people.
Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council, issued a statement saying the United States strongly condemns the North’s ICBM test and that President Joe Biden and his national security team are assessing the situation in close coordination with allies and partners.
“This launch, in addition to the launch of multiple other ballistic missiles this week, is a flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions and needlessly raises tensions and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region,” Watson said.
She said the United States will take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the American homeland and allies South Korea and Japan.
One of the more than 20 missiles North Korea shot on Wednesday flew in the direction of a populated South Korean island and landed near the rivals’ tense sea border, triggering air raid sirens and forcing residents on Ulleung island to evacuate. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.
Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as a rehearsal for a potential invasion.
North Korea has been ramping up its weapons demonstrations to a record pace this year. It has fired dozens of missiles, including its first demonstration of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as it exploits the distraction created by Russia’s war in Ukraine and a pause in diplomacy to push forward arms development and dial up pressure on the United States and its Asian allies.
The North has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. U.S. and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with its first detonation of a nuclear test device since September 2017.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a telephone call with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin over Wednesday’s missile launches, including the one that “recklessly and dangerously” landed near the South Korean coastline, and stressed the “ironclad” U.S. commitment to the security of its ally, according to their offices.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price also addressed concerns about possible North Korean preparations for another nuclear test, which would be its seventh overall. Experts say such tests could possibly bring North Korea a step closer to its goal of building a full-fledged arsenal threatening regional U.S. allies and the American mainland.
“Should it go forward with a seventh nuclear test there would be additional costs and consequences,” Price said, noting that the test would be a “dangerous, reckless, destabilizing act.”
North Korea last flew a missile over Japan in October in what it described as a test of a new intermediate range ballistic missile, which experts say potentially would be capable of reaching Guam, a major U.S. military hub in the Pacific. That launch forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and pause train services.
Experts say North Korea is escalating a brinkmanship aimed at forcing the United States to accept the idea of the North as a nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
Nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang have been stalled since early 2019 over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling U.S.-led sanctions against the North and the North’s denuclearization steps.
The North has so far ignored the Biden administration’s calls for open-ended talks, insisting that Washington should first discard its “hostile” policy, a term North Korea mainly uses to describe sanctions and combined U.S.-South Korea military exercises.
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby on Wednesday underscored that the Biden administration has repeatedly sought to reach out to North Korean officials through diplomatic channels and has made clear “we’re willing to sit down with North Korea without precondition to discuss the denuclearization of the peninsula.”
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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo. AP writers Aamer Madhani and Ellen Knickmeyer contributed to the story from Washington. | 2022-11-03T21:11:32+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-south-korea-says-north-korea-has-test-fired-another-missile/ |
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Fix it for HIM, The Dalles, made up of church members in The Dalles, often constructs things like access ramps, fences and decks for those who are unable, either physically or financially, to do so themselves.
Fix it for HIM, The Dalles, made up of church members in The Dalles, often constructs things like access ramps, fences and decks for those who are unable, either physically or financially, to do so themselves.
Fix it for HIM, The Dalles, made up of church members in The Dalles, often constructs things like access ramps, fences and decks for those who are unable, either physically or financially, to do so themselves.
Fix it for HIM, The Dalles, made up of church members in The Dalles, often constructs things like access ramps, fences and decks for those who are unable, either physically or financially, to do so themselves.
For More than a decade, Bill Hamilton and his team of volunteers have been building things for those in need. In particular, the group often constructs things like access ramps, fences and decks for those who are unable, either physically or financially, to do so themselves.
The group, Fix it for HIM, is officially a program of Calvary Baptist in The Dalles, but volunteers are from a variety of different churches, all joining together to help those in need in the name of Jesus. No one is charged for the labor performed by Fix it for HIM, Hamilton said, and Home Depot often provides materials at either a reduced price or completely free.
On Saturday, Dec. 10, the group took on another ramp project: Their 67th in The Dalles.
A large amount of volunteers were involved, Hamilton said. Ethan Wray helped deliver a trailer and equipment to the job site and Jim Wilcox cleared out the snow the day before the project. The others who helped with the project were Darrell France, Dan Turner, Fred Davis, Larry Fairclo, Beverly McKinney, Lorna Elliot, Ari D’urso and Evan.
“We unloaded the trailer of all the prebuilt forms and laid out the weed barrier to prevent grass from growing under the ramp,” Hamilton said. “Fred, Darrell and Dan worked on completing the level section at the top of the ramp and setting the posts. Larry, Ari and Evan moved the ramp sections closer to the final area and Beverly, Lorna, Larry,and Ethan started excavating the lower section of the ramp so it would fit to the edge of the sidewalk.”
With everyone working together, they were able to finish the project by about 4:30 p.m., and were able to have everything cleaned up by 5 p.m.
“We were blessed with much better weather than expected,” Hamilton said. “Thank you to all our volunteers!” | 2022-12-21T13:30:27+00:00 | columbiagorgenews.com | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/gorge-life/fix-it-for-him-builds-67th-ramp-since-2012/article_ec952c9a-8092-11ed-84fe-1b610c93417a.html |
A Facebook search for the words “election fraud” first delivers an article claiming that workers at a Pennsylvania children’s museum are brainwashing children so they’ll accept stolen elections.
Facebook’s second suggestion? A link to an article from a site called MAGA Underground that says Democrats are plotting to rig next month’s midterms. “You should still be mad as hell about the fraud that happened in 2020,” the article insists.
With less than three weeks before the polls close, misinformation about voting and elections abounds on social media despite promises by tech companies to address a problem blamed for increasing polarization and distrust.
While platforms like Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube say they’ve expanded their work to detect and stop harmful claims that could suppress the vote or even lead to violent confrontations, a review of some of the sites shows they’re still playing catchup with 2020, when then-President Donald Trump’s lies about the election he lost to Joe Biden helped fuel an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“You would think that they would have learned by now,” said Heidi Beirich, founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and a member of a group called the Real Facebook Oversight Board that has criticized the platform’s efforts. “This isn’t their first election. This should have been addressed before Trump lost in 2020. The damage is pretty deep at this point.”
If these U.S.-based tech giants can’t properly prepare for a U.S. election, how can anyone expect them to handle overseas elections, Beirich said.
Mentions of a “ stolen election ” and “voter fraud” have soared in recent months and are now two of the three most popular terms included in discussions of this year’s election, according to an analysis of social media, online and broadcast content conducted by media intelligence firm Zignal Labs on behalf of The Associated Press.
On Twitter, Zignal’s analysis found that tweets amplifying conspiracy theories about the upcoming election have been reposted many thousands of times, alongside posts restating debunked claims about the 2020 election.
Most major platforms have announced steps intended to curb misinformation about voting and elections, including labels, warnings and changes to systems that automatically recommend certain content. Users who consistently violate the rules can be suspended. Platforms have also created partnerships with fact-checking organizations and news outlets like the AP, which is part of Meta’s fact-checking program.
“Our teams continue to monitor the midterms closely, working to quickly remove content that violates our policies,” YouTube said in a statement. “We’ll stay vigilant ahead of, during, and after Election Day.”
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced this week that it had reopened its election command center, which oversees real-time efforts to combat misinformation about elections. The company dismissed criticism that it’s not doing enough and denied reports that it has cut the number of staffers focused on elections.
“We are investing a significant amount of resources, with work spanning more than 40 teams and hundreds of people,” Meta said in a statement emailed to the AP.
The platform also said that starting this week, anyone who searches on Facebook using keywords related to the election, including “election fraud,” will automatically see a pop-up window with links to trustworthy voting resources.
TikTok created an election center earlier this year to help voters in the U.S. learn how to register to vote and who’s on their ballot. The information is offered in English, Spanish and more than 45 other languages. The platform, now a leading source of information for young voters, also adds labels to misleading content.
“Providing access to authoritative information is an important part of our overall strategy to counter election misinformation,” the company said of its efforts to prepare for the midterms.
But policies intended to stop harmful misinformation about elections aren’t always enforced consistently. False claims can often be buried deep in the comments section, for instance, where they nonetheless can leave an impression on other users.
A report released last month from New York University faulted Meta, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube for amplifying Trump’s false statements about the 2020 election. The study cited inconsistent rules regarding misinformation as well as poor enforcement.
Concerned about the amount of misinformation about voting and elections, a number of groups have urged tech companies to do more.
“Americans deserve more than lip service and half-measures from the platforms,” said Yosef Getachew, director of Common Cause’s media and democracy program. “These platforms have been weaponized by enemies of democracy, both foreign and domestic.”
Election misinformation is even more prevalent on smaller platforms popular with some conservatives and far-right groups like Gab, Gettr and TruthSocial, Trump’s own platform. But those sites have tiny audiences compared with Facebook, YouTube or TikTok.
Beirich’s group, the Real Facebook Oversight Board, crafted a list of seven recommendations for Meta intended to reduce the spread of misinformation ahead of the elections. They included changes to the platform that would promote content from legitimate news outlets over partisan sites that often spread misinformation, as well as greater attention on misinformation targeting voters in Spanish and other languages.
Meta told the AP it has expanded its fact-checking network since 2020 and now has twice as many Spanish-language fact checkers. The company also launched a Spanish-language fact-checking tip line on WhatsApp, another platform it owns.
Much of the misinformation aimed at non-English speakers seems aimed at suppressing their vote, said Brenda Victoria Castillo, CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, who said that the efforts by Facebook and other platforms aren’t equal to the scale of the problem posed by misinformation.
“We are being lied to and discouraged from exercising our right to vote,” Castillo said. “And people in power, people like (Meta CEO) Mark Zuckerberg are doing very little while they profit from the disinformation.” | 2022-10-21T14:13:20+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/social-media-braces-for-elections-mayhem-as-misinformation-still-spreads/ |
Review: Del Toro takes his ‘Pinocchio’ to very dark places
Let’s face it, “Pinocchio” has always been an odd choice for a children’s morality tale.
Of course, lying is wrong. But that’s not the only message the story sends. Even the classic 1940 Disney version — lighter and more kid-friendly than the 1883 Collodi tale — still sends the message that if you’re not “good,” you don’t deserve to be human.
“A boy who won’t be good might just as well be made of wood,” the beneficent Blue Fairy admonishes Pinocchio in that film. Really? What happened to the idea that “to err is human?” Not to mention second chances, or learning curves? And what does “good” mean, anyway? Have they heard of value relativism? But we digress.
Because now comes Guillermo del Toro, with his blazing creative talent, to really stir things up. And boy, this is not your Disney “Pinocchio” — not the 1940 classic nor the remake of a few months ago. How will your kid feel about fascist salutes (or you about explaining them?) A guy named Mussolini? Bombs falling from the sky? A father handing a gun to his son and saying “Shoot the puppet?” (Yes, sweet Pinocchio — THAT puppet.)
Of course, del Toro, whose take on “Pinocchio” is so distinct that the movie is called “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” has just the visual command you’d expect, partnering with co-director Mark Gustafson in this gorgeous stop motion project with a starry voice cast (including three Oscar winners — Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton.) The movie often looks stunningly beautiful, in color and texture. And you’ll want to get on a plane right now and find the Italian village where Geppetto lives, with cobblestoned alleyways framed by snow-capped mountains jutting out in the mist.
Pinocchio, too, is way more interesting-looking than the blue-eyed, bow-tie wearing puppet we’re used to. He’s a lanky masterpiece in striated pine, with wooden curls, too, and something about him is heartbreakingly lovable. Maybe it’s because he makes mistake after mistake. And to err is … oh, never mind.
We first meet Geppetto (David Bradley) as the happy father to a real son, Carlo. “All they needed was each other’s company,” says the narrator, namely Sebastian J. Cricket, voiced by Ewan McGregor. They spend their evenings reading stories by the fire, and Carlo accompanies Geppetto to his job restoring a huge Jesus altarpiece in the church. It’s there that tragedy strikes one day; a warplane drops a bomb onto the church, killing Carlo. Geppetto withdraws to drinking and mourning.
In grief, Geppetto cuts down a pine tree and makes a puppet. In the night, the Wood Sprite (Swinton, not to be confused with her sister, Death, also Swinton) comes to visit. As in other versions, she asks the cricket to watch over Pinocchio and serve as his conscience.
Geppetto brings the puppet to church, but he’s greeted with hostility: “Where are his strings? Who controls him?” At home, Pinocchio wonders why everyone loves the wooden Jesus but not him. A fascist town leader pronounces Pinocchio a “dissident” and “independent thinker.” Not as a compliment.
Like in other versions, Pinocchio gets caught up with a money-hungry impresario, Count Volpe (Waltz) who puts him in a puppet show. Unlike other versions, one audience member happens to be Il Duce (Mussolini.) Also unlike other versions, he orders Pinocchio shot. Pinocchio also gets hit by a truck. Luckily, Swinton’s Death keeps sending him back to life.
If this seems a bit unsavory for the younger kids, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet — Pinocchio ends up at a fascist military camp, where the boys are set against each other in deadly war games. Compared to this section, the time he and Geppetto later spend in the belly of a whale seems rather quaint.
Did we mention that this movie is a musical? Freud would probably say there’s a reason we forgot — the songs, some catchier than others, often seem to be dropped soon after they’re started, petering out softly as we move to something else. The musical element is best used in the theater scenes where Pinocchio is forced by Volpe to perform. And kids will definitely enjoy the song where Pinocchio boldly (and dangerously) goads the visiting Mussolini with lyrics about poops and farts.
But “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” is clearly not aimed solely at kids, but rather is banking on the fact that adults, too, will be drawn to the striking visuals and mature themes at play.
Those themes include parenting. For much of the movie Geppetto wishes Pinocchio would be just like Carlo, his human son. But gradually the old man realizes he doesn’t need to replace Carlo — Pinocchio is just fine, and he doesn’t need to become human to be loved.
Del Toro is also making clear references to the danger of groupthink. Indeed, he seems to have chosen the background of fascism to point out that the narrowminded townspeople who suspect Pinocchio because he’s different are the real puppets, not Pinocchio.
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” a Netflix release, has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America “for dark thematic material, violence, peril, some rude humor and brief smoking.” Running time: 114 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
457 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Jackson
County through 515 PM CDT...
At 456 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Inez, or 7 miles south of Edna, moving south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Edna, La Ward, Alamo Beach, Lolita, Magnolia Beach, Vanderbilt and
Lake Texana Dam.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 2897 9642 2870 9644 2870 9657 2867 9657
2864 9652 2868 9654 2868 9653 2861 9648
2868 9647 2867 9646 2854 9646 2857 9664
2858 9664 2858 9662 2864 9661 2882 9672
2885 9670 2902 9683 2907 9693
TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 013DEG 19KT 2888 9669
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Blanco,
northeastern Gillespie, Llano and west central Burnet Counties
through 545 PM CDT...
At 457 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Lone Grove, or near Llano, moving southwest at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Kingsland, Llano, Round Mountain, Buchanan Dam, Gainesville, Granite
Shoals, Horseshoe Bay, Buchanan Lake Village, Highland Haven,
Castell, Field Creek, Inks Lake State Park, Blowout, Bluffton, Baby
Head, Stolz, Crabapple, Oxford, Lone Grove and Enchanted Rock State
Natural Area.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3044 9836 3044 9898 3050 9898 3050 9896
3092 9896 3092 9834
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 058DEG 20KT 3080 9862
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Zapata
At 457 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 7 miles northeast of Morales-Sanchez to Lopeno.
Movement was west at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
Zapata, Lopeno, New Falcon, Zapata High School, Zapata County Fire
Department, Zapata Middle School, Siesta Shores, Zapata County Public
Library, Falcon Mesa and Morales-Sanchez.
This includes US Highway 83 between mile markers 766 and 790.
These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
If on or near Falcon Lake near Lopeno or New Falcon, get out of the
water and move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can
strike out to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear
thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to
safe shelter now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 2691 9932 2702 9896 2676 9897 2668 9901
2657 9917 2662 9918 2667 9920 2669 9921
2672 9921 2675 9924 2679 9924 2682 9926
2685 9927 2686 9929 2687 9932 2688 9933
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 076DEG 19KT 2687 9905 2674 9911
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL GILLESPIE AND
SOUTHERN LLANO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However small hail,
gusty winds up to 40 mph and heavy rain are still possible with this
thunderstorm.
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of north central
Calhoun, Victoria and northeastern Goliad Counties through 600 PM
CDT...
At 501 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Lolita to near Edna to near Inez to near
Victoria Mall to Ander. Movement was south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
Victoria, Goliad, Guadalupe, Fannin, Victoria Colony Creek Country
Club, Weesatche, Weser, Nursery, Victoria Riverside Park, Victoria
College, Victoria Mall, Saxet Lakes, Brentwood Subdivision, Inez,
Telferner, Downtown Victoria, Schroeder, Dacosta, Ander and Wood Hi.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 183 between mile markers 628 and 648.
US Highway 59 between mile markers 624 and 672.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 568 and 594.
US Highway 87 between mile markers 798 and 828.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
LAT...LON 2871 9662 2870 9661 2870 9643 2871 9642
2870 9641 2869 9642 2869 9656 2865 9684
2859 9709 2856 9748 2888 9748 2892 9742
2887 9730 2895 9719 2900 9682 2892 9679
2885 9670 2882 9672 2871 9664 2872 9641
TIME...MOT...LOC 2201Z 011DEG 14KT 2885 9657 2895 9662 2895 9682 2892
9703 2887 9731
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Treybrooke Village Apartments is paying to right a wrong after a Greensboro family’s home was mistakenly cleaned out and thousands of dollars worth of possessions were junked.
Their apartment complex, Treybrooke Village Apartments, hired a third-party contractor, Junkyard Dogs, to clear out and junk items in an apartment, but there was a mix-up.
“The apartment was a P instead of a T,” Joy Ojo said through an interpreter on Monday; Joy and her husband are both deaf. “They made a mistake and took all of our stuff without any authorization.”
That mistake meant that, on Dec. 5, Joy and her family’s beds were taken and thousands of dollars in belongings were destroyed.
Treybrooke Village Apartments, which is owned by The Carroll Companies, issued the following statement on Tuesday, revealing that the company has given the family money to help the family through this loss.
As you are aware, our senior managers met with Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola at the Treybrooke Apartments today. An interpreter with signing capabilities was also present to aid in communications. We paid cash to the residents today that is $1,000 more than the amount we were initially informed they were damaged by the error in thrashing out certain items from their unit. Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola are valued tenants. We requested that they stay in touch with us if further assistance is needed and to let us know if they discover other lost or damaged items or costs incurred. We regret this error occurred and take responsibility to ensure a full resolution of this matter for Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola.
‘Shocked’
On Dec. 5 when Joy came home from picking up her kids from school, she saw a Junkyard Dogs truck on Teakwood Drive filled with all of her items: mattresses, chairs, clothes, valuables and important documents.
“My husband and I were really shocked. We looked up, and they’re taking out all our things,” Joy Ojo said. “The landlord said … ‘I made a mistake. They were supposed to go to a different apartment and not your place.'”
Their manager told us the employee was given the key to the wrong unit. No one at Treybrooke Village Apartments or The Carroll Companies would go on camera.
In days after the mix-up, the family of four was left sleeping on the floor.
“The junkyard company provided us one night in the hotel, so we went to sleep in the hotel,” Joy said.
Joy is hurt by what happened. Her kids have nothing, and she lost items that are priceless to her family.
“Everything was damaged,” she said.
Non-profits and the police department have also given the family some help.
The Ojos filed a police report, and they are reviewing all their legal options.
The Ojo family has a GoFundMe.
Accountability
In an initial statement on Friday, Paul Sidam, regional property manager with RE Carroll Management, said the mix-up was not the fault of Treybrooke Village, instead placing the blame on the contractor.
We appreciate you reaching out to Treybrooke Village Apartments about the matter involving certain items being trashed out of Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola’s unit. Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola are valued tenants, and we take this matter seriously. We understand that Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola have been frustrated and inconvenienced as a result of having some of their belongings thrown out. However, we do not feel that Treybrooke Village is at fault in this matter, as it was a third party contractor that committed the error in trashing out the wrong unit. We have given Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola the contractor’s name and information, and are informed that the contractor has reached out to them to try and resolve the matter. That said, we remain involved and are working to help resolve the issue. We are hopeful that this matter will be fully resolved very soon.
Late Monday afternoon, Cameron Sieradzan of The Carroll Companies shared an updated statement, recognizing that “mistakes were made.”
We are in contact with Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola and are actively working to settle this matter. As you are likely aware, there are some language barriers involving Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola which makes things a bit more complicated. That said, we believe we will be able to come to an amicable resolution with Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola which will make them whole. We acknowledge mistakes were made, and we are committed to making this right.
We will update Fox 8 News once we have had a chance to meet with Mr. Ojo and Mrs. Akinola using the services of a sign language interpreter.
In the latest statement issued Tuesday, included above in full, the complex accepts “responsibility to ensure a full resolution of this matter.” The company paid the family based on the sum that the complex was initially told that the family had lost, plus an additional $1,000. That payment came with an offer for additional help if needed. | 2022-12-21T01:41:14+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/local-news/nc-apartment-complex-aims-to-right-wrongs-after-junkers-clear-out-familys-home-in-tragic-mix-up/ |
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- Donation is an extension of Kia's "Accelerate The Good" CSR initiatives
MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the U.S. debut of the highly anticipated all-electric Kia EV6 GT during Monterey Car Week, Kia America made a monetary donation to Women In Motorsports North America. Unveiled during The Quail, an annual and exclusive gathering of exotic and historic supercars, the 576-hp EV6 GT is the most powerful Kia ever produced and marks a new era in electrification for the brand and further solidifies Kia's leadership position in sustainable mobility.
"The EV6 GT is the continuation of Kia's transformation and is the next phase of our Plan S strategy which will see Kia offer 14 fully-electric models globally by 2027," said Russell Wager, vice president, marketing, Kia America. "The EV6 GT is an entirely new level of performance for Kia and as part of its U.S. premiere we wanted to support the communities in which we live and work by helping the causes and organizations that align with Kia's core values."
Kia's partnership with Women In Motorsports North America, a 501c3 co- founded by former race car driver Lyn St. James, was designed to encourage diversity in the field of motorsports. St. James competed in the IndyCar series and was the first woman to earn Indy 500 Rookie of the Year honors and is one of nine women to have qualified for the Indianapolis 500. The mission of Women In Motorsports is to provide an inclusive, resourceful environment that fosters mentorship, advocacy, education, and growth to ensure a successful future for women in the field of professional motorsports.
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Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electrified vehicles sold through a network of more than 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Providence Homes, Jacksonville's leader in energy-efficient construction, recently completed its seventh Homes for HOPE project to help fight global poverty.
"Homes for HOPE is a way to get the building industry involved in creating capital for those that don't have access to it," said Sean Junker, Providence President & COO. "We all come together; not just the builder but our trade partners and suppliers; we are able to leverage our talents and our resources to maximize the contribution we can give to HOPE International."
Once the home is sold, the resulting donation is used to provide training, savings services, and loans to men and women living in poverty, gradually breaking the cycle of poverty.
The current project will result in a $240,000 donation to support this mission. Since Providence Homes began building Homes for HOPE, the sales of homes in the Jacksonville area have resulted in more than $900,000 in contributions.
"We are eternally grateful for our trade partners and suppliers on this project," said Junker. "This wouldn't be possible without their commitment to helping others."
Trade partners and suppliers that supported this Homes for HOPE project include:
A & G Construction, Inc.
Alpha Environmental Management Corp., LLC.
American Residential Products, Inc.
Bouziane Tie-Down Inc.
Builders First Source
Concrete Masters, Inc.
Fine Line Painting & Drywall, Inc.
First Coast Supply, Inc.
FTG, Inc. House Wrap
Group 4 Design, Inc.
Italian Terrazzo & Tile Co. of Brevard, LLC.
iWashJax, LLC.
Jacksonville Building Science, LLC.
Justin The Plumber, LLC.
Legacy Engineering, Inc.
Munson & Bryan Electric Company, Inc.
Onsite Safety, Inc.
Outdoor Site Solutions, LLC.
Polished Properties-US, LLC.
Renaissance Windows & Doors, Inc.
Residential Worx Jax., Inc.
Ross Security Systems, Inc.
Southern Scapes, LLC.
Stewart Lighting, Inc.
True House, Inc.
Turnkey Solutions of Jax., Inc.
Woodsman Kitchens & Floors, Inc.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Providence Homes is committed to providing the highest standards of residential construction in northeast Florida. As one of Jacksonville's only 100-percent ENERGY STAR® Certified home builders, Providence Homes pledges to make a difference in the industry by building every home with the same detail and commitment to excellence as they would with their own. Since becoming an ENERGY STAR® partner, Providence Homes has built more than 1,900 ENERGY STAR® homes helping Jacksonville families save more than $7 million in energy bills.
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Report calls for approaches to build sustainable food and nutrition security and avert future crises
NEW YORK, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid the ongoing global food and nutrition crisis, a new report from The Rockefeller Foundation provides constructive steps forward in leveraging resources to end hunger and build sustainable food security. Anticipate and localize: Leveraging humanitarian funding to create more sustainable food systems recommends a shift in donor approaches to align more closely with solutions that strengthen food system resilience to climate change, conflict, and other shocks. It is the second of four reports issued by The Rockefeller Foundation that will present a unified roadmap for achieving global food and nutrition security.
"If the world does not act now, there will be as many hungry people in 2030 as there were in 2015, a devastating backslide – and one that could accelerate amid the worsening climate crisis," said Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. "The goal of ending hunger once and for all is still achievable, but it requires stakeholders coming together in public-private-philanthropic partnerships behind big bets to scale innovative solutions, including those identified in this report."
While the international community has responded to the global hunger crisis with unprecedented pledges of humanitarian aid, funding gaps still remain. More broadly, there are concerns that humanitarian food assistance, as currently structured and delivered, is not the way to achieve resilient and sustainable food security.
"We have the largest humanitarian appeals, the largest numbers of people who are food insecure and the largest funding gaps in history," said Carol Bellamy, writer of the report and former Executive Director of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). "The numbers force new thinking about how we can both improve the effectiveness of existing aid and also reduce the need for aid through building more sustainable food systems."
The humanitarian assistance system is comprised of several actors, including the multi-agency United Nations; governments; multilateral development banks; nongovernmental organizations; and private donors. Yet, despite the enormous resources deployed, coordination is weak. Major shortcomings have included a failure to anticipate crisis and invest proactively; a failure to tailor aid to local needs through local partners; and a failure to join the funding "dots."
"The sliver of funding that went to sustainable solutions demonstrates the most dangerous gap of all: the gap between short-term thinking and long-term solutions," said Catherine Bertini, Managing Director, Global Nutrition Security at The Rockefeller Foundation, former Executive Director of the World Food Programme, and 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. "Until we address the underlying issues of the resilience and sustainability of food systems, the need for humanitarian food aid will continue to escalate."
Report's Recommendations Break with Funding Orthodoxy
The four key recommendations in the report are as follows:
- Fund anticipatory action and make smarter investments. The report urges donors to spend 1% of their 2024 budgets on such action, increasing that share by 1% for the next 10 years. Furthermore, investments must be smarter than in the past, helping farmers to rapidly adapt to climate change, including through a focus on regenerative agriculture.
- Fund localization by increasing the share of funding that goes to local organizations to 25% of their total expenditure over the next five years. This would support the role of local communities as effective first responders. National governments are urged to invest a similar share of their spending on domestic food security in local approaches.
- Crack funding siloes by establishing United Nations country teams that unify funding and strategies that address humanitarian need, social and economic development, and peace, including in food insecurity hotspots affected by armed conflict.
- Make the investment case through a campaign to put under-utilized working solutions to the test in a real-time situation of food insecurity.
In addition to the solutions highlighted above, the report calls for weaving three common threads into every policy, program and approach: a gender lens, the meaningful inclusion of those most directly affected by food insecurity, and intensive collaboration.
The report draws on insights of The Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored Convening Group on Funding for Sustainable Food Security.* The Rockefeller Foundation convened nearly two dozen experts in food insecurity and food aid from around the world. Over the course of two months, November through December 2022, they examined how to best mobilize and leverage funding to ensure food security for all.
"Millions of people are in desperate need of food assistance today – and as we deliver this aid, it is critical to invest in systemic change that will build sustainable food security in the longer term," continued Ms. Bertini. "To solve these interconnected global challenges, governments and organizations must be willing to abandon cherished notions of what works for them in favor of what can work to bring food security to all."
Anticipate and localize: Leveraging humanitarian funding to create more sustainable food systems is the second of four reports in a series on achieving global food and nutrition security supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. The first report, Defining the Path to Zero Hunger in an Equitable World, was recently published by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and offers a framework to reimagine a hunger-free world.
*Convening Group members: Karima Aboud Al-Hada'a, Government of Yemen; Mansoor Ahmed, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK; Arnauld Akodjenou, Kofi Annan Foundation; Tom Arnold, Concern Worldwide; Gabrial Deng, Hope for Ariang Fondation; Glenn Denning, Columbia University; Jamie Drummond, ONE Campaign; Nils Grede, World Food Programme (WFP); David Kaatrud, WFP; Joseph Kaifala, Jeneba Project; Randolph Kent, King's College London; Chris Leather, N4D; Thin Lei Win, The New Humanitarian; Dan Maxwell, Tufts University; David McNair, ONE Campaign; Peter Mulrean, U.S. Department of State (retired); Fatima Muradi, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Paul Newnham, SDG2 Advocacy Hub; Rebecca Richards, WFP; Susana Rico, WFP; Patrick Saez, ODI; Deborah Saidy, WFP; Dan Toole, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
**additional inputs and perspectives were also provided by Ronnie Coffman of Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, John Herron of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Julian Lampietti of the World Bank, David Nabarro of the UN Global Crisis Response Group, Joachim von Braunof of the University of Bonn, Rami Zurayk of the American University of Beirut, and Douglas Broderick, International Development Consultant.
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AQABAT JABR REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli army raided a refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Jericho on Saturday, besieging houses it said were being used as hideouts for Palestinian attackers and shooting at residents who opened fire. The fighting wounded six Palestinians, two seriously, said the Palestinian Health Ministry, and jolted a generally quiet oasis town that has seen less violence than other West Bank cities.
The army said it entered the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp southwest of Jericho in the occupied West Bank to search for suspects involved in a shooting attack last week at a nearby Israeli settlement.
Last Saturday, with the West Bank on edge after the deadliest Israeli military raid in two decades and two subsequent Palestinian attacks in east Jerusalem that killed seven people, the army said a Palestinian gunman had opened fire in a restaurant at a settlement near Jericho. After firing one bullet, the gunman fled the scene, the army said. No one was wounded.
The army said several Palestinians had holed up in their homes after the shooting with the help of family and were planning future attacks.
To force the fugitives to surrender, a military bulldozer clawed at the walls of one of the homes as an Israeli commander shouted threats over a loudspeaker. Camp residents reported receiving text messages urging families to keep their children inside and avoid clashing with Israeli troops.
The suspects and family members trickled out of one of the homes and turned themselves in, the military said. Security forces had leveled much of the house, leaving a pile of rubble and twisted metal. Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at military jeeps as they rumbled down the camp streets, while some gunmen opened fire. The Israeli military fired back, wounding six, none critically, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The incursion comes as violence rises in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank under Israel’s new far-right government, which has taken a combative stance against the Palestinians. Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state.
The Israeli army has ramped up near-nightly raids in the occupied West Bank since a series of deadly Palestinian attacks within Israel last spring. Over the last year and a half of escalating raids, Jericho has remained a sort of sleepy desert town, spared much of the violence.
Since last week’s shooting at the nearby settlement, the Israeli military has blocked access to several roads into Jericho — a closure that has placed the city under a semi-blockade, disrupting business and creating hourslong bottlenecks at checkpoints that affected even Palestinian security forces, footage showed.
The Palestinian Authority, in retaliation for last week’s raid into the Jenin refugee camp that killed 10 Palestinians, declared a halt to security coordination with Israel.
Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed last year in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, making it the deadliest in those areas since 2004, according to figures by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Some 30 people were killed in Israel by Palestinians in 2022.
The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
In the evening Saturday, the Israeli military said air defenses shot down a drone launched from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into the country’s south. No Palestinian group said it was behind launching the drone, which set off warning sirens on the Israeli side of the frontier.
The increasing violence in the West Bank has cast a shadow over Gaza-Israel borders in recent days after months of quietness, with several rocket launches and airstrikes. | 2023-02-05T00:42:21+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-israeli-army-besieges-homes-of-fugitives-in-west-bank-raid/ |
The former New Jersey governor will appear in Manchester Tuesday evening and announce that he's making another run for the GOP nomination. Christie was one of more than a dozen GOP hopefuls in 2016.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia State Police: Rescuers have located plane that crashed after flying over nation’s capital, no survivors found.
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Ferrari clocked going 178 mph on state highway, authorities say
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. (Gray News) – Deputies with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia spotted a driver who was in an apparent hurry over the weekend.
The driver of a Ferrari was clocked going 178 mph on the highway heading southbound out of the county, the sheriff’s office said in a post on Facebook.
“There are no justifiable reasons for going that fast,” the sheriff’s office wrote. “Even if you aren’t concerned about your own safety, you are putting others at risk if something goes wrong.”
The sheriff’s office did not indicate if the driver was arrested or cited in its post, but this driver would have been considered a Super Speeder in Georgia.
Super Speeders are drivers who are ticketed for driving 85 mph or faster on highways and add an additional $200 fine to speeding tickets, according to the State of Georgia.
“Slow down because next time, spike strips won’t care how fast you’re going,” the sheriff’s office said.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-05T17:23:14+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2023/06/05/ferrari-clocked-going-178-mph-state-highway-authorities-say/ |
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Kiwanis Club of Lima met this morning with a special guest from the Allen County Regional Planning Commission.
Executive Director Tara Reynolds Bales was the guest speaker this morning at Milano Café. The Lima native spoke about ways to improve transportation in the city, as well as the rest of Allen County. Reynolds is still new to her job and is just 30 days in. She shared her love of the community, as well as the role of the planning commission in relation to community stakeholders and citizens of Allen County.
"When they drive like a tour through the county, what we do and what they see, for example, the Eastown corridor was expanded so now there's easier access to Spencerville and Shawnee Roads. The roundabout there at Shawnee and Fort Amanda Road, and also the roundabouts over in Thayer Road that we are working on and some of the future projects that we have that will include some roundabouts because the importance of them and the safety that they provide for the region," said Tara Reynolds Bales, executive director of the Allen County Regional Planning Commission.
For more information on the work the planning commission does such as demographics or crash reports, you can log onto their website at https://www.lacrpc.com/. | 2023-04-05T01:32:31+00:00 | hometownstations.com | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/kiwanis-club-welcomes-executive-director-of-the-allen-county-regional-planning-commission-as-guest-speaker/article_4d44d0f4-d327-11ed-84b6-23de2da029ee.html |
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – When last we checked on gasoline prices across the Piedmont Triad, about six weeks ago, you were paying about a quarter per gallon more than you are today and more than 75 cents more than a year ago.
In fact, you can find some outlets with gas at less than $3 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline, GasBuddy reported Monday.
GasBuddy says the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the greater Greensboro area is $3.14, down 2.1 cents from last week. AAA has the price at $3.15.
On Jan. 30, those numbers had risen by another 3.3 cents to $3.38, based on GasBuddy’s tracking, and to $3.387, up 4.9 cents from the prior week, AAA reported.
What that means is that prices that had been rising by about 40 cents per gallon in post-holiday surges, from less than $3 per gallon in some places, have declined in the Piedmont Triad.
That decline also was counter to a spring price surge that emerged in statewide and national figures. Gas Buddy’s average price in North Carolina is $3.12, which is up about .3 of a cent higher than last week, and its national average has risen 3.5 cents, to $3.36. The national average price of diesel has fallen 4.6 cents in the past, to $4.34.
AAA has the average price in North Carolina of $3.138., only about .3 of a cent less than a week ago but 15 cents lower than a month ago. Its national average is $3.405.
“The national average rose last week as the transition to summer gasoline has now started across the entire country,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said in his weekly release. “The higher cost of these various blends is being passed along to motorists, as we see every year ahead of the summer driving season.
“Some regions are moving to the required summer gasoline in different steps than others, and the fragmentation of required blends absolutely plays a role in these price increases. Logistical challenges in making the transition during a time when refiners are also doing maintenance work can create hotspots and lead to noticeable jumps in prices during the spring.”
Lower prices may not stick
Prices in Greensboro are 13.8 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and 76.5 cents less than a year ago. A Pantry Shop in High Point is charging $2.96, and there are several outlets posting $2.99.
The cheapest prices statewide, as measured by GasBuddy, are $2.64 at a BP in Raleigh and $2.65 at a 76 outlet in Elizabeth City. And best in the Piedmont Triad is $2.85 at the Murphy outlet on South Mebane Oaks Road in Mebane.
A sampling of AAA found the cheapest averages to be in Yadkin County ($3.049), followed by Davidson ($3.076), Forsyth ($3.081) and Wilkes ($3.087).
DeHaan said he is expecting that prices will continue to rise as summer travel season nears. And that old $4 figure could return.
“While we may not see weekly increases, the overall trend will remain upward through much of the spring,” he said. “By Memorial Day, most of the nation will be transitioned to their respective required blend of fuel, and gas prices could ease, but a $4 per gallon national average remains possible by then.”
Historical trends
GasBuddy’s historical average gasoline prices for March 6 in Greensboro and the national average going back a decade:
GSO U.S.
2023: $3.12 $3.36
2022: $3.90 $4.06
2021: $2.56 $2.77
2020: $2.20 $2.39
2019: $2.35 $2.45
2018: $2.40 $2.53
2017: $2.17 $2.31
2016: $1.74 $1.81
2015: $2.34 $2.46
2014: $3.34 $3.47
2013: $3.72 $3.72 | 2023-03-07T00:56:31+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/gas-prices-fall-to-less-than-3-per-gallon-at-some-outlets-in-piedmont-triad/ |
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged the people and leaders of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday to “turn a page” and forge new paths of reconciliation, peace and development.
Francis issued a video message on the day he had planned to begin a weeklong pilgrimage to the two African countries. He canceled the scheduled trip last month because of knee pain that makes walking and standing difficult.
In the message, Francis said he was “greatly disappointed” to not be able to travel and promised to visit “as soon as possible.”
He urged the people of both countries not to allow themselves to be robbed of hope despite the violence, political instability, exploitation and poverty that he said had pained them for so long.
“You have a great mission, all of you, beginning with your political leaders: It is that of turning a page in order to blaze new trails, new paths of reconciliation and forgiveness, of serene coexistence and of development,” Francis said.
He said political leaders owed the pursuit of such goals to young people who dream of peace “and deserve to see those dreams come true”
“For their sake, above all, it is necessary to lay down arms, to overcome all resentment, and to write new pages of fraternity,” the pope said.
He was joined in issuing separate video messages by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the moderator of the Church of Scotland, Right Rev. Dr. Iain Greenshields, who were supposed to have accompanied Francis on the South Sudan leg of the trip. In their messages, they expressed disappointment that the visit had to be postponed but urged South Sudanese to nevertheless keep working for peace.
“Peace requires much more than not being at war. It must be created together, with your fellow leaders and even with your enemies,” Welby said in his message. Greenshields urged the South Sudanese to “give expression to Jesus’ words that ‘Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God.’”
While Francis was unable to travel, he is due to celebrate a special Mass at St. Peter’s on Sunday for Rome’s Congolese community. He sent his No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to visit both Congo and South Sudan on the days he was supposed to have been there.
The Catholic Church has always played a role in Congo, especially in the establishment of democracy and advocacy for human rights. The church deployed about 40,000 electoral observers in the 2019 election that brought Felix Tshisekedi to the presidency. Tshisekedi, an opposition figure, defeated then President Joseph Kabila’s chosen candidate in what was Congo’s first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.
There were high hopes for peace and stability once South Sudan gained its long-fought independence from Sudan. But it slid into ethnic violence in December 2013. A 2018 peace deal that binds President Salva Kiir and his deputy, Riek Machar, in a unity government encourages authorities to hold elections before February 2023. | 2022-07-02T12:46:44+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/pope-urges-congo-south-sudan-to-work-for-peace-prosperity/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Atlanta FaZe win the second Major of the 2023 CDL Season
(Gray News) - The Call of Duty League (CDL) held its second Major of the season in Boston this weekend. The tournament saw a lot of close matches right out of the gate, with three out of four matches going to map five on day one. It quickly became evident that several teams were seeking redemption for their lacking performances at the first Major back in December.
OpTic Texas and LA Thieves fell under this description and faced each other in the first round of the winner’s bracket. The reigning world champs, LA Thieves, failed to get past the second round of the elimination bracket in the first Major and needed a solid start to the weekend. Alternatively, OpTic Texas failed to get past the group stage in Major I, so they were looking to capitalize early and get a confidence win.
OpTic Texas pulled out a 3-2 win over LA Thieves thanks to tenacious performances on both maps of Search & Destroy (SnD) and a pivotal map four Hardpoint win. OpTic fans also could breathe a slight sigh of relief as Brandon ‘Dashy’ Otell, the replacement for recently retired Seth ‘Scump’ Abner, put up great stat lines and looked comfortable in his role. On the other hand, LA Thieves fans would have to settle into the idea that their team now had a long journey ahead of them if they wanted to make it to Grand Finals.
Atlanta FaZe had a more successful result in the first Major, exiting after a loss in Elimination Finals, but still expect nothing but the top spot every time they compete. They consistently place top three at Majors and, more often than not, take second if they don’t win the Major. So a third-place finish at Major I may sound respectable, but it seems they know they could have done better and wanted to prove it.
FaZe had a round-one matchup against Boston Breach, the hosts of Major II, that went 3-2 in favor of FaZe. A blistering map four Hardpoint and a dominant 6-0 map five SnD solidified the win. FaZe continued, knocking Toronto Ultra into the elimination bracket with a 3-0 win in round two, followed by a 3-2 win over Minnesota RØKKR in Winners Finals.
RØKKR put up a solid fight in Winners Finals with wins on maps one and three, but an unavailing map four Hardpoint spelled disaster as FaZe took over and pulled out a 6-5 SnD win on map five. RØKKR now had to face the LA Thieves in Elimination Finals if they wanted to make it to Grand Finals.
LA Thieves managed to pull off the elimination bracket run to get to Elimination Finals, and they had done it handily too. The Thieves went 3-0 against Florida Mutineers round one, New York Subliners round two, and Toronto Ultra round 3. Thieves then had to face OpTic Texas again in elimination round four.
The match was a barn burner that saw OpTic take an early lead with a map one win. However, the Thieves were unstoppable on their hunt for Grand Finals. Map two saw a 6-5 SnD win for Thieves. OpTic tried to claw a win on map three, but Thieves took control in Control and won the map 3-2. Finally, on map four, OpTic failed to cover a ladder entry to the final hardpoint location, and the Thieves won the map 250-243. The match earned one of the highest peak viewerships for a non-world championship event in Call of Duty esports history.
LA Thieves went on to their matchup with Minnesota RØKKR in the Elimination Finals, winning with an efficient 3-0. LA Thieves had made it to Grand Finals, where Atlanta FaZe laid in wait.
The Thieves took a heavily contested map one win, only winning Hardpoint by two points. FaZe retaliated with solid wins on maps two and three, but the Thieves wouldn’t go away quietly and took a map four victory. Each team needed two more map wins to emerge Major II champions.
Map five was SnD on El Asilo and proved to be the tipping point for FaZe. McArthur ‘Cellium’ Jovel clutched round one in a 1v2 situation eliminating Zach ‘Drazah’ Jordan and Sam ‘Octane’ Larew as they pushed the bomb site. Cellium also managed to stave off a late-round bomb plant by Octane in round two. Thieves cleaned up a relatively straightforward round three, and Octane managed to hold off a defuse push by Cellium and took round 4. Thieves also grabbed rounds 5 and 6, but FaZe had a quick win in round 7 and took round 8, killing the momentum LA Thieves had garnered. Both teams traded rounds 9 and 10, leading to the deciding round 11. A quick bomb plant by FaZe put Thieves on their heels and led to FaZe winning map five.
FaZe took advantage of the morale hit to the Thieves and coolly won map six to become the CDL Major II champions.
OpTic Texas is hosting CDL Major III in Arlington, Texas, from March 9th through the 12th. Major III qualifiers start February 17th and will be broadcast on the Call of Duty League’s Twitch channel.
Gray Television is an investor in OpTic Gaming.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-06T23:56:09+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2023/02/06/atlanta-faze-win-second-major-2023-cdl-season/ |
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration has proposed new policies for the state's schools regarding how they treat transgender students, including restricting which bathrooms they can use and which pronouns they may go by.
The Virginia Department of Education released its 2022 Model Policies online Friday, effectively rolling back the work of Youngkin's predecessor, Democrat Ralph Northam. The new rules will effected the more than 1 million children enrolled in the state's public school system.
The revamped rules explicitly state that students must only use bathrooms and locker rooms associated with the sex assigned to them at birth. If a student wants to participate in a sport or other extracurricular activities, they must, again, only participate in teams that align with the sex assigned at birth.
Further, the legal name and sex of a student can't be changed "even upon written instruction of a parent or eligible student" without an official legal document or court order. Teachers and other school officials can only refer to a student by their pronouns associated with their sex at birth. But they also don't have to refer to a student's preferred names regardless of paperwork if they feel doing so "would violate their constitutionally protected rights."
Virginia now joins a growing number of state legislatures across the U.S. that have adopted new restrictions on gay and transgender students. Like Virginia, these policies often limit conversations about sexuality and gender identity in schools.
There have been more than 200 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced at the state level this year alone, according to the LGBTQ rights group, Freedom for All Americans. Some go as far as to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care.
The Virginia Department of Education says the basis for these new rules is to support "the rights of parents" to determine their child's exposure to LGBTQ issues.
The department says that by adopting these new standards, Virginia "reaffirms the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated. Empowering parents is not only a fundamental right, but it is essential to improving outcomes for all children in Virginia."
The agency said the policies adopted under Northam's leadership "promoted a specific viewpoint aimed at achieving cultural and social transformation in schools."
Democrats and advocacy groups have swiftly condemned the proposals from the state's Republican governor.
Virginia Delegate Danica Roem, a Democrat representing Prince William County, called out Youngkin for violating the state's human rights law.
"[Youngkin's] action should be contested in court under the Virginia Human Rights Act," she tweeted this weekend.
The public can still comment on the draft model policies later this month on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall website.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-18T20:22:14+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2022-09-18/virginia-has-moved-to-restrict-the-rights-of-trans-students-in-its-public-schools |
Tristan Roure scored 15 points, and the Scotts Valley High boys basketball team beat Alisal 54-52 in the Watsonville Tournament on Thursday.
The Falcons trailed by six points with 3 minutes to go and finished with a 12-4 run to steal the win to extend their win streak to four games.
Will Shilling scored 13 points for Scotts Valley and Taylor Knox scored 11.
The Falcons (4-1) play Oakwood for the championship against on Saturday at 5 p.m.
Oakwood 71, San Lorenzo Valley 40: Sophomore Jacob Sanders had 11 points, four rebounds, and two blocked shots for the Cougars in their loss at the Watsonville Tournament on Thursday.
Senior Skylar Thayer had eight points and six rebounds for SLV. Senior Damien Aguilar had five points, four rebounds and two blocked shots, and freshman Curtis Hurtado contributed five points and three rebounds.
Senior Uladzislau Zaitsau led Oakwood with 23 points, senior Luka Kokochasvili scored 15 points, and senior Marton Safranka scored 12.
The Cougars play Pacific Collegiate at Watsonville on Friday at 8 p.m.
Atwater 63, Santa Cruz 60: Demarco Hunter and Aden Cury scored 15 points each, but the Cardinals dropped their second round game at the Mark Gallo Invitational at Central Catholic in Modesto on Thursday.
Demeke Smith was called for a last-minute technical after hitting a 3-point shot hurt, and a late turnover by Cury broke the Cardinals’ hopes, after being up one. The Falcons scored and went up 1 and tacked on a late field goal.
Atwater moved to 7-0 with the win.
The Cardinals (3-3) play El Captain (5-4) on Friday at 5 p.m.
Kirby 56, St. Abraham’s 45: Sophomore Rain Li had 17 points and four rebounds in the Griffins’ nonleague win Thursday.
Senior Theo Fowler had 12 points and five rebounds for Kirby. Senior Dylan Roche scored eight points, and senior Patrick Costello had six points and 10 rebounds.
Kirby (3-3) plays at St. Francis in Watsonville on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Oakwood 79, PCS 32: Elias Golino had 16 points and eight rebounds in the Pumas’ loss at the Watsonville Tournament on Wednesday.
“This Oakwood team is the best we have played and they are better than they were last year,” Pumas coach Duane Garner said. “Midway through the first quarter, they took control and their size and strength were just too much for us.”
Neel Yarlagadda added eight points for the Pumas (1-4).
Men’s basketball
Cabrillo 97, Merced 73: The Seahawks, despite missing starters Samy Buteau and Solomon Tucker to the flu, scored 95-plus points for the third time in their past four games Thursday.
The Seahawks made 13 3-pointers and led by as many as 33 points in the second half.
Darius Best scored 17 points to lead the Seahawks. Dylan Power and Clarence Martin each scored 12 points, Amare Ames scored 11, and Joe Rush and Cainan Wright each scored 10.
Power and Cullen Cleaves made their first start for the Seahawks.
Cabrillo (7-3) hosts San Mateo (8-2) on Saturday at 5 p.m.
Girls soccer
At Harbor 3, Pajaro Valley 1: Junior Sonja Hulphers had a goal and two assists to help the Pirates win their home opener on Thursday.
“We played with physicality, and linked passes to create many opportunities,” Pirates coach Wes Bare said. “Juniors Zoe Soenen and Anika Dawson were a force in the middle of the field. If we play like this going forward, we should be a tough side all season.”
Hulphers opened up scoring in the 28th minute after converting a pass from sophomore Chloe Simon. Junior Olivia Chen extended the lead in the 55th minute on a counterattack, chipping the ball over the Grizzlies’ goalkeeper from 25 yards out. Hulphers beat the defensive line and crossed to sophomore Ariana Garcia-Hernandez for the final tally in the 75th minute.
Pajaro Valley scored in the 73rd minute.
Harbor (3-2-0) hosts Monte Vista Christian (0-3-1) on Monday at 6 p.m.
At Los Altos 3, Aptos 0: Goalkeepers Alessandra Zuniga had two saves and Evelyn Penny had one, but the Mariners dropped their nonleague road match Thursday.
The Eagles scored in the 15th, 22nd and 54th minute.
Boys soccer
At Homestead 3, Watsonville 0: The Wildcatz were shut out in their Sunnyvale Cup game at Homestead on Thursday.
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Coaches are encouraged to report scores and highlights to sports@santacruzsentinel.com following games. Please include your name and contact number in the email. | 2022-12-09T10:23:53+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/12/08/scotts-valley-boys-basketball-advances-to-final-at-watsonville-tournament-local-roundup/ |
TikTok-favorite Bissell Little Green carpet cleaner is on sale at Amazon right now
This carpet cleaner has been a major hit on TikTok, and it’s now on sale.
On the surface, Bissell’s Little Green multipurpose portable cleaner looks like a typical cleaner and even its name suggests that this is a small appliance that’s a part of your cleaning arsenal. But this cleaner is anything but little as it is known to pack a big punch when it comes to removing mess inside homes.
Its size allows it to be stowed away in a closet or on a shelf, and its price point makes it affordable in the family of household cleaners.
That combination has led to this machine being a massive hit on the social media platform TikTok, where users rave about the cleaner’s ability to not only clean out stains and pet hair from the carpet, but it can even refurbish upholstery like furniture, car seats and rugs.
When you search #littleBissellGreen on TikTok, you’ll see the videos have a combined 12 million views. One video shows a before and after look at the inside of a car, and the results from Bissell’s Little Green would be considered jaw-dropping.
Combined with over 49,000 customer ratings on Amazon that give it a 4.5-star rating out of 5 stars, it’s clear that many individuals rave about this product, including product experts themselves. One expert from our partners at BestProducts gave it “two thumbs up” in their testing. And as it turns out, Amazon has slashed the price on its deluxe counterpart, the Bissell Little Green Pet Deluxe portable carpet cleaner.
As of this writing, the best-selling Bissell Little Green Pet Deluxe is 18% off its original price, which is actually the best price this product has seen, on par with what we saw during Black Friday.
It's got all the bells and whistles of its Little Green counterpart, but the difference is the deluxe version comes with a stain trapper tool and comes with cleaning formula to help with stains left by your furry friend.
The brand says that every purchase of their Little Green or Deluxe product goes towards saving homeless pets.
Whether you’re looking to clean the inside of your car, get some tough stains out of your carpet or furniture, or clean up a mess made by your pet, the Little Green from Bissell may just be the right choice for you.
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911 call leads deputies to Greenville County shooting victim
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A man is hospitalized Friday after a shooting in Greenville County, officials said.Lt. Ryan Flood, with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, said deputies responded to a 911 call just before 12 p.m. about a man being shot at a home on Pine Creek Drive.Flood said when deputies arrived, they found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The man was taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment and investigators are working to gather more information about a suspect. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Greenville at 23-CRIME.
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A man is hospitalized Friday after a shooting in Greenville County, officials said.
Lt. Ryan Flood, with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, said deputies responded to a 911 call just before 12 p.m. about a man being shot at a home on Pine Creek Drive.
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Flood said when deputies arrived, they found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound.
The man was taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment and investigators are working to gather more information about a suspect.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Greenville at 23-CRIME. | 2022-05-27T18:45:30+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/911-call-greenville-county-shooting-man-shot/40128703 |
House of the Dragon season one ended with poor sweet Prince Luke, doomed son of Queen Rhaenyra, getting gobbled up like a grape. You've heard of snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat? Yeah. Luke just plain got chomped by them.
And while season one consisted of a lot of meetings that could have been conducted by raven, it made sense. We were witnessing the events that brought the Seven Kingdoms – and the Targaryens who run it – to the brink of war.
Well, war's here. It's been well and truly brinked and a willful Vhagar was the one who brinked it. Now that Prince Luke has been reduced to a sticky toffee wedged in the dragon's molars, here's a handy list of things to expect out of House of the Dragon season two, when it arrives sometime in early 2024.
1. A widening out and a picking of sides
We stuck to a handful of locations in season one, because the story was that of hairline cracks forming within a single ruling family and spidering outward. As the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons erupts in season two, we'll see Houses across Westeros getting pulled inexorably into the brutal and devastating conflict.
Lords of Houses with names we know from Game of Thrones will choose to get in line behind either King Aegon II or Queen Rhaenyra: Stark, Arryn, Frey, Greyjoy, Tarly, Tully.
More Houses means more locations, as battles big and small start to detonate throughout the Seven Kingdoms. We'll still spend a lot of time in the Red Keep, but at least we'll get some fresh air.
2. Drafting of dragon teams – and people to ride them
Speaking of air: We saw in the season finale that Rhaenyra's husband Daemon is trying to put a dragon team together. It's like a fantasy draft, except the fantasy in question is epic fantasy.
He went deep into the Dragonmount, singing a song in Old Valyrian in an attempt to entice the old dragon Vermithor out of retirement. And he mentioned a slew of other dragons that were currently riderless and/or wild who were all living on Dragonstone. He's going to spend a bunch of season two trying to get some saddles on those dragons and some butts in those saddles.
To find said butts, he might need to think outside his immediate family.
3. Battles. Lots of them: Dragons vs. dragons, dragons vs. men, men vs. men
As mentioned above, there will be clashes between armies in season two, plenty of them. Among them, we'll see a handful of bloodless victories – the presence of a dragon or two can be hugely intimidating, after all. But most of them will feature plenty of blood. Great gurgling gouts of it.
Blood and, you'll forgive the expression, fire. Because while Game of Thrones showed us that this team can create sweeping battle scenes that capture the chaos of war without losing focus on the characters we care about, this time out, there's an added dimension – a third one, as dragons can swoop down on a battlefield and take out a battalion with a single breath. We got a bit of this in season one – we'll get a lot more in 2024.
The dragon-on-dragon air battle between Vhagar and Arrax in the season finale also gave us a taste of what's coming. Some of our favorite characters are dragonriders. And as we've seen, a dragon battle isn't something that both sides walk away from.
4. A payoff for that whole "rats in the Red Keep" runner
I kept promising you that all those shots of rats scurrying around the Red Keep all season long was going somewhere. I'm still promising you that. Be patient.
5. Another Targaryen enters the chat
It turns out that Viserys and Alicent had three sons, not two. We spent some time in season one with the whiny, wildly unfit sexual predator Aegon, who is now king. We got to know his younger brother, the intense, cruel Aemond One-Eye, who killed Prince Luke.
Their third and youngest son – who's named Daeron, because of course he is, everyone on this damn show has to sport a name that's one consonant away from another character on it – hasn't appeared in season one. But George R.R. Martin has said he's going to factor in season two.
He evidently spent season one off in Oldtown, with the Hightowers. But he's got a big role to play in the Dance of the Dragons, so expect Alicent to send for him as soon as the season opens.
6. Brother vs. brother
You know they wouldn't go to the trouble of introducing Ser Arryk Cargyll and his twin brother Ser Erryk Cargyll and then have them pick opposite sides, solely to confound and confuse us, right?
Sooner or later, like the Game of Thrones' Cleganes before (technically, about 200 years after) them, an Erryk vs. Arryk fight is coming. Get your tickets now for Cargyllbowl.
7. A tale of two Aegons
Remember the scene where Rhaenyra brings her newborn baby Viserys to meet the ailing king, for whom he was named? She also introduced the king to the first kid she had with Daemon, named ... wait for it ... Aegon.
Yep. There's the Aegon who's now king, and there's this Aegon, who's on the opposite side of the civil war – Rhaenyra and Daemon's oldest kid. Same name, very different characters. Who we have to keep track of, as they'll come into conflict at some point.
The show, and the book, try to keep them straight by referring to them as Aegon the Elder (ie, King Aegon II) and Aegon the Younger (ie, Rhaenyra's kid). That's fine for them, but you and I will refer to them thusly:
The vile and detestable king is Aegon the Aess. Raenyra's kid is Aegon the Baeby. Got it?
The real war
There's an eighth thing to look for, but it's not as specific as the items on this list, so I won't number it. It's just a general sense, a gestalt feeling that the show will continue to do what it did in season one – unpack the events outlined in Martin's book Fire & Blood. And in that noble attempt to mine TV-ready emotional nuance out of its dry pseudo-history, they'll make some smart choices and some dumb ones.
Take the fact that Rhaenyra and Alicent were close childhood friends. That's a pure show invention, but look at what it does: It centers these two women and allows the bond between them to come alive. We watch it stretch, rebound, and stretch again (until Vhagar comes along in the season finale to snap it in two). It was a smart choice that adds tension and drama and lets the actors playing them find layers of depth and regret that the book doesn't bother with.
But some other departures that the show made from the text make a lot less sense. The same impulse is behind them – a desire to make the show's characters seem more humane, more sympathetic and a lot less like the ruthlessly cruel caricatures of the book.
Letting Laenor live and disappear to open a gay clothing-optional bed and breakfast in the Summer Isles (note: not canon, but come on, give me this) feels good in the moment. But it leaves him dangling out there as a loose plot thread and makes Rhaenys and Corlys's siding with Rhaenyra and Daemon just plain mystifying.
Turning the penultimate episode into a race between Otto and Alicent over who could find Aegon first is another show invention, one that introduced conflict without drama, because it was never terribly clear why, or if, it mattered.
And by turning Aemond's ruthless murder of Luke – which is hugely important, as it's the triggering event for the Dance of the Dragons – into an accident committed by a disobedient dragon, the show backpedaled on Aemond's brutality and turned a cruel act of war into a whoopsie.
Season two won't just be about war – it'll be about a war created by George R.R. Martin, who famously strives to depict the brutal horrors of war, because he feels it's dishonest and irresponsible not to.
So that'll be the real conflict in House of the Dragon season two. On one side you've got the demands of serialized drama to humanize characters and resist slotting them into the tidy and artificial slots of hero and villain.
One the other, you've got the need to faithfully depict the devastating, grisly and immoral realities of war that will force some of those very same characters to commit acts of unspeakable evil.
It'll be a pitched, protracted battle without a clear victor – but I'll be there to watch it happen.
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BEACHWOOD, Ohio, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ARC Health, a Thurston Group portfolio company, has announced the acquisition of Wellington Counseling Group (WCG), a multi-specialty psychotherapy provider group with two locations in the Chicago metropolitan area and a third opening in June.
Founded by Dr. David Rakofsky, a licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience, (WCG) provides a wide range of mental health services, known best for its work with clients of all ages, as well as for providing psychological assessments that offer flexibility and utility for many applications.
In addition to his work at (WCG), Dr. Rakofsky trains the next generation of psychologists and master's level psychotherapists. He has consulted within many varied segments of the community, including law enforcement, academia, and immigration and civil rights law.
When asked about the partnership with ARC Health, Dr. Rakofsky stated, "The choice to partner with ARC Health came down to their ability to bring scale to a profession and industry with increasingly tighter margins, year after year, while maintaining the promise of excellence by recruiting so selectively for inclusion in their national platform of partner groups. I came in with knowledge of many of the existing practices in partnership already, and learning of their positive experiences was pivotal in my desire to partner with a group that--while new on the mental health scene--comes out of a decades-long legacy of success under Thurston Group, whose track record speaks volumes."
" WCG is committed to providing high-quality mental health services to all clients, and the partnership with ARC Health will allow the practice to expand its reach and impact throughout the Chicago metroplex," stated Vince Morra, CEO of ARC Health.
About ARC Health
ARC Health is a premier group of mental healthcare practices who have come together as partners while maintaining their individual identities. Their forward-thinking and supportive partnership of mental healthcare providers is geared toward increasing success via a collaborative network. The ARC Health business model is pioneering the space with a unified, provider-centric approach that reinforces clinical autonomy while also joining together as equity-owning partners.
About Thurston Group
Thurston Group is a private equity firm that focuses on building industry-leading companies in the healthcare and related business services sectors. Thurston has an extensive track record of partnering with physicians and building fast-growing healthcare businesses, including ARC Health, Smile Doctors, US Endo Partners, US Oral Surgery Management, South Georgia Dental Management, Gen4 Dental Partners, Options Medical Weight Loss, and U.S. Orthopedic Partners. Over its 37-year history, Thurston Group has returned more than $4B of invested capital.
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LUND, Sweden, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunovia today announced that Philipp Mathieu has been named Chief Executive Officer and President effective immediately. Since January, Philipp has been acting Chief Executive Officer and President.
Commenting on the announcement, Carl Borrebaeck, Chairman, states: "After carefully evaluating external candidates, the board has decided that Philipp with his extensive financial background and experience is the right person to lead Immunovia through the transition from a research-focused company to a successful commercial enterprise. While serving as acting Chief Executive Officer and President, Philipp demonstrated effective leadership and rapidly advanced the company's strategic priorities. Immunovia is now well positioned for the commercial roll-out of the early detection of pancreatic cancer with its pioneering IMMray™ PanCan-d test in the US."
"I am honored and excited to continue leading our outstanding team through this important phase of Immunovia's evolution. Immunovia is at the forefront of revolutionizing the early detection of pancreatic cancer and addressing a huge unmet medical need which is a tremendously motivating mission," says Philipp Mathieu, CEO and President of Immunovia.
Philipp Mathieu has extensive experience as an adviser on corporate strategy, M&A and capital markets transactions to healthcare and life sciences companies. Most recently, Philipp was a Portfolio Manager and Advisor to a multinational family office. Previously, he was an investment banker focused in the Healthcare sector at Lazard and Lehman Brothers.
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Tel: +46 736 36 35 74
This is information that Immunovia is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 08:30 CET June 2, 2022.
About Immunovia
Immunovia AB is a diagnostic company with the vision to revolutionize blood-based diagnostics and increase survival rates for patients with cancer.
Our first product, IMMray™ PanCan-d is the only blood test currently available specifically for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. The test has unmatched clinical performance. Commercialization of IMMray™ PanCan-d started in August 2021 in the USA and IMMray™ PanCan-d is offered as a laboratory developed test (LDT) exclusively through Immunovia, Inc. For more information see: www.immunoviainc.com.
Immunovia collaborates and engages with healthcare providers, leading experts and patient advocacy groups globally to make this test available to all high-risk pancreatic cancer groups.
The USA, the first market in which IMMray™ PanCan-d is commercially available, is the world's largest market for the detection of pancreatic cancer with an estimated value of more than USD 4 billion annually.
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The Denver Broncos have fired first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett with two games left in the season.
Owner and CEO Greg Penner said he'll lead the search for a new coach with assistance from GM George Paton, in whom he expressed confidence Monday while announcing Hackett's dismissal.
Firing Hackett with two games left in a lost season allows Penner to begin his search for a replacement immediately.
The Walton-Penner group purchased the Broncos for $4.65 billion last summer, a global record for a professional sports franchise.
On Sunday, the Broncos (4-11) were blown out by the equally downtrodden Los Angeles Rams 51-14 when Russell Wilson threw three interceptions and was sacked six times. The game featured a sideline spat between backup QB Brett Rypien and guard Dalton Risner, and pass rusher Randy Gregory threw a punch at a Rams player after the game.
Wilson has had an awful first season in Denver after the Broncos sent four premium draft picks and three players to Seattle for the nine-time Pro Bowler. Wilson has 12 touchdown passes with nine interceptions and 49 sacks in 13 starts and has been unable to snap out of a season-long funk.
Hackett replaced Vic Fangio last January but hasn't been able to build an offense suitable to Wilson.
The Broncos have missed the playoffs seven straight seasons and extended their string of losing records to six. | 2022-12-26T21:24:46+00:00 | cpr.org | https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/26/after-a-crushing-loss-on-christmas-denver-broncos-fire-first-year-head-coach-nathaniel-hackett/ |
A week into easing, uncertainty over China virus direction
By DAKE KANG
Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — A week after China eased some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 containment measures, uncertainty remains over the direction of the pandemic in the world’s most populous nation.
While there are no indications of the massive case surge some had feared, the government says it is now essentially impossible to get an accurate picture of the actual numbers nationwide.
In Beijing and elsewhere, pharmacies are running out of medications and testing kits and many hospital staff are staying home.
Downtown Beijing was largely empty on Thursday and those businesses and restaurants that remained open or had not cut back radically on operating hours saw few customers.
Some lines formed outside pharmacies and fever clinics — the number of which has more than tripled in Beijing to over 300 despite government appeals for those with mild symptoms to recuperate at home without taxing health resources.
China’s “zero-COVID” policy of lockdowns, quarantines and mandatory testing was blamed for throttling the economy and creating massive societal stress, and the effect of the Dec. 7 relaxation of measures has yet to come into focus.
Elsewhere in the economy, the news has been mixed. The National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday said China’s value-added industrial output rose a modest 2.2% year-on-year.
“The industrial output remained stable in November despite the short-term impact of the pandemic,” bureau official Tang Weiwei was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.
China’s urban unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.7% in November, from 5.5% the month before, the NBS said. China does not survey unemployment outside of major cities.
While cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have invested heavily in healthcare, second- and third-tier cities and communities in the vast rural hinterland have far fewer resources to deal with a major outbreak.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Yale professor of public health Xi Chen said that strains rose partly from the lack of a family doctor system, making people more reliant on hospitals.
“If people do not have such culture to stay at home, to keep those resources for sicker people, then that could easily crash the system,” Chen said.
Persuading older adults to get vaccinated for their third dose is also a major “bottleneck” at present, while the January Lunar New Year travel rush is expected to present another challenge, Chen said.
“I’m concerned it could be a super-spreader event,” he said.
Chen faulted the ruling Communist Party for waiting until the onset of cold and flu season in winter to begin lifting the restrictions.
The task of gauging China’s preparedness is made all the harder by the lack of reliable statistics and projections.
The only numbers the National Health Commission is currently reporting are confirmed cases detected in public testing facilities where symptoms are displayed. Many people also test at home, and any positive results there would also not be captured.
While China claimed zero COVID was superior in keeping numbers of cases and deaths far lower than other nations, those government-supplied figures have not been independently verified, and questions have been raised about whether the ruling party has sought to minimize the impact.
China has recorded just 5,235 deaths — compared with 1.1 million in the United States. However, China has traditionally given higher priority to contributing conditions such as heart disease in determining whether a person died of COVID-19 or not.
President Xi Jinping’s government is still officially committed to stopping virus transmission. But the latest moves suggest the party will tolerate more cases without quarantines or shutting down travel or businesses.
Starting Tuesday, China also stopped tracking some travel, though China’s international borders remain largely shut.
The easing of measures came after Beijing and several other cities saw protests over the measures that grew into calls for Xi and the Communist Party to step down — a level of public dissent not seen in decades.
China has also been struggling to fill gaps, especially among the elderly, in its vaccination regime, which relies on domestically developed inactivated vaccines rather than the more effective Western COVID-19 vaccines based on mRNA technology. Chinese officials have so far ignored calls for them to import the foreign jabs.
According to authorities, 86.6% of people aged 60 or over have received at least two shots. On Wednesday, the government said it would offer a second booster shot to those in vulnerable groups who had received their first booster more than six months ago. Inhalable COVID-19 vaccines that do not require a syringe to be administered are also being offered in major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. | 2022-12-15T07:43:37+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/14/a-week-into-easing-uncertainty-over-china-virus-direction/ |
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Monday that she will seek a third term in 2024.
Warren, a prominent voice for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and a failed 2020 presidential contender, said she’s running for reelection to end corruption in Washington, make the economy work for the middle class and protect democracy.
“I first ran for Senate because I saw how the system is rigged for the rich and powerful and against everyone else. I won because Massachusetts voters know it, too. And now I’m running for Senate again because there’s a lot more we’ve got to do,” Warren said in a campaign video released Monday.
Warren, 73, had more than $2.3 million in her campaign account at the end of 2022, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Warren first won election to the seat in 2012, defeating incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, who was elected to fill out the term of Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died in 2009.
With the win, the then-Harvard Law School professor became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
In 2018, Warren won a second term, easily defeating Republican candidate Geoff Diehl, before quickly setting her sights on the presidency.
While popular among some Democratic voters for her blunt rhetoric, Warren was unable to break away from the party’s pack of contenders and dropped out after failing to win any of the states that voted on Super Tuesday, including coming in third in the Democratic primary in her home state.
During the campaign against Brown and again during her bid for the presidency, Warren was dogged by past claims of Native American heritage and her inability to provide documentation of that ancestry.
That led then-President Donald Trump to go after her early in the presidential campaign, derisively labeling her “Pocahontas.” Warren had said she learned of her family ties to Cherokee and Delaware tribes from stories told by her parents.
After the 2020 loss, Warren continued her focus on the financial sector.
Warren recently joined California Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat, to push a proposal to repeal a 2018 rollback of certain aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act, enacted after the financial crisis a decade earlier.
The bill, part of discussions in Congress following the recent abrupt failure of two banks, is unlikely to advance.
In her campaign video, Warren ticked off a series of priorities from passing a wealth tax and putting stricter rules on banks to making child care more affordable, protecting coastal communities and building what she called “a 21st century transportation system across all of Massachusetts.”
It’s unclear who might challenge Warren for the Senate seat. Many Democrats appeared to be waiting until Warren or fellow Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, also a Democrat, decided not to seek reelection. Markey in 2020 fended off a primary challenge from then-Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy.
The state’s Republican Party is trying to rebuild after losing the governor’s office last year when Republican Gov. Charlie Baker opted not to seek a third term and Democrat Maura Healey handily defeated GOP candidate Geoff Diehl.
Warren already has the backing of many high-profile Massachusetts Democrats including U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Markey.
Warren serves on several congressional committees including the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Armed Services. | 2023-03-28T11:04:08+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/elizabeth-warren-running-for-3rd-us-senate-term-in-2024/ |
PARIS (AP) — France’s national rail operator is recommending that passengers stay home Tuesday to avoid strikes over pension reforms that are expected to cause major transport woes but largely spare high-speed links to Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Labor unions that mobilized massive street protests in an initial salvo of nationwide strikes earlier this month are hoping for similar success Tuesday to maintain pressure on government plans to raise France’s retirement age.
Positions are hardening on both sides as lawmakers begin debating the planned change. France’s prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, insisted this weekend that her government’s intention to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is “no longer negotiable.” Opponents in parliament and labor leaders are determined to prove her wrong.
Rail operator SNCF warned that major network disruptions were expected from Monday night to Wednesday morning, recommending that passengers cancel or postpone trips and work remotely if possible.
Rail services in the Paris region and regional trains across the country are expected to be severely affected, setting up a potential nightmare day for commuters.
Severe disruptions also are expected on France’s flagship network of high-speed trains serving cities and major towns, including the Lyria service that links France and Switzerland, the SNCF said.
But it said high-speed Eurostar links with Britain and the Thalys services between France, Belgium and the Netherlands should run largely as normal.
Raising the pension age is one part of a broad bill that is the flagship measure of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. The bill is meeting widespread popular resistance — more than 1 million people marched in protests against it earlier this month.
Macron stood firm on his plans on the eve of the strikes and protests.
“This reform is indispensable … if we want to preserve and save the pension system,” he told reporters Monday after meeting with the Dutch prime minister.
Lawmaker Manuel Bompard, whose France Unbowed party is leading the parliamentary push against Macron’s plans, called for “the biggest possible” turnout Tuesday in strikes and protests.
The government says its proposals are necessary to keep the pension system solvent as the life expectancy of the French has grown and birth rates have declined.
Unions and left-wing parties want big companies or wealthier households to pitch in more to balance the pension budget instead.
The bill went to a parliamentary commission Monday ahead of full debate in the National Assembly on Feb. 6. Opponents have submitted 7,000 proposed amendments that will further complicate the bill’s legislative passage. | 2023-01-31T04:16:43+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-france-braces-for-major-transport-woes-from-pension-strikes/ |
What are the best Mr. Heater products?
Mr. Heater has been making consumer, commercial and construction-site heating products since 1984. The company is known for using innovative technology to design and build high-quality products, and its propane space heaters have become the industry standard for dependability.
What are space heaters?
Space heaters are designed to heat small areas indoors and out, not entire rooms. The smallest are made to heat spaces smaller than 100 square feet and the largest provide warmth for spaces up to 5,000 square feet. Most are portable and most sit on the floor.
Types of space heaters
- Fan-forced heaters push air over a heating element. Because they heat rooms quickly and take up little space, they are ideal for places where short bursts of heat are needed.
- Infrared heaters: Infrared heaters emit electromagnetic waves. These waves warm human bodies as well as objects such as walls, floors and furniture, just as the sun’s rays heat the Earth. There is no fan and the heat lasts long after the heater has been turned off.
- Radiant heaters: These are made for warming people and small rooms. They are a flameless and nearly silent version of sitting next to the warmth of a fireplace — your body gets heated on one side only, without the whole room having to be warm..
- Oil-filled heaters: This looks like an old-time steam radiator on wheels, with an electric cord attached. The oil inside gets heated and circulated through coiled tubes, warming the air around them. They have no fans and the heat lasts long after it’s been turned off. They’re efficient but heavier than other types, and only work well in smaller rooms.
Fuel types
There are four basic ways to fuel portable heaters. Mr. Heater makes products that use all of them, but focuses on propane-powered heaters because it’s built its reputation on efficient, affordable ones.
- Propane: Propane is a clean-burning gas used to power indoor and outdoor heaters. The fuel comes in a pressurized container and an electric spark is used to light the gas, generating heat as it burns. Small propane tanks are easy to handle but large ones are heavier, bulkier and harder to deal with.
- Kerosene: These run on the same fuel as most camping lanterns. They’re cheaper but have a smell some find unpleasant and are not suited for indoor use. Kerosene is usually bought at gas stations, home supply stores and campgrounds where you bring your own container and fill it yourself.
- Diesel: Like kerosene and furnace oil, diesel fuel is less refined than gasoline. Heaters using these fuels are good for large outdoor areas such as farms and ranches that keep their own tanks of fuel oils. Generally speaking, they’re smokier and smellier.
- Electricity: Electric heaters are among the cleanest, most energy-efficient ways to heat indoor spaces but are impractical for outdoor use. As a rule, they cost more to operate than propane heaters.
How powerful a heater do I need?
Multiply the length of your room by the width to get the square footage. Now multiply that number by two if your room is well-insulated, three if your insulation is average and four if it’s poor. Round up that result to the nearest thousand and you have the number of Btu you should look for to get the warmth you need.
What’s a BTU?
A British thermal unit is a measurement of thermal energy. The formula used to calculate Btu lets people compare machines that use different energy sources on an equal basis. The official definition is that 1 BTU is the amount of energy needed to heat or cool 1 pound of water by 1 degree at sea level. BTU numbers are seen on packaging and in descriptions of room heaters, water heaters, air conditioners and the like. Generally speaking, the larger the area you want to heat, the more Btu you need.
Top Mr. Heater products
Mr. Heater Little Buddy 3,800 BTU Indoor-Safe Propane Heater
If you’ve got a space that’s 100 square feet or smaller, this is a handy, ultra-portable appliance. The heat is odorless and continuous. Using a standard 1-pound disposable propane cylinder, it has a run time of 5-6 hours.
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Mr. Heater Hunting Buddy 6,000-12,000 BTU Portable Propane Space Heater
This portable heater uses a standard 1-pound propane cylinder and can be connected with a hose to a 20-pound cylinder for longer run times. It makes no claims to square footage because it’s built to be used outdoors. It turns off automatically when it detects low oxygen levels or if tipped over.
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Mr. Heater 20,000 Btu Vent-Free Radiant Natural Gas Heater
This 25-pound heater with five heat levels and an automatic shut-off is made to heat spaces from 500-700 square feet. You attach the legs for use on the floor or use the included hardware to mount it on the wall.
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Mr. Heater 75,000-125,000 BTU Forced Air Propane Heater
This little 3-pound machine heats up 3,000 square feet with burner technology that’s 50% quieter than a standard propane heater. It’s got a temperature-limit switch and an ergonomically designed handle.
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Mr. Heater 175,000 BTU Forced-Air Diesel or Kerosene Heater
This nearly 4-foot-long, 68-pound corded electric unit sits on a steel cart that rides on oversized pneumatic tires. The low-lift handles make it easy for two people to lift it in and out of your work vehicle. It heats a 4,000-square-foot area with a 14-gallon fuel tank for up to 10 hours.
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Mr. Heater 75,000-200,000 BTU Propane Convection Heater
This tower unit heats an area of 5,000 square feet and runs for nearly 30 hours on a 100-pound propane tank. It comes fully assembled with the regulator and 10-foot hose already attached. The pilot light shuts off if the unit is tipped over.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Police said a juvenile was shot and injured at Eagle Creek Court apartments in Speedway on Thursday afternoon.
According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting occurred just before 2:40 p.m. on Eagleview Court. The apartments are located near W. 21st Street and Cunningham Road.
Police confirmed the victim was a juvenile but didn’t say the extent of their injuries other than that the juvenile was transported to a hospital to be treated.
Officers are reportedly speaking with witnesses to determine what happened.
This shooting came shortly before Lawrence police reported an officer-involved shooting.
Anyone with information about the shooting can contact Crime Stoppers at (317) 262-TIPS and remain anonymous.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | 2022-10-27T20:20:16+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/police-respond-to-shooting-at-speedway-apartments/ |
National Hispanic Heritage Month - Josh Caballero
Published: Sep. 14, 2022 at 3:17 PM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
KWTX Salutes National Hispanic Heritage Month by highlighting Josh Caballero, Director of Community Organizing at Grassroots Waco.
Copyright 2022 KWTX. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-14T21:05:50+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/09/14/national-hispanic-heritage-month-josh-caballero/ |
Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdom’s 1st female astronaut
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom’s first female astronaut.
SpaceX’s chartered flight arrived at the orbiting lab less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida. The four guests will spend just over a week there, before returning to Earth in their capsule.
The 270-mile-high (430-kilometer-high) docking puts the space station population at 11, representing not only Saudi Arabia and the U.S., but the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
Saudi Arabia’s government is picking up the multimillion-dollar tab for its first female astronaut, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, and fighter pilot Ali al-Qarni.
John Shoffner, a Knoxville, Tennessee, businessman who started a car racing team, is paying his own way. Retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is their chaperone. She now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that organized the 10-day trip, its second to the space station.
The company cited ticket prices of $55 million each for last year’s private trip by three businessmen, but won’t say how much the latest seats cost.
Only one other Saudi has flown before in space, a prince who rode on NASA’s shuttle Discovery in 1985.
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Wearing black armbands, test cricketers from England and South Africa held a minute’s silence before a bell was chimed once by a high-ranking member of the military at the Oval.
Over to the west of London, golfers from around the world paused their rounds and other pros, officials and caddies gathered on the putting green in front of the first tee at Wentworth to hold a two-minute period of silence, also impeccably observed.
There were moving and respectful tributes to Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday as sports resumed in Britain following a nationwide shutdown Friday as a mark of respect for the monarch of more than 70 years who died at the age of 96 on Thursday.
Professional and grassroots soccer — including the Premier League — decided to call off all matches this weekend to give an opportunity for participants to mourn the queen’s passing.
International cricket and golf returned, though, as did English domestic rugby, on the back of guidance from the government that stated there was no obligation on sports organizations to cancel or reschedule events during the nation’s period of mourning.
The 10 minutes before the start of play in the third and deciding cricket test between England and South Africa were dedicated to paying tribute to the queen.
Military walked onto the field of play at the Oval in south London to form a guard of honor, through which the teams walked and lined up either side of the wicket.
Following the minute’s silence and the one bell chime, the anthems of both South Africa and England were sung by English soprano Laura Wright. After seven decades of the English anthem “God Save the Queen,” now it was an emotionally charged rendition of “God Save the King” rippling around the ground. Hours earlier Saturday, King Charles III was officially announced as Britain’s monarch in a ceremony, having automatically become king following his mother’s death.
There was a standing ovation as Wright left the field and the players warmed up ahead of the start of play of Day 3 of the test.
The BMW PGA Championship, the flagship event on the European tour, was stopped near the end of the first round on Thursday following the announcement of the queen’s death — there were still 30 players out on the course — and there was no play on Friday.
Play restarted at 6:40 a.m. local time on Saturday, with the tournament having been reduced to 54 holes.
The proclamation of King Charles III was shown on the television screens in the Championship Village after the two-minute period of silence took place at 9:50 a.m.
The European tour’s chief executive, Keith Pelley, said he spoke with officials from the England and Wales Cricket Board on Friday. He said they agreed that “bringing people together at this particular time, having both had the honor and respect of the day of cancellation on Friday, was the right decision.”
“I have heard from so many players that want to honor Her Majesty,” Pelley said, “and felt that playing was the right way to do it.”
English Premiership rugby matches scheduled for Friday were postponed but were taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
The decision of soccer to cancel games has proved to be divisive, with some feeling the game — and its many fans — missed a chance to honor the queen in the way other sports have.
“I know it’s only a game and some things are much bigger,” former Premier League player Peter Crouch tweeted, “but imagine all our games went ahead this weekend. Black armbands, silences observed, national anthem, Royal band playing etc to the millions around the world watching?
“Isn’t that a better send off?”
Matches in the Premier League, English Football League and the Women’s Super League have been called off, along with all games at all levels in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The women’s middleweight world title fight between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields, scheduled for the O2 Arena in London on Saturday, has also been called off by the British Boxing Board of Control.
Horse racing — the queen’s favorite sport — will resume on Sunday, when the St. Leger flat-racing classic takes place in Doncaster.
The sport said Saturday it will cancel all events on Sept. 19, the day of the queen’s funeral.
The government had advised British sporting organizations to “consider canceling or postponing events or closing venues on the day of the State Funeral.”
There are no Premier League games that day, with matches taking place the previous three days.
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Walmart shooter left 'death note,' bought gun day of killing
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — The Walmart supervisor who fatally shot six co-workers at a store in Virginia bought the gun just hours before the killings and left a note on his phone accusing colleagues of mocking him, authorities said Friday.
“Sorry everyone but I did not plan this I promise things just fell in place like I was led by the Satan,” Andre Bing wrote on a note that was left on his phone, the Chesapeake Police Department said Friday.
Police said the 9 mm handgun used in the Tuesday night shooting was legally purchased that morning and that Bing had no criminal record. They released a copy of the note found on his phone that appeared to redact the names of specific people he mentioned.
It was not clear when the note was written, but in it Bing claimed he was harassed and said he was pushed to the brink by a perception his phone was hacked.
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Emboldened Biden, Dems push ban on so-called assault weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden speaks about the “scourge” of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons.
America has heard it hundreds of times, including this week after shootings in Colorado and Virginia: The president wants to sign into law a ban on high-powered guns that have the capacity to kill many people very quickly.
“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick," Biden said on Thanksgiving Day. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”
After the mass killing last Saturday at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, he said in a statement: "When will we decide we’ve had enough? ... We need to enact an assault weapons ban to get weapons of war off America’s streets.”
When Biden and other lawmakers talk about “assault weapons,” they are using an inexact term to describe a group of high-powered guns or semi-automatic long rifles, like an AR-15, that can fire 30 rounds fast without reloading. By comparison, New York Police Department officers carry a handgun that shoots about half that much.
Colorado Springs reckons with past after gay club shooting
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — When officials unfurled a 25-foot rainbow flag in front of Colorado Springs City Hall this week, people gathered to mourn the victims of a mass shooting at a popular gay club couldn't help but reflect on how such a display of support would have been unthinkable just days earlier.
With a growing and diversifying population, the city nestled at the foothills of the Rockies is a patchwork of disparate social and cultural fabrics. It's a place full of art shops and breweries; megachurches and military bases; a liberal arts college and the Air Force Academy. For years it's marketed itself as an outdoorsy boomtown with a population set to top Denver's by 2050.
But last weekend’s shooting has raised uneasy questions about the lasting legacy of cultural conflicts that caught fire decades ago and gave Colorado Springs a reputation as a cauldron of religion-infused conservatism, where LGBTQ people didn't fit in with the most vocal community leaders' idea of family values.
For some, merely seeing police being careful to refer to the victims using their correct pronouns this week signaled a seismic change. For others, the shocking act of violence in a space considered an LGBTQ refuge shattered a sense of optimism pervading everywhere from the city's revitalized downtown to the sprawling subdivisions on its outskirts.
“It feels like the city is kind of at this tipping point,” said Candace Woods, a queer minister and chaplain who has called Colorado Springs home for 18 years. “It feels interesting and strange, like there's this tension: How are we going to decide how we want to move forward as a community?”
Russia steps up missile barrage of recaptured Ukrainian city
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Natalia Kristenko’s dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight. City workers were at first too overwhelmed to retrieve her as they responded to a deadly barrage of attacks that shook Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson.
The 62-year-old had walked outside her home with her husband Thursday evening after drinking tea when the building was struck. Kristenko was killed instantly from a wound to the head. Her husband died hours later in the hospital from internal bleeding.
“Russians took the two most precious people from me,” their bereft daughter, Lilia Kristenko, 38, said, clutching her cat inside her coat as she watched on in horror Friday as responders finally arrived to transport her mother to the morgue.
“They lived so well, they lived differently," she told The Associated Press. "But they died in one day.”
A salvo of missiles struck the recently liberated city of Kherson for the second day Friday in a marked escalation of attacks since Russia withdrew from the city two weeks ago following an eight-month occupation. It comes as Russia has stepped up bombardment of Ukraine's power grid and other critical civilian infrastructure in a bid to tighten the screw on Kyiv. Officials estimate that around 50% of Ukraine’s energy facilities have been damaged in the recent strikes.
Inflation hovers over shoppers seeking deals on Black Friday
NEW YORK (AP) — Cautious shoppers hunted for the best deals at stores and online as retailers offered new Black Friday discounts to entice consumers eager to start buying holiday gifts but weighed down by inflation.
Due to elevated prices for food, rent, gasoline and other essentials, many people were being more selective, reluctant to spend unless there was a big sale. Some were dipping more into savings, turning to “buy now, pay later” services that allow payment in installments, or running up their credit cards at a time when the Federal Reserve is hiking rates to cool the U.S. economy.
Sheila Diggs, 55, went to a Walmart in Mount Airy, Maryland early Friday looking for a deal on a coffee maker. To save money this year, she said the adults in her family are drawing names and selecting one person to shop for.
“Everything’s going up but your paycheck,” said Diggs, who manages medical records at a local hospital.
This year’s trends are a contrast from a year ago when consumers were buying early for fear of not getting what they needed amid supply-network clogs. Stores didn’t have to discount much because they were struggling to bring in items.
US earns respect at World Cup, but wins remain elusive
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Respect achieved. Wins await.
American players wanted more than a 0-0 draw with England on Friday night, likely the most-watched match of their lives.
The U.S. shut out a European opponent in the World Cup for the first time since 1950 yet left the tent-like stadium in the Arabian desert knowing a win in Tuesday’s politically charged matchup with Iran is a must to reach the knockout stage.
“We dominated the game. We had the more clear-cut chances. Obviously, it sucks that we couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net,” said midfielder Weston McKennie, standing out with red, white and blue streaks in his hair. “There’s a lot of people that obviously thought we were going to get blown out.”
The British tabloid The Sun ran a headline calling the result “Yawn in the USA.” England supporters booed loudly at the final whistle and American fans cheered.
Iran government supporters confront protesters at World Cup
AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Tensions ran high at Iran’s second match at the World Cup on Friday as fans supporting the Iranian government harassed those protesting against it and stadium security seized flags, T-shirts and other items expressing support for the protest movement that has gripped the Islamic Republic.
Some fans were stopped by security guards from bringing in Persian pre-revolutionary flags to the match against Wales at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium. Others carrying such flags had them ripped from their hands by pro-government Iran fans, who also shouted insults at fans wearing T-shirts with the slogan of the protest movement gripping the country, “Woman, Life, Freedom.”
Unlike in their first match against England, the Iran players sang along to their national anthem before the match as some fans in the stadium wept, whistled and booed.
The national team has come under close scrutiny for any statements or gestures about the nationwide protests that have wracked Iran for weeks.
Shouting matches erupted in lines outside the stadium between fans screaming “Women, Life, Freedom” and others shouting back “The Islamic Republic!”
Biden, family attend Christmas tree lighting on Nantucket
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — The Biden family's tradition of eating lunch, shopping and watching a Christmas tree lighting in downtown Nantucket on Friday became mostly about keeping the president's 2-year-old grandson from having a meltdown.
There was President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, dancing and clapping with nephew Beau to “Jingle Bell Rock” to keep him entertained as they waited with the crowd that had gathered for the 48th annual tree lighting ceremony on Main St.
There was Beau perched on the shoulders of his dad, Hunter Biden.
There was Beau being carried by his father, then not being carried by his father, then appearing to say things that suggested he wanted to get out of the cold and intermittent heavy rain.
Beau's grandfather walked with him at various points.
Brazilian protests intensify; Bolsonaro stays silent
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The two men were sitting at a bar on Nov. 21, sipping drinks for relief from the scorching heat of Brazil's Mato Grosso state, when police officers barged in and arrested them for allegedly torching trucks and an ambulance with Molotov cocktails.
One man attempted to flee and ditch his illegal firearm. Inside their pickup truck, officers found jugs of gasoline, knives, a pistol, slingshots and hundreds of stones — as well as 9,999 reais (nearly $1,900) in cash.
A federal judge ordered their preventive detention, noting that their apparent motive for the violence was “dissatisfaction with the result of the last presidential election and pursuit of its undemocratic reversal,” according to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
For more than three weeks, supporters of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his narrow defeat in October’s election have blocked roads and camped outside military buildings in Mato Grosso, Brazil's soy-producing powerhouse. They also have protested in other states across the nation, while pleading for intervention from the armed forces or marching orders from their commander in chief.
Since his election loss, Bolsonaro has only addressed the nation twice, to say that the protests are legitimate and encourage them to continue, as long as they don't prevent people from coming and going.
Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Netflix's trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady — albeit shrinking — audience of diehards like Amanda Konkle who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic red-and-white envelopes.
“When you open your mailbox, it's still something you actually want instead of just bills," said Konkle, a resident of Savannah, Georgia, who has been subscribing to Netflix's DVD-by-mail service since 2005.
It's a small pleasure that Konkle and other still-dedicated DVD subscribers enjoy but it's not clear for how much longer. Netflix declined to comment for this story but during a 2018 media event, co-founder and co-CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings suggested the DVD-by-mail service might close around 2023.
When — not if — it happens, Netflix will shut down a service that has shipped more than 5 billion discs across the U.S. since its inception nearly a quarter century ago. And it will echo the downfall of the thousands of Blockbuster video rental stores that closed because they couldn't counter the threat posed by Netflix's DVD-by-mail alternative.
The eventual demise of its DVD-by-mail service has been inevitable since Hastings decided to spin it off from a then-nascent video streaming service in 2011. Back then, Hastings floated the idea of renaming the service as Qwikster — a bungled idea that was so widely ridiculed that it was satirized on “Saturday Night Live." It finally settled on its current, more prosaic handle, DVD.com. The operation is now based in non-descript office in Fremont, California, located about 20 miles from Netflix's sleek campus in Los Gatos, California. | 2022-11-26T05:42:00+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-11-04-p-m-est/article_1a0fca26-553b-5173-b5c4-4a0ab3d803e5.html |
Suspended Brooklyn guard Kyrie Irving and the Nets appear to be on a path toward reconciliation, though it remains unclear when the seven-time All-Star will return to the court.
Nets owner Joe Tsai said Friday that he and his wife Clara spent time with Irving and his family, and came away from that meeting convinced that Irving does not have antisemitic beliefs.
“We spent quality time to understand each other and it’s clear to me that Kyrie does not have any beliefs of hate towards Jewish people or any group,” Tsai wrote.
Also Friday, the National Basketball Players Association told its members in an email that it expects the Irving situation to be resolved soon. It also thanked players for their patience and what the union described as “thoughtful comments” over the past couple weeks in regard to Irving.
“We believe the careful pause and reflection have started to pay off,” the union said in the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Irving was suspended by the Nets earlier this month for a minimum of five games, saying he was “currently unfit to be associated with the” team following his decision to tweet a link to a documentary that includes Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories about Jews and then not swiftly condemning the antisemitic tropes. The tweet has since been deleted.
Irving has served four games of that suspension; the fifth is Saturday when the Nets visit the Los Angeles Clippers. That means the first game Irving could be eligible when the Nets play the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
But no one has given any indication that a decision has been made regarding when Irving — a vice president of the NBPA — may return.
“The Nets and Kyrie, together with the NBA and NBPA, are working constructively toward a process of forgiveness, healing and education,” Tsai wrote.
Nets coach Jacque Vaughn spoke to reporters after practice in New York on Friday shortly before Tsai’s tweet. Vaughn said there was no update on Irving’s return-to-play status. The Nets were flying to Los Angeles on Friday afternoon.
Some contents of the union’s email to members were first reported by ESPN.
“We have maintained from the beginning, and will continue to repeat every chance we get, that Kyrie and the Players Association unequivocally condemn antisemitism and all other forms of hate,” the union wrote.
It added, “We continue to make sure that Kyrie’s rights, and the rights of all future players, have been protected at every turn, and look forward very soon to a resolution of all matters satisfactory to all parties.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he has “no doubt” that Irving is not antisemitic; those remarks were made Thursday at a conference hosted by Sports Business Journal. Silver and Irving met in New York earlier this week.
In a subsequent interview with The New York Times, Silver stressed that whether Irving is antisemitic is far from the lone issue, noting “the damage caused by the posting of hateful content.”
The fallout has had an impact: Fans wearing “Fight Antisemitism” shirts sat courtside at a Nets game that Irving played in. Nike suspended its relationship with Irving and canceled its plans to release his next signature shoe; Nike co-founder Phil Knight telling CNBC earlier this week that the relationship was likely severed for good for “some statements that we just can’t abide by.”
Irving has offered an apology “to all Jewish families and communities” that were hurt by his post.
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AP Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney in New York contributed to this story.
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(The Hill) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was swarmed by the media and angry pro-abortion rights protesters as she walked through a crowd of demonstrators outside the Supreme Court just about 15 minutes after the announcement of its decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights case.
“You are a traitor,” someone in the crowd yelled at Greene.
“Lock her up,” another person chanted.
But Greene, celebrating the decision, smiled as her staff blocked protesters advancing at Greene and escorted her to a secure location.
“I am so happy. It’s a blessing. It’s a miracle,” Greene said.
She then turned her attention to pro-abortion demonstrators.
“I think we have to worry about the radical left,” Greene said. “They’re going to perform an insurrection here at the Supreme Court.”
“We’ve got to protect women. Ruth Sent Us is a domestic terrorist group, and so is Jane’s Revenge,” Greene added, referencing pro-abortion rights groups that have targeted Catholic churches and anti-abortion centers. “Anyone who is supporting abortion is supporting them.”
The group Jane’s Revenge has claimed responsibility an arson attack at the office of Wisconsin Family Action, an anti-abortion group, last month.
Greene told The Hill that the Supreme Court was “courageous” for the decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, and noted that the decision does not outlaw abortion nationwide.
“It’s just taking it back to the states, giving the right back to the states to make their own laws regarding abortion, which is extremely important,” Greene said.”
Thirteen states have trigger bans designed to ban abortion once Roe is overturned, however. Missouri was the first state to have a “trigger ban” take effect on Friday following the ruling. | 2022-06-24T22:11:25+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/its-a-miracle-marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-abortion-ruling-a-blessing/ |
In the TV show Prehistoric Planet, where computer-generated dinosaur images are presented like any other nature documentary, "filmed" as they hunt and mate, there is one scene where an atrociraptor picks up a burning twig. The feathered raptor raises the branch to its coat, and Sir David Attenborough explains that the raptor is using the smoke to expel parasites that hide in the feathers.
The field of paleontology has jumped by leaps and bounds over the past three decades since Jurassic Park first screened to audiences, but using the fossil record to determine appearance is one thing. Determining the specifics of behavior – what evidence is there to back that up? How can scientists peek into the minds of creatures dead for millions of years? There's even another scene later in the show where another raptor uses a burning twig to actually spread the forest fire further, driving prey out of their hiding spots.
Although it may seem a stretch of the imagination to depict these dinosaurs as capable of using tools like fire, the veracity of these behaviors is supported by a multidisciplinary approach, according to Prehistoric Planet's executive producer Mike Gunton.
"The worst thing that could ever happen in this is that someone says, 'Oh, well, this is all made up. Why should I bother watching this?' " Gunton said.
"To make the picture that you see on the screen, we are pulling on dozens and dozens of separate threads, and trying to weave them together," Gunton said. "There's paleo-ecologists, there's paleo-climatologists, there's paleo-ethologists, there's fossil people, there's every single thing you can imagine."
So once the team was assembled, a global squad of experts in all different time zones and specialties, the next step in figuring out how these prehistoric animals behaved was putting the world's best data on the dinos in front of this team.
Luckily for the team behind Apple TV's Prehistoric Planet, there hasn't really been a better time to dive into the records, according to consulting paleontologist Darren Naish.
"We're really in a golden age of dinosaurs," Naish said. "People are finding just so many new species all over the world, but then also in terms of the information we have about their biology, their sensory ability, what they actually looked like."
Naish said this information comes in three main buckets – the traditional fossil record, which grows by a fossil every week, computer-generated models of these animals, and observations of living creatures. In the case of the pyromaniac raptor, Naish said that the assumptions about its behavior were made by watching the raptor's closest living descendants – hunting birds.
"Quite a long list of predatory birds – kites and falcons and hawks – they've been reported to pick up burning sticks and move them around to spread fire, and these birds have also been reported to grab burning sticks and deliberately treat their feathers with smoke," Naish said.
"It is an extrapolation to show in an extinct dinosaur, but it's one that we can justify."
Gunton added that the conversation between the team of paleontologists and the CGI artists rendering these dinosaurs is not one-way by any means. He said that there have been moments during the making of the show where a computer model will be so realistic, so grounded in biomechanics and physics, it will actually help scientists make assumptions about the dinosaurs that they couldn't before.
" 'Maybe it can't turn that quickly, oh well, that's interesting. Maybe it's a stalker rather than an ambusher, or a sprinter,' " Gunton said.
"So there's some really interesting extrapolations and cross-fertilizations between the filmmakers, the animators and the scientific community, which is something we'd love to develop more."
Victoria Arbour, another consulting paleontologist on the show, agreed with Gunton.
"What I really love is just all the creative ways we can pull all of these different lines of evidence into creating a sort of holistic picture of dinosaurs as living animals," Arbour said.
Arbour focuses on ankylosaur, a beast of a dino covered in armored scale and wielding a hammer tail. In the show, one of these ancient creatures munches down on some charcoal left smoldering the wake of a forest fire – a scene pulled from the contents of a fossil's stomach and the knowledge that tasty young ferns are among the first to sprout up after a blaze.
Arbour said that she rarely gets to see the focus of her work in such complete detail.
"I often say I work with bits and pieces and individual bones, sometimes I get to work with really exceptional specimens that are really complete, but it's not the same as looking at a living animal."
Gunton said that he hopes the sum of these multidisciplinary approaches is greater than the separate parts, adding up to what he calls "a fuzzy picture of the truth."
"There are so many slip-catchers, if you like, in this procedure that we almost can't go off the tracks, because there's so many things keeping us true," Gunton said. "We wanted to try and see if we could effectively make the 21st century template for how we, the public, see this world."
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Little League International says participation in its baseball and softball leagues was up this season, and team managers are optimistic about another bump next year coming off the first full-scale Little League World Series since the pandemic.
After the number of participating teams dropped 7% from 2020 to 2021, mostly because of COVID-19, the organization saw a 17% rebound this season, Little League spokesman Kevin Fountain told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Little League’s baseball and softball programs now reach approximately 2 million children in 80 countries, he said. The growth comes amid a push by Major League Baseball to reach young fans by encouraging bat flips and engaging them on TikTok, among other initiatives.
This year’s Little League World Series is the first since 2019 to include international teams. The 2020 tournament was canceled due to COVID-19, and only American teams competed last year.
Australia’s representative in the Williamsport area this week was the first LLWS team to come from Brisbane North Little League in Queensland. They were eliminated after two games but still hope to have made an impact Down Under.
“Hopefully what we’ve done here will encourage more and more boys and girls to play,” Australia manager Keith Land said. “Back home, we’ve already had our sign-ons for the next season, and numbers in our region have just blown up. Everyone wants to play again because they’ve read this story.”
Youth baseball participation in the U.S. was steadily increasing pre-pandemic, according to annual surveys from 2013 to 2018 by the Sports Fitness & Industry Association. The Aspen Institute also reported a 3% increase in participation among 6-to-12 year olds between 2015 and 2018.
The surge appears to have resumed, and not just in the U.S.
“I’m sure we’ll see a spike in registrations,” Canada manager Ulysses Yan said. “From what I hear back home, it’s all over the news, and people are following and loving it across the country. Just want to hopefully promote baseball in Canada.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, even a local American team making a trip to South Williamsport can boost interest.
Hollidaysburg, a town of about 6,000 just 124 miles away from the Little League World Series complex, represented the Mid-Atlantic Region this year. It’s the first team from Hollidaysburg in LLWS history, and it won three games before getting knocked out by Texas.
“We’re talking to a lot of different people that have younger kids and kids that are 1 and 2 years old. Boys, girls — all sorts of different people that are excited to come and be a part of this and see that the dream is possible,” Hollidaysburg manager Jim McGough said. “We’re excited to get home when everything’s finished and help the next group to be able to have this dream as well.”
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule entered an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles around the moon Friday, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight.
The capsule and its three test dummies entered lunar orbit more than a week after launching on the $4 billion demo that’s meant to pave the way for astronauts. It will remain in this broad but stable orbit for nearly a week, completing just half a lap before heading home.
As of Friday’s engine firing, the capsule was 238,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from Earth. It’s expected to reach a maximum distance of almost 270,000 miles (432,000 kilometers) in a few days. That will set a new distance record for a capsule designed to carry people one day.
“It is a statistic, but it’s symbolic for what it represents,” Jim Geffre, an Orion manager, said in a NASA interview earlier in the week. “It’s about challenging ourselves to go farther, stay longer and push beyond the limits of what we’ve previously explored.”
NASA considers this a dress rehearsal for the next moon flyby in 2024, with astronauts. A lunar landing by astronauts could follow as soon as 2025. Astronauts last visited the moon 50 years ago during Apollo 17.
Earlier in the week, Mission Control in Houston lost contact with the capsule for nearly an hour. At the time, controllers were adjusting the communication link between Orion and the Deep Space Network. Officials said the spacecraft remained healthy.
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CHENGDU, China, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senmiao Technology Limited ("Senmiao" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: AIHS), a financing and servicing company focused on the online ride-hailing industry in China, as well as an operator of its own online ride-hailing platform, today announced the operating metrics for its proprietary online ride-hailing platform for the month of August 2022. In August 2022, Senmiao and its affiliates reported over 1.0 million total completed orders, a 4.5% increase from over 0.97 million total orders completed in July 2022.
Numbers reported since August 2021 include the number of completed orders from Meituan's ride-hailing platform ("the Major Platform") utilizing Senmiao's network of cars and drivers for a set monthly fee. Numbers reported since April 2022 include the number of completed orders from three other ride-hailing platforms in Chengdu, Xiehua, Anma and Xiaoma, under the same cooperation model as Meituan.
Since the launch of Senmiao's online ride-hailing platform in October 2020, approximately 18.9 million rides have been completed using its platform. Over 4.8 million rides have been completed on the Major Platform under Senmiao's partnership with Meituan. Over 784,000 rides have been completed on Xiehua, Anma and Xiaoma since April 2022. The number of drivers completing rides via the platforms (known as Active Drivers) in August 2022 was 6,778, up approximately 14.3% from 5,928 in July 2022.
The table below presents approximate unaudited operating metrics of Senmiao and its affiliates' online ride-hailing platform since its launch in October 2020.
1 Under the old model, a rider can search for taxi/ride-hailing services on a Senmiao partner's platform, which then provides the rider with options for online ride-sharing service providers, including Senmiao. If the rider selects Senmiao, the order will then be distributed to registered drivers on Senmiao's platform for viewing and acceptance. Senmiao earns commissions for each completed order based on a certain percentage of the value of the order.
2 Under the new model, online ride-hailing requests and orders will be completed on the partner's platform utilizing Senmiao and its affiliates' network of cars and drivers for a set monthly fee. Starting from April 2022, the number includes orders completed on the Xiehua, Anma and Xiaoma platforms, in addition to those completed on the Major Platform since August 2021.
About Senmiao Technology Limited
Headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Senmiao provides automobile transaction and related services including sales of automobiles, facilitation and services for automobile purchases and financing, management, operating leases, guarantees and other automobile transaction services, as well as operates its own ride-hailing platform aimed principally at the growing online ride-hailing market in Senmiao's areas of operation in China. For more information about Senmiao, please visit: http://www.senmiaotech.com. Senmiao routinely provides important updates on its website.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements (including those relating to the operation of Senmiao's ride-hailing platform) are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those detailed from time to time in the Senmiao's filings with the SEC, and represent Senmiao's views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing Senmiao's views as of any subsequent date. Senmiao undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in events or circumstances.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging residents to prepare for Hurricane Ian without panicking and unnecessarily loading up on water, fuel and needed supplies.
The storm is projected to approach the state on the Gulf Coast as a major hurricane before slightly weakening as it makes landfall sometime Wednesday. Don’t take comfort in that news, DeSantis said. “You’re going to see major storm surge” long before landfall, he said, and hurricane conditions . “There’s going to be an interruption of power. That’s just the name of the game.”
Tampa Bay and Clearwater were the focus of the governor’s remarks, but residents along the entire west coast need to be prepared. Retailers are keeping up with the demand for water, the governor said.
“Remain calm. There is no need to panic,” DeSantis said. “There’s no need to panic-buy fuel.”
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Though landfall is two days away, the governor and safety officials are already looking to keep residents safe once the storm has passed and the damage is done. Most hurricane-related deaths come after the winds and rain have subsided, they said.
DeSantis reminded homeowners to keep generators outside the home, warning that exhaust fumes are deadly. Property damage can be repaired, he said. Lost lives cannot.
“We can help rebuild, but we need everybody to be safe.”
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German playwright Bertolt Brecht was famously committed to making sure that his audiences never forgot they were watching theatre, employing a bunch of alienating tactics to break any – as he saw it, dangerous – illusion of the stage as a ‘mirror’ of life. Anthony Lau’s high-energy production of ‘The Good Person of Szechwan’ – at the Lyric Hammersmith after premiering at Sheffield Theatres – runs with this. It plays out its bleakness against a set that looks like a funhouse, complete with an inflatable paddling pool and two big, red slides.
The play, which debuted in 1953, follows sex worker Shen Te (Ami Tredrea) as she uses the $1,000 given to her by three visiting gods – a thank you after she gives them a room – to start her own cigarette-selling business. But her attempts to combine capitalism with kindness are quickly taken advantage of by a parade of characters whose poverty or cruelty in a city described by a surtitle as an ‘open maw’ sees them fleece her. In desperation, she pretends to be her male cousin, ruthlessly exploiting everyone around her. But there’s a problem – those three gods are expecting Shen Te to be the one ‘good person’ they’ve been seeking, to convince them not to end the world.
Nina Segal’s translation of Brecht is bold, sweary and blunt, unpicking the irony of the play’s title: in a world ruled by money, there’s no room for ‘good’, other than as a naïve dream. Shen Te’s would-be husband (Aidan Cheng), who she saves from suicide, will only love her if she funds his dream of being a pilot. The garishness of Georgia Lowe’s set and costume design heightens this world’s harshness. It’s like someone grinning as they pick your pockets.
At the same time, Lau, matching Segal’s translation, avoids the risk of stereotyping by bringing in a mix of accents and contemporary cultural references. A life-sized frog may occasionally wander across the stage, threatening a god, but this is a lived-in world. The three gods themselves are presented as buffoonish Western tourists, wheeling their suitcases around as they blithely set in motion the play’s catastrophic chain of events.
The ensemble cast steps up to the play’s heightened tenor – and karaoke-style interludes – with ease, often playing multiple roles. Nick Blakeley, Callum Coates and Tim Samuels pitch the deities somewhere between Monty Python and ‘The Goon Show’. As hapless water seller Wang, who also acts as our occasional narrator, Leo Wan nimbly mixes insight with self-interest. Tredrea, meanwhile, captures Shen Te’s increasing incredulity at the shit thrown at her. At times, the loudness of the surrealist humour becomes relentless, breaking the pace. But Brecht’s parable still lands its ending as it challenges us to be better – not ‘good’. | 2023-04-26T20:26:14+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-good-person-of-szechwan-1-review |
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MADISON, Wis. - Attorney General Josh Kaul and Walworth County District Attorney Zeke Wiedenfeld announced Monday, April 17 that defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92, has been charged with one count of fourth-degree sexual assault for an incident that occurred in April 1977.
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This investigation was the result of an investigation by Walworth County Sheriff’s Department and Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI). The case is prosecuted by Walworth County District Attorney Zeke Wiedenfeld. The criminal complaint is available on request. | 2023-04-17T15:39:18+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/former-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-charged-sexual-assault |
George M. Johnson's young-adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue has become one of the most banned books in the U.S.
The book is about growing up Black and queer, and always feeling different but not having the words to express it. Over the past couple of years, at least 29 school districts have banned the book because of its LGBTQ content and for being sexually explicit.
"Any time you write a book where you write about your truth, there are going to be people who want to silence that truth," Johnson, who uses they/them pronouns, tells Morning Edition's Leila Fadel.
PEN America, a group that advocates for freedom of expression, says more than 1,600 books about gender and race were banned in more than 130 districts between 2021 and 2022, in what it calls a growing movement to censor books in schools. Taken together, the bans impacted some 4 million students at more than 5,000 schools.
Johnson worries about schools censoring works like theirs.
"The curriculum that is being taught in most school systems is still heavily geared towards the straight, white, male teen," Johnson says. "And so when we now have the ability to put books into curriculum that tell other stories, that tell stories that are non-white, that tell stories that are non-heterosexual, they're trying to take them out across the board because, you know, it's like, 'Oh, my God, how dangerous would it be if young white teens had to actually learn about the other people who exist in society with them?'"
"All Boys Aren't Blue" is bigger than Johnson's story
Johnson's book is still on the shelves in the New Jersey school district where they grew up, even though it has faced challenges in their home state. They say that some of their former classmates are now high school teachers, and recognize the book's value for students who may be struggling with questions about their own identities.
"They're using the book and telling them, 'I had a friend in high school who's gone through what you're going through,'" Johnson says. "And so it became very relatable."
Johnson is glad to have written a book that might help others, but says watching it be banned has been bittersweet. They say that if parents don't want their own child to read it, they should opt them out rather than try to block all students — some who may really need the book — from accessing it.
"Students ... have publicly said on record that works like mine have saved their lives, works like mine have helped them name their abusers, works like mine have helped them come to terms with who they are and feel validated in the fact that there is somebody else that exists in the world like them," Johnson says. "And you want to remove that from them. I just think it's sad."
Johnson also knows that the actual content of All Boys Aren't Blue isn't under attack, because the people who want it banned most likely haven't read it.
"You can't attack something you actually don't know," they say. "And this is really just an attack on an ideology, that just says that LGBTQ people shouldn't exist. And they want teens to feel unsafe and to feel silenced — and that is just something that I refuse to see happen again, because I lived as one that felt that way."
Johnson says the book has more supporters than critics
Johnson anticipated that their book would be challenged even before it published. They remember seeing Angie Thomas' novel The Hate U Give face bans years ago because it features profanity and racism, and saw it as a signal that their own book would also get caught up in controversy. (Thomas' book, published in 2017, has been among the top banned books nearly every year since its release.)
Johnson never expected the controversy around All Boys Aren't Blue to rise quite to this level, but says a lifetime of LGBTQ advocacy prepared them for the current conversation. Theirs is an important voice in the LGTBQ community — this year TIME magazine named them one of the 100 influencers shaping the next generation.
"I've been fighting for LGBTQ rights for as long as I can remember, because in turn I'm fighting for myself and fighting for people like me. This is just an extension of the advocacy work that I do," Johnson says. "Writing is a form of activism. ... And any time you do something that's a form of activism, there's going to be another side that doesn't like it."
While the book has its vocal critics, Johnson says they are far outweighed by its supporters, whom they've heard from at school board meetings and in written letters and recreated cover artwork.
"So the book ... is so much bigger than just my story," Johnson says. "And I'm watching it in real time help so many people, from parents to children to teachers to librarians, across the board. I just feel like the support is greater, and we just have to find ways to make sure that everybody sees that, too."
The audio interview was produced by Kurt Gardinier.
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The European Union’s decision to include natural gas in a list of activities considered sustainable could derail its progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a time when climate scientists are calling for dramatic reductions to planet-warming releases.
The decision, reached Wednesday, will allow investment in natural gas infrastructure such as natural gas power plants and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals to be considered green investments under certain conditions. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that causes warming of the Earth when it is burned and even more warming when it leaks out unburned.
The decision comes at a time when the continent is struggling to maintain a reliable gas supply and consumers are suffering from painfully high energy prices. Russia, which supplied about 40% of Europe’s gas before it invaded Ukraine, has reduced the flow of gas to Europe and could make even more draconian cuts, and nations throughout Europe have been scrambling for alternatives to Russian energy.
“This ruling makes sense only as a death knell for coal,” said Rob Jackson, professor of earth system science at Stanford University. “Otherwise, it’s baffling. We’re approaching 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution a year from gas use alone, and that can’t continue.”
The European Union has a binding commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and to reach climate neutrality by 2050. And while Europe is working on transitioning to renewable sources such as wind and solar, it doesn’t have enough power lines in place to carry electricity from sunny solar farms and wind-fired turbines.
Natural gas has been promoted as a “bridge fuel” because in a side-by-side comparison of power plants, natural gas produces less carbon dioxide when burned than coal. But that’s not the way climate experts see it.
“We no longer have the luxury of using gas as a clean fuel,” Jackson said. “It’s cleaner than coal, but dirtier than most everything else we use today.”
Meanwhile, European politicians are doing what they can to ensure people can keep the lights on and continue to pay energy bills without going broke.
The decision was welcomed by BDI, Germany’s industrial lobby group, which called for more investments in gas infrastructure including LNG import terminals.
To get more natural gas, Europe is looking to boost imports of LNG from countries such as the U.S., which has ramped up its exports to the continent but can’t produce more LNG without significant, costly expansion of its LNG terminals. And the process of making LNG is energy-intensive: Emissions of carbon dioxide equivalent from the LNG export terminals on the U.S. Gulf Coast were on par with the country of Costa Rica in 2020, according to the Global Carbon Project.
In addition to those emissions, there are massive leaks of methane, a gas with far more damaging climate-warming potential than carbon dioxide, along the natural gas supply chain. For example, in New Mexico’s Permian Basin, the methane leaking into the atmosphere was equivalent to 9% of the gas production for the region, according to a recent study.
“This is an extreme bald-face attempt to greenwash,” said John Sterman, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
As part of the rule, gas-fired power plants would have to switch to lower-carbon fuels by 2035. But “the language that says it will only be considered green if it can convert to hydrogen or a renewable source of combustible gas by 2035 doesn’t excuse it,” Sterman said. “That’s 13 years from now. And in the meantime, such plants would be producing significant greenhouse gases, and worsening climate change.”
Building new infrastructure for natural gas could increase the severity of climate change long term, since infrastructure is built to last 30 or 40 years, which means the possibility of burning fossil fuels well beyond the point that climate experts recommend.
Nor does building such infrastructure happen overnight. It takes about four years to build a new LNG terminal, so the approach does not address the needs of Europeans who need to heat homes this coming winter.
Even so, burning natural gas is preferable to burning alternatives such as coal, petroleum or tires, all of which is done in Europe, said Julio Friedmann, fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
“Europe is going through a very difficult moment and going through an energy transition at the same time,” Friedmann said. “For now, natural gas is cleaner than many options.”
There are also quicker solutions than building new land-based LNG facilities on the continent.
For example, Germany is planning to bring in several floating LNG terminals. That would help the nation have access to more natural gas, without creating a permanent investment.
“They need the supplies but they want to avoid lock-in,” Friedmann said. “That’s reasonable.”
There are also efforts to get more pipeline gas from neighbors. Europe has been pleading with Norway, which delivers 20 to 25% of Europe’s gas, as well as Qatar and Algeria, to provide more natural gas.
The need for natural gas extends beyond providing electricity and heating homes. It’s also essential as a feedstock for fertilizer and in producing steel and concrete, Friedmann said. Those are needs that renewable energy can’t fulfill today.
“There are strong limits today on European transmission capabilities,” Friedmann said. “There are strong limits today on the area in which renewables can be built on land.”
There are also many things that can be done to lower the climate impact, such as installing carbon capture and storage technology on new natural gas infrastructure, Friedmann said.
But money would be better spent working to replace home natural gas systems with heat pumps or investing in making homes more energy-efficient to dramatically reduce demand, Sterman said.
“Nobody wants tons of coal or cubic meters of natural gas,” Sterman said. “What people want and need is to be warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and the lights on when they flip the switch…Efficiency is the fastest, safest and cheapest way to provide those wants and needs, with very little in the way of unintended harmful cons, if any.”
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Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this story. | 2022-07-07T17:07:00+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/science/eu-decision-on-natural-gas-could-threaten-climate-progress/ |
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The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index has been wavering over the last several days and is on track for a slight weekly loss.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 51 points, or 0.2%, to 33,840.13 and the Nasdaq fell 0.2%.
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Information technology services company PC Connection slumped 10% after giving investors a disappointing financial update. Regional bank Regions Financial fell 3.4% after reporting discouraging earnings.
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New partnerships to benefit all customers
ST. LOUIS, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a group of leading organizations from across Missouri announced they're joining Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE), to bring more clean energy to the state. These organizations are committing to clean energy by choosing to purchase up to 100% of their total energy use from renewable generation sources. To meet these organizations' renewable energy goals, Ameren Missouri created the Renewable Solutions program. The program would be served by a 150 megawatt (MW) solar facility being acquired by Ameren Missouri, marking another step toward its transition to renewable energy.
"We know that reaching our goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 will take innovative solutions and partnerships," said Mark Birk, chairman and president of Ameren Missouri. "This creative partnership with local businesses and organizations is just one of the ways that we're working to increase the amount of clean energy on the grid while still maintaining the affordability and reliability our customers expect."
The solar facility, in White County, Illinois, is being developed by Invenergy, a leading developer, owner and operator of sustainable energy solutions. This facility, which Ameren Missouri previously announced an agreement to acquire, is expected to produce the energy equivalent to powering nearly 27,500 homes annually. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions and could begin serving customers as soon as 2024.
"As we advance our plans to grow renewable energy generation, locating projects in Missouri and surrounding states is necessary to maintain the reliability our customers expect and the resiliency necessary for the grid," Birk said.
All customers will benefit from the successful implementation of the program through:
- Clean energy on the grid at a lower cost to all customers.
- Investment in local construction jobs, suppliers and increased economic activity.
- Support of Ameren Missouri's transformative expansion of wind and solar energy as part of the transformational changes toward net-zero carbon emissions.
The following are some of the 10 organizations that have committed to the growth of renewable energy in our region as part of the Renewable Solutions program:
- Bi-State Development
- bioMérieux
- Emerson
- General Motors
- Mastercard
- SSM Health
- Walmart
"It's clear many business customers share our vision of a sustainable energy future and are seeking to power their operations with clean energy," said Patrick Smith, vice president of economic, community and business development at Ameren Missouri. "We created the Renewable Solutions program as an easy way for these customers to take an active role in reducing carbon emissions across the region."
Subscribers will receive Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) for their participation, a tangible way to denote their own reduction in emissions. They also will benefit from predictable pricing, and the program will help them avoid the large capital investment required to construct their own solar facilities.
The Renewable Solutions program may be expanded in the future to provide additional options for commercial, industrial and governmental customers.
Small businesses and residential customers looking to increase their own renewable energy usage have several options, including Ameren Missouri's popular Community Solar program.
Both programs will help Ameren reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 and the company's strong interim goals of a 60% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and an 85% reduction by 2040, from 2005 levels. These goals are included in Ameren Missouri's comprehensive integrated resource plan to safeguard long-term energy reliability and resiliency while also accelerating the company's planned additions of clean wind and solar generation by 2030.
Renewable Solutions would not be possible without the support of local organizations.
"Being part of Ameren Missouri's Renewable Solutions program to develop clean energy is fully aligned with bioMérieux's CSR strategy. We actively work to reduce our emissions in all our operations and along the entire value chain. We are excited to partner with the energy experts at Ameren Missouri to bring this innovative concept to life." – Bart van den Brand, Senior Vice President, Americas Operations, bioMérieux
"Emerson has established a target to achieve net-zero operations and source 100% renewable electricity by 2030. We commend the Ameren Missouri team for developing this opportunity to invest in renewable energy as businesses in our region work together toward a more sustainable future." – Mike Train, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Emerson
"GM is proud to be part of this innovative and forward-thinking new program that will directly impact the region's transition to clean energy, as well as move GM even closer to achieving our goal of powering all our US facilities with 100% renewable energy by 2025. Ameren Missouri's Renewable Solutions program is a great complement to GM's bold environmental goals and will help us create a better future for all." – Kristen Siemen, Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors
"Everyone deserves the opportunity to live in a healthy environment, free of pollution and with access to nutritious foods and green spaces to play and work. As a faith-based, Catholic health care system, preservation of the earth is part of our Mission and Vision. This project enables us to lend our voice, and our economic resources, as an advocate for smart policies, alternative energy sources and greening our communities. We are glad to partner with others to improve our environment and help us all lead healthier lives." – Gerry Kaiser, Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate, SSM Health
Ameren Missouri has been providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its 1.2 million electric and 135,000 natural gas customers in central and eastern Missouri. The company's service area covers 64 counties and more than 500 communities, including the greater St. Louis area. For more information, visit Ameren.com/Missouri or follow us on Twitter at @AmerenMissouri or Facebook.com/AmerenMissouri.
Statements in this release not based on historical facts are considered "forward-looking" and, accordingly, involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed. Although such forward-looking statements have been made in good faith and are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance that the expected results will be achieved. These statements include (without limitation) statements as to future expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, strategies, targets, estimates, objectives, events, conditions, and financial performance. In connection with the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, we are providing this cautionary statement to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. The following factors, in addition to those discussed under Risk Factors in Ameren's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and elsewhere in this release and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results to differ materially from management expectations suggested in such forward-looking statements:
- regulatory, judicial, or legislative actions, and any changes in regulatory policies and ratemaking determinations, that may change regulatory recovery mechanisms, such as those that may result from the impact of a final ruling to be issued by the United States Court for the Eastern District of Missouri regarding its September 2019 remedy order for the Rush Island Energy Center, the Missouri Public Service Commission ("MoPSC") staff review of the planned Rush Island Energy Center retirement, the July 2020 appeal filed by Ameren Missouri, Ameren Illinois, and ATXI challenging the refund period related to the FERC's May 2020 order determining the allowed base return on equity ("ROE") under the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. ("MISO") tariff, the July 2020 appeal filed by Ameren Missouri, Ameren Illinois, and ATXI challenging the FERC's rehearing denials in the transmission formula rate revision cases, and Ameren Illinois' electric distribution service rate reconciliation request filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission in April 2022;
- the length and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its impacts on our business continuity plans and our results of operations, financial position, and liquidity, including but not limited to changes in customer demand resulting in changes to sales volumes; customers' payment for our services; the health, welfare, and availability of our workforce and contractors; supplier disruptions; delays in the completion of construction projects, which could impact our expected capital expenditures and rate base growth; changes in how we operate our business and increased data security risks as a result of remote working arrangements for a significant portion of our workforce; and our ability to access the capital markets on reasonable terms and when needed;
- the effect on Ameren Missouri's investment plan and earnings if an extension to use plant-in-service accounting ("PISA") is not sought by Ameren Missouri or approved by the MoPSC;
- the effect on Ameren Missouri of any customer rate caps pursuant to Ameren Missouri's election to use PISA, including an extension of use beyond 2023, if requested by Ameren Missouri and approved by the MoPSC;
- the effects of changes in federal, state, or local laws and other governmental actions, including monetary, fiscal, foreign trade, and energy policies;
- the effects of changes in federal, state, or local tax laws, regulations, interpretations, or rates, and challenges to the tax positions taken by Ameren or its affiliates, if any, as well as resulting effects on customer rates;
- the effects on energy prices and demand for our services resulting from technological advances, including advances in customer energy efficiency, electric vehicles, electrification of various industries, energy storage, and private generation sources, which generate electricity at the site of consumption and are becoming more cost-competitive;
- the effectiveness of Ameren Missouri's customer energy-efficiency programs and the related revenues and performance incentives earned under its Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act programs;
- our ability to control costs and make substantial investments in our businesses, including our ability to recover costs and investments, and to earn our allowed returns on equity, within frameworks established by our regulators, while maintaining affordability of our services for our customers;
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Trial in progress poster also to be presented for Phase 1/2 ARROS-1 study of ROS1-selective inhibitor NVL-520
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvalent, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for clinically proven kinase targets in cancer, today announced new preclinical data supporting the potential best-in-class profile of NVL-655 – an ALK-selective inhibitor, and a "Trial in Progress" poster for the Phase 1/2 ARROS-1 study of NVL-520 – a ROS1-selective inhibitor. NVL-520 and NVL-655 are central nervous system (CNS)-penetrant kinase inhibitors designed to specifically solve for the dual challenges of kinase resistance and selectivity commonly observed with currently available inhibitors.
The two posters will be presented at the IASLC 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) Annual Meeting taking place August 6-9, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. The posters will also be available on the Nuvalent website.
"Our presentations at WCLC showcase the value that our collaborations with leading physician-scientists and translational investigators bring towards characterizing and developing our parallel lead programs for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)," said James Porter, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Nuvalent. "We are grateful for our continued collaborations focused on advancing the understanding of resistance to kinase inhibitors, as well as the dedication and support of the Phase 1 clinical investigators participating in our ongoing studies for patients with advanced NSCLC and other solid tumors."
"We selected NVL-520 and NVL-655 based on the demonstrated strength of their preclinical profiles and their potential to drive deep, durable responses for patients with ROS1-positive and ALK-positive cancers, respectively. With both programs now under clinical investigation, we remain committed to continued, rigorous preclinical characterization to both deepen our understanding of our programs as well as to support the advancement of tools and models that may help accelerate the development of new therapies for genomically-driven cancers," said Henry Pelish, Ph.D., Vice President of Biology at Nuvalent. "We are pleased to share data further characterizing NVL-655 in a new patient-derived model of lorlatinib-resistant ALK-positive NSCLC with the treatment-emergent G1202R/T1151M compound resistance mutation, developed by our clinical and translational collaborators at Gustave Roussy."
The MR448re patient-derived model was established from cancer cells retrieved from a NSCLC patient previously treated with four prior ALK kinase inhibitors and most recently progressing following treatment with lorlatinib. Presence of an EML4-ALK fusion and the G1202R/T1151M compound mutation was confirmed by sequencing.
"The rapid development of the MR448re patient-derived model and subsequent evaluation of NVL-655 is a testament to the efficient cooperation between our clinical and translational investigators, and our collaborators at Nuvalent," said Luc Friboulet, Ph.D., investigator at Gustave Roussy. "NVL-655 showed strong antitumor activity in this heavily refractory model, while lorlatinib showed limited inhibitory activity consistent with treatment history. This further supports the differentiating and potentially best-in-class preclinical profile of NVL-655, which has previously demonstrated the ability to retain activity in the presence of a broad spectrum of single and compound ALK resistance mutations while maintaining a wide selectivity window over TRKB."
A "Trial in Progress" poster summarizing the preclinical profile of NVL-520 and clinical trial design of the Phase 1/2 ARROS-1 study (NCT05118789) for NVL-520 will also be presented. This multicenter, open-label, dose-escalation and expansion trial is designed to evaluate NVL-520 as an oral monotherapy for patients with advanced ROS1-positive NSCLC and other solid tumors. The ongoing Phase 1 dose-escalation portion of the study is currently enrolling ROS1-positive NSCLC patients who have previously received at least one ROS1 TKI, or patients with other ROS1-positive solid tumors previously treated with any prior therapy. Nuvalent plans to share preliminary dose-escalation data from ARROS-1 in the second half of 2022.
WCLC Presentation Overview:
Title: Preclinical Activity of NVL-655 in a Patient-Derived NSCLC Model with Lorlatinib-Resistant ALK G1202R/T1151M Mutation
Authors: H. Mizuta1, L. Bigot1, A. Tangpeerachaikul2, H.E. Pelish2, L. Friboulet1
Abstract Number: EP08.02-020
Session Category: Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Session Title: Molecular Targeted Treatments
Session Date and Time: August 7, 2022, 9:45am – 6:00pm CEST
1Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France; 2Nuvalent, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Summary of Presentation:
- ALK G1202R single and compound mutations are recurrent mechanisms of resistance to previous-generation therapies, including alectinib and lorlatinib.
- NVL-655 showed strong antitumor activity in preclinical models derived from ALK positive patients who have progressed on treatment with earlier-generation ALK inhibitors, including a G1202R/T1151M compound mutation model derived from a patient previously treated with crizotinib, alectinib, brigatinib, and lorlatinib.
- Among all inhibitors tested, NVL-655 continues to show the broadest activity across ALK fusion partners and resistance mutations while maintaining a wide selectivity window over TRKB.
- NVL-655 is currently being evaluated in the Phase 1/2 ALKOVE-1 study for patients with advanced ALK+ NSCLC and other solid tumors, including those with ALK resistance mutations and CNS metastases (NCT05384626).
Title: NVL-520, a Highly Selective ROS1 Inhibitor, in Patients with Advanced ROS1-Positive Solid Tumors: The Phase 1/2 ARROS-1 Study
Authors: A. Drilon1, S-H.I. Ou2, S. Gadgeel3, M. Johnson4, A. Spira5, G. Lopes6, B. Besse7, E. Felip8, A.J. van der Wekken9, A. Calles10, M.J. de Miguel11, D.R. Camidge12, Y. Elamin13, S. Liu14, J. Bauman15, D. Haggstrom16, G. Riley17, H.E. Pelish17, V.W. Zhu17, J.J. Lin18
Abstract Number: EP08.02-041
Session Category: Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Session Title: Molecular Targeted Treatments
Session Date and Time: August 7, 2022, 9:45am – 6:00pm CEST
1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York/NY/USA ,2University Of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange/CA/USA ,3Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Detroit/MI/USA ,4Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville/TN/USA,5NEXT Oncology - Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax/VA/USA ,6Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami and the Miller School of Medicine, Miami/FL/USA ,7Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex/FR,8Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona/ES ,9University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen,Groningen/NL ,10Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid/ES ,11START Madrid-HM CIOCC, Madrid/ES,12University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora/CO/USA ,13MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston/TX/USA ,14Georgetown University, Washington/DC/USA ,15Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia/PA/USA,16Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health, Charlotte/NC/USA ,17Nuvalent, Inc., Cambridge/MA/USA ,18Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston/MA/USA
Summary of Presentation:
- NVL-520 has demonstrated CNS activity and potent and selective inhibition of ROS1 & ROS1 G2032R over TRKB in preclinical models. These data indicate the potential to minimize TRK-related CNS adverse events seen with dual TRK/ROS1 inhibitors and drive more durable responses for patients with ROS1+ tumors, including those with ROS1 resistance mutations and CNS metastases.
- ARROS-1 is a Phase 1/2 study evaluating the safety and activity of NVL-520 in patients with advanced ROS1+ NSCLC and other solid tumors, including those with ROS1 resistance mutations and CNS metastases.
- The Phase 1 portion of the study is open and actively enrolling in the USA, Spain, the Netherlands, and France, with further global expansion planned.
- Phase 2 cohorts are designed to support potential registration in TKI-naive or previously treated ROS1+ NSCLC.
About NVL-655
NVL-655 is a novel brain-penetrant ALK-selective inhibitor created to overcome limitations observed with currently available ALK inhibitors. NVL-655 is designed to remain active in tumors that have developed resistance to first-, second-, and third-generation ALK inhibitors, including tumors with the solvent front G1202R mutation or compound mutations G1202R / L1196M ("GRLM"), G1202R / G1269A ("GRGA"), or G1202R/L1198F ("GRLF"). NVL-655 has been optimized for CNS penetrance to improve treatment options for patients with brain metastases. NVL-655 has been observed in preclinical studies to selectively inhibit wild-type ALK and its resistance variants over the structurally related tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) family to potentially avoid TRK-related CNS adverse events seen with dual TRK/ALK inhibitors and drive more durable responses for patients. NVL-655 is currently being investigated in the ALKOVE-1 study (NCT05384626), a first-in-human Phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with advanced ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other solid tumors.
About NVL-520
NVL-520 is a novel brain-penetrant ROS1-selective inhibitor designed to remain active in tumors that have developed resistance to currently available ROS1 inhibitors, including tumors with the prevalent G2032R resistance mutation and those with the S1986Y/F, L2026M, or D2033N resistance mutations. NVL-520 has been optimized for brain penetrance to potentially improve treatment options for patients with brain metastases. NVL-520 has been observed in preclinical studies to selectively inhibit wild-type ROS1 and its resistance variants over the structurally related tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) family to potentially avoid TRK-related CNS adverse events seen with dual TRK/ROS1 inhibitors and drive more durable responses for patients. NVL-520 is currently being investigated in the ARROS-1 study (NCT05118789), a first-in-human Phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other solid tumors.
About Nuvalent
Nuvalent, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVL) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating precisely targeted therapies for patients with cancer, designed to overcome the limitations of existing therapies for clinically proven kinase targets. Leveraging deep expertise in chemistry and structure-based drug design, we develop innovative small molecules that have the potential to overcome resistance, minimize adverse events, address brain metastases, and drive more durable responses. Nuvalent is advancing a robust pipeline with parallel lead programs in ROS1-positive and ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), along with multiple discovery-stage research programs. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at www.nuvalent.com. Follow us on Twitter (@nuvalent) and LinkedIn.
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, implied and express statements regarding Nuvalent's strategy, business plans, and focus; the clinical development programs for NVL-520 and NVL-655 and the timing thereof; the potential clinical effect of NVL-520 and NVL-655; the design and enrollment of the ARROS-1 and ALKOVE-1 studies and the timing thereof; the potential of Nuvalent's pipeline programs, including NVL-520 and NVL-655; Nuvalent's research and development programs for the treatment of cancer; risks and uncertainties associated with drug development; and capital allocation. The words "may," "might," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "aim," "goal," "intend," "believe," "expect," "estimate," "seek," "predict," "future," "project," "potential," "continue," "target" or the negative of these terms and similar words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Drug development and commercialization involve a high degree of risk, and only a small number of research and development programs result in commercialization of a product. You should not place undue reliance on these statements or the scientific data presented. 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: risks that Nuvalent may not fully enroll the ARROS-1 or ALKOVE-1 studies or that enrollment will take longer than expected; unexpected concerns that may arise from additional data, analysis, or results obtained during clinical trials; the occurrence of adverse safety events; risks of unexpected costs, delays, or other unexpected hurdles; risks that Nuvalent may not be able to nominate drug candidates from its HER2 Exon 20 and ALK IXDN programs; the direct or indirect impact of COVID-19 or other global geopolitical circumstances on the timing and anticipated timing and results of Nuvalent's clinical trials, strategy, and future operations, including the ARROS-1 and ALKOVE-1 studies; the timing and outcome of Nuvalent's planned interactions with regulatory authorities; and obtaining, maintaining, and protecting its intellectual property. These and other risks and uncertainties are described in greater detail in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as any subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent Nuvalent's views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. Nuvalent explicitly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Back-to-school shoppers will get a break on New Jersey's sales tax later this summer, Gov. Phil Murphy and fellow Democrats in the Legislature said Wednesday.
Murphy and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin and Senate President Nicholas Scutari said they reached an agreement as part of ongoing budget negotiations to halt the state's 6.625% sales tax from Aug. 27 to Sept. 5 on school supplies.
The covered items include pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, art supplies, books and computers.
It's the second time in a week that the state's Democratic leaders announced a tax break — the fallout of a bruising statewide election last year that resulted in Democrats embracing affordability as an issue.
A week ago, Murphy and his legislative counterparts said they'd agreed on a $2 billion property tax break for 2 million households.
High inflation and pain at the gas pump as prices hover around $5 a gallon were on the leaders' minds when they announced the sales tax holiday.
“As inflation is a central worry around many of our residents’ kitchen tables, now is the time to do it,” Murphy said. “This program will cut the cost for the most essential items needed for educational success and help make New Jersey more affordable for our students and families.”
New Jersey levies sales tax goods like cars, furniture, food prepared in restaurants and on services like auto repair and landscaping. Unprepared food and clothing are exempt from the sales tax.
Lawmakers estimated families spend about $250 on school supplies a year and teachers put out $600 of their own funds to buy classroom materials. | 2022-06-22T18:25:48+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/New-Jersey-to-offer-sales-tax-break-on-school-17258288.php |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces because Ukraine lacks enough Western weapons to succeed without suffering too many casualties.
His remarks, in an interview with European broadcasters, were aired shortly before Britain said it has sent Ukraine air-launched cruise missiles that would allow pilots to extend their reach farther than possibly any other weapon in their arsenal, to locations deep behind the front line.
A Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia’s more than 14-month-old invasion has been expected since warmer weather improved battlefield conditions, and Zelenskyy said it’s possible that “we can go forward and be successful,” the BBC reported.
“But we’d lose a lot of people. I think that’s unacceptable,” he was quoted as saying in the interview, conducted in Kyiv with public service broadcasters who are members of Eurovision News, including the BBC.
“So we need to wait. We still need a bit more time,” Zelenskyy was quoted as saying. “In terms of equipment, not everything has arrived yet.”
Analysts and Ukrainian officials have talked for months of a coming Ukrainian counterpunch. Zelenskyy’s remarks could be designed to keep the Russians guessing, with more uncertainty because both sides are struggling to secure enough ammunition.
Ukraine’s troops are receiving Western training, as well as advanced weapons, as it gears up for such an assault.
Later Thursday, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told lawmakers it sent Ukraine the Storm Shadow missiles, a conventionally armed weapon with a range of more than 250 kilometers (150 miles). By contrast, the truck-mounted HIMARS launchers that Washington has supplied feature GPS-guided missiles capable of hitting targets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) away.
Wallace said the cruise missiles “are now going into or are in the country itself,” but didn’t say how many were provided.
The air-launched missiles would allow Ukrainian forces to target locations such as Russia-occupied Crimea. Kyiv has pledged not to use them to attack Russia itself, U.K. media reported. The U.S. and its allies have expressed concern that enabling Ukraine to use their weapons to hit targets inside Russia could provoke the Kremlin to escalate the war.
The British delivery adds to the tanks and long-range precision artillery that Western countries have already supplied to Ukraine.
Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, tweeted: “Well done UK!”
“This will give Ukraine capability to make Crimea untenable for Russian forces” and require Russia to reevaluate the positioning of its Black Sea fleet, Hodges said.
Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute, said the Storm Shadow missiles could allow Ukraine to strike Russian vessels in its Black Sea headquarters port of Sevastopol, from which Moscow’s Kalibr missiles “have been used to target crucial Ukrainian infrastructure.”
Patrick Bury, senior lecturer in security at the University of Bath, wasn’t surprised at Zelenskyy’s comments about delaying the spring campaign.
“If you are Zelenskyy, you are doing everything you can to make sure you get everything you need” before launching the offensive, he said.
“On the other hand, I would not be surprised at all if it started in the next couple of weeks, depending on the mud. … As of last week it was still one of the wettest springs they’ve had over there in years. … It’s just not favorable,” Bury added.
A Ukrainian military claim Wednesday that its troops had advanced up to 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) around the hotly contested eastern city of Bakhmut fueled speculation that the counteroffensive was underway.
Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesman for Ukraine’s Operational Command East, told The Associated Press that the fighting and forward movement was not the “grand counteroffensive, but it’s a harbinger showing that there will be more such attacks in the future.”
But Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s private military force Wagner that has spearheaded Moscow’s battle for Bakhmut, claimed Kyiv’s counteroffensive was “in full swing,” with Ukrainian forces advancing “on the flanks” around the city.
“Unfortunately, in some areas they’re doing it successfully,” Prigozhin said.
Kremlin forces are deeply entrenched in eastern Ukraine with layered defensive lines reportedly up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) deep. Kyiv’s counteroffensive would likely face minefields, anti-tank ditches and other obstacles.
Russia is “acting slow” in Ukraine because it wants to preserve infrastructure and save lives there, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Bosnian Serb channel ATV on Wednesday night.
Moscow has repeatedly explained its lack of advances on the battlefield as an effort to protect civilians, but those claims have been proven false, with frequent attacks on civilian buildings.
Zelenskyy said Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to reduce the war to a so-called frozen conflict, with neither side able to dislodge the other, according to the BBC. He ruled out surrendering territory to Russia in return for a peace deal.
The Kremlin wants Kyiv to acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Crimea and to recognize September’s illegal annexation of the provinces of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine has rejected the demands and ruled out any talks with Russia until its troops withdraw from all occupied territories.
Military analysts have warned that Putin hopes the West’s costly support for Kyiv will fray.
Ukraine’s Western allies have sent the country 65 billion euros ($70 billion) in military aid, and with no peace talks on the horizon, the alliance is gearing up to send more.
European Union Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said delaying a counteroffensive was a sign that the West must step up its military support for Ukraine.
“Certainly, they need more preparation,” Borrell said at a defense and security conference in Brussels. “They need more arms. They need to gather more capacity, and it is us who have to provide for that.”
Russia also is seeking more weapons and ammunition. The U. S. ambassador to South Africa accused the country Thursday of providing weapons and ammunition to Russia via a cargo ship that docked secretly at a naval base near Cape Town in December. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said an investigation was underway.
Over the winter, the Ukraine conflict became bogged down in a war of attrition, with both sides relying heavily on bombarding each other’s positions.
A counteroffensive is a major challenge, requiring the Ukrainian military to orchestrate a wide range of capabilities, including providing ammunition, food, medical supplies and spare parts, along potentially extended supply lines. The front line extends more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles).
Zelenskyy has been making the rounds of Western capitals to seek more support. As part of that effort, Pope Francis could meet Zelenskyy at the Vatican this weekend, a Vatican official said Thursday. Francis recently revealed a secret peace “mission” but provided no details. Zelenskyy was expected in Germany starting Saturday evening. Italian media, citing unidentified sources, reported that Zelenskyy might be in Rome earlier that day to meet with Premier Giorgia Meloni and the pope.
A Vatican official said an audience with the pope on Saturday “is a possibility.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the visit was not confirmed.
Russia’s latest long-range barrages killed at least six civilians and wounded 13 others, Ukraine’s presidential office said.
In other developments, a Ukrainian drone damaged a fuel storage tank across the Russian border in Bryansk, the region’s governor reported on Telegram. In Ukraine’s Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, meanwhile, Russian-appointed authorities reported an assassination attempt against a judge. The authorities didn’t report how the attack occurred, saying only that the judge wasn’t injured, but two of his guards were. Ukraine didn’t comment on either attack.
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Lawless reported from London. Lorne Cook in Brussels, Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, and Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed.
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Voters largely don’t want Congress to punish companies for speaking out on certain social and political issues, according to a Morning Consult poll commissioned by the tech industry-backed Chamber of Progress and released on Monday.
The survey found that a majority of voters wouldn’t want lawmakers to punish companies for speaking out against discrimination, openly supporting abortion rights or withholding campaign donations from Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), have promised to investigate some of the largest U.S. companies over their so-called woke politics, referring to support of the Black Lives Matter movement; environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, investing and abortion access, among other hot-button issues.
“While the Republican effort to punish companies that speak up on social issues might be popular with the far right, it’s completely out of touch with what most voters want to see from Congress,” Chamber of Progress CEO Adam Kovacevich told The Hill. “This poll should be a wake-up call for Republicans — no one wants to see them silence the private sector.”
Seventy-one percent of voters oppose Congress punishing companies that “speak out against discrimination,” including two-thirds of GOP respondents, according to the poll.
Republicans were enraged when several major companies, including Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, spoke out against the Georgia GOP’s voting law that critics said discriminated against Black voters.
And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) punished Disney after the company spoke out against his “don’t say gay” bill.
“Companies like Disney, Coke and Delta should be focusing on their customers, not engaging in political fights,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has also threatened retribution against “woke” companies, tweeted last year.
The survey found that 72 percent of voters don’t want Congress to punish companies that “speak out in support of reproductive rights.” While only a relatively small number of companies spoke out against the Supreme Court’s decision last year that ended federal abortion protections, most large corporations pledged to help their employees access abortion services.
Nearly 6 in 10 respondents oppose punishing corporations for withholding donations to the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying President Biden’s 2020 win.
Dozens of companies froze their PAC donations to those lawmakers, including McCarthy, following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, but most unpaused their giving over the last year following GOP outrage.
Tech giants were some of the first corporations to withhold donations. Google and Meta stuck with their pledge throughout the 2022 election cycle. Those companies will be top targets of House GOP investigations into allegations of anti-conservative censorship.
McCarthy has specifically gone after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest corporate lobbying group, after it endorsed a slate of House Democrats in the 2020 election.
Morning Consult surveyed 2,006 midterm voters from Nov. 17-18. The poll’s margin of error is 2 percentage points. | 2023-01-16T15:50:12+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/hill-politics/most-voters-dont-want-gop-to-punish-woke-companies-poll/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court’s chief justice said Wednesday that she will not seek a second 12-year term in November and will conclude her current term of office on January 1.
The announcement by Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye will give Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, his third opportunity to appoint a justice to the seven-member high court, and his first to pick a new chief justice.
Cantil-Sakauye was sworn in to office in January 2011 after she was nominated by former Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and was elected in the November 2010 general election.
She is the first Asian-Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state’s chief justice. She said in a statement that Newsom “will have a diverse pool of exceptionally well qualified jurists and legal professionals to choose from, and I believe the judiciary, the courts, and access to justice in California will be in good hands.”
Unlike U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges, California judges do not hold lifetime positions. She would have had to run for retention by voters in November’s election.
Cantil-Sakauye, 62, made her announcement as the filing deadline is approaching.
She is one of five justices on the seven-seven member court who could stand for retention in November, unless they opt not to run and allow Newsom to appoint their replacements.
At least three of the other four have said they will seek retention.
It could be the largest crowd of justices on any one ballot in more than three decades, according to David Ettinger, an appellate lawyer who writes a blog about the California Supreme Court.
California voters simply vote “yes” or “no” on retaining justices in office, and they don't run against anyone.
Aside from Cantil-Sakauye, the four associate judges who would have to stand for retention are:
— Justice Martin Jenkins, the first openly gay Black man to the state’s high court. He was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 to replace Justice Ming Chin.
— Justice Patricia Guerrero, the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court. Newsom appointed her earlier this year to succeed Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar.
— Justice Joshua Groban, who was appointed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2019.
— Justice Goodwin Liu, who was appointed by Brown in 2011.
All but Guerrero have told court officials they plan to seek retention, while Guerrero has made no announcement.
Justices are up for retention in the first gubernatorial election after their appointment, and again if they fill an unexpired term for a previous justice.
Any retirements give Newsom the chance to nominate another justice.
The governor’s nominations go to the Commission on Judicial Appointments for a public hearing. Once confirmed by the commission, the new justice would stand for voter approval in an upcoming election.
Cantil-Sakauye is one of just two remaining justices appointed by a Republican, both by Schwarzenegger, as California continues its shift to the left. The other GOP appointee is Associate Justice Carol Corrigan. The remainder were appointed by Newsom or Brown.
Aside from heading the most populous state’s high court, Cantil-Sakauye also because of her position heads the Judicial Council of California, which is the administrative arm of the state courts, and the Commission on Judicial Appointments that considers governors’ nominees to fill judicial vacancies.
The judicial council received unusual attention during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic when it ordered $0 bail for misdemeanors and lower-level felonies.
By the time the council lifted the order months later, it had reduced jail populations by more than 20,000 suspects. But the council allowed individual counties to keep $0 bail as they saw fit, and law enforcement officials, prosecutors and other critics faulted the practice for contributing to a surge in organized shoplifting, including mass smash-and-grab assaults on stores.
Cantil-Sakauye also supported ending California’s cash bail system, which lawmakers approved until the law was overturned by voters in 2020.
She has otherwise prided herself in presiding over a collegial seven-member court that generally issues unanimous decisions even on controversial cases.
"For me, collegiality with my bench colleagues was also critical to my service," she said in a statement. “We discussed, debated, and sometimes disagreed, but we were always focused on the rule of law and what was right and just.”
She noted that her time as chief justice “is bookended by the Great Recession and ... the persisting difficulties of a Global Pandemic.”
The daughter of farmworkers, she recalled her first exposure to the justice system “was when my family faced eviction from our home and my mother felt helpless.” And as a wife, she said, “I felt the impact of unjust Japanese Internment on my in-laws.”
The Sacramento native was appointed to Sacramento Municipal Court by then-Gov. George Deukmejian in 1990 and to the Sacramento County Superior Court by then-Gov. Pete Wilson in 1997, where she created and presided over the county’s first court dedicated to handling domestic violence cases.
Schwarzenegger nominated her for the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento in 2005 before tapping her for the Supreme Court to succeed retiring Chief Justice Ronald George.
She is the second female chief justice, after Rose Elizabeth Bird, who served from March 1977 to January 1987 until she was rejected by voters. | 2022-07-27T19:08:20+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/California-chief-justice-won-t-seek-a-second-17332737.php |
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- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 23 - July 1
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- Location: Mallorca, Philippines
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Upstate mother charged with murder, arson after fire that killed young girl
The house fire happened in November 2020
The house fire happened in November 2020
A Union mother is charged with murder, homicide by child abuse and arson after a fire in 2020 that killed her child, Union police said.
At the time the coroner identified the victim as 7-year-old Caylee Ratcliff.
Firefighters responded to a house fire on Second Avenue on Nov. 25, 2020, around 5:40 p.m., police said.
When firefighters got there, they found the home fully engulfed with fire coming out of the windows and front door. The victim's grandmother was severely burned in the fire and was flown to Augusta Burn Center, a police incident report said.
A crowd had gathered outside the home. A witness told firefighters there was another victim still inside the home, but they were unable to enter the building because of the flames and heat, a police incident report said.
Two firefighters were burned while trying to get into the home and search for the victim, police said. Both were treated at the scene.
After the fire was extinguished, firefighters found a young girl who had died, police said.
State Law Enforcement Division was called to assist in the investigation along with the state Fire Marshall's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to police.
After an 18-month investigation, police charged Carlene Ratcliffe in the deadly fire.
Police believe Ratcliffe set fire to the home while her daughter was sleeping and left without seeking help for the girl.
Police believe the grandmother was out of the house when the fire started and returned home to find the house in flames. She was burned trying to run into the home to rescue the girl, police said.
Ratcliffe was arrested Friday. She is currently in the Union County Detention Center. | 2022-07-01T20:34:50+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/upstate-mother-charged-with-murder-arson-after-fire-that-killed-6-year-old-girl/40486101 |
The community is coming together to celebrate Juneteenth in a big way.
Naudia Walton from Let’s Talk NWA is here with details on the organization’s annual celebration. Watch as we sit down to discuss how the organization is breaking the cycle of domestic violence. | 2022-06-16T15:45:01+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/lifestyle/good-day-nwa/lets-talk-about-annual-juneteenth-celebrations/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
3-2-9-2, SB: 4
(three, two, nine, two; SB: four)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
3-2-9-2, SB: 4
(three, two, nine, two; SB: four) | 2022-07-16T17:51:22+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17309589.php |
By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Sports Writer
Beating the Chicago Bears 12-7 on Thursday night was far from a work of art for the Washington Commanders, and coach Ron Rivera could see almost as many negatives as positives when re-watching the game.
There were missed throws, missed catches and missed tackles: plenty to fix. But after halting the losing streak at four and getting back on track at 2-4, his team can look at stout red zone defense and a solid running game as building blocks with Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers coming to town next weekend.
“We ran the ball effectively at moments,” Rivera said Friday. “To the defensive players’ credit, the way they bowed their neck — an interception and then two fourth-down stops in the red zone — were huge, and those were obviously the difference in the game.”
Stopping the Bears on all three of their trips to the red zone brought Washington to a 50% success rate in that department this season, among the top 10 teams in the NFL. Giving up big-yardage plays continues to be an issue, notably Chicago’s Justin Fields scrambling for 39 yards.
Rodgers is very unlikely to do that when the Packers visit the Commanders on Oct. 23, but there are parts of the red zone defense that could translate to containing one of the game’s best quarterbacks. Forcing obvious throwing situations would be a start.
“We have to be stout up through the middle again and really kind of put them into a position where you do know he’s going to throw the ball,” Rivera said. “When there’s a little bit of doubt because he’s so good with his play action, you struggle with him.”
Washington has also struggled on the flip side of that offensively, with Carson Wentz getting sacked a league-most 23 times because pass-rushers have not needed to respect the run.
That changed against the Bears. The emergence of rookie Brian Robinson Jr. mixing and matching with Antonio Gibson and third-down back J.D. McKissic added up to more than 100 yards rushing and a much more balanced offense.
“All of a sudden, it’s a little softer and those 2-, 3-, 4, 5-yard runs now become 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-yard runs,” Rivera said. “That’s what we’ve got to find. We’ve got to understand it.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The Commanders forced two turnovers against Chicago, one more than their previous five games combined. One came on special teams with a muffed punt and the other was defensive tackle Jonathan Allen’s first career interception.
“Not a lot of thinking,” Allen said. “Just react and just looking up, and it just fell right into my lap.”
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Washington’s defense twice had 12 players on the field and once was caught short with 10. Rivera called those mistakes unacceptable, particularly because part of the game plan was to prepare for Chicago’s quick substitutions.
If anything, it might be a teaching moment because the Packers like to do the same thing.
“(It is) a thing that Aaron Rodgers does so well,” Rivera said. “We’re going to face that this week coming up, so that’ll be a point of emphasis. We cannot get caught substituting.”
STOCK UP
Gibson the kick returner could soon be a thing. He ran back one kickoff for 27 yards and may soon replace Dax Milne on punt returns now that Robinson is the lead rusher on offense.
STOCK DOWN
Cornerback William Jackson was scratched with a back injury, but it’s also possible he has played his last game for Washington. Rivera and the coaching staff benched Jackson the previous game for performance reasons, and a change of scenery could benefit the veteran in the middle of a $40.5 million, three-year contract.
INJURIES
Wentz injured his right, throwing hand against the Bears and said he’d get an X-ray just to be sure. The 29-year-old expects to be OK and has extra time to heal up, but it’s not clear how serious the injury might be.
Rivera also is uncertain about the status of pass-rusher Chase Young, who is working to return from surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee. Young, who remains on the physically unable to perform list and is approaching 11 months since the injury, still has to meet with Dr. James Andrews before being cleared to practice and play.
“I don’t know if this week is a doable yet,” Rivera said. “But if it is a doable, what we’ll do is we’ll start his (practice) clock and get him out on the field.”
KEY NUMBER
19 — Sacks Washington has registered through six games, already half the team’s total from last season.
NEXT STEPS
Game-planning for Rodgers and the Packers, which will be a much bigger challenge than the Bears. FanDuel Sportsbook set Green Bay as an early 6½-point road favorite.
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The U.S. announced new COVID-19 testing requirements Wednesday for all travelers from China, joining other nations imposing restrictions because of a surge of infections.
The increase in cases across China follows the rollback of the nation’s strict anti-virus controls. China’s “zero COVID” policies had kept the country’s infection rate low but fueled public frustration and crushed economic growth.
The new U.S. requirements, which start Jan. 5, apply to travelers regardless of their nationality and vaccination status.
In a statement explaining the testing, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited the surge in infections and what it said was a lack of adequate and transparent information from China, including genomic sequencing on the viral strains circulating in the country.
“These data are critical to monitor the case surge effectively and decrease the chance for entry of a novel variant of concern,” the CDC said.
Some scientists are worried the COVID-19 surge in China could unleash a new coronavirus variant on the world that may or may not be similar to the ones circulating now. That’s because every infection is another chance for the virus to mutate.
“What we want to avoid is having a variant enter into the U.S. and spread like we saw with delta or omicron,” said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
But the CDC’s action may be less about stopping a new variant from crossing U.S. borders and more about increasing pressure on China to share more information, said Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, adding he hopes the restrictions “aren’t kept in place longer than they need to be.”
“I don’t think it’s going to have a major impact in slowing the spread of COVID-19,” Dowdy said. “We have a whole lot of transmission of COVID-19 here within our borders already.”
Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University, agreed China isn’t sharing enough genomic sequencing information. But he also said the U.S. has become a little complacent about sequencing and needs to redouble its own efforts. The CDC also announced the expansion of an early warning program that tests volunteers at select airports for new and rare variants of the coronavirus. That program will expand to airports in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Under the new U.S. rules, travelers to the U.S. from China, Hong Kong and Macau, will be required to take a COVID-19 test no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight. The testing applies to anyone 2 years and older, including U.S. citizens.
It will apply to people traveling from China via a third country and to people connecting through the U.S. as they go on to other destinations. Anyone testing positive more than 10 days before the flight can provide documentation showing they’ve recovered from COVID-19 instead of a negative test result.
It will be up to the airlines to confirm negative tests and documentation of recovery before passengers board.
Other countries have taken similar steps in an effort to keep infections from spreading beyond China’s borders. Japan will require a negative COVID-19 test upon arrival for travelers from China, and Malaysia announced new tracking and surveillance measures. India, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan are requiring virus tests for visitors from China.
Lunar New Year, which begins Jan. 22, is usually China’s busiest travel season, and China announced Tuesday it will resume issuing passports for tourism for the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
“We look forward to welcoming Chinese travelers back to the United States,” U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman said in a statement. He called the U.S. approach to testing inbound travelers “reasonable and appreciated.”
The U.S. action is a return to testing requirements for some international travelers. The Biden administration lifted the last of such mandates in June. At that time, the CDC continued to recommend that people boarding flights to the U.S. get tested close to departure time and not travel if they are sick.
“We’ve done this before. We can do it again,” Dowdy said.
Early in the pandemic, the U.S. barred entry to foreigners traveling from China, weeks after the virus first emerged there three years ago, and dozens of other countries were added to the list. The country started lifting travel bans late last year, but required travelers to the U.S. to be vaccinated and tested. ___
AP Science Writer Laura Ungar contributed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified material at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out.
That document, which the FBI submitted so it could get a warrant to search Trump’s winter home, provides new details about the volume and top secret nature of what was retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January. It shows how Justice Department officials had raised concerns months before the search that closely held government secrets were being illegally stored and before they returned in August with a court-approved warrant and located even more classified records at the property.
It all raises questions whether a crime was committed and, if so, by whom. Answers may not come quickly.
A department official this month described the investigation as in its early stages, suggesting more work is ahead as investigators review the documents they removed and continue interviewing witnesses. At a minimum, the investigation presents a political distraction for Trump as he lays the groundwork for a potential presidential run.
Then there’s the obvious legal peril.
A look at what’s next:
WHAT IS THE FBI INVESTIGATING?
None of the government’s legal filings released so far singles out Trump — or anyone else — as a potential target of the investigation. But the warrant and accompanying affidavit make clear the investigation is active and criminal in nature.
The department is investigating potential violations of multiple laws, including an Espionage Act statute that governs gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information. The other laws deal with the mutilation and removal of records as well as well as the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The inquiry began quietly with a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration, which retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago in January — 14 of which were found to contain classified information. All told, the FBI affidavit said, officials found 184 documents bearing classification markings, including some suggesting they contained information from highly sensitive human sources. Several had what appeared to be Trump’s handwritten notes, the affidavit says.
The FBI has spent months investigating how the documents made their way from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, whether any other classified records might exist at the property. The bureau also has tried to identify the person or people “who may have removed or retained classified information without authorization and/or in an unauthorized space,” the affidavit states.
So far the FBI has interviewed a “significant number of civilian witnesses,” according to a Justice Department brief unsealed Friday, and is seeking “further information” from them. The FBI has not identified all “potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”
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WILL ANYONE BE CHARGED?
It’s hard to say at this point. To get a search warrant, federal agents must persuade a judge that probable cause exists to believe there’s evidence of a crime at the location they want to search.
But search warrants aren’t automatic precursors to a criminal prosecution and they certainly don’t signal that charges are imminent.
The laws at issue are felonies that carry prison sentences.
One law, involving the mishandling of national defense information, has been used in recent years in the prosecution of a government contractor who stowed reams of sensitive records at his Maryland home (he was sentenced to nine years in prison) and a National Security Agency employee who transmitted classified information to someone who was not authorized to receive it (the case is pending).
Attorney General Merrick Garland hasn’t revealed his thinking on the matter. Asked last month about Trump in the context of a separate investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, he responded that “no person is above the law.”
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WHAT HAS TRUMP ARGUED?
Trump, irate over the records investigation, issued a statement Friday saying that he and his team have cooperated with the Justice Department and that his representatives “GAVE THEM MUCH.”
That’s at odds with the portrayal of the Trump team in the affidavit and the fact that the FBI search occurred despite warnings months earlier that the documents were not being properly stored and that there was no safe location for them anywhere in Mar-a-Lago.
A letter made public as part of the affidavit forecasts the arguments the Trump legal team intends to advance as the investigation proceeds. The May 25 letter from lawyer M. Evan Corcoran to Jay Bratt, the head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence, articulates a robust, expansive view of executive power.
Corcoran asserted that it was a “bedrock principle” that a president has absolute authority to declassify documents — though he doesn’t actually say that Trump did so. He also said the primary law governing the mishandling of classified information doesn’t apply to the president.
The statute that he cited in the letter was not among the ones the affidavit suggests that Justice Department is basing its investigation on. And in a footnote in the affidavit, an FBI agent observed that the law about national defense information does not use the term classified information.
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WHAT HAS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID?
The White House has been notably circumspect about the investigation, with officials repeatedly saying they will let the Justice Department do its job.
National security spokesman John Kirby, responding to a question this week about whether the administration would do a damage assessment about the sensitive secrets at Mar-a-Lago, responded that he didn’t want to get ahead of the FBI.
President Joe Biden appeared Friday to mock the idea that Trump could have simply declassified all the documents in his possession, telling reporters, “I just want you to know I’ve declassified everything in the world. I’m president I can do — c’mon!”
He then said he would “let the Justice Department take care of it.”
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LONDON (AP) — Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda” to make them more acceptable to modern readers.
A review of new editions of Dahl’s books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered. The changes made by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, first were reported by Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Augustus Gloop, Charlie’s gluttonous antagonist in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which originally was published in 1964, is no longer “enormously fat,” just “enormous.” In the new edition of “Witches,” a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be working as a “top scientist or running a business” instead of as a “cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman.”
The word “black” was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in 1970s “The Fabulous Mr. Fox.” The machines are now simply “murderous, brutal-looking monsters.”
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was among those who reacted angrily to the rewriting of Dahl’s words. Rushdie lived in hiding for years after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for his death because of the alleged blasphemy in his novel “The Satanic Verses.” He was attacked and seriously injured last year at an event in New York state.
“Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship,’’ Rushdie wrote on Twitter. “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.’’
The changes to Dahl’s books mark the latest skirmish in a debate over cultural sensitivity as campaigners seek to protect young people from cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes in literature and other media. Critics complain revisions to suit 21st century sensibilities risks undermining the genius of great artists and preventing readers from confronting the world as it is.
The Roald Dahl Story Company, which controls the rights to the books, said it worked with Puffin to review the texts because it wanted to ensure that “Dahl’s wonderful stories and characters continue to be enjoyed by all children today.”
The language was reviewed in partnership with Inclusive Minds, a collective which is working to make children’s literature more inclusive and accessible. Any changes were “small and carefully considered,” the company said.
It said the analysis started in 2020, before Netflix bought the Roald Dahl Story Company and embarked on plans to produce a new generation of films based on the author’s books.
“When publishing new print runs of books written years ago, it’s not unusual to review the language used alongside updating other details, including a book’s cover and page layout,’’ the company said. “Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text.”
Puffin didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Dahl died in 1990 at the age of 74. His books, which have sold more than 300 million copies, have been translated into 68 languages and continue to be read by children around the world.
But he is also a controversial figure because of antisemitic comments made throughout his life.
The Dahl family apologized in 2020, saying it recognized the “lasting and understandable hurt caused by Roald Dahl’s antisemitic statements.”
Regardless of his personal failings, fans of Dahl’s books celebrate his use of sometimes dark language that taps into the fears of children, as well as their sense of fun.
PEN America, a community of some 7,500 writers that advocates for freedom of expression, said it was “alarmed” by reports of the changes to Dahl’s books.
“If we start down the path of trying to correct for perceived slights instead of allowing readers to receive and react to books as written, we risk distorting the work of great authors and clouding the essential lens that literature offers on society,” tweeted Suzanne Nossel, chief executive of PEN America.
Laura Hackett, a childhood Dahl fan who is now deputy literary editor of London’s Sunday Times newspaper, had a more personal reaction to the news.
“The editors at Puffin should be ashamed of the botched surgery they’ve carried out on some of the finest children’s literature in Britain,” she wrote. “As for me, I’ll be carefully stowing away my old, original copies of Dahl’s stories, so that one day my children can enjoy them in their full, nasty, colorful glory.” | 2023-02-20T17:30:43+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/ap-critics-reject-changes-to-roald-dahl-books-as-censorship/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Foes of a proposal that would make it harder for citizens to amend Ohio’s constitution vowed Tuesday to unleash the same broad activist coalition against it that delivered a scorching rebuke to a Republican-backed anti-union law last decade.
Opponents including the union-backed group We Are Ohio held a Statehouse news conference on Tuesday and criticized what Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose has dubbed the Ohio Constitution Protection Amendment as hypocritical, disturbing and “a slap in the face” to the people.
The Ohio Council of Churches, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, Innovation Ohio and the Ohio Organizing Collaborative also were represented.
The joint resolution containing the proposal, sponsored by GOP state Rep. Brian Stewart, is scheduled for its first hearing Thursday.
It would place a constitutional amendment on 2023 ballots calling for requiring a 60% supermajority of voters to approve citizen-initiated amendments in the future. The same standard would not be applied to amendments advanced by state lawmakers.
“As I look at this joint resolution, I see that there are a few people in this state who are determined to reject, and to stamp out, the voices of the rest of us, and we just cannot permit that to happen,” said the Rev. Amariah McIntosh, of the church council.
Opponents hope to quash the resolution before it leaves the Legislature, whose current session ends next month, rather than having to mount a campaign against it next year.
But Dennis Willard, of We Are Ohio, said they will if they have to. He said a letter signed by 140 organizations opposed to the resolution was sent to LaRose and lawmakers Tuesday.
“We’re just getting started,” said Willard. “We are only going to get bigger, stronger and more united.”
We Are Ohio led the 2011 charge against Senate Bill 5, an Ohio law signed by then-Republican Gov. John Kasich that would have baned public employee strikes and restricted collective bargaining rights for more than 350,000 teachers, police officers, state employees and others.
Marked by parades, demonstrations, sit-ins and and rallies across the state, the campaign ended in a 62%-38% vote to repeal the law. Kasich said he had heard voters and would regroup.
When he announced the supermajority proposal on Nov. 17, LaRose argued that requiring 60% of voters to amend Ohio’s constitution would be “a win for good government” and assure a broad base of support to make changes to the state’s founding document. He said that such a threshhold would assure bipartisan consensus and prevent special interest groups from buying their way in.
His effort comes as Republicans have been pushing back nationally against the citizen-led initiative process, which has allowed Democratic-aligned groups to force public votes on issues ranging from legalizing marijuana to expanding Medicaid to raising the minimum wage. A similar constitutional amendment failed in Arkansas on Nov. 8.
In Ohio, increasing the vote margin for passing constitutional amendments comes as advocacy groups have been speaking openly about advancing measures to codify abortion rights and reform a redistricting system that failed to produce constitutional maps.
The American Policy Roundtable, a conservative group that has promoted a host of successful amendments to Ohio’s constitution — on subjects ranging from taxes to education policy to casino gambling to term limits — also opposes LaRose’s proposal.
“The secretary’s proposal to the Legislature to amend the Constitution regarding constitutional amendments is more than short-sighted,” vice president Rob Walgate said in a statement. “Requiring a 60% voter supermajority to pass a ballot measure breaks the intention and balance of the Ohio Constitution, which has been working effectively since the early 1900′s. There is no citizen outcry for such a measure. This is strictly inside-baseball among the political elites in Columbus.” | 2022-11-30T10:43:01+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-groups-to-defend-citizens-power-to-amend-ohio-constitution/ |
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