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Giovannie Garcia, 32, of Kenosha, faces charges of intimidation of a victim (domestic abuse), battery (domestic abuse repeater), and disorderly conduct (domestic abuse repeater).
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A big seizure of drugs and cash and three arrests in Juneau on Tuesday revealed direct ties to Mexican drug cartels, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office reported. | 2022-11-28T20:44:49+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/giovannie-garcia/article_76471dc8-6f58-11ed-8638-bfa100947430.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States decelerated again last month, the latest sign that inflationary pressures are easing in the face of the Federal Reserve’s streak of interest rate hikes.
The government’s producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — rose just 0.1% last month from June 2022, the smallest such increase since August 2020. And from May to June, prices rose an identical 0.1% after having fallen 0.4% from April to May.
The index that the Labor Department issued Thursday reflects prices charged by manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers. It can provide an early sign of how fast consumer inflation will rise.
On Wednesday, the government reported that consumer prices in June rose just 3% over the previous 12 months — the mildest such pace since early 2021. The slowdown was driven by easing prices for gasoline, airline fares, used cars and groceries. Year-over-year consumer price inflation has steadily dropped since peaking at a four-decade high of 9.1% in June 2022.
Excluding the volatile categories of food and energy, so-called core wholesale inflation rose 0.1% from May to June and 2.4% from 12 months earlier. The year-over-year gain in core wholesale prices was the smallest since January 2021.
Gasoline prices rose 3.4% from May to June, offsetting a drop in the prices of other goods, including iron and steel scrap.
In their drive to tame inflation, the Fed’s policymakers have raised their benchmark interest rate 10 times since March 2022. The resulting higher borrowing costs — for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and many forms of business borrowing — have slowed the economy and cooled the job market somewhat. But so far, the economy has managed to defy expectations that it would inevitably sink into a recession.
Despite this week’s better-than-expected inflation data, the Fed is considered all but sure to raise its benchmark rate when it meets in two weeks. But with price increases slowing steadily, the central bank could decide to hold off on what had been expected to be another rate hike in September, should inflation continue to cool.
Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, noted that wholesale price increases are already coming in below the 2% year-over-year inflation rate that the Fed wants to see.
“On the consumer side,’’ she cautioned in a research note,“ progress has been slower,” though she expects consumer prices to decelerate further this year and into 2024.
Farooqi said she didn’t expect the June inflation numbers to “to change the outcome of the upcoming (Fed) meeting’’ at which she, like most economists, expects a quarter-point hike in the central bank’s benchmark rate. That rate affects many consumer and business loans throughout the economy. | 2023-07-13T22:56:35+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/money/ap-us-wholesale-prices-for-june-point-to-further-easing-of-inflation-pressures/ |
Dr. Roach: Prostate cancer med greatly decreases libido in men
Dear Dr. Roach: My romantic partner of one year (a 51-year-old male) is being treated for prostate cancer with Eligard. He received a second injection two months ago. I am satisfied with our level of sexual intimacy, even though it has not included penetration. He is frustrated that his sexual desire has decreased. This is not about an erection, per se. I am willing to be patient. He said his doctor told him he will feel closer to his normal self within a year. Is this typical for a cancer patient treated with Eligard? Could his recovery to normal hormone levels take longer than a year?
— L.R.
Dear L.R.: The goal of androgen deprivation therapy with a drug like leuprolide (Lupron or Eligard) is to lower the blood testosterone and decrease stimulus for growth in prostate cancer and other testosterone-sensitive cancers. Sexual side effects are very common, and most men will have a decrease in libido, as well as erectile dysfunction. Psychologically, many men, like your partner, find the loss of libido very difficult to deal with.
Most men do have an increase in their testosterone levels after treatment, and this usually means an increase in libido, although it may never reach the level it was before treatment. Some men will continue to have improvements in their libido, and erectile function, even two years after treatment. I recommend both partners in a couple have counseling about sexual issues. There are many concerns beyond just loss of testosterone: Changes in body image and fear of recurrence both can cause men to have sexual troubles. A therapist experienced in treatment with cancer and cancer treatment can be very helpful.
Some men can be treated with testosterone if the prostate cancer is thought to be in remission, but this is only appropriate for some men and must be discussed with the treating physician, urologist or oncologist.
Dear Dr. Roach: I just tested positive for COVID and have been on 80 mg of atorvastatin for 20 years, after a heart attack. My doctor prescribed Paxlovid without mentioning that I should stop taking it, until I asked about stopping it. Should I abruptly end this statin? My symptoms are mild, and I am 85 and healthy.
— E.O.
Dear E.O.: Ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir (Paxlovid) is a specific anti-viral therapy for COVID-19. It has been shown to reduce the risk of severe disease in people who do not need to be hospitalized, but who are at high risk for complications of COVID (a history of a heart attack is sufficient reason to justify the use of Paxlovid). However, there are multiple drug interactions that your physician should have carefully looked for before prescribing the medication. Statin drugs like atorvastatin are among the most commonly used drugs with significant interaction, and most doctors will stop the statin during the course of Paxlovid therapy. While it’s best not to stop statin therapy, the benefit of Paxlovid in a person with COVID outweighs the risk of holding therapy for the five days of Paxlovid treatment.
Two statins, lovastatin (Mevacor) and simvastatin (Zocor), have a greater risk of drug interactions than atorvastatin (Lipitor) or rosuvastatin (Crestor). Those two should be stopped 12 hours before starting Paxlovid, and should not be restarted for five days after completing Paxlovid.
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Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. | 2022-09-01T02:40:41+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/advice/2022/09/01/dr-roach-prostate-cancer-med-greatly-decreases-libido-men/50663797/ |
IDENTIFIED: Laurel County Sheriff’s Office finds person on I-75
Published: Jun. 3, 2023 at 3:22 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - 4:30 P.M UPDATE: Police officials said the person was identified.
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The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in identifying a person.
Police officials said they found the person on I-75 on Saturday morning at 5:40 a.m.
The person was found near mile marker 43, about two miles north of London.
Laurel County Sheriff’s Office officials said the person was taken to St. Joseph Hospital London for observation.
Their identity is not know, but they are believed to be autistic and non-verbal and between 15-years-old and 20-years-old.
If you know this person, you are asked to call the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office at 606-864-6600.
Copyright 2023 WYMT. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-03T20:59:45+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2023/06/03/laurel-county-sheriffs-office-asking-help-identifying-person/ |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a convenient way to keep track of how many beer cans are left in the cooler," said an inventor, from Oklahoma City, Okla., "so we invented the BEER BUDDY. Our design enables you to easily know when to refill the drink cooler."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved design for a cooler or ice chest. In doing so, it ensures that users know how many cans are remaining within a cooler. As a result, it eliminates the need to repeatedly open the cooler and count the cans and it saves time and effort. The invention features an innovative design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households, sports fans, campers, picnickers, bars, taverns, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Tulsa sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TLP-137, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — The massive Starship rocket created by Elon Musk's SpaceX exploded above the Gulf of Mexico Thursday in a massive fireball several minutes after launch.
Despite the spectacular end to the rocket, SpaceX is likely pleased with the results of the launch. Their goal, according to commentators on the live broadcast of the event, was simply to make it off the launch pad.
And in that endeavor, they succeeded, after a short delay. Seconds before liftoff, the countdown was stopped for some last-minute issues found with the rocket. But a few minutes later, fire bellowed from under the craft and it launched upwards, hitting speeds of over 1,000 km per hour.
Around two minutes and 40 seconds into flight, the rocket was supposed to separate from the booster that carried it up into the earth's atmosphere and engage its primary thrusters.
However, that didn't happen. A livestream of the engines inside the rocket showed they failed to ignite, and Starship failed to disengage from its booster. A few seconds later, it began spinning in the air before exploding in a fiery ball.
Musk tweeted that they "learned a lot" for the next test launch to come "in a few months."
SpaceX prepared for the launch Thursday by working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week.
Images showed multiple engines weren't working on the 33-engine rocket as it climbed from the launch pad, reaching as high as 24 miles.
During that first attempt, the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX’s Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds of the spacecraft reaching orbit on its debut.
None of the rocket will be recovered. If all had gone as intended, the first-stage booster, dubbed Super Heavy, would have dropped into the Gulf of Mexico. The spacecraft on top would have continued eastward, passing over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans before ditching near Hawaii. The whole flight, if successful, would last just 1 1/2 hours.
The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NASA has reserved a Starship for its next moonwalking team, and rich tourists are already booking lunar flybys.
A stuck booster valve scrapped Monday’s try. Hundreds of space fans returned to the launch site at Boca Chica Beach on the eve of the second launch attempt, snapping more selfies.
“I've been waiting for this, really, for years,” said Bob Drwal, a retired engineer who drove down from Chicago with wife Donna.
In a Twitter "Spaces" event for subscribers Sunday evening, Musk had warned that the company was being cautious and a postponement was possible.
“I guess I’d like to just set expectations low,” Musk said. “If we get far enough away from launch pad before something goes wrong, then I think I would consider that to be a success. Just don’t blow up the pad.”
At 394 feet and nearly 17 million pounds of thrust, Starship easily surpasses NASA’s moon rockets — past, present and future. The stainless steel rocket is designed to be fully reusable with fast turnaround, dramatically lowering costs, similar to what SpaceX’s smaller Falcon rockets have done soaring from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nothing was to be saved from the test flight.
The futuristic spacecraft flew several miles into the air during testing a few years ago, landing successfully only once. But this was to be the inaugural launch of the first-stage booster with 33 methane-fueled engines.
SpaceX has more boosters and spacecraft lined up for more test flights. Musk wants to fire them off in quick succession, so he can start using Starships to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit and then put people on board.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-04-20T16:09:22+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nation-world/spacex-starship-launch-thursday/507-8e25947b-ab08-491e-b161-d8b7f6cccd5a |
-- Expects second quarter 2022 preliminary UPNEEQ net product sales of approximately $8.4 million, representing an increase of 42% from the first quarter 2022 --
-- Second quarter 2022 net product sales growth contributes to approximately $14.4 million in the six months ended June 30, 2022 --
-- Expects approximately 2,200 cumulative unique medical aesthetics practices placed orders for UPNEEQ through quarter-end --
-- Reaffirms fourth quarter 2022 UPNEEQ net product sales guidance of $20 to $25 million --
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RVL Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: RVLP) ("RVL" or the "Company"), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced preliminary second quarter 2022 net product sales of UPNEEQ® (oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution), 0.1%, the first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA")-approved ophthalmic solution for blepharoptosis, or droopy eyelids, of $8.4 million. The Company also announced that from February through June of 2022 it had received orders from approximately 2,200 cumulative unique medical aesthetics practices. The Company also reaffirms its guidance targeting net product sales of UPNEEQ for the fourth quarter of 2022 of $20 to $25 million.
"We are delighted with our year-to-date sales momentum, as we continue to demonstrate UPNEEQ's potential within the eyecare and medical aesthetics markets. During the second quarter of 2022, we continued to expand the number of medical aesthetics practices that have purchased UPNEEQ– doubling the number of providers since the end of the first quarter. In addition, we also worked diligently to begin to establish UPNEEQ as an integrated part of the medical aesthetics practice, which resulted in over 500 practices having re-purchased UPNEEQ by the end of the second quarter – an indication of the opportunity in this market. The enthusiasm from patients and providers has been encouraging and we are on our way to establishing a strong foundation for the adoption of UPNEEQ as an integral piece of the minimally/non-invasive facial aesthetics category," stated Brian Markison, Chief Executive Officer of RVL.
"As planned and previously announced, we expect to significantly expand our medical aesthetics salesforce by mid to late July and believe that we are well positioned to build on our momentum and achieve our fourth quarter 2022 net sales projection," concluded Markison.
Preliminary Financial Information
The financial and operating data for the second quarter of 2022 is preliminary and may change. This preliminary data has been prepared by, and is the responsibility of, the Company's management and no independent accounting firm has audited, reviewed, compiled or performed any procedures with respect to this preliminary financial data. There can be no assurance that the Company's actual results for this quarterly period will not differ from the preliminary financial and operating data and such changes could be material. In addition, the Company's estimate of UPNEEQ net product sales for the second quarter of 2022 should not be viewed as a substitute for full financial statements for the second quarter of 2022 prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting standards. Additional information that will be material to investors will be provided in the financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, and, accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on the limited preliminary information being provided herein.
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This press release includes statements that express the Company's opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or projections regarding future events or future results and therefore are, or may be deemed to be, "forward-looking statements." The Company's actual results may vary significantly from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements, which can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "projects," "approximately," "intends," "plans," "estimates" or "anticipates," or, in each case, their negatives or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. They include statements regarding the Company's intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, its results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, financial guidance, growth plan, strategies, trends and other events, particularly relating to sales of UPNEEQ and FDA and other regulatory applications, approvals and actions, the continuation of historical trends, our ability to manage costs and service our debt and the sufficiency of our cash balances and cash generated from operating and financing activities for future liquidity and capital resource needs. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. We may not achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place significant reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. Important factors that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include the following: UPNEEQ's ability to reach market acceptance by clinicians and patients; our ability to successfully commercialize UPNEEQ; our customers' willingness to pay the price we charge for UPNEEQ; the results of our marketing and sales expenditures; our dependence on third-party suppliers and distributors for UPNEEQ; UPNEEQ's ability to produce its intended effects; failures of or delays in clinical trials or other delays in obtaining regulatory approval or commencing product sales for new products; the impact of legal proceedings; and other risks and uncertainties more fully described in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 30, 2022 and other filings that the Company makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the time of this release and we do not undertake to publicly update or revise them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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INDICATION
UPNEEQ® (oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution), 0.1% is indicated for the treatment of acquired blepharoptosis in adults.
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
- Ptosis may be associated with neurologic or orbital diseases such as stroke and/or cerebral aneurysm, Horner syndrome, myasthenia gravis, external ophthalmoplegia, orbital infection and orbital masses. Consideration should be given to these conditions in the presence of ptosis with decreased levator muscle function and/or other neurologic signs.
- Alpha-adrenergic agonists as a class may impact blood pressure. Advise UPNEEQ patients with cardiovascular disease, orthostatic hypotension, and/or uncontrolled hypertension or hypotension to seek medical care if their condition worsens.
- Use UPNEEQ with caution in patients with cerebral or coronary insufficiency or Sjögren's syndrome. Advise patients to seek medical care if signs and symptoms of potentiation of vascular insufficiency develop.
- UPNEEQ may increase the risk of angle closure glaucoma in patients with untreated narrow-angle glaucoma. Advise patients to seek immediate medical care if signs and symptoms of acute narrow-angle glaucoma develop.
- Patients should not touch the tip of the single patient-use container to their eye or to any surface, in order to avoid eye injury or contamination of the solution.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
Adverse reactions that occurred in 1-5% of subjects treated with UPNEEQ were punctate keratitis, conjunctival hyperemia, dry eye, blurred vision, instillation site pain, eye irritation and headache.
DRUG INTERACTIONS
- Alpha-adrenergic agonists, as a class, may impact blood pressure. Caution in using drugs such as betablockers, anti-hypertensives, and/or cardiac glycosides is advised. Caution should also be exercised in patients receiving alpha adrenergic receptor antagonists such as in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, or benign prostatic hypertrophy.
- Caution is advised in patients taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors which can affect the metabolism and uptake of circulating amines.
About RVL Pharmaceuticals plc
RVL Pharmaceuticals plc is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of UPNEEQ® (oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution), 0.1%, for the treatment of acquired blepharoptosis, or low-lying eyelid, in adults. UPNEEQ is the first non-surgical treatment option approved by the FDA for acquired blepharoptosis.
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Former White House counsel, deputy counsel subpoenaed in DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe
(CNN) – The Justice Department is escalating its investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, with CNN learning of new subpoenas to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and former deputy counsel Patrick Philbin.
Cipollone and Philbin are the highest-ranking White House officials to be subpoenaed so far in the probe.
“This is probably bad for former President Trump,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of the House Jan. 6 select committee.
Prosecutors are already deep into their investigation of plans from Trump allies to overturn the 2020 election.
Two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, Marc Short and Greg Jacob, appeared before a grand jury last month.
Subpoenas have already been served to several people who schemed to create fake slates of electors saying Trump won the 2020 election in several swing states.
Earlier this summer, FBI agents seized lawyer John Eastman’s phone and raided former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark’s home.
Cipollone’s subpoena is significant because he was close to the president and in the West Wing on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cipollone sat for several hours of a closed-door deposition with the Jan. 6 House select committee, careful not to divulge any conversations directly with Trump.
Former prosecutor Elie Honing said those executive privilege concerns could prove to be a hurdle for Justice Department prosecutors.
“Donald Trump might try to step in and claim executive privilege in front of a grand jury,” Honing said. “You can claim executive privilege, but there is a difference between claiming executive privilege and actually winning on executive privilege. This is exactly what happened in the Richard Nixon tapes case back in 1974.”
Nixon’s tapes were ultimately ordered released by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the Jan. 6 House committee was blindsided by revelations of more missing text messages from government phones.
CNN has learned the Defense Department wiped the phones of top departing Defense Department and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration, deleting any texts that might have existed from key witnesses in response to the Capitol attack.
When asked if the House Jan. 6 committee was aware of the deleted Defense Department records prior to Wednesday, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a committee member, said: “I do not believe so. I was not, which is another concerning matter – that this was not disclosed to us by the Department of Defense.”
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-04T01:15:10+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/08/04/former-white-house-counsel-deputy-counsel-subpoenaed-dojs-jan-6-probe/ |
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Social Security Administration announced this week there will be a Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Social Security Beneficiaries with an 8.7 percent increase. This new COLA increase is being noted as the highest boost since 1981.
“For most people it’ll be about 154 dollars when it comes to that increase that they’ll receive,” Director of Advocacy and Outreach for the Louisiana Association of Retired Persons, Lorri Lucas said.
This increase will impact about 70 million people in the United States that qualify for Social Security benefits.
“Many people who do receive benefits will receive about $1275 of benefits.”
This will also provide a significant amount of aid to those here in the state.
“This will benefit so many Louisianians. We have about 925,000 people in Louisiana that do receive social security benefits.”
Because of inflation, it is hard for some people to make ends meet, even for AARP members that qualify for social security benefits.
“They are worried that their retirement funds and income will be unable to keep up with stock increases they’re facing currently and past few years.”
The Louisiana AARP hopes this financial boost will give those dependent on those checks some peace of mind.
“A lot of them depend on the social security benefit as their income, as their means of living for rent, mortgages, for groceries, for Medicare, everything.”
Those receiving social security benefits will see this cost-of-living adjustment as soon as January 2023. | 2022-11-03T01:59:32+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/social-security-announces-benefit-increase-for-2023/ |
This gift greatly expands the John P. McNulty Program for Leadership in Science and Mathematics, and marks a milestone contribution to SOAR: The Campaign for Saint Joseph's University.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Saint Joseph's University will expand its commitment to women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through a $2.6 million investment from the John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation. The University and the Foundation have worked to advance women's representation and leadership in STEM for over a decade through the John P. McNulty Scholars program.
The innovative program provides full- and partial-tuition scholarships, alongside a suite of offerings to help young women break barriers in their chosen STEM fields, including faculty and peer mentorship, research and leadership development opportunities, and community building. The enhanced program, now the John P. McNulty Program for Leadership in Science and Mathematics, will scale the offerings to reach more women over the next seven years, and will invest more deeply in preparing and nurturing women's leadership in these fields.
"It's not enough that women enter STEM fields, or even stay in STEM fields; women need to lead in STEM," says Anne Welsh McNulty H '19, co-founder and president of the McNulty Foundation. "The talented cohorts of McNulty Scholars over the last decade inspired us to deepen the leadership dimension of the program and to increase our philanthropic support. This will enable more women than ever before to achieve their greatest potential and to change the world."
This fall, 36 women will participate as scholars and fellows in the new McNulty Leadership Program, and the cohort is expected to nearly double in the next four years.
The program was created in 2009, in honor of John P. McNulty '74, a former Saint Joseph's student body president and later trustee. He believed deeply in the transformative power of education to unlock talent, and the potential that individual leaders have to change society through their examples.
Over the last decade-plus, the McNulty Foundation has invested nearly $6.5 million at Saint Joseph's, which has spurred the trajectories of 111 women and has proven results both in academic excellence and the ability to develop emerging leaders. More than half of the graduates have earned or are pursuing advanced degrees, and many have launched successful professional careers, establishing themselves as leaders in their fields. Impressively, participating students have collectively published or contributed to 23 scientific publications in the last year alone. McNulty Scholars and Fellows have been awarded various prestigious national grants and internships, including the Goldwater Scholarship and the DAAD-RISE fellowship in Germany.
"The McNulty Foundation's latest investment will scale the McNulty Program for Leadership at Saint Joseph's University," says Cheryl McConnell, PhD, interim university president. "With the additional funding, we will provide scholarships and fellowships to more students, enhance our already robust programming and mentorship supports, and ultimately launch more women into STEM leadership positions."
The gift is a significant contribution to SOAR: The Campaign for Saint Joseph's University, the University's historic comprehensive campaign. To celebrate the program's expansion and The John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation's commitment to advancing women in STEM, Saint Joseph's will host an on-campus reception on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. featuring a keynote by Laurie McNeil, PhD, distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
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SOURCE Saint Joseph's University | 2022-09-06T19:07:17+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/09/06/mcnulty-foundation-invests-26m-advance-women-stem-through-leadership-program-saint-josephs-university/ |
By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Iron Maiden, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden, Sheryl Crow and the late George Michael are the 2023 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, reflecting a mix of country, soul, hip-hop, metal, pop, rap-rock and grunge.
The Cleveland-based institution announced Wednesday the 14 artists and groups being considered for Rock Hall induction, also including Rage Against the Machine, The Spinners, A Tribe Called Quest, The White Stripes, Warren Zevon and Joy Division/New Order.
Artists must have released their first commercial recording at least 25 years before they’re eligible for induction.
“This remarkable list of nominees reflects the diverse artists and music that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors and celebrates,” said John Sykes, chair of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in a statement. “These artists have created their own sounds that have impacted generations and influenced countless others that have followed in their footsteps.”
Eight out of 14 nominees are on the ballot for the first time, including Crow, Elliott, Joy Division/New Order, Lauper, Michael, Nelson, The White Stripes and Zevon. This is the first year of eligibility for Elliott and The White Stripes.
A Tribe Called Quest and Bush were nominees last year and didn’t make the cut but now find themselves back in the running this year. Bush’s latest nod may be due to a new wave in popularity after the show “Stranger Things” featured her song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God).”
Inductees will be announced in May and the ceremony will take place this fall. Nominees will be voted on by more than 1,000 artists, historians and music industry professionals. Fans can vote online or in person at the museum, with the top five artists picked by the public making up a “fans’ ballot” that will be tallied with the other professional ballots.
Last year, the nomination process was complicated by Dolly Parton, who gave the honor an enthusiastic embrace after temporarily turning it down. She initially said she did not want to take votes away from the remaining nominees and had not “earned that right.”
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Fire threatens Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, home to more than 500 giant sequoia trees
By Taylor Romine
A wildfire is threatening a famed giant sequoia tree grove in California’s Yosemite National Park, officials said Thursday.
The Washburn Fire is estimated at 60 to 70 acres and burning near the lower portion of Mariposa Grove, Yosemite park officials said. Firefighters are working from the ground and air to suppress the blaze, and park officials have said the grove is closed until further notice.
Mariposa Grove is home to more than 500 giant sequoia trees, which can grow to over 250 feet tall. And while the grove was founded in 1857, they existed long before that, with some believed to be more than 2,000 years old.
The western US has been ravaged by wildfires in recent years, exacerbated by drought conditions tied to climate change. In California alone, more than 2.5 million acres were destroyed in nearly 9,000 fires last year, according to CAL FIRE.
Last month, officials in Southern California said they were bracing for another challenging summer and fall amid a shortage of firefighting crews and increased workloads.
The threat is not limited to California. Robert Garcia, the US Forest Service’s fire chief for the Angeles National Forest, said the summer months are off to a “concerning start.” Firefighting resources have been mobilizing since March to Arizona and New Mexico, where the Black Fire just became the state’s second-largest blaze in history.
“Southern California typically has a fire season of historically late June and then into the fall,” Chief Garcia told CNN last month. “But we’re seeing activity now year round.”
Yosemite is one of the most visited national parks in the US, drawing more than 3.3 million people in 2021. It encompasses nearly 1,200 square miles in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in eastern California.
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We cannot get enough recipe hacks (cottage cheese cookie dough, anyone?) and new, creative ways to serve our favorite foods, like jarcuterie.
Right now, another TikTok food trend is taking the digital world by storm. Officially, as of this story’s publication, #girldinner videos have reached 97.6 million views, and there’s no sign of it slowing down any time soon.
But what is a “girl dinner” anyway?
After browsing numerous TikTok videos with the #girldinner tag, the consensus is that this trendy meal is a variation of a small buffet of snack items or charcuterie staples that can easily be found in a fridge or pantry.
Typically no cooking is involved in making a “girl dinner,” as shown in this video from food content creator Alana Laverty (@alanalavv).
@alanalavv Replying to @María GM thank you to everyone who commented ‘girl dinner’ on my snack plates and introduced me to the best concept / phrase ever #girldinner #snackplate #snackplates ⬠original sound – hanana
Laverty talked to the New York Times about embracing the girl dinner trend after looking for something different at mealtime, especially in the warm summer months.
“I feel like cooking full meals just gets so repetitive and exhausting, especially in the summer,” she told the publication. “When dinner came around, we would just pick up one main cheese or one, main protein and get a fresh loaf of bread and throw it all on the plate. It’s a really normal way of eating for me now.”
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You Can Go Gourmet With Girl Dinners
Many people have jumped on the girl dinner trend because the prep is simple, and the ingredients are as individual as the person creating the plate.
CNN writer Casey Barber refers to her version of girl dinners as her “snack dinner” or “permission slip dinner” because of the lack of rules to follow in creating the meal.
Sometimes, Barber will create her snack dinners out of what’s already in the kitchen. However, she also likes to use her girl dinners to splurge on special items she enjoys.
“Castlevetrano olives, a wedge of Gorgonzola or fresh figs,” she wrote. “[…] Normally I’d feel a little guilty about buying these ingredients for myself, but for a snack dinner, there’s inherent permission to eat what brings you joy.”
While Barber and other girl dinner creators like to get fancy with their plates, other TikTok users have no issue keeping things simple and amusing.
Shai (@bricheblunt) proudly showed off her girl dinner on her TikTok account, and it’s one many people could relate to.
@briocheblunt girl dinner #girldinner #foryou #fyp㷠⬠original sound – karma carr
But, Do These Dinners Contain Enough Food?
Not everyone is on the girl dinner bandwagon. A growing number of viewers and behavioral specialists question the trend’s impact on our culture.
As girl dinner TikTok video views continue to climb, other users are using the platform to share concerns about the trend’s potential to glorify food deprivation.
Lexie Firment (@missfirment) recently shared a TikTok video about how girl dinners can trigger some people with eating disorders and how these meals aren’t dinner.
“Sure, it looks healthy,” she said as she pointed out a typical girl dinner plate. “You have a protein in the corner. You have a little bit of maybe a carb…but I can tell you this is not enough for an active growing person […] This is sad and should not be promoted to young girls on this app.”
@missfirment The problem with girl dinner for me is that this is NOT enough Dinner. #girldinner #girldinnerdate #eatmore #dietreview #diettok ⬠Yacht Club – MusicBox
Behavioral and mental health experts also worry about the impact these viral videos might have on impressionable viewers.
Chelsea Kronengold, who holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology and specializes in eating disorders, body image, and social media influence, talked with USA Today about the issue.
“There’s a social comparison factor where you’re seeing viral videos of what other girls are eating and then as someone watching this, especially young vulnerable girls, they’re thinking ‘I should only be eating that amount, too,'” she said.
In addition to concerns about the trend’s influence on eating behaviors, Kronengold also points out that calling this trend “girl dinner” advocates gender stereotypes about what females eat and how much they should eat.
“The concept of women and girls eating smaller portions has been presented to us through time and social media perpetuates this unhealthy notion,” Kronengold said to USA Today.
For now, the girl dinner video trend will likely keep filling our social feeds. This can be a fun trend to try on days when you don’t want to cook. However, like any viral trend, knowing its limitations and risks is important.
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2 dead after vehicle breaks through ice on Vermont’s Lake Champlain
SOUTH HERO, Vt. (WCAX/Gray News) - Vermont State Police say two fishermen fell through the ice Saturday morning on Lake Champlain in South Hero.
The two men aged 71 and 88 were in an enclosed utility task vehicle out on the ice when they broke through. The 71-year-old, from Williamstown, was pulled out of the water, transported to UVM Medical Center, where he later died. The 88-year-old, from East Montpelier, was located still inside the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Vermont Fish and Wildlife said the ice conditions are now considered unsafe and are advising the public to stay off Lake Champlain.
“We have also canceled the ice fishing tournament. We really want to encourage people to not go out on the ice. Clearly it’s not safe. This is the second event we’ve had in two days. So ice safety is the most important thing,” said Christopher Herrick from Vermont Fish and Wildlife Dept.
That second event Herrick is referring to happened on Thursday, when 62-year-old Wayne Alexander also fell through the ice and died while fishing at Grand Isle State Park. Officials say ice rescue and recovery missions can be taxing on first responders.
Fire crews and Colchester Technical Rescue searched the lake for hours before finding the East Montpelier man. The South Hero fire chief said there are a few tools they use to ensure their crews stay safe while looking.
“Ice rescue suits are rated to be going into the water. They are floating, and North Hero Fire has an air boat, which can transport tools and equipment and people to and from the location back to shore,” said Chief Patrick Robinson.
Officials from Vermont Fish and Wildlife said it’s crucial that people stay off the ice because if you fall through, your window of opportunity to be saved is limited.
“The water, you know, is very cold. It starts impacting your ability to survive very quickly. You lose dexterity, and your own ability to get out if. It’s a very fast-moving event,” explained Herrick.
Vermont State Police are still investigating Saturday’s incident.
Officials said if you ever go ice fishing, make sure to tell people where you are going and what time to expect your return.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Heading into this year’s midterms, the elections director in the largest county in one of the nation’s most important battleground states had a lot on his mind.
A new Nevada law required every voter to get a mailed ballot, new processes were in effect for counting all those ballots days after Election Day and the public needed to be assured the count would be accurate.
And there was this: breakfast and lunch.
Joe Gloria, the registrar of voters in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, knew he had to figure out how to feed his staff so they wouldn’t have to leave the office as votes were being counted. It was another fallout of the lies surrounding the 2020 presidential election, when former President Donald Trump and his allies made false claims of widespread fraud in Nevada and five other battleground states he lost.
Gloria and his workers were targeted by threats as Nevada, and Clark County in particular, became a hotbed for conspiracy theories stemming from the false claims.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, a month before he is scheduled to step down as Clark County Registrar of Voters, Gloria spoke about the high turnover rates of Nevada election officials, the need for more elections training throughout the state and detailed the threats and harassment he had largely kept quiet about while on the job.
“Over the course of years, I’ve developed, I guess, something of a shell,” he said over Zoom.
Gloria said protesters stood 100 feet (about 30 meters) from his office door, some carrying weapons, as he and his staff were counting the 2020 ballots. He received ominous emails and messages: “We know where you live” and “We know where your family sleeps,” read some of them.
Much of the harassment his staff received depended on how close to the building they could park. The longer the walk to the building, the more likely they would get noticed and harassed, so returning from a lunch break became a frantic experience.
“You’d even come back and find if somebody had purposely taken their space,” Gloria said of the parking lot outside the elections department. “And they were waiting for them for the long walk inside to verbally abuse them.”
To avoid a repeat and reduce his workers’ anxiety, Gloria secured money earlier this year to provide breakfast and lunch for his staff during the election and ballot-counting period so they could avoid walking to and from the parking lot. His office also coordinated with local law enforcement to increase security.
Gloria said his resignation has nothing to do with the threats. Rather, he said it was simply time for him to start a new chapter after 28 years working in the same office.
He detailed his upcoming job as CEO of operations at the National Association of Election Officials, a national voting organization where he plans to provide elections training and advocacy, in part to help with high turnover of election staffs.
During the 2020 election and this year’s midterms, Gloria became the face of Nevada’s lengthy vote-counting process that allows for mailed ballots to be counted if they are postmarked on Election Day and received by an elections office within four days.
The Clark County elections office has been a focal point of attention because so many top races in Nevada are decided by narrow margins — and the county has about three quarters of Nevada’s registered voters. This year, the race for a U.S. Senate seat wasn’t decided until nearly a week after Election Day, after Clark County had nearly completed processing its late-arriving mailed ballots.
“I’ve always been kind of the calm in the storm and tried to be that way, and that’s the way I tried to train my staff,” Gloria said.
He said his office was fortunate to be supported financially from the county, while acknowledging that not all counties in Nevada can do the same. Most election officials, particularly county clerks in the rural parts of the state, are “underpaid, underappreciated and expected to be knowledgeable in several areas.” That includes marriage licenses, notaries, county records and in some cases, budgeting.
Ten of the state’s 17 counties have had turnover in clerk or voter registrar positions since the 2020 election. Well over half of the elections department within the secretary of state’s office also has turned over in that span, a result of fatigue and better opportunities elsewhere.
Gloria said it will be the responsibility of the incoming secretary of state, Democrat Cisco Aguilar, to find more training opportunities and create a culture of mentorship. He said the state desperately needs more training as mass resignations have taken place across Nevada’s local elections departments.
“It’s an uphill battle that they’ve got at the state level,” Gloria said. “But it’s critical to the future of elections in the state of Nevada.”
One county clerk resigned after two decades when her county commission unanimously called on her to ditch voting machines in favor of a full hand-count — a plan that was modified because of lawsuits after the hiring of a new clerk who had previously denied the results of the 2020 presidential election. Another longtime local election official left because of repeated death threats. Another decided against running for re-election because of the rise of election conspiracists, the new voting laws and a slate of other duties that left her feeling burnt out in a rural office that received little money for adapting to the new demands.
Clark and other county election departments have scrambled to adapt to new voting laws passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature during the pandemic that were since made permanent, particularly a law that has each county send out mail ballots to every registered voter. Just over half of Nevada voters used the mailed ballots this year sending them back through the postal service, returning them via drop boxes or dropping them off at polling stations.
Gloria obtained county money to travel to Colorado and see how different counties adapted to the widespread mail voting there. The county also paid for a new facility to help process and count mail ballots.
Gloria became Clark County registrar in 2013 after 18 years working in various roles across the department. Before coming to Nevada, he worked in New Mexico as a voting machine technician.
He happened upon the career in elections administration by accident. He walked into a county clerk’s office in New Mexico to get a marriage license when the clerk, a friend and neighbor of his, said he was going to need a job after he got married.
“I said ’you’re right,” Gloria recalled. “But let’s get a license today. And I’ll show up on Monday.”
Now seen as a leading elections expert nationally, Gloria will put together training programs for the National Association of Election Officials. He said he would be open to working with Aguilar, who wants to make it a felony to harass or intimidate election workers and who has denounced election conspiracies that have spread across the state.
Gloria said he decided he would step down about a year ago. His position will be filled by Clark County’s board of commissioners.
“I thank goodness that I’m not leaving because I’m frustrated or because anybody forced me out of this office,” he said. “I left because it was my time to go.”
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Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms. Follow Stern on Twitter: @gabestern326. | 2022-12-07T13:12:30+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-outgoing-election-clerk-in-key-nevada-county-details-threats/ |
DoorDash is eliminating about 1,250 corporate jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, saying it hired too many people when delivery demand surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CEO Tony Xu said in a message to employees Wednesday that DoorDash was undersized before the pandemic and sped up hiring to catch up with its growth.
“Most of our investments are paying off, and while we’ve always been disciplined in how we have managed our business and operational metrics, we were not as rigorous as we should have been in managing our team growth,” Xu wrote. “That’s on me. As a result, operating expenses grew quickly.”
The company is seeking to lower its operating costs, Xu said, but it was unable to bring spending in line without job cuts.
“This hard reality ultimately led me to make this painful decision to reduce our team size,” Xu said.
DoorDash and other start-up delivery services posted record revenue during the pandemic with millions sheltering at home. Profits are another story, however.
DoorDash said early this month that revenue rose 33% to $1.7 billion in the third quarter, but costs also ballooned and it almost tripled its losses from $101 million during the same period last year, to $296 million in 2022.
“Put in simple terms, the business is now losing around 70 cents for each order it fulfills. This is a sharp increase in the 41 cents it was losing at the start of this fiscal year,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData. “All the metrics are pointing in the wrong direction.”
Impacted employees will receive 17 weeks of compensation and their February 2023 stock vest. All health benefits will continue through March 31, 2023.
DoorDash is among several companies to announce job cuts recently. Others include Twitter, Amazon, Facebook parent company Meta and H&M.
Shares of DoorDash Inc. rose almost 5% Wednesday. | 2022-11-30T21:52:37+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/business-news/ap-doordash-cuts-1250-jobs-after-pandemic-hiring-surge/ |
(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump recorded a video released on Wednesday encouraging Republicans to vote early, coming one week after he offered muddled messaging over the strategy.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a “Bank Your Vote” campaign last month in an effort to encourage Republicans to vote early. The initiative aims to educate GOP voters on absentee voting, ballot collection and in-person early voting.
Trump offered his strongest support yet of early voting in a roughly 40-second video shared by the RNC.
“The RNC is leading the fight to help secure your vote in 2024 as well. They’re fighting bad Democrat laws, putting folks on the ground to serve as poll workers and poll watchers and engaging attorneys to monitor every step of the voting process,” Trump said.
“We must defeat the far left at their own game or our country will never recover from this disastrous crooked Biden administration. Sign up at bankyourvote.com now and join the Republican effort to win big in 2024. We’re going to win and we’re going to make America great again,” he added.
The video comes one week after Trump offered muddled messaging on early voting during a town hall interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. While the former president said he would encourage early voting, he also cast doubt on the process, alleging that people create “phony ballots” and that ballots can get lost.
Unsupported claims about fraud in early and absentee voting have been a key theme in Trump’s ongoing and erroneous claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
But Republicans are increasingly turning to early voting as they look to close the gap against Democrats in competitive races, especially after a disappointing 2022 election cycle in which the party failed to take back control of the Senate and won only a narrow majority in the House.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and a handful of groups have joined forces in Virginia to launch a separate initiative aimed at encouraging early voting ahead of the state’s legislature races this fall. | 2023-07-26T17:34:56+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/trump-records-video-encouraging-republicans-to-vote-early/ |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — The Kansas City Chiefs are teaming up with Nike to host eight high school football teams for an “11-On” competition at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.
The event will take place on Friday, June 10, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. with different schools participating throughout the day.
- Andover Central
- Derby
- Hutchinson
- Lee’s Summit North
- Maize
- Pratt
- Wichita East
- Wichita Northwest
The Chiefs said the “11-On” competition would focus on building character, life skills, and team foundations.
The program will include multiple 7-on-7 games along with position-specific drills at alternating drill stations to work on skills and technique.
The tournament is free and open to the public.
Fans will have the chance to take pictures with the Lombardi Trophy, which will be on display during the tournament. The Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission will also open an auction of autographed items from Chiefs players to raise money for families who were impacted by the recent tornado in Andover, Kansas.
The Chiefs Training Lab and USA Football will be organizing a free youth football clinic for children ages 5-14 from 12 to 5 p.m. Parents who are interested in having their children participate in the youth clinic are asked to fill out a waiver on the USA Football website.
Another “11-On” competition is scheduled in Topeka, Kansas, on June 24. | 2022-06-07T18:39:25+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/chiefs-hosting-11-on-nike-high-school-football-event-in-wichita/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia City Council member and his wife have been acquitted of corruption charges in federal court.
Jurors deliberated for five days before finding Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and his wife, Dawn Chavous, not guilty Wednesday in their second trial on honest services wire fraud charges.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that as the jury's decision was announced, Johnson cradled his face in relief and Chavous embraced her attorney, then collapsed on the defense table in sobs.
Earlier this year, a mistrial was declared in their first trial when jurors were unable to reach agreement after about 25 hours of deliberations over four days.
Johnson, a Democrat who has served on the council since 2012, was accused of engaging in official actions in exchange for payments. Chavous was accused of having entered into a “sham” consulting agreement with a nonprofit that was used to funnel payments to her husband.
Defense attorneys said prosecutors lacked evidence to support their case, defending the work of Chavous as legitimate and saying it had nothing to do with Johnson’s actions on the council. | 2022-11-02T22:16:43+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Philadelphia-councilman-wife-acquitted-of-fraud-17553419.php |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 28, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Diego CA
1215 PM PDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING
THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Elevated surf of 3 to 6 feet with local sets to 7 feet
along with high risk of dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...San Diego County Coastal Areas and Orange County
Coastal Areas.
* WHEN...From Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Elevated surf and strong rip and longshore currents
will create dangerous swimming conditions.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest surf will be along the more
southerly facing beaches in Orange County and in San Diego
County north of Carlsbad.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions.
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Supporters of taxes on the very rich contend that people are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bigger appetite for what they’re calling “tax justice.”
Bills announced Thursday in California, New York, Illinois, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington and Connecticut vary in their approaches to hiking taxes, but all revolve around the idea that the richest Americans need to pay more.
All of the proposals face questionable prospects. Similar legislation has died in state legislatures and Congress. But the new push shows that the political left isn’t ready to give up on the populist argument that government can and should be used as a tool for redistributing wealth.
“Under the pandemic, while people struggled to put food on the table, we saw billionaires double their wealth,” said California Assembly Member Alex Lee, a Democrat.
The Tax Foundation, a conservative-leaning policy organization, called wealth taxes — which levy taxes not just on new income, but on a person’s total assets — “economically destructive.”
It also said in a statement that such taxes create “perverse incentives” for the rich to avoid taxes, including simply moving to states with a lower tax burden.
“Very few taxpayers would remit wealth taxes — but many more would pay the price,” the group said in a statement. Progressive Democrats, however, argue they are not seeing wealthy taxpayers leaving their states due to higher taxes.
California already taxes the wealthy more than most states. The top 1% of earners account for about half of the state’s income tax collections. But this week, Lee proposed a “wealth tax,” similar to one promoted for years by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat.
It would impose an annual tax of 1.5% on assets of more than $1 billion and 1% on assets of $50 million or more. The new tax on wealth, not annual income, would affect an estimated 23,000 “ultra-millionaire” and 160 billionaire households, or the top 0.1% of California households, Lee said.
In Connecticut, progressive lawmakers are proposing more traditional hikes: a higher tax rate on capital gains earnings for wealthy taxpayers and higher personal income tax rates for millionaires,
“We need to ensure that the wealthiest in our state truly pay what they owe and not expect working families across our state to continue to subsidize their share,” said state Rep. Kate Farrar, a deputy majority leader in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.
One obstacle to such proposals is that some states where the idea might be popular are currently running budget surpluses, meaning there is little pressure to raise revenue.
Connecticut is expected to end its fiscal year with a $3 billion surplus. Hawaii is projecting a budget surplus of $1.9 billion going into the new legislative session.
But Hawaii state Rep. Jeanne Kapela, a Democrat, said a proposal there to increase the state’s capital gains tax is more about economic equity than raising money.
“If you look at our tax code now, it’s really the definition of economic inequality,” Kapela said.
The lowest-paid workers in many states often see a far bigger percentage of their income go to pay taxes every year than the very rich, particularly in states that don’t have a graduated income tax.
Voters in Massachusetts, which had a flat income tax, approved an amendment to the state constitution in November that sets a higher rate for those earning more than $1 million a year.
Despite optimism expressed by liberal lawmakers that 2023 could be the year, many of these proposals face an uphill battle, even in blue states with Democratic governors.
“This ‘tax the rich’ has been around before and it’s present again. And quite frankly, it never got traction before and I seriously doubt there’s an appetite for it now,” said Gary Rose, professor of political science at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.
A lot of people, he said, don’t resent the rich as much as some progressive Democrats.
“I think if you polled the American people, a lot of people want to get rich themselves and it’s part of, if you will, the American Dream,” Rose said. “We’ve never really had in this country a tremendous appetite for taxing the rich because getting rich … is really part of who we are and what separates this country from many Democratic socialist countries.”
A wealth tax bill in California never even got a public hearing last year. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who was just elected to a second term in a landslide, has actively campaigned against efforts to increase taxes on the rich.
His opposition helped sink a 2022 ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on the rich to pay for electric vehicle charging stations and wildfire prevention.
In Connecticut, Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, a multimillionaire, says he wants to focus his second term on reducing taxes rather than raising them.
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Associated Press Writer Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu, Hawaii and Adam Beam in Sacramento, Calif. contributed to this report. | 2023-01-21T09:24:52+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/ap-tax-the-rich-liberals-renew-push-for-state-wealth-taxes/ |
America's Diner Dedicated Two Days to Giving its Guests' Wallets
a Break by Picking Up the Tab for Meals in Select Locations Nationwide
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As Americans continue to deal with the impact of rising inflation, select Denny's locations across the country spent the morning of Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31 giving guests' wallets a break during the brand's inaugural Denny's Surprise and Delight Weekend. Whether guests enjoyed the brand's iconic Super Slam or its newest Brisk-B-Q Melt, whatever guests ordered, their meals were on us.
"Our guests are the heartbeat of our restaurants and we love to feed them – bodies, minds, and souls," said John Dillon, Denny's Chief Brand Officer. "In the face of rising grocery and gas prices, we know everyone is working hard to make every dollar and every purchase decision count. While our menu has a ton of affordable and delicious options, it was important to Denny's and our franchisees that we take the pressure off our guests' wallets so they can focus even more on making connections over delicious diner meals at Denny's."
Denny's is no stranger to giving back. Together with its franchisees, Denny's has supported communities across America for decades. Each year, guests come together to support national fundraisers for No Kid Hungry and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. In local communities across the country, Denny's franchisees regularly coordinate fundraisers and donate food to families in need. Many franchisees even helped local families with groceries during the pandemic. The brand also has its Denny's Mobile Relief Diner, a 53-foot diner on wheels that provides hot meals to individuals and families impacted by natural disasters.
"Over the years, our guests have given so much to Denny's and with all that's happening in the world, it was important that we take this time to give back to them," said Garren Grieve, Denny's Franchisee. "I was thrilled to join other franchisees across the country to celebrate our guests and give their wallets a break during this challenging time. More importantly, I loved personally welcoming our guests to Denny's, feeding them, and thanking them for being a member of the Denny's family."
Denny's Corporation is the franchisor and operator of one of America's largest franchised full-service restaurant chains, based on the number of restaurants. As of June 29, 2022, Denny's had 1,631 franchised, licensed, and company restaurants around the world including 154 restaurants in Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Philippines, New Zealand, Honduras, the United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Guam, Guatemala, El Salvador, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. For further information on Denny's, including news releases, please visit the Denny's website at www.dennys.com or the brand's social channel via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube.
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Series Engages in Open and Curious Conversations Exploring 3,000 Years of Human Thought
SANTA FE, N.M., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- St. John's College, the third-oldest college in the U.S. and considered the most contrarian college for its distinct and steadfast approach to the liberal arts—reading and discussing 3,000 years of Great Books across multiple disciplines over the course of four years—is launching a 20-episode podcast and web series examining the mysteries of who we are as humans and why we see each other and the world as we do.
Titled 'Continuing the Conversation,' St. John's invites listeners who are curious about the books and authors that have influenced civilization for millennia to engage in discussions where questions are more important than answers. Using Great Books spanning western and eastern thought on science, philosophy, mathematics, and literature as guides, the series explores ideas that have shaped human history.
From January 19 through June, alternating hosts and St. John's tutors (faculty) Sarah Davis, Zena Hitz, Louis Petrich, and Krishnan Venkatesh will be joined by guest tutors to discuss and connect over the profound and the personal. Conversations explore the conflict between the ideals America was founded upon and the lived reality of life in America; the centrality of family conflict in dramas from Ancient Greece to modern Japan; the relationship between sports and war; and the tension between philosophical ideals and political realities, among other thought- and conversation-provoking topics.
Produced by the College's Communications Office in partnership with 12FPS and Awarehouse Productions, Continuing the Conversation is available at http://www.sjc.edu/continuing-conversation, YouTube, and on most podcast platforms including Spotify and Apple podcasts.
St. John's College holds a distinctive position among American colleges and universities. Its strong commitment to collaborative inquiry and to the rigorous study of original texts by great Western and Eastern philosophers, scientists, writers, mathematicians, musicians, and astronomers—from Homer, Plato and Confucius to Bach, Einstein, Woolf, and DuBois—makes St. John's College a unique, vibrant community of learning.
Located on two campuses in historic state capitals—Santa Fe, N.M., and Annapolis, Md.,—St. John's is the third oldest college in America. The College offers interdisciplinary B.A. and M.A. degrees in the liberal arts on both campuses; the Santa Fe campus also offers an M.A. in the Eastern Classics. www.sjc.edu.
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Business owners in Tacoma, Wash. are taking an electrifying new approach to combat criminals.
Aaberg’s Tools & Equipment Rental owner Alexx Bacon installed electric fences to deter criminals after a series of break-ins.
"Obviously people are very scared of it...which is what we wanted. We don't want anybody getting hurt. We want people staying off our property. That's why we put the original fence up. But we had to go to the electric fence as extra security," Bacon said on "Fox & Friends" Thursday.
CRIME DROPS IN TACOMA AFTER CITY ADDS MORE OFFICERS TO ‘DEFUNDED’ FORCE: ‘ABSOLUTELY MAKES A DIFFERENCE’
Bacon said prior to installing the electric fence, he relied on a normal fence to protect his business. After numerous break-ins and continued damage to the fence, he decided he had to find a better alternative.
"It was just nightly break-ins, always middle of the night, waking me up, taking me away from home. Coming in, fences cut wide open, like in the camera there. Costly repairs. Every time I'd have to have an emergency fence repair, you're talking $1000, roughly to the point where I started driving around with a roll of fence seat in my car, and I'd fix it myself because it was being broken into so frequently, I couldn't stop it," he explained.
In addition to the fence damages and costly repairs, Bacon also lost thousands in goods ranging from small hand tools to employee trucks.
"It was just out of control," he said.
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Bacon decided to deploy 7,000 volts as back-up instead. According to the business owner, the electric fence is an annual subscription of upwards of $15,000. He explained he sees the fence as a "long-term" investment to help his property, noting he does not own the actual fence.
"It's just DC voltage. It runs off batteries. It's not hooked up to the power grid. It's painful to hit and it will continue to go. But...there's no amperage. It's not going to kill you," Bacon added.
The city of Tacoma has not been immune to the crime crisis plaguing many cities across the U.S. City data from May, however, noted a drop in homicides, violent crime, and property crime so far this year, which is being attributed in part to the hiring of more police officers.
Data from the Tacoma City Manager’s office posted in May shows that homicides dropped 35% so far in 2023, compared to the same time last year. In addition to violent crime being down 19.5%, burglaries are down 52.7% and property crimes are down 27.2%.
Since last May, the Tacoma Police Department went from being 55 police officers short of its ideal staffing level to 31.
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Despite the encouraging statements from local officials, the decrease in crime statistics provided by the city don't tell the full story, according to the head of the local police union, who says that the city is engaged in a "shell game" and that there is much more to be done.
"We're comparing this year's crime to record-breaking years the last two years, so it looks like a decrease, but if we take a step back, really, that's not what the community is seeing," Tacoma Police Union President Henry Betts said on "Fox & Friends First" in May. "Crime is still really high, we're still down a lot of cops."
While the data suggests a drop in crime, Bacon seemed to agree with Betts' statement that crime remains a persistent issue.
"We do have great police here in Tacoma, but their hands are tied. They're not allowed to do anything. Decriminalization is allowed everywhere. There is no illegal activity anymore. Unless you have money or you're business owner, then you can have illegal activity," he said.
"The criminals have been just set free and the police can't do anything about it. They're not allowed to. We got a really good push from the police. They're very helpful, they're very apologetic, but unfortunately they can't do anything."
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Nonetheless, due to the success he has found with using the electric fence, Bacon is urging the Tacoma City Council to consider allowing other businesses to use the fencing.
Currently, the fences are only allowed for use in industrial areas.
"City council's got to allow people to have this fence because it has just been absolutely amazing for my business," he said.
Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report. | 2023-07-14T11:44:52+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/blue-state-business-owner-forced-to-take-shocking-action-after-repeated-break-ins-was-out/article_b4249200-7d74-5db0-9930-fa96f5551dcb.html |
Will abortion be on more state ballots after Kansas vote?
By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents were shocked and abortion rights advocates energized by a decisive statewide vote in heavily Republican Kansas this week in favor of protecting abortion access, yet it’s not likely to translate into new abortion votes across the U.S. in the November election.
Four other states — California, Kentucky, Michigan and Vermont — could have votes in November on abortion access, and a fifth, Montana, is voting on a measure that would require abortion providers to give lifesaving treatment to a fetus that is born alive after a botched abortion. Opponents argue federal law already offers those protections. No other abortion initiatives are likely to make a state’s November ballot.
The Kansas vote was the first test of public feeling about abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June, and it upended political assumptions.
Voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution declaring that it grants no right to abortion. That would have opened the door for the GOP-controlled Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion and nullify a 2019 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court that access is a “fundamental” right under the state’s Bill of Rights.
HOW WAS THE OUTCOME OF THE KANSAS VOTE A SURPRISE?
Abortion rights supporters prevailed by nearly 18 percentage points in the Republican state with deep ties to the anti-abortion movement. They took the outcome as confirmation that preserving access to abortion is popular.
Officials with several national abortion rights groups argued that the vote shows it’s a mistake for Democrats in red states like Kansas to avoid talking about abortion and that support for abortion rights can drive voters to the polls. In Kentucky, donations to the abortion rights cause poured in immediately, said Tamarra Wieder, state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.
The election in Kansas coincided with the state’s primary. Over the previous 10 years, turnout for a mid-term primary has averaged less than 26%, with Republicans casting twice as many ballots as Democrats.
But turnout for this election topped 45% — almost 915,000 voters — approaching levels normally seen during a fall election for governor. More than half of registered Democrats and Republicans cast ballots. At least 28% of registered unaffiliated voters, who couldn’t vote on anything else on ballots on Tuesday, voted on the proposed amendment.
The outcome also suggested that a sizeable number of Republicans voted against the proposed amendment.
“Three things in Kansas are really important to note: One, the depth of the victory; two, the amount of increased voter turnout, and three, that it happened in an off-year midterm election,” said Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO of MomsRising, an advocacy group that supports abortion rights.
Abortion opponents argued that the vote was a temporary setback and vowed to keep electing anti-abortion candidates.
CAN EITHER SIDE RUSH TO PUT A QUESTION TO VOTERS IN MY STATE IN NOVEMBER?
Likely not. For one thing, deadlines to do it have passed in the half of U.S. states that allow voters to put questions on the ballot without going through the Legislature.
In Ohio, the Democratic nominee for governor, Nan Whaley, has called for putting an abortion rights measure on the ballot as early as next year, and efforts have started in Colorado and South Dakota for 2024. In Iowa, GOP lawmakers have taken the first step toward putting an anti-abortion measure on the ballot in 2024.
In Kansas, anti-abortion lawmakers anticipated voters approving their measure.
BUT THERE ARE VOTES IN SOME STATES IN NOVEMBER?
Yes, but those efforts were all underway before the Kansas vote.
Legislators in California and Vermont put measures to protect abortion rights on the ballot, and Kentucky lawmakers have a measure on the ballot similar to the one that failed in Kansas.
In Michigan, abortion rights advocates believe they have turned in enough signatures to put an abortion rights amendment to the state constitution on the November ballot, but the signatures must still be counted.
The Montana referendum also was initiated by legislators.
IN STATES ALLOWING IT, WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR VOTERS TO GET A QUESTION ON THE BALLOT?
They have to circulate petitions and collect tens of thousands of signatures from registered voters; the number is often a percentage of the vote in a previous election. Some states set requirements to get signatures from across the state, not just in one or two metropolitan areas.
In Nebraska, abortion opponents are focused on gaining one more seat in its one-house Legislature for the two-thirds majority necessary to overcome filibusters and pass an abortion ban. A voter initiative there must gather nearly 88,000 signatures from at least 5% of the registered voters in 38 of its 93 counties, something known as the “two-fifths rule.”
In Missouri, initiatives can take a year to get to the ballot, and in Oklahoma, the average length has been more than a year — 64 weeks — over the past 10 years, according to the secretary of state’s office.
“From start to finish, if you could get it done in nine months, you’d really be moving fast,” said Amber England, a political strategist in Oklahoma who has worked to get questions on the ballot in recent years.
The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which advises progressive groups on campaigning for ballot questions, advises that the work should take three years, including building community relationships before even circulating signatures.
SO IT’S A MATTER OF GETTING ENOUGH VALID SIGNATURES IN THE RIGHT PLACES?
Not necessarily. There can be other hurdles, particularly if public officials who are players in the process oppose an initiative.
In Missouri in 2019, opponents of a law banning most abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy sought to get a proposed repeal on the ballot, but Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, a Republican who opposes abortion, took enough time in vetting the language that supporters had only two weeks to gather signatures. While the initiative’s backers sued — and won — the final ruling from the state Supreme Court didn’t come until early this year.
“It was a significant victory,” said Mallory Schwarz, executive director of Pro-Choice Missouri. “But we didn’t get a do-over.”
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Also contributing were Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City, Scott McFetridge in Des Moines, Iowa, and Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio.
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Follow John Hanna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/apjdhanna | 2022-08-04T22:38:16+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2022/08/04/will-abortion-be-on-more-state-ballots-after-kansas-vote/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An escaped inmate has been recaptured Wednesday morning in Pennsylvania after breaking out of a prison where he had been held on charges of killing four people.
It was the second of two inmates apprehended after escaping from a Philadelphia prison earlier this month, authorities said.
City police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Ameen Hurst, 18, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in the city's West Philadelphia section, but further details on the capture were not immediately disclosed.
Hurst and Nasir Grant, 24, escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center on May 7 by cutting a hole in a fence surrounding a recreation yard, the Philadelphia Department of Prisons has said. The two men were gone for nearly 19 hours before officials knew they were missing.
While Hurst had been charged with four counts of murder, Grant was being held on conspiracy drug charges and conspiracy weapons charges. Officials have said the inmates were housed in the same unit, but different cells.
Grant was arrested Thursday night after members of a fugitive task force who were conducting surveillance in an area of North Philadelphia saw him leave a residence dressed as a woman. He was stopped in a car nearby and arrested without incident.
Three people have been charged with aiding the men in their escape. | 2023-05-17T14:45:13+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/authorities-capture-second-inmate-who-escaped-18104234.php |
(Our Auto Expert) — The Toyota Crown was the first mass-produced car in Toyota’s fleet, dating back to 1955. It was a massive hit in Japan, and after 15 generations of success, America gets the newest, boldest version.
The Crown essentially replaced the Avalon, which was a perfectly fine car. The Crown is dancing the line of luxury with the Platinum trim, as it’s priced on the high end of the automaker’s lineup, with the loaded model breaking the $50,000 price point. The Crown is available in three trim levels: XLE, Limited, and Platinum, and all versions come standard with all-wheel-drive and hybrid powertrains.
The Crown XLE, starting at $41,045, comes with a hybrid setup that uses a 2.5-liter gasoline engine and makes 236 horsepower. The limited will set you back $46,645 and adds equipment like a panoramic sunroof, leather seats, and an upgraded audio system. Wireless phone charging in the Crown has improved as well. Toyota managed to force more juice into the phone, charging it faster without overheating your phone. These two versions of the Crown are also EPA-rated at 41 mpg combined.
The Crown Platinum gets a considerable jump up from the XLE and Limited. It has an option for a two-tone colorway that gives it just enough attitude and luxury that we love to see. It gets a significantly more powerful hybrid powertrain that Toyota calls Hybrid Max. This powertrain uses a turbocharged 2.4-liter inline-four gasoline engine, produces 340 horsepower, a 0-60 time of just 5 seconds, and is EPA-rated at a significantly lower 30 MPG combined. You’re going to get six different drive modes, including sport mode. The Platinum includes adaptive dampers, 21-inch wheels, and an upgraded park-assist system.
Toyota said the Crown will start arriving at U.S. dealerships in early 2023. | 2022-10-26T19:09:17+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/automotive/the-new-toyota-crown-is-headed-to-the-u-s/ |
Where most people saw chaos, Viktor Bout saw opportunity.
Bout, a 55-year-old Russian, was the world's most notorious arms dealer before a U.S. court convicted him in 2011 and sent him to a prison in Illinois. He's now the focus of a potential prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia, which holds two Americans the Biden administration hopes to free.
Bout was in his mid-20s when the Soviet Union fractured in 1991, leaving vast quantities of Soviet military hardware scattered across 15 newly minted countries. Most all of them were ill-equipped to pay their troops or keep track of the weapons they'd just inherited. Almost anything was available for a price.
Trained by the Soviet military as a linguist, Bout began acquiring Soviet military transport planes and loaded them up with weapons. The U.S. says he sold them all over the world — though primarily in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
He was entrepreneurial, not ideological, selling to governments that were fighting rebels, and to rebels who were fighting governments. Separating fact from fiction has often been difficult when documenting Bout's work, but many reports said he even sold arms to both sides in the same conflict.
Bout always denied he was selling weapons, claiming he was flying flowers and frozen chickens to some of the world's most violent places.
He was always hard to pin down, but he lived openly in Moscow, traveled widely, occasionally spoke to reporters and seemed to welcome at least some of the attention. He became so notorious that Hollywood made a 2005 movie loosely based on his life, called the Lord of War, starring Nicholas Cage.
Despite facing international sanctions and threats of arrest, Bout managed to stay a step ahead of law enforcement until 2008, when he was captured in a sting operation in Thailand, organized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The Thais extradited Bout to the U.S. two years later, where he was charged with conspiring to kill Americans. He was convicted in a Manhattan court in 2011, and is a little less than halfway through his 25-year sentence at a prison in Marion, Ill.
The Kremlin's angle
So why would Russian leader Vladimir Putin want to bring Bout back?
After all, he made his money selling weapons that had been intended for use by the Soviet Union's military and successor countries.
When CIA director William Burns was asked this question last week at the Aspen Security Forum, he said succinctly: "That's a good question, because Viktor Bout's a creep."
Dan Hoffman, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, said Putin's motives should be viewed through the lens of his ongoing battle with the U.S.
"Every opportunity he gets, Vladimir Putin wants to show that he can go toe-to-toe with Russia's main enemy," Hoffman said. "It's a real good public relations move for him to show that he's taking care of his own."
The U.S. and Russia have a history of working out deals to gain the return of their own citizens. In April, the U.S. released a Russian pilot convicted or conspiring to bring drugs into the U.S., and Russia freed Trevor Reed, a former Marine who'd been convicted of assaulting a Moscow police officer.
More commonly, the countries kicked out suspected spies in tit-for-tat deals.
But the current negotiations appear uneven in some respects. The U.S. would be freeing a convicted arms smuggler who operated on an international scale for close to two decades.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the two Americans, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan have been "wrongfully detained and must be allowed to come home."
Griner, 31, is the pro basketball star who has pleaded guilty to having hashish oil in her suitcase at a Moscow airport in February. Whelan, 52, a former Marine who traveled openly to Russia for years, was arrested in 2019 and convicted on espionage charges in a secret trial.
Limited options
Dan Hoffman says he supports the efforts to win the release of the Americans.
"These are dirty deals, but there's two bad options," he said. "One is letting American citizens get sick, and potentially even worse, in jail. And the other one is make essentially a dirty deal. If it's me, I'll get my U.S. citizens out."
Blinken said he's presented a plan to Russia for the return of two Americans, though he did not mention Bout by name. Blinken plans to speak with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, though it's not clear when that might be. The two have not spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
A U.S.-Russian prisoner swap would signal the two countries can still do business on some level despite the terrible state of relations and the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, where the Americans are the leading arms supplier to the Ukrainians.
But analysts say there's no real prospect that the overall atmosphere — which has been going from bad to worse — is likely to improve.
Greg Myre is an NPR national security correspondent. Follow him @gregmyre1.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-29T01:48:34+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-07-28/who-is-viktor-bout-the-prisoner-the-u-s-may-trade-for-brittney-griner |
There are signs of a cooling labor market. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong discusses what this means for workers with Roben Farzad of Public Radio’s “Full Disclosure”.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-10-06T20:33:39+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2022-10-06/what-does-it-mean-that-the-labor-market-is-cooling-down |
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Breed, the premier revenue performance management firm for the world's fastest-growing companies, today announced that it has earned a place on this year's Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. This is the fourth consecutive year in which New Breed has made the Inc. 5000 list, which represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment — its independent small businesses.
"We are thrilled to earn this recognition for four years running and especially proud to join many of our clients on this list," said New Breed CEO Patrick Biddiscombe. "We are committed to helping high-growth organizations achieve their revenue goals, and we look forward to many more years of shared success."
New Breed's integrated products and managed services enable subscription companies worldwide to generate demand, acquire customers, and retain revenue through integrated managed services, applications, and technical expertise.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
New Breed is the premier revenue performance management firm for the world's fastest-growing organizations. The company combines integrated managed services with proprietary applications to align people, processes, and platforms and drive success for its clients. As a HubSpot elite partner and two-time HubSpot North American Partner of the Year, New Breed is a recognized leader in leveraging the inbound methodology to foster sustainable and efficient growth.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
05-09-26-29-33
(five, nine, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-three)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
05-09-26-29-33
(five, nine, twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty-three) | 2022-11-18T04:31:55+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Show-Me-Cash-game-17593849.php |
HOUSTON and TUPELO Miss., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadence Bank (NYSE: CADE) will release its second-quarter 2022 earnings on Monday, July 25, 2022, after the close of the financial markets. It will also hold its earnings webcast on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. CT.
The webcast is live coverage of management's conference call with analysts and can be found by visiting: https://ir.cadencebank.com/events. This will be an interactive session between management and analysts; others may listen to the live broadcast as it happens. The conference call will also be available in archived format at the same address.
Cadence Bank (NYSE: CADE) is a leading regional banking franchise with approximately $50 billion in assets and more than 400 branch locations across the South, Midwest and Texas. Cadence provides consumers, businesses and corporations with a full range of innovative banking and financial solutions. Services and products include consumer banking, consumer loans, mortgages, home equity lines and loans, credit cards, commercial and business banking, treasury management, specialized lending, asset-based lending, commercial real estate, equipment financing, correspondent banking, SBA lending, foreign exchange, wealth management, investment and trust services, financial planning, retirement plan management, and personal and business insurance. Cadence is committed to a culture of respect, diversity and inclusion in both its workplace and communities. Cadence Bank, Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
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HENRIETTA, N.Y. (WETM) – The Red Raiders are finally sectional champs.
The third-seeded Hornell girls basketbal team knocked off top-seeded Dansville 54-47 to win their first-ever Section V Class B2 title. Eighth-grader Raegan Evingham scored 13 points for Hornell and Madelyn Moore added 11 points for the Red Raiders.
Check out the highlights and Saturday’s playoff scoreboard is listed below.
High School boys basketball
District IV Class AAA finals
(3) Troy 50, (1) North Penn/Mansfield 46
Section V Class D1 finals
(1) Avoca-Prattsburgh 93, Batavia-Notre Dame 67
Section V Class D2 finals
(2) Mount Morris 70, (1) Jasper-Troupsburg 56
Section V Class B2 finals
(4) Wellsville 52, (3) Le Roy 43
Section IV Class C finals
(2) Moravia 74, (8) Tioga 57
High School girls basketball
Section V Class B2 finals
(3) Hornell 54, (1) Dansville 47
Section V Class C1 finals
(2) Oakfield-Alabama 49, (1) Canisteo-Greenwood 45
Section V Class C2 finals
(3) Pavilion 45, (4) Dundee-Bradford 36 | 2023-03-05T06:39:20+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/williams-sportsdesk/hornell-girls-claim-first-ever-section-v-class-b2-crown/ |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative politician who polls suggest is poised to become Spain’s next prime minister, likes to recall that at heart, he is just a mild-mannered “village boy” from the country’s rural northwest. A humble, forthright, even boring guy, as he likes to describe himself.
The conservative Popular Party candidate for Sunday’s general election is mostly unknown outside Spain, but he has been the country’s most solid regional leader so far this century and has never lost an election. Feijóo was a political steamroller during the 13 years in which he governed Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, the homeland of 20th-century dictator Francisco Franco and of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who ran Spain from 2011-2018 as PP’s leader.
Feijóo took power as Galicia’s regional president in 2009 and accumulated four absolute majorities until 2022, when he resigned to head for Madrid with the mission to save his party from the biggest leadership crisis in its history.
Feijóo has forged his public image as a no-nonsense manager. In his view, he is the antithesis of Spain’s current Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, whom Feijóo accuses of saying or doing anything to cling to office.
“Feijóo is a seasoned politician, a good manager, who does not draw attention to himself either for good or for bad, and that can even be positive,” said Miguel Anxo Bastos, professor of political science at University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). “He does not have a very marked ideological agenda, but he is more progressive than his party. He is a kind of conservative social democrat who defends the role of the state. He doesn’t want to revolutionize anything — just make services work.”
But his critics say that under his harmless veneer lies a ruthless campaigner, who come election time can sling mud like the best of them. Feijóo’s only motto since he was appointed as Spain’s conservative leader is “abolish Sanchismo,” a way of referring to Sánchez’s way of governing.
“By abolishing he means ending the style, not the substance (of Sanchez’s government). We shouldn’t expect a significant turnaround if Feijóo becomes prime minister. At most, he will bring a step back to some of Sanchez’s more controversial laws, such as the law of historic memory or transgender rights law for free gender determination,” said Xosé Luis Barreiro, a prominent Galician ex-politician and political scientist, author of a compendium of deeds and thoughts of the Popular Party candidate.
Barreiro says that Feijóo’s great virtue is his mastery of timing. After a successful career as a high-level civil servant in Galicia and Madrid, which included a stint as head of Spain’s postal service, he joined PP at age 41, and now he is running in a general election for the first time at 61. If he succeeds, he will be the oldest Spanish president to hold office for the first time.
Even in his private life, Feijóo is a man who bides his time. He met his current partner, Eva Cárdenas, former executive at Inditex’s Zara Home, in 2009, but they didn’t start a relationship until four years later. In 2017, when Feijóo was 55, the couple’s first child, Alberto Jr. was born. It was a joy for the candidate’s mother, Sira Feijóo, who in a 2009 election video lamented that her son “says he has married Galicia, but Galicia does not give me grandchildren.” A rather monastic statement that perfectly sums up Feijóo’s spirit. In the same video, Micaela, his sister, used the terms “distant” and “bookwormish” to describe the image that, she said, the conservative candidate transmits.
Feijóo has an unpleasant dilemma ahead of him if he wins the election — to form a coalition with far-right party Vox if he doesn’t obtain an absolute majority, something that the polls almost rule out. It would be the first time that the far right gets into Spain’s government since the end of Franco’s dictatorship. Feijóo has already admitted subtly that if he needs it, he will do it, as he blessed the entry of Vox into several regional governments after the municipal and regional elections last May.
Vox has campaigned hard on axing gender violence laws and rolling back regional government powers, positions that could bring it in conflict with Feijóó, especially given his background as a speaker of Galicia’s local dialect and Spain’s decentralized state. Compared with Vox’s candidate, Santiago Abascal, and even the Popular Party’s younger generation, Feijóo is a throwback conservative, more interested in balancing budgets than culture wars with Spain’s Left.
“Vox might get him into trouble, because he is not comfortable in the culture war and has no experience in coalition governments,” Bastos said.
“He is not aimed at repealing the pillars of the current government — it is not his style. Feijóo is not looking for trouble,” Bastos added. “He rules without stridency or major government crises. Logic says that not much will change if he becomes prime minister, although it depends on how much pressure he is under from Vox.”
Feijóo is haunted by his relationship with Marcial Dorado back in the 1990s. Dorado was a businessman, who while providing services to Galician administration when Feijóo was No. 2 in its health department, was also running a notorious cigarette smuggling ring.
Feijóo and Dorado kept a close friendship for almost a decade. They shared summer getaways and Christmas holidays. In 2013, several photographs of their trips and boat rides in Galicia from 1995 came to light. One photograph in particular, showing Feijóo in a swimsuit and sunglasses posing on board a yacht with Dorado, has pursued him ever since. Dorado is currently serving 10 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering.
Feijóo said that once he knew about Dorado’s illegal business, he cut ties immediately. The Socialists are trying to air the hard-to-explain friendship in the final stretch of the campaign. | 2023-07-21T10:50:59+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-spain-conservatives-entrust-feijoo-the-boring-guy-who-wins-every-election-by-a-landslide/ |
LOS ANGELES — Tony Gonsolin tossed 6 1/3 strong innings, Mookie Betts hit his 17th home run and the Los Angeles Dodgers held off the Los Angeles Angels 2-0 in their Freeway Series opener Tuesday night.
The Angels threatened in the ninth. With one out, Mike Trout hit a broken-bat single off Craig Kimbrel that injured the home plate umpire, causing a delay. Shohei Ohtani followed with a double to center field and Kimbrel walked Matt Duffy to load the bases with one out.
With fans on their feet chanting and clapping, Kimbrel struck out Jared Walsh and got Max Stassi on a called third strike for his 12th save. The Angels extended their streak of consecutive scoreless innings to 17 dating to Sunday. They have dropped 17 of 19 overall.
The Dodgers earned their fifth shutout of the season and avoided their second four-game skid after getting swept at rival San Francisco last weekend. The Angels’ slide continued with their 10th straight road defeat.
It was the first game featuring six active MVPs since 1982. The Dodgers had Cody Bellinger, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman on the field; the Angels had Ohtani and Trout. Only pitcher Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers was idle.
All that star power amounted to little offense, however. Ohtani had the Angels’ first hit, a single in the fourth that extended his hitting streak to nine games. He was thrown out stealing second. Trout singled in the ninth. The Angels didn’t advance a runner past first base until the ninth.
Betts was 0 for 3 with two strikeouts before going deep to left on an 0-2 pitch from Andrew Wantz in the eighth.
Bellinger and Freeman were a combined 0 for 5 with three strikeouts and two walks.
Angels starter Noah Syndergaard (4-5) retired his first 10 batters before coming undone in a 40-pitch fourth. He issued three walks, including to Justin Turner with the bases loaded, forcing in Freeman, who walked. The right-hander allowed one run and two hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out five and walked three.
MVPs! MVPs! MVPs!
The last time six MVPs were in one game was Sept. 27, 1982, when the California Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2. Vida Blue, George Brett, Don Baylor, Rod Carew, Reggie Jackson and Fred Lynn were on the field.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: 3B Anthony Rendon left in the bottom of the fifth after reaggravating his right wrist. He returned Friday after missing 12 games with wrist inflammation.
Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler (right forearm strain) had bone spurs removed from his right elbow. The procedure was unrelated to the flexor strain that has sidelined him.
UMPIRE HURT
Plate umpire Nate Tomlinson was struck in the face by the broken end of Trout’s bat in the top of the ninth. Tomlinson went down when the shard of the bat found its way between the bars of the umpire’s helmet. Trout reluctantly ran to first base. The game was delayed as blood trickled down Tomlinson’s face. He walked off the field. Second base ump Laz Diaz took over behind the plate.
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Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (2-2, 3.83 ERA) lost his only other start against the Dodgers last August. He gave up seven hits and five earned runs in five innings.
Dodgers: LHP Tyler Anderson (7-0, 3.07) is 0-3 in four career starts against the Angels with a 13.83 ERA.
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Two lawyers spar over LSP Commission procedures
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Two prominent Baton Rouge lawyers are at odds over what transpired at a hearing before the Louisiana State Police Commission, Thursday, April 14.
The disagreement involves former Louisiana State Police (LSP) Colonel Kevin Reeves being subpoenaed to appear before the Commission to discuss the termination of State Trooper Carl Cavalier.
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Attorney Lewis Unglesby, who represents Reeves, sent a letter to the Commission last week informing them both he and his client had prior commitments and would be unable to appear today. He says he did not hear back from anyone, so he assumed all was well.
However, attorney Jill Craft, who represents Cavalier, claims Unglesby should have filed a formal motion instead of just sending a letter. She asked the Commission to hold Reeves in contempt for not appearing.
The Commission has scheduled a hearing for May 12 to decide if Reeves should be held in contempt.
Unglesby said Reeves does not know anything about Cavalier’s termination, which happened after Reeves retired.
Cavalier was terminated for publicly disclosing information about the 2019 death of motorist Ronald Greene at the hands of Louisiana State Police. The hearing today was to determine if he should get his job back. However, that hearing was postponed.
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This year’s Rush Springs Watermelon Queen is an absolute power woman.
Taylor Abbott is just 17 and about to be a senior at Rush Springs High School, but can already bench press 150 pounds, a record in the State of Oklahoma in her weight class. Holding a 50-pound watermelon while posing for a photo was no problem for her while visiting The Lawton Constitution.
Abbott will represent her town at the 77th annual Rush Springs Watermelon Festival on Saturday in Jeff Davis Park, 301 Chestnut Street.
“I’m really excited to enjoy everybody’s time and our harvest,” the Watermelon Queen 2022 said.
It’s the last taste of summer she and other students in Rush Springs get to enjoy before school starts Aug. 19.
After the cancellation in 2020 due to COVID concerns, around 33,000 people showed up last year’s festival, Abbott said. She is curious about how many people will come this year, and hopes for a huge turnout to celebrate the yearly watermelon harvest.
The main reason she decided to run for Watermelon Queen was the life previous watermelon queens had created, and how they “walked in their determination to lead a Godly life with leadership skills,” Abbott said. “That’s what I want to be.”
One day, Abbott wants to be an elementary teacher “somewhere in Oklahoma,” and she plans to go to Oklahoma Baptist University after graduating high school. Currently, she gains experience by being a children’s pastor on Sundays for Victory Fellowship, where she teaches pre-K to third-grade children about Jesus. She also works as lifeguard at the Rush Springs pool.
But right now, Abbott is full of excitement for the upcoming Watermelon Festival. Her biggest highlight is seeding the potential next biggest watermelon. The current record is 214 pounds, and every year, the seeds of the biggest watermelon are replanted.
“We just leave them on the vine and let them grow. They will be overripe and not nice to eat, but we just want to see how big they can get,” Abbott said.
The seed-spitting contest that kicks off at 12:30 p.m. is another highlight Abbott enjoys, and as Pauls Valley seed-spitting winner, she hopes to perform well at the contest.
Her secret to get the seeds as far as possible is the tongue.
“The more you put the tongue in a taco roll, the faster they will go,” she said.
Other highlights of the festival include the 10K and 5K runs that start at 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., respectively, as well as an antique car, tractor, motorcycle and hot rod show at 9 a.m. Abbott said there will be a shuttle from the football field to the park.
Prior to the actual festivities on Saturday, the Rush Springs Rodeo will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Rusty Acres Arena, 4437 US-81. Abbott will be there too, since “rodeo is just entertaining.” There also will be the annual Arts & Crafts Show, the car show and amusement and carnival Thursday through Saturday. | 2022-08-10T06:35:48+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/news/rush-springs-watermelon-festival-2022-about-to-kick-off/article_65ec08f2-d090-53f9-b198-c50e1b563249.html |
Tupperware Brands, which experienced a resurgence during the pandemic, is now pursuing investors to keep it afloat and is in danger of being delisted by the New York Stock Exchange.
Shares of Tupperware Brands Corp. tumbled nearly 50% on Monday after the company said late last week that it had engaged financial advisers to help it secure financing and “remediate its doubts regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.”
Sales and profits have steadily fallen the past couple of years after the pandemic breathed new life into the Orlando, Florida-based maker of food storage containers. Early in March, Tupperware posted a 24 cents-per-share loss for the fourth quarter, rattling investors who were expecting a profit of 22 cents per share.
Sales, which climbed during the pandemic as people stayed home and cooked for themselves, have tumbled from nearly $500 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 to just over $300 million in its most recent fourth quarter.
The company last week received a non-compliance notice from the NYSE for failing to file its annual results with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last month’s preliminary results released to investors showed it lost around $35 million in the fourth quarter.
Tupperware has six months from the filing due date to regain compliance, though the NYSE can begin the process of delisting the stock at own discretion.
Analysts say that creditors could potentially call Tupperware on its debt, which the company is unlikely to be able to repay.
Chasen Bender, an analyst with Citi, said Tupperware’s creditors appear to be giving the company a 30-day grace period until the 10-K is filed. Bender added that even though the company says it is working toward finalizing the filing, “the path forward appears highly uncertain.”
Tupperware said it is considering selling some real estate holdings and other non-core assets to free up cash.
Tupperware, which had explosive growth in the mid 20th century, was well-known for its Tupperware Party, first held in 1948. But it sputtered in the years leading up to the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic resurgence, Tupperware had negative sales growth for three consecutive years, according to FactSet.
Shares in Tupperware were up about 9% early Tuesday, to $1.35 per share. The company’s stock traded above $4 early this year and was close to $40 per share at the beginning of 2021. | 2023-04-12T11:20:03+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/business/tupperware-in-dire-straits-seeks-financing-to-stay-afloat/ |
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NMU Football drops first road game of season to Davenport
Wildcats 7-0 lead vanishes in first half
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WLUC) - The Northern Michigan University football team hit the road for the first time this season, as they traveled to Davenport University to take on the Panthers. The Panthers came out on top 31-21 over the Wildcats.
FIRST QUARTER The Panthers won the coin toss and elected to defer to the second half.The Wildcats got off to a roaring start as they moved the ball down the field and Drake Davis connected with Wyatt Davis for a 35-yard touchdown to put the Wildcats out in front early. The Panthers were able to answer right back with a touchdown of their own to tie the game at 7. After a three-and-out by the Wildcats, the Panthers got the ball back and drove it down the field. They were able to punch it into the endzone to give them a 14-7 lead late in the first quarter. Panthers 14, Wildcats 7 after one quarter of play.
SECOND QUARTER The Wildcats were forced to punt, Daniel Riser kicked a high arcing punt down to the Panther return man, who coughed it up, and Mequon Hudson was able to jump on it and give the ball back to the Wildcats. A missed field goal by the Wildcats gave the Panthers the ball back. A few plays later John McMullen met the defender in the backfield, and Brian Schieweck came in to finish of the huge tackle for loss. The Wildcats forced a punt. On the first play of the drive, a Panthers defender jumped a route and came up with an interception that he returned for a touchdown. The Panthers went up 21-7. The next drive, Drake Davis connected with Charlie Gerhard for a 13-yard gain and a first down. On third and two, Drake Davis was able to take the QB sneak and convert another first down for the Wildcats. The Wildcats were forced to punt it away. A defensive stand by the Wildcats forced the Panthers to punt it right back to them. The Panthers jumped in front of another pass and came up with another interception. The first play of the Panthers drive after the interception, Antonio Howard came flying off the edge to come up with a sack and a forced fumble, that was recovered by Brian Schieweck. After the fumble the Drake Davis connected with Brenden Sersaw for a 10-yard gain and a first down. Then Brock Franklin was able to punch it in the endzone from two yards out to get the Wildcats some points before the half. At halftime the score was Panthers 21, Wildcats 14.
THIRD QUARTER The Panthers got the ball first to start the second half. The Panthers were able to move the ball into Wildcat territory, where the defense rose to the occasion. On 3rd and 8, a deep pass down the field was broken up by DJ Hutherson. Antonio Howard had a QB hurry on the play as well. The Panthers were forced to settle for a field goal. The field goal was good, and the Panthers led 24-14. On the Wildcats first drive of the second half Drake Davis found Brenden Sarsaw for an eight yard completion. They were faced with a 3rd and short. Drake Davis took the QB sneak and was able to move the chains. A few plays later, Drake Davis found Wyatt Davis down the left sideline for a 36-yard gain. Davis made a spectacular catch, high pointing the ball over the defender and was able to get a foot inbounds. The next play Drake Davis found Tyshon King in the flats, King was able to out run the defender and sneak inside the right pylon for a Wildcat touchdown. The PAT was good and the Wildcats inched closer. Panthers 24, Wildcats 21. The Panthers were able to methodically move the ball down the field. They connected on a five yard touchdown pass to go up 31-21. After three quarters of play the Panthers led the Wildcats 31-21.
FOURTH QUARTER On 3rd and 13, John McMullen was able to get home for the sack and forced a Panther punt. A very good punt had the Wildcats pinned down at the one yard line. A five yard rush got them out from the shadow of their endzone. Tyshon King then ripped off a 12-yard rush. Faced with a 3rd and 7, Drake Davis used his legs to pick up another first down on a nine yard gain. Wyatt Davis came up with another incredible catch, reaching out with one hand and pulling it in. Drake Davis put that pass where only Wyatt Davis could get it. That completion was good for a 28-yard gain. Tyshon King took the handoff and ran around the right side and picked up 16-yards and yet another Wildcat first down. The Wildcats set themselves up for a field goal attempt. The attempt was no good and the score stayed 31-21 in favor of the Panthers. The Panthers got the ball back with just over five minutes left, they were able to get a few first downs and ice the game. Panthers 31, Wildcats 21.
HIGHLIGHTS Drake Davis connected with Wyatt Davis for a 35-yard touchdown. Brock Franklin found the endzone on a two yard rush. Drake Davis found Tyshon King for a seven yard touchdown. Antonio Howard had a sack and forced fumble, Mequon Hudson recovered the fumble.
STAT LEADERS Drake Davis finished 12-24, 167 yards, 2 touchdowns. Tyshon King led the way on the ground with 15 carries for 76 yards, King also had a seven yard receiving touchdown. Wyatt Davis was the leading receiver with 3 catches for 99 yards and a touchdown. Antonio Howard had 15 total tackles on the day (8 solo, 7 assisted). Howard also had a sack and a forced fumble. John McMullen and Jackson Malcolm each had a sack.
UP NEXTThe Wildcats will return home to play host to Post University for Homecoming on Saturday September 24th at 2 p.m.
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MUZO, Colombia — Although he has helped transform Colombia's emerald industry, long a source of violence and environmental damage, former U.S. diplomat Charles Burgess admits that he got into the business on a whim.
"I don't have a mining background," he told NPR during a recent tour of the mine he runs near the town of Muzo deep in the Andes Mountains. "I never in my wildest imagination thought I'd be working in any sort of business like this. But it's been fascinating."
Burgess, 67, is president of the Muzo Companies Colombia that mine and export 85% of Colombia's emeralds, helping to make the country the world's largest producer of high-quality emeralds.
Most of the green gemstones are extracted from a maze of shafts that extend more than a half-mile underground. The entrance to the mine resembles a road tunnel allowing heavy machinery to pull out rocks and debris instead of having miners push it all out in hand carts.
Massive hoses feed fresh air into the mine, while monitors keep tabs on air quality and pumps remove excess water from the mine floor. Telephone and internet services have been installed in case of emergencies.
"This is just a more modern way of running a mine," Burgess says, adding that there have been no fatal accidents here since Muzo Companies bought the mine in 2012.
Colombia's emerald industry used to be far more dangerous, with frequent explosions inside the mines — and gun battles on the outside.
The business was controlled by family clans, some of which formed private armies and had ties to cocaine traffickers who used the emerald industry to launder money, says Petrit Baquero, the author of a book on Colombia's emerald mines. Disputes for control over the industry set off what was known as a "green war" in the late 1980s that killed about 3,500 people.
"There was an influx of fortune-seekers and violent criminals with very little government presence in the region," Baquero says. "It was the law of the jungle."
Ramiro Melo, a 58-year-old emerald miner from Muzo, says: "It was a scary time because these people would kill whoever they wanted."
Back then, he said, miners worked as unpaid prospectors with their bosses giving them just a tiny sliver of the profits when they found emeralds.
"It was like the lottery. You could go for three months without earning a peso," Melo says. "That was the life of an emerald miner."
The violence scared away Colombian investors while several mine owners were imprisoned in the U.S. on drug charges.
In addition, the man known as Colombia's "emerald czar," Victor Carranza, who had survived two assassination attempts as well as efforts to prosecute him for alleged ties to paramilitary death squads, was dying of cancer and wanted to sell out.
"All these guys knew they were depleting their resources and that they couldn't keep going," says Guillermo Galvis, president of the Colombian Emerald Exporters Association. "They were begging me to find foreign investors."
Enter Burgess, a Florida native and Marine Corps veteran who served as a political officer at U.S. embassies in Colombia and several other Latin American nations before retiring in 2009.
While in Colombia, he had become friends with a Roman Catholic bishop who had helped arrange a cease-fire between warring gangs in the emerald zone. With the industry sagging, Burgess agreed to help find foreign financing. Huge sums were needed because the gems were getting harder to find while open-pit mines, that contaminated rivers and caused deforestation, were being phased out for underground mining.
"If you don't improve your technology, it becomes more and more difficult to find emeralds," Galvis says. "You have to go deep, and underground mining involves a lot of resources."
Burgess helped put together a group of Houston-based investors, who in 2012, bought Carranza's mine, Colombia's largest, and put the former diplomat in charge of running it.
"The idea was to fundamentally change the industry," Burgess says. "Instead of seeing this as treasure hunting, we want people to see this as a job and a career."
Little by little, that's what's been happening.
The open pits are gone, replaced by tunnels. Much of the mine Burgess oversees is now mechanized. During a recent tour, geologist Camilo Pinzón uses a pickaxe to open a vein of white calcite rock that's streaked with green — the telltale sign of emeralds. He then places the rocks into a bag to be sent to a laboratory for analysis.
Depending on the quality, he quips, "they could be invaluable, or they could be worth the price of a piece of candy."
Pinzón and other mine employees now receive regular salaries transferred directly into their bank accounts. Women used to be considered bad luck and were largely kept out of the mines but now they are everywhere, says María Fernanda Cardona, 27, a geologist who has been working for the Muzo Companies for the past year.
Dressed in rubber boots and fueled with coffee, Burgess can often be found inspecting tunnels and meeting with engineers and local government officials. He's had to fire miners for stealing emeralds. After one major discovery, word leaked out and suddenly 5,000 people descended on the mine hoping for a piece of the action, until they were removed by police and army troops.
Now, however, the emerald mining region is largely peaceful. Last year, the Muzo Companies Colombia exported about $128 million in emeralds. The United States is the largest importer, according to Galvis.
This area was first mined by Indigenous groups long before the Spanish Conquest, yet it keeps yielding emeralds.
"It's just how it is, it's just the geology," Burgess says. "The potential here is virtually unlimited."
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Which portable bidets are best?
Once a feature in bathrooms of the rich and famous, bidets have become a trendy and affordable form of personal hygiene. Originally available as a built-in function on high-end toilets, bidets can now be purchased as a separate attachment. Taking this feature a step further, makers of quality bidets have now created portable, on-the-go options for use anywhere.
One excellent portable bidet is the TUSHY Travel. This compact portable bidet is collapsible, doesn’t require USB charging and has a three-point spout with a hinged nozzle.
What to know before you buy a portable bidet
Manual vs. USB
Portable bidets are available in both manual squeeze and rechargeable battery-powered options. Rather than one option being superior to another, the choice ultimately depends on personal preference.
Manual portable bidets are operated by squeezing the bottle to dispense water. Bidet bottles don’t require much effort to begin spraying the water. One advantage to this design is that it can be operated quietly. It’s also easier to stop and start the flow of water with a squeezable portable bidet. However, some individuals don’t like this design since it requires more work than a traditional bidet toilet or attachment.
Similar to standard bidet attachments, USB rechargeable portable bidets operate automatically with the push of a button. These models can be used effortlessly and provide a more continuous and consistent flow of water. Because these models are battery-operated, the noise produced by rechargeable portable bidets can be too conspicuous for public use.
Price
Another major factor to consider when purchasing a portable bidet is price. Budget-friendly manual styles can be purchased for as low as $8. Inexpensive options are fantastic for individuals who plan to use their portable bidet on select occasions, such as camping or during a vacation.
However, those who plan on using their portable bidet often (at least several times per week) should consider investing in a higher-quality device designed for frequent use. There are both durable squeeze bidet bottles and battery-powered selections available.
Size
Although there isn’t a vast difference in sizes between models, it’s important to select a portable bidet that’s sized appropriately for its intended use. Individuals who plan to carry their bidet in a purse or another compact bag should compare measurements to ensure that it fits. Some styles may be too long or bulky for smaller bags.
What to look for in a quality portable bidet
Discreetness
While portable bidets are rising rapidly in popularity, most people still want to be discreet about carrying one around. Quality portable bidet brands recognize this and provide an easy way to conceal your device. Some of the best companies include a portable bidet bag that’s nondescript and convenient to carry.
Sufficient pressure
Hands-down one of the most important features in both traditional and portable bidets is sufficient pressure. Since the object of a bidet is to deliver a thorough cleaning, it needs to release a decent spray. Quality portable bidets feature designs that produce a steady, pressurized spray through an adjustable nozzle. Although it may seem counterintuitive, both manual and rechargeable models can have issues with pressure control. No matter which option is selected, a well-made portable bidet should produce the needed water pressure to deliver impeccable cleanliness.
Style
Portable bidets come in a wide range of styles. From bright colors to unique designs, select one that suits all preferences. This factor is especially important when considering the actual use of the portable bidet. Ensure that the design is something that feels comfortable to hold and that it can be angled to provide maximum cleaning with each use.
How much you can expect to spend on a portable bidet
Portable bidets can range anywhere from $8-$70. Manual options are less expensive than those that have a USB charging feature.
Portable bidet FAQ
Is it better to purchase a manual or rechargeable portable bidet?
A. The portable bidet option that you select should be based upon your individual preferences. There are high-quality options in both categories, so one style isn’t superior to the other.
Do you still need toilet paper when using a portable bidet?
A. Oftentimes, yes. Unlike some toilet-based models, there isn’t a drying feature available on today’s models of portable bidets. However, the primary advantage of having a portable bidet is to experience a much higher degree of cleanliness while significantly reducing toilet paper usage.
What’s the best portable bidet to buy?
Top portable bidet
What you need to know: The TUSHY Travel squeezable portable bidet delivers an exceptional cleaning experience without the need for batteries or charging.
What you’ll love: This model is ultra-portable and comes in four colors. Its accordion fold makes it easy to expand during use and then collapse for storage. The hinged nozzle with a three-point spout provides excellent reach and cleaning. Tushy Travel also has a strong spray stream.
What you should consider: At $29, this is one of the most expensive manual portable bidets on the market.
Where to buy: Sold by TUSHY
Top portable bidet for the money
What you need to know: The extendable nozzle on the Happy Bottom Portable Bidet delivers an incredibly thorough cleaning experience with every use.
What you’ll love: Priced at just $16.95, this manual portable bidet provides outstanding quality for an amazing value. The design looks exactly like a standard water bottle, which makes it discreet to carry around. It has a long extendable nozzle for added reach and a steady water spray.
What you should consider: This model is too large to carry in smaller purses or bags, and it can’t be folded up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BLAUX Electric Rechargeable Portable Bidet
What you need to know: The BLAUX Electric Portable Bidet is a USB rechargeable portable bidet with two water pressure levels and a myriad of other desirable features.
What you’ll love: After charging the device for 2 hours, it can be used up to 100 times. It has an adjustable arm, replaceable nozzle and two water pressure settings. Its nondescript design makes it impossible to tell that it’s a portable bidet.
What you should consider: Among all styles, this portable bidet is one of the most expensive available.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BERLIN (AP) — Swiss police used rubber bullets to disperse protesters in front of the Iranian Embassy in Bern after two men climbed over the embassy’s fence and pulled down the Iranian flag from a flagpole in the yard.
Police said late Saturday that nobody was injured and that the “large crowd” of protesters was dispersed after the use of rubber bullets. The two protesters who entered the embassy’s grounds were detained, according to police in the Swiss capital.
Police said they used rubber bullets after several other protesters at the unauthorized demonstration tried following the two men who had first entered the embassy’s yard and also attempted to access the premises.
It wasn’t immediately clear if more protesters were detained.
Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks in protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the morality police in the capital, Tehran, for allegedly wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf too loosely.
Outside of Iran, thousands of protesters have also staged demonstrations in European countries and elsewhere over the death of Amini. They’ve also expressed anger over the treatment of women and wider repression in the Islamic Republic. | 2022-10-02T20:54:41+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-swiss-police-violently-disperses-anti-iranian-protests/ |
Gee's Clippers cancer screenings 'a chance to catch things sooner'
MILWAUKEE - Gee's Clippers in Milwaukee held its second annual free skin, hair and nail screening event Saturday, Feb. 4.
The event, sponsored by Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, focused on screening people for certain types of cancers.
Sponsors said the goal is to help people of color gain access to cancer screenings.
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"We know that people of color have poorer outcomes if they get something like a melanoma or a skin cancer, and the reason that their outcomes are poorer probably has to do with them not coming for, not having the diagnosis made early enough," said Olushola Akinshemoyin Vaughn, assistant professor of dermatology at MCW.
"If they come to a screening, we have a chance to catch things sooner, and we have a better chance of giving them the right treatment and bringing them back to health."
The group is looking to expand the event to other locations in the future. | 2023-02-05T02:35:27+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/gees-clippers-cancer-screening |
Pound for pound, perhaps no piece of equipment is more valuable on the Ukrainian battlefield than lightweight, remote-controlled drones, which volunteers are bringing to the frontlines in the east.
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Pound for pound, perhaps no piece of equipment is more valuable on the Ukrainian battlefield than lightweight, remote-controlled drones, which volunteers are bringing to the frontlines in the east.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-22T20:56:02+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2022-08-22/from-warehouses-to-the-frontlines-how-ukraines-forces-are-getting-drones |
Rex Ryan made national headlines back in the summer of 2016 for infamously proclaimed the Buffalo Bills team he coached as the champions of the NFL offseason.
There is no such title, honor, or crown handed out to the NFL team that makes the best moves through free agency, transactions and the NFL draft. But there should be, considering all the money, time and resources these teams spend overhauling their rosters and staffs.
Let us honor the outspoken Ryan, the former New York Jets and Bills coach and current ESPN analyst, by naming the NFL’s offseason champion distinction after him.
With training camp opening up at the end of the month let us take a look at the AFC teams that made the most improvement since last year, factoring in front office and head coach changes, free agent signings and defections, trades and their 2022 draft picks.
The NFC teams are to follow.
1. Denver Broncos
The Broncos got a new general manager (George Paton), coach (Nathaniel Hackett), and starting quarterback (Russell Wilson) all in one offseason. The Wilson trade didn’t cost Denver any key components of the offense other than tight end Noah Fant, and the Broncos added UCLA tight end Greg Dulcich with the 80th pick. Pass rusher Randy Gregory signed a five-year, $70 million deal, and will be complemented by former Oklahoma pass rusher Nik Bonitto (64th pick). The Broncos also signed linebacker Josey Jewell, defensive tackle D.J. Jones and offensive linemen Billy Turner and Tom Compton, and they all potentially could end up starters.
2. Buffalo Bills
There’s an arms race taking place in the AFC, as the top teams are pushing to get better, and Buffalo’s free agency additions – Von Miller, Tim Settle, DaQuan Jones, Duke Johnson and Rodger Saffold should help the Bills take that next step, if they can all remain healthy. Former Gators standout Kaiir Elam gives Buffalo a man-coverage cornerback with press ability to put across from Tre’Davious White. Rookie running back James Cook is a near-perfect fit for the outside-zone concepts the Bills use. Boise State’s Khalil Shakir was one of the best slot receivers in this draft and should help ease the offseason release of Cole Beasley. The biggest loss might be former offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, who was named the coach of the Jets. But former Hurricanes legend Ken Dorsey, his understudy, is taking over.
3. Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins were determined to give Tua Tagovailoa a better supporting cast this offseason, and the process started with the hiring of Mike McDaniel, who intends to install a West Coast, run-based offense. Trading for Tyreek Hill and signing Cedrick Wilson Jr. and running backs Chase Edmonds, Sony Michel and Raheem Mostert gives Miami one of the best weapon arsenals in the AFC, especially since tight end Mike Gesicki is playing on the franchise tag this season. The only major loss on offense was DeVante Parker, who was traded to the Patriots. Miami retained all but two low-contribution defenders from last year’s respectable unit, and signed Terron Armstead and Connor Williams to fortify the team’s troublesome offensive line. Moving Williams to center is the biggest gamble, but if it pays off, Miami’s line could be forceful.
4. Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders signed Derek Carr to a lucrative three-year, $121.5 million extension, then traded for his college receiver, acquiring Davante Adams from the Packers. Las Vegas also signed receiver DeMarcus Robinson and tight end Jacob Hollister to provide new coach Josh McDaniels some weaponry. The Raiders also signed pass rusher Chandler Jones to pair him with Maxx Crosby, who signed a four-year, $99 million extension and acquired cornerback Rock Ya-Sin for pass rusher Yannick Ngakoue. Offensive line remains Las Vegas’ biggest question mark, and the only draftee who might help is former Memphis center Dylan Parham, a third-round pick.
5. Los Angeles Chargers
The Chargers acquired Khalil Mack from the Bears for a 2022 second-round pick and a 2023 sixth-round selection and signed Pro Bowl cornerback J.C. Jackson to a five-year deal worth $82.5 million. The Chargers also signed tight end Gerald Everett, who has caught 175 passes for 1,867 yards and 12 touchdowns in his first five seasons, to potentially replace Jared Cook. The Chargers used the 2022 draft to fortify the offensive line, and add defensive backs to the secondary, addressing two of the team’s glaring needs. Zion Johnson (No. 17) and Jamaree Salyer (No. 195) both have the talent to start at guard.
6. Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh signed former Bears starting quarterback Mitch Trubisky to a two-year deal worth $14.25 million and will have him compete with former Pitt standout Kenny Pickett, who was selected with the 20th pick. To improve the Steelers’ troublesome offensive line, guard James Daniels and center Mason Cole were added. The Steelers also signed linebackers Myles Jack and Genard Avery, and cornerback Levi Wallace. But receiver Juju Smith-Schuster signed with the Chiefs and fellow wideout James Washington signed with the Cowboys. Their departure creates a possible void at receiver rookies George Pickens and Calvin Austin III might be asked to fill.
7. Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens made solid additions in free agency, signing defensive tackle Michael Pierce, offensive tackle Morgan Moses and safety Marcus Williams. And re-signing defensive lineman Calais Campbell shouldn’t be overlooked. But losing receiver Marquise Brown, who was traded to the Cardinals, will present some challenges. Fortunately for the Ravens, that franchise can often lean on strong drafts to rebuild, and the addition of Notre Dame safety Kyle Hamilton (No. 14) and center Tyler Linderbaum (No. 25) fit like a glove. However, not getting a long-term deal done with Lamar Jackson could haunt the franchise. But there is still time.
8. New York Jets
The Jets added guard Laken Tomlinson and re-signed offensive tackles Conor McDermott and Dan Feeney. C.J. Uzomah and Tyler Conklin were signed to upgrade the tight end position. And the Jets also added defensive lineman Solomon Thomas, linebacker Jacob Martin, cornerback D.J. Reed and safeties Jordan Whitehead and Lamarcus Joyner. The Jets exited the draft with five potential starters in cornerback Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner, receiver Garrett Wilson, pass rusher Jermaine Johnson II, tailback Breece Hall and tight end Jeremy Ruckert. If Zach Wilson takes a major step forward the Jets could become a factor in the AFC East.
9. Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals might have just made a Super Bowl, but it was obvious that Cincinnati’s offensive line needed to be rebuilt. Signing La’el Collins, Alex Cappa and Ted Karras were steps taken in the right direction. The Bengals added defenders who can help Lou Anarumo’s unit tighten up with their first three draft picks. Michigan safety Daxton Hill (No. 31), Nebraska cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt and Florida defensive lineman Zachary Carter should all be able to carve out important roles as rookies.
10. Cleveland Browns
If we take morality out of the equation, the Browns made one of the biggest and boldest moves in free agency, landing quarterback Deshaun Watson in a trade with the Texans that depleted Cleveland’s draft capital. Whether Watson will be suspended for all of 2022 is undecided, but the Browns upgraded at quarterback. However, Jacoby Brissett might be the team’s 17-game 2022 starter. Amari Cooper replaces Jarvis Landry, who was released and signed with the Saints. Re-signing Jadeveon Clowney was huge, and the addition of cornerback Martin Emerson from Mississippi State (No. 68) and UAB pass rusher Alex Wright (No. 78) should help the defense.
11. Indianapolis Colts
Cutting bait on Carson Wentz, trading him to Washington after one season, makes sense for the franchise. But replacing him with Matt Ryan, 37, didn’t because that’s a short-term solution, and one with limited upside. Acquiring Yannick Ngakoue from the Raiders for cornerback Rock Ya-Sin makes sense. Indianapolis signed Stephon Gilmore as Ya-Sin’s replacement, so the loss wasn’t major. Neither was their draft, which featured a handful of underwhelming college players.
12. Houston Texans
Unloading Deshaun Watson for what equates to three first-round picks, a third-round selection and two fourth-round picks allows the Texans to start fresh with Davis Mills as Houston’s starting quarterback for his second season. Marlon Mack was added to a backfield that already had Rex Burkhead and Royce Freeman, who was re-signed. When healthy, Mack is a force. Linebacker Blake Cashman was acquired from the Jets for a 2023 sixth-round pick. The Texans potentially added five starters in the second draft class of this massive rebuild. But there’s a long road ahead and changes are slim that Lovie Smith delivers a winning record in his first season as Houston’s coach.
13. Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars made plenty of moves this offseason, but most weren’t greeted with praise. And that includes the hiring Doug Pederson. But if he can get Trevor Lawrence to develop as a quarterback, he’ll be setting himself up for success long-term. The four-year, $72 million deal ($37 million guaranteed) Jacksonville gave receiver Christian Kirk was a head-scratcher. And receiver Zay Jones and tight end Evan Engram, other veterans who Jacksonville added to the offense, have had mercurial careers thus far. The Jaguars lost three starting offensive linemen, but signed Pro Bowl guard Brandon Scherff to a three-year, $49.5 million deal. And in the draft, Jacksonville added Travon Walker (first overall selection), Devin Lloyd (No. 27), Luke Fortner (No. 65) and Chad Muma (No. 70) and need them to become immediate starters.
14. Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City traded Tyreek Hill, an offensive focal point, to the Dolphins for a handful of draft picks to avoid paying the perennial Pro Bowl pick a $30 million-a-year salary. Kansas City added receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Corey Coleman in free agency and drafted Skyy Moore in the second round to replenish a receiver unit that has been depleted by trades and free agent defections. But the biggest loss was Pro Bowl safety Tyrann Mathieu, who signed with the Saints after being replaced by Justin Reid, who signed a three-year, $31.5 million contract ($20.5 million guaranteed) with the Chiefs. If Reid isn’t dynamic, Kansas City’s defense could take a step backwards.
15. Tennessee Titans
Re-signed pass rusher Harold Landry, center Ben Jones, cornerback Buster Skrine and tailback Dontrell Hilliard, keeping some of the nucleus of the 2021 team intact were the Titans biggest moves made this offseason. Trading A.J. Brown to Philadelphia and drafting Treylon Burks with the 18th pick was a bold move. Only time and Burks’ development will tell if it worked in Tennessee’s favor. Adding Liberty quarterback Malik Willis in the third round (No. 86) was a good move because he has the tools to beat out Ryan Tannehill once he learns the offense and adjusts to the speed of the NFL game. With Derrick Henry’s mileage adding up, the Titans only have a season or two to make a run before it’s time to rebuild.
16. New England Patriots
The Patriots lost more key contributors than they gained this offseason, and that includes former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. Cornerback Malcolm Butler returned to New England after spending three seasons with the Titans. The Patriots acquired receiver DeVante Parker and linebacker Mack Wilson in offseason trades, and signed safety Jabrill Peppers. New England did re-sign offensive tackle Trent Brown, safety Devin McCourty, kicker Nick Folk and linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley. But the Patriots’ roster is filled with holes and question marks. Chattanooga offensive guard Cole Strange being selected in the first round was laughed at by most draft analysts. The Patriots added Baylor speedster Tyquan Thornton with the 50th pick.
() | 2022-07-13T13:56:49+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/13/omar-kelly-which-afc-team-had-the-best-offseason-in-2022-2/ |
Jerk 76 Jamaican Opens on Far Northwest Side
First-time restaurant owner offers authentic Jamaican cuisine.
Jerk 76 Jamaican Restaurant, a new establishment serving authentic Jamaican cuisine and alcoholic beverages, celebrated its grand opening last week on Milwaukee’s far northwest side.
First-time restaurant owner and native Jamaican Damian Duncan received an enthusiastic neighborhood response — and a full dining room — for the official opening on May 5.
“It’s been going pretty good,” Duncan said, reflecting on his first week in business. “There’s definitely been a lot of people.”
Located at 6309 N. 76th St., the counter-service eatery offers several varieties of heavily-spiced jerked meats, curry chicken, brown stew chicken, jerk egg rolls and gumbo.
Jamaican-style sides and desserts are also available, along with a full bar featuring frozen cocktails.
Throughout the opening weekend, several patrons — including Alderman Mark Chambers Jr., took to social media to congratulate Duncan and praise the new restaurant.
Jerk 76 Jamaican is locatged in the Menomonee River Hills neighborhood and replaces O SO Good, an Asian fusion restaurant.
During the lead-up to the opening, Duncan transformed the building inside and out, adding mint green tiling and paint, booth and bar seating and fresh signage. Images of Bob Marley and the Jamaican flag are heavily featured throughout the restaurant.
The building’s exterior, previously red and tan, now features new awnings and a Jamaican flag color scheme.
David Samuel, the building owner, is a restaurateur himself. He owns and operates D’Sign Pizza on the South Side and owns several other properties throughout the city, some of which he rents out to business owners such as Duncan.
Jerk 76 Jamaican is open for lunch and dinner and offers both dine-in and carryout.
The restaurant is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m., according to a license application.
Milwaukee is home to a host of Jamaican restaurants including popular picks like Uppa Yard, Pepperpot and Mobay Cafe; however, most of the dozen or so restaurants that serve mainly Jamaican food are clustered near the middle of the North Side.
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People across the northeastern United States confronted the coldest temperatures seen in decades Saturday, as an Arctic air mass passed over the region, accompanied by powerful winds that drove wind chills to dangerous levels.
Frigid conditions demolished records set more than a century ago in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, where lows hit minus 10 and minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit early Saturday, the National Weather Service reported. Temperatures plunged to 4 degrees in New York City, minus 6 in Hartford, Connecticut, and minus 15 in Concord, New Hampshire. with the wind making it feel much colder everywhere.
At the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the region’s highest peak, the low of minus 47 degrees at 4 a.m. Saturday tied the previous record set in 1934. Wind chills approached minus 110 degrees, and were likely among the coldest ever recorded, though staff at the weather observatory atop the 6,288-foot peak said they do not keep long-term wind chill data, and could not confirm the record.
Venturing outside onto the mountain to track the system Friday, Francis Tarasiewicz, a staff meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory, encountered wind that sounded like a roaring freight train. “There were pieces of ice flying around, lots of ducking and dodging,” he said. “I had a tiny, millimeter-wide area of skin exposure, and it felt like a bee sting.”
Conditions moderated by late Saturday, and the deep cold was expected to subside by Sunday. In the meantime, government officials opened warming shelters, issued warnings about frostbite and hypothermia, and urged people to stay inside. Saturday morning, 18,000 customers in Maine and New York state were without electricity, according to the website poweroutage.us; by afternoon, power had been restored to all but 5,000.
“This is one of the coldest events that we’ve seen in years,” said Miro Weinberger, mayor of Burlington, Vermont. “We’re encouraging people to stay indoors.”
Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston declared a cold emergency through Sunday, while in New York, a Code Blue was in effect, meaning that no one seeking shelter would be denied.
Concern about the fate of people living on the streets spurred an all-hands outreach effort in Boston, where dozens of city and agency workers fanned out last week to urge those without housing to plan for the cold. In the end, only 10 people chose to spend Friday night outdoors in the city’s largest tent encampment, while more than 100 others were safely sheltered, said Tania Del Rio, director of the city’s coordinated response team.
“We were very worried,” Del Rio said. “We know these people by name. We know their stories and we care about them, and we know some people would rather stay outside.”
In Portland, Maine, a shelter set up to serve 75 people saw 92 show up seeking warmth overnight Friday and into Saturday morning, a city spokesperson said. Chairs were set up to accommodate the extra turnout. Inside Boston’s South Station, the downtown train hub that was left unlocked to provide emergency shelter overnight Friday and Saturday, it was quiet early Saturday morning, though busy. Dozens of people covered in sleeping bags, quilts, fibrous blankets, and even trash bags lined up, sleeping, against the walls and on the benches of the station. Others, waiting for delayed trains, stood in front of the schedule board.
Rosie DeQuattro and Jerry Berke, of Maine, were there to catch a train to New York, where they planned to see a play. Mindful of the risk of frozen pipes, they opened all their kitchen cabinet doors before leaving home, to keep warm air circulating, and didn’t turn their heat down like they normally would before a trip.
The core of the Arctic air mass passed over northern New England, where residents pride themselves on cold-weather endurance. But the combination of frigid cold and high winds forced some to make rare accommodations.
Wildcat Mountain, a 4,000-foot peak in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, closed to skiers for a second consecutive day Saturday, citing risks from the adverse conditions. Other ski mountains, including Sugarloaf in western Maine, where the temperature was minus 21 at 9 a.m. Saturday, limited chairlift operations.
The National Weather Service in Caribou, Maine, said in a tweet Friday that it had received reports of “frostquakes,” tremors in the earth, similar to earthquakes but caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil.
In Burlington, the annual Penguin Plunge — in which participants leap into icy Lake Champlain to raise money for the Special Olympics — was canceled and replaced with safer, remote activities. An opening event Friday night for the Quebec Winter Carnival, which draws tens of thousands of people to outdoor activities in the Canadian city, was also canceled.
Still, for some New Englanders who have lamented the milder temperatures and lack of snow so far this winter, the cold snap meant a brief return to beloved winter hobbies before temperatures skyrocket back up next week. Highs near 50 degrees are expected in Boston on Monday.
Adam Zlatkus, 31, headed out with skates and a hockey stick to a frozen pond in Boston’s Public Garden for several hours Saturday morning, unbothered by the cold. Before this weekend, he said, the weather had been too warm for the pond to ice over properly.
“I actually took off a layer,” he said.
Across the northern reaches of the region — and even in parts of Manhattan — some expressed a stoicism about the cold.
Marco Nasso, 38, was bundled in a fluffy hood as he walked his similarly dressed dog, Cesar, in midtown Manhattan on Saturday morning. Nasso, who hails from Italy, seemed largely unfazed by the chill.
“That’s how it’s supposed to be, winter in New York,” he said with a shrug, adding that it hadn’t affected his weekend plans. “There’s people living in Alaska!”
In New Hampshire, too, many residents brushed aside the wintry weather. Navigating the discomfort without fuss is part of their Granite State identity, some said.
“It’s brutal, but it’s what I signed up for, and I love it,” said one Durham postal worker as she headed out to make deliveries Saturday.
In Millinocket, Maine, the cold drove some to desperate measures. Kelly Gardner, a physician assistant, said she and her family usually ski, ice fish or play in the snow on winter weekends. The prospect of staying indoors instead, with three active kids under age 6, was more than she wanted to manage.
“We’re headed to a hotel with a pool in Bangor with friends for an overnight,” Gardner said. | 2023-02-05T00:18:04+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-northeast-is-battered-by-frigid-temperatures-that-reached-record-lows/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 30 years ago, creators of Essence Magazine came to New Orleans to celebrate the publication’s 25th anniversary with a salute to Black women highlighting culture, empowerment conversations with the nation’s thought leaders and, of course, music.
The Essence Music Festival has since morphed into the Essence Festival of Culture, which, in its 29th year, kicks off Thursday and goes through July 3 across various venues in downtown New Orleans. The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will hold most of the free workshops, vendor exhibits and celebrity meet-and-greets. Blocks away, the Superdome will host nightly ticketed performances by artists including headliners Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott and Megan Thee Stallion as the festival commemorates 50 years of hip-hop.
Hakeem Holmes, a New Orleans native and newly appointed vice president of the festival, describes the festival as a “crown jewel of Black culture” that “plays a pivotal role in the amplification and celebration of the contributions of the Black community through business, music and more.”
“This is the first time three black women emcees are headlining,” Holmes noted. “That’s representative of the growth and the direction we’re taking the event. It’s important to have the attention of the audience we’re serving. We’re attracting younger generations now so we’ve had to grow. It’s exciting that throughout out each night we’ll feature younger artists alongside the legends.”
New Orleans has hosted every festival except for 2006, when it moved to Houston while the Superdome underwent Hurricane Katrina -related repairs. In 2020 and 2021, Essence was staged virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hill returns to the festival’s stage after a surprise cameo performance at last year’s festival with her former Fugees bandmate, Wyclef Jean. Friday night’s show will also commemorate the 25th anniversary of her five-time Grammy Award winning project, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” Rap icon Doug E. Fresh, to mark hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, will lead a night of performances by rap pioneers including Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD and KRS-One. Also scheduled to perform are Tems, Jagged Edge, Ari Lennox and New Orleans’ own Juvenile.
Juvenile had criticized organizers for not including him in the festival’s lineup, questioning how it could celebrate hip-hop in the City of New Orleans without him. Essence Ventures CEO Caroline Wanga has said there was never any intent to not include New Orleans artists on the bill.
“When we started to source talent, there was no way in hell we were not going to have New Orleans artists,” she said. “We have always created a festival that had some things announced and some surprises. We would never plan a festival that didn’t have involvement from the city that birthed us.”
Missy Elliott, the first female in hip-hop to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will take center stage Saturday while music mogul Jermaine Dupri will curate a special segment of hip-hop’s greatest hitmakers from the South called “The South Got Something To Say,” including performances by T.I., Ludacris, Gucci Mane, Lil Jon and Big Boi. Dupri is also marking the 30th anniversary of his label, So So Def. Jill Scott, Monica, Coco Jones are scheduled to perform and West Coast rappers Ice Cube, Ice T, Yo-Yo, J.J. Fad and E-40 will be showcased as well.
Three-time Grammy winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion will close out the festival’s concert series on Sunday, while radio personality Angie Martinez plays host to a celebration of women who influenced the culture with performances by Eve, Salt-N-Pepa, Remy Ma, Trina and New Orleans’ own Mia-X. Others taking the stage will include Wizkid, Muni Long and Kizz Daniel.
The festival’s lineup in the past has been heavily shaped by mostly R&B artists. Holmes said the 2023 look “evolves” the event’s tone.
“We’re hoping that everyone who attends feels seen and we hope that we’re strengthening the things they want to see,” said Holmes, who noted elements of the festival targeting men, the Gen Z population and fans of alternative arts exemplified by Essence’s Afropunk festival.
The 2022 festival had a $327 million impact on the City of New Orleans’ economy, according to a study commissioned by Essence and generated by Dillard University. Before Essence, the city struggled in the summer because of the sometimes tumultuous and always hot, hot weather. Now, the festival is a major rainmaker for the city’s summer tourism season.
Vice President Kamala Harris will participate Thursday in a discussion at the festival concerning small businesses and on Friday, she will speak on issues ranging from protecting reproductive freedom to addressing the maternal health crisis. Also Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America tour, will discuss Biden’s legislative accomplishments.
Last year’s festival saw 1.9 million live and virtual attendees of activities including Essence Food & Wine Festival, Essence Marketplace, Essence Film Festival, Essence Wellness House, Global Black Economic Forum, Essence Family Day and more.
Some of the events take place away from the main venues — a move Wanga said was aimed at encouraging people to visit other parts of the city. | 2023-06-29T22:04:08+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-essence-festival-of-culture-2023-kicks-off-in-new-orleans/ |
Judging success and failure in NHL free agency just hours after the market opened can be tricky, looking into the future to predict which moves will pan out — or not.
Looking back at the slew of signings on Wednesday, it seems relatively easy to identify at least one winner and a loser.
The Columbus Blue Jackets made the biggest splash, stunning the league by landing Johnny Gaudreau with a seven-year contract for $68.25 million.
“To get a player of his caliber is going to make us instantly better and make players better around him, which is really important in the culture of a hockey team,” general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said Thursday. “Exciting day for the Blue Jackets organization. That goes without saying, and I can’t emphasize that enough.”
Gaudreau, a first-team, all-NHL player last season, rendered Calgary a loser when he informed the Flames on the eve of free agency that he was not signing their eight-year offer to stay.
“It was a tough decision,” Gaudreau said, citing leaving as the right move for him and his wife. “It was a really hard decision but something me and Meredith, we talked about for a long time there. It was difficult, but it was the best for us.”
Columbus added a 28-year-old, six-time All-Star in his prime. The diminutive and dynamic wing had career highs last season with 40 goals and 115 points, giving him 210 goals and 609 points in 602 games for the Flames.
The Blue Jackets instantly boosted their shot of making the playoffs, after missing them the last two years, and improved their chances of advancing in the playoffs for just the second time since the franchise joined the league in 2000.
Calgary, meanwhile, will have to make some significant signings or trades to make up for the loss of Gaudreau. If the Flames swing and miss this summer, they might be reminded of how bad it was before Gaudreau arrived, when they missed five straight postseasons.
Here’s a look at some teams that seemed to win, and lose, on the opening day of NHL free agency:
CAROLINA HURRICANES
The Hurricanes made a pair of power moves that should help the two-time defending division champions keep pace with Eastern Conference powers.
Carolina acquired 2017 Norris Trophy winner Brent Burns in a trade with San Jose and veteran winger Max Pacioretty in another trade, taking advantage of Vegas scrambling to manage its salary cap.
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS
After failing to make the playoffs for the first time in its five NHL seasons, Vegas had to unload a player it couldn’t afford to keep.
Pacioretty had 97 goals and 97 assists over four seasons with the Golden Knights, who will have a hard time replacing his production with a tight budget.
DETROIT RED WINGS
Steve Yzerman apparently ran out of patience. The Hall of Famer and former Red Wings captain ditched his plan to focus on drafting and developing players with a series of moves that may make the once-proud franchise relevant again.
Detroit signed center Andrew Copp to a $28.1 million, five-year contract, defenseman Ben Chiarot to a $19 million, four-year agreement and a pair of wings to two-year deals: David Perron for $9.5 million and Dominik Kubalik for $5 million.
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
After a sixth straight first-round exit in the playoffs, Toronto lost its No. 1 goaltender, Jack Campbell, in free agency when he signed a $25 million, five-year contract with Edmonton.
The Maple Leafs simply don’t seem as sound in net. They gave goalie Ilya Samsonov a one-year deal to join Matt Murray, acquired from Ottawa just days earlier, and are counting on players who gave up three-plus goals a game last season.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS
Shooting to keep Alex Ovechkin’s championship window open as he nears his 37th birthday, Washington signed Stanley Cup-winning goaltender Darcy Kuemper to a five-year contract worth $26.25 million.
Kuemper had a career-best 37 wins in the regular season and won 10 playoff games for Colorado. He will be backed up by 28-year-old Charlie Lindgren, who signed a $3.3 million, three-year deal.
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
Sitting out of the postseason for two straight years, for the first time since a four-year drought in the early 1990s, did not seem to inspire much change in Philadelphia.
With a chance to add much-needed talent, the most significant signing the Flyers made when free agency opened was giving forward Nicolas Deslauriers a four-year deal for $1.75 million per season. In 81 games last season in Anaheim and Minnesota, he had eight goals and five assists. The 31-year-old Deslauriers has never scored more than 10 goals.
Gaudreau, who is from Carney’s Point, New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia and grew up rooting for the Flyers, avoided mentioning his hometown team at his introductory news conference in Columbus but seemed to struggle with the opportunity missed.
“I’ve always wanted to play relatively a little bit closer,” he said. “I think the East, I grew up here — not in Columbus but on the East Coast. It’s somewhere I always wanted to play. I was in Calgary for eight to 12 years there from when I got drafted to when I started playing, and I always kind of dreamed about playing a tad closer to home.”
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AP Hockey Writers Stephen Whyno and John Wawrow contributed to this report.
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MANHATTAN, N.Y. (WPIX) — The Statue of Liberty’s crown is set to welcome visitors Tuesday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of New York City in 2020.
The reopening was announced on the NYCgo tourism group’s Instagram page in a post featuring three photos of the iconic New York landmark.
Those looking to visit the statue should book tickets early, as slots fill up months in advance, the post advised. It also noted that Statue City Cruises is the only service providing access to both Lady Liberty and Ellis Island, in a word of warning against other ferry services claiming to go there.
Like much of New York City, the statue suspended operations as the coronavirus gripped the Big Apple in March 2020.
The grounds of Liberty Island reopened in July 2020, with the statue’s pedestal observation deck reopening nearly a year later, according to the National Park Service. | 2022-10-11T11:58:18+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/statue-of-libertys-crown-to-reopen-for-first-time-since-covid-19-shutdown/ |
- Enel X Way will scale up smart electric vehicle charging solutions and services to support an all-electric transportation future.
- Under the new business, Enel X Way will expand its portfolio of award-winning smart EV charging solutions to further increase charging accessibility for consumers, companies, cities and governments.
SAN CARLOS, Calif., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enel, a Fortune 200 energy company that plans to decarbonize its business by 2040, has announced Enel X Way, its new global business line dedicated to smart electric vehicle infrastructure solutions. Enel X Way will focus exclusively on developing EV charging solutions and services to accelerate the adoption of EVs for consumers, companies, cities, and governments. The business is currently active in 17 countries across North and South America, Europe, and Asia and manages over 320,000 public and private charging ports directly and through roaming agreements.
In North America, Enel X Way is headquartered in the heart of the Bay Area, San Carlos, Calif., and will support the rapidly increasing demand for electric vehicles and smart EV charging infrastructure with its portfolio of EV charging solutions, including the award-winning JuiceBox, which this year was recognized by CNET and Car and Driver as the "Best EV Charger Overall for 2022." According to BloombergNEF, EV sales in North America were up 88% in 4Q 2021, bringing the EV share of new car sales to 6.8% that quarter – the highest yet for the region. With more than 110,000 charging stations deployed across North America, EV drivers plug into an Enel X Way charging station every 2.6 seconds, and since launching its flagship consumer product in 2014, JuiceBox customers have avoided more than 510 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to 1.3 million miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle.1
"The future is electric, and decarbonizing our energy and transportation systems will require smart infrastructure solutions to be the bedrock of this transition," said Elisabetta Ripa, CEO of Enel X Way.
"Enel X Way was created to accelerate a sustainable transportation future for all. Becoming Enel X Way is a testament to Enel's increasing investment in electric mobility and commitment to supporting the larger clean energy transformation."
Under the new business line, Enel X Way North America is committed to further increasing sales and production, expanding its portfolio of solutions to include more commercial charging stations and growing its workforce with new highly skilled jobs to meet the evolving market needs. To help new EV drivers and businesses go electric, Enel X Way now offers 24/7 customer support and is helping customers leverage hundreds of millions of available incentive dollars across the United States and Canada as part of state, local and utility programs.
"Across North America, major automakers are doubling down on their electric vehicle plans, large corporations are electrifying their fleets, and new policies and incentives are accelerating more EV adoption," said Chris Baker, Head of Enel X Way North America.
To further promote the spread of electric mobility, Enel X Way will strengthen its numerous partnerships around the world with electric vehicle manufacturers, private companies and public institutions and will leverage an 'interoperable system' by participating in roaming agreements and joint ventures to ensure that customers have access to an extensive and ubiquitous charging experience throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia. This spring, Enel X Way will be launching new retail, automotive and utility partnerships, adding to its roster of commercial customers since releasing its commercial product line in 2020.
Enel X Way is a global leader in smart electric vehicle charging solutions with over 320,000 charging ports worldwide, including roaming agreements. As a subsidiary of Fortune 200 renewable energy leader, the Enel Group, Enel X Way is committed to providing smart mobility solutions for drivers, businesses and partners to make driving electric simple. Enel X Way's flagship home charging station, the JuiceBox, has been named the "best EV charger overall" in 2022 by CNET Roadshow. For more information, please visit our Enel X Way North American website here and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @enelxwayna.
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Hospice Non Profits Send a Strong Message: We Make Decisions at the Bedside, not the Boardroom.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New data from a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI ) nationwide survey shows that 82% of Americans believe the U.S. healthcare system puts profits ahead of people, and 72% believe healthcare groups are not doing a good job caring for folks as they age.
THE NPHI MISSION: "Our Mission," explains Carole Fisher, NPHI President, "is to represent not-for-profit community based hospice and palliative care providers nationwide to ensure all seriously ill patients plus their families have access to comprehensive care that reflects their personal goals, values, and preferences. The survey data reinforces the critical role that our member organizations provide in the communities they serve. They are guided by empathic and compassionate individuals who make critical decisions at the bedside and not the boardroom."
MILLIONS IN CHARITY CARE: Every year NPHI members care for over 400,000 patients and their families. Every year members collectively raise close to 200 million dollars and provide much of that in charity care for the under or uninsured.
AGING WORRIES: The survey findings clearly indicate that Americans are uncertain about care options as they age and are reluctant to discuss their personal needs with a healthcare system they do not generally trust. Since late in life care is provided without regard for profit, NPHI members can help ease these concerns.
NO ONE IS EVER TURNED AWAY: NPHI's CEO, Tom Koutsoumpas upon reviewing the study, commented, "Our members are the ultimate safety net for many communities and especially those living in disadvantaged neighborhoods. We welcome patients and their families by providing the highest quality care, mostly in their homes, regardless of race, citizenship status, or ability to pay. We believe no one living in America should be alone in the hospital at the end of their life but rather wherever they live surrounded by family and close friends."
For more information, read NPHI's report. Views and Experiences of Aging & End of Life Care in the US
If you need to find a hospice provider, please use our website provider locator or call 1-844-GET-NPHI.
About the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) https://www.hospiceinnovations.org
NPHI is a collaborative of almost 100 not-for-profit, community-integrated hospice and palliative care providers dedicated to ensuring patients and their families have access to care that reflects their individual goals, values, and preferences. Representing providers from 35 states and the District of Columbia, NPHI and its members help design more innovative and effective models of care, advocate for comprehensive and community-integrated care customized to meet each person's unique needs, and build collaboration between national thought leaders, decision-makers, and other healthcare stakeholders to improve hospice care.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Police are looking for a person that may have information about the shooting that killed one man and left another injured in North Morristown on Saturday, April 27.
Morristown Police Department obtained pictures of a 2005 Pontiac Vibe that was stolen from West Hamblen County on Friday, April 26. The vehicle was found abandoned shortly after the incident, according to the news release.
Surveillance video in the area captured the vehicle approaching a person walking near the Sunoco gas station on Buffalo Trail around 12:35 a.m. on Saturday. Morristown Police said the person is not a suspect, but investigators need him to come forward with any information about the vehicle and the people who were in it.
The shooting in Morristown left 26-year-old Julio Torres dead in his vehicle outside his residence at Five Point Mobile Home Park. 35-year-old Francisco Suarez was found on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
Investigators are asking the public to check home surveillance camera videos for any suspects and/or vehicles.
Anyone having any information about this incident is urged to contact police. Information can be reported anonymously anytime at 423-585-1833 or call Morristown Police’s dispatch center 24/7 at 423-585-2701. | 2023-05-02T23:20:33+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/hamblen-county-news/person-sought-for-information-about-north-morristown-shooting-suspects-vehicle/ |
(iSeeCars) — You’ve likely heard vehicles referred to as SUVs, crossovers, CUVs, and crossover SUVs.
While crossovers and SUVs are technically not the same, the terms are often used interchangeably. This can lead to confusion and raises some important questions.
For example, what makes a vehicle a crossover, and are all crossovers also SUVs? What is a CUV? And perhaps the most important question for prospective new car buyers: what’s the difference between a crossover and an SUV?
To learn more about what makes a crossover a crossover – and why it isn’t an SUV, despite the similar styling – read on.
You’ve likely heard vehicles referred to as SUVs, crossovers, CUVs, and crossover SUVs. While crossovers and SUVs are technically not the same, the terms are often used interchangeably. This can lead to confusion and raises some important questions.
For example, what makes a vehicle a crossover, and are all crossovers also SUVs? What is a CUV? And perhaps the most important question for prospective new car buyers: what’s the difference between a crossover and an SUV?
To learn more about what makes a crossover a crossover – and why it isn’t an SUV, despite the similar styling – read on.
History of the SUV
SUVs as we know them date as far back as the 1930s, but they were notoriously unrefined and not consumer or family-friendly. This is because the chassis and body style were designed for off-road adventures rather than civilized commuting; the ‘sport utility vehicle’ moniker derives from this original intention. These vehicles were known for their poor gas mileage, spartan interiors, and harsh, heavy-duty suspensions that were effective on the trail, but bad on pavement or highway travel. Like the old body-on-frame pickup trucks on which they were based, these were rugged and focused vehicles.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that buyers began to gravitate toward SUVs. People liked the big, boxy size and the go-anywhere image. And, despite their continued use of a truck-based, body-on-frame chassis, the SUVs of the 1980s had much-improved refinement and ride quality compared to their earlier ancestors. Vehicles like the original Jeep Cherokee and Ford Bronco fueled the fire for versatile SUVs that could be at home on the road and the trail.
History of the Crossover (CUV)
During the 1990s the SUV craze reached a peak. Around this time automakers realized drivers might like the look of an SUV, but favor the characteristics of a sedan. In 1997, Japan introduced the world to the first crossovers: the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. Additional popular crossovers during this time include the Subaru Outback and Ford Escape. What made these vehicles crossovers instead of traditional SUVs? They used a “unibody” platform, which means the body and frame are one piece, providing a much more refined, car-like ride and confident handling.
Since then, this vehicle class has exploded. The crossover SUV, as they were first dubbed, simply became the crossover. Also referred to as a crossover utility vehicle, or CUV, these vehicles have become commonplace, displacing both the long-familiar sedan and the traditional body-on-frame SUV as the most popular mass-market vehicle. From humble, unproven roots, crossover vehicles have become massively successful.
What Is a Crossover?
Crossovers or CUVs are built by taking a car platform and modifying it, usually with a raised ride height. From there, a two-box SUV-style body with four doors and a large cargo area is draped over it. Engines, like the chassis, are also derived from a traditional car – think small displacement four-cylinders and six-cylinders in most cases. The end goal is the fuel efficiency and refinement levels of a car with the style and elevated ride height of an SUV or off-road-oriented station wagon.
Crossovers, as previously mentioned, use what’s called unibody construction. As the name suggests, unibody means the body and frame are a single, joined unit. There is no separate structure for the body and the frame; there’s simply one skeleton that connects the car from floor to roof. During assembly, the body panels are bolted to this skeleton. Unibody construction is lighter than body-on-frame construction and offers a larger crumple zone in the event of an accident. Because crossovers tend to be lighter and have smaller engines, they also tend to be more fuel-efficient.
What is an SUV?
There are important differences between the car-like crossover compared to a traditional SUV. With a few exceptions, true SUVs ride atop frames that are separate from the body. This manufacturing technique, known as body-on-frame construction, is famously stout and is also found under pickup trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles. It requires building the body as a separate unit and bolting it onto the frame during assembly.
This construction is probably the biggest difference between crossovers and SUVs. The unibody gives better ride and on-road comfort compared to something with a full-frame truck chassis. Body-on-frame SUVs are best for towing, hauling, aggressive off-roading, and other strenuous or demanding tasks.
SUV vs. Crossover: Performance and Economy
Because crossovers are based on a car’s platform, they use engines normally not appropriate for SUVs. This means small-displacement turbo four-cylinder engines. The Honda CR-V compact SUV is case in point: its 1.5-liter turbo is the same engine found in the Accord. It’s the same for Toyota, Nissan, Chevrolet, and all the other major automakers. The result is fuel economy that’s nearly identical to a crossover’s sedan counterpart.
SUVs, on the other hand, can’t operate with these small, efficient powertrains. The two big reasons for this are their high curb weight as well as the towing capacity and hauling expectations people demand from SUVs. Having the capability to pull a boat or a trailer of more than one or two tons often necessitates a big V8 under the hood – hence the V8-powered Toyota Sequoia, Chevrolet Tahoe, and GMC Yukon The Ford Expedition is the outlier among the full-size SUV class, having made the move to a twin-turbo V6.
Not all SUVs need V8s, though. The Jeep Wrangler, for instance, is focused on off-roading rather than payload or towing. For that reason, it uses four- and six-cylinder engines. Other small off-roaders similarly use more modest engines.
Along with their weight and squared-off looks, the big, truckish engines found in the typical SUV make them inefficient, especially compared to crossovers. Fuel economy rarely gets above the low 20s on the highway and mid-high teens around town. If you’re towing, those MPG numbers will quickly drop even further.
Sporty, nimble performance isn’t common for most crossovers or SUVs, but SUVs in particular feel ponderous; their big bulk and workhorse engines don’t offer any sense of athleticism. Crossovers can be a bit better but also aren’t usually noteworthy performers (exceptions being performance-oriented models like the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, Jaguar F-Pace, and Porsche Macan). A high center of gravity is a trait shared by both crossovers and SUVs, which inhibits handling and can make these vehicles feel tipsy when a corner is taken too fast.
SUV and Crossover Categories
SUVs fall into three basic categories: small SUVs (Jeep Wrangler), midsize SUVs (Dodge Durango and Toyota 4Runner), and full-size SUVs (GMC Yukon and Mercedes-Benz G-Class.) Crossovers, on the other hand, have more size options. These sizes include subcompact (Nissan Kicks and Hyundai Kona), compact (Toyota RAV4, Mazda CX-5), midsize (Honda Passport, Kia Sorento), and large (Toyota Highlander, Volkswagen Atlas). Note that large crossovers are generally smaller than full-size SUVs, though both can offer three full rows of seating.
CUVs Vs. SUVs: Driven Wheels
Because they are based on cars, modern crossovers are usually front-wheel drive (FWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD). The front and all-wheel drive system is part of the reason crossovers feel like sedans. It provides a better ride and makes packaging more efficient. It also means flatter floors without an intruding drivetrain hump, allowing for a lower vehicle height.
What you don’t get with the crossover is SUV-like capability. It’s the necessary sacrifice for better MPG and storage space – don’t expect to tow anything much bigger than a utility trailer, or ever haul home a full load of bricks, and definitely don’t expect to tackle demanding trails like the Rubicon. Off-road ruggedness is not a characteristic of any front or all-wheel drive car and is too much to expect of a crossover like the Subaru Forester.
SUVs, however, deliver in this regard. They are normally rear-wheel drive, with optional four-wheel drive and additional features like locking differentials and a low-range transfer case. This drivetrain design allows them to tow some serious tonnage and haul big payloads. With true four-wheel drive and lots of ground clearance, they can also conquer terrain that wouldn’t be passable in even an all-wheel drive crossover. It was this off-road capability that earned them the sport-utility name in the first place.
This gives a general overview of how the driven wheels affect crossovers and SUVs. If you want to learn more about each type of drivetrain, read up on the differences between front-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive and all-wheel and four-wheel drive.
SUVs Vs. Crossovers: Safety
Before the introduction of crossovers, there were a lot of buyers interested in SUVs but concerned about how safe they might be. They weren’t so much concerned with surviving an impact – in fact, the big and tall SUVs were comforting to drivers in that regard. What they were worried about was a rollover incident.
This was a serious issue for SUVs in the 90s. Ford was especially impacted; both their Bronco II and Ford Explorer had numerous customer complaints and high-profile incidents, with the Explorer becoming particularly notorious. The fear of a rollover kept some buyers away from these otherwise popular products.
Since then, safety has come a long way. Electronic stability control has become a mandated piece of safety technology that helps a vehicle remain stable even in extreme maneuvering, thereby lowering the risk of rolling over. Nowadays, there’s even more technology to help mitigate potentially dangerous incidents, such as evasive steering assist, lane-keep assist, and lane-departure warning.
These technologies have helped close the gap between cars, crossovers, and SUVs in terms of rollover potential; these days, the risk of a rollover with either an SUV or crossover has become greatly reduced. It’s partly why the popularity of these types of vehicles is higher than ever.
The Bottom Line
If you want the best of both worlds, get the crossover. These lifted hatchbacks – because that’s really what they are – are a jack of all trades and a master at most of them. The average driver gets everything they might want from a car: fuel efficiency, comfort, space, and practicality while enjoying the SUV-like benefits of an elevated ride height, additional cargo capacity, and increased confidence in bad weather. Spacious three-row crossovers like the Honda Pilot are also popular minivan alternatives thanks to their passenger space and family-friendly features.
What wouldn’t you get with a crossover? Towing, payload, and off-road capacities are not equal to traditional SUVs. That remains the realm of those body-on-frame behemoths, and it likely will for a long time yet. There’s nothing that can beat the capability of a big-chassis, big-engined SUV in those extreme instances. In fact, the romance of an SUV’s ability to go anywhere and pull anything is what inspired the original SUV boom of the 1980s and 1990s, and it has largely fueled the rise of the crossover despite their lesser capabilities.
To recap: if you want additional cargo space, better fuel economy, and a comfortable ride, get the car-based crossover. But if you need serious capability, the SUV is the only way to go. And if maximum cargo space and off-road travel aren’t paramount to your needs, a passenger car like a four-door sedan or station wagon remains a compelling, competitive, and more fuel-efficient option as well.
Check out iSeeCars Best Crossovers, Best Midsize SUVs, and Best Large SUVs rankings to see the best vehicles in both the SUV and crossover categories.
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Entire Melbourne Village police force quits, mayor says
The entire police force of a Brevard County village quit.
The town's government is now trying to reassure its residents about their safety.
It's a small community at about one square mile and 685 residents, but as of Friday, the town of Melbourne Village won't have a police force.
The entire force of six resigned on Monday, which includes the chief, three full-time officers, one part-time and a volunteer.
"I would hope that the city of Melbourne, West Melbourne and Brevard County Sheriff would all come together to make sure the community is still protected," Shannon Springhorn said.
WESH spoke with one officer at the police department who said he was not authorized to comment on the resignations and referred to the town's statement on the issue, as he posted it on the station's front door. In it, the town's government assures residents that they will be protected.
"There will be no lapse in coverage, as the Brevard County sheriff's office will immediately provide comprehensive professional law enforcement and police protection services within the town's municipal boundaries,” the statement read.
Both the town and the sheriff's office say there's a history of sheriff deputies covering shifts for the town's police department in a gap-stop manner.
Dispatch is already handled by the sheriff's office.
The town commission will soon be deciding on an ongoing arrangement with the sheriff's office–a contract to cover protection until a long-term decision is made. | 2022-08-18T21:53:33+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/melbourne-village-police-quit/40933630 |
This week, we got a new view of space. And it was epic.
Cosmic cliffs of glowing gas, spinning galaxies, dying stars. The James Webb telescope caught those images of ancient history — billions of light years away — showing what the universe looked like when it was just forming after the Big Bang.
Some 20,000 people worked on the project for almost two decades, including engineer Bill Ochs, who has been the project manager since 2011. He joined All Things Considered to share the journey to this monumental snapshot in time.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On what the project first looked like when he joined
When I came on board, they had just gone through an external review and it was basically concluded that they weren't going to make their current launch date, which I think at that time was 2013. We didn't have enough money.
So when I came on board, I was asked to go ahead and put together a re-plan, which was quite challenging because, you know, you're brand new onto something. To re-plan a mission of this complexity is a pretty steep learning curve. The complexity of this mission and testing it on the ground made us understand we really needed a little bit more time.
On the difficulties of keeping faith for such an ambitious project
In all honesty, I don't think I ever got to that point of really feeling like, hey, it's never going to work. I did hit my retirement age at one point [three years ago], and I thought, you know, maybe I should just retire. And then I'm like, no, I got to see this out to the end.
But that was it. I mean, I tell folks all the time. The type of words I never heard on this project in the 11 1/2 years that I have been here is "give up", "failure" — never heard those words. It was always, "Hey, we got an issue." Whether it was a design complexity issue or, in this case, we did have some mistakes that were made: How do we correct this? How do we make sure this doesn't happen again? And how do we move on?
On the moment it all came together
Well, it actually came in steps. So I really wasn't worried about the launch. The launch vehicle team was outstanding. But those first 2 1/2 weeks of deployment, that's probably the highest anxiety level that we had. I'm a pretty laid-back person. I've done operations before, so I'm pretty calm throughout the whole thing. But definitely, the anxiety level was up.
Prior to launch, folks talk, we had 344 single-point failures. A single-point failure means if this one thing fails, we could potentially lose the whole mission. And a majority of those single-point failures were going to be retired through that first two weeks or so of deployments. So when you think about it, anything in that first two weeks could have maybe taken us out.
When we got through the first two weeks, there was a big sigh of relief when we deployed that final mirror wing. Now you go through a period of checking out the rest of the spacecraft itself, and now we get ready to start aligning the mirrors. But there were 155 motors on the backs of these mirrors to make them function properly for us to do the alignments. Every single one of them worked. Every single one of them survived.
On his reaction when the first images started coming in
So the images that we released on Tuesday, I only saw a preview of a couple weeks ago. So the real images were the engineering images that we took during the mirror alignment phase. And if you saw that, the first image that we released that showed the perfectly focused star. That was actually a cropped image.
But when you looked at the entire image, it was like, "Yeah, OK, that's cool." The star is focused. Let's look at those galaxies in the back. And one of our engineers/scientists started counting. And in that first image, he counted 250-plus galaxies and then made a little photo montage of each of the galaxies. I started carrying this stuff around on my phone. They were like my baby pictures.
Instead of pictures of my grandson, I'm showing people pictures of galaxies. And the structure that you could see was amazing. If you think of Webb in car terms, this thing's a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. Now, we're probably getting close to where we can go into second gear. So at that point, we were barely in first gear, and we're still already seeing this amazing stuff.
On witnessing the world's reaction
Oh, it's amazing. From the day we launched, we started getting reactions from folks all over the world of how touched they were by this, and how excited they were. I participated in a National Park Service/NASA Dark Sky Festival at Death Valley National Park in February, and myself and one of our scientists gave the keynote address.
Afterwards, we're hanging around, and we're talking to folks, and they're asking questions. We had this one lady come up to us, and she said, "Hey, I drove three hours to get here only to hear you guys speak. This is such great news in this world full of trouble." And she started crying when she was talking to us.
And then, just today, there was a special about Webb last night on TV, and one of my communications folks got an email from a rancher in Idaho saying how him and his family were so touched by it. I mean, they now appreciate the fact that they're really in a good dark sky area more, and they can go out at night and see so many stars. It just gave them a greater appreciation. But again, it was related back to [the idea that] with so much trouble in the world, this is just a ray of sunshine.
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NORMAN, Okla. — In his final home game, Tanner Groves scored a season-high 23 points to go with 10 rebounds and Oklahoma rode a hot start all the way, beating No. 22 TCU 74-60 Saturday in the regular-season finale for both teams.
The Sooners dominated TCU on the boards, outrebounding the Horned Frogs 40-26. Jalen Hill grabbed 11 rebounds to complement Groves’ effort.
“I don’t think anyone played harder on the floor than Tanner Groves today,” Oklahoma coach Porter Moser said. “He even drew nine fouls. That just shows you — when someone draws nine fouls, they’re being really aggressive.”
Oklahoma finished at the bottom of the powerful Big 12, but beat four ranked opponents, having earlier defeated then-No. 2 Alabama, Kansas State and Iowa State.
“We sat here yesterday (and said) ‘Just keep believing.’ Being competitive,” Moser said. “If one path (to the postseason) is closed, open up another one. Keep fighting. I thought our guys came out from the jump. I thought our belief was high. … Until you tell me there’s no path, we’ve got to keep fighting.”
Mike Miles Jr. led TCU (20-11, 9-9) with 17 points. He was given a technical foul after being called for a personal foul with 2:59 left and his team trailing by 19 points. Damion Baugh had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Horned Frogs.
The Horned Frogs had won three straight over Oklahoma — recording their first win in Norman in 15 tries last season — but poor shooting left them trailing by 24 points in the first half.
“Oklahoma earned the win,” TCU coach Jamie Dixon said. “We earned the loss. They completely outplayed us. The first five minutes of the game, our defense was atrocious. We dug a hole. We did some things better as the game went on, but the hole was too substantial.”
TCU finished tied for fifth in the Big 12 with Iowa State. The Horned Frogs were attempting to finish better than .500 in league play for the first time since 2001, when they went 9-7 in the Western Athletic Conference.
TCU’s nine league wins matched its highest total since joining the Big 12 and the Horned Frogs have won at least 20 games overall for the fifth time in seven seasons.
Groves recorded the first double-double by an Oklahoma player since he had 14 points and 12 rebounds in a rout of Alabama on Jan. 28. Oklahoma shot 50% (25 of 50) from the field while TCU finished at 37.7% (23 of 61).
TCU made only one of its first 12 shots and fell behind 17-2. The Horned Frogs trailed 38-21 at halftime.
A short jumper by Jakobe Coles with 15:14 left brought TCU within 43-30, but Groves started a 7-0 run for Oklahoma with a three-point play. When his brother, Jacob Groves, hit two free throws with 13:28 left, the Sooners led 50-30.
TCU came no closer than 12 points the rest of the way.
“This is life in the Big 12,” Dixon said. “This is what happens. We got what we deserved.”
BIG PICTURE
TCU: Went went 1-4 during Miles’ recent five-game absence with a knee injury and are 3-2 since his return. TCU safely is in the NCAA tournament field, but missed a chance to continue building momentum as it enters a power-packed conference tournament that will include four other Top 25 teams and two others that received votes in this week’s AP poll.
Oklahoma: The Sooners have made either the NCAA or NIT tournament in 35 of the past 40 seasons. While Saturday’s win helps, they likely still will need to go on what would be a memorable run in the Big 12 tourney to make either the NCAA or NIT fields this season.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
TCU has been ranked for a program-record 13 consecutive weeks and that run might be in jeopardy if poll voters don’t give them the benefit of the doubt after a 1-1 week that also included a win over No. 9 Texas.
UP NEXT
TCU: Will play Thursday against either Texas, No. 7 Baylor or No. 11 Kansas State in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals in Kansas City, Missouri.
Oklahoma: Will play either Oklahoma State or West Virginia on Wednesday in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament. The Sooners won’t know which until after the Oklahoma State-Texas Tech game on Saturday night.
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(NewsNation) — A former member of the Oath Keepers called the decision by a jury Tuesday to convict the founder of the group with sedition crimes “necessary” and warned about the potential for future violence in the next two years.
Stewart Rhodes was found guilty of seditious conspiracy after a nearly two-month-long trial that showcased the far-right extremist group’s efforts to keep Republican Donald Trump in the White House at all costs. Prosecutor argued Rhodes was the mastermind behind a violent plot to overthrow Joe Biden’s presidential win during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.
Using dozens of encrypted messages, recordings and surveillance video, prosecutors made the case that Rhodes began shortly after the 2020 election to prepare an armed rebellion to stop the transfer of presidential power.
Over seven weeks of testimony, jurors heard how Rhodes rallied his followers to fight to defend Trump, discussed the prospect of a “bloody” civil war and warned the Oath Keepers may have to “rise up in insurrection” to defeat Biden if Trump didn’t act.
Jason Van Tatenhove, a former Oath Keepers member, testified to Congress earlier this year about Rhodes and the group, which Van Tatenhove left years ago. Tatenhove said Tuesday on “CUOMO” that the conviction was necessary.
“We needed to show some actual repercussions for the leadership of these types of organizations,” Van Tatenhove said. “We’ve seen a ratcheting up of these incidents, events, standoffs, where it has become more and more extreme from Bundy Ranch on through Jan. 6.”
Van Tatenhove, a former spokesman for the group, told the Jan. 6 House committee he had grown concerned about an embrace for white nationalists and finally left the group after hearing senior Oath Keepers deny the Holocaust. During the hearing, he said words and tweets by Trump essentially “gave the nod” to Rhodes that it was time for action.
“They had the ear of a sitting president at one point,” Van Tatenhove said.
Defense attorneys accused prosecutors of twisting their clients’ words and insisted the Oath Keepers came to Washington only to provide security for figures such as Roger Stone, a longtime Trump ally. The defense focused heavily on seeking to show that Rhodes’ rhetoric was just bluster and that the Oath Keepers had no plan before Jan. 6 to attack the Capitol.
Rhodes testified that he had no idea that his followers were going to join the mob and storm the Capitol and said he was upset after he found out that some did. Rhodes said they were acting “stupid” and outside their mission for the day.
Even though Rhodes faces up to 20 years in prison Van Tatenhove said the Oath Keepers won’t just cease to exist. He theorized a power vacuum will emerge, creating problems of its own.
“Stewart Rhodes was a known quality, he was kind of the devil we knew. He always kind of toed that legal line,” Van Tatenhove said. “It may be a different story entirely if we have someone else that rises up to fill that leadership vacuum that’s willing to lead the charge into something like a January 6th event. Right now we have to consider and be diligently at watching what manifests in that vacuum that’s left.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-11-30T15:39:16+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/washington-dc/ex-oath-keeper-calls-conviction-of-groups-leader-necessary/ |
(NEXSTAR) — As flu and RSV move across the U.S. and elsewhere – in addition to COVID-19 – there are increasing concerns about strep throat, and the bacteria that causes it, streptococcus. Like RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, strep is especially of concern for younger people.
Going into winter 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s looking into a possible surge in invasive Group A strep infections in the U.S.
Two children died from group A strep in the Denver area since Nov. 1, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has reported that at least 19 children have died from Strep A infection since Sept. 1.
While researching “strep throat” or “Group A strep,” you may also come across information on Group B strep, or even types C, D, F, G and H.
Groups A and B are the two groups most commonly associated with infections in humans. There are many key differences between Group A and B strep, as outlined by the CDC.
Group A strep (GAS)
What it can cause: Strep throat, scarlet fever, cellulitis, rheumatic fever, impetigo, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, necrotizing fascitis, and post-streptoccal glomerulonephritis. These diseases and/or infections are often referred to as “invasive Group A strep infections,” or (iGAS).
Who’s most at risk: In general, school-aged children and adults who are in contact with them. Adults with other medical conditions, in addition to the elderly, are also at increased risk.
How it spreads: Respiratory droplets, direct contact with an infected person.
Group B strep (GBS)
What it can cause: Meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, urinary tract infections, sepsis. Group B strep can also cause infections of the blood (bacteremia), bone/joints and skin and soft tissues.
Who’s most at risk: Newborns and adults with medical conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
How it spreads: Group B strep is naturally found in some people’s intestines and genital tracts. Pregnant mothers can pass it on to newborns. The CDC says while it’s “generally unknown” how people spread GBS, you’re not at increased risk of getting sick by living with or being around people who do have it.
Treatment
For both types of strep, the CDC says antibiotics will usually be prescribed by a doctor. For certain conditions, like bone or soft tissue infections, surgery may be needed.
In October, Dr. Matthew Weissman of Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan, told PIX11 Morning News that getting antibiotic treatment for strep is essential.
“The big problem with strep is that risk that if it’s untreated it can lead to other medical conditions, in particular rheumatic fever, which can cause all kinds of problems with your bones and joints and, most importantly, with your heart and heart valves,” he said. “So really important, if it is strep, to get antibiotics and to finish the full course of the antibiotics.” | 2022-12-16T16:38:25+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/whats-the-difference-between-strep-a-and-b/ |
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – Tonight the temperature will fall to 65° under clear skies as the wind settles down for a time out of the northwest at 5 to 15 MPH.
Wednesday is going to be sunny and warm as we cook up to 92°. We’ll have the presence of a strong wind as that continues from the northwest gusting to 30 MPH.
Very hot weather will come our way for Thursday and carry forward into the weekend. Highs will range between 95° and 105° locally. It’ll be important to stay hydrated, limit outdoor activities, and never leave children or pets inside vehicles.
Friday and Saturday, forecast models favor a few isolated showers and thunderstorms – mainly Friday morning and Saturday night. Precipitation amounts will be minimal and spotty.
Next week will be a shade cooler with highs in the middle to upper 80s on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Another round of thunderstorms may get going next Monday which would be a welcome sight in our very dry pattern.
For more from Siouxland’s Most Accurate Forecast, click here. | 2022-07-19T21:28:20+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/weather/weather-forecasts/july-19th-pm-breezy-and-warm-summer-weather/ |
Young adults are using more weed and hallucinogens than ever.
The amount of people from ages 19 to 30 who reported using one or the other are at the highest rates since 1988, when the National Institutes of Health first began the survey.
"Young adults are in a critical life stage and honing their ability to make informed choices," said Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a NIH subsidiary. "Understanding how substance use can impact the formative choices in young adulthood is critical to help position the new generations for success."
The latest data was collected from April 2021 through October 2021.
Marijuana use
The amount of young adults who said in 2021 that they used marijuana in the past year (43%), the past month (29%) or daily (11%) were at the highest levels ever recorded.
Daily use — defined in the study as 20 or more times in 30 days — was up from 8% in 2016.
The amount of young adults who said they used a marijuana vape in the past month reached pre-pandemic levels, after dropping off in 2020. It doubled from 6% in 2017 to 12% in 2021.
Hallucinogen use
The percentages of young people who said they used hallucinogens in the past year had been fairly consistent for the past few decades, until 2020 when rates of use began spiking.
In 2021, 8% of young adults said they have used a hallucinogen in the past year, the highest proportion since the survey began in 1988.
Reported hallucinogens included LSD, mescaline, peyote, shrooms, PCP and MDMA (aka molly or ecstasy).
Only use of MDMA declined has decreased, from 5% in 2020 to 3% in 2021.
Other substances
Alcohol was the most popular substance in the study, though rates of daily drinking have decreased in the past 10 years.
But binge drinking — which the organization defines as having five or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks — is back on the rise after hitting a historic low in 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
High-intensity drinking — having 10 or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks — has been consistently rising in the last decade, and in 2021, was at its highest level since 2005.
Meanwhile, use of nicotine vapes are still on the rise among young people — its prevalence almost tripled from 6% in 2017, when it was first measured, to 16% in 2021.
The use of nicotine cigarettes and opioids has been on the decline in the past decade.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-24T10:13:22+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/2022-08-24/young-adults-are-using-marijuana-and-hallucinogens-at-the-highest-rates-on-record |
The list of the worst countries for religious freedom is out — and Iran, China and North Korea are among the worst offenders. This comes from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent bipartisan panel. Historically, the list has been key in helping to shape U.S. foreign policy.
Based on the report, the Secretary of State creates an official list of "countries of particular concern (or CPC's)."
These are countries where the government is involved in or tolerates severe violations of religious freedoms, from inhumane punishment to false imprisonment. The president then takes action against countries on that official list, mostly involving sanctions.
Last year, the State Department designated a dozen countries as "CPC," including Cuba and Nicaragua for the first time. Now, the UCIRF wants the government to add five new countries to that list including Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Syria and Vietnam.
The repression of religious minorities by the Taliban is the reason the committee recommends Afghanistan be added to the list by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
SEE MORE: South Korean president warns Congress of North Korean nuclear threat
The UCIRF was also outraged after Blinken failed to include India and Nigeria on the CPC list last year despite the panel’s recommendation. In its report Monday, the panel says India's religious freedoms are worsening as leaders banned hijabs in public schools, criminalized interfaith marriage and enforced anti-conversion laws.
The policies have led to intensified, even violent attacks against non-Hindus, particularly Muslims and Christians. It's unclear though, whether the U.S. will add India to the list considering trade between the two nations reached $120 billion in 2022.
The panel also wants Nigeria named a CPC, as churches and worshipers faced unrelenting, targeted attacks, including one at a Catholic church last June that left 40 people dead. A mob also stoned and burned a Christian student because they believe she insulted Islam in a WhatsApp thread.
Beyond countries, the panel suggests the government blacklist so-called "entities of concern." These include terror groups like Boko Haram, the Houthis and several factions of ISIS.
The commission also proposes the State Department add several countries to a "special watch" list. Those are countries at risk of being blacklisted if they don’t improve religious protections.
But there’s no guarantee Secretary Blinken will add all of these groups and countries to these designations. And while U.S. presidents are required to take action against countries of particular concern, one government study last year found administrations typically issue waivers or refer to pre-existing sanctions instead of creating new punishments.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-01T23:47:35+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/annual-list-of-worst-nations-for-religious-freedom-released |
US bank run victims were bailed out in 3 days. In China, many have been waiting a year
By Selina Wang, CNN
Wearing surgical masks to cover their faces, dozens of people demonstrated outside a branch office of China’s central bank in the landlocked province of Henan early this month to demand their savings back.
They’re among thousands of depositors in China that protesters say are still campaigning for compensation after last year’s rural banking scandal saw their accounts frozen.
“America’s Silicon Valley Bank customers got their money back in three days. But China’s Henan village banks’ customers haven’t been given a cent in a year,” they wrote on white banners and posters held up during the demonstration.
China’s latest banking scandal started last April, when five rural banks, four in Henan and one in the eastern province of Anhui, froze depositor funds. Sanlian Lifeweek, a state-owned magazine, estimated that 400,000 customers were affected.
One of them, who asked to be identified only by the surname Du, says he put his entire family’s savings, worth about 5 million yuan or $726,000, into one of the banks.
CNN is not revealing the identities of the bank victims in order to protect their safety. They say all they want is their money back but their requests have been ignored. Some say they’re being tracked, harassed or physically attacked by local officials.
“I live by begging from others or receiving donations,” he told CNN. “If I can’t get the money soon, then my children and I can only live on the streets, without a house or a home.”
Last summer, hundreds of depositors took to the streets in a series of demonstrations to demand answers. Du says he and other protesters were badly beaten before they were eventually allowed to leave.
Weeks after the peaceful demonstrations were violently crushed by local officials, the provincial authorities in Henan blamed the scandal on financial fraud, arrested more than 200 suspects and promised to pay depositors back.
China’s banking regulator pinned the crisis on “unscrupulous shareholders” at several banks, along with third party platforms and brokers.
More failures?
While the majority of depositors received their money back over the past year, an estimated “several thousand” still haven’t received anything, according to protesters.
“People like us have been robbed of money, yet we are treated like criminals,” Du said.
The banks, regulators and local authorities have not responded to CNN’s multiple requests for comment.
Experts say small banks in other parts of China could face the same crisis, as the world’s second largest economy faces a longer term structural slowdown.
“It’s just the tip of the iceberg, and there are similar situations in other provinces,” said Frank Xie, a professor at University of South Carolina Aiken. “I would say at least one-third or one-quarter of the small banks in China are in trouble.”
About a quarter of the Chinese banking industry’s total assets are held by around 4,000 small lenders, which often have opaque ownership and governance structures and are more vulnerable to corruption, say experts, as well as the sharp economic slowdown the country faced during the pandemic.
But the government has learned its lesson and has likely clamped down to conceal information about other troubled banks, according to Xie.
“They’re sitting on a volcano, but they have put a big lid on it and are sitting tight on it,” he said.
Many small banks also relied on financial products tied to the real estate sector for higher returns, so when the property bubble burst and the economy slowed, funds dried up.
Too small to save?
Depositors tell CNN most of the uncompensated victims live outside of Henan province. Experts say the authorities may have been more willing to pay back depositors who live locally because they can more easily gather and organize protests.
The uncompensated victims say they haven’t even received the basic payment, worth up to 500,000 yuan ($73,000), that the government guarantees in case of bank failure.
Experts say this is because the government does not want to set a precedent as it cannot afford to cover the deposits of all of the nation’s troubled smaller banks, if they also go under.
The central government does not want to “send the message out that if you’ve got a provincial bank with a problem, and there’s people protesting, Beijing will simply hand out cash,” said Andrew Collier, Hong Kong-based managing director of Orient Capital Research.
“So that’s why they’re willing to oppress people using the police … to get the message across the banking system that they can’t play fast and loose with money.”
That means depositors at other banks may lose their savings, if they go under, as local governments struggle under the weight of the property crisis and additional costs related to pandemic prevention measures, according to Logan Wright, director of China markets research at Rhodium Group.
The rural banking crisis “reflects a financial system that grew outside the realm of regulations, and the failure of regulation to catch up and effectively protect depositors,” said Wright. “You can’t bail out all of this risky activity, but when you’re trying to enforce market discipline, it hits individual depositors.”
Fear of reprisals
Du and other depositors know this all too well. Many of them were solidly middle class professionals.
They were drawn to the rural banks because of the relatively high returns that were offered. Now, many are struggling — with some drawing comparisons between their plight and the treatment of American depositors in the recent US banking crisis.
They have pointed to the swift step US regulators took to restore confidence in the banking system by guaranteeing that customers of two failed lenders, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, would have access to all their money, including uninsured deposits.
Some Chinese bank victims even say they’re living in fear of violent reprisals.
A middle aged couple, the Li’s, had put their life’s savings, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, into an account at the rural bank in Anhui about four years ago. After their money became inaccessible last year, they avoided the summer protests but did visit the bank and a government bureau in the province.
In early March, around the time of the annual meeting of China’s parliament, the couple said they were illegally detained on an island outside Shanghai by enforcers of unknown origin.
They showed CNN a video that Mrs Li filmed using her phone. Several men wearing street clothes can be seen surrounding their car and forcibly demanding them to get into their vehicles.
“We were locked up for 11 days. They illegally detained us and confiscated our bank cards, phones and wallets, and even my belt,” Mr Li said. “I tried my best to cooperate with them. Still, they beat me.”
The kind of extrajudicial detention the couple say they experienced is not uncommon in China. The aim is to prevent people with grievances from potentially traveling to Beijing to petition higher level authorities when they gather for major events.
“The government’s attitude is that as long as they’ve suppressed the people with problems, there is no need to pay back the money,” said Zhang, another bank victim and lawyer in Beijing. “It is completely different from how Silicon Valley Bank was handled.”
Zhang says many lawyers in China have been told not to represent bank victims, but since he’s a lawyer himself, he has halted his regular legal work and is pouring all of his energy into trying to recover the depositors’ funds.
Zhang has been in touch with many of the depositors, as he tries to mount various legal cases. He says many of them are dealing with anxiety or depression and are struggling to continue their previous jobs.
“Some depositors, myself included, can no longer survive,” Zhang said. “Because all of our money is stored there, some people may commit suicide, some depositors may hurt others. Everyone has a tipping point.”
— CNN’s Laura He contributed reporting
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — De’Aaron Fox had 33 points and seven assists and the Sacramento Kings extended their winning streak to six games with a 137-129 win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night.
“This is the best basketball he’s played in his career," Harrison Barnes said of his teammate. "He’s playing at an All-Star level. He’s doing it on the offensive end, the defensive end ... it’s a credit to him and the amount of work he put in this summer.”
Fox scored 10 points in the fourth quarter, including a pair of free throws with 22.6 seconds remaining that extended Sacramento's lead to six points. The Kings have won eight of their last 10 games after starting the season 0-4.
Sacramento closed the game on a 15-5 run.
“We can score with the best of them,” Kings coach Mike Brown said. “We have to figure out a way to get stops and not just in the last three minutes.”
Barnes had a season-high 27 points with nine rebounds. He hit two free throws with 14.6 seconds left to help secure the victory.
“We’re kind of clicking," Barnes said. “We have that continuity that, at the beginning of the year, we didn’t have. It’s amazing that the offense has clicked on that end.”
Kevin Huerter hit four 3-pointers and finished with 24 points as all of the Kings' starters scored in double figures. Domantas Sabonis had 15 points and 13 rebounds.
“He had another big game for us,” Brown said. “He had a tough (defensive) assignment tonight. He did a good job.”
Pistons rookie Jaden Ivey, the fifth overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft, had 24 points.
“Ivey is aggressive when you need him to be,” Cory Joseph said. “He has great confidence for a rookie.”
Bojan Bogdanovic added 21 points for Detriot, which has lost seven consecutive games and 10 of its last 11.
“They’re playing their hearts out,” Pistons coach Dwane Casey said. “I see growth and improvement ... we have to stay together and stay positive.”
Alec Burks had 16 points off the bench and Marvin Bagley lll added 15 for the Pistons.
TIP-INS
Pistons: G Cade Cunningham (left shin injury) didn’t play Sunday and has been out since Nov. 11. ... F Marvin Bagley lll returned to Sacramento for the first time. Bagley was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 2018 Draft. He was traded to Detroit at last season’s trade deadline. ... Detroit outscored the Kings reserves 55-25.
Kings: Murray returned to the starting lineup after missing the last game against San Antonio with back soreness. ... Malik Monk was given a technical foul with 5:32 left in the third quarter and picked up his second with 7:26 left. He was ejected. ... Sabonis recorded his ninth double-double of the season.
UP NEXT
Pistons: Continue a five-game trip at Denver on Tuesday.
Kings: Travel to Memphis on Tuesday.
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BLOOMINGTON— Seven individuals are getting financial support to enroll in truck driver training classes thanks to the Driving Agriculture Forward Scholarship program, funded by Illinois Farm Bureau and administered by the IAA Foundation.
Recipients include John Reel of Woodford County, Nathan Ault of Warren County, Jared Farr of McDonough County, Kyle Skromme of Whiteside County, Brennan Keifer of Kane County, Andrew LeFevre of Lee County and Jeremy Glenn of Marshall County.
“Investing in individuals who keep agriculture products moving and who represent the strength and diversity of our industry is something we are proud to do,” said Jennifer Smith, Development Manager, IAA Foundation.
Scholarship applications are available year-round with consideration deadlines occurring quarterly. The next application deadline is March 31, which correlates to drivers who intend to enroll in a commercial driver training program at an Illinois community college between April 1 and June 30, 2023.
All applicants must be Illinois residents and provide proof of enrollment during their corresponding award cycle. An endorsement from a farmer, County Farm Bureau leader, agribusiness, or food process business is required.
Eligibility guidelines and applications are available through the IAA Foundation website at www.iaafoundation.org.
For more information, contact your county Farm Bureau, the IAA Foundation at 309-557-2232, or email Jennifer Smith at jsmith@ilfb.org
The mission of the IAA Foundation is to fund education, research, and charitable activities that benefit Illinois farm families and agriculture. | 2023-01-30T16:09:58+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/reel-gets-illinois-farm-bureau-scholarship/article_fe27b092-a0ac-11ed-8c21-afd515773ad9.html |
It is still important to have commemorative months like Black History Month and Women’s History Month for what isn’t included in school curricula and a part of our collective learning about both subjects.
We need to know more truth about the contributions of Black people and of women because we don’t know enough information about either subject. I am always learning something new. For instance, during Black History Month 2023 in a lecture at Fountain of Life Church by Dr. Christy Clark Punjara from UW-Madison’s African American Studies Department, I learned that Wisconsin could have become a state much earlier, but white men didn’t want to give the vote to Black men and didn’t want white women to have control of their own property.
The vote for statehood came later, and Wisconsin became a state without Black men having the right to vote and without property rights for women. These facts are important to know, because it is authentic Wisconsin history, and it shows the struggle for “progressive” Wisconsinites to eventually make the right choices regrading Black men and white women.
Another important new discovery is the concept of intersectionality that impacts me as both a Black person and a woman. Intersectionality is the way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination, such as racism and sexism in my case, combine or intersect in my life as a Black woman. This means that I can be victimized by the color of my skin and because of my gender. Even one form of discrimination is bad, but adding on others is even worse. As I age, ageism might be included, along with classism. When I have a lived experience of discrimination, the specific reason for the bigotry may be one or all many forms. Every one of them is wrong and not what I should experience as a human being in 2023. Yet I still celebrate myself as both Black and as a woman.
March is officially Women’s History Month after a circuitous route. First, March was chosen for International Women’s Day on March 8. That turned into a week celebration and became so popular around the country that in 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued a proclamation declaring the week of March 8 Women’s History Week. By 1986, 14 states had declared March as national Women’s History Month, and in 1987, Congress declared March as national Women’s History Month in perpetuity. All Americans can now celebrate March as Women’s History Month.
This is our Women’s History Month, and we live in Madison, Wisconsin, where two women are vying for the mayor’s office. One, Satya Rhodes-Conway. was elected as the first lesbian mayor and second female mayor and is seeking reelection. Another woman, former police detective, deputy mayor and Madison Metropolitan School Board President Gloria Reyes, is also running. She has the opportunity to become the first Latina and third female mayor if she is successful. What we are celebrating is that both are women, and both have the equal opportunity to become Madison mayor.
We also acknowledge the sorrow of another woman. I saw the visible grief on television from the wife of the Gambian man murdered at his place of work. There have been three members of the Madison’s small Gambian community killed.
This latest victim to gun violence grieves the heart of good people and we send our sympathy to their family, friends and the entire Gambian community. | 2023-03-29T20:13:49+00:00 | captimes.com | https://captimes.com/opinion/guest-columns/opinion-black-and-womens-history-months-a-chance-to-learn/article_699bbb1c-af7f-5986-917a-f1b71ab7be78.html |
No. 23 College of Charleston has earned its moment in the spotlight in recent weeks and now will have a home-court setting when Delaware visits for Saturday’s Colonial Athletic Association game.
Just don’t expect things to become easier for coach Pat Kelsey’s team.
“We’re aware we’re going to get everyone’s best shot,” Kelsey said. “But we do have a very mature team.”
Charleston (15-1, 3-0 CAA) played as a ranked team for the first time in two decades and showed why it has earned the accolade with a 92-79 victory Wednesday at North Carolina A&T.
“There were stretches in the game where we looked like a special team,” Kelsey said.
After two consecutive road games, the Cougars will bring a national ranking to a party at home. On Thursday, the school announced that the game vs. Delaware is sold out.
It is expected to shape up as a special scene for Charleston, which holds a 14-game winning streak – the longest active streak in the country.
Charleston guard Dalton Bolon, a second-year graduate transfer, recorded his first double-double with the Cougars by racking up 22 points and 10 rebounds at North Carolina A&T.
Despite all the team success, Charleston’s production has been mostly spread out among several players. The Cougars have had a CAA Player of the Week just once this season, and that came in Week 2 when guard Ryan Larson shared that distinction.
At N.C. A&T, Larson posted eight points while five of his teammates provided double-figure scoring totals. In addition to Bolon’s output, Ante Brzovic and Pat Robinson III each had 12 points.
Delaware (9-6, 1-1), last season’s CAA Tournament champion, will be on the road for the first time in conference play. The Blue Hens haven’t played since Saturday’s 57-52 victory against Elon.
For Delaware, it has been a season of ups – such as defeating Davidson and Colgate – and downs.
“We have to continue to grow as a basketball team,” coach Martin Ingelsby said.
Delaware relies heavily on a core of players, led by Jameer Nelson Jr. and his 19.7 points per game. Jyare Davis is averaging 16.6 points per game.
The issue for the Blue Hens might be their lack of depth. Four players are averaging more than 31.7 minutes per game.
“We’ve got to get more out of our bench,” Ingelsby said.
Charleston’s plan could be to run the Blue Hens ragged. The Cougars put their depth on display this week when reserves accounted for 40 points at N.C. A&T.
Delaware is averaging 70.7 points per game, which is also the same average number of points it allows in each outing. The Blue Hens have a minus-2.1 rebounding margin per game.
Delaware is 2-3 in road games, with the victories coming by a combined eight points at Princeton and Rider across a four-day stretch in mid-December. Other than those two games, this will be Delaware’s first game away from home since November.
Charleston and Delaware split regular-season games last season, each winning on the road.
–Field Level Media | 2023-01-06T11:36:11+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/no-23-charleston-brings-ranked-party-home-vs-delaware/ |
Dog finds forever home after spending more than 5 years at shelters
MENTOR, Ohio (Gray News) - A dog in Ohio has finally found a forever home after spending more than five years at area animal shelters.
According to the Lake Humane Society, Hershel, a 6-year-old mixed breed, was officially adopted this week after spending over 2,000 days waiting to find a home.
“This lovable boy has finally been adopted into a forever home! And just in time for his 7th birthday,” shelter representatives shared on Wednesday.
The animal care team said Hershel spent the last week in a foster-to-adopt program where he was able to settle in with his new family and surroundings.
“He is already very loved, spoiled, and part of the family. He has a big backyard to enjoy and has quickly become best friends with his new doggie sister, Lucy,” shelter representatives said.
The 6-year-old pup had been calling the Lake Humane Society home since April.
Rescuers said Hershel was living outdoors in horrible conditions when he was initially taken in at the age of 1.
“He was skin and bones, shivering and scared,” shelter representatives shared. “A medical examination confirmed that Hershel was severely frostbitten and was close to starvation.”
The shelter team said it didn’t happen overnight, but they were able to get Hershel back into good health while he waited to be adopted.
Volunteers at the shelter also said they were taking him out on experiences, like sleepovers at their houses, until he found a home.
And now he can continue his adventures with his new family.
“We could not be more thankful for all those who helped share Hershel’s story! Without you all, Hershel’s humans might have never known that they were the ones he’s been waiting for!” shelter representatives said.
Hershel will be celebrating his seventh birthday on June 20.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-08T00:31:45+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/06/07/dog-finds-forever-home-after-spending-more-than-5-years-shelter/ |
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The Sanderson Sisters are ready to fly into your kitchen this Halloween with a brand-new cookbook.
Disney’s new “Hocus Pocus: The Official Cookbook” is full of 70 recipes inspired by the Sanderson Sisters and other characters from the original film — like brother and sister duo Max and Dani and black cat Thackery Binx — and includes appetizers, main dishes, desserts and drinks.
Just a few standout recipes include Ring of Salt Pretzels, Witch’s Broom Donuts, Billy Butcherson’s Zombie Fingers, Thackery Binx Treats and “I Put a Spell on You” Brew.
Available for pre-order on Amazon, the book is priced at $26.09. If you order it now, you’ll be able to lock in the price with Amazon’s pre-order price guarantee.
Just one of the dozens of recipes is for Halloween Candy Ice Cream with Gummy Worm Ganache. This one can be viewed as part of the book preview on Amazon.
The recipe calls for making everything from scratch, but it actually looks pretty simple and doesn’t require too many ingredients. You’ll need heavy cream, unsweetened cocoa powder, sweetened condensed milk, gummy candy, white chocolate and three cups of your favorite chocolate Halloween candy. You can also top the ice cream with more gummy worms if you want it extra creepy-crawly.
The recipe also calls for using a stand mixer, but you may be able to figure out a workaround if you’ve made ice cream without one before.
The book will actually be released on July 11, which may seem odd for a cookbook that is clearly for Halloween, but the original “Hocus Pocus” film was also released in July — so it’s actually quite fitting. And it’ll give you plenty of time to practice the recipes before the spooky holiday season.
Hitting theaters on July 16, 1993, the film was not a box office success, grossing just under $45 million domestically. It was nowhere as beloved then as it is now — today’s fans can get everything from “Hocus Pocus” games and costumes to home decor and even cereal hitting stores each October.
The film has become so popular that Disney released a sequel in 2022, nearly 30 years after the Sanderson Sisters first returned to “find the book, brew the potion and suck the lives out of the children of Salem before sunrise” in Salem, Massachusetts.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-04-21T14:24:37+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/new-hocus-pocus-cookbook-will-help-you-brew-up-some-magical-treats |
Ulta Beauty theft, Menomonee Falls police seek suspect
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. - The Menomonee Falls Police Department is looking for a suspect accused of stealing fragrances from Ulta Beauty on Wednesday, Aug. 31.
Police said the suspect hid "several" fragrance bottles in her purse before leaving the store on Falls Parkway, making no attempt to pay, around 1 p.m.
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HYDERABAD, India (AP) — HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (RDY) on Wednesday reported net income of $117 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Hyderabad, India-based company said it had profit of 70 cents.
The pharmaceutical posted revenue of $766 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $548 million, or $3.30 per share. Revenue was reported as $2.99 billion.
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The race for governor between incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O'Rourke is getting more competitive as Abbott tries to pull his base closer by laying into immigration.
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The race for governor between incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O'Rourke is getting more competitive as Abbott tries to pull his base closer by laying into immigration.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-01T22:26:03+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-08-01/the-race-for-texas-governor-between-abbott-and-orourke-ramps-up |
DENVER (KDVR) – Four pedestrians walking on a sidewalk in Denver’s Union Station neighborhood late Saturday night were struck by a vehicle and the suspect is still at large.
According to the Denver Police Department, officers responded to reports of a hit-and-run near the intersection of 18th Street and Wazee Street early Sunday morning.
When they arrived at the scene, officers discovered four adult victims all with serious injuries. They were transported to nearby hospitals and the extent of their injuries is not known as of this posting.
Officials with the City of Denver said that the investigation revealed the vehicle involved in this hit-and-run drove up onto the sidewalk and struck all four of the pedestrians involved.
Again, the suspect is still at large and details on the vehicle’s description have not been made public, but if you have any information that could assist the police as they try to locate the person responsible for this crash, you can reach out to the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers by calling 720-913-7867.
This is a developing story and FOX31 will update it as more information is released. | 2023-01-08T19:50:02+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/4-pedestrians-struck-by-motorist-in-denver-hit-and-run/ |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KRON) — The CEO of a tech company has been charged with the 1992 strangulation murder of Laurie Houts in California. He could face life in prison if convicted, according to the County of Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
On Saturday police arrested John Kevin Woodward, 58, the President and CEO of Readytech, at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City when he arrived from Amsterdam. He was then charged with the murder of Laurie Houts—his roommate’s girlfriend—in Mountain View 30 years ago.
In September of 1992 a passerby noticed Houts dead in her vehicle on Crittenden Lane in Mountain View. The rope that had been used to kill her was still around her neck. Footprints were visible on the windshield interior, a sign that she struggled for her life.
Investigations quickly steered law enforcement towards Woodward as a prime suspect. He was reportedly jealous of Houts because he developed an “unrequited romantic attachment” to her boyfriend, Woodward’s roommate. Woodward reportedly had no alibi.
Woodward was tried twice for the murder throughout the late 1990s. The second case was dismissed by a judge citing insufficient evidence after a jury could not reach a verdict. Woodward then moved to the Netherlands after the case was dismissed.
In 2021, newly developed forensic technology was able to tie Woodward to the scene via the rope that was used to strangle Houts. The DA’s office filed a case in January of this year and a nationwide warrant was activated for his arrest.
Rob Baker, the Deputy District Attorney with the Cold Case Unit, said the process of arresting Woodward was particularly complicated because he lives in the Netherlands. Homeland Security worked with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security to learn when Woodward would be returning to the United States. “Prior to COVID, he [Woodward] regularly returned to the Bay Area at least once a year, typically in the summer,” Baker said.
Last Wednesday, Homeland Security informed the DA’s Office and the Mountain View Police Department that Woodward would be arriving at JFK on Saturday. By Friday, investigators from the DA’s office and the Mountain View Police Department were traveling to New York to assist with the arrest. Woodward was arrested by Homeland Security when he got off the plane, and was taken into custody in New York.
Baker said that Woodward waived extradition in a New York courtroom on Monday afternoon. Mountain View Police will escort Woodward back to California and book him into Santa Clara County Jail by July 29. After he has been booked, he will face arraignment on the complaint charging him with the murder of Houts. | 2022-07-14T00:06:15+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/tech-ceo-arrested-in-1992-cold-case/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are accusing the Biden administration of using $39 billion meant to build computer chip factories to further “woke” ideas such as requiring some recipients to offer child care and encouraging the use of union labor.
The administration has countered that these elements of the funding guidelines announced Tuesday will improve the likelihood of attracting companies to build the semiconductor factories and people to work there — a key challenge that could determine the program’s success. It sees the guidelines as a starting point for working with companies to ensure value for taxpayers.
The tension is an example of the partisan mistrust that can arise in Washington even on an agenda item that lawmakers from both parties say is vital for U.S. national security. Republicans say the administration, in implementing the law, is trying to squeeze in priorities that please the Democratic base. They also argue that the guidelines will increase the cost of constructing semiconductor plants and will poison any sense of ongoing trust.
“What President Biden is doing by jamming woke and green agenda items into legislation we pass is making it harder for him to ever get legislation passed again,” said Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who voted for the law.
But in the grand scheme, administration officials say, the guidelines can help to address two fundamental challenges to the government’s plans to transform the United States into the world leader in producing advanced computer chips: The companies need skilled labor and they need innovations that can reduce production costs.
If the investments are going to succeed, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has said, the companies must find and train tens of thousands of workers, from welders to electrical engineers. More importantly, the industry needs scientific breakthroughs to halve the cost of making chips so the U.S. can compete with Asia, Raimondo told The Associated Press in an interview before the guidelines came out.
“Innovation happens when you go to solve big fat problems like cutting the cost of chip production in half,” Raimondo said. “That’s what we have to do.”
The money for the factories comes from the CHIPS and Science Act that President Joe Biden signed into law last August. It includes $11 billion for research, in addition to the $39 billion for building advanced computer chip factories. Tax incentives bring the total investment to $52 billion.
Chips are integrated circuits that are embedded in a semiconductor, a material — notably silicon — that can manage the flow of electric current. The terms “chip” and “semiconductor” are often used interchangeably. Computer chips are used in everything from autos to toys to advanced weapons, making them as fundamental for the digital era as iron and steel were in the industrial age.
Administration officials said the factories could have an easier time attracting workers if child care is provided to parents at an “affordable” rate by companies that would receive $150 million or more in government backing. Similarly, companies seeking the money are given a preference if they use labor agreements for construction, a boost for building trade unions. The White House, in a 2022 executive order, said that can ensure projects are completed on time.
An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, said no prospective applicant has complained about the child care provision. The official added that TSMC and Samsung — two possible applicants — already provide child care at their facilities in Taiwan and South Korea, respectively.
Researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank focused on national security, described the child care provisions as necessary for the “fabs,” the chip industry’s term for factories.
“It is not, as some have wrongly argued, an issue of social policy,” wrote Sujai Shivakumar and Charles Wessner, both at CSIS. “It is a pragmatic move, clearly aligned with the nation’s security interests, to grow the workforce necessary to get the fabs built and producing the chips on which our country runs.”
There are roughly 360,000 jobs in semiconductor production, according to the Labor Department. Announced projects tied to the possibility of government support could add 200,000 more jobs, including 36,000 directly tied to computer chips, according to a report by the Semiconductor Industry Association.
That same report noted that the U.S. leads in terms of designing chips and the equipment to manufacture them. But more than 70% of the chips produced globally come from China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea — an economic and military weakness for the U.S.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the mandates for accessing government support would raise the cost of completing the factories planned by Intel, Micron and Wolfspeed, which plans to make silicon wafers in his state.
“What we’re beginning to do is discount the value of the investment that we’re making,” Tillis said. “I think that what we’re doing is social engineering.”
Support for the computer chips legislation was bipartisan. Seventeen Republican senators joined with Democrats to back the bill. Twenty-four House Republicans voted for the legislation.
Raimondo, when asked if the law could get tripped up by politics, said: “You always worry. Washington’s unpredictable. And politics is crazy.”
Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., said the practical impact of the guidance is limited because companies likely would have offered child care and relied on some unions anyway. But Young said the administration’s messaging is not going over so well with colleagues.
Young was instrumental in generating Republican support for the bill and worked closely with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in crafting it. The idea behind the proposed investments is “consistent with our free market principles,” he said. “But the communications exercise of the administration as related to these matters is complicating that.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who voted for the bill, said he has exchanged text messages with Raimondo since the guidance came out and told her “that when the administration does things like that, it really undermines our ability to work together in a bipartisan basis to pass legislation.”
Cornyn said he realizes that Raimondo “doesn’t call all the shots,” but he hopes she’s sending the message to the White House about Republican frustration. He acknowledged that he is still evaluating the guidance and trying to figure out “what difference does it make.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he voted to “give us the capabilities that we don’t have,” not the “union agenda” that he sees embedded in the application process.
Graham said Republicans have recourse to make sure the administration knows their objections, possibly taking the squabble well beyond computer chips: “Hold every nominee, make life miserable,” he said. | 2023-03-03T03:15:40+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/technology/ap-technology/ap-gop-senators-computer-chip-money-underwriting-woke-agenda/ |
Which phone grip is best?
There are several ways to protect your phone from water damage or cracking the screen from a fall. Most of the time, it could probably be prevented if you had a better grip on your gadget. But not everybody has lightning-fast reflexes and so could use a bit of help.
That’s where a phone grip comes in. Through a strong adhesive, it sticks to the back of your device and gives you a handle of sorts. It dramatically reduces the chances of your phone slipping out of your grasp. An excellent choice is the matte black PopSockets PopGrip with Swappable Top.
What to know before you buy a phone grip
Different design types
A phone grip has one primary function — to prevent the gadget from slipping out of your hands. However, several companies have come up with their own designs. PopSocket’s PopGrip is the most popular (and most common), as it is a retractable knob that folds flat. Others opt for a loop to slide your fingers through or a metal ring to hold. It’s up to you to decide which design works best, factoring that some are more elaborately decorated than others.
It’s best when used with a phone cover
A phone grip sticks to the gadget, but it’s much better if you use it in combination with a protective cover. While the sticky adhesive usually doesn’t leave any residue, it’s not a chance you should take. It is much easier to replace the cover than your phone. And in case the adhesive fails, you can somewhat rely on the cover to protect your phone from damage.
It can interfere with wireless charging
If you prefer to put your phone on a wireless charging pad, you might have problems if you have a phone grip. Unless it is specifically made to be compatible with wireless chargers, the phone grip’s bulkiness and the material will stop the electromagnetic powers from reaching your mobile. That’s also why it’s best to stick the grip on a cover, as you can easily pop it out and charge it.
What to look for in a quality phone grip
Strong adhesive
There will be no point in using a phone grip if it doesn’t stay attached to your mobile. A good-quality grip has a strong adhesive on the back so that it doesn’t detach easily. Where possible, test the adhesive qualities of a phone grip before using it, keeping in mind that you can’t replace the stickiness when it’s insufficient.
Additional features
A phone grip is made to create a secure handhold, but some good-quality designs go one step further. The original PopGrip was meant to be a storage place for your wireless earbuds, and some still incorporate the idea. Other phone grips have tops that can open to store lip balm or smaller accessories, and others double up as kickstands.
Solid materials
Protecting your phone from everyday mishaps is the job of the cover, but that doesn’t mean the phone grip should be made from inferior materials. A good-quality grip is made from hardened plastic that can take a beating, a soft silicone base that is easily removable, or robust metals that won’t snap as you hold on to your phone.
How much you can expect to spend on a phone grip
The average price of a phone grip depends on the manufacturer and any additional features, although most are relatively inexpensive. A fabric loop costs $8-$12, while the popular PopGrip costs $9-$11. It is often better to buy a bulk pack, as it’s a better value.
Phone grip FAQ
Does a phone grip work with tablets?
A. In theory, a phone grip should work with a tablet. But you must remember that a tablet weighs much more than a phone. In most cases, there are slightly bigger, more robust grips specifically for tablets.
Can you change the phone grip to a different design?
A. That depends on the grip, but some designs let you swap out the grip for a different color. With that said, not many manufacturers let you do that.
What’s the best phone grip to buy?
Top phone grip
PopSockets PopGrip with Swappable Top
What you need to know: The PopGrip is perhaps the best-known grip for mobile phones, and you can’t go wrong with a classic design.
What you’ll love: The matte black grip has a textured finish on top, but it can also be swapped out for other designs. The PopGrip is compatible with all PopSocket phone accessories. And you can make it flat – you can simply twist the top 90 degrees and push it down.
What you should consider: The PopGrip sticks best to hard plastic cases and is not suited for silicone or waterproof cases.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top phone grip for the money
Syncwire Cell Phone Ring Holder Stand
What you need to know: This elegant ring is the perfect accessory for keeping your phone where it should be.
What you’ll love: Made from high-quality zinc alloy and metal, this elegant ring gives you a better grip on your phone for one-handed operation. The ring’s color won’t fade, as Syncwire uses vacuum ion plating technology to prevent discoloration. The ring can rotate 360 degrees and tilt 180 degrees and the adhesive is strong enough to carry 11 pounds.
What you should consider: As it’s made from metal, it isn’t compatible with wireless chargers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
LoveHandle Phone Grip for Most Phones
What you need to know: This grip lets you securely hold your phone through a strap.
What you’ll love: The LoveHandle works similarly to other grips, but instead of a ring or knob, it is a fabric loop that attaches to your phone. It is wide enough to hold with several fingers, and the adhesive (with an adapter) is compatible with waterproof phone cases.
What you should consider: If the grip is in the middle of the phone, it can interfere with wireless charging.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Okta, Inc. ("Okta" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OKTA) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-02990, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired otherwise Okta securities between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Okta securities during the Class Period, you have until July 19, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Okta provides identity solutions for enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, universities, non-profits, and government agencies in the United States and internationally. The Company offers a variety of cybersecurity products and services. Following its completed merger with Auth0, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Auth0"), on May 3, 2021, Okta began providing additional Auth0 products related to cybersecurity and login solutions.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On or around March 21, 2022, hackers known as LAPSUS$ posted screenshots on their Telegram, a cloud-based instant-messaging service, channel showing what they claimed was Okta's internal company environment. Thereafter, on March 22, 2022, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Defendant Todd McKinnon ("McKinnon"), posted a statement on his Twitter account, disclosing that, "[i]n late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors" (emphasis added); that "[t]he matter was investigated and contained by the subprocessor"; that "[w]e believe the screenshots shared online are connected to this January event"; and that, "[b]ased on our investigation to date, there is no evidence of ongoing malicious activity beyond the activity detected in January."
On this news, Okta's stock price fell $2.98 per share, or 1.76%, to close at $166.43 per share on March 22, 2022.
Later, on March 22, 2022, during after-market hours, in a statement on Okta's website, the Company's Chief Security Officer, Defendant David Bradbury ("Bradbury"), disclosed, inter alia, that "[a]fter a thorough analysis of [the LAPSUS$] claims, we have concluded that a small percentage of customers – approximately 2.5% – have potentially been impacted and whose data may have been viewed or acted upon."
Following Okta's updated statement, multiple news outlets reported that hundreds of the Company's clients were potentially affected by the January 2022 data breach. For example, on March 23, 2022, CNN published an article entitled "Okta concedes hundreds of clients could be affected by breach[,]" noting that, despite the Company's statement that "a small percentage of customers – approximately 2.5% – have potentially been impacted[,]" the Company "has over 15,000 customers, according to its website." That same day, Reuters and others published similar reports.
Separately, Okta was downgraded by Raymond James from "strong buy" to "market perform," noting, among other things, that "[w]hile partners were willing to trust Okta's track record, the handling of its latest security incident adds to our mounting concerns."
Following Okta's after-market update and Raymond James downgrade, the Company's stock price fell $17.88 per share, or 10.74%, to close at $148.55 per share on March 23, 2022.
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A 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning has been independently dyno-tested for the first time. The test, which proved challenging to conduct, showed that Ford’s all-electric pickup truck comes close to its factory-rated output.
An extended-range model was used in the test, which was conducted by the Texas Truck Show with assistance from dyno manufacturer Dynocom. Ford rates that version at 580 hp and 775 lb-ft of torque, and the dyno showed 565 hp and 784 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. That represents a 3% loss in horsepower from the motors to the wheels, but slightly more torque than the published specs.
Just getting that result was difficult, Brian Raupe, host of the Texas Truck Show, explained in an email to Motor Authority. At 145.5 inches at the hub centers, the Lightning’s wheelbase exceeded the limits of most all-wheel-drive dynos testers had access to. These tend to be used for smaller sports cars and max out at a 125-inch wheelbase.
With performance trucks, the solution would typically be to run in rear-wheel drive on just one set of rollers. But that wasn’t an option with the dual-motor Lightning. Dynocom ended up modifying one of its DC-6000 dynos to accommodate the Lightning’s longer wheelbase. The DC-6000 uses a gearbox to synchronize the two rollers. That’s more accurate than typical belt systems, which are prone to stretching, Raupe noted.
Dyno tests also typically rely on engine speed, but that’s not a relevant figure for EVs because of their instant torque. Dynocom measured wheel speed instead. A final drive ratio is also needed for calculations, but Ford doesn’t publish one for the Lightning. Using wheel speed and tire height, testers estimated a final drive of 2:1 for each of the Lightning’s motors.
Finally, the Lightning initially cut power down to less than 200 hp around 70 mph, then would ramp back up to full power on the way to an indicated 107-mph top speed. This was due to excessive acceleration without real-world weight and wind resistance, Raupe said. Basically, the truck thought it something was wrong and limited power. The workaround was using software to apply added resistance to the dyno rollers, simulating real-world conditions.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the investment division of Viva Biotech, Viva BioInnovator is committed to being a collaborative platform for Innovative Biotech companies from around the world. Over the past 2 months, our portfolio companies progressed greatly.
ABM Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase I Clinical Trial of ABM-1310 in China
On September 16, 2022, ABM Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is invested and incubated by Viva BioInnovator, announced that the first patient has been successfully dosed with ABM-1310 in a multi-center phase I clinical trial in China.
ABM-1310, ABM Therapeutic's proprietary clinical candidate developed as a next-generation BRAF inhibitor, is a highly selective, highly water-soluble, orally administrated, and brain-penetrant small molecule BRAF inhibitor. ABM-1310 phase I trial, conducted in China, is a multi-center, open-label study to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary anti-tumor activity of ABM-1310 in Chinese patients with BRAF V600X mutated advanced solid tumors.
F5 Therapeutics awarded First Servier FAST Discovery Award
F5 Therapeutics, which invested and incubated by Viva BioInnovator, was recently awarded the first Servier FAST Discovery Award. Winning this award means F5 stood out from 23 applications, indicating the industry's recognition of F5's innovative treatment methods in the field of biomedicine. "Servier FAST Discovery Award" is co-sponsored by Servier and the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA) to support early-stage life science companies using innovative approaches in areas designated by the group: oncology, auto-immune diseases, genetically driven neurodegenerative, and movement disorders.
F5 is transforming targeted protein degradation to advance drug discovery by utilizing the cell's normal protein regulation systems to remove disease-causing proteins that cannot be targeted by traditional approaches. The NExMods™ Platform (NEosubstrate Expression Modulators) represents a novel approach to "molecular glues" capable of delivering effective medicines to patients across diverse therapeutic areas: oncology, immuno-oncology, fibrosis, inflammation, and neurodegeneration.
AceLink Therapeutics Receives Orphan Drug Designation for its Novel GCS inhibitor AL01211 for the Treatment of Fabry Disease
AceLink Therapeutics, Inc. (AceLink), invested and incubated by Viva BioInnovator, is an innovative biopharmaceutical company developing transformative therapies for genetic diseases. On September 7, 2022, they announced that they received Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for AL01211 as a treatment for Fabry Disease.
AL01211 was selected based on its unique properties to effectively treat peripheral organs that Fabry disease affects by reducing the risk of off-target effects by preventing the crossing of the blood-brain barrier.
HAYA Therapeutics won the "TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2022" and was successfully selected for the "Soonicorn Club 2022"
On Sept. 7th, 2022, the "Top 100 Swiss Startup Award 2022," sponsored by Venturelab, was announced. HAYA Therapeutics, invested and incubated by Viva BioInnovator, was named TOP100 Swiss Startups' 8th Best Startup and came first in the Cardiovascular & Drug Discovery sectors. In addition, HAYA Therapeutics was recently included in the"SoonicornClub 2022", which names the top Swiss technology startups. The awards given demonstrate the industry's recognition of their potential in the field of biomedicine.
Regenacy Pharmaceuticals Announces Completion of Enrollment for their Phase 2 Study in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and $9.3 Million in Series B Financing
Regenacy Pharmaceuticals Inc, invested and incubated by Viva BioInnovator, is a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company developing breakthrough treatments for diabetes and other peripheral neuropathies. On August 24, 2022, they announced completion of enrollment for the company's phase 2 study of ricolinostat, an oral selective deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitor for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). The company also announced the closing of a $9.3 million Series B financing led by Cobro Ventures.
Arthrosi Completes AR882 Renal Impairment Study and its Phase 2b Study Enrollment
Arthrosi Therapeutics, Inc., which invested and incubated by Viva BioInnovator, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the treatment and management of gout. On August 9, 2022, they announced the completion of their renal impairment study that utilizes the lead compound, AR882. AR882 is a potent and selective uricosuric agent which has shown effectiveness in lowering serum urate in patients with normal renal function and in patients with mild to severe renal impairment.
On Aug. 23, 2022, Arthrosi announced the completion of enrollment for its global Phase 2b clinical study of AR882 for the treatment of chronic gout. The study, which exceeded the initial target enrollment of 120 patients, is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AR882 in chronic gout patients who meet ACR/EULAR gout classification.
About ABM Therapeutics
ABM Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a mission to focus on the small molecule research and development of novel drugs for the treatment of cancer, and on brain cancer and cancer metastases. ABM has been building its broad and robust proprietary pipeline to construct a brain medicine R&D platform through collaboration with CROs. ABM's pipeline includes several programs in various stages of discovery and development, most of which have improved brain permeability to address the unmet needs of treating cancers and metastases in the brain.
About F5 Therapeutics
F5 is evolving targeted protein degradation to transform the landscape of drug discovery by utilizing the cell's normal protein regulation systems to remove disease causing proteins that cannot be targeted by traditional approaches. The NExMods™ Platform (NEosubstrate Expression Modulators) represents a novel approach to "molecular glues" capable of delivering impactful medicines to patients across diverse therapeutic areas: oncology, immuno-oncology, fibrosis, inflammation, and neurodegeneration.
About AceLink Therapeutics
Founded in 2018, AceLink Therapeutics is an innovative biopharma startup focusing on developing safe and effective medicines to address genetic diseases with high unmet needs. The company's initial focus is to develop novel therapeutics for Fabry disease. For more information, please visit www.acelinktherapeutics.com.
About HAYA Therapeutics
HAYA Therapeutics is a precision therapeutics company that discovers and develops innovative tissue- and cell-selective genomic medicines for fibrotic diseases and other serious health conditions associated with aging, including cancer. The company's discovery engine focuses on long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) within the "dark matter" of the human genome -- key tissue and cell-specific drivers of fibrosis and other disease processes -- to identify novel targets and drug candidates with the potential for greater efficacy and safety than existing treatments.
About Regenacy
Regenacy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company regenerating biological function by protein acetylation for the treatment of diabetic and other peripheral neuropathies and other chronic conditions. The company's selective inhibition technology provides superior safety profiles and potential enhanced efficacy compared to non-selective HDAC inhibitors. Regenacy selectively inhibits histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) to restore normal intracellular protein and organelle transport in peripheral neuropathies, and also has a portfolio of selective HDACs 1 and 2 inhibitors that have potential to treat major blood diseases such as leukemia, sickle cell disease, β-thalassemia, and cognitive dysfunction in neurological disorders. www.regenacy.com
About Arthrosi Therapeutics
Arthrosi Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in San Diego, CA, in 2018 with a mission to create a revolutionary treatment option to target uric acid levels and reduce joint damage for people living with gout. With its vast therapeutic and treatment knowledge, Arthrosi has accumulated a comprehensive and robust intellectual property portfolio and impressive Phase I and Phase II data showing industry leading efficacy rates and superior safety profiles. To learn more about Arthrosi, please visit www.arthrosi.com
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Aug. 10, 1946 - Jan. 4, 2023
MAROA — Larry Peasley 76 of Maroa, IL, passed away 11:12 PM, January 4, 2023, at Springfield Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, IL.
Services will be 11:00 AM, Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at the Maroa United Methodist Church, Maroa, IL, with Rev. Mary Alice Cunningham officiating. Burial will follow at Maroa Cemetery, Maroa, IL. Visitation will be 5:00 - 8:00 PM, Monday, January 9, 2023, at Calvert Funeral Home, Clinton, IL.
Memorials may be directed to the Maroa Fire Department or the Maroa-Forsyth High School Softball Team.
Larry was born August 10, 1946, in Lincoln, IL, the son of Paul and Mary (Purlee) Peasley. He married Janet Oakes May 30, 1980, in Maroa, IL.
Survivors include his wife, Janet Peasley, Maroa, IL; children: J. D. (Tara) Peasley, Maroa, IL, and Tim (Cailin) Peasley, Maroa, IL; three grandchildren: Marina Rohman, Addelyn Peasley, and Hayden Peasley.
Larry was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, James and Richard.
Larry served on the Maroa Fire Department for 43 years. He enjoyed watching Maroa-Forsyth sports.
Online condolences may be made at www.calvertmemorial.com. | 2023-01-06T20:25:34+00:00 | herald-review.com | https://herald-review.com/obituaries/larry-peasley/article_d14d0e05-17ea-5b97-9192-ad44bc16a953.html |
Pay $30,000 a year to live on a cruise ship, travel the world
Have you ever wished you could travel the world but you have real-life responsibilities and bills to pay? Well, here’s a chance to live out that fantasy – for a few years, at least – and you can still work remotely.
Life at Sea Cruises is offering voyagers and adventurers a chance to live and travel the world on a cruise ship for three years.
The program offers visits to 375 ports across 135 countries which amounts to more than 130,000 miles of travel across the seas.
The price tag for such an extravagant three-year commitment amounts to $29,999 a year (totaling about $90,000 overall). Luckily, you won’t have to pay that amount all in one go.
Life at Sea Cruises offers payment options starting from $2,499 a month which is all-inclusive, according to a company news release.
Seafarers can choose from cabins that range from 130 square feet and will have the option to enjoy either a virtual inside view or ocean view staterooms, as well as a choice of balcony suite options.
Balcony view. (Life at Sea Cruises )
The vessel, named MV Gemini, boasts 400 cabins and rooms which can accommodate up to 1,074 passengers.
Guests will have access to traditional cruise ship amenities such as dining, entertainment and recreational activities.
And for those voyagers who plan to work to pay the monthly cabin rent, the ship has 14 office spaces available as well as a business center, meeting rooms and a business library.
Additionally, those who plan to work while aboard the MV Gemini can enjoy additional tax benefits as an international resident aboard the ship.
MV Gemini cruise ship. (Life at Sea Cruises )
"Professionals need connectivity, the right amenities and the functionality to perform their jobs. There is no other cruise product that offers this sort of flexibility to their customers" said Mikael Petterson, managing director of Life at Sea Cruises.
Since you’ll basically be living on this ship for the next three years, a 24-hour on-call hospital with free medical visits will also be available.
But remember, you’re living on a cruise ship, so while you may be working a remote job whilst enjoying panoramic views of the ocean from your cabin, you can cut through those work days with multiple-day stops at each port on the cruise itinerary.
"Life at Sea Cruises offers the ultimate bucket list cruise without having to sacrifice the comforts of home," said Irina Strembitsky, director of sales and marketing. "It’s your home at sea with the world as your backyard."
The three-year voyage will begin on Nov. 1 beginning in Istanbul, Turkey, with pickup stops in Barcelona, Spain, and Miami, Florida.
Reservations are open and you can book your spot by visiting LifeAtSeaCruises.com or by calling 954-379-8221.
Happy sailing!
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2023-03-03T21:03:02+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/pay-30000-a-year-to-live-on-a-cruise-ship-travel-the-world |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who took office last month, has pledged to work closely with Baltimore leaders to reduce gun violence by addressing the complex social forces underlying the city’s longstanding struggle to improve public safety.
His approach comes in stark contrast to his predecessor, Republican Larry Hogan, who often accused Democratic city officials of being soft on crime.
Moore, Maryland’s first Black governor, joined Baltimore’s mayor and newly elected local and statewide prosecutors Friday for a public safety summit at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where the group of Democrats presented a united front, saying they want to move beyond a sometimes “disjointed” approach of past administrations.
“There is no silver bullet,” Mayor Brandon Scott said. “We have to work on it consistently, every day — all of us, for the long haul.”
They committed to finally bringing down Baltimore’s homicide rate, which remains among the highest in the nation. The city recently recorded over 300 annual homicides for the eighth year running, amid a surge in violence in the wake of Freddie Gray’s 2015 death in Baltimore police custody.
“Baltimore does have a distinct challenge,” Moore said. He promised his administration will partner with city officials while acknowledging that public safety is a major concern in many communities across the state.
He touted the importance of criminal justice reform that “allows second chances to mean something.”
Officials also called for law enforcement and prosecutorial efforts to get more illegal guns off the streets and hold people accountable for illegal possession, while making a continued commitment to police reform. They also called for investment in programs and services that give disadvantaged youth a better chance at success.
The show of unity came in stark contrast to the contentious and largely dysfunctional relationships that had developed in recent years. Hogan often publicly criticized Baltimore’s elected leaders, including Scott, whose approach to curbing crime became a long-simmering point of contention between them.
During the discussion Friday, Scott reiterated his philosophy that police alone can’t significantly reduce violence because the problem is bigger than law enforcement. He mentioned redlining, segregation, childhood poverty, educational inequities and other environmental factors that have placed many Baltimore communities on a path to decline.
Baltimore’s new top prosecutor, State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, noted the importance of representation among elected officials working to improve the criminal justice system.
“When you look at the leadership that is up here, it’s Black men,” Bates said from the stage at Morgan State. “We’re going to work together, listen to one another and listen to you, the citizens.” | 2023-02-04T00:14:49+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/new-md-governor-pledges-to-help-baltimore-reduce-17762973.php |
SPRINGFIELD — Under new leadership, the Springfield Board of Police Commissioners is struggling to find its footing under the watchful eye of the U.S. Department of Justice.
A Police Commission meeting Wednesday evening indicates they may be getting there.
After a somewhat chaotic meeting in January, Wednesday’s gathering was rather tame with a representative from the DOJ, a compliance representative who oversees a consent decree implemented by the feds last year and members of the public watching. City Councilor and mayoral candidate Justin Hurst also attended, a longtime critic of the police.
First, the city and the DOJ are still laboring to draft a manual to guide the commission one year after members were sworn in, which is somewhat problematic.
“It is a daunting task; the table of contents alone is quite long. But we do want to get this done over the next couple of months,” said City Solicitor John Payne, a retired Springfield District judge, referring to the process of drafting a procedural and policy manual for the commission.
The commission was formed after the Springfield City Council sued to put it in place in favor of Police Superintendent Cheryl C. Clapprood solely deciding disciplinary action against her officers. The lawsuit predated Clapprood’s leadership.
The commission got off to a bumpy start by reinstating two officers convicted of assault in the Nathan Bill’s off-duty fight prosecution with only three of five members voting.
DOJ civil rights attorney Michelle Yeong attended Wednesday’s meeting along with compliance coordinator Natalia Delgado, one of an independent, three-member group retained by the city and the Feds to oversee progress under the consent decree, announced in 2021 by U.S. Attorney Rachael S. Rollins.
Payne encouraged the five-member commission, all mayoral appointees, to contact the DOJ with questions or concerns given that the federal government has the ultimate say over police procedures and polices under the decree.
“Hopefully you will drive them as crazy as they drive us,” Payne said, jokingly. Maybe.
The commission conducted all its business in open session Wednesday. There were two officers on deck for discipline. The commission voted unanimously to hold full disciplinary hearings for each over the next month.
One commissioner, Albert Tranghese, complained that since the officers up for hearings were only identified by a numerical label. He didn’t know which matter he’d be addressing.
“I just wanted to know which one I was voting on,” he grumbled.
The commission, with support from Payne, vowed to publicly report its disciplinary decisions, the officers they applied to and why they were considered for discipline in the first place. New Chairman Norman Roldan said he is committed to transparency.
“We want the community to know about the work we are doing,” he said.
The commission voted unanimously to hold full disciplinary hearings for two police officers on Feb. 15 and March 1.
While the officers in question were not named, Springfield Police Officer Jose Diaz was recently convicted of misleading an internal investigator in the 2015 bar brawl that pitted off-duty cops against four Black bar patrons of Nathan Bill’s. Another officer is under investigation for allegedly fraternizing with drug dealers, but his name has not been publicly released. | 2023-02-09T02:15:05+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/02/springfield-board-of-police-commissioners-meets-as-doj-looks-on.html |
(KRON) — Amazon plans to lay off approximately 10,000 corporate and technology workers possibly as soon as this week, according to a report by the New York Times, making it the latest tech giant to see mass employee cuts.
The report, which was based on anonymous sources “with knowledge of the matter,” stated that the cuts will be focused in the devices organization (which is responsible for Alexa), the retail division and human resources. The reduction would represent 3% of Amazon’s corporate workforce but less than 1% of its 1.5 million worldwide workforce.
Layoffs have been announced or have already happened at several tech giants in recent weeks, including Twitter, Meta (the parent company of Instagram and Facebook), Lyft, Stripe and Salesforce.
Amazon’s growth abruptly halted as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions ended and inflation skyrocketed, the report continued. The company had seen massive growth during the pandemic, which shuttered many small businesses and led to more people buying online rather than at brick-and-mortar stores and thousands of dollars in stimulus from the federal government.
Amazon stock is at its lowest price since 2020.
The report stated that Echo and Alexa in particular have a low-profit margin and have not caught on among consumers as much as had been hoped. | 2022-11-14T21:49:47+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/amazon-to-lay-off-10k-employees-report/ |
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mycronic AB (publ) has received an order for a Prexision 8 Entry Evo from an existing customer in Asia. The order value is in the range of USD 8-10 million and constitutes Mycronic's first order for this product. Delivery of the system is planned for the fourth quarter of 2023 and is to replace one of the customer's older systems.
The Prexision 8 Entry Evo is a new product in the Prexision Evo suite of mask writers for writing photomasks for displays up to G8 mask size. Unlike the Prexision Lite 8 Evo, this model comes with a flexible configuration, which enables customers to stepwise upgrade to a Prexision 8 Evo in order to produce more advanced photomasks.
"The Prexision 8 Entry Evo has a flexible configuration to meet different requirements. This enables our customers to increase performance as their needs change", says Charlott Samuelsson, Sr VP Pattern Generators at Mycronic.
Mycronic provides mask writers for display manufacturing and production of semiconductors.
For additional information, please contact:
Charlott Samuelsson
Sr VP Pattern Generators
Tel: +46 70 984 42 82
E-mail: charlott.samuelsson@mycronic.com
Sven Chetkovich
Director Investor Relations
Tel: +46 70 558 39 19
E-mail: sven.chetkovich@mycronic.com
The information in this press release was published on September 28, 2022, at 08:00 a.m. CEST.
About Mycronic
Mycronic is a Swedish high-tech company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment with high precision and flexibility requirements for the electronics industry. Mycronic's headquarters are located in Täby, north of Stockholm and the Group has subsidiaries in China, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Mycronic is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.mycronic.com
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NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of DLocal Limited ("DLocal" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: DLO). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether DLocal and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On November 16, 2022, Muddy Waters Research ("Muddy Waters") published a report entitled "DLO: 'History Never Repeats Itself, but it Does Often Rhyme,'" which concluded that "DLO is likely a fraud" and stated that the Company "has repeated disclosures about its TPV and accounts receivable that flatly contradict one another. There is also a contradictory discrepancy between two key subsidiaries' accounts payable and accounts receivable. These types of seemingly innocuous misstatements are, instead, often signs of cooked books because it can become quite a strain to keep the numbers straight once you start manipulating them." In addition, the report stated that "Management and directors dumped an extraordinary ~$1 billion in shares within the first five months of DLO being public. A spate of recent high-level departures brings to mind the idiom about 'rats fleeing a sinking ship.'"
On this news, DLocal's stock price fell $10.76 per share, or 50.71%, to close at $10.46 per share on November 16, 2022.
Then, on December 1, 2022, Muddy Waters published a second report stating that DLocal has held calls with clients from several banks, stressing that it had separated client funds from its own. The report also said that DLocal's calls with clients were "non-specific" and "sweet-talking," and that "all [the Company] needed to do to address this issue was provide an explanation as to how the cash flows reconcile."
On this news, DLocal's stock price fell $2.21 per share, or 15.1%, to close at $12.39 per share on December 1, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces erected concrete barriers on Monday ahead of counter-protests planned by Shiite political rivals against an influential cleric whose followers have staged a parliament sit-in for a third day.
Many feared that dueling protests could escalate tensions.
Calls for the counter-protest came from a political alliance of Iran-backed groups opposed to the open-ended sit-in inside Iraq’s parliament by followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The prospect of opposing demonstrations stirred fears of a deepening political crisis. Iraq’s political sphere has been a vacuum since federal elections in October.
The counter-protest was called for by the Coordination Framework, an alliance lead by Shiite parties close to Iran, and is slated to take place Monday afternoon. The alliance instructed participants to gather around Baghdad’s July 14th Bridge, which leads to the heavily fortified Green Zone where the parliament is housed.
The alliance forbade participants from entering the zone, directing them to “wait for instructions.” That signaled to protesters not to clash with al-Sadr’s followers, but opened the possibility of drawn-out demonstrations in a standoff against al-Sadr.
The alliance also called for its supporters to respect the state security forces and carry Iraqi flags. Security forces erected concrete walls to act as a buffer, blocking off the passage from the bridge to the Green Zone.
The announcement came after al-Sadr issued a statement late Sunday calling for “revolution” and to change the political system and the constitution and abolish his rivals while encouraging Iraqi tribes to join him. His opponents perceived that message as a call to a coup.
Fractures appeared within the leadership of the Framework, with some members unwilling to take part and calling for restraint. Others pushed for escalation.
Al-Sadr’s chief rival, former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the head of the Framework alliance, and Shiite leader Qais al-Khazali, appear to be leading the push for protests. Meanwhile, Fatah Alliance head Hadi al-Ameri is urging control and moderation, two Shiite political officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Kataib Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militia group, has also suggested it will not participate.
If the protests escalate, it would be the closest followers of al-Sadr and al-Maliki will come to a confrontation since 2008, when the former prime minister lead Iraq’s army to drive the cleric’s previous militia, the Mahdi Army, out of the southern city of Basra.
The two men, both powerful in their own right, have been bitter enemies ever since.
Al-Sadr’s loyalists continued their sit-in for a third day. Thousands among them stormed the parliament on Saturday, for the second time in the span of a week. This time, they did not disperse peacefully. | 2022-08-01T14:23:01+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/threat-of-protests-violent-escalation-stirs-panic-in-iraq/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Josh Sweat suffered a neck injury but has movement in all extremities after he was injured trying to make a tackle Sunday against New Orleans.
The Eagles said Sweat was taken to the hospital “for precautionary reasons.” Sweat did pound the ground with his hands before he was removed from the field on a stretcher in the first quarter.
The entire Eagles team came over to the sideline and met Sweat on the field as he was put on the stretcher. Sweat has 11 sacks and had a sack in five straight games before he was injured late in the first quarter.
The Eagles entered 13-2 and needed one win to clinch the NFC East and the top seed in the NFC. But they played without quarterback Jalen Hurts for the second straight week because of a sprained right shoulder.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-01-01T20:19:51+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ap-eagles-de-sweat-leaves-game-on-stretcher-after-tackle/ |
Suspected Russian FSB officer charged in U.S. sanctions case
NEW YORK (AP) — A suspected officer with Russia’s Federal Security Service was among seven people charged by U.S. prosecutors Tuesday with smuggling sensitive electronic components to help Russia’s military effort.
Prosecutors claimed the seven worked with two Moscow-based companies controlled by Russian intelligence services to acquire electronic components in the U.S. that have civilian uses, but can also be used to help make nuclear and hypersonic weapons and in quantum computing.
The exporting of the technology involved is heavily regulated and occurred in violation of U.S. sanctions, according to a 16-count indictment unsealed Monday in Brooklyn.
Five Russian nationals were charged, including Vadim Konoshchenok, a suspected officer with Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB. He was arrested in Estonia last week and will undergo extradition proceedings to the United States, U.S. authorities said.
“The Department of Justice and our international partners will not tolerate criminal schemes to bolster the Russian military’s war efforts,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement announcing the charges.
About 375 pounds of ammunition originating from the United States was found by Estonian authorities in a warehouse used by Konoshchenok, according to federal prosecutors.
The four other Russian nationals remain at large.
Also arrested and charged were Alexey Brayman, a lawful U.S. resident living in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Vadim Yermolenko, a U.S. citizen living in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Brayman’s attorney David Lazarus said in an email that his client has not been convicted of anything and is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Yermolenko’s attorney said via email she had no comment.
Attorney information was not immediately available for the other defendants.
U.S. officials said the arrests had disrupted the procurement network allegedly used by Russian intelligence services, which they said had been operating as far back as 2017.
U.S. scrutiny of efforts to evade sanctions on Russia intensified after the invasion of Ukraine last winter.
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AAOMS prioritizes prevention of the jaw disease, continuing cancer care
ROSEMONT, Ill., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) has issued updated guidance for treating a rare but potentially serious jawbone condition that can impact patients taking antiresorptive medications to treat certain cancer types.
Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw, or MRONJ, is often-painful and characterized by exposed dying bone in the upper and lower jaws, swelling of the gums and loosening of previously stable teeth.
To help patients and healthcare providers navigate this clinical concern, oral and maxillofacial surgery experts analyzed literature and revised guidance to reflect current best practices. The 2022 recommendations – published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery – prioritize preventing the disease while continuing cancer treatment necessary to maintain quality of life and support bone health.
"Although no individual nor collection of strategies eliminates all MRONJ risk, certain preventive procedures can make a difference," said lead author Salvatore L. Ruggiero, DMD, MD, a practicing surgeon and professor at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine in New York. "Maximizing overall patient well-being is always the preference."
Among strategies for reducing the risk of MRONJ: maintaining good oral hygiene, performing high-risk surgical procedures prior to initiating drug therapies, quitting smoking and optimizing diabetes care.
Authors agree that prevention starts with realizing that patients receiving bone-preserving medications (antiresorptives) face altered wound-healing capacity, another potential risk factor for developing MRONJ. Healthcare providers must recognize the importance of coordinating dental care and treatment planning for osteoporosis and cancers involving these therapies, they wrote.
Doing so requires continuous efforts to educate patients, dentists and medical professionals about the real risks associated with antiresorptives and the clinical paradigm shift needed to mitigate MRONJ, researchers wrote.
AAOMS emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to treating patients receiving such treatment. This also may apply to other substances used to stimulate the immune system or targeted therapies taken alone or in combination with antiresorptives (brand names such as Fosamax, Boniva and Prolia). Team-based MRONJ care includes consulting an appropriate dental professional when a doctor determines a patient could benefit from these medications.
"Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are versed in treating this clinical concern, and it is crucial that oncologists, rheumatologists and other providers work with our specialty to prevent and treat it," said Thomas B. Dodson, DMD, MPH, article co-author and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, AAOMS's official journal. "Our goal in issuing this update is to educate both our peers in medicine and patients about the evolving knowledge base in addressing MRONJ."
It is important to understand that patients at risk for or with MRONJ also may present with other issues that appear similar, authors wrote. Commonly misdiagnosed conditions may include dry socket, sinusitis, gingivitis and periodontitis. Therefore, they said it is important for patients to undergo a detailed clinical and radiographic examination by an experienced oral healthcare practitioner to diagnose MRONJ.
There are several other local, potentially predisposing factors – including tooth extraction and operations on the thickened ridge of the bone that contains tooth sockets. Other concerns such as steroid and tobacco use may increase risk. The danger of developing MRONJ is higher in patients who have received antiresorptive medications for metastatic bone disease (less than 5 percent) compared to those receiving such drugs for osteoporosis (less than 0.05 percent).
Surgical management of MRONJ is increasingly considered a viable method of treatment for all stages of the disease, according to the 2022 guidance. These procedures involve the removal of necrotic jawbone until viable bone is encountered. AAOMS has developed a series of algorithms to assist doctors in streamlining and determining the correct care pathway for individual patients. A departure from the three previous position papers, the 2022 recommendations recognize the value of surgical intervention regardless of MRONJ disease stage.
AAOMS supports continued oncologic treatment for MRONJ patients whether they are receiving antiresorptive therapy alone or in combination with immune modulators or antiangiogenic medications. Authors wrote that quality of life is typically managed by preventing new areas of necrosis, controlling secondary infections, offering pain control and educating patients.
Additionally, the new guidance deemphasizes the role of medications other than antiresorptives in causing the condition. Studies suggest the cause is likely multifactorial, stemming both from drugs prescribed alongside inflammation or infection. A research review failed to prove if a drug holiday (ceasing use of medications for a defined period) is beneficial or harmful to patients, the authors wrote.
"Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw – 2022 Update" was developed by three authors of the 2014 AAOMS position paper on MRONJ, along with three member of the Association's Committee on Oral, Head, and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery. In addition to Drs. Ruggiero and Dodson, authors include Tara Aghaloo, DDS, MD, PhD, UCLA School of Dentistry; Eric R. Carlson, DMD, MD, EdM, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine; Deepak Kademani, DMD, MD, North Memorial Health and the University of Minnesota; and Brent B. Ward, DDS, MD, University of Michigan Hospital.
At an MRONJ presentation during AAOMS's 104th Annual Meeting, Scientific Sessions and Exhibition in New Orleans in September, Carlson told attendees the update was needed to reflect numerous advancements in MRONJ knowledge over the past eight years.
"It became very clear to our national organization that there were many substantial and very interesting changes in terms of our understanding of this disease, particularly with regard to its treatment," he said.
Carlson said the updated definition of an MRONJ case includes three elements:
- Current or previous treatment with antiresorptive therapy alone or in combination with immune modulators or antiangiogenic medications.
- Exposed bone or bone that can be probed in the maxillofacial region that has persisted for more than eight weeks.
- No history of radiation therapy to the jaws or obvious metastatic disease to the jaws.
"MRONJ is preventable, resectable and reconstructable in a very predictable fashion," said Carlson. "The new position paper will help medical and dental professionals in their treatment of patients who require these medications."
Read the full position paper at AAOMS.org/MRONJ.
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Friday’s Top Stories
- Police open investigation into campaign funds tied to Solomon Peña
- What’s NIBIN? A look at the tech used to solve Albuquerque shootings
- Santa Fe café scores a slot on Guy Fieri’s ‘Triple D Nation’
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- Roundhouse Roundup: First week done, many more to come
- What’s happening around New Mexico Jan. 20 – Jan. 26
- Coast Guard monitoring Russian spy ship on patrol off Hawaii
- Ukrainians wrap up landmine clearance exercises in Cambodia
Friday’s Five Facts
[1] Alec Baldwin and film armorer to be criminally charged in ‘Rust’ movie set shooting – Santa Fe County’s District Attorney says actor-producer Alec Baldwin and a film armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will each face criminal charges for their roles in a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set. In a news release sent out Thursday morning, District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altweis announced that Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will each face two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. The District Attorney also announced Thursday that the film’s assistant director, David Halls has signed a plea agreement for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.
[2] ‘Frustration level is high’: Albuquerque business fed up with trespassers – An Albuquerque business owner is fed up with the constant issues including things like trespassing and vandalism at their store. The owner of Culligan’s Bottled Water says the problems started five years ago and the issues are becoming an almost daily occurrence and the city is not addressing the problems. Last Thursday, the business was broken into with someone smashing through the front door. They got away with only $8 in change, but left behind more than $13,000 in damage. The owner says he has reported the problems to the city six times since the beginning of the year, but has gotten no response.
[3] Another winter storm heads into New Mexico – Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings are in effect for northern New Mexico. The snow will arrive in the Four Corners during the later part of the morning commute. Snow and rain will spread eastward throughout the day, arriving in central NM by the early afternoon, and into northeast NM by the mid-afternoon and early evening. Heaviest snow will fall in the mountains.
[4] New Mexico lawmakers look to repeal the ban on rent control legislation – Lawmakers are pushing to allow cities to enact their own laws when it comes to rent control. Democrat State Senator Linda Lopez says the pandemic showed how people on limited income incomes struggle with rising rent. Senate Bill 99 would get rid of the current rent control ban and let local governments decide for themselves. Lopez says she has also heard from people opposed to the idea, mostly landlords worried about their business.
[5] Albuquerque police increase horse mounted patrols in downtown area – Looking to do more downtown, Albuquerque police want to up their presence with mounted patrols. The mounted patrol includes more than 12 horses. Police say the mounted patrols will be out more often to serve as a deterrent and help with outreach. Officials say the mounted patrol unit is working to have a presence downtown at least twice a week. | 2023-01-20T14:06:28+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/newsfeed/krqe-newsfeed-alec-baldwin-to-be-charged-business-owner-fed-up-winter-storm-rent-control-mounted-patrols/ |
For some people, the idea of what they will wear tomorrow is a paralyzing thought. How are they supposed to choose from all the different articles they have, let alone combine multiple into a cohesive whole? For others, it’s effortless.
Regardless of whether you fall into the former category, the latter or somewhere in between, your wardrobe can only be improved by ensuring you have your basics covered.
In this article: Hanes White T-Shirts, Levi’s Women’s Plus Size 721 High-Rise Skinny Jeans and Vans Women’s Old Skool Core Classics.
Top 10 basics
The top 10 basics everyone needs for the most versatile wardrobe, from top to bottom on the body, are:
- Jacket: How thick or thin your jacket should be depends on your climate, but a second layer is an easy way to spice up your outfit.
- Button-down shirt/simple dress: Whatever your reason is for needing or wanting to look nice, all it often takes is a classy button-down or simple dress.
- Polo shirt: This is the champion of the “business casual” look, whether you wear it for business or not.
- White T-shirt: This casual basic looks good with almost anything.
- Black pants: Black pants don’t automatically mean dressy or business casual, but that is what they’re most often used for.
- Blue jeans: These are a casual staple that can pull any less-formal look together.
- Shorts: When the weather is hot, pants don’t cut it. Your shorts can be dressy or more gym-focused, but both wouldn’t hurt.
- Comfortable underwear: Even though no one will see it, having a good, comfortable pair of underwear can make any outfit easier to tolerate.
- Tennis shoes/sneakers: When you need to put in your steps, make sure you have comfortable athletic shoes.
- Dress shoes: You’d be surprised how often good — and bad — shoes can stand out when you’re trying to impress. It’s better to make yours the former.
Best jackets
The puffer jacket is perfect to have for cool to cold weather, and its design helps it stand out just enough that you don’t become a wallflower. It comes in 12 sizes and 30 colors.
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Columbia Men’s Ascender Softshell Jacket
A soft-shell jacket works anywhere that requires business casual and down, from a day at the office to a night at your favorite bar. It comes in five sizes and eight colors.
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Best button-down shirt and simple dress
Sometimes all it takes to upgrade a basic is just one small detail, such as how this collar is buttoned down at the tips. It comes in 12 sizes and six designs, including the all-time classics plain white and light blue.
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This dress stands out from the usual “simple dress” look by having a little bow at the side and some ruffling along the bottom. It comes in five sizes and 33 designs.
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Best polo shirts
Step up to the tee box next Sunday morning feeling comfortable and looking good. It comes in five sizes and 59 colors, some of which come in short sleeves, long sleeves or both.
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This polo breaks away from the norm by eschewing buttons and having a V-neck, though it’s still nothing if not professional. It comes in eight sizes and 11 colors.
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Best white T-shirts
This shirt has tear-away labels for those who hate the feeling of them tickling their neck. Two are included and they come in six sizes and many additional colors.
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This shirt is just as well suited for wearing as is as it is for being worn as an undershirt. The pack includes four shirts, which come in seven sizes and many additional colors.
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Best black pants
Dickies Men’s Original 874 Work Pant Pants
These pants can be worn to work, to a nice restaurant for a first date or just when paired with your white T-shirt as a break from the usual blue jeans. They come in 88 sizes and 17 additional colors.
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Lee Women’s Flex Motion Regular Fit Trouser Pants
These pants are exactly what springs to mind when you think “girl boss.” It doesn’t hurt that the pockets are actually usable. They come in 30 sizes and 14 additional colors.
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Best blue jeans
Levi’s Women’s Plus Size 721 High Rise Skinny Jeans
These skinny jeans are great for showing off your legs and the high waist is flattering to the right body type. They come in 40 sizes and 33 designs, some of which are distressed.
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Wrangler Authentics Blue Jeans
These jeans are on the loose side so you can maintain your comfort during a long day, though you’ll also need the right belt. They come in 64 sizes and nine shades.
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Best shorts
These shorts are perfect for hitting the basketball court or lounging at home in the heat of summer. They come in five sizes and can be bought alone or as a set of two, three, five or seven.
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These shorts have odor control so you can wear them to the gym before running some errands without the gym coming with you. They come in six sizes and nine colors.
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Best comfortable underwear
Calvin Klein Women’s Carousel Logo Cotton Stretch Bikini Panties, Three-Pack
The most comfortable underwear is often the simplest, and these exemplify that idea. They have a bikini silhouette and full rear coverage. They come in five sizes and 41 sets of three.
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Ralph Lauren Men’s Classic Fit Cotton Boxer Briefs, Three-Pack
This boxer-style underwear has a no-ride-up system and no tag for the most comfortable long-term experience possible. They come in five sizes and four sets of three.
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Best tennis shoes/sneakers
Adidas Men’s Advantage Sneakers
Adidas has long been among the best athleisure brands, and these straightforward shoes carry that torch. Wear them all day and tread in peace. They come in 21 sizes and 15 designs.
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Vans Women’s Old Skool Core Classics
Vans are almost single-handedly responsible for the rise of “skater shoes” on the market, and they remain the best of them all. They come in 41 sizes and 33 designs.
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Best dress shoes
Bruno Marc Men’s Casual Dress Shoes
Most basic dress shoes for men can look awkwardly shiny, but these have some texture to them to help them rise above that common flaw. They come in 12 sizes and eight designs.
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LifeStride Parigi Women’s High-Heel Pumps
If you can only have one dressy pair of women’s shoes, pumps are easily the most versatile of the versatile. These come in 56 sizes and 21 designs.
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Raise makes Ohio State’s Day one of highest-paid coaches
By MITCH STACY
AP Sports Writer
Ohio State plans to hike Ryan Day’s annual salary to $9.5 million as part of a two-year contract extension that will put him among the nation’s highest-paid college football coaches. Day’s raise makes him the latest coach to crack $9 million per year, putting him in company with Alabama’s Nick Saban and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and in line with recent megadeals given to Michigan State’s Mel Tucker and LSU’s Brian Kelly. In three seasons, Day has led the Buckeyes to a 34-4 record, including 23-1 in the Big Ten. | 2022-05-18T20:44:05+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/18/raise-makes-ohio-states-day-one-of-highest-paid-coaches/ |
California faces more blizzards, floods in multistate storm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful winter storm lashing California threatened floods, blizzards and avalanches Saturday while adding frigid temperatures to the misery mix.
Overnight lows could drop below freezing in some areas while downtown San Francisco could see record-breaking cold temperatures Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Projected temperatures of 38 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) would see the city at its coldest since 2009, the weather service said.
Flash flood warnings were issued from Friday through 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. Saturday in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, a region with some 6 million people. The weather service said flash flooding was occurring late Friday in Ventura County, where up to 7 inches (18 centimeters) inches of rain had fallen and up to 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) were possible before the storm turned showery on Saturday afternoon.
In Los Angeles County, forecasters said life-threatening flash flooding was possible near creeks, streams, urban areas, highways and areas that were burned by wildfires. The threat zone included downtown L.A., Hollywood, Beverly Hills and many suburbs.
“Shallow landslides and mudslides are expected,” the weather service said.
Despite the heavy downpour, no serious problems were immediately reported.
Rain falling at up to an inch an hour raised the fear of flooding or mudslides. Evacuation warnings were issued in some burn-scarred areas and for a mile-long stretch of Oceano, which lies on the central coast near a levee that overflowed during storms last month. Residents were urged to be ready to flee at short notice.
Meanwhile, people farther east were struggling to deal with the fallout from storms earlier this week.
More than a half-million people in Michigan were still without power late Friday night, days after one of the worst ice storms in decades caused widespread power outages by knocking down some 3,000 ice-coated power lines.
Promises of power restoration by Sunday, when low temperatures were expected to climb back above zero (minus 18 Celsius), were of little consolation.
“That’s four days without power in such weather,” said Apurva Gokhale, of Walled Lake, Michigan. “It’s unthinkable.”
Back in California, the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service predicted heavy snow over the Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada into the weekend.
California’s wine country wasn’t spared from the rare brew of wind and snow. Mark Neal told KPIX-TV that he woke up Friday morning to see a foot (30.4 centimeters) of snow — more than he’d seen in more than 40 years — and dozens of his oak trees snapped in half.
“It’s pretty much a battleground if you look at it. Some of them are over 200 years old,” he said. Luckily, the vines were safely dormant.
The low-pressure system pushing the atmospheric river off the Pacific Ocean into central and Southern California on Friday was driving inland and is expected to bring widespread rain and snow into southern Nevada by Saturday afternoon and then across northwest Arizona Saturday night and Sunday morning, the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas said.
An avalanche warning was issued for the Sierra Nevada backcountry around Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border. Nearly 2 feet (61 cm) of new snow had fallen by Friday and up to another 5 feet (1.5 meters) was expected when another storm moves in with the potential for gale-force winds and high-intensity flurries Sunday, the weather service said.
In Arizona, the heaviest snow was expected late Saturday through midday Sunday, with up to a foot of new snow possible in Flagstaff, forecasters said.
Weekend snow also was forecast for parts of the upper Midwest to the Northeast, with pockets of freezing rain over some areas of the central Appalachians. The storm was expected to reach the central high Plains by Sunday evening.
Yet the cold weather blasting the North and West has avoided the southern states, leading to wild temperatures differences. The high temperature for the U.S. on Friday was 93 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius) at Falcon Lake, Texas, while the low was minus-35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 Celsius) near Huntley, Montana.
The wintry blasts have led to hundreds of cancelled flights at airports around the country and shut down miles of major highways in several states.
In California, some motorists were trapped overnight on snowy, icy State Route 17, a major road in the San Francisco Bay Area mountains, before it reopened Friday morning.
Interstate 5, the West Coast’s major north-south highway, was closed south of the Oregon border as snow fell to the floor of the Sacramento Valley. The Grapevine, a high mountain pass north of Los Angeles, was closed for more than 12 hours. After reopening Friday evening, traffic crept through under police escort and there was a chance of more closures as forecasters predicted strong winds leading to blizzard conditions in mountain ranges and passes.
Much of a long stretch of Interstate 80 remained closed most of Friday over the top of the Sierra Nevada mountain range between Sacramento, California, and Reno, Nevada.
Harsh weather prompted Los Angeles County to keep its emergency shelters open into March as wind chill was expected to drop weekend temperatures below freezing in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. The county’s large homeless population was at special risk.
At least three people have died in the coast-to-coast storms. A Michigan firefighter died Wednesday after coming in contact with a downed power line, while in Rochester, Minnesota, a pedestrian died after being hit by a city-operated snowplow. Authorities in Portland, Oregon, said a person died of hyperthermia.
Much of Portland was shut down with icy roads not expected to thaw until Saturday after the city’s second-heaviest snowfall on record this week: nearly 11 inches (28 centimeters).
Tim Varner sat huddled with blankets in a Portland storefront doorway shielding him from some of the wind, ice and snow. Local officials opened six overnight shelters but the 57-year-old, who has been homeless for two decades, said it was too hard to push a shopping cart containing his belongings to reach one.
“It’s impossible,” he said. “The snow gets built up on the wheels of your cart and then you find slippery spots and can’t get no traction. So you’re stuck.”
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Taxin reported from Orange County, California, and White reported from Detroit. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Haven Daley in California, Claire Rush in Oregon, Corey Williams in Michigan, Scott Sonner in Nevada, Margaret Stafford in Missouri and Sarah Brumfeld in Washington, along with AP journalists throughout the country.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-25T08:57:46+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/02/25/california-faces-more-blizzards-floods-multistate-storm/ |
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