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CLEVELAND, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As inflation continues to hit household budgets nationwide, it's also creating more equity for homeowners. CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) can help existing homeowners utilize this equity to achieve financial goals, support immediate and long-term plans, and eliminate interest rate stress through our home equity product portfolio.
"Home is where we find security and peace of mind in more ways than one," said Jenn Stracensky, CCM Chief Operating Officer. "A borrower's home equity can help pay off higher-interest debt, take care of emergency expenses, save for larger renovation projects, finance a child's college education, and increase funds in savings and retirement accounts."
Home equity options include:
- Closed End Second loans turn home equity into cash with a smaller fixed-rate second loan. This loan provides the benefits of a cash-out refinance without changing the rate on a consumer's first mortgage.
- Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) accesses a home's equity as a revolving line of credit and is a flexible way to borrow funds. HELOC loans differ from traditional home equity loans in that you can draw money from a HELOC as needed instead of taking out a single lump sum loan.
- Cash-Out Refinance allows borrowers to replace a current mortgage with a larger loan. In return, borrowers receive the cash difference between the amounts.
With thousands of loan officers, more than 600 branches and a presence in all 50 states, CCM is ready to support borrowers with education around the many available options. To locate a nearby CCM branch, visit www.ccm.com.
About CrossCountry Mortgage
CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) is one of the nation's largest retail mortgage lenders, with more than 8,000 employees operating 600 branches across all 50 states. Our company has been recognized nine times on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest growing private businesses and has received many awards for our standout culture. We offer more than 100 mortgage, refinance and home equity solutions – ranging from conventional and jumbo mortgages to government-insured programs for Veterans and rural homebuyers – and we are a direct lender and approved seller and servicer by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae. Through our dedication to getting it done, we make every mortgage feel like a win. Visit ccm.com.
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2023-01-24T20:06:23+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/24/crosscountry-mortgage-offers-home-equity-options-help-homeowners-achieve-financial-goals/
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Updated July 16, 2023 at 6:23 PM ET
A heat wave ramped up across the Western United States over the weekend, when millions of Americans were expected to see record-breaking temperatures.
With heat alerts extending well into the week ahead, West Coast and Southwest residents may not see relief for days.
About one-third of Americans were under excessive heat warnings, watches or advisories over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service, after a persistent heat dome hovering over Texas expanded to California, Nevada and Arizona.
The oppressive heat was expected to peak on Sunday in those states, with some desert temperatures forecast to climb close to 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
"We've been talking about this building heat wave for a week now, and now the most intense period is beginning," the weather service said Friday.
Local public health officials across the country are urging people to seek cool shelter and to check up on neighbors.
Some of the hottest places in the U.S. may see their hottest day ever
While Las Vegas residents are used to scorching temps, meteorologists say they shouldn't underestimate the risks of this days-long heat wave.
"This heatwave is not typical desert heat due to its long duration, extreme daytime temperatures and warm nights. Everyone needs to take this heat seriously, including those who live in the desert," the National Weather Service in Las Vegas warned in a tweet.
Las Vegas could reach a high of 117 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, tying the city's all-time record.
The heat wave there has already sent people to hospitals. An emergency room doctor reported treating dehydrated tourists, as well as a passed-out elderly resident who kept his thermostat at 80 degrees to keep down electricity costs. Local health officials have seen at least seven heat-related deaths this year.
In nearby Death Valley, Calif., one of the hottest places on Earth, the temperature had reached 128 degrees on Sunday afternoon, surpassing the daily record by a single degree.
In west Texas, an extreme heat advisory remained in effect at Big Bend National Park. "These are extremely dangerous/deadly temperatures! Hikers should be OFF TRAILS in the afternoon," officials said.
Following days of brutal heat, Phoenix hit 118 degrees on Saturday, breaking the daily temperature high record by one degree. Phoenix looks headed to break its longest recorded stretch of 110-degree or higher heat — a period of 18 days, recorded in 1974 — with a forecast matching or topping record daily highs through at least Wednesday.
"This weekend there will be some of the most serious and hot conditions we've ever seen," David Hondula, the city's chief heat response officer, told the AP. "It's a time for maximum community vigilance."
So far this year, the heat has killed at least 12 people in Phoenix.
Maricopa County, where Phoenix is located, is home to about 200 cooling centers, hydration stations and respite sites. Hondula said in an interview on Friday with NBC's Meet the Press that cities like his could benefit from federal funds to keep the centers better staffed and open for longer.
Central and Southern states continue to endure dangerously high temperatures. A large swath of South Texas was under a heat advisory on Sunday, while the coastal region surrounding Corpus Christi was under an excessive heat warning.
In South Florida, Miami-Dade County was put under an excessive heat warning on Sunday, where temps in the coastal area were expected to hit 110 degrees. It's first time in history such a warning has been issued for the region, according to the county's chief heat officer.
The U.S is now experiencing temperatures similar to those felt during last year's heat waves in Europe. More than 61,000 people died as a result of the heat in Europe during that period, according to a study published last week.
What's causing this latest heat wave?
A couple of factors are driving the hotter temperatures. The recent arrival of El Niño, a natural climate pattern marked by warmer temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, is bringing hotter weather around the world.
El Niño, which coincides with the hottest years on record, exacerbates the effects of climate change, including warmer temperatures, caused by the burning of fossil fuels and other greenhouse gas emissions that warm the planet.
Climate change can make heat domes — a phenomenon that creates heat waves like this one — more frequent and more intense. A heat dome occurs when high pressure in the Earth's atmosphere traps hot ocean air from the sun like a hot-air balloon.
NPR's Nathan Rott contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-07-16T23:08:18+00:00
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knkx.org
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https://www.knkx.org/2023-07-15/a-punishing-heat-wave-hits-the-west-and-southwest-u-s
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- Road trip with the iconic 2023 Times Square New Year's Eve Numerals marks Kia's third cross- country tour
- Stops include Los Angeles, CA, Las Vegas, NV, Franklin, TN, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, PA, and arrival in NYC
- Provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to "experience the future" with an early welcome to the New Year
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia America kicked off an early start to celebrating the arrival of 2023 with a nationwide tour of the iconic Times Square New Year's Eve Numerals that will illuminate New York City's Times Square on December 31, when the Ball Drops and the New Year begins. Yesterday, the 2023 Numerals departed the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and began a coast-to-coast road trip designed to bring the excitement and anticipation of the New Year to people across the country. The Numerals are being towed by a 2023 Kia Telluride X-Pro, and along the 2,795 mile journey, the 2023 Numerals will stop in exciting locations in conjunction with special holiday events to help share the anticipation. Scheduled stops along the cross-country route include the following:
- Area 15 – Las Vegas, NV – 12/1
- Dickens Festival – Franklin, TN – 12/10
- D.C. Holiday Market – Washington, D.C. – 12/14 – 12/15
- German Christmas Village – Philadelphia, PA – 12/17 – 12/18
- Arrival - Times Square – New York City, NY – 12/20
"For the third consecutive year, Kia America is proud to share the excitement and anticipation of the New Year with people across the U.S., before delivering the iconic Times Square New Year's Eve Numerals to their home at One Times Square," said Russell Wager, vice president, marketing, Kia America. "This nationwide road trip is the perfect beginning to New Year's celebrations and a great way to start 2023 on a positive note."
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of over 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America*.
For media information, including photography, visit www.kiamedia.com. To receive custom email notifications for press releases the moment they are published, subscribe at www.kiamedia.com/us/en/newsalert.
* The K5, Sportage, Sorento, and Telluride (excludes HEV and PHEV models) are assembled in the United States from U.S. and globally sourced parts.
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2022-11-29T16:02:39+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/11/29/kia-america-heralds-start-2023-celebration-with-nationwide-tour-iconic-times-square-new-years-eve-numerals/
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has made “very impressive” progress in meeting conditions to rejoin the Commonwealth, a top official of the group of 56 mainly former British colonies said after an assessment mission, even as the opposition and other groups warned that the human rights situation is fast deteriorating.
“Zimbabwe should be part of the Commonwealth. We are traveling the same road, hand in hand,” said the organization’s Assistant Secretary-General, Luis Franceschi, who headed the assessment team.
Zimbabwe “has moved very fast and there is huge commitment” to meeting demands such as democratic reforms, he told reporters in the capital, Harare, Wednesday.
The Commonwealth team arrived in the southern African country on Saturday and ended its mission on Wednesday. It will compile a report to Commonwealth Heads of Government, who have the final say on Zimbabwe’s application to rejoin.
Former president, the late Robert Mugabe, pulled Zimbabwe out of the Commonwealth in 2003 after it became apparent that the organization would extend a suspension imposed a year earlier following elections marred by allegations of violence and rigging.
After taking power from Mugabe in 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa applied for readmission in 2018 as part of his push for greater international legitimacy.
Zimbabwe’s bid to rejoin the Commonwealth is part of the Mnangagwa administration’s drive to reengage with the international community after about two decades of isolation.
Zimbabwe remains under United States sanctions, while the United Kingdom and the European Union have gradually eased their own restrictions on the southern African country.
The Commonwealth team met Mnangagwa on Wednesday. It also held discussions with various stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations and the opposition, who say they support Zimbabwe’s readmission but want the country to improve its human rights record.
Readmission into the group hinges on Zimbabwe fulfilling “several rigorous steps” to ensure adherence to principles such as peace and democracy, said the Commonwealth in a statement last week.
Main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa told reporters after meeting the member team on Wednesday that democratic reforms and credible elections should be the benchmark for Zimbabwe’s readmission.
But Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the country has made “phenomenal progress” that merits its readmission into the Commonwealth.
Addressing the same press conference, Ziyambi described reports of human rights violations such as abductions of anti-government activists as “misinformation” and “stage-managed” to hoodwink the international community.
Zimbabwe is scheduled to hold a general election next year. But many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to that during Mugabe’s lengthy iron-fisted rule.
Once a bedrock of British influence over its former colonies, some argue that the Commonwealth is losing its impact in Africa where China is now the leading trade partner.
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2022-11-17T01:40:06+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-commonwealth-team-says-zimbabwe-making-progress-to-rejoin/
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It’s been more than a month since the heartbreaking news that Rickey Smiley’s son, Brandon, had died unexpectedly.
He was just 32, and his loss back in January left folks wondering just what happened.
Now we have a better idea.
That’s because the comedian and host of the “Rickey Smiley Morning Show” sat down Wednesday with Craig Melvin on “Today” to discuss it all. And Smiley told Melvin his son had dealt with substance abuse for years and is believed to have died of an overdose.
“Yeah, he was struggling with that,” Smiley told Melvin. “His mother and I made several attempts to try and send him to get the help he needed, send him to rehab. And we thought that he was doing better.”
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Smiley did say that he isn’t certain that substance abuse killed his son. He simply believes that was the cause.
“We haven’t got a toxicology report yet,” he said. “But this is just what we are speculating, according to his girlfriend who found him unresponsive.”
Smiley said he and his wife often had conversations with their son about his substance issues, but that it is tough “getting the kids to listen to these conversations.”
“I’m doing good,” Smiley said when asked how he was holding up after the devastating loss. “I still have to do my morning show. I still have to press my way through, pray my way through. Lean on my spirituality.”
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2023-03-03T11:21:20+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2023/03/rickey-smiley-reveals-what-he-believes-killed-his-son-brandon-at-just-32-years-old.html
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — At age 9, T’yonna Major excelled at her school work and in gymnastics, shown flexing her arms after competitions with newly won medals around her neck in photos her proud dad posted on social media.
“She was a light to everyone that knew her,” the girl’s father, Tokiyo Major, posted on the fundraising site GoFundMe, where he has asked for donations to help pay for his daughter’s funeral. “She was everything to us.”
T’yonna was killed Wednesday when a gunman barged into her home outside Orlando and shot the third-grader and her mother, who survived the attack. The Orange County sheriff said the same assailant killed two other people in the Pine Hills area — a TV journalist shot in a vehicle outside and a 38-year-old woman slain hours earlier in the same neighborhood.
Sheriff John Mina said the victims appear to have been killed at random.
Grieving families and friends of the victims are still trying to come to terms with the bloody rampage. A least two vigils in their memory were planned Friday evening.
Julie Schroeder, who has has worked with T’yonna’s father for nearly a decade, described the girl’s family as loving and close. She described T’yonna as precocious, with grades at the top of her class and reading two grade levels above her age group, as well as affectionate and polite.
“She loved deeply when you’re around her,” Schroeder told WESH-TV. “She always hugged you and she always referred to you as Mr. and Mrs. because respect was very big in their family.”
Her father wrote that T’yonna was also an “amazing gymnast,” often referred to by her coaches as “the next Gabby Douglas.”
Authorities arrested 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses at the scene and charged him with murder. The public defender’s office for Orange and Osceola counties, which is representing Moses, has declined to comment.
The first victim, 38-year-old Natacha Augustin, was killed late Wednesday morning. A man who identified himself as Moses’ cousin told investigators that he was driving around with Augustin when he spotted Moses and offered him a ride, according to an arrest affidavit.
The witness, whose name was redacted from the affidavit, said Moses climbed into the backseat behind Augustin, who was fatally shot about 30 seconds later before Moses fled on foot.
Hours later, news crews at the scene of the shooting included Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons and photographer Jesse Walden. They found themselves caught in a another round of gunshots, which the sheriff said were also fired by Moses when he returned five hours after the first shooting.
Lyons, 24, was killed by gunfire while sitting inside an unmarked news vehicle. Walden was wounded and taken to a hospital.
“You’re losing a friend,” Walden said of Lyons from his hospital bed. “You’re not losing an acquaintance or just coworker — it’s someone that made working fun.”
Walden said he and Lyons both started working a the TV around the same time last year and regularly covered stories together on the night shift. He told Spectrum News 13 that Lyons was a “very, very wholesome person” with a great sense of humor.
“He had a very strong sense of justice,” Walden said. “He would really want everyone to follow the rules when it came to people of power.”
Authorities said the gunman then walked into T’yonna’s home nearby, shooting the girl and her mother. Mina said that when deputies wrestled Moses to the ground outside and arrested him, the suspect had a semiautomatic handgun that was still hot from being fired.
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2023-02-25T16:43:41+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-young-gymnast-among-3-killed-in-shootings-near-orlando/
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The head of the Wagner group Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia, according to the leader of Belarus, who helped end the mercenary group's uprising against Russia's military leadership.
Copyright 2023 NPR
The head of the Wagner group Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia, according to the leader of Belarus, who helped end the mercenary group's uprising against Russia's military leadership.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-07-06T21:14:46+00:00
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wboi.org
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https://www.wboi.org/2023-07-06/the-latest-on-the-head-of-the-wagner-group-who-has-returned-to-russia
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BEIJING, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of May 23, the Chinese technology media outlet 36Kr announced the results of "China's ChatGPT Dream Team & the next tens of billions of AIGC products". With its cutting-edge exploration and forward-looking layout in the field of AIGC, Kunlun Tech was selected for the list of "the next tens of billions of AIGC products".
The emergence of ChatGPT, a phenomenon-level breakthrough product, opened the prelude to the vigorous development of the global large language model industry and the generative AI (AIGC) industry. The Chinese market is also full of competition. Many companies have announced the development or release of large language model products based on their own business and strategic layout.
"SkyWork" was jointly developed by Kunlun Tech and the leading AI team SINGULARITY AI, and was officially start invitation testing on April 17th. This is the first 200-billion-level large language model in China that is benchmarked against ChatGPT. It interacts with users through natural language. Its AI generation capabilities can meet the needs of copywriting, knowledge questions, and answers, code programming, logical deduction, mathematical calculations, etc.
The birth of the "SkyWork" 100-billion-scale model is the result of Kunlun Tech's long-term technology accumulation. Kunlun Tech started to lay out the AI music field in 2020, launched the MusicX lab in January 2022, and reached the best effect in the field of artificial intelligence in April 2022. In the same year, Kunlun Tech expanded from AI music to multi-modal AI and reached a comprehensive technical strategic cooperation with SINGULARITY AI in the fields of tens of billions of language models, image AIGC, and programming AIGC. In December 2022, "Kunlun SkyWork" officially released, and its AI generation capabilities have covered content modalities such as images, music, text, and programming.
Judging from the current release version of "SkyWork", it can support text dialogues of more than 10,000 characters at most, achieve more than 20 rounds of user interaction, and achieve a high level of output in various question and answer scenarios. Higher quality among similar products. "SkyWork" has been reported by many domestic and foreign media, including international media CNBC, with its outstanding ability.
Kunlun Tech is a leading Internet platform company in China, with an average monthly active user of nearly 400 million, and overseas revenue accounted for 78%. The business is mainly related to content and social networking. With the rapid progress of technology, AGI will come sooner.
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2023-05-30T08:05:42+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/05/30/kunlun-tech-launched-skywork-large-language-model-was-selected-into-list-chinas-next-tens-billions-aigc-products/
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Traffic stop leads to lifesaving brain surgery for woman
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (Gray News/TMX) - A South Carolina woman recently thanked the police officers who helped save her life.
Tamara Palmer said she is grateful that officers with the Mount Pleasant Police Department stopped her in December 2022 for suspected drunk driving as it led to the discovery of a brain tumor.
The department shared videos from a dashboard camera and a body-worn camera that day regarding the traffic stop.
Authorities said the videos showed officer Raymond Schoonmaker and patrolman Bret Aton speaking to Palmer after performing a traffic stop when her vehicle was seen striking a curb multiple times and failing to maintain a travel lane.
Palmer, a teacher, didn’t show signs of intoxication but reportedly complained of vision problems and a headache.
The officers determined that Palmer was possibly having a medical episode and requested an ambulance, according to the department.
“I think something medical is going on with you and you really need to go to the hospital,” Schoonmaker can be heard saying in the video.
Police said once at the hospital, doctors found a large brain tumor. An immediate operation to remove the tumor was successful, and Palmer was discharged a few days later.
Palmer has since fully recovered and is back to teaching.
The department said without the team’s quick analysis the outcome could have ended differently.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. TMX contributed to this report.
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2023-03-09T21:35:54+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/2023/03/09/traffic-stop-leads-lifesaving-brain-surgery-woman/
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The number of deaths following Hurricane Ian’s rampage in Florida continued to rise over the weekend.
On Saturday evening, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced there have been 47 deaths attributed to the hurricane so far — mostly from drowning.
The Associated Press reported that an additional four people in North Carolina and three in Cuba were also killed by the storm, bringing the death toll to 54.
Among those killed were a 62-year-old woman who was hurt and drowned after a tree fell on her mobile home, a 54-year-old man who drowned after being trapped in a window, and a Lee County woman whose body was found tangled in wires under a home.
A 71-year-old man also died after falling off his roof while installing rain shutters Wednesday.
Another death was also reported in the Tampa Bay area after a 22-year-old woman died in an ATV crash caused by a road washout in Manatee County.
FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie said there was also a case of human remains found in an underwater home in Lee County.
“We do not know exactly how many were in the house,” he said Friday. “The water was up over the rooftop.”
More deaths are expected to be discovered as floodwaters recede. According to Guthrie, the death toll may also go down at some points, because deaths can later be attributed to be non-storm-related causes. That’s why the totals are expected to change as information goes in.
“People die in disasters that have nothing to do with the disaster,” he said. “The medical examiner is the one that makes that determination.”
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2022-10-02T15:44:23+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/54-deaths-from-hurricane-ian-reported-as-recovery-efforts-continue/
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Dec. 28, 2022 — Texas Tech 42, Mississippi 25
Jan, 4, 2022 — Kansas State 42, LSU 20
Dec. 31, 2020 — Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Dec. 27, 2019 — Texas A&M 24, Oklahoma State 21
Dec. 27, 2018 — Baylor 45, Vanderbilt 38
Dec. 27, 2017 — Texas 33, Missouri 16
Dec. 28, 2016 — Kansas St. 33, Texas A&M 28
Dec. 29, 2015 — LSU 56, Texas Tech 27
Dec. 29, 2014 — Arkansas 31, Texas 7
Dec. 27, 2013 — Syracuse 21, Minnesota 17
Dec. 28, 2012 — Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31
Dec. 31, 2011 — Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22
Dec. 28, 2010 — Illinois 38, Baylor 14
Dec. 31, 2009 — Navy 35, Missouri 13
Dec. 30, 2008 — Rice 38, Western Michigan 14
Dec. 28, 2007 — TCU 20, Houston 13
Dec. 28, 2006 — Rutgers 37, Kansas St. 10
Note: Texas Bowl (2006-10); Meineke Car Care Bowl (2011-12)
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2022-12-29T07:08:26+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Texas-Bowl-Winners-17682655.php
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Chicago will play host to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the party announced Tuesday, putting the Windy City and the Midwest as a whole front-and-center in next year’s presidential campaign.
President Biden and Democratic National Committee (DNC) leaders ultimately chose Chicago over Atlanta, which was viewed as the next closest competitor, as well as New York City.
Here are five reasons why Democrats ultimately opted for Chicago, which lasted hosted a Democratic convention in 1996.
The Blue Wall argument
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was among the Midwest governors and leaders that wrote to President Biden and the DNC about hosting the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago due to the political importance of the Midwest. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
The political case for Chicago relied on the importance of the Midwest battleground states, with neighboring Wisconsin and Michigan especially pivotal not just in the presidential contest, but in Senate, House and state-level races as well.
The governors of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, along with federal and local representatives from each of those states, wrote to Biden and DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison last month to argue that picking Chicago would be a nod to the political importance of the Midwest.
“The general election in 2024 will be a battle with many fronts, and the Midwest will be the hardest fought of all,” the leaders wrote. “That is why in 2024, we must do everything we can to ensure the blue wall becomes an impenetrable blue fortress. Holding the convention in the Midwest is a serious, meaningful endorsement of our values.”
The “Blue Wall” of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania has been central to Democrats winning the White House for decades. Biden carried all three states in 2020, flipping each of them after former President Donald Trump narrowly won them in 2016.
“Chicago’s convention bid was supported by a wide range of midwestern Democrats who represent the diversity of the party, demonstrating the formidable coalition that will help elect Democrats up-and-down the ticket in 2024,” the DNC said in a statement Tuesday.
Republicans will host their 2024 convention in nearby Milwaukee, Wis., underscoring the importance of the region.
Some Democrats had forcefully argued Atlanta made more sense from a political perspective, making the case that Georgia was an increasingly purple state that helped Democrats secure both the White House and control of the Senate in recent elections.
“While it is disappointing that we will not gather in Atlanta in 2024 you can count on southern Democrats to be there with bells and whistles on to help you and @JoeBiden cause a little #GoodTrouble2024 in Chicago!” former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), a close Biden ally who advocated for an Atlanta convention, tweeted Tuesday.
Event infrastructure
The Chicago city skyline is covered by the fog lifted off Lake Michigan on Aug. 5, 2022, in Chicago. Democrats have chosen Chicago to host their 2024 national convention. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
Officials who have staffed previous conventions emphasized in interviews with The Hill that politics is far from the only factor in choosing a host city, and may not even be the most important.
Much of the decision ultimately comes down to whether a city is prepared to handle the influx of thousands of visitors — delegates, donors, media and party officials — and all that comes with it.
Supporters of the Chicago bid believe the city is up to the task.
Chicago has hosted several Democratic conventions before, most recently in 1996 and most notoriously in 1968, when the event was marred by protests.
The United Center, home to the NBA’s Bulls and NHL’s Blackhawks, has nearly 2 million square feet of event space and can hold nearly 21,000 people.
The city has two major airports, a well-established public transportation system, and hundreds of hotels in the city itself and the broader metropolitan area.
Chicago’s milder climate in the summer compared to Atlanta was also a draw, and it is located more centrally than either Atlanta or New York City, making it easier for donors, lawmakers and media to get there in the heart of campaign season.
Strong union presence
Bob Reiter, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, smiles during the Illinois Paid Leave bill signing Monday, March 13, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
One factor that aided Chicago’s bid over Atlanta in particular was the city’s strong union presence, something that appealed to Biden and his public image as a strong supporter of organized labor.
Labor advocates were skeptical of an Atlanta convention, noting that many of the city’s hotels do not have unions and the state as a whole is not as labor-friendly as Chicago and Illinois.
Bob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, which represents more than 500,000 union members in the city, called Chicago and the Midwest the “center of the Labor Movement.”
In a tweet responding to news of Chicago hosting the convention, Reiter noted Illinois last year passed a workers’ rights amendment to guarantee a broad right to collective bargaining in the state. He also pointed to the support of organized labor in electing the Democratic candidate in a critical Wisconsin supreme court race earlier this month.
A Democratic-controlled state and city
Then Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson celebrates with supporters after defeating Paul Vallas after the mayoral runoff election, late Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Chicago.
Part of the pitch from Illinois leaders was that the city and state are a bastion of liberal values and boast unified Democratic-led governments.
Gov. JB Pritzker (D), who has been floated as a potential presidential candidate in the event Biden opts not to run for re-election, has overseen the passage of a slew of Democratic priorities during his four years in office to date.
The governor and state legislature have approved a $15 minimum wage, ended cash bail, banned assault weapons and passed protections for gender-affirming care and abortion procedures at a time when both of those are being rolled back in GOP-led states.
In Chicago itself, the city last week elected Brandon Johnson, a former teacher and Chicago Teachers Union organizer, in a major win for progressives, defeating the more centrist Paul Vallas.
“Chicago is a world-class city that looks like America and demonstrates the values of the Democratic Party,” Johnson said in a statement Tuesday.
By comparison, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has in recent years signed laws restricting abortion access and gender affirming care, as well as an election law that Biden likened to “Jim Crow 2.0.”
A degree of cost certainty
National conventions are expensive endeavors, with cities footing the bill for security, event space and other logistical hurdles. The expected price tag for next year’s convention is between $80 million and $100 million.
Pritzker and his allies have sought to eliminate any concerns about cost, however, insisting they would be able to raise the necessary money.
Politico reported in March that the governor, his sister and former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Chicago Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts and businessman Michael Sacks had discussions about providing resources to fund the city’s convention bid.
Pritzker himself has an estimated net worth of more than $3 billion, and his family owns the Hyatt hotel chain.
“I’m thrilled Chicago has been selected to host the #2024DNC!” Pritzker tweeted Tuesday. “I look forward to welcoming everyone to the Midwest & showing off our diverse communities, impeccable hospitality, and world-renowned venues. There is no better place to tell the story of @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris.”
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The company has also experienced significant growth in its provider network, which has more than tripled since 2021
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Annexus Health, Inc., the leading healthcare technology company that is revolutionizing the patient access journey through its innovative solutions, today announced that its AssistPoint® platform has been used to secure more than $3 billion in patient financial assistance awards since 2018 and that its provider network has more than tripled since the end of 2021.
"The upward trend we are seeing in awards secured with AssistPoint is exciting for us and, more importantly, for the many eligible patients across the country who have benefited and stand to benefit from financial assistance," said Annexus Health Co-Founder and CEO Joe Baffone. "It has been less than one year since we surpassed the $2 billion mark, so to have now surpassed $3 billion shows the acceleration of the difference we are making for patients and their families."
In January 2023 alone, a record $389 million in financial assistance was secured with AssistPoint, a software platform that helps healthcare provider organizations proactively identify and manage financial assistance and other access services for eligible patients. AssistPoint seamlessly integrates with practice management systems and can be integrated with electronic health records, pharmacy management systems, and patient support programs. This connectivity minimizes cumbersome manual processes and allows healthcare provider organizations to work within an integrated environment to streamline the patient assistance process. AssistPoint has grown from its roots in oncology to address patient financial hardship in multiple disease states.
The rapid increase in awards secured with AssistPoint is attributable to growing provider uptake of the platform as well as the success of Adparo®. Adparo is Annexus Health's services division, which provides staff to support healthcare provider organizations in managing the patient assistance workflow, minimizing the administrative burden for providers and patients.
The company's 14 current life science partnerships also play a significant role in patient awards secured. AP Connect®, Annexus Health's life science solution, digitally integrates patient support programs directly within the provider workflow via AssistPoint to streamline and speed up the enrollment process, removing the burden from patients so they can focus on their care.
"Surpassing $3 billion shows the true magnitude of our impact," said Annexus Health Co-Founder and President Brad Frazier. "Translating this dollar impact into the growing number of patients we have been able to help every day is a true testimony to the force of change we have originated within the patient access ecosystem."
About Annexus Health
Annexus Health is the leading healthcare technology company that is revolutionizing the patient access journey by delivering innovative solutions, including tech-enabled services, that reduce financial and administrative burdens to improve access, speed, and adherence to critical care. Learn more at annexushealth.com.
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Make Your Home Insta-Worthy & Appeal To Millennial Home Buyers
DENVER, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Even in Denver's scorching hot housing market, the big question sellers must ask – is my home Insta-worthy? If not, you're leaving money on the table. According to Lending Tree, Denver is the leading metro area for Millennial (people ages 25 to 40) home buyers outpacing Seattle and Boston with 63.63% of mortgages offered to them. And these buyers, unlike their parents, demand move-in ready homes and are willing to pay well over asking for them.
Renovation Sells executes affordable pre-sale renovations and the custom designs that today's buyers demand, all without the high-end cost, effort, or timetable. After completing more than 300 presale renovations nationally, Renovations Sells is now servicing the Denver market.
"Our average project takes just three weeks and typically includes cabinet painting, backsplashes, countertops, lighting, flooring, and bathroom refreshes," explained Renovation Sells Denver Owner Jason Maier. "We also have financing options, so it really is a no-brainer for savvy sellers who want to get the most out of their biggest asset."
RECENT RENOVATION SELLS DENVER PROJECT GENERATED 440% ROI FOR SELLER
A recent project, 6087 Westview Street, was originally going to list at $625,000, but after working with Renovation Sells in 4 weeks, it sold for $800,000, which was a 440% ROI for the seller.
"I used Renovation Sells to update the main floor of my home to make it more desirable to sell. My home had many improvements over the years, but it was built in 1957. I hired Renovations Sells in March to update my home. I listed my home on the first of April, and it sold in hours," explained seller Linda C. "I was reluctant at first, thinking why renovate when it's a seller's market, and I could easily get $650,000 for my home? The cost to renovate was $40,000. I sold my house for $800,000, which was way above my expectations. Quite an increase in my earnings for a small investment."
The Denver market has been an extreme seller's market for over a year, but things are now shifting with the rising interest rates," explained Theron Johnson, REALTOR® with Thrive Real Estate Group. "It usually depends on the property, but the nicer homes – with an updated kitchen and/or bath – generally go for around 10-15% over asking... sometimes more! People spend so much time in the kitchen, so having something that is nicely updated will often sway someone's decision to purchase a home."
To learn how Renovations Sells can help with your next listing project, contact Jason Maier via email at Jason@renovationsells.com or by phone at (720) 361 9979 or visit https://www.renovationsells.com/denver.
ABOUT RENOVATION SELLS
Renovation Sells makes it simple to get homes move-in ready to sell fast and at the highest price. Locally owned and operated in Denver, with 18 locations across the United States, Renovation Sells executes affordable pre-sale renovations with the customized design that today's buyers' demand, all without the high-end cost, effort, or timetable. On average, projects are completed in as little as three weeks at approximately $27,000. Renovation Sells is committed to providing Realtors and their home sellers with fast, beautiful, turnkey renovations carried out by someone they personally know and trust. To find out how to get your listings move-in ready and maximize your seller's equity, visit https://www.renovationsells.com/denver. To see before & after photos of recent projects, follow @renovationsells on Instagram.
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During MWC Shanghai 2023, Fibocom announces the launch of its 5G smart module SC151-GL empowered by the Qualcomm® QCM4490 Processor. The global version of SC151-GL aims to provide a "one unit fits for world" solution for 5G AIoT markets, and enables the access of mobile smart terminals to the 5G service anywhere, anytime.
SHANGHAI, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fibocom, a global leading provider of IoT (Internet of Things) wireless solutions and wireless communication modules, announces the availability of SC151-GL at MWC Shanghai 2023. Based on the Qualcomm® QCM4490 Processor, Fibocom SC151-GL is the industry-first 5G smart module that supports mainstream frequency bands under 5G network architecture worldwide, which is crucial for customers that require global roaming on their devices to deploy the smart wireless solution faster, more efficient compared to the regional versions.
Fibocom SC151-GL provides a comprehensive smart wireless solution empowered by the Qualcomm® QCM4490 Processor. Compliant with 3GPP Release 16, the module is capable of offering Gigabit 5G experience, in addition to the support of Wi-Fi 6/6E, allowing the connections of multiple end devices simultaneously as well as the high-capacity of data throughput, these features can significantly improve the uplink performance, especially for the latency-sensitive scenarios like warehouse management and manufacturing detection. In terms of network utilization, the SC151-GL is also backward compatible with 4G/3G bands in addition to the compatability of 5G SA/NSA and EN-DC. It is worth highlighting that the module delivers a power-efficient solution for end devices enabled by the added-value TWT (Target Wake Time).
The convergence of AI and IoT is inevitable in the fast-growing digital transformation, and 5G is the key accelerator to implement the migration in 5G AIoT era. Fibocom SC151-GL is a "one unit fits for world" smart wireless solution for customers from the industrial handheld, industrial tablet, point-of-sale devices, body-worn cameras, PoC (push to talk over cellular) industries to minimize the R&D cycle and reduce hardware investments in the early stage of global deployment. Equipped with a set of rich interfaces including MIPI/ USB/ UART/ SPI/ I2C, etc., the module is scalable to meet the demands of various AIoT applications, and the support from software is fully capable of future upgrades to Android 18.
"The booming market of 5G has driven more and more IoT devices to evolve from 4G to 5G, especially for the smart devices such as industrial handheld terminals or tablets that require seamless roaming to satisfy the processing speed of edge computing," said Eden Chen, General Manager of MC Product Management Center, Fibocom. "We are confident to say that the launch of SC151-GL, the industry-first 5G smart module that integrates the capability to support global frequency bands in one unit will help our customers to lead the 5G transformation and digitalization more efficiently."
About Fibocom
Fibocom is a leading global provider of wireless communication modules and solutions as well as the first wireless communication module provider listed on China A-shares stock market (stock code: 300638). Fibocom offers a one-stop solution for industry customers by integrating wireless communication modules, IoT solutions and cloud service. With over two decades of engagement in M2M and IoT communication technology and extensive expertise, we are capable of bringing reliable, convenient, secure and intelligent connectivity service to every industry, enriching smart life with a perfect wireless experience. Fibocom's product portfolio ranges from cellular modules (5G/4G/3G/2G/LPWA), automotive-grade modules, AI modules, android-smart modules, GNSS modules and antenna service. Together, we aim to empower digital transformation across industries such as ACPC (Always Connected PC), mobile broadband, smart retail, C-V2X, robotics, smart energy, IIoT, smart cities, smart agriculture, smart home, telemedicine, etc.
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Buddy Roybal owned Coronado Paint & Decorating for exactly half his life.
He launched the company in 1984.
Just a few months later, Roybal, 76, met his wife-to-be, Irene, the only one who calls him his given name, Cervantes.
Roybal on May 1 sold Coronado Pain & Decorating to Teamshares — and his employees.
Teamshares is a 3-year-old company that buys businesses from owners who want to retire.
“I think he starting thinking seriously about retiring at 70 but couldn’t find the right match for Coronado,” Irene Roybal said. “One of the things Buddy considered when thinking about retiring is the employees and the life of Coronado. He could not sell the store without the employees being protected.”
Coronado Paint & Decorating is the 50th business Teamshares has acquired. Its business model is to acquire a company and immediately give the company’s employees a 10 percent ownership share. Coronado employees will own 80 percent of the company in 10 years, Teamshares CEO Michael Brown said.
“We started immediately granting stock to employees,” Brown said. “Teamshares is not looking to make a quick buck and leave. We are looking to make a dent in income equality. Employees earn stock through ongoing service to the company, and together we’re aligned for financial success.”
Roybal and Teamshares discussed the sale for more than a year.
“The biggest thing is they leave the company alone, they leave the employees alone, they leave the benefits alone,” Buddy Roybal said.
“Teamshares looks for long-standing, well-run businesses with employees who have a lot of respect for the company, as evidenced by its great facilities and a mission-aligned, community-oriented former owner,” Brown said.
Roybal will stay on as president of Coronado until Teamshares finds an ideal fit for the position, and then maybe Roybal will stay on as an employee for a while longer.
The transition to Teamshares and employee ownership rests well with Steven Snell, commonly referred to as Esteban, who has worked for Coronado for 14 years.
“It’s a dream come true,” Snell said. “I always thought I was part of the company. Now I am financially part of the company. Now there is a benefit to working together.”
Working at Coronado has been a dream all along for Snell, a senior sales consultant and design specialist.
“I wasn’t just a number here,” Snell said. “I’ve loved the teamwork and family environment. I have great health care. I have a 401(k) that has been very successful. There really is no turnover here. If you start here, you end here.”
Irene Roybal said Coronado Paint & Decorating has 22 employees and 50 independent contractor installers.
“Sixty to 70 percent of the employees have been here over 20 years,” she said. “Some employees retired after 25 years or 30 years.”
Buddy Roybal offers employees medical insurance, 401(k) retirement plans, vacations and annual bonuses. Teamshares will offer a bonus in the form of dividends.
He said the core of Coronado is “community involvement.” Privately and through the company, Buddy Roybal said he and Irene donate more than $150,000 a year. Right off the top, he mentioned The Food Depot, Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, the Lensic Performing Arts Center, the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Symphony, schools, and youth baseball, football and basketball teams.
He sits on the boards of Century Bank, the St. Vincent Hospital Foundation and the Santa Fe Vintage Club and has been a member of a dozen other boards in the past.
He was among The Santa Fe New Mexican‘s 10 Who Made a Difference in 1999. In 2006, Coronado was awarded Small Business of the Year in the Southwest Region by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and in 2005, he received the city of Santa Fe Small Business of the Year Award.
“The more we give, the more we get back,” Roybal said.
Annual revenue at Coronado reached
$12 million until the 2008 financial collapse. Roybal has built revenue back up to $9 million.
Roybal started Coronado as a paint store “and a little carpet.”
“When people needed something [else], I found how to get it,” he said. “Customers said, ‘You’ve got carpet, but I need tile.’ ”
“In the early ’90s, we set a goal to become a one-stop shop for home decoration,” Irene Roybal said.
Paint has shrunk to 10 percent of revenue, with carpet at 25 percent.
“We can do a carpet job for $10,000,” Buddy Roybal said. “It takes a lot of paint to get to $10,000.”
Window coverings bring in 10 percent, but the dominant product is tile, which amounts to about 55 percent of business at Coronado.
“This is a tile town, and it’s becoming more and more,” he said. “Now people even put tile in their bedrooms.”
Buddy Roybal grew up in Santa Fe and graduated from Santa Fe High School when it was located downtown. As a 13-year-old, his given name, Cervantes, started to fade away as he was called Buddy as a busboy.
After high school, he was drafted and joined the Navy, where he served six years with two years of active duty. He was a Santa Fe police officer for three years, but “the pay was pretty poor,” he said.
He didn’t know his life path would be set when he got a job at Sherwin-Williams, where he worked for 12 years, eventually as a store manager.
“That helped me pursue more being in charge, having authority and thinking of owning your own business,” Roybal said.
A few months after opening Coronado Paint, he met Irene while doing the rounds in his involvement with Fiesta de Santa Fe events. She was working at the State Land Office at the time. Within a year, they were married.
Irene continued working for the state until 1997 and since then has been a presence at Coronado Paint & Decorating.
“I’m not a paid employee, but I’m here all the time,” she said.
“We call her the White Tornado because she has so much energy,” Buddy Roybal said.
She decides how to lay out merchandise throughout the store, in what her husband describes as an “uncluttered” manner.
“When you walk in, you want to feel pleasant,” she said. “We try to make it look inviting.”
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2022-05-17T07:28:03+00:00
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SAN DIEGO (AP)Bernardo da Silva scored 20 points as Hawaii beat UC San Diego 62-49 on Thursday.
Da Silva added seven rebounds, three steals, and three blocks for the Rainbow Warriors (12-3). Kamaka Hepa scored 11 points while shooting 4 for 9, including 3 for 5 from beyond the arc, and added seven rebounds. JoVon McClanahan was 5 of 10 shooting (1 for 4 from distance) to finish with 11 points, while adding six assists. The Rainbow Warriors picked up their seventh straight win.
The Tritons (6-9) were led by Bryce Pope, who posted 16 points. UCSD also got 15 points from Roddie Anderson III. In addition, Jake Kosakowski finished with six points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-01-06T21:02:10+00:00
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NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Tupperware Brands Corporation ("Tupperware" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUP) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Tupperware investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between November 3, 2021 and May 3, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TUP investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Tupperware was facing significant challenges in maintaining its earnings and sales performance; (ii) accordingly, Tupperware's full-year 2022 guidance was unrealistic and/or unsustainable; (iii) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Tupperware's financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Tupperware during the relevant time frame, you have until August 15, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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WNBA career triple-double leader Alyssa Thomas of Connecticut was selected an All-Star reserve by the league’s coaches on Saturday.
Thomas, who will be making her fourth all-star appearance, is the first WNBA player with three triple-doubles in a season. She accomplished it in the span of seven days, including two in back-to-back games. She’s joined by Sun teammate DeWanna Bonner, who is making her fifth All-Star appearance.
Atlanta teammates Allisha Gray and Cheyenne Parker will be making their first appearances in the game. So will Indiana’s Kelsey Mitchell and Seattle’s Ezi Magbegor.
Other reserves chosen were Washington’s Elena Delle Donne, Las Vegas’ Kelsey Plum, New York’s Sabrina Ionescu and Courtney Vandersloot, Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier and Chicago’s Kahleah Copper.
They’ll have to wait a week to find out which team they’ll be playing on for the All-Star Game in Las Vegas on July 15. Team captains A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart will draft them next Saturday.
Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon will guide Wilson’s team and Connecticut coach Stephanie White will help Stewart’s squad.
Delle Donne was a two-time captain and expects to make her seventh All-Star appearance, but the first since 2019 after dealing with injuries and illnesses the past few seasons. She was happy for the chance to potentially play with former USA Basketball teammate Brittney Griner, who was chosen a starter last week.
“An All-Star Game without BG wouldn’t be right,” Delle Donne said. “I love being around her. When we played Phoenix a few weeks ago, just to see her and to see her smile was great. Hopefully, I end up on her team.”
Plum became the fourth member of the Las Vegas Aces to make the All-Star team, joining Wilson, Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray. Plum scored 30 points in last year’s game and earned MVP honors.
New York’s starting backcourt of Ionescu and Vandersloot give the Liberty three players in the game, joining Stewart. It’s Ionescu’s second appearance, while Vandersloot will make her fifth.
Collier is having a career year for the Lynx, scoring 22.4 points a game — more than six points above her previous career best. Copper, who earned 2021 WNBA Finals MVP honors, will play in her third All-Star Game.
Other All-Star starters announced last week were Los Angeles’ Nneka Ogwumike, Dallas teammates Arike Ogunbowale and Satou Sabally, Indiana’s Aliyah Boston and Seattle’s Jewell Loyd.
All 12 teams in the league will have at least one representative in the game for the first time since 2015.
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2023-07-02T20:08:52+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is interviewing Hope Hicks, a longtime aide to former President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
Tuesday’s interview comes as the investigation is winding down and as the panel has subpoenaed Trump for an interview in the coming weeks. The person requested anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting.
Hicks did not play a major role in the White House response to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, in which hundreds of Trump’s supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. The longtime Trump communications aide was still working there at the time but left the White House in the days afterward.
Still, Hicks had been one of Trump’s most trusted aides. And she was looped in on some texts and emails that day ahead of the then-president’s speech outside the White House and before the violence unfolded, according to CNN, which obtained copies of texts turned over by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Hicks is no stranger to investigations of her former boss. She was a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, delivering important information to the special counsel’s office about Trump’s attempts to obstruct that investigation. But she declined to answer questions about her time in the White House to House Democrats who were investigating the former president in 2019, after Mueller’s report came out, citing privilege concerns.
The New York Times first reported Hicks’ interview.
The Jan. 6 panel has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, including multiple White House aides, and has established that Trump was repeatedly told by some of his closest advisers that he had lost the 2020 election. But he continued to spread false claims of widespread election fraud, and his supporters who stormed the Capitol repeated them.
The nine-member panel issued a letter to Trump’s lawyers late last week demanding his testimony, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, “beginning on or about” Nov. 14 and continuing for multiple days if necessary. The letter also outlined a sweeping request for documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress as well as extremist groups.
Trump has not yet responded to the subpoena.
The committee held nine hearings this year and is expected to come out with a final report by the end of the year.
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2022-10-25T21:50:00+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/us-politics/ap-jan-6-panel-interviews-former-trump-aide-hope-hicks/
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Kathy Thoreson had just returned home from a breakfast meal when she said she heard multiple shots ring out Monday morning.
Thoreson lives in the Burton Hills area where The Covenant School is located.
According to Nashville authorities, a 28-year-old woman reportedly opened fire inside the school around 10:13 a.m. Monday, killing three students and three adult staff members. According to Metro Nashville Police Spokesman Don Aaron, the identity of the shooter is not yet known, but she was killed by Metro Police who responded to the scene.
Thoreson said some of the shots were louder than others and, at first, she thought the sound may have been roofers.
“The first about eight or 10 shots were very loud,” she said. Then there were more that followed that were quieter than the initial round of gunfire.
It was at that point she realized the sound was not roofers but rather gunfire. It rattled her, she indicated to Nexstar’s WKRN.
“I have four grandkids here. I mean, I can be thankful, but I am so sad for these parents and kids,” Thoreson said. “It’s very tragic. It’s two blocks from our house. It could happen at any school. It’s very tragic. It really is.”
This was the ultimate nightmare for any child or parent, she told WKRN. Thoreson has lived in the area for about three years and never expected this to happen at her home.
“You never think it’s going to happen where you are,” she said.
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2023-03-27T20:58:16+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/its-very-tragic-woman-recounts-what-she-heard-during-nashville-school-shooting/
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In the heart of downtown Atlanta, MomoCon 2023 has kicked off — and lovers of animation, comics and much more have gathered at the event that promises to have a little something for everyone.
Scripps News spoke with singer and songwriter Adassa, who voices Dolores Madrigal in Disney's "Encanto." She says she's been in music for the last 20 years, working with many other musicians before Disney reached out. She says she absolutely loved working on the film with Lin Manuel-Miranda and her daughter, who plays one of the town kids.
Adassa shared she's working on her new album, called "In Jesus, We Are One" in collaboration with Shadow Mountain. She'll also be going on tour with The Tabernacle Choir.
SEE MORE: Darryl McDaniels from Run-D.M.C. shares his love for comics
Adassa has seven children, and the whole family shares a love for music and voiceover work.
She says she's seen a lot of "Encanto."
"Everybody feels identified with a character because it all means a little something to them," she said. "And then, to have a film that depicts a Latino family in such a wonderful way ... It really showcases the heart of the family."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-05-26T21:20:52+00:00
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wrtv.com
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https://www.wrtv.com/scripps-news-speaks-with-adassa-who-voices-dolores-in-encanto
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman is suing a school district whose counselor encouraged her teen's social gender transition, providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting parents.
It’s the latest lawsuit to pit a parent’s right to supervise their children’s health and education against a minor’s right to privacy when confiding in a mental health professional. A similar lawsuit filed in California was working its way through the courts earlier this year. In Massachusetts, parents are suing a middle school for not telling them their two pre-teens were using different names and pronouns.
The federal lawsuit in Maine argues the mother of the 13-year-old student has a “right to control and direct the care, custody, education, upbringing and healthcare decisions of her children,” and that Great Salt Bay Community School violated her constitutional right by keeping gender-affirming treatments from parents.
Civil rights advocates have argued in other cases that schools must protect student privacy including their gender identity and sexuality under federal law, and that counselors need to be able to keep conversations with students confidential if they want to maintain trust.
Administrators at the Maine school add that confidentiality requirements have prevented them from responding to “a grossly inaccurate and one-sided story” that began circulating on social media. The superintendent didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.
Amber Lavigne, of Newcastle, Maine, filed the lawsuit after being unsatisfied with the school's response after she became concerned by the discovery of the chest binder in her child’s belongings in December. The compression clothing allows people to better conceal their breasts under clothing.
Lavigne's child told her that a school counselor provided the chest binder at the school and provided instruction on how to use it, according to the lawsuit. The mother also says the school was also calling her child by a different name and pronouns.
The Goldwater Institute, an Arizona-based conservative and libertarian think tank, is lead counsel on the lawsuit filed Tuesday. It argues the Maine mother's rights trump state statute allowing school counselors to keep information private.
Along with legislation banning surgical and pharmacological gender-affirming care, Republicans have also pushed so-called parental rights legislation demanding transparency from schools. A 2022 Arizona law expands the rights of parents to know anything their children tell a teacher or school counselor.
“I deserve to know what’s happening to my child. The secrecy needs to stop,” said Lavigne, who is now homeschooling her teenager, in a statement released by the institute.
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Nine people were shot after a gunman opened fire on a group of people in Cleveland overnight.
The incident happened in the city's Warehouse District around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Investigators said the shooter took off after he fired at the crowd. The police are still searching for the suspect.
Officials said four of the victims were rushed to the hospital in serious condition. The other five victims are in stable condition.
Police have been reviewing video footage and interviewing victims at the hospital to gather evidence, according to the Associated Press.
Police have yet to determine a motive for the shooting.
An investigation remains ongoing.
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2023-07-09T18:47:25+00:00
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https://www.wsfltv.com/9-shot-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-group-of-people-in-cleveland
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Three-time AL MVP Mike Trout intends to return to the Los Angeles Angels’ lineup on Friday in Detroit.
Trout hasn’t played since July 12, missing the Angels’ past 30 games with an injury to his upper back and ribcage. He faced live pitching Monday and worked out Wednesday, leaving him confident he will be able to play against the Tigers when the Angels open a 10-game trip.
“Ultimately, I want to be out there with the guys,” Trout said Wednesday before the Angels hosted the Seattle Mariners. “I miss it. I think with downtime, you come to the field, go home. It’s good to spend time with your son and your wife. That was good. But ultimately, you want to be out on the field. I’m excited. If everything goes well, hopefully I’ll be in there Friday.”
Trout earned an All-Star selection this summer while batting .270 with 24 homers and 51 RBIs in 79 games, but he has missed significant playing time — and the All-Star Game — due to injuries for the second straight season. The center fielder played only 36 games last season before he was sidelined for the year in mid-May by a calf strain.
“We really don’t have that much time left in the season,” Trout said. “I talked to the front office and I talked to the training staff just to get some at-bats here to see how I felt, and I felt really good.”
Last season’s disappointment seems to be a motivation for Trout to return with only seven weeks left in another lost season for the Angels (51-66), who haven’t made the playoffs since 2014. Los Angeles has plummeted out of the postseason picture again this summer despite being in first place in the AL West on May 11.
After Angels athletic trainer Mike Frostad said last month that Trout’s current injury might be something he must monitor for the rest of his career, Trout rushed to assure fans that his career isn’t over.
A return to the lineup underlines that commitment by Trout, who is in the fourth season of a 12-year, $426 million contract. He also said he plans to develop a workout plan to strengthen his back during another long offseason for the Angels.
Although his injury might benefit from some light days of action, Trout says he’ll keep playing center field to allow AL MVP Shohei Ohtani to remain the Angels’ designated hitter.
“I think we have a pretty good DH,” Trout said with a grin.
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2022-08-18T18:55:24+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/sports/mike-trout-plans-to-return-for-angels-on-friday-in-detroit/
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As grocery prices soar, push grows to end sales tax on food
In the face of soaring grocery prices, some Alabama lawmakers are pushing to remove the state sales tax on groceries
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is one of only three states that tax groceries at the same rate as other purchases. But as food prices soar — and as the state sees a record budget surplus — Alabama lawmakers are considering removing, or phasing out, the state’s 4% sales tax on food.
Competing proposals are being introduced by Democrats and Republicans in the Alabama Legislature to end the sales tax on all, or at least some, groceries. While the idea has been proposed for decades in Montgomery, it has gained traction this session. Alabama Arise, an organization that lobbies for policies that would benefit low-income families, said the average Alabama family spends $600 a year on the state grocery tax and removing it would be a lasting benefit to families struggling to make ends meet.
“Our families our hurting. We can’t afford to pay 4% on top of already expensive food,” Robyn Hyden, executive director of Alabama Arise, said during a Tuesday press conference and rally outside the Alabama Statehouse.
Only Alabama, Mississippi, and South Dakota still tax groceries at the full state sales tax rate. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had urged lawmakers to remove that state's sales tax on groceries, but lawmakers instead approved a general sales tax cut.
Various lawmakers, mostly Democrats, have proposed removing the state sales tax on food since at least the early 1990s, but the proposals were never approved, partly because of the projected blow to education funding. The tax on groceries provides more than $600 million annually to schools, according to estimates from the Legislative Services Agency. Alabama primarily uses sales and income tax collections to provide the state's share of education funding.
Soaring grocery prices, coupled with a record budget surplus, have lawmakers in both parties throwing their support behind the idea. But the proposals vary on if the tax would be removed on all food items and if the revenue stream would be replaced.
“We can all agree on this: That the tax on groceries is just plain, wrong an unfair,” Sen. Merika Coleman, D-Pleasant Grove, said.
Coleman’s proposal would let voters decide whether to remove the state sales tax on food and replace the money by ending the deduction that allows Alabamians to deduct federal income tax payments before computing their state income taxes. She said the tax break disproportionately lowers taxes for the wealthiest people.
“Let them choose whether they prefer a tax loophole that mostly benefits the richest few or if they want a grocery tax cut that benefits everyone,” Coleman said.
The Alabama Republican Party on Tuesday released a survey of registered voters that it said showed a vast majority support removing the sales tax on food.
“One of the core beliefs of the Republican Party is that government exists for the benefit of the people, not the other way around. We want to help those families and individuals struggling with food prices right now. It’s time to end the grocery tax,” Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl said in a statement.
Republican Sen. Arthur Orr, who chairs the Senate Finance and Taxation Education budget-writing committee, has proposed to phase out the state sales tax on some foods, such as milk, eggs, vegetables, fruit, whole-grain breads and baby formula. The bill would use the list of food items that are covered by the federal Women, Infants and Children nutrition program to decide what would be untaxed. Orr said last week that would offer relief to families while also limiting the blow to the education budget.
That WIC definition, if used, would leave the state sales tax on meat, desserts and many other items. Others have discussed using the list of foods eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. That would remove the state tax on most grocery items, but leave it on items such as alcoholic beverages or prepared meals that are hot at the point of sale. The Legislative Services Agency estimated that would cost the state $608 million annually.
Hyden said their organization supports the "broadest possible" proposal for removing the tax on food, as well as proposals that would protect education funding.
State Rep. Penni McClammy, the daughter of the late Rep. Thad McClammy, said during the Alabama Arise press conference that she has shared the difficult decisions many families face in trying to stretch a budget at the grocery store. “I was a caregiver. I know what it feels like to make decisions on buying Depends, Ensure, medication. What we call healthy food is the most expensive food in the grocery store,” McClammy, D-Montgomery, said.
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2023-04-12T01:19:23+00:00
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Key Highlights
- Cognata launches a new product service using Microsoft Azure that allows Automotive Customers to virtually evaluate ADAS/AV sensors through realistic Simulation environments.
- Cognata's platform provides an extensive array of ADAS/AV sensors coupled with robust simulation to quickly and effectively analyze presets and sensor capabilities in vehicle placement considerations.
- The platform will allow for urban, highway, and off-road testing across various times of day and weather conditions.
REHOVOT, Israel, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognata announces a new product launch, running on Microsoft Azure, and AMD processors and GPUs, to allow Automotive customers to virtually and efficiently evaluate ADAS/AV sensors through realistic simulation environments. Cognata's Automated Driving Perception Hub allows sensors to be evaluated versus a common set of industry-standard scenarios, and their performance is quickly and easily analyzed.
Technical complexity and evaluation of sensor placement and performance on vehicles are critical decision factors affecting vehicle development cycles, designed to minimize environmental impact. Cognata's Automated Driving Perception Hub, where a set of industry-standard models and custom presets can be evaluated in various terrains, times of day, and weather conditions in a photorealistic environment will significantly shorten the sensor evaluation process.
Together with Microsoft, Cognata is accelerating Automaker's digital transformation on Azure's global cloud, services, and computing capabilities to accelerate ADAS/AV feature development, verification, and validation.
The unique service synergy between Cognata's Automated Driving Perception Hub and Azure allows for ease of use, and is available from anywhere, at any given time. With photorealistic environments, on and off-road, scalability, and fast cloud run times, OEMs, Tier 1s, and sensor makers can make informed decisions and reduce pre-production time and costs.
Cognata's solution requires powerful computing and graphics resources to run and scale. Deployed on Azure, these advanced workloads and features are accelerated by AMD high-performance CPU and GPU technologies, enabling impressive performance and innovation.
"Cognata and Microsoft form a strong collaboration bringing OEMs and Tier I's to Microsoft Azure. Automated Driving Perception Hub is a milestone in our collaboration and demonstrates our joint commitment to bring the best technology for reducing the cost and time of Automated Driving engineering", says Danny Atsmon, CEO & Founder of Cognata. "Automated Driving Perception Hub brings the industry's leading sensor models and simulation environment to solve the important problem of optimizing sensor selection in a fully scalable way on Azure."
"AMD is pleased to support Cognata's business and customers with our high-performance CPUs and GPUs on the Azure infrastructure," said Lynn Comp, corporate vice president, Cloud Business, AMD. "The performance of AMD CPUs and the flexibility of AMD datacenter GPUs based on rDNA technology makes them a great fit for AD/ADAS simulation workloads."
"We initiated the Automated Driving Perception Hub since we saw a great opportunity to both help our mobility customers in the early phases of platform development as well as help sensor makers reach new customers and markets," says Kurt Neibuhr, Principle TPM Manager, Microsoft. "We selected Cognata for their experience in simulating the real-world performance of autonomous features. Cognata is a long-time Microsoft Azure partner with a technology stack that is fully optimized for AMD Radeon PRO V-Series data center GPUs."
About Cognata
Cognata provides cutting-edge autonomous driving technologies with its end-to-end solutions for autonomous platforms. Other than an advanced engine creating a photorealistic simulation platform, Cognata offers the know-how of the market offerings, product integration, and a comprehensive V&V walkthrough, end-to-end. Working with some of the largest autonomous vehicle makers tier 1's in the world, Cognata accelerates the autonomous and ADAS engineering capabilities, and brings the unique power and expertise of artificial intelligence and computer vision, taking off years of the development process.
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2023-01-05T17:38:32+00:00
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DENVER, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NewRez, a leading mortgage lending and servicing organization, today announced a strategic partnership with Homebot, a home finance education portal that empowers consumers to make smart home finance decisions. NewRez joins a growing list of over 100 financial institutions tapping the power of Homebot to create deeper and more meaningful connections with borrowers.
As one of the Top 10 lenders in wholesale and among the Top 20 retail lenders in the country, NewRez continually seeks innovative solutions to support both loan officers and their clients. Homebot empowers homeowners and buyers with personalized home finance insights, market intelligence, and property search experiences, while keeping them connected with their trusted home advisor every step of the way.
"At NewRez, we believe it's the balance of people and technology that creates an elevated customer-first experience for our borrowers," said Barron Silverstein, President of NewRez. "By leveraging Homebot's technology, we're able to position all of our loan officers as trusted home advisors, while deepening our relationships with borrowers and delivering a best-in-class borrower experience."
The partnership with Homebot will enable loan officers to deliver powerful, highly-personalized insights to homeowners and buyers, ultimately creating more connected client relationships and increasing engagement. Plus, Homebot's rich behavioral engagement insights give loan officers an opportunity to connect with clients and prospects at the right time, the moment they start showing signals of intent.
NewRez will provide the company's more than 575 loan officers national access to Homebot's Pro Plus, starting with 1 million clients. NewRez is also one of the first companies to offer Homebot to their servicing portfolio, a strategic initiative to drive enhanced engagement and recapture efforts.
"We're incredibly excited about the relationship we've developed with NewRez and the opportunity we have to fuel retail growth and servicing recapture efforts, all by empowering and educating millions of clients," said Charlie Pratt, CEO of Homebot.
ABOUT NEWREZ
Newrez is a leading mortgage company that combines mortgage origination and servicing to provide a customer-first journey and helps our customers make smart moves throughout the lifetime of their mortgage loans. Differentiated by its origination platform, the Company provides customers with unparalleled lending options to purchase and refinance. Its servicing business services loans on behalf of Newrez customers and includes third-party servicing brand, Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing. Founded in 2008, Newrez is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania and is a member of the Rithm Capital Family of Companies. Caliber Home Loans, part of the Newrez Family of Companies, is also a proven leader in the U.S. mortgage market with a diversified, customer-centric, purchase-focused platform with headquarters in Coppell, Texas.
© 2023 Newrez LLC, 1100 Virginia Dr., Ste. 125, Fort Washington, PA 19034. 1-888-673-5521. NMLS #3013 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org). Doing business as Newrez Mortgage LLC in the state of Texas. Alaska Mortgage Lender License #AK3013. Arizona Mortgage Banker License #919777. Licensed by the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act. Loans made or arranged pursuant to a California Finance Lenders Law license. Massachusetts Lender #ML-3013. Licensed by the N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance. Licensed Mortgage Banker-NYS Banking Department. Additional licenses available at www.newrez.com.
ABOUT HOMEBOT
Homebot, an ASG company, is a home education portal that keeps people connected to their home advisors (loan officers and real estate agents).
The award winning portal delivers personalized, actionable intelligence throughout the entire homeownership lifecycle. And with an average 50% monthly engagement rate, Homebot ensures lenders and agents remain the trusted advisors that consumers rely on to make informed decisions about the largest asset they may ever own, their home. For more information on Homebot, please visit: homebot.ai
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Ozzie Albies Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Cardinals - April 4
Published: Apr. 4, 2023 at 2:24 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Ozzie Albies -- 1-for-4 with a home run and two RBI in his last game -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves against the St. Louis Cardinals, with Steven Matz on the mound, on April 4 at 7:45 PM ET.
In his last game, he hit a home run while going 1-for-4 against the Cardinals.
Ozzie Albies Game Info & Props vs. the Cardinals
- Game Day: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
- Game Time: 7:45 PM ET
- Stadium: Busch Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on fuboTV!
- Cardinals Starter: Steven Matz
- TV Channel: BSMW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +185)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +130)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Ozzie Albies At The Plate (2022)
- Albies hit .247 with 16 doubles, eight home runs and 16 walks.
- Albies reached base via a hit in 45 of 64 games last season (70.3%), including multiple hits in 21.9% of those games (14 of them).
- He homered in 12.5% of his games last season (64 in all), leaving the ballpark in 3% of his trips to home plate.
- Albies picked up an RBI in 32.8% of his 64 games last season, with more than one RBI in 14.1% of those contests (nine). He drove in three or more runs in three games.
- He touched home plate in 46.9% of his 64 games last season, with more than one run in 9.4% of those games (six).
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Ozzie Albies Home/Away Batting Splits (2022)
Cardinals Pitching Rankings (2022)
- The pitching staff for the Cardinals had a collective 7.4 K/9 last season, the worst in MLB.
- The Cardinals had the ninth-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.79).
- The Cardinals gave up the third-fewest home runs in baseball (146 total, 0.9 per game).
- Matz gets the call to start for the Cardinals, his first of the season.
- The 31-year-old lefty last appeared Monday, Oct. 3 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, when he came on in relief and went one scoreless inning.
- Last season he finished with a 5.25 ERA and a 1.25 WHIP over his 15 games, compiling a 5-3 record.
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2023-04-04T20:21:59+00:00
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atlantanewsfirst.com
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DENVER (AP) — U.S. government lawyers on Wednesday asked the appeals court overseeing four western and two midwestern states to recognize that the First Amendment guarantee of free speech gives people the right to film police as they do their work in public — a decision that would allow officers to be sued if they interfere with bystanders trying to record them.
Six of the nation's 12 appeals courts have recognized that right but the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has not and justices heard arguments in the case of a YouTube journalist and blogger who claimed that a suburban Denver officer blocked him from recording a 2019 traffic stop.
Natasha Babazadeh, an attorney for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, urged a three-judge panel from the court to rule in that filming police is a constitutional right and said there has been an increase in the number of lawsuits filed against police by people saying they could not record them in public. The appeals court has over Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah and the parts of Yellowstone National Park that lie in Idaho and Montana.
"This issue is timely and would give guidance to district courts," Babazadeh said.
The First Amendment issue intersects with the controversial legal doctrine called "qualified immunity," which shields police officers from misconduct lawsuits unless their actions violate clearly established laws. If the appeals court decides people have a right to record police, police departments and officers who work in the court's region would be put on notice that they could be sued for violating that right.
In the Colorado lawsuit, Abade Irizarry said he was filming a police traffic stop in the city of Lakewood when he claimed Officer Ahmed Yehia stood in front of the camera to block Irizarry from recording. The officer was on foot shined a flashlight into Irizarry's camera and the camera of another blogger. Then Yehia left the two, got into his cruiser and sped the cruiser toward the two bloggers, the lawsuit said. The cruiser swerved before reaching the bloggers and they were not hit, according to the lawsuit.
The case was heard in federal court in Denver, where a magistrate judge sided with lawyers for Yehia and dismissed it last year, agreeing with Yehia's lawyers, who contended the right to record police was not clearly established by the time of the incident in 2019.
Irizarry appealed and U.S. government lawyers joined the case to support the public's right to record police.
Alex Dorotik, the lawyer for Yehia and the city of Lakewood, said in court documents that the appeals court panel should uphold the lower court ruling.
Pointing out that Yehia allegedly drove towards Irizarry, appeals court Judge Carolyn McHugh said officers can be held liable for actions which are so egregious that all officers should should know that they violate people's rights.
Dorotik told the appeals court panel that the motivation for why Yehia drove toward Irizarry would have to be considered but later acknowledged that it would be fair to infer it was motivated by Irizarry's efforts to film the traffic stop.
The Justice Department lawyers did not take a position on whether Yehia should be granted qualified immunity.
But they said the appeals court can rule on the constitutional question of whether people have the right to record police regardless of whether the lawsuit against Yehia is reinstated. L egal documents filed by the Justice Department lawyers stressed the importance of eyewitness video in its investigations of police departments and for the investigative hunt for suspects who attacked police during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Alan Chen, a University of Denver law professor and one of the First Amendment experts who have also urged the appeals court to rule on the right of people to record police, said courts tend to address cases narrowly instead of weighing in on constitutional issues.
But the video of the killing of George Floyd brought national attention to the importance of people having the right to record police as they work, he said.
"The more uncertainity there is, the more people might be afraid to pull out their phones and record the police," Chen said.
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2022-05-19T00:30:26+00:00
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hjnews.com
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday issued a withering critique of Minneapolis police, alleging that they systematically discriminated against racial minorities, often violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed.
The report was the result of a sweeping two-year probe, and it confirmed many of the citizen complaints about police conduct that emerged after Floyd's 2020 death. The investigation found that Minneapolis officers used excessive force, including “unjustified deadly force,” and violated the rights of people engaged in constitutionally protected speech.
The inquiry also concluded that both police and the city discriminated against Black and Native American people and those with “behavioral health disabilities."
“We observed many MPD officers who did their difficult work with professionalism, courage and respect,” Attorney General Merrick Garland told a news conference in Minneapolis. “But the patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible.”
Garland said officers routinely disregarded the safety of people in custody, noting numerous examples in which someone complained that they could not breathe, only to have officers reply with a version of “You can breathe. You’re talking right now.”
Police “used dangerous techniques and weapons against people who committed at most a petty offense and sometimes no offense at all," the report said. Officers "used force to punish people who made officers angry or criticized the police."
Police also "patrolled neighborhoods differently based on their racial composition and discriminated based on race when searching, handcuffing or using force against people during stops,” according to the report.
As a result of the investigation, the city and the police department agreed to a deal known as a consent decree, which will require reforms to be overseen by an independent monitor and approved by a federal judge. That arrangement is similar to reform efforts in Seattle, New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri.
Consent decrees require agencies to meet specific goals before federal oversight is removed, a process that often takes many years at a cost of millions of dollars.
Terrence Floyd, a younger brother of George Floyd, praised the Justice Department for its review.
“That’s how you solve and stop what’s going on with law enforcement,” said Floyd, who is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said his agency was committed to creating "the kind of police department that every Minneapolis resident deserves.”
Mayor Jacob Frey acknowledged the work ahead.
“We understand that change is non-negotiable,” Frey said. “Progress can be painful, and the obstacles can be great. But we haven’t let up in the three years since the murder of George Floyd.”
The scathing report reflected Garland’s efforts to prioritize civil rights and policing nationwide. Similar investigations of police departments have been undertaken in Louisville, Phoenix and Memphis, among other cities.
The Minneapolis investigation was launched in April 2021, a day after former officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the killing of Floyd, who was Black.
During their May 25, 2020, encounter, Floyd repeatedly said he couldn't breathe before going limp as Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes. The killing was recorded by a bystander and sparked months of mass protests as part of a broader national reckoning over racial injustice.
The Justice Department reviewed police practices dating back to 2016, and found that officers sometimes shot at people without determining whether there was an immediate threat.
Officers also used neck restraints like the one Chauvin used on Floyd nearly 200 times from Jan. 1, 2016 to Aug. 16, 2022, including 44 instances that did not require an arrest. Some officers continued to use neck restraints after they were banned following Floyd’s killing, the report said.
The investigation found that Black drivers in Minneapolis are 6.5 times more likely to be stopped than whites, and Native American drivers are 7.9 times more likely to be pulled over. And police often retaliated against protesters and journalists covering protests, the report said.
The city sent officers to behavioral health-related 911 calls, “even when a law enforcement response was not appropriate or necessary, sometimes with tragic results,” according to the report.
The findings were based on reviews of documents, body camera videos, data provided by the city and police, and rides and conversations with officers, residents and others, the report said.
Some changes have already been made.
The report noted that police are now prohibited from using neck restraints like the one that killed Floyd. Officers are no longer allowed to use some crowd control weapons without permission from the chief. "No-knock" warrants were banned after the 2022 death of Amir Locke.
The city has also launched a program in which trained mental health professionals respond to some calls rather than police.
Keisha Deonarine, director of opportunity, race and justice for the NAACP, applauded the Justice Department for holding police accountable but said much work remains, and not just in Minneapolis.
“This is a constant issue across the nation,” Deonarine said. “When you look at the police system, it’s a militarized system. It is absolutely not used, utilized or trained in the way that it should be.”
The Justice Department is not alone in uncovering problems.
A similar investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights found "significant racial disparities with respect to officers' use of force, traffic stops, searches, citations, and arrests." It criticized "an organizational culture where some officers and supervisors use racist, misogynistic and disrespectful language with impunity."
The federal report recommends 28 “remedial” steps to improve policing as a prelude to the consent decree. Garland said the steps “provide a starting framework to improve public safety, build community trust and comply with the constitution and federal law.”
The mayor said city leaders want a single monitor to oversee both the federal plan and the state agreement to avoid having “two different determinations of whether compliance has been met or not. That’s not a way to get to clear and objective success.”
Floyd, 46, was arrested on suspicion of passing a counterfeit $20 bill for a pack of cigarettes at a corner market. He struggled with police when they tried to put him in a squad car, and though he was already handcuffed, they forced him on the ground.
Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years for murder. He also pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to 21 years in that case. He is serving those sentences in Tucson, Arizona.
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Salter reported from O'Fallon, Missouri. Associated Press writers Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington, Aaron Morrison in New York and Summer Ballentine in Columbia, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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2023-06-16T20:49:18+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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The Norfolk area's top provider of high-quality home and commercial services updates its branding to reflect comprehensive offerings and team culture
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hutton Power & Light is now Hutton Electric, Heating & Air.
The locally owned provider of top-quality home services in Norfolk and Virginia Beach announces its new name as part of a rebranding effort that highlights the company's comprehensive range of electrical, heating, air conditioning and generator solutions.
"As a locally owned and operated service company, it's essential that we connect with the audiences that drive our success," said Karina Hutton, president and owner of Hutton Electrical, Heating & Air. "The community has our promise that we're still the same business they've come to trust, and updating our name and graphics helps us stand out in the constant stream of information and images we're surrounded by and be easily recognized. We remain committed to delivering reliable, high-quality services to homeowners and business owners throughout our community."
The Hutton Electric, Heating & Air rebranding reflects the company's deep investment in a culture that supports superior results and customer satisfaction through maintaining a team known for extraordinary workmanship and service. Hutton Electric, Heating & Air's market-leading solutions for their team-based culture include:
- Industry-leading field technology.
- Generous compensation, benefits and performance incentives.
- Innovative in-house training for techs, including advanced virtual simulation technology and an apprenticeship program approved by the Department of Labor.
"Having the right team and culture is critical," Hutton said. "When technicians and support staff feel like part of a team instead of just employees, you'll see the kind of performance that ensures sustained customer satisfaction and loyalty. Our focus when hiring is character. We can train people who have a good attitude and work ethic who will contribute to the culture we believe in. The leadership team here has taken on responsibility for training our team. Nobody knows better than we do what we need for our team and our customers."
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(The Hill) – Pregnant people are being exposed through various household products to toxic compounds that can increase the risk of cancer and harm child development, a new study has found.
Scientists identified two such compounds — the industrial chemical melamine and its byproduct cyanuric acid — in the urine of almost all the pregnant subjects they tested, with the highest levels occurring in women of color and in those with greater exposure to tobacco.
Four types of chemicals used in dyes, called aromatic amines, were also present in the urine of nearly all pregnant participants, according to the study, published in Chemosphere on Tuesday.
“These chemicals are of serious concern due to their links to cancer and developmental toxicity, yet they are not routinely monitored in the United States,” co-senior author Tracey Woodruff, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said in a statement.
Woodruff and her colleagues decided to investigate the presence of melamine, its derivative cyanuric acid and aromatic amines because they are all nitrogen-containing compounds with known toxicity and widespread commercial use.
People can be exposed to melamine and aromatic amines in a variety of way of ways: by breathing polluted air, consuming contaminated food or water, ingesting household dust and using products that contain plastic, dyes and pigments, the scientists explained.
The production of cyanuric acid and melamine exceeds 100 million pounds per year in the U.S. alone, according to the authors. Melamine is found in dishwater, plastics, flooring, kitchen counters and pesticides, while cyanuric acid is used as a disinfectant, plastic stabilizer and cleaning solvent in swimming pools, the scientists noted.
When exposure to melamine and cyanuric acid chemicals happens simultaneously, they can be more toxic than either one alone, the authors cautioned.
Aromatic amines, meanwhile, are present in hair dyes, mascara, tattoo ink, paint, tobacco smoke and diesel exhaust.
Despite the prevalence of these chemicals in household products, the authors stressed that biomonitoring of the chemicals is lacking, particularly during pregnancy.
Melamine was recognized as a kidney toxin after baby formula and pet food poisoning events in 2004, 2007 and 2008 left several individuals dead and caused kidney stones and urinary tract obstructions in others, according to the authors.
Additional research from animal experiments, they added, has suggested that melamine impedes brain function.
To draw their conclusions in the Chemosphere study, the researchers measured 45 chemicals linked to cancer and other health risks in urine samples from a small but diverse group of 171 pregnant people.
The subjects had participated in the National Institutes of Health’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Program between 2008 and 2020.
The 171 participants came from California, Georgia, Illinois, New Hampshire, New York and Puerto Rico, according to the study.
About 34 percent of them were white, 40 percent were Latina, 20 percent were Black, 4 percent were Asian and the remaining 3 percent were from other or multiple ethnicities.
Levels of one of the aromatic amines, 3,4-dichloroaniline, were more than 100-percent higher among Black and Hispanic women in comparison to white women, the study found.
“It’s disconcerting that we continue to find higher levels of many of these harmful chemicals in people of color,” study co-senior author Jessie Buckley, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said in a statement.
Giehae Choi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and first author of the study, stressed that their observations “raise concerns for the health of pregnant women and fetuses.”
“Some of these chemicals are known carcinogens and potential developmental toxicants,” Choi added. “Regulatory action is clearly needed to limit exposure.”
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Ex-GOP Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for role in $60M bribery scheme; appeal expected
CINCINNATI (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the largest corruption scandal in state history.
The 64-year-old Republican appeared before U.S. District Judge Timothy Black, who meted out the punishment, about an hour after he and his wife arrived at the federal courthouse.
Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges, a former chair of the Ohio Republican Party, were both convicted in April of a single racketeering charge each, after a six-week trial. Borges is set to be sentenced Friday.
Householder also received on year of probation and was remanded into the custody of U.S. Marshals.
Jurors found that Householder orchestrated and Borges participated in a $60 million bribery scheme secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. to secure Householder’s power, elect his allies, pass legislation containing a $1 billion bailout for two aging nuclear power plants owned by a FirstEnergy affiliate and then to use a dirty tricks campaign to stifle a ballot effort to overturn the bill.
Federal prosecutors had recommended Householder receive 16 to 20 years, holding in a sentencing memo that he “acted as the quintessential mob boss, directing the criminal enterprise from the shadows and using his casket carriers to execute the scheme.” That strategy, they said, gave Householder ”plausible deniability.”
His own attorneys had recommended just 12 to 18 months, reporting to the judge that he is “a broken man” who has been “humiliated and disgraced” by the ordeal of his widely reported arrest, high-profile prosecution and seven-week trial by jury.
Householder was one of Ohio’s most powerful politicians, a historically twice-elected speaker, before his indictment. After Householder’s arrest in July 2020, the Republican-controlled House ousted him from his leadership post, but he refused to resign for nearly a year on grounds he was innocent until proven guilty. In a bipartisan vote, representatives ultimately ousted him from the chamber in 2021 — the first such expulsion in Ohio in 150 years.
All told, five people and a dark money group have been charged so far for their roles in the scheme. A federal investigation remains ongoing.
During the trial, the prosecution called two of the people arrested — Juan Cespedes and Jeff Longstreth, who both pleaded guilty and are cooperating — to testify about political contributions they said were not ordinary, but rather bribes intended to secure passage of the bailout legislation. Generation Now, the 501(c) nonprofit through which much of the money flowed, also has pleaded guilty to racketeering.
Cespedes and Longstreth face up to six months in prison each under their plea deals. Neither has been sentenced.
The last person arrested, the late Statehouse superlobbyist Neil Clark, was heard on tape in the courtroom. Clark had pleaded not guilty before dying by suicide in March 2021.
All the alleged members of the conspiracy benefited personally from the scheme, using sums that an FBI agent described colloquially as “bags of cash” from FirstEnergy. Householder spent around $500,000 of FirstEnergy money to settle a business lawsuit, pay attorneys, deal with expenses at his Florida home and pay off credit card debt. Another $97,000 was used to pay staff and expenses for his 2018 reelection campaign.
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2023 Valero Texas Open Schedule: Thursday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
The 2023 Valero Texas Open will run at TPC San Antonio (Oaks) in San Antonio, Texas, playing at 7,438 yards as a par-72 with an $8.9M purse on the line. J.J. Spaun won the most recent edition of this event. Watch the opening round on Thursday, March 30 to see who will take the first step to claiming the title this year.
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How to Watch the 2023 Valero Texas Open
- Start Time: 8:30 AM ET
- Venue: TPC San Antonio (Oaks)
- Location: San Antonio, Texas
- Par/Distance: Par 72/7,438 yards
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PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker stepped back for a 3-pointer in the closing minute of the third quarter as Golden State's Stephen Curry gamely tried to stay with him, putting a hand in his face. Booker made the shot anyway as a frustrated Curry dropped his head.
No matter how many points the Warriors superstar scored, the Suns came right back with an answer.
Cameron Payne had a career-high 29 points, Booker added 27 and Phoenix easily overcame Curry’s 50-point night to beat Golden State 130-119 on Wednesday. All five Suns starters scored in double figures.
“It's important to have a team,” Booker said about the balanced production. “That gives you longevity and will get us through a season.”
The Suns controlled most of the game despite Curry's scoring. The eight-time All-Star made 17 of 28 shots, going 7 of 11 from 3-point range.
The problem for the Warriors was nobody else was helping. Klay Thompson finished with 19 points but shot just 6 of 17. The Warriors — defending NBA champs — fell to 6-9 for the season.
“I think for right now, we are just scattered,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. “It's a pickup game. It's a pickup game out there.”
Curry's scoring prowess is expected, but it was countered by one of the best games of Payne's career. Starting in place of the injured Chris Paul, the 6-foot-3 guard made 9 of 17 shots, including 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
Coach Monty Williams praised Payne's play but also criticized the guard's late-game decisions, including picking up a flagrant foul.
“Cam can score the ball and he had seven assists to go with it,” Williams said. “But in closing moments, he has to be better. We don't need all that silliness at the end of games.”
The Suns led 103-89 going into the fourth quarter. The Warriors quickly cut into that margin but couldn't get closer than eight points. Damion Lee hit back-to-back 3-pointers against his former team to keep the Suns comfortably ahead.
The Suns shot 21 of 40 (52.5%) from 3-point range and had 33 assists. Mikal Bridges had 23 points and a career-high nine assists. Torrey Craig added 13 points and 10 rebounds.
HOT FIRST HALF
It was a frenetic first half with both teams shooting very well — particularly behind the arc. The Suns led 72-65 at the break, with Curry scoring 31 points. Payne had 18 for the Suns and Booker had 16.
Curry was at his best in the first half, making 10 of 13 shots from the field, including 4 of 5 3-pointers. The two-time MVP came into the game averaging about 31 points per game and hit that mark with a free throw near the end of the second quarter.
“Steph is going to have Steph moments,” Williams said.
The Warriors were basically at full strength while the Suns were missing two injured starters — Paul and Cam Johnson — and a key reserve in Landry Shamet.
The two teams were playing again a little more than three weeks after the Suns beat the Warriors by nearly 30 points. That game was notable for seven technical fouls and a verbal spat between Booker and Thompson that eventually resulted in Thompson's first career ejection.
TIP-INS
Warriors: Kevon Looney scored 10 points in the first half on 5 of 5 shooting. ... Curry was called for a technical in the third quarter. ... Curry passed Mitch Richmond for 49th on the NBA career scoring list.
Suns: Paul (right heel soreness), Shamet (concussion) and Johnson (right meniscus tear) didn't play. ... Debuted special blue City Edition uniforms as part of a night to honor Arizona's Tribal Nations. ... The team was called for a technical foul in the first half after getting called for two delay of games. ... Hosted their 34th consecutive sellout crowd.
UP NEXT
Warriors: Host New York on Friday night.
Suns: At Utah on Friday night.
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Cody Bellinger Player Prop Bets: Cubs vs. Phillies - June 27
Published: Jun. 27, 2023 at 11:24 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Cody Bellinger -- with an on-base percentage of .194 in his past 10 games, 125 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Chicago Cubs against the Philadelphia Phillies, with Ranger Suarez on the mound, on June 27 at 8:05 PM ET.
In his last game he had a one-hit showing (1-for-3) against the Cardinals.
Cody Bellinger Game Info & Props vs. the Phillies
- Game Day: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
- Game Time: 8:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Wrigley Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Phillies Starter: Ranger Suárez
- TV Channel: MARQ
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -167)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Cody Bellinger At The Plate
- Bellinger is batting .254 with 10 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 16 walks.
- In 30 of 45 games this season (66.7%) Bellinger has picked up a hit, and in nine of those games he had more than one (20.0%).
- Looking at the 45 games he has played this year, he's hit a long ball in seven of them (15.6%), and in 3.7% of his trips to the plate.
- In 40.0% of his games this year, Bellinger has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 6.7% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored a run in 26 games this season, with multiple runs six times.
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Cody Bellinger Home/Away Batting Splits
Phillies Pitching Rankings
- The 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Phillies pitching staff ranks fifth in MLB.
- The Phillies have the 17th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.27).
- The Phillies rank 11th in baseball in home runs allowed (82 total, 1.1 per game).
- Suarez makes the start for the Phillies, his ninth of the season. He is 1-2 with a 3.50 ERA and 42 strikeouts in 43 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last appearance was on Tuesday against the Atlanta Braves, when the left-hander tossed six innings, surrendering one earned run while giving up four hits.
- The 27-year-old has put up an ERA of 3.50, with 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings, in eight games this season. Opposing hitters have a .253 batting average against him.
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Presentations at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2022 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) Span Relapsed/Refractory Disease and Frontline Treatment in Patients with EGFR-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
RARITAN, N.J., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced new data from the Phase 1b/2 CHRYSALIS-2 study (NCT04077463) cohort evaluating the safety and tolerability of the combination of RYBREVANT® (amivantamab-vmjw) with the third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) lazertinib and platinum-based chemotherapy (carboplatin and pemetrexed) in patients with relapsed/refractory non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and EGFR mutations.1 These findings and additional updates, including data on RYBREVANT® in combination with lazertinib in the frontline setting for patients with NSCLC will be presented at the IASLC 2022 WCLC hosted by the IASLC August 6-9 in Vienna, Austria.
CHRYSALIS-2 (NCT04077463) is an ongoing clinical trial evaluating RYBREVANT® in combination with lazertinib in patients with advanced NSCLC with EGFR exon 19 deletion mutations or L858R activating mutations.2 One cohort of CHRYSALIS-2 evaluates the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with carboplatin and pemetrexed.1 Results from the RYBREVANT®, lazertinib, carboplatin and pemetrexed combination cohort (n=20) will be featured in a mini oral presentation (Abstract #MA07.04) at the IASLC 2022 WCLC.1 Enrolled participants received a median of two prior lines of therapy.1 Prior therapies included osimertinib (n=14), gefitinib (n=3), afatinib (n=3), and platinum-based chemotherapy (n=5), among others.1
After a median follow-up of 7.1 months, the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with carboplatin and pemetrexed yielded an overall response rate (ORR) of 50 percent (95 percent confidence interval [CI];27-73), with 15 out of 20 patients remaining on treatment.1 The observed safety profile of this treatment combination was consistent with the previously reported safety profile of each individual agent; no evidence of new safety signals or additional toxicity was observed.1 The most common treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs) included neutropenia (85 percent), rash (75 percent), infusion-related reaction and stomatitis (60 percent), fatigue and paronychia (50 percent each), and thrombocytopenia and nausea (40 percent each).1
"Patients with relapsed/refractory non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations currently have few treatment options. For them, the promise of precision medicine has the potential to change the trajectory of their disease," said Alexander Spira, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, CEO and Clinical Director of NEXT Oncology Virginia and study investigator.‡ "The data we've seen with the combination of amivantamab with lazertinib and chemotherapy further demonstrate the potential of this treatment regimen for these patients, and we are optimistic about future study to improve outcomes for those with EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer."
Janssen is currently recruiting patients for the Phase 3 MARIPOSA-2 (NCT04988295) study to evaluate the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC after disease progression on or after osimertinib.3
Separately, updated data from the frontline, treatment-naïve cohort of the Phase 1 CHRYSALIS study (NCT02609776) will be featured in a poster presentation (Abstract #P1.16-01).4 CHRYSALIS is an ongoing study evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of RYBREVANT® as a monotherapy and in combination, including with lazertinib, in patients with advanced NSCLC with various EGFR mutations.5 Patients enrolled in the treatment-naïve cohort had NSCLC characterized by either an EGFR exon 19 deletion (n=11) or L858R mutation (n=9), with 50 percent having co-mutations in the TP53 gene.4 All 20 patients had confirmed response (ORR of 100%). After a median follow-up of 22.3 months, 14 patients (70 percent) were progression free and remained on therapy with median duration of response and median progression-free survival not reached.4 Two patients with L858R mutations remained on treatment after their disease progressed.4 Based upon the last data cutoff on June 1, 2022 (median follow-up and treatment duration of 28 months), 12 patients (60 percent; 9 exon 19 deletion, 3 exon 21 L858R) remain progression free and on treatment.4
The safety profile of the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib was consistent with previous reports, and no new safety signals were identified.4 Treatment-related AEs of Grade ≥3 severity occurred in seven patients (35 percent).4 Treatment-related AEs leading to dose reduction of either RYBREVANT® or lazertinib occurred in seven patients, most commonly due to rash (n=5).4 One patient had a treatment-related AE of interstitial lung disease which led to treatment discontinuation.4 Janssen is evaluating the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib in the frontline setting for patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC in the ongoing Phase 3 MARIPOSA study (NCT04487080).6
"Janssen's presence at this year's World Conference on Lung Cancer is a testament to our continuous effort to improve outcomes for people with non-small cell lung cancer, especially those whose disease is characterized by specific genetic mutations and who tend to be underserved by the current standard of care," said Joshua Bauml, M.D., Executive Medical Director, Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "We are committed to evaluating the potential of combination regimens in delaying disease progression in the treatment-naïve setting and addressing the ongoing challenge of treatment resistance in patients with relapsed/refractory disease."
Janssen will also share data that highlight the utility of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing in identifying patients with NSCLC who may benefit from targeted treatment in a mini oral presentation (Abstract #MA12.05).7 Results showed that compared with single-gene testing strategies, NGS testing resulted in a higher percentage of identified mutations, a shorter time to appropriate targeted therapy and lower total testing costs per patient.7
RYBREVANT® (amivantamab-vmjw) received accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 2021 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test, whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy.8 This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate and duration of response. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials. RYBREVANT® has also received approval from health authorities in Europe, as well as other markets around the world.
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer* prefer NGS-based strategies over PCR-based approaches for the detection of EGFR exon 20 insertion variants and include amivantamab-vmjw (RYBREVANT®) as a subsequent therapy option with a Category 2A recommendation for patients that have progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy and have EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation-positive advanced NSCLC.9†^
RYBREVANT® is being studied in multiple clinical trials, including for untreated advanced EGFR-mutated NSCLC in the Phase 3 MARIPOSA (NCT04487080) study assessing RYBREVANT® in combination with lazertinib as an alternative to osimertinib for frontline treatment; the Phase 3 MARIPOSA-2 (NCT04988295) study to evaluate the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib with platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC after disease progression on or after osimertinib; the Phase 1/1b CHRYSALIS-2 (NCT04077463) study assessing the combination of RYBREVANT® and lazertinib in patients who have progressed after treatment with osimertinib and chemotherapy; the Phase 3 PAPILLON (NCT04538664) study assessing RYBREVANT® in combination with carboplatin-pemetrexed versus chemotherapy alone in patients with advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutated NSCLC and exon 20 insertion mutations; and the Phase 1 PALOMA (NCT04606381) study assessing the feasibility of subcutaneous (SC) administration of RYBREVANT® based on safety and pharmacokinetics and to determine a dose, dose regimen and formulation for RYBREVANT® SC delivery.2,3,5,6,10,11
*NCCN makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever regarding their content, use or application and disclaims any responsibility for their application or use in any way.
†See the NCCN Guidelines for detailed recommendations, including other treatment options.10
^The NCCN Guidelines for NSCLC provide recommendations for certain individual biomarkers that should be tested and recommend testing techniques but do not endorse any specific commercially available biomarker assays or commercial laboratories.
For more information, visit: https://www.RYBREVANT.com.
Lazertinib is an oral, third-generation, brain-penetrant, EGFR TKI that targets both the T790M mutation and activating EGFR mutations while sparing wild type-EGFR.12 Interim safety and efficacy results from the lazertinib Phase 1/2 study were published in The Lancet Oncology in 2019. In 2018, Janssen Biotech, Inc. entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Yuhan Corporation for the development of lazertinib.
Worldwide, lung cancer is one of the most common cancers, and NSCLC makes up 80 to 85 percent of all lung cancers.13,14 The main subtypes of NSCLC are adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and large cell carcinoma.15 Among the most common driver mutations in NSCLC are alterations in EGFR, which is a receptor tyrosine kinase supporting cell growth and division.16 EGFR mutations are present in 10 to 15 percent15,16,17,18,19 of people with NSCLC adenocarcinoma and occur in 40 to 50 percent of Asians.20,21 The five-year survival rate for all people with metastatic NSCLC and EGFR mutations treated with EGFR TKIs is less than 20 percent.22,23
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
RYBREVANT® can cause infusion-related reactions (IRR); signs and symptoms of IRR include dyspnea, flushing, fever, chills, nausea, chest discomfort, hypotension, and vomiting.
Based on the safety population, IRR occurred in 66% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®. Among patients receiving treatment on Week 1 Day 1, 65% experienced an IRR, while the incidence of IRR was 3.4% with the Day 2 infusion, 0.4% with the Week 2 infusion, and cumulatively 1.1% with subsequent infusions. Of the reported IRRs, 97% were Grade 1-2, 2.2% were Grade 3, and 0.4% were Grade 4. The median time to onset was 1 hour (range 0.1 to 18 hours) after start of infusion. The incidence of infusion modifications due to IRR was 62% and 1.3% of patients permanently discontinued RYBREVANT® due to IRR.
Premedicate with antihistamines, antipyretics, and glucocorticoids and infuse RYBREVANT® as recommended. Administer RYBREVANT® via a peripheral line on Week 1 and Week 2. Monitor patients for any signs and symptoms of infusion reactions during RYBREVANT® infusion in a setting where cardiopulmonary resuscitation medication and equipment are available. Interrupt infusion if IRR is suspected. Reduce the infusion rate or permanently discontinue RYBREVANT® based on severity.
RYBREVANT® can cause interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis. Based on the safety population, ILD/pneumonitis occurred in 3.3% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®, with 0.7% of patients experiencing Grade 3 ILD/pneumonitis. Three patients (1%) discontinued RYBREVANT® due to ILD/pneumonitis.
Monitor patients for new or worsening symptoms indicative of ILD/pneumonitis (e.g., dyspnea, cough, fever). Immediately withhold RYBREVANT® in patients with suspected ILD/pneumonitis and permanently discontinue if ILD/pneumonitis is confirmed.
RYBREVANT® can cause rash (including dermatitis acneiform), pruritus and dry skin. Based on the safety population, rash occurred in 74% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®, including Grade 3 rash in 3.3% of patients. The median time to onset of rash was 14 days (range: 1 to 276 days). Rash leading to dose reduction occurred in 5% of patients, and RYBREVANT® was permanently discontinued due to rash in 0.7% of patients.
Toxic epidermal necrolysis occurred in one patient (0.3%) treated with RYBREVANT®.
Instruct patients to limit sun exposure during and for 2 months after treatment with RYBREVANT®. Advise patients to wear protective clothing and use broad-spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen. Alcohol-free emollient cream is recommended for dry skin.
If skin reactions develop, start topical corticosteroids and topical and/or oral antibiotics. For Grade 3 reactions, add oral steroids and consider dermatologic consultation. Promptly refer patients presenting with severe rash, atypical appearance or distribution, or lack of improvement within 2 weeks to a dermatologist. Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue RYBREVANT® based on severity.
RYBREVANT® can cause ocular toxicity including keratitis, dry eye symptoms, conjunctival redness, blurred vision, visual impairment, ocular itching, and uveitis. Based on the safety population, keratitis occurred in 0.7% and uveitis occurred in 0.3% of patients treated with RYBREVANT®. All events were Grade 1-2. Promptly refer patients presenting with eye symptoms to an ophthalmologist. Withhold, dose reduce or permanently discontinue RYBREVANT® based on severity.
Based on its mechanism of action and findings from animal models, RYBREVANT® can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Advise females of reproductive potential of the potential risk to the fetus. Advise female patients of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment and for 3 months after the final dose of RYBREVANT®.
The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) were rash (84%), IRR (64%), paronychia (50%), musculoskeletal pain (47%), dyspnea (37%), nausea (36%), fatigue (33%), edema (27%), stomatitis (26%), cough (25%), constipation (23%), and vomiting (22%). The most common Grade 3 to 4 laboratory abnormalities (≥2%) were decreased lymphocytes (8%), decreased albumin (8%), decreased phosphate (8%), decreased potassium (6%), increased alkaline phosphatase (4.8%), increased glucose (4%), increased gamma-glutamyl transferase (4%), and decreased sodium (4%).
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Published: Aug. 1, 2022 at 7:56 AM MDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
(CNN) - Most students in the U.S. are heading into the new school year with an optional mask policy.
According to data company Burbio, about 98% of the top 500 kindergarten through 12th-grade schools do not require facial coverings.
However, the School Superintendents Association says policies could change in some areas where COVID-19 cases escalate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending universal indoor masking for schools and early education programs in locations with a high COVID-19 community level.
Right now, the CDC says nearly 46% of U.S. counties fall in that category.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Danielle Deadwyler says racism and misogynoir played a role in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, where she and Viola Davis were overlooked in the best actress category.
Going into Oscar nominations last month, Deadwyler was widely seen as a likely nominee for her lauded performance as Mamie Till-Mobley in “Till.” But the best actress field, perhaps the most competitive category this year, didn’t shake out as expected: Both Deadwyler and Davis were left out.
Davis, a four-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner for her performance in “Fences,” had been celebrated for the historical epic “The Woman King.” Deadwyler had been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the BAFTAs in the run-up to Oscar nominations, and won best lead performance at the Gotham Awards.
That two prominent Black actors were among the most striking snubs has been seen by some as a reflection of racial bias in the film industry. The day after the Oscar nominations, “Till” director Chinonye Chukwu posted on Instagram: “We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women.”
Asked for her reaction to that comment on an episode of the “Kermode & Mayo’s Take” podcast posted on Friday, Deadwyler strongly agreed with Chukwu.
“We’re talking about people who perhaps chose not to see the film — we’re talking about misogynoir — like it comes in all kinds of ways, whether it’s direct or indirect,” said Deadwyler. “It impacts who we are. I think the question is more on people who are living in whiteness, white people’s assessment of the spaces they are privileged by.”
Misogynoir, a term coined by the Black feminist author and activist Moya Bailey, refers to misogyny and prejudice directed at Black women.
“I think the question is more on people who are living in whiteness, white people’s assessment of the spaces they are privileged by,” added Deadwyler. “We’ve seen it exist in a governmental capacity — it can exist on a societal capacity, be it global or national.”
That Deadwyler and Davis were edged out of an Oscar nomination is part of what fueled the initial backlash to the star-studded grassroots campaign for actress Andrea Riseborough. After a string of celebrity-hosted screenings (a regular feature of Hollywood’s awards season), Riseborough unexpectedly landed a nomination for her performance in the indie drama “To Leslie,” alongside Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) and Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”).
After the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced an inquiry into the Riseborough campaign, it found no reason to rescind her nomination or take any other action — though Bill Kramer, academy president, said some social media and outreach campaigning tactics “caused concern.”
But conversation has continued on how money, race, status and connections can influence awards campaigns. “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood said earlier this week that she questioned how people in the film industry are using their social capital.
“People like to say, ‘Well, Viola and Danielle had studios behind them.’ But we just very clearly saw that social capital is more valuable than that,” Prince-Bythewood told The Hollywood Reporter. “That type of power is exercised in more casual ways in social circles, where folks are your friends or your acquaintances. There may be diversity on your sets but not in your lives. And Black women in this industry, we don’t have that power.”
Deadwyler, whom The Associated Press named one of the breakthrough performers of last year, said on the podcast it was everyone’s responsibility to ensure an equitable playing field.
“Nobody is absolved of not participating in racism and not knowing that there is a possibility of its lingering effect on the spaces and the institution,” she said.
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Growing up, I dreaded the first day of school every fall because of the public ritual my teachers and I would inevitably carry out. The rigamarole, which took place during roll call, became particularly uncomfortable in fourth grade, the year my family moved from Cambridge out to the suburbs.
It usually began with awkward silence as a teacher arrived at my name. You could see the syllables bouncing around their brain like balls in a lottery drawing.
“Eric. . . Young. . . Jin. . . Kim?” This was the best case scenario. Other outcomes included, “Eric Young,” “Young Jim,” and, when my last name was mistaken for my first, “Kim Young.” The word soup, along with the teacher’s trepidation, was a heady brew for a classroom of kids still buzzing from summer.
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“Young Jin. That’s my name. The ‘Eric’ is a mistake. I don’t know where that came from.”
“That’s strange,” the teacher would say. “These don’t usually have mistakes. Your first name is Young. . . Jin? Two words?”
My ears would turn the color of a Starburst cherry chew. In addition to first-day jitters, I was grappling with being one of only a few Asian students at school, magnifying my self-consciousness. The gazes of my classmates felt like interrogation lights.
“My first name is Young Jin. My last name is Kim. It’s a Korean name. I don’t know where Eric came from.”
In later years, a classmate might chime in. “His name’s not Eric. That’s a mistake,” they’d interject, either as an act of solidarity or exasperation. Some grew suspicious, reckoning such an error year after year was unlikely. I held my ground. Eric was not my name.
“Young Jin it is then,” the teacher would say, as if their saying so made it the truth.
My name is Eric Young Jin Kim.
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For much of my life, seeing my name like this made me wince. Its components felt like unconnected boxcars on a track, colliding, never moving as one. Each part, on its own, was familiar enough for peers to wrap their heads around. Together, they felt like a secret better confined to my home.
I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but I surely wasn’t the only one who felt uncomfortable with their name. According to a 2022 poll by YouGov, 41 percent of Americans said they neither liked nor disliked their name, disliked it somewhat, or disliked it a lot. That’s a lot of ambivalence. Looking back, I’m sure some classmates endured worse than me, like the affable kid whose Polish last name put a target for bullying on his back.
My own name might be less problematic today than in the 1980s and ‘90s, when I was in school: Anyone familiar with baseball, K-pop groups, or sweeping melodramas has seen at least a few Korean names. Back then, however, kimchi was not yet a topping for burgers and tacos, and names like mine hadn’t entered the American lexicon.
Throughout my youth, I knew little about my parents’ homeland. Aside from a summer spent there when I was 7, my primary connections were through my mother’s cooking and stories I heard about my paternal grandfather. A self-made businessman who guided his family through Japan’s brutal colonization and, soon after, the Korean War, he’d eventually spirit his seven children out of the country to give them the best education he could. I was reminded often that he gave me my Korean name.
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As many around the world now know, Korean names typically consist of three syllables, the family name coming first. As of 2015, there were nearly 11 million Kims in Korea — almost 1 of every 5 Korean nationals — divided into clans based on geographical region. I am from the Cheongpung Kim clan, descended from an aristocratic family that dates back centuries, and whose members have included queens and prime ministers.
According to a tradition followed by many Koreans, a person’s given name includes a generational syllable — for me, Jin — based on genealogy and shared among paternal cousins. A child’s grandfather often helps choose the remaining syllable; mine chose Young to complete my name. Each component corresponds with a Chinese character with its own meaning.
My father, who immigrated to the United States as a teenager, knew the challenges that a less common name could bring. Thrown into the New York City school system with no English skills, his name — Young Chol Kim — appeared in school records in various arbitrary configurations. During his junior high graduation ceremony, it was jumbled so badly that no one knew who had been called. The syllables hung in the air as people waited for someone to walk up to the stage.
Those experiences stuck with him, and so, when I was born, he decided to give me an English name as well, to protect me from the problems he’d had. He had read about a Viking adventurer named Erik, and hoped his son would be a bold explorer, too, in whatever he chose to pursue. At home, my parents continued to call my two sisters and me by our Korean names — a common practice among our Korean American friends.
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Beginning in kindergarten, however, I was adamant: I wanted to be called Young Jin. To my father, it was a sign of my independent streak. For me, it was about my grandfather. His role in naming me loomed large in my mind, and, unprompted, I chose to honor him. Not only that, I liked the name. It felt like home, like the stews my mother made from fermented soybean paste: umami-packed and comforting, if perhaps a bit too pungent for the average New England palate at the time.
Spoken tentatively by teachers and mangled by peers, Young Jin lost the music it had when spoken by my parents and relatives. When we moved to the suburbs, I began lying when asked about the name Eric.
If, during those awkward roll calls, I felt judged, it’s because I was being judged. Studies over the years have shown how people take cues from names, shaping their impression — rightly or wrongly — about a person’s characteristics, including race, personality, and level of success. Names are associated with real-world outcomes such as income, education, and juvenile delinquency.
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A 2011 study asked whether a name’s pronounceability affected the impression it made on others. Participants were presented with a variety of names in contexts such as mock elections and newspaper articles, and asked to rate them. Not surprisingly, researchers found the respondents gravitated to the names they found easier to pronounce, judging those imagined people as more likable and upwardly mobile.
The study was rooted in a concept known as processing fluency: the ease with which a piece of information can be comprehended. So what becomes of a name that renders others into a state of buffering? And if we’re predisposed to react negatively to difficult names, can a person avoid coming to hate their own?
By choosing my Korean name over my American one, I was embarking on a journey to find out.
In fifth grade, our teacher organized our desks into pods of four. In contrast to the traditional all-eyes-up-front arrangement, this was an opportunity to interact with a smaller group. I quietly hoped I would make new friends.
The other boy in the pod, on paper, was the prototypical classmate I should aspire to befriend: athletic, well-liked, at ease recapping the weekend’s NFL games. The two girls intimidated me.
One day, I turned to say something to the girl seated next to me. This is when, allegedly, a fleck of spit flew from my mouth and landed on her sweater.
When I sat down the next morning, I discovered my deskmates had invented a nickname for me. Pounding their fists, they chanted a chorus I would hear for months: Yong Jong Donkey Phlegm, are you OK? Are you OK?
Instead of protesting, I reflexively insisted the saliva had never left my mouth in the first place. But it was three against one, their voices overpowering. I looked into the hollow cavity of my desk, at the spiral pencil shavings and blunted stubs of lead, and waited for the storm to clear.
An incomplete list of names I’ve been called:
Young, Eric, Young Gin and Juice, Old Jin, Youth, Kim, Lil Kim, Young Jim, Young Kin, Fung, Egg Foo Yong, Hideo Nomo, That Kid, That Chinese Kid, Whatever His Name Is, Yong Jong Donkey Phlegm, Mr. Miyagi, Jackie Chan, Chino.
In middle school, I started going by the nickname Young. Kids had discovered it was a workaround to my complicated full name; for me, it made roll call easier. There must be a correlation, I thought, between the Americanness of a name and how few times you had to repeat it. The word itself, in English, implied inexperience and naiveté. But it was also the nickname my father went by, and that was good enough for me.
Name-calling persisted, often playing on the words “old” and “gin.” Sometimes it came drenched in the casual ah-so anti-Asian racism that was ubiquitous back then. Once, during a basketball tournament, the opposing team called me Hideo Nomo for an entire game, a reference to the Japanese pitcher who then played for the Los Angeles Dodgers. By the time I’d absorbed the insults, the chance to respond was already over.
One afternoon during youth soccer practice, our coach called a huddle. As we stood at midfield among cones and pinnies, a kid took a swipe at my name. Once in a while, inspiration and opportunity align so perfectly that even a shell-shocked kid like me could take advantage. I calmly reminded him that his own surname prominently featured slang for male genitalia — a fact particularly hilarious within our age demographic — and that he was in no place to make fun of anyone’s name.
I stood there with a satisfied smile as the team erupted in laughter, derailing the practice. But the thrill of one-upmanship vanished when I caught a glimpse of the kid’s face. I saw that I had hurt him.
Our names are important to us all. They tell us where we come from.
In my case, mine was also telling me where I was headed. I just couldn’t hear it yet.
What we now call microaggressions were so common that I barely registered anything was wrong, let alone that something could be done about it. I only recently mentioned any of this to my parents. When I did, they were surprised. My father blamed himself for not recognizing my struggles, and was pained that his efforts to shield me from the challenges he’d experienced had resulted in confusion.
I tried to explain that, instead of some kind of failure, being able to choose my preferred name would, in time, turn out to be the greatest of gifts.
When I arrived at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a freshman, I suddenly found myself in a more diverse environment. My dorm cluster attracted international students, including many from Asia. In a dorm basement, I participated in marathon table tennis sessions with friends with names such as Van and Rishi, who didn’t blink when I told them my name. And when I majored in English and began writing poetry and fiction, my name became associated with something entirely positive: my creativity.
As a young writer, I tried to emulate the literary style of another Massachusetts native, Jack Kerouac, whose fiction mirrored his life. Like me, my protagonist was Korean American and struggled with identity.
In On the Road, the Kerouac character is named Sal Paradise. I called my alter ego Juno, a Korean name I’d heard. I liked how the syllables flowed into one another, how it could be written as one word. I imagined Juno would have an easier time with his name, and I wanted that for him.
In the summer of 2006, I boarded a plane for South Korea.
The plan came together as soon as I realized how badly I needed to go. I had been living in San Francisco since graduating, pursuing writing while working with elementary school students in Chinatown. But I hadn’t written anything worth publishing, and had run out of ideas.
I knew part of my identity was missing, like a jigsaw puzzle with a hole in the center, and that I could go no further without filling the empty space. Before I could second-guess myself, I applied for a job as an English instructor in a city called Daejeon, about 90 miles from Seoul, and packed my bags.
I worked at one of the after-school learning academies known as hagwon, ubiquitous in the education-obsessed country. In the afternoons, bright-eyed elementary school students called out “Hi, Young Jin Teacher!” in mandatory English as they filed into the classroom. They called instructors at this hagwon — mostly young Americans and Canadians — by their first names, but added teacher, one of the many titles of respect that uphold the country’s strict social hierarchy. My evening classes catered to high schoolers studying for standardized tests in the United States. I bonded with a bright, quiet kid named Young Jin.
One afternoon, a teacher fresh off the plane from the United States walked into the teachers’ room laughing. “I have a kid in my class named Young Bum,” she said. “They know that’s ridiculous, right?”
I felt like a fifth-grader again, caught between my fight reflex and the urge to disappear. Before I could say anything, a Canadian teacher stepped in. “You get used to it,” she said. “It’s not like his parents are thinking of us when they name their kids. It’s another culture, you know.”
In Korea, I felt an ease I’d never experienced with my own name. Instead of confusion, people appreciated meeting a Korean American with a Korean name. Many were surprised I’d opted not to use Eric. I noticed how the syllables of my name flowed seamlessly when spoken by my Korean co-workers, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, and relished how they elongated the pronunciation of Jin, making it sound more like “Jean.” When they said my name, it sounded normal — attractive even. It sounded like music.
I’d planned to live in Korea for a year, but after lucking into a copy editing job at an English language newspaper in Seoul, I ended up staying for nine. One day, the managing editor, a Korean man with leathery skin, called me into his office. “Young Jin-shi,” he said, adding a formal postfix. (I called him gookjang-nim, a term of respect for our chief editor.) He asked if I would try reporting on politics. When my first front-page story was published, I swelled with pride to see my byline written as Kim Young-jin, with the paper’s hyphenated style.
The role gave me access to halls of power I could never have imagined. I worked out of press rooms in the parliament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Unification, which manages the tense relations with North Korea. I wore press credentials with my name in Hangul, the written Korean language. Officials from the government addressed me as Kim Young Jin gija-nim, using the title for journalists.
Over five years, I climbed the newsroom ladder to become a senior editor, earning the title of boojang-nim. Not everyone called me this, however. I was American, and many of my Korean colleagues spoke with me informally, as they would other foreigners, their English skills being stronger than my Korean. Much like how, growing up, my name and race limited my feeling of Americanness, I felt the limits of my Koreanness, as well. This didn’t bother me. By this time, I understood how privileged I was to straddle both cultures.
I once confided to two young reporters on my team that my English name was Eric. Both were Koreans who had spent much of their youth abroad; our status as partial outsiders bonded us. In a group chat, they teased me about that part of my name, using absurd cartoon emoji characters. It felt good to laugh with them.
Outside of work, women I dated, if younger than me, sometimes called me oppa, an affectionate term for one’s older brother as well as male friends and lovers. My male friends younger than me called me hyung, or big brother. At the Bohemian bar I frequented, I asked for my IPAs to be poured with less foam, despite the bartenders preaching the virtues of a frothy head. They drew my beers in what became known as “Young-Jin style.”
In 2015, I finally returned to the United States. The empty space I’d felt inside was now overflowing. I knew, better than I could have imagined, where I came from.
When I moved back to Boston and began working in local media, I knew I’d never introduce myself as Young again. I kept Young-Jin as my byline, and realized I no longer differentiated between a Korean and American name. It was simply my name. It felt like a final puzzle piece, snapped into place.
There is a photograph of my son, taken last year, sleeping in the hospital a day after his birth. Next to his swaddled body, his name is written in cheerful block letters on a strip of masking tape adhered to the bassinet. A night nurse had drawn festive balloons around the edges. “It’s perfect,” she said of the name.
The name was on my tongue the morning after my wife Jeannie and I learned we were having a boy. I pitched it to Jeannie, a Korean American from New Jersey who shares a deep love for Korea. Like me, she wanted our son to have a Korean name, and the idea quickly grew on her.
The trickier part, I thought, will be getting my father on board. I knew he would embrace the chance to name his grandson, as his father had for me.
On a warm evening, we sat with my parents in their backyard. I began a preamble about my own name, and how it connected me to Korea. How I had struggled with it. I told my father I wanted to break tradition, with his blessing, and give our child a Korean name that would translate to our American life.
My father smiled and said he would support our decision. More than anything, he was elated that we planned to give our child a Korean name.
Jeannie and I liked the way Juno rolled off our tongues, how it flowed as one word instead of two. It would remind him of his Korean roots. We didn’t mind that it is also a name given to girls, originating from a Roman goddess — we hoped he’d be a champion of women, like her.
I wondered, however: Were we picking Juno because it sounded more American — and less foreign — than a name like my own? What did that say about me?
Truthfully, one of the ways I process Korean names is according to how adaptable they are to the American ear. I reflexively assess their sound and how they look written in English, and categorize them as yeah, that would work in the US, or no, not so much. I don’t like that I do this. But I process them in other ways too. I see them, in my mind, written in Hangul, their letters stacked like Tetris blocks. They remind me of my friends and colleagues in Seoul and the young people I taught in Daejeon.
I know, also, that attitudes about names are always evolving. For starters, a boy band with members named Jungkook and Jimin is a household name in America. And in the wake of an ugly spate of violence against Asians in the United States, we’ve seen Asian Americans step forward to embrace their full names. This is the world my son will navigate.
My concerns relaxed as I watched Koreans and Americans alike coo our son’s name. Americans put more emphasis on the first syllable; Koreans made the second sound rounder, as if blowing a smoke ring from a cigarette. The universally positive reaction warmed my heart. I saw that Juno would have a different experience with his name than I did with mine, and my father with his. The name worked.
The only question anyone asked was about its meaning. That was determined by my father, who had researched, with the help of one of his older sisters, a translator of Korean literature into English, the Chinese characters available for each syllable. For Joon, he selected the character meaning talented. For Oh, he chose one that means enlightenment.
Decades ago, my grandfather had also chosen my name to imbue it with special meaning. When I began taking an interest in Korean culture, years after he passed away, I asked about its significance. I learned that Young means bright, and Jin means truth.
It’s a powerful thing, a name. In my mind’s eye, I’ve always seen a lighthouse at the edge of the wild sea, illuminating a path through the night fog.
It took me years, but eventually I realized the prescience of that image — and my name — and how it had always pointed to where I needed to be.
Young-Jin Kim can be reached at young-jin.kim@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @youngjinwrites.
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2023-05-16T10:38:31+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/16/magazine/i-struggled-with-my-korean-american-name-now-i-realize-it-was-gift/
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CHAVIES, Ky. (AP) — Angel Campbell should have been sitting in her usual chair in her grandmother’s living room this week, looking through her old photo albums and eating her favorite soup beans.
Now the living room is gone, and so is her grandmother.
A week after 82-year-old Nellie Mae Howard died in the devastating floods that killed at least 37 people in eastern Kentucky, Campbell can’t stop thinking about how she was swept away. She said losing her “Mammaw” will plague her for a very long time.
“The way she had to leave this earth just shatters me,” she said. “It just feels so cruel.”
Eastern Kentucky has been engaged for days now in the slow, grim task of recovering and burying the dead. Local funeral homes have settled into a steady cadence of visitations and memorials, sometimes in quick succession. The somber rituals have continued as more rain falls, prompting yet another flood watch across the Appalachian mountain region. People here brace at the prospect of a new round of misery.
Funeral home workers have had to navigate the staggering losses, in communities where families have known each other for generations, some after losing their own houses. They’ve had to carry on without power or water at times, taking in so many bodies that a mobile refrigerator was brought in to add capacity.
Mobile federal emergency management centers opened across at least seven counties where people could request money for immediate needs. A relief fund set up by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has begun distributing money to pay the funeral expenses of flood victims.
No place in eastern Kentucky suffered more deaths than Knott County, where 17 people perished in the historic flooding. The local coroner, Corey Watson, knew nearly all of them.
“I was retrieving people from scenes that I had known since I was a child or I had seen that person grow up,” Watson said. “It’s hard.”
The floodwaters tore families apart. Two sets of husbands and wives died. Whole families were “decimated,” the coroner said. Most of those who died were retirees, he said.
Watson said his training taught him how to compose himself, but in such an extreme situation, he wondered: “How do you properly compose yourself when you see a multitude of people passing away and there being attempts to save their life or to keep them together? It’s troubling, but we have to go through this. We have to overcome it. We can always hold their memory in our heart.”
The floods in Pine Top surged through Randall and Rosa Lee Vick’s front door, ripped a huge hole in their back wall and swept them into the dark water. Vick said he had just a split second to speak to her before they went under. “Whatever happens, I love you,” he said.
Vick was able to cling to a tree for about seven hours before Kevin Patrick and another neighbor lashed themselves together with extension cords and waded out to rescue him. They found his wife’s body miles away.
What’s left of their home came to rest on the opposite side of their normally placid creek. A neighbor has lent him a pop-up camper to live in, once he’s ready.
“I can’t bring back what I had,” Vick said. “I’m just going to have to get up and go on. I’ll make it.”
Denver Bates, 76, drove up to check on them Thursday. The Vicks had worked for him, cutting his grass.
“They had four and five cars in their driveway. Money. Yards kept clean. They were living good, and God let them know who’s the boss,” Bates said.
A family friend, Jade Dollarhide, gave Vick a hug while seeing what he needs.
“We may not have all the shopping centers, we may not have all these big jobs and factories and everything else, but what we lack with money, you know we’re rich in friendship and family,” Dollarhide said. “That’s what’s important.”
For some families, the funerals have offered their first chance to pause and reflect on the losses after days of digging out.
Campbell’s mother, Patricia Collins, was at home with her boyfriend next door to Howard’s home in Chavies, Kentucky, when the storms hit. Collins went to check on her, and climbed with her grandmother onto the kitchen table, but it collapsed into the surging water.
Collins was in the water for two hours, pinned between a couch and a car. The only thing that saved her was a flashing tail light that caught the eye of her neighbors, who pulled her to safety. Battered and bruised, she never saw Howard alive again.
It took nearly five hours to find Howard’s body. Campbell’s brother pulled their grandmother from the water, checked for a pulse and wiped mud from her face. Then he asked the neighbors for a sheet to cover her, and sat with her body for hours.
Both homes are now in ruins, carried in pieces hundreds of feet from where Howard had lived for half a century.
Campbell said her grandmother was like her second mother. They either saw each other or spoke on the phone every day. She can still hear her giggling on the other line, or telling her to remember to thank Jesus for all the good in her life. She was a deeply religious woman who tended to her rose garden and thanked the Lord each morning for letting her see another day.
She was the person Campbell most often went to for advice — she knew just what to say.
“I always thought one day when I had to say goodbye to her I would still get to go sit in my favorite chair and remember all the good times,” she said. “But I can’t even do that and that really hurts.”
Almost everything her grandmother and mother owned was lost in the flood. Miraculously, a photo still hung on one wall – a portrait of her grandmother and her grandfather, who passed away 13 years ago.
That photo was displayed next to the white casket at her funeral this week, near a spray of roses put together by a family friend.
Just like the ones in her grandmother’s garden.
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Willingham reported from Charleston, W.Va. AP contributors include National Writer Allen G. Breed in Hindman, Ky., and news researchers Rhonda Shafner and Jennifer Farrar in New York.
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2022-08-05T20:08:33+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/kentucky-flood-survivors-turn-to-grim-task-burying-the-dead/
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For some Michigan cities the snow tallies for this winter did pile up much higher than normal. Like many winters in Michigan we can also find areas that had less than normal snow amounts.
Far southern Michigan had about normal snowfall this winter. Most cities in southern Michigan have come between 5 inches below normal and 5 inches above normal for the snow season. The Grand Rapids area has had over 33 inches more snow that normal. Just up the road at Muskegon the snowfall has only tallied 60 inches, which is 27 inches below normal. Working our way up into northwest Lower, most cities had just slightly above normal snowfall. Traverse City at 114.5 inches of total snow is 14 inches above normal. Crossing the Mackinac Bridge, Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette both have significantly more than normal snow totals.
Here are the snow totals at some of the larger cities across Michigan.
It should be safe to say that we won’t have anymore significant snowfall accumulations. With some cold air still pretty close to Michigan I wouldn’t say we can call this a final snowfall map. The Upper Peninsula could still have a small amount of snow.
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2023-04-23T13:59:17+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/weather/2023/04/michigans-total-snowfall-this-winter-shows-heaviest-area-over-20-feet-of-snow.html
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– Star Equity has withdrawn its nominees for election to the Company's Board of Directors, thus ending the proxy contest –
– Vote now on the Company's BLUE proxy card to have your vote counted –
ELMA, N.Y., June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Servotronics, Inc. (NYSE American – SVT) a designer and manufacturer of servo-control components and other advanced technology products today announced that on June 1, 2023 Star Equity Fund, L.P. notified the Company that Star Equity was withdrawing its two nominees for election to the Company's Board of Directors. The withdrawal of Star Equity's nominees is not the result of any concessions by the Company nor a negotiated settlement with Star Equity.
Due to the limited time between Star Equity's withdrawal of its nominees and the June 9, 2023 Annual Meeting, we are not able to provide shareholders a revised proxy card that does not include the withdrawn nominees. Shareholders who wish to vote on the election of directors and other proposals to be considered at the Annual Meeting should vote on the Company's BLUE proxy card or voting instruction form.
For shareholders who have already voted on the Company's BLUE proxy card for the Company's nominees — Brent D. Baird, Edward C. Cosgrove, William F. Farrell, Jr., Karen L. Howard, Christopher M. Marks and Evan H. Wax — there is no need to vote again. Your previous vote will count.
Star Equity has stated that proxies previously received on the white universal proxy card will be delivered to the Company and voted as instructed unless they are revoked. However, Star Equity will not vote any further proxies received from shareholders after the date Star Equity withdrew its nominees. Also, any votes cast for the withdrawn nominees using either the BLUE or white proxy card will be disregarded and not be counted.
All shareholders are encouraged to review the Company's proxy statement for more complete information with respect to the Annual Meeting. If you have already submitted your proxy card, you have the power to revoke it at any time before it is exercised as provided under the "Question and Answers About the Proxy Materials and the Annual Meeting" section of the proxy statement.
Shareholders who have any questions or need assistance voting may contact the Company's proxy solicitors, Georgeson, LLC, toll-free at (866) 767-8867.
ABOUT SERVOTRONICS
The Company is composed of two groups – the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and the Consumer Products Group (CPG). The ATG primarily designs, develops and manufactures servo controls and other components for various commercial and government applications (i.e., aircraft, jet engines, missiles, manufacturing equipment, etc.). The CPG designs and manufactures cutlery, bayonets, pocket knives, machetes and combat knives, survival, sporting, agricultural knives and other edged products for both commercial and government applications.
SERVOTRONICS, INC. (SVT) IS LISTED ON NYSE American
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2023-06-05T13:27:46+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/06/05/servotronics-announces-important-development-with-annual-meeting-shareholders/
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2022 Best Places to Work Awards Put Spotlight on Compass' Unique Employee-Centric Culture as a Key to Its Global Mission
DALLAS, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has been recognized as one of the Dallas Business Journal's 2022 Best Places to Work in the publication's annual ranking of best employers in North Texas. Now in its 20th year, the Best Places to Work Awards recognize the companies in the region that go above and beyond in creating an enjoyable workplace environment and culture for their employees based on the highest employee survey scores among peer companies in their size category.
"It's an honor to be recognized as a leader in North Texas in creating a workplace environment employees want to be a part of," said Anna Carlton, Compass Datacenters' VP of Culture and Learning. "The unique culture at Compass is built around our Core Convictions: Humility In, Pride Out, Actions & Words are One, Continuous Improvement, and We Ask Why. When you give your employees a voice and a safe place to learn and grow, you create a collaborative culture that allows people to accomplish great things. That culture has empowered our employees to make a positive difference in the lives of people around the globe through the critical digital infrastructure we build."
The Best Places to Work Award winners were honored by the Dallas Business Journal at an event on October 20th. For more information, visit: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/best-places-to-work.
Compass makes lives better by providing the world's technology leaders a secure place to plug in wherever they grow. We provide custom, move-in ready data centers from edge deployments to core facilities serving hyperscale, cloud and enterprise customers. Since our inception, we have embraced sustainability with the efficient use of land, green energy, water-free cooling and building materials. Our campus approach empowers customers with easily scalable capacity, high levels of control and ultimate flexibility with the long-term perspective and financial strength of private investors, RedBird Capital Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and the Azrieli Group. For more information, visit www.compassdatacenters.com.
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2022-10-21T17:26:30+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/10/21/compass-datacenters-named-one-best-companies-work-by-dallas-business-journal/
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This week’s cases on affirmative action at the Supreme Court are just two of this term that take on race. The court navigates this issue with more diversity than ever, including the first Black female justice. But the Washington Post has found that the lawyers arguing cases in front of the Justices are still mostly white and male.
Tobi Raji is with the Washington Post and joins Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-11-02T21:27:10+00:00
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klcc.org
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https://www.klcc.org/2022-11-02/lawyers-arguing-cases-at-scotus-are-overwhelmingly-white-and-male
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The first lady of southern cooking, Edna Lewis, was laid to rest this morning in Unionville, Va., at the age of 89.
Her 1976 cookbook The Taste of Country Cooking was an eloquent tribute to farm life, and the bonding power of food. Those essays, combined with simple, yet elegant menus, transformed the way people looked at southern cooking.
In her later years, Lewis had a special relationship with Atlanta chef Scott Peacock. Together they penned a lovely cookbook called The Gift of Southern Cooking. Food writer John T. Edge, who studied under Lewis, discusses her legacy with Debbie Elliott.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-08-28T20:12:52+00:00
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mtpr.org
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https://www.mtpr.org/2006-02-18/the-life-and-legacy-of-southern-cook-edna-lewis
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- ONE's anode-free cell is the first to deliver 1007 Wh/L into a large format prismatic can cell
- The anode-free cell technology surpasses industry-leading energy density, while lowering costs of the Gemini battery pack by eliminating the need for graphite and anode cell manufacturing equipment
- ONE's Gemini dual-chemistry architecture has opened a straightforward path to widespread use of anode-free cells by reducing cycle life and peak power requirements by 90%
NOVI, Mich., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage company, today unveiled a 240-Ah prismatic anode-free cell after a successful 12-month R&D effort. The company believes its anode-free cell is the highest energy density large-format cell ever produced. The breakthrough technology will enable the commercialization of ONE's Gemini™ dual-chemistry architecture, which will be integrated into a BMW iX prototype vehicle later this year.
ONE's first-generation 1007 Wh/L cell eliminates the need for graphite and anode manufacturing equipment, enabling $50 per kWh cell cost at scale. "Our prismatic anode-free cell is produced with approximately half of current cell manufacturing equipment for equivalent capacity, allowing us to sharply reduce scale-up cost," said Mujeeb Ijaz, founder and CEO of ONE.
Anode-free cells typically have low cycle life compared to conventional cells, which has not made them viable in an automotive setting. ONE's Gemini dual-chemistry architecture has opened a straightforward path to widespread use of anode-free cells by reducing cycle and peak power requirements by 90%. Gemini pairs more standardized LFP and anode-free chemistries into one battery pack, enabled by the company's proprietary DC-DC converter. This allows each specialty chemistry to focus on different functions: LFP for daily driving, and anode-free to extend range for long distances. This combined system is expected to deliver more than 250,000 miles of lifetime service.
"Scaling 100x from a 2 Ah pouch cell to a 240 Ah prismatic in less than 12 months is a testament to the simplicity of the design and ability to use conventional Li-ion production equipment," said Dr. Steven Kaye, ONE Chief Technical Officer. "We are moving faster than the fastest research programs that I have been a part of. Gemini will reach volume production in 2026 accelerating electric vehicle adoption by delivering 600 miles of range in a wide range of vehicle platforms, including trucks and SVUs."
ONE will showcase its anode-free cell and Gemini battery architecture technology at The Battery Show in Novi, MI on September 13-15.
For more information, visit one.ai/anode-free
Our Next Energy, Inc. (ONE) is a Michigan-based energy storage company focused on battery technologies that will radically accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and expand the possibilities of next-level storage solutions. Our vision is simple: Double the range of electric vehicles; use safer, more sustainable raw materials; and establish a localized supply chain. This strategy will result in a reliable, cost-effective, and conflict-free supply chain.
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2022-09-13T08:04:55+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/09/13/one-reveals-1007-whl-anode-free-cell-that-enables-600-mile-gemini-battery-architecture/
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Russia is taking steps toward annexing parts of Ukraine it controls “in direct violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty,” a top U.S. national security official warned on Tuesday, including installing proxy officials expected to call “sham” votes on joining Russia and forcing residents to apply for Russian citizenship.
“Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook,” the official, John Kirby, said at a White House press briefing, drawing parallels to Russia’s seizure of Crimea eight years ago.
Kirby said there was “ample evidence in the intelligence and in the public domain” of Russia’s unfolding efforts, which include installing the ruble as the national currency in the areas it intends to annex, just as it did in Crimea. Areas that may be in Russia’s annexation plan include Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, which make up the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
In 2014, Russian forces invaded Crimea and Putin annexed it after newly installed officials hastily organized a referendum on secession that was reported to have secured the support of 97% of voters, drawing international accusations of fraud.
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According to various sources, including the Defense Department, Russia is forcing some residents to apply for Russian passports. Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that as part of the so-called filtration operations, Russian authorities had begun confiscating Ukrainian passports and issuing Russian passports.
A report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe released last week also said Russia was forcing Ukrainian citizens to accept Russian passports. Citing local media sources, the report said “in the newly occupied territories, the occupants are compelling Ukrainians into getting a Russian passport by torturing or paying them.”
Kirby said the pattern was particularly evident in Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city to fall, with the installation of Sergei Yeliseyev, a former Russian intelligence officer with “absolutely no connection to Ukraine.”
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With the captured city under Yeliseyev’s control, Kirby said, “Russia is taking control of broadcasting towers, establishing loyalist security forces, replacing telecommunications infrastructure, forcing residents to apply for Russian citizenship and issuing Russian passports.”
On another topic of international concern, Kirby noted there was no immediate evidence that Russia had purchased drones from Iran, which Moscow needs to replenish its fleet. He also said the United States would announce its 16th package of weapons for Ukraine later this week.
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2022-07-20T04:11:20+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/19/world/russia-plans-annex-territory-it-controls-ukraine-us-official-says/
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FRANKLIN, Ind. — Prom is an important, but often expensive, high school memory. That's why community members in Johnson County stepped in to help teens find their perfect outfits while avoiding the cost.
Nearly 200 teens found their perfect dresses and suits Saturday through Project Prom.
The event, held in Franklin, kicked off at 10 a.m., but families started lining up outside the Franklin branch of the Johnson County Public Library and hour before it started.
Dresses and suits were on display in one building behind the library, while another building held "pop-up pods" that acted as fitting rooms where teens could try on suits, dresses and accessories.
The outfits and accessories, which were all new or nearly new, were donated by people in the community.
“Because attending prom is more expensive than ever, some teens don’t attend and miss the experience. We hope to put the fun back into prom for teens by alleviating some of the prom expense with free formal wear,” said Josephine Whitaker, Project Prom’s committee leader.
In the first hour and a half, people picked out more than 70 dresses, suits and accessories.
Whitaker said that by 4:30 p.m., 30 minutes before close, 175 dresses and 21 suits had been taken home.
The event continues Sunday in Franklin from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Whitaker said teens do not have to be library card holders or a resident of Johnson County to pick out free prom dresses, suits and accessories.
If anyone wants to donate suits, dresses or accessories for next year's Project Prom, donations of new and gently-used items are accepted year-round at any JCPL branch.
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2023-03-26T04:32:49+00:00
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wthr.com
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https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/project-prom-helps-nearly-200-teens-find-their-perfect-dress-suit-johnson-county/531-bb9ae716-b182-49f5-b9b2-3b04b82727a7
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump launches 3rd bid for presidency amid legal probes, blame for GOP’s underwhelming midterm results.
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2022-11-16T02:41:09+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Alert-Donald-Trump-launches-3rd-bid-for-17587896.php
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Man dressed as ‘Halloween’ character Michael Myers spotted at Florida beach
Published: Sep. 7, 2022 at 4:37 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (TMX/Gray News) - A beachgoer says he spotted a man dressed as Michael Myers from “Halloween” at a Florida beach over Labor Day weekend.
Todd Brandon Easter shared images of what he saw that day at a Panama City beach.
The beachgoer said he saw the iconic movie character while visiting the beach on Sept 4.
Easter said the person dressed as Myers wasn’t bothering anyone and seemed approachable while not causing any problems.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-09-07T23:00:54+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2022/09/07/man-dressed-halloween-character-michael-myers-spotted-florida-beach/
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A herd of about 700 goats is working to protect California’s Ronald Reagan Library and Museum from wildfires this summer by eating fire-prone vegetation.
Every year, the Ventura County Fire Department enlists the assistance of hundreds of hungry goats to safeguard the area surrounding the presidential library from potential fires.
These goats, which started their work this week, possess a preference for devouring brush over grass, rendering them perfectly suited for the task of eliminating vegetation that poses a fire hazard.
According to the National Archives, the library has been doing this for over a decade.
"The goats have been fabulous. They truly eat their weight in gold," Randle Swan, the library’s Acting Deputy Director and Supervisory Curator, told the National Archives. During a 2019 wildfire, "the herd cleared the underbrush so well that the fire was unable to maintain the heat it needed to keep moving and was able to be extinguished before reaching the Library and Museum’s main structure."
Goats eat about 4% of their body weight each day, according to Ventura Brush Goats, which will allow these particular furry firefighters to create a fire line of "roughly 150 feet on the hillsides around the campus."
To maximize their grazing efficiency and cover a larger area swiftly, the goats will be enclosed within fencing.
This year, the fire prevention team consists of approximately 700 goats, accompanied by a few sheepdogs and a skilled goat herder who is a human.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-06-16T03:17:23+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/about-700-goats-are-working-to-protect-reagan-library-from-wildfires
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FLINT – The best-looking football helmet in the Flint area belongs to North Branch.
So say readers of MLive-The Flint Journal.
In our poll asking readers to identify the best-looking helmet, North Branch received 2,518 of the 8,966 votes cast – that’s 28.1 percent – to finish ahead of Genesee, which received 1,925 votes.
Mt. Morris was third with 1,471 votes, Swartz Creek was fourth with 870 and Flushing was fifth with 836.
North Branch’s helmet is silver with a navy blue NB on the side with a navy blue facemask.
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Grand Blanc, Fenton rule county swimming
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2022-09-28T14:14:58+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/09/mlive-flint-journal-readers-select-their-favorite-flint-area-high-school-football-helmet.html
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For months, ads on social media have claimed celebrity Oprah Winfrey is selling and/or endorsing a line of weight loss gummies. Some even include video of Oprah talking about weight loss gummies, while others use shocking news headlines as part of their ad.
That’s led several VERIFY readers to text us with questions asking if these products are real. One said they received a text from an “0prahsgiveaway” website about keto gummies allegedly sold by Oprah and WeightWatchers. Another sent a screenshot of an ad urging the reader to claim a free bottle of the gummies.
THE QUESTION
Is Oprah selling or endorsing weight loss gummies?
THE SOURCES
- Oprah Winfrey’s Instagram account
- Oprah Daily, a digital publication owned by Oprah
- Time Magazine’s website
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
THE ANSWER
No, Oprah is not selling or endorsing weight loss gummies.
WHAT WE FOUND
Oprah denied selling or endorsing any weight loss gummies in an October 2022 Instagram video. The gummies are instead a version of a common scam that uses “miracle” health and cosmetic products to take your credit card information and surprise you with charges.
“I have nothing to do with weight loss gummies or diet pills, and I don’t want you all taken advantage of by people misusing my name,” Oprah said in the video after explaining she was addressing the issue because she kept getting questions about it. “So please know I have no weight loss gummies.”
Ironically, scammers have edited that clip into more misleading ads.
Some gummy sellers have since used out-of-context clips from Oprah’s warnings within their ads. In this ad’s video, for example, there are two different clips pulling from parts of the video where she said “weight loss gummies.”
Oprah Daily, the digital publication Oprah owns, also wrote an article denying Oprah’s involvement with weight loss gummies.
“Back in 2015, Oprah made headlines when she partnered with WW (formerly known as Weight Watchers) and has always been candid about her own weight loss journey,” wrote Oprah Daily. “But gummies that claim to shed unwanted pounds are not part of her journey—despite the fact that some companies falsely advertise these products using Oprah’s name and image.”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning about scams like this on Feb. 17, 2023. The FTC says to approach celebrity testimonials with caution, search for the product online alongside words like “scam” and “complaints” and remember that the government doesn’t review or evaluate supplements.
Also in February, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of tainted weight loss products promoted as miracle cures. Some of these products are relabeled prescription drugs for unrelated ailments such as blood pressure and seizures, while others might have dangerous ingredients, the FDA said.
Neither the FTC or FDA singled out the Oprah keto pills, but that’s because scams like this take on countless different forms. There are many variations of the specific ads used in this scam, but here’s a general overview of what to watch out for.
How does this scam work?
Many of these celebrity-backed miracle cure ads will wind up taking you to a phony news article. VERIFY found such a fake article while researching the fake Mayim Bialik CBD gummies in 2022. The Oprah weight loss gummies ad also take their victims to a fake news article, in this case one that looks like a convincing mockup of the Time magazine website.
More from VERIFY: No, Mayim Bialik is not endorsing CBD gummies
You can tell the website is a fake because the URL doesn’t match up with the real website. In the archived Time article, the website URL was “brownketoclub.us” which is now defunct. These web pages normally don’t last long before they’re taken down, and so the scammers regularly have to move on to new URLs.
VERIFY searched the real Time website for “oprah weight loss gummy,” and found that no such article exists.
The “article” itself reads more like an ad than an actual news story. This is consistent for these kinds of ads, regardless of what the headline says.
If you click on any of the links within the articles, it will take you to a page that typically uses urgent and sensational language in an attempt to bait you into sharing your information. You can see archived examples for the link in the fake Time article here and another article’s links here.
While the pages aren’t exactly the same, they use identical tactics. They promise a free bottle if you give them your information, and try to pressure you into making a hasty decision by claiming the time you have to get one is extremely limited. They also make sensational claims about the product’s effectiveness, and try to establish trust with apparent customer reviews.
Neither store page makes a reference to Oprah, despite her name being used in the ads.
If you do try to “RUSH YOUR ORDER” like the store page wants you to do, you’ll usually find it also asks for your credit card information even though it advertises an opportunity to get a free bottle. Whether you actually get a bottle or not, you will typically be charged more than you agreed to.
Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaints for countless keto weight loss gummy companies, including some that reference Oprah, describe the same kind of scam. The customer pays for a bottle or expects a free bottle, and they are charged for far more than they’ve purchased and sometimes unknowingly sign up for a costly subscription. If the customer tries to cancel their order or get a refund for any reason, the gummy sellers allegedly make it difficult and sometimes impossible to get a refund, and often only give customers a partial refund if at all.
There are many scams promoting a variety of products that follow this formula. For example, the customer question and answer section on this anti-aging cream’s Amazon page shows that the product was supposedly endorsed by Jennifer Aniston, Betty White, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lopez, and people reported being charged hundreds of dollars for a surprise subscription. Another skin cream’s BBB page is full of identical complaints.
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2023-03-10T23:19:31+00:00
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king5.com
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https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/scams-verify/oprah-not-selling-endorsing-weight-loss-keto-gummies/536-5c732dec-27cb-47b3-9289-faeb6a24b095
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Jimmy Butler and Justin Fields join Essentia Nation alongside longtime Essentia ambassadors Patrick Mahomes and Tate McRae to inspire fans to stop for nothing to reach their goals
BOTHELL, Wash., May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Essentia® Water, the pioneer of ionized alkaline water in the U.S., today launched a new campaign featuring basketball star Jimmy Butler, Chicago quarterback Justin Fields, and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Tate McRae. A continuation of its "Stop for Nothing" campaign, which launched in 2021 and featured McRae alongside Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes, this new creative focuses on maintaining resilience by taking a moment to pause and hydrate.
Essentia's philosophy is that a better you, starts with a better water. Today's world demands resilience, and resilience starts with self-care. The new campaign creative highlights how Essentia's Supercharged Ionized Alkaline Water not only hydrates, but can also help promote a sense of renewal to keep your mind and body focused on achieving your goals.
Each of the brand's campaign partners have one thing in common – the relentless drive to constantly hone their own craft and stop for nothing in pursuit of their goals:
- Nicknamed "Jimmy Buckets," Jimmy Butler is a 6-time league all-star and a decorated titan in his sport. Most recently, he led his team to the top seed in this year's playoffs.
- Justin Fields was selected in the first round of the 2021 professional draft and is the second quarterback in his team's history to surpass the century mark in rushing.
- Tate McRae's hit single "you broke me first" has achieved over 1 billion streams and the #1 spot on the Top 40 US radio charts, landing her on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list - the youngest musician to be included.
"This campaign underscores the importance of taking care of yourself so you can continue chasing your dreams, and focus on the things that are important to you," said Zola Kane, Head of Marketing at Essentia Water. "Our partners personify that extraordinary combination of grit and determination we not only admire, but strive to inspire through our products and campaigns. We are both proud and humbled to be working with these superstars."
The new "Stop for Nothing" campaign was created in partnership with Essentia's lead creative agency Droga5. It includes 30-second, 15-second, and 06-second spots that will air across digital and social channels, along with online video platforms – specifically Hulu, YouTube and NBC Universal beginning May 2, 2022. The campaign films can be viewed on Essentia's YouTube channel at youtube.com/c/essentiawater.
Visit EssentiaWater.com to learn more and find your closest retailer at essentiawater.com/store-locator/.
About Essentia Sub, LLC:
The first ionized alkaline bottled water offered in the United States, Essentia's philosophy is that a better you, starts with a better water. Headquartered in Bothell, WA, Essentia Sub, LLC pioneered ionized alkaline water in 1998 and is known for its unique ionization process. The brand is CarbonNeutral Packaging Certified® and distributed in more than 100,000 retailers across the United States. It's the #1 alkaline water brand and the #1 selling bottled water brand in the natural channel*. To learn more about Essentia, please visit essentiawater.com or connect with Essentia on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
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2022-05-02T17:23:17+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/05/02/essentia-water-launches-new-stop-nothing-campaign-featuring-dynamic-roster-athletes-entertainers/
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Phil Kessel got his milestone night off to a perfect start and his Vegas teammates finished the job.
It all added up a memorable night for the NHL’s new Ironman capped by his new teammates chanting his name in a celebratory locker room.
Kessel celebrated his NHL Ironman record by scoring his 400th career goal and the Golden Knights beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2 on Tuesday night.
“I was happy to get it,” Kessel said. “It was a special night. I’m glad to get the win.”
Kessel broke the record set by Keith Yandle last season when he got the start in his 990th consecutive game since taking the ice for Toronto on Nov. 3, 2009.
He wasn’t done there, getting the first goal of the game to add to his milestone night. He took a pass in transition from Brett Howden and beat James Reimer up high to become the 12th American-born player to score 400 goals.
“It was just pure happiness from everyone,” teammate William Karlsson said. “Everyone was just cheering and howling. It was really good to see it go in.”
Kessel nearly reached that mark on Monday before an offsides challenge wiped off his goal against Toronto. There was no question this time.
The Golden Knights made sure it was a celebratory night with goals from Shea Theodore, William Karlsson and Mark Stone in the third period to get the win.
Adin Hill made 29 saves in his first game against San Jose since being traded to Vegas this summer.
“I think all the boys wanted to rally behind him,” Hill said. “We didn’t have the second period that we wanted to have, and then we kind of had a little talk in the locker room and just kind of a gut check. I thought we responded in the third period and the results showed.”
The Sharks got goals from Nico Sturm and Matt Nieto in the second period but still lost their eighth straight home game to the Golden Knights. San Jose last won at the Shark Tank against Vegas in Game 7 of the first round of the playoffs in 2019, when they rallied from three goals down before winning in overtime.
Reimer made 27 saves for San Jose.
“Today, like so many games this season already, I feel like we’re playing a good opponent and we’re shooting ourselves in the foot in a game that was absolutely winnable,” Sturm said. “Today was winnable.”
The Golden Knights tied it in the opening minute of the third period when Theodore’s wrist shot from the point went through traffic and beat Reimer.
William Karlsson then deked Erik Karlsson to go in alone on Reimer for the go-ahead goal with 6:47 to play.
Stone added the insurance goal 1:02 later.
IRONMAN TENTURES
Yandle had a short run as the NHL’s Ironman, holding a share of the mark for 272 days since tying Doug Jarvis’ record of 964 consecutive games on Jan. 24.
Jarvis had sole possession of the record for 12,813 days since setting the mark on Dec. 26, 1984.
The Sharks played a video from Yandle congratulating Kessel during a break in the first period, drawing a warm ovation from the crowd of 12,003.
“It was nice,” he said. “I appreciate it. They don’t have to do that. But I appreciate it out of them.”
INJURY UPDATES
Sharks F Nick Bonino (upper body) missed his second straight game and is day to day. … There is no timeline for the return of San Jose D Markus Nutivaara, who has been out since training camp with a lower-body injury.
UP NEXT
Golden Knights: Host Anaheim on Friday night.
Sharks: Host Toronto on Thursday night.
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2022-10-27T07:39:05+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/ap-kessel-sets-ironman-mark-scores-400th-goal-in-4-2-vegas-win/
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Fed rate hikes could drive up your credit card bill
A small interest rate increase could cost you hundreds of dollars
InvestigateTV - The average American has $5,000 in credit card debt according to TransUnion, and with rising interest rates that amount could grow.
In 2022, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates four times and with each increase, the variable rate on your credit card goes up within the next few months.
If you pay your credit card debt in full each month and avoid interest, you don’t have to worry about the increases. But for the millions of Americans who carry credit card debt, the new rate can lead to hundreds of dollars over the years.
Ted Rossman, a senior industry analyst with Bankrate, said the national average rate for credit cards before the rate hikes was 17.5%. .
“So if you were only making minimum payments towards $5,000 in debt at 17.5%, you would have been in debt for more than 15 years and spent about $6,000 in interest,” Rossman explained. He continued to say a .75% increase would add about $300 in interest to the original $5,000 debt.
Rossman urged consumers to pay down this debt as soon as possible and offered a few suggestions:
- Transfer balance to a 0% card
- Pick up a side job
- Sell items you no longer need
- Cut your regular expenses, especially monthly charges and fees
- Consider debt consolidation
In addition, Rossman suggested contacting a reputable nonprofit credit counselor like the National Foundation for Credit Counseling for advice on how to handle your debt.
The Federal Trade Commission offers free advice on how to choose a credit counselor.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-08-22T17:17:08+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/08/22/fed-rate-hikes-could-drive-up-your-credit-card-bill/
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Jack Grealish and Son Heung-min, two of the English Premier League’s most high-profile players, have been facing growing criticism for their failure to score this season.
They silenced the doubters on Saturday.
With a strike after 55 seconds, Grealish — the England international with the 100 million pound ($139 million) price tag — set Manchester City on its way to a 3-0 win at Wolverhampton and first place in the standings, at least for 24 hours.
With a hat trick after coming off the bench, Son — the joint-top scorer in the league last season — rounded off Tottenham’s 6-2 victory over last-placed Leicester, whose manager Brendan Rodgers will head into the international break with his job under serious threat after six straight league defeats.
The wins left City and Tottenham tied for points in first and second place, respectively, and their managers thrilled to see their forwards scoring again.
“Rightly so, people have been asking questions — I should be scoring more and getting more assists,” said Grealish, who hadn’t even set up a goal this season.
“I am always going to have people talking about me with the money that was spent on me, but all my career I haven’t scored enough goals. I do want to add that to my game.”
Naturally, Erling Haaland was one of City’s other scorers at Molineux — that’s 14 in nine games in all competitions since joining from Borussia Dortmund — along with Phil Foden, with Wolves playing with only 10 men from the 33rd minute after Nathan Collins’ red card for a chest-high lunge on Grealish.
City has 23 goals in its seven games so far.
Son was rotated — or was he dropped? — by Tottenham manager Antonio Conte for the Leicester game and the South Korea forward looked emotional after each of his goals having gone on as a 59th-minute substitute. Two of them were curling shots into the top corner and his hat trick goal squirmed under beleaguered Leicester goalkeeper Danny Ward, before needing the say-so of a VAR review.
“The way I play, I can do much better than I have been,” Son said. “I have been disappointed, the team has been doing really, really good but I was disappointed with my performances.”
Harry Kane, Eric Dier and Rodrigo Bentancur also scored for Tottenham, while Youri Tielemans — with a twice-taken penalty — and James Maddison scored for Leicester.
Rodgers said the pressure was “very much” on him.
“I understand the game,” he said. “The scoreline didn’t reflect the game but the bottom line is it’s a heavy defeat. They (the owners) have given me brilliant support. Whatever happens to me at Leicester, whether I stay and fight on, I’ll always respect them.”
NEWCASTLE FLAT-LINING
It’s no wins in six games for Newcastle, whose manager Eddie Howe will understand the pressure that comes with coaching the soccer team with the world’s richest owners. How patient will the club’s Saudi leadership be?
After a disappointing 1-1 draw with Bournemouth at St. James’ Park, Newcastle remained without a win in the league since beating Nottingham Forest at home on the opening weekend. Five of Newcastle’s six results have been draws.
There were some jeers from Newcastle supporters at the fulltime whistle after Bournemouth held out for a point in a disciplined defensive performance, which saw the visitors take the lead against the run of play through Philip Billing in the 62nd.
Newcastle, which hit the post through Kieran Trippier and Joelinton by that point, equalized five minutes later when Alexander Isak converted a penalty awarded for a handball against Jefferson Lerma.
Bournemouth continued its upturn in results since firing Scott Parker after a 9-0 loss at Liverpool at the end of August. In three games since under caretaker manager Gary O’Neil, the south-coast team has two draws and a win at Nottingham Forest.
TRIBUTES TO QUEEN
There were more tributes to Queen Elizabeth II before and during Saturday’s games, including a pre-match minute’s silence and a period of applause after the 70th minute — marking the 70 years she was on the throne.
All players wore black armbands as a mark of respect for the queen, who died last week. Her funeral is in London on Monday.
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2022-09-18T11:57:41+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/sports/ap-grealish-son-silence-critics-with-their-first-epl-goals/
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Hoover no-hits UTA in 4-0 Tech victory
ARLINGTON — Sage Hoover threw a no-hitter with five strikeouts in her first start for Texas Tech, leading the Red Raiders to a 4-0 victory Saturday night against UT-Arlington, the host of the Maverick Invitational softball tournament.
UTA (2-1) put two runners on against Hoover: Zaia Castruita walked in the first inning, and Kimber Cortemelia walked in the fourth.
Hoover (2-0) is a sophomore righthander from Emory Rains. She transferred to Tech from Northwestern State, where she was 11-7 last season and the Southland Conference freshman of the year.
Abbie Orrick broke a scoreless tie with a solo home run in the fourth inning, and the Red Raiders made it 3-0 in the fifth on an RBI double by Arriana Villa and a run-scoring single from Ellie Bailey. Bailey tacked on a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Tech (2-2) finishes the weekend with a game against Tulsa (1-2) at 10 a.m. Sunday.
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2023-02-12T10:11:21+00:00
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lubbockonline.com
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https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/college/red-raiders/2023/02/12/texas-tech-roundup-sage-hoover-no-hits-uta-in-4-0-red-raiders-victory/69896324007/
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Department of Justice and eight states are suing Google, accusing the tech giant of abusing its power in the digital advertising market.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Tuesday that the DOJ wants to break up Google’s advertising arm. He said the DOJ and eight states are suing Google for antitrust violations.
The lawsuit alleges Google uses its power in the digital ad space to harm competitors.
“For 15 years, Google has pursued a course of anti-competitive conduct,” Garland said. “As a result of this scheme, website creators earn less and advertisers pay more.”
This is the second antitrust lawsuit against Google the DOJ has filed. The first happened under the Trump administration and targeted the web giant’s online search engine.
Carl Szabo with Net Choice, which represents companies like Google and Meta, said the lawsuit has no merit. He said Google doesn’t have a monopoly.
“The only way the Department of Justice could possibly win this case is to completely ignore reality,” Szabo said. “Meta and Google combined account for only 45% of the digital ad space. … At the same time, the price for digital ads continues to decrease.”
More than 80% of Google’s revenue comes from ads. That revenue stream has weakened since the start of the pandemic.
Representatives for Alphabet, Google’s parent company, call the DOJ’s lawsuit flawed and argue it will hurt, not help, small businesses seeking to grow.
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2023-01-24T22:48:23+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/washington-dc/doj-eight-states-accuse-google-of-antitrust-violations/
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Missed the deadline for college scholarships? You still have time
Published: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST|Updated: 25 minutes ago
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - So you missed the deadlines to apply for scholarships in December? We’re here to tell you all is not lost. In fact, there are many other opportunities to apply for college scholarships.
Alabama Possible’s Executive Director Chandra Scott says now is the time- between January and March to apply for college scholarships.
A good starting place is a website that’s like a warehouse for college admissions and scholarships. You can find a link here.
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2023-01-25T22:11:34+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/2023/01/25/missed-deadline-college-scholarships-you-still-have-time/
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Romance books all have one thing in common: A "Happily Ever After." And Kennedy Ryan's love stories are packed with scenes of friendship and spicy sex along the way.
But the impulse that drives her to write them is darker.
"My books come from indignation," the author told NPR in an interview. "From female rage."
With mainstream publisher Bloom Books reissuing five of her previously self-published titles starting later this month, and a TV series based on another one of her books now in development through Peacock, Ryan's high-emotional-stakes romances are poised to reach a wider audience.
Often, it'll be something in the news that grabs Ryan's attention, such as an incident, which went viral on social media, involving a professional footballer attacking his girlfriend in an elevator. That inspired Ryan's novel about domestic abuse set in the world of pro sports, Long Shot. Similarly, footage of the 2016 Dakota Pipeline Protest kickstarted her novel The Kingmaker. The book, which explores climate change and indigenous land rights, is the first Bloom Books is scheduled to release, on May 23.
"So many people are saying that climate change is not real, and I wanted to see a hero who was passionate about it," Ryan said. "I just hadn't seen that in romance."
Emotional journeys
The author spins out this intense, real-life source material into fictions full of joy and angst. Bestselling romance author Jasmine Guillory said the hard-won happy ending is what makes Ryan's books so bingeable.
"Romance readers love to know that they're gonna go through some hard times," Guillory said. "But they're going to really appreciate it in the end."
Ryan's fans concur.
"She pulls on my heartstrings," said reader Himeko de Guzman. The Los Angeles resident was standing in a long line under the hot sun patiently waiting to meet Ryan, one of her favorite authors, at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. "I end up crying every time I read her."
But quite a few of the people standing in line that day, including De Guzman's friend Tiffiny Hargrave, hadn't cracked open any of Ryan's books yet. They were there through word of mouth.
"I don't know what I'm getting into," Hargrave said. "But I'm sure it's gonna be great."
Ryan spent quite a bit of time warning her new readers about what to expect.
"I just want you to know, there is a content warning at the beginning," said the author, wearing a grass-green dress and gold floral earrings, in between autographing books and giving out hugs.
From rule-breaking to research
In addition to taking readers on a hot-blooded emotional journey, Ryan stands out because she's unafraid to bend the rules of the genre.
"'Marriage in Trouble' is a trope that we have in romance, right? But, 'Marriage is Over'? That is not a trope we have in romance, really," said romance critic and co-host of the popular weekly podcast Fated Mates, Jennifer Procop, of Before I Let Go, Ryan's 2022 novel that's being adapted for TV. It focuses on a couple that's already gotten divorced. "I think there is something to be said for someone really who can break a romance rule, and make us still buy it."
Divorce isn't something Ryan has dealt with in her own life. The writer said she and the man who would eventually become her husband met right out of college. They recently celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary.
"He's just the best partner ever," she said. "People ask: 'How do you write these amazing heroes who are so compassionate and kind?' It comes from having those kinds of men in my life, and my husband is chief in that."
Ryan writes so compellingly on topics outside of her own experience — sometimes way outside — because she approaches her task like she's an investigative journalist.
"I don't know that I have ever met a romance writer who does, book for book, the amount of research and character work that Kennedy does," said best-selling romance novelist Sarah MacLean, the other co-host of the Fated Mates podcast.
In the process of developing her tempestuous novel The Kingmaker, for instance, in which a Native American activist and the heir to a giant fossil fuel corporation fall madly in love, Ryan said her research involved speaking with several indigenous women.
Andrea LeBeau, a member of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation in Arizona and a romance fan, was among those Ryan connected with via Facebook.
"I rarely see Native American heroes or heroines in romance books," LeBeau said. "So I was equal parts exhilarated and scared to be honest, because there's a lot of harm that could be done with writing a culture that's not your own."
Ryan comes from a very different background than that of the indigenous heroine she created for The Kingmaker: She's Black, was brought up by church pastors in North Carolina, and has mostly lived in big urban centers like San Diego and Atlanta.
LeBeau said she shared her experiences of reservation life with the novelist, put her in touch with other sources and provided feedback on the manuscript. "I wanted her to get it right as closely as she could, without overstepping," LeBeau said.
A 'white-cis-het' space
Like LeBeau, Ryan, who's 50, didn't see her own identity reflected in the romance space when she was growing up in the 1980s and 90s.
"The thing about romance, at that point, it was so white-sis-het," Ryan said. "There weren't a lot of options that were diverse."
On top of that, she had to keep her interest in the genre under wraps. Ryan said her mom wouldn't allow titles by bestselling authors like Kathleen Woodiwiss or Johanna Lindsey inside the house.
"I would hide them under my mattress and I would tuck them in the back of my closet," Ryan said. "And that went on for years."
Ryan said she let her romance habit go for a while. But in her 30s, she found her way back to it when she hit a rough patch in her life. She was feeling overwhelmed — juggling public relations and journalism gigs, running an autism non-profit, and parenting an autistic son. She said these were dark times, foreshadowing the depression she was diagnosed with years later.
"I needed something kind of for myself," said Ryan, of her decision to start reading romance again. "And then I was like, 'I think I wanna give writing a try.'"
A step toward diversity
In 2019, Ryan made history as the first Black author to win one of the most prestigious romance fiction prizes — the RITA Award in the Best Contemporary Romance: Long category, for Long Shot. In her acceptance speech, Ryan didn't shy away from talking about the romance industry's entrenched diversity problem.
"For me to stand here in this moment, it's so much bigger than me," Ryan said from the podium. "I think everybody knows that it's so much bigger than my book. It's so much bigger than my night. It's 37 years waiting for someone who looked like me to stand here. It is spectacularly overdue."
Veteran romance writer Beverly Jenkins was in the audience for the occasion.
"Very, very proud of her that night," said Jenkins of Ryan's win, in an interview with NPR.
Jenkins is a trailblazer herself, as one of the first Black romance authors to find mainstream success, back in the mid 1990s. Jenkins said Ryan's win was a small step towards the greater inclusivity we're seeing in romance publishing today.
"You got writers who are writing queer. You've got South Asian heroes and heroines. You have men writing, trans people writing," Jenkins said. "But of course the industry can do more."
According to data shared with NPR by publishing industry tracker Circana Bookscan (formerly NPD Bookscan), the top white romance authors still sell hundreds of thousands more print copies than their best-selling, non-white counterparts.
"The Big Five publishers have oftentimes put Black or Hispanic romance into its own imprint and consider it a separate smaller category," said Circana Bookscan chief analyst Kristen McLean. "And so it has been treated historically as sort of a sidebar to the main romance event."
But sales of Ryan's books and other titles by diverse authors have grown exponentially over the past few years, owing to more mainstream interest in the romance genre and a demand for greater diversity among younger readers.
"One of the benefits of the post-Black Lives Matter period of the last couple of years is that we're seeing overall a rise in interest in books by authors of color," said McLean.
It's been a long journey for Ryan. The author said things are now changing in her life — for the better.
"My little pod is my husband, my son, and me. And for so long, it felt like us against the world," Ryan said. "And now it's feeling like the world is for us. It feels like my own hard-won happily ever after."
Audio and digital stories edited by Meghan Sullivan. Audio produced by Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-05-19T10:06:30+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/2023-05-19/kennedy-ryans-romances-are-coming-for-your-heartstrings
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Biden’s optimism collides with mounting political challenges
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s predictions of a rosy political future for the Democratic Party are growing bolder, but they seem at odds with a country burdened by a pandemic, surging gas prices and spiking inflation.
Few of his closest political advisers are as bullish about the party’s prospects. In interviews with a half-dozen people in and close to the White House, there’s a broad sense Democrats will lose control of Congress and many leading candidates in down-ballot races and contests for governor will be defeated.
The seeming disconnect between Biden’s view and the political reality has some in the party worried the White House has not fully grasped just how bad this election year may be for Democrats.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-06-18T16:05:32+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/2022/06/18/bidens-optimism-collides-with-mounting-political-challenges/
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A tiny, Soviet-made car is bed tonight for the older couple waiting to risk their lives by crossing the war’s front line in Ukraine. But they’re not fleeing — they’re going back in.
“Everything is there. Our roots are there,” says the man, 75. “Even people from Mariupolwant to go back.”
They don’t want to share their names out of fears for their safety as they attempt to make the long drive back to the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the scene of some of the war’s fiercest fighting.
The world is now accustomed to images of millions of Ukrainians on the run from Russia’s invasion. In their shadow are people with a different kind of desperation and daring, heading the other way.
For some the pull is to reach loved ones, often vulnerable due to illness or infirmity, who were left behind. For others it’s a journey of nostalgia and defiance.
The couple want to go back to their home in Donetsk to take a look at least. They’re old. They’re homesick. It’s time to take chances. “Where else should we go?” the man says.
He leans against the boxy yellow Lada, resting his weight on the 40-year-old car and on two canes. His belongings are whatever his wife stuffed into the trunk before they fled.
“She forgot to bring her lover,” the man says, with mischief in his eyes. His wife of 53 years laughs, then comes close to tears as reality returns.
“You can go mad if you don’t make jokes,” she says.
Recent weeks have seen many Ukrainians who fled the country return home, but in many cases that’s because Russian forces withdrew from the area around the capital, Kyiv, regrouping for an offensive in the east. It’s not known how many people have crossed the front lines to return to contested areas and occupied cities.
Here in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia is a parking lot where volunteers have helped thousands of people fleeing in battered vehicles. Some have shattered windows. Others are missing doors. Many have signs saying “children” taped to their windshields.
On the edges of this are people headed in the other direction.
One is Igor Filko, who stands alone on the sidewalk, smoking. The 30-year-old was released Wednesday after three years in prison, emerging into a world he hardly recognized.
“Everything is different,” he says. “Everything is wrong.”
He is trying to make his way to the seaside city of Berdyansk and his wife, small child and mother. He sleeps at the train station. He has no phone, borrowing one from a volunteer at the reception center to call his family. He has no car, little money and a growing sense of just how dangerous it is to go home.
After his release, he tried to set off on foot but was quickly stopped at a checkpoint. Soldiers told him he wouldn’t be let out walking and certainly wouldn’t be let back in. Now he waits for a corridor to open.
Russian forces are tightening their control over Berdyansk, Filko says. They tell residents they should switch to Russian passports and the currency will change to the ruble soon. His family wants to leave. He wants to help them.
“I don’t know of another plan,” Filko says. “All my hopes are on getting at least my child out.”
Each family reaching the reception center has its own harrowing story supporting that desire to flee.
Tatyana Vasileva’s vehicle was shot at near the final checkpoint on the journey from occupied Melitopol, in the southeast. A shell flew over their roof, and Russian soldiers stole her money.
“Thank God we left before it got too bad,” Vasileva says.
Many of the new arrivals are from the southern city of Kherson, where Russian flags now fly.
Vitaly Bizyuk and his family drove three days to find an open corridor from there to Zaporizhzhia.
Along the way, they were pressured at Russian checkpoints to change their mind. Bizyuk is originally from Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. “They asked me, ‘Why not go there?’” he says. “I said, ‘Why, what did I forget there?’”
Disheveled and standing next to his dust-covered car, he describes life under occupation. The ruble will be introduced Sunday. Tanks are in the streets. The channels on TV, and the brands in markets, are Russian.
Bizyuk holds up a pack of Russian cigarettes and looks unhappy: “I needed to smoke.”
Over two months into the war, he also needed to get out. Unlike the couple in the Lada, he sees no return in sight.
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President Joe Biden is summoning top Democratic donors to Washington next week as he prepares to launch his 2024 reelection bid, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The event, which is being organized by the Democratic National Committee, is not a fundraiser, but is meant to energize the top party donors for Biden's campaign, the people said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Biden is expected to meet for dinner with the assembled donors, who are also set to hear from some of his top political advisers. The summit comes days after the four-year anniversary of Biden's April 25, 2019 launch of his first successful presidential campaign.
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“We are here and ready,” said Michael Smith, who along with his partner, James Costos, hosted Biden’s first Hollywood fundraiser of the 2020 primary, and will be meeting with Democratic officials and strategists in Washington next week.
Biden in recent months has been focused on implementing the massive infrastructure, technology investment and climate laws passed during his first two years in office and drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans as Washington gears up for a fight over raising the nation's borrowing limit. Aides believe those priorities will burnish his image ahead of his reelection campaign.
Some Biden donors have grumbled about what they perceive to be a lack of outreach by Biden's team ahead of the campaign.
News of the gathering was first reported by The New York Times.
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Georgia secretary of state plans to replace voting equipment in county where data was breached
By Jason Morris, CNN
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on Friday that his office is replacing the voting equipment in Coffee County following “unauthorized access” of its election system after the 2020 presidential election.
The election equipment is being replaced “following the unauthorized access to the equipment that former Coffee County election officials allowed in violation of Georgia law,” according to Raffensperger’s office.
As CNN previously reported, operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump spent hours inside a restricted area of the Coffee County elections office in early 2021.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is currently assisting the Georgia secretary of state’s office with an investigation into the breach of the election data.
“To allay the fears being stoked by perennial election deniers and conspiracy theorists, we’re replacing Coffee County’s election machines,” Raffensperger said in a written statement. “The investigation into the former Coffee County election officials who allowed the unauthorized access continues, and anyone who broke the law should be punished to its full extent.”
Newly obtained surveillance video showed a Republican county official in Georgia remained in the Coffee County elections office while the operatives worked on computers near election equipment and proceeded to access voting data.
Former GOP chairwoman of Coffee County Cathy Latham, who is under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector in 2020, escorted the operatives working with former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell through the front door of the elections office on January, 7, 2021, CNN has previously reported.
Latham has said she was not “personally involved” in the breach, but he new footage appears to undercut her claims.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Julia formed Friday in the Caribbean Sea, triggering hurricane watches and warnings for Nicaragua and Colombian islands.
Julia had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kmh) and was moving west at 18 mph (30 kmh).
The storm was about 505 miles (815 kilometers) east of Colombia’s Providencia Island.
Nicaragua’s government issued a hurricane watch from Bluefields to the Nicaragua-Honduras border.
The storm is forecast to pass by Colombia’s San Andres and Providencia islands Saturday night on its way to landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said via Twitter Friday that the government was preparing shelters on the islands. San Andres authorities announced a curfew on residents beginning Saturday at 6 a.m. to limit people in the streets. Yolanda González, director of Colombia’s Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies Institute said Julia could be a Category 1 hurricane when it passes the islands late Saturday.
A greater threat than Julia’s winds, were the five to 10 inches — even 15 inches in isolated areas — of rain the storm was expected to dump across Central America.
Its remnants will sweep across Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico, a region already saturated by weeks of heavy rains.
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On a recent afternoon Diana and Lorrin Burdick share pictures and swap stories with three other parents over a lunch of chicken curry sandwiches and fruit salad. They're hosting an informal but semi-regular support group at their home in suburban Rancho Cordova east of Sacramento.
"Yeah, she loves having family dinners. Sunday is family dinner day now," says Elizabeth Kaino Hopper as she and husband, Marvin, show a recent picture of their 33-year-old daughter, Christine.
This ordinary lunch with friends is also a vital one: Every parent here has an adult child with a severe mental illness; a son or daughter who's also struggled with homelessness, substance abuse and arrests. The gatherings give them the chance to share stories, strategies and challenges of having a child with a serious and untreated mental disorder.
"That's pretty much what he looks like now," says Diana Burdick as she shows the others a phone shot of her son, Michael, 49, who has lived on the streets for a nearly a decade.
"Aww, see, anybody looking at him would say, he's not right, he doesn't feel good," Elizabeth Hopper says, shaking her head in between lunch bites.
Eight California counties are going first in a planned statewide, controversial experiment to try to fix a seemingly intractable problem every parent around the table is grappling with: How to get treatment and support for loved ones with serious mental health challenges, mostly schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
Some of these people end up cycling in and out of police holds, jails, emergency rooms and homeless shelters and encampments. The nationwide problem is particularly acute in California, which accounts for nearly one third of all people in the United States experiencing homelessness.
Some cities including Los Angeles estimate that 10% to 17% of individuals who are unsheltered have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness. But the fact that so many go without a formal diagnosis, experts say the true percentage is likely far higher.
Diana Burdick's son used to play guitar in a band, loved to draw pen and ink landscapes and worked for a time as an electrician's apprentice, his mom says. But for years now, Burdick says, Michael has been wracked by delusions and paranoia and frequently self-medicates with narcotics, mostly methamphetamine.
He doesn't want any help, she says, because Michael refuses to think of himself as ill at all. "In fact, he thinks that he owns IKEA, and that I have a trust fund with Bill Clinton and that should be giving him monthly checks, and that's why he refuses to get care because he doesn't think that anything's wrong with him."
He wanders the city during the day and sleeps outside, she's not sure where. Several days a week, however, she drops off food and sometimes clothes for him at a store near her home that's run by a friend.
But she rarely stays to talk with her son. He often gets agitated, she says, and the conversation goes nowhere. A few times over the years he's gotten violent. One incident resulted in a restraining order after an attack sent her to the emergency room.
"In one of his psychotic stages hit me in the face and required 14 stitches. His psychosis at the time is that I caused hurricane Katrina. I'm very powerful," she says with a pained smile.
"We're just kind of waiting for him to get arrested – again - for something" she says, that might push him into care. An arrest for arson resulted in no mental health treatment because her son has never been formally diagnosed and police had no record of mental health issues. As Michael's step-dad, Lorrin Burdick, puts it, unless they can apply some pressure on him, he's very likely to stay on the streets mentally ill, drug-addled and lost.
"Kinda look at it like he's in that dark hole right now. And if you can force treatment on him there's a chance he could possibly crawl out of it. But without some way to force him to do something, he won't do it," he says.
California's Care Courts aim to assist people suffering with untreated severe mental illness
California's Care Court plan is part of the state Care Act, which passed the California legislature last Fall and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who championed the project as a potentially transformative fix for a broken system.
"I'm not interested in the status quo," Newsom said at the bill signing. "I'm not interested in the compassionless-ness of the approach we have today of people moralizing and normalizing that suffering on the streets and sidewalks."
"Over time we are really going to give Californians a new tool to support our neighbors who are both experiencing severe behavioral health conditions...and their connection to issues of housing instability, homelessness and the inability to meet basic needs," says Dr. Mark Ghaly California's Secretary of Health and Human Services. "I think that is transformational, that is a game-changer."
Care Courts launch as pilots this October in the counties of Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and the City and County of San Francisco, followed by Los Angeles County in December. Under the plan, a wide variety of people – including family, friends, first responders and clinicians – can petition a judge who could order mental health and other treatment and support under a two-year "Care Plan" that counties' behavioral health systems have to fund.
"Over time we are really going to give Californians a new tool to support our neighbors who are both experiencing severe behavioral health conditions and the sequelae of those conditions like psychotic disorders and their connection to issues of housing instability, homelessness and the inability to meet basic needs," says Dr. Mark Ghaly, California's Secretary of Health and Human Services. "I think that is transformational, that is a game-changer."
Dr. Ghaly estimates that Care Court will initially serve between 7,000 and 12,000 people across California.
The rollout is being met with genuine optimism from some families like the Burdicks, who've struggled for years to get help for their son.
But it's also meeting fierce opposition from some advocates who say the plan is coercive, dangerous and unconstitutionally vague.
Any Care Plan would, in theory, be individualized but would likely include clinical treatment, bridge housing and other vital support. Participants will have access to an advocate and public defender to help make decisions about treatment and housing. As the state's health and human services department puts it, the goal is to give ill person the tools they need "to make self-directed choices to the greatest extent possible."
"We're hearing from lot of families who have done everything that they've been able to do within their powers to care for their loved ones and still they haven't been able to see that person, you know, turn a corner or get to a place of wellness where they can even rejoin the family or community," says Dr. Lisa Wong, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, by far the largest region setting up a Care Court pilot later this year.
"I think it's terribly frustrating and heartbreaking for a lot of these families," Dr. Wong says. "And I think that Care Court is going to really be another tool in our toolbox to help with that. But I don't think that it's the answer to everything."
Disability and civil rights advocates question the program's motive
Disability and civil rights advocates allege that the program is really coercion masquerading as care. Those who refuse or fail to meet conditions of their Care Plans could be compelled to comply and even be placed under a conservatorship.
"Care Court, as it's written right now, is unconstitutionally vague and it violates the civil rights of our clients with mental health disabilities who are homeless," says Christian Abasto, the legal advocacy director for Disability Rights California. The group is leading a coalition that has sued to stop the program.
Abasto worries the program will end up pushing many people into involuntary outpatient treatment. "It empowers parents, police, school persons to basically make an accusation and invoke the court system with potential confinement and potential infringement of the civil rights of people with mental health disabilities - when they have done nothing wrong," Abasto says.
The group says the Care Act expands an already problematic system of court-ordered mental health treatment "that goes back to the country's horrific history of ableism and subjecting disabled people to being a separate class."
"It's such a big lie," says Helen Tran, senior attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty, one of the groups that has filed suit to stop the Care Act, alongside Disability Rights California. "If it is truly voluntary, why do you need the Care Act at all?"
Tran worries people who fail to follow through on their judge-ordered treatment plans could be coerced into treatment to try to address the vexing political problem of Californians fed up with homelessness.
Tran sees it as a back-door attempt to expand conservatorship where ill people "risk losing so much more of their rights and their autonomy to control the type of medical care that they want, the housing that they want. It's just a difficult process to reverse so the risk of being permanently harmed by that, to us, is so great that it warrants the court's intervention before it's even implemented," she says.
Instead of funding new courts, the coalition wants the state to dramatically boost funding for existing mental health treatment and housing for homeless persons with a mental illness.
Outreach by social workers will be key to get people to participate voluntarily
Gov. Newsom, a Democrat, recently proposed $1.5 billion in new funding for interim or "bridge" housing for people with mental health needs transitioning out of homelessness.
He also proposed substantially expanding treatment of mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness through a 2024 ballot initiative. If passed, a bond would fund construction of new residential treatment facilities for mental illness and substance use disorders, create additional housing for homeless veterans, and require at least $1 billion annually for behavioral health housing and treatment by amending the state's Mental Health Services Act.
Proponents also say any potential penalties for not complying with a Care Plan are being wildly exaggerated. The program hasn't even gotten off the ground.
Dr. Wong, the director Los Angeles' behavioral health system, stresses that for Los Angeles and other counties going first, outreach and engagement by social workers will be key to getting people to participate voluntarily so they don't end up in court.
But even if a case does end up in court, Dr. Wong insists, it's still a voluntary service. "You know, we're not holding people against their will. There's no involuntary medication order or anything like that. So people still have the ability to say no."
Dr. Ghaly, California's HHS director, does not rule out having more people moved into conservatorship under Care Court. "Absolutely that's a possibility. But my hope is that we see that potential as the reason why a lot of people do willingly and successfully participate in the program," he says.
Meantime, many parents say the Care Court experiment will surely be better than watching their loved one cycle endlessly between crisis police "holds," emergency rooms, jails, and homeless shelters or makeshift tent villages.
"The discussion is almost bird-walked into civil rights, when it needs to be about medical treatment," says Elizabeth Hopper who lives outside Sacramento. Her daughter Christine Hopper is a former honors student and athlete who for years now has struggled with schizo-affective disorder alongside homelessness, substance use disorder and run-ins with the law. Christine is doing better now, her mom says, thanks only to a diversion program that mandated treatment following a felony arrest for assault.
"Care Court could have saved at least seven or eight years of her life, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of revolving door ERs to psych hospitals back to the street," Elizabeth says. "It can sound like, 'Oh, the family just wants to lock people away' and that's just not true. What we're hoping for is enough treatment where our person will be able to stand on their own as much as possible."
NPR's Elizabeth Baker contributed to this report contributed to this story
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A gunman stormed into an elementary school Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers in the United States' deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. Law enforcement officers killed the shooter, identified as a local 18-year-old who had shot and wounded his grandmother and spelled out his violent plans in online messages shortly before the massacre at Robb Elementary. Investigators say they don't yet know a motive for the shootings.
A look at what we know so far:
WHAT HAPPENED IN UVALDE?
The attacker, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, shot his 66-year-old grandmother in the face at their Uvalde home, then fled in her truck as she summoned help, according to Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Public Safety Director Steve McCraw and other officials.
A short distance away, Ramos crashed the truck outside the school, got out with a rifle and approached a back door, officials said. They said an officer assigned to the school “engaged” Ramos, but the gunman got into the building and down a hallway to a fourth-grade classroom. After locking the classroom door, he opened fire around 11:30 a.m. with an AR-15-style rifle, carrying multiple magazines.
A team including local officers and Border Patrol agents ultimately forced the door open and shot Ramos to death after he fired at them, police said.
Other officers and responders shattered some of the school's windows so teachers and students could escape.
Ramos was wearing a tactical vest, though not body armor, according to state senators who said they were briefed on the shooting. There was another AR-15-style rifle in his truck, and a backpack with several magazines full of ammunition was found near the school entrance.
WHO WERE THE VICTIMS?
Authorities haven't yet released the victims' names, but some information about them has emerged from their families.
Eliahna Garcia was an outgoing 10-year-old who loved to sing, dance, play sports and be with her family, according to aunt Siria Arizmendi. Uziyah Garcia was only 10 and “the sweetest little boy that I’ve ever known," said grandfather Manny Renfro, recalling how the youngster was already able to master football pass patterns.
Xavier James Lopez, 10, had been looking forward to a summer of swimming. Ebullient and loving, he was "just enjoying life, not knowing that this tragedy was going to happen today,” cousin Lisa Garza said.
Swift-footed Layla Salazar, 11, had won six races at the school's field day.
“She was just a whole lot of fun,” said her father, Vincent Salazar, remembering how she danced to TikTok videos and sang along with him to the Guns N’ Roses song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” every morning on the way to school.
Jailah Nicole Silguero, 10, hadn't wanted to go to school Tuesday, appearing to think that something bad would happen, her mom, Veronica Luevanos, told Univision. A cousin of Jailah’s also was killed.
Eva Mireles, 44, had been teaching for 17 years, according to a welcome letter to students she wrote last fall. She and her husband, a school police officer, had a grown daughter.
Mireles wrote that she loved running and hiking, and relative Amber Ybarra said she had an adventurous spirit.
WHO WAS THE GUNMAN?
Ramos lived in Uvalde itself, a predominantly Latino city of about 16,000 people in a farming area roughly 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Mexican border and 85 miles (135 kilometers) from San Antonio.
A high school dropout, Ramos had no known criminal record or history of mental health problems, Abbott said.
In the half-hour before the school killings, Ramos used Facebook to say that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had done so, and then that he was going to shoot up an unspecified elementary school, officials said.
Facebook said Ramos' posts were private messages that came to light after the killings.
Investigators also have been scrutinizing an Instagram account that apparently belonged to Ramos. In the days before the shooting, posts featured a photo of a hand holding an ammunition magazine and another photo of two AR-15-style rifles. The account asked another Instagram user to share the latter photo with her 10,000 followers; she declined, saying it was “scary” and she barely knew him.
On the morning of the massacre, the account linked to Ramos sent her an ominous message: “I'm about to.”
Instagram declined to answer questions about the postings.
WHERE DID THE GUN COME FROM?
The gunman legally bought his weapons soon after his 18th birthday and days before the attack, law enforcement officials told state lawmakers.
He purchased one rifle from a federally licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area May 17, according to a state police briefing to state Sen. John Whitmire. On May 18, the gunman bought 375 rounds of ammunition. Then, two days later, he bought a second rifle.
WHAT DON'T WE KNOW?
Authorities haven't disclosed a full list of the victims. Nor have many important details about the attack been made public.
Among them: what transpired between Ramos and the school officer who first encountered him; who saw the online posts attributed to him; what, if any, history he had with Robb Elementary; and why he went on the rampage.
“We don’t see a motive or catalyst right now,” McCraw said Wednesday afternoon.
HOW MANY MASS SHOOTINGS HAVE THERE BEEN IN U.S. SCHOOLS?
There have been 14 shootings that have claimed four or more victims' lives at U.S. schools and colleges since 1999, when two students killed 12 of their peers and a teacher at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999. That's according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, and to other AP reporting. These mass attacks have killed 169 people in all.
The massacre in Uvalde was the deadliest since December 2012, when 20 first graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut by a gunman who had just killed his mother.
In 2007, a Virginia Tech student fatally shot 32 people.
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This story has been corrected to show the age of Layla Salazar was 11, not 10. It has also been corrected to show the middle name for Xavier Lopez was James, not Javier. The story also gave an incorrect age for victim Uziyah Garcia. Uziyah was 10 years old, not 8 years old.
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Embiid’s jumper gives 76ers 118-117 win over Jazz
By JOHN COON
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Joel Embiid made a jumper with 5.7 seconds left to lift the Philadelphia 76ers to a 118-117 victory over the Utah Jazz on Saturday night.
“I made a tough shot but it shouldn’t have come to that after we were up by so much,” said Embiid, who finished 30 points and seven rebounds.
James Harden had 31 points and 11 assists to lead Philadelphia. Tyrese Maxey scored 21 points and Shake Milton added 17.
The fourth quarter belonged to Harden, who had 18 points and made six baskets during that stretch. He accounted for 16 straight points for the 76ers over 3½ minutes to keep the Jazz from going ahead until late in the fourth quarter.
“I saw opportunities,” Harden said. “Fourth quarter, they made some shots. There was an opportunity to take advantage of it and I did.”
Jordan Clarkson had 38 points and nine rebounds for Utah. Talen Horton-Tucker chipped in a season-high 20 points off the bench. Mike Conley added 14 points and eight assists, while Walker Kessler finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Clarkson scored 17 in the fourth, helping fuel a late rally.
“We ain’t scared of the moment, I can tell you that,” Clarkson said. “We have been in close games the whole year. We fight, we scrap.”
After trailing by double digits for much of the game, Utah took its first lead at 115-114 on Kessler’s tip-in basket with 33 seconds left.
Harden and Clarkson subsequently traded go-ahead buckets before Embiid’s jumper put Philadelphia ahead for good. Clarkson missed a 3-pointer on Utah’s final possession.
“I think our team showed a lot of fight again, as we always do, executed some things really, really well as the game went on,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.
Lauri Markkanen was sidelined with a left hip contusion and the Jazz struggled early to fill the void left without their leading scorer.
Philadelphia shot 65% from the field over the first 12 minutes after making 14 of its first 19 shots and scored a season-high 41 points in the first quarter.
Clarkson cut the deficit to two on a jumper before the 76ers answered with a 13-2 run to break open the game. Maxey scored three straight baskets, including back-to-back 3-pointers, to punctuate the spurt that gave Philadelphia a 22-9 lead midway through the first quarter.
“I swear the first six minutes, everything we did (worked),” 76ers coach Doc Rivers said. “Guys were in the right spot. The cuts were right. The passes were right.”
Utah shot just 37.5% from the field and trailed by as many as 20 points during the first quarter.
The Jazz rallied in the third and cut Philadelphia’s lead to 81-80, after Clarkson and Conley made back-to-back baskets to spark a 14-3 run.
BLAST FROM THE PAST
The Delta Center is returning.
Delta Air Lines re-purchased naming rights for the Utah Jazz home arena and it will be renamed the Delta Center starting on July 1, 2023. Vivint previously held naming rights as part of a 10-year deal signed in October 2015 until opting out of the contract, opening the door for Delta to become the rare company to resume its naming rights role.
Putting the Delta name back on the arena comes as part of a new multi-year partnership that includes numerous other sponsorship and branding rights with the team.
“We’re already getting a lot of attention from the league, and around sports, for how the growth of Utah is catching up with the brands that are coming in,” Jazz owner Ryan Smith said. “It’s not a small market in terms of that. … We’ve outgrown the narrative.”
The arena previously carried the Delta Center moniker for 15 years from when it opened in October 1991 until Delta decided to not renew its naming rights deal after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005.
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76ers: Tobias Harris (left knee soreness) was inactive. … De’Anthony Melton tied his season high with two blocks.
Jazz: Horton-Tucker beat the first quarter buzzer with a 3-pointer from halfcourt. … Utah outscored Philadelphia 19-6 in second chance points and 20-10 in fast-break points.
UP NEXT
76ers: Visit the Lakers on Sunday.
Jazz: Visit the Timberwolves on Monday.
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2023-01-15T08:08:12+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/2023/01/14/embiids-jumper-gives-76ers-118-117-win-over-jazz/
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Did mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin have inside help from the military and political elite in his armed rebellion that rattled Russia?
A week after the mutiny raised the most daunting challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule in over two decades, key details about the uprising are still unknown.
Uncertainty also swirls around the fate of Prigozhin and his Wagner private military forces, along with the deal they got from the Kremlin, and what the future holds for the Russian defense minister they tried to oust.
Finally, and perhaps the biggest unknown: Can Putin shore up the weaknesses revealed by the events of last weekend?
Many observers argue that Prigozhin wouldn’t have been able to take over military facilities in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don so easily on June 24 and mount his rapid march toward Moscow without collusion with some members of the military brass.
Thousands of members of his private army drove nearly 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) across Russia without facing any serious resistance and shot down at least seven military aircraft, killing at least 10 airmen.
Prigozhin said they got as close as 200 kilometers (about 125 miles) from Moscow when he ordered them to turn back under a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. That agreement granted amnesty to him and forces from his Wagner Group of private contractors, allowing them to move to Belarus.
Some Kremlin watchers believe senior military officers could have backed his push for the ouster of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov. Or they simply decided to wait and see what happened.
“The Wagner mercenary boss was counting on solidarity from senior army officers, and since he came close to reaching Moscow without encountering any particular resistance, he might not have been completely mistaken,” analyst Mikhail Komin wrote in a commentary for Carnegie Endowment.
“It’s entirely possible that by the start of his ‘march for justice,’ Prigozhin believed he would find solidarity among many officers in the armed forces, and that if his uprising was successful, they would be joined by certain groups within the ruling elite.”
Russian law enforcement agencies might share this belief. Some military bloggers reported that investigators were looking at whether some officers had sided with Prigozhin.
One senior military official, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who had longtime ties with Prigozhin, is believed to have been detained, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, citing U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence assessments. It’s not clear whether Surovikin faces any charges or where he is being held.
Russian military bloggers reported that some border guards were accused of failing to put up resistance to Wagner’s convoy as it crossed into Russia from Ukraine, and some pilots also are facing possible charges for refusing to halt the convoy movement toward Moscow.
There was no official confirmation of those claims, however, and it was impossible to verify them.
In noting the lack of a more forceful military response to the mutiny, some have cited the chaotic and uncertain situation and the Kremlin’s doubts about using force in populated areas.
Mark Galeotti, a London-based expert on Russian security affairs, said the government system is “hierarchical and slow,” and doesn’t encourage initiative.
“In that context, people would just not be willing to act without direct orders, either because they just feared being hanged out to dry if they guessed wrong or else because actually, they had a certain sympathy for Prigozhin,” he added.
Pro-Kremlin analyst Sergei Markov said some in the Russian military might have been reluctant to confront Prigozhin initially but their attitude hardened after Wagner forces downed several military helicopters.
Another mystery is the deal ending the mutiny. Russia’s main intelligence agency opened an investigation against Prigozhin for the rebellion, but the case was later dropped as part of that agreement. Putin, Prigozhin and Lukashenko all described it as a compromise intended to avoid bloodshed, but few details have been released.
Also uncertain is the future of Prigozhin and Wagner. Putin said the mercenaries who didn’t participate in the mutiny can sign contracts with the Defense Ministry, retire or move to Belarus, but it’s unknown how many will join him and whether they will continue to be a single force.
Prigozhin may not feel fully safe under Lukashenko, who is known for his harsh rule and relies on Putin’s political and financial support. The mercenary chief’s exact whereabouts are unknown. Lukashenko confirmed he is in Belarus; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn’t say where he is.
Lukashenko can be expected to maintain tight control over Prigozhin’s troops.
“I suspect the way Moscow hopes this will play out is the commanders will move to Belarus and then possibly decamp for operations in Africa,” said Michael Kofman, an expert with the Center for Naval Analyses. “Meanwhile, they will try to get back Wagner’s heavy equipment, and then figure out how to use the rank and file that chooses to stay,”
Others believe the Kremlin won’t allow Prigozhin to operate independently abroad as he did before. Reports from Syria this week indicated that Wagner troops were told to report to the main Russian military base in the country.
Even though Russia closed its criminal inquiry into the mutiny, Putin signaled the authorities will look into Wagner’s books for any wrongdoing. That could set the stage for potential charges of financial crime.
In a stunning revelation, Putin declared that the government poured billions of dollars into Wagner, a statement that followed his previous denials of any link between the state and the mercenary group.
“It turns out that Vladimir Putin actually paid for the mutiny with taxpayers’ money,” analyst Andrei Kolesnikov wrote.
While Prigozhin’s stated goal was the ouster of the top military leaders, including the defense minister, some see that Shoigu could emerge strengthened.
“Intriguingly, the main beneficiary seems to be Shoigu: With Prigozhin and Wagner out of the picture, Putin is now immunized against a similar mutiny and any sort of experiences with private military companies,” said analyst Tatiana Stanovaya.
Shoigu could use the showdown to get rid of any sign of dissent among the brass, she said.
But Komin, of the Carnegie Endowment, said Prigozhin’s mutiny “revealed the scale of the crisis within the Russian armed forces, which are disillusioned by constant failures and tired of war, and within the military and security elites.”
It could set the stage for more such tests of authority.
“When senior and mid-ranking officers effectively respond to an armed mutiny with a ‘go slow’ strike, there can be little doubt that the Wagner boss will not be the last challenger to square off against Shoigu and his allies and seek to capitalize on the unspoken but growing resentment within the Russian armed forces,” Komin added.
There also is a debate about the future of military contractors in Russia.
Vladislav Surkov, a former senior aide to Putin, strongly argued that they pose a major threat to Russia’s integrity, saying private armies like Wagner could turn Russia into a “Eurasian tribal zone.”
Even though the quick deal with Prigozhin averted a battle for Moscow that could have plunged the whole country into chaos, the crisis revealed shocking weaknesses in Putin’s government.
After a stumbling response to the mutiny, Putin tried to repair the damage to his standing with a series of events aimed at projecting strength and authority. State television hammered home the message that a quick end to the rebellion made Putin even stronger.
He spoke to army troops and law enforcement officers in a Kremlin ceremony that mimicked the pomp-laden military rites of the Russian empire.
He traveled to the city of Derbent in the mostly Muslim region of Dagestan, on the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday. He walked among cheering crowds, talking to people and shaking hands, and even posed for a photo — extremely rare behavior for a secretive and reserved leader who was notoriously cautious about social contacts during the coronavirus pandemic.
In an apparent bid to turn the page on the rebellion, Putin focused on issues such as the development of tourist industries in Derbent or technological innovations.
But despite such attempts and damage-control efforts by the state propaganda machine, Putin’s weakness and vulnerability has become obvious.
“This mutiny was so shocking that the regime appeared to many as near to collapse, which significantly undermines Putin’s ability to secure control in the eyes of the political class,” Stanovaya said.
But Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday rejected claims that the abortive mutiny exposed any weakness, saying that “Russia always has come out stronger from any troubles … and it will so this time as well.”
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2023-06-30T21:53:12+00:00
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ksn.com
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections — a predicament the former president knows only too well from his own time in office.
Biden and Clinton both eulogized former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the funeral for her last week. The lunch comes weeks after former President Barack Obama returned to the White House to meet with Biden and staff, and attend an event marking the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Psaki also revealed Monday that Biden and Obama had a private lunch last week as well.
The Washington Post first reported on the meeting.
While out of office for more than two decades, Clinton remains one of his party’s strongest communicators, and is a sought-after surrogate for Democrats. Clinton suffered significant Democratic losses during the 1994 midterms, when Republicans took control of the House and Senate, a fate Biden is trying to avoid.
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2022-05-02T19:33:35+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-lunches-with-clinton-as-midterms-loom/2022/05/02/effed5ee-ca48-11ec-b7ee-74f09d827ca6_story.html
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Russian diplomat: Moscow has suspended sharing information about nuclear forces with US
MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday that Moscow will no longer inform the U.S. about its missile tests, an announcement that came as the Russian military deployed mobile launchers in Siberia in a show of the country’s massive nuclear capability amid the fighting in Ukraine.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington after previously suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear arms pact with the U.S.
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended the New START treaty, charging that Russia can’t accept U.S. inspections of its nuclear sites under the agreement at a time when Washington and its NATO allies have openly declared Russia’s defeat in Ukraine as their goal.
Moscow emphasized that it wasn’t withdrawing from the pact altogether and would continue to respect the caps on nuclear weapons the treaty set.
The Russian Foreign Ministry initially said Moscow would keep notifying the U.S. about planned test launches of its ballistic missiles, but Ryabkov’s statement reflected a change of course.
“There will be no notifications at all,” Ryabkov said when asked if Moscow would also stop issuing notices about planned missile tests. “All notifications, all kinds of notifications, all activities under the treaty. will be suspended and will not be conducted regardless of what position the U.S. may take.”
As part of the Russian drills that began Wednesday, Yars mobile missile launchers will maneuver across three regions of Siberia, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. The movements will involve measures to conceal the deployment from foreign satellites and other intelligence assets, the ministry said.
The Defense Ministry didn’t say how long the drills would last or mention plans for any practice launches. The Yars is a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of about 11,000 kilometers (over 6,800 miles). It forms the backbone of Russia’s strategic missile forces.
The Defense Ministry released a video showing massive trucks carrying the missiles driving out from a base to go on patrol. The maneuvers involve about 300 vehicles and 3,000 troops in eastern Siberia, according to the ministry.
The massive exercise took place days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, Russia’s neighbor and ally.
Tactical nuclear weapons are intended for use on the battlefield and have a relatively short range and a much lower yield compared to the long-range strategic missiles fitted with nuclear warheads that are capable of obliterating whole cities.
Putin’s decision to put the tactical weapons in Belarus followed his repeated warnings that Moscow was ready to use “all available means” — a reference to its nuclear arsenal — to fend off attacks on Russian territory.
Russian officials have issued a barrage of hawkish statements since their troops entered Ukraine, warning that the continuing Western support for Ukraine raised the threat of a nuclear conflict.
In remarks published Tuesday, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, which Putin chairs, warned the United States and its allies against harboring hopes for Russia’s defeat in Ukraine.
Patrushev alleged that some American politicians believe the U.S. could launch a preventative missile strike on Russia to which Moscow would be unable to respond, a purported belief that he described as “short-sighted stupidity, which is very dangerous.”
“Russia is patient and isn’t trying to scare anyone with its military superiority, but it has unique modern weapons capable of destroying any adversary, including the United States, in case of a threat to its existence,” Patrushev said.
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2023-03-29T12:32:29+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2023/03/29/russian-diplomat-moscow-has-suspended-sharing-information-about-nuclear-forces-with-us/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors cracked open a trove of emails and other communications at a federal trial on Thursday that they say shows how the former chair of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee worked behind the scenes in 2016 to get the future president to embrace the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Some of the email traffic was between Tom Barrack — accused of working at the direction of the UAE as a secret foreign agent — and Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager at the time. The exchanges focused in part over an energy policy speech by Trump in 2016.
In one email read to the jury by an FBI agent, Barrack complained to Manafort that an original draft of the speech didn’t mention either the UAE or Saudi Arabia, or the importance of their role in the Middle East.
“Wow. I’m just stunned by how bad this is,” the billionaire private equity manager wrote about the draft.
Manafort responded: “Send me an insert that works for our friends.”
The speech Trump gave ended up referring to the need to team with “our supportive Gulf allies” as part of a broader strategy to fight terrorism in the region. Afterward, Barrack received an email from a UAE official congratulating him for doing a “great job.”
In other emails, Manafort assured those in the back-channel network that he would get Trump to tone down his anti-Muslim rhetoric and that he would set up face-to-face meetings between Trump and UAE and Saudi leaders.
Another Barrack email indicated he had lobbied Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner on Manafort’s behalf to get Manafort the campaign manager post. Manafort was eventually convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and later pardoned by Donald Trump.
Prosecutors say the communications demonstrate Barrack’s efforts to manipulate the Trump campaign and later his administration to advance the interests of the UAE. They say at the same time, the energy-rich Gulf state poured millions of dollars into business ventures operated by Barrack.
Barrack, 75, has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
In his opening statements this week, defense attorney Steven Schachter insisted there was no evidence that Barrack ever took orders from the UAE or betrayed his country by becoming a covert agent.
“Tom Barrack is his own man,” the lawyer said.
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2022-09-30T14:57:33+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-legislature/ap-politics/ap-prosecutors-use-emails-to-build-case-against-key-trump-ally/
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – The California Senate race is nearly two years away and sitting Senator Dianne Feinstein hasn’t announced if she will seek re-election. But other Democrats are already preparing to run.
With the midterm elections barely behind us, Congresswoman Katie Porter announced she’s running for senate in 2024 and promises to take on Wall Street, Big Oil and Big Pharma.
“California needs a warrior,” Porter said in an ad. “I use whatever power I have to speak hard truths to the powers that be.”
Porter’s announcement comes before any word whether current Senator Feinstein plans to seek re-election.
Fellow Democrats like Congressman Lou Correa say Senator Feinstein deserves respect.
“We have to give her the respect that an individual, a senator, a California representative that has done a great job – deserves,” Rep. Correra (D-CA) said.
The California senate race is expected to be a crowded one and other Democrats who could run include Adam Schiff and Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who reportedly told members of the Congressional Black Caucus she intends to run.
Congressman Ro Khanna is also considering his own run but says he’s waiting for a formal announcement from Barbara Lee.
“I’m first going to wait to see what she does,” Khanna (D-CA) said. “We don’t have a single African American woman in the senate and Barbara lee has been an icon of mine, a personal friend of mine.”
In a statement, Congresswoman Lee said California deserves a senator with a record of accomplishment and said the Senate is sorely lacking the presence of people of color but says right now she’s focused on helping Californians in this extreme weather.
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2023-01-12T22:35:35+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/washington/washington-dc/rep-porter-other-california-democrats-prep-for-crowded-senate-race/
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(WXIN) – Wendy’s chili is coming to store shelves.
Conagra Brands, a packaged food company that owns dozens of popular brands, revealed the news during a Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference last week.
It’s unclear if the chili will be available at multiple retailers or offered exclusively at certain stores.
Chili has been on Wendy’s menu since the chain’s start in 1969. As founder Dave Thomas detailed in his memoir, “Dave’s Way,” Wendy’s offered chili as a way to use leftover hamburger meat and cut down on waste, per Mashed.
The Wendy’s-branded canned chili will be sold in 15-ounce cans, according to an Instacart listing cited by The Tasting Table. The product page suggests the chili will be made with “minimally processed” beef, and contain 29 grams of protein a serving.
The canned version is expected to be available by the end of 2023.
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2023-02-28T18:27:38+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/national/wendys-chili-coming-to-the-canned-foods-section-at-grocery-stores/
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TORONTO, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Braxia Scientific Corp. ("Braxia Scientific", or the "Company"), (CSE: BRAX) (OTC: BRAXF) (FWB: 4960) a medical research and telemedicine company with clinics providing innovative ketamine and psilocybin treatments for depression and related disorders, is pleased to announce that Leann Taylor, President and COO of KetaMD, Inc. ("KetaMD"), has joined the board of directors.
KetaMD, a telemedicine platform recently acquired by Braxia Scientific, provides access to at-home ketamine treatments for people suffering from mental health disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). KetaMD currently operates in the State of Florida but a roll out to other states is planned this year.
About Braxia Scientific Corp.
Braxia Scientific is a medical research and telemedicine company with clinics that provide innovative ketamine treatments for persons with depression and related disorders. Braxia also launched its U.S. based end-to-end telemedicine platform KetaMD, that utilizes leading technology to provide access to safe, affordable, and potentially life-changing at-home ketamine treatments for people living with depression and related mental health conditions. Through its medical solutions, Braxia aims to reduce the illness burden of brain-based disorders, such as major depressive disorder among others. Braxia is primarily focused on (i) owning and operating multidisciplinary clinics, providing treatments in-person and virtually for mental health disorders, and (ii) research activities related to discovering and commercializing novel drugs and delivery methods. Braxia seeks to develop ketamine and derivatives and other psychedelic products from its IP development platform. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Braxia Health (formerly the Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence Inc.), operates multidisciplinary community-based clinics offering rapid-acting treatments for depression located in Mississauga, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, and Montreal.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Dr. Roger S. McIntyre"
Dr. Roger S. McIntyre
Chairman & CEO
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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. All statements that are not historical facts, future estimates, plans, programs, forecasts, projections, objectives, assumptions, expectations, or beliefs of future performance are "forward-looking statements."
Forward-looking statements include statements about the intended promise of ketamine-based treatments for depression, the potential for ketamine or other psychedelics to treat other mental health conditions, the integration plans for Braxia and KetaMD, the intention to conduct further clinical trials, the expected growth of at-home telemedicine, the expected benefit and synergies of Braxia and KetaMD and the expectation to expand to areas other than Florida. Such forward- looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, events, or developments to be materially different from any future results, events or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the failure of ketamine, psilocybin and other psychedelics to provide the expected health benefits and unanticipated side effects, dependence on obtaining and maintaining regulatory approvals, including acquiring and renewing federal, provincial, municipal, local or other licenses and engaging in activities that could be later determined to be illegal under domestic or international laws. Ketamine and psilocybin are currently Schedule I and Schedule III controlled substances, respectively, under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, S.C. 1996, c. 19 (the "CDSA") and it is a criminal offence to possess such substances under the CDSA without a prescription or a legal exemption. Health Canada has not approved psilocybin as a drug for any indication, however ketamine is a legally permissible medication for the treatment of certain psychological conditions. It is illegal to possess such substances in Canada without a prescription.
These factors should be considered carefully, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important risk factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other risk factors that cause actions, events or results to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties that could affect financial results is contained in the Company's filings with Canadian securities regulators, including the Amended and Restated Listing Statement dated April 15, 2021 and its most recent MD&A, which are available at www.sedar.com. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements.
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2022-09-22T00:39:05+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/09/21/braxia-scientific-announces-board-appointment/
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Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office investigates after man shot inside home
Published: Feb. 6, 2023 at 5:19 PM EST|Updated: 58 minutes ago
BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office says they’re investigating after a man was shot.
Officials say the shooting took place shortly after midnight on Friday in the victim’s home on Black Locust Drive near Weaverville.
Deputies say the victim - Alejandro Cedillo-Morales - was transported to a hospital where he remains in serious condition.
Cúrate Bar & Restaurant posted a link to a gofundme for Cedillo-Morales, saying he is a long time employee.
If you know anything that could help authorities with this case, contact the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.
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2023-02-06T23:17:26+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/02/06/buncombe-county-sheriffs-office-investigates-shooting-with-injuries/
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One person injured in wreck on N. Beverly Drive
Published: Jan. 16, 2023 at 8:22 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - WFPD responded to a wreck on N. Beverly Drive shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday morning.
The driver was the only person involved and was injured in the incident. They were transported to a hospital for their injuries. They were awake and alert.
Alcohol and speed are thought to be the man factors in the wreck.
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2023-01-16T15:30:10+00:00
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newschannel6now.com
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https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/01/16/one-person-injured-wreck-n-beverly-drive/
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Flirting with climate danger: UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
There’s a two-out-of-three chance within the next five years that the world will temporarily reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change, a new World Meteorological Organization report forecasts.
It likely would only be a fleeting and less worrisome flirtation with the agreed-upon climate danger point, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. That’s because scientists expect a temporary burst of heat from an El Nino will supercharge human-caused warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas to new heights and then slip back down a bit.
The 2015 Paris climate agreement set 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) as a global guardrail in atmospheric warming, with countries pledging to try to prevent that much long-term warming if possible. Scientists in a special 2018 United Nations report said going past that point would be drastically and dangerously different with more death, destruction and damage to global ecosystems.
“It won’t be this year probably. Maybe it’ll be next year or the year after” that a year averages 1.5 degrees Celsius, said report lead author Leon Hermanson, a climate scientist at the United Kingdom’s Met Office.
But climate scientists said what’s likely to happen in the next five years isn’t the same as failing the global goal.
“This report does not mean that we will permanently exceed the 1.5C level specified in the Paris Agreement which refers to long-term warming over many years. However, WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.
“A single year doesn’t really mean anything,” Hermanson said. Scientists usually use 30-year averages.
Those 66% odds of a single year hitting that threshold in five years have increased from 48% last year, 40% the year before, 20% in 2020 and 10% about a decade ago. The WMO report is based on calculations by 11 different climate science centers across the globe.
The world has been inching closer to the 1.5-degree threshold due to human-caused climate change for years. The temporary warming of this year’s expected El Nino — a phenomenon that starts with a warming of parts of the central Pacific Ocean and then sloshes across the globe — makes it “possible for us to see a single year exceeding 1.5C a full decade before the long-term average warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases does,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth, who wasn’t part of the WMO report.
“We don’t expect the longer-term average to pass 1.5C until the early-to-mid 2030s,” Hausfather said in an email.
But each year at or near 1.5 matters.
“We see this report as more of a barometer of how we’re getting close, because the closer you get to the threshold, the more noise bumping up and down is going to bump you over the threshold randomly,” Hermanson said in an interview. And he said the more random bumps over the mark occur, the closer the world actually gets to the threshold.
Key in all this is the El Nino cycle. The world is coming off a record-tying triple dip La Nina — three straight years of El Nino’s cooler cousin restraining the human-caused warming climb — and is on the verge of an El Nino that some scientists predict will be strong.
The La Nina somewhat flattened the trend of human-caused warming so that the world hasn’t broken the annual temperature mark since 2016, the last El Nino, super-sized one, Hermanson said.
And that means a 98% chance of breaking the 2016 annual global temperature record between now and 2027, the report said. There’s also a 98% chance that the next five years will be the hottest five years on record, the report said.
Because of the shift from La Nina to El Nino “where there were floods before, there will be droughts and where there were droughts before there might be floods,” Hermanson said.
The report warned that the Amazon will be abnormally dry for a good part of the next five years while the Sahel part of Africa — the transition zone between the Sahara on the north and the savannas to the south — will be wetter.
That’s “one of the positive things coming out of this forecast,” Hermanson said. “It’s not all doom-and-gloom and heat waves.”
University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann said reports like this put too much emphasis on global surface temperature, which varies with the El Nino cycle, even though it is climbing upward in the long term. The real concern is the deep water of oceans, which absorb an overwhelming majority of the world’s human-caused warming, leading to a steady rise in ocean heat content and new records set regularly.
Mann said it’s wrong to think the world’s about to exceed the threshold any time now because “a concerted effort to lower carbon emissions can still avoid crossing it altogether,” Mann said. “That’s what we need to be focused on.”
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2023-05-17T12:09:30+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/17/flirting-with-climate-danger-un-forecasts-2-in-3-chance-of-briefly-hitting-key-heat-limit-soon/
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step down from her role as leader of the Democrats, conversations started right away with who would take her spot. But it’s now official.
“It’s an honor to stand before you today as the incoming Democratic leader,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said.
Jeffries will lead House Democrats in the next Congress.
“As we work to advance the ball for everyday Americans and get stuff done,” Jeffries said.
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) will stand by Jeffries’ side as Democratic Whip and Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Cali.) will round out their party’s leadership.
“House Democrats are ready to work for you,” Clark said.
“The energy of our caucus was handshakes, high fives and hugs as we transitioned,” Aguilar said.
The new leaders say despite past disagreements, they’re ready to keep House Democrats united.
“Everybody matters. Progressives, new dems, blue dogs,” Jeffries said.
“Our caucus is about these shared values,” Clark added.
House and Senate democrats are welcoming the change. Rep. Ilhan Omar calls this a generational shift.
“I think he has the tools that are necessary to lead us and I support him and the rest of the slate,” Omar said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he expects his fellow Brooklynite to bring about historic change.
“He is someone who I know will both hold the line on our democratic values, while being ready to listen and keep an open mind,” Schumer said.
Jeffries, Aguilar and Clark will assume their positions when the next Congress starts on January 3rd.
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2022-12-01T00:32:39+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/washington/washington-dc/rep-hakeem-jeffries-selected-as-new-house-democrat-lead-for-next-congress/
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Construction continues on westbound off-ramp at Lee and Goodyear
Published: Jun. 6, 2022 at 6:03 PM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Another construction project in Lawton, will continue past it’s scheduled completion date.
The Westbound Off-ramp at Southwest Lee Boulevard and Northwest Goodyear Boulevard will be closed until at least June 13, weather permitting.
That road work will impact employees that work at several businesses in that area, including Goodyear, Republic Paperboard, Bar-S foods and more.
So, residents should be sure to give themselves extra time when traveling through the area.
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2022-06-06T23:41:10+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/2022/06/06/construction-continues-westbound-off-ramp-lee-goodyear/
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Leading Residential Cleaning Brand Sees Major Sales and Opens 100th Franchise Location
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Maids, the leading residential cleaning franchise, announced today a record-breaking sales month with a network-wide revenue total of over $4.68 million. This mega-month marks another success for the franchise concept as they continue to expand their footprint across the United States including recently opening their 100th franchise location.
In addition to the impressive overall revenue of over $4.68 million, Two Maids saw an average daily revenue of $213K marking a 21% increase from June 2021. Franchisees and the maids themselves are benefiting from the uptick in sales numbers as dozens of franchise locations are exceeding their BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) – a Two Maids revenue goal set annually by the corporate team – and June saw a positive spike in tips for workers clocking in at 4.02% of corporate revenue.
"Our Two Maids team is powered by an intense work ethic that drives sales success and this year has been a blockbuster for us," said Paul Ebert, president of Two Maids. "The proof of our hard work is in the numbers as our Two Maids family works hard every day to ensure customer satisfaction and deliver the top results in every space we clean. We look forward to opening additional locations and continuing to serve communities around the country."
In addition to sales success, Two Maids opened the doors of their 100th franchise location in the United States. A seasoned franchisee with a successful history alongside the Two Maids brand, Anthony Truong opened the newest franchise in Winter Garden, Florida after successful Two Maids ventures in Orlando and Oviedo, Florida.
The record-shattering sales numbers and major franchise milestone bodes well for the cleaning franchise concept in the coming months and the increasing number of franchise openings is nearing a 20% increase from the same time last year. More locations are set to open before the end of 2022 in markets including Denver, Colorado; Mesa, Arizona; and Miami, Florida.
"We are excited to open the doors to our newest franchise location within our Two Maids family and look forward to seeing the team further grow in the Florida region," added Ebert. "Since our beginning in 2003 we have strived for success in everything we do and that success is powered by our strong family of franchisees."
To learn more about the brand and franchise development opportunities with Two Maids, visit https://www.twomaidsfranchise.com/.
Founded in 2003 in Pensacola, Florida, Two Maids™ currently operates in more than 80 markets across the United States. Designed to provide greater flexibility for customers, the brand offers multiple cleaning packages ranging from one-time cleans to routine services and takes pride in providing safe and reliable professional-grade cleaning supplies and products. Two Maids™ has received numerous accolades including being ranked on the 2021 Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list, for the third consecutive year, and named 2020's fastest-growing cleaning company in America by Inc. Magazine for the fifth time in the past seven years. For more information, visit www.twomaidsandamop.com.
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2022-08-09T17:30:10+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/08/09/two-maids-celebrates-record-shattering-month-amp-major-franchising-milestone/
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PARIS (AP) — The 22 women mostly met violent deaths. Their bodies, some dismembered, were found in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands over a span of 43 years — the most recent in 2019. Police say some showed signs of abuse or starvation.
But who they were is unknown, frustrating detectives' hunts for their killers.
Police hope that may change with the launch Wednesday of Operation Identify Me. The international appeal with Interpol is seeking public help to put names to the women. Such a breakthrough would, at a minimum, enable police to no longer have to identify the victims by their distinguishing features or apparel — "the woman with the flower tattoo," "the woman with the artificial nails" — or locations where their remains were discovered.
The oldest of the cold cases, “The girl in the parking lot,” dates back to 1976. Her body was found along the A12 highway in the Netherlands. She is believed to have been between 13 and 20 years old when she died. Interpol, the international police liaison organization based in Lyon, France, distributed black-and-white facial reconstructions of some of the victims. Hers showed a young woman with long, dark hair and bright eyes.
In a statement that quoted Dutch, German and Belgian police, Interpol said some of the women are believed to have come from Eastern Europe and that their bodies were possibly left in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany to confound investigations.
“Most of the 22 victims died violently, and some were also abused or starved before they died," Dutch police said.
Police hope that learning their names might also provide evidence about possible perpetrators. It might also allow them to establish whether any of the cases are linked.
“In similar investigations, establishing the victim’s identity ultimately has led to the arrest of a suspect," said Anja Allendorf of the German police.
Interpol is making details about each case public on its website, at www.interpol.int/IM. As well as facial reconstructions of some of the women, it also includes images of jewelry and other items found with their remains, and contact forms for people who may have any information about the cases.
Susan Hitchin, who coordinates Interpol's DNA unit, said identifying the women could help bring closure to their family members.
“It's horrendous to go all these years without having any news, not knowing what's happened. And however dreadful it may be to get that confirmation that their loved one has died, it is part of an important process in order to grieve and to move forward," she said in a phone interview.
“Hopefully a member of the public will able to bring some new elements that the police can use that will ultimately provide the identity to these victims and ideally help lead to the perpetrator, if there is one."
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2023-05-10T10:21:13+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/22-dead-women-no-names-interpol-seeks-clues-on-18090252.php
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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MACHADO UPDATE
Manny Machado was out of the lineup a day after spraining his left ankle, but Padres acting manager Ryan Flaherty is optimistic the All-Star third baseman won’t need to go on the injured list.
“He’s got some purple and blue in there but overall he’s moving around pretty good and feels good,” Flaherty said Monday.
Machado, who’s having an MVP-caliber season, was injured Sunday in Colorado while trying to beat out a grounder. His cleats slipped across the top of first base and he fell to the ground.
Machado is batting .328 with 12 homers and 46 RBIs. He has largely carried the Padres’ offense in the absence of All-Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., who remains out while rehabbing his surgically repaired left wrist.
1998 YANKEES RETURN — IN NAME ONLY
Two 23-year-old shortstops named after stars on the 1990s New York Yankees championship teams came up to the major leagues this week.
Boston recalled Jeter Downs from Triple-A Worcester and his first name comes from Yankees Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter. Downs hit .180 with one homer and 11 RBIs at Triple-A this year.
Pittsburgh recalled Oneil Cruz from Indianapolis — he’s named for Yankees right fielder Paul O’Neill. Cruz made his big league debut on the final weekend of last season, going 3 for 9 with a home run in two games against Cincinnati. He is batting .232 this season with nine homers, 35 RBIs and 11 steals at Triple-A.
Downs and Cruz were both born in 1998, the year the Yankees swept San Diego for the first of their three straight titles.
SUBSTITUTE ACE
With Walker Buehler likely sidelined until at least September with a flexor strain and also recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from his elbow, Tony Gonsolin has been pitching like an ace for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Gonsolin could take over the major league ERA lead when he starts at Cincinnati.
The 28-year-old right-hander is 8-0 with a 1.42 ERA in 12 starts covering 63 1/3 innings. It will be the Dodgers’ 66th game, meaning he needs 2 2/3 innings to qualify for the ERA lead.
Gonsolin has allowed one run over his last three starts, giving up six hits in 18 1/3 innings with 16 strikeouts and four walks.
Cincinnati’s Tyler Mahler is 0-1 despite a 3.08 ERA in six starts since winning at Pittsburgh on May 13.
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NASTY NESTOR
In his last start before the Yankees hold Nasty Nestor T-shirt night this weekend, Nestor Cortes starts at Tampa Bay.
The 27-year-old left-hander is 6-2 with a 1.94 ERA in 12 starts, striking out 75 and walking 17 in 69 2/3 innings while holding opponents to a .190 average.
He already is 2-0 against the Rays this season, allowing one run over eight innings at the Trop on May 26 and giving up one run over 5 1/3 innings at Yankee Stadium last week.
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2022-06-21T15:15:34+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/leading-off-padres-optimistic-machado-wont-need-il-stint/
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Canterbury Park: timeline set for opening of 19K capacity amphitheater
(FOX 9) - A new outdoor music venue is expected to open in Canterbury Park in the Summer of 2025.
Construction of the 19,000-capacity open-air amphitheater will begin this Spring at the Canterbury Park campus in Shakopee, Minnesota. The company that runs the park, Canterbury Park Holding Corporation, announced the plans Wednesday in a press release, saying they had sold 35 arches of land in the northeast corner of their property to a company related to Swervo Development, which will build the venue.
"We believe the amphitheater will create long-term opportunities for our companies to collaborate as we further enhance the entertainment product we offer at Canterbury Park and Canterbury Commons," said Randy Sampson, President and C.E.O at Canterbury, in the press release.
Canterbury said they will now focus on redeveloping the horse stabling area related to the park’s racetracks, with new barns and a new dormitory complex.
If completed as planned, the Canterbury Park amphitheater will be the largest non-stadium music venue in Minnesota and more than twice the size of the venue currently being constructed as part of the Upper Harbor Terminal project in north Minneapolis. That 8,000 capacity will be run by First Avenue.
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2023-05-03T23:06:00+00:00
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fox9.com
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https://www.fox9.com/news/canterbury-park-planning-construction-of-amphitheater-with-19k-capacity
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America's Diner and three TikTok influencers teamed up on meals that can only be described as Fire
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of the All Day Diner Deals value menu launch, today Denny's announces the release of three tasty new eats developed in partnership with popular TikTok creators who have a passion for food, flavor and fresh experiences. The distinct and dynamic new menu items - available at locations nationwide for a limited time - are part of the brand's newest Social Stars Influenced Menu, bursting with bold flavors and creative twists on sweet and savory pairings to excite the palate.
With a finger on the pulse of influencers who represent today's diverse America, Denny's continues to drive awareness and cultural relevance among a younger audience. The craveable new meals represent the fourth drop in Denny's Social Stars Influenced Menu campaign which first launched in February 2022 and has featured menu items inspired by TikTok stars who each put their own personal spin on iconic menu items. Since its initial launch, 2.4 million meals have been sold from the curated menu.
Guests are encouraged to go bananas with delicious new pancakes that Denny's developed along with Cy Nguyen (@cylovesfrogs) and Achieng Agutu (@noordinarynoire). The It's Bananas Salted Caramel Pancakes feature two fluffy buttermilk pancakes with layers of shortbread cookie pieces and is topped with vanilla cream, fresh bananas, more shortbread crumbles and a salted caramel drizzle. Served with eggs, hash browns and a choice of bacon or sausage, it's a meal of your flippin' dreams.
Denny's is bringing something new to the table that's a cut above the rest when it comes to steak and bourbon. In partnership with Eric Sedeño (@ricotaquito) and Tway Nguyen (@twaydabae), the all-new Straight Up Bourbon Steak includes a tender 8 oz., USDA choice cut sirloin steak topped with velvety Bourbon sauce, caramelized onions, chopped bacon and sauteed mushrooms. This imaginative take on a classic American dish is served with two sides and dinner bread to entice steak lovers of all ages.
For a sweet dream of a dessert, the Yes, We Pecan! Salted Caramel Milkshake by Ahmad Alzahabi (@thegoldenbalance) and Yasmine Sahid (@ladyyasmina1) blends hand-dipped premium ice cream with salted caramel and glazed pecans for a festive bite with everything nice.
"Celebrating food, creativity and the uniqueness of each and every guest is in our DNA," said John Dillon, Denny's President. "Collaborating with these creators has been an exciting journey and has given us the opportunity to not only give guests the quality meals that they want, when they want them, but continue to cement ourselves as America's value destination that consumers count on us for."
The newest Social Stars Influenced Menu drop can be ordered in-restaurant, online or through the new Denny's iOS and Android apps. For more information please visit dennys.com.
About Denny's Corp
Denny's Corporation is the franchisor and operator of the Denny's brand, 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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2022-10-26T14:16:32+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/26/dennys-drops-hot-new-set-creator-meal-collabs/
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PacifiCorp may have to pay out billions of dollars in damages after being found liable in a series of destructive wildfires over Labor Day weekend in 2020.
Copyright 2023 Oregon Public Broadcasting
PacifiCorp may have to pay out billions of dollars in damages after being found liable in a series of destructive wildfires over Labor Day weekend in 2020.
Copyright 2023 Oregon Public Broadcasting
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2023-06-15T10:08:32+00:00
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kvpr.org
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https://www.kvpr.org/2023-06-15/oregon-jury-finds-electric-utility-pacificorp-liable-in-devastating-wildfires
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Packers grant to KUSD The Green Bay Packers has awarded a grant to Kenosha Unified School District. The Packers, in conjunction with Brown County United Way, announced the grant last week as part of a series of groups selected to receive awards up to $500.
Student groups, under the guidance of a Wisconsin school or nonprofit organization, were invited this fall to develop a service project to help their school, neighborhood or surrounding community. After the project proposals were submitted and reviewed, 13 group project ideas were selected to receive a grant.
The KUSD grant will go toward founding a sustainable butterfly garden at Mahone Middle School . According to application, it will positively impact the environmental habitat around the school, provide social emotional benefits, and improve the students’ environmental literacy.
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The City of Kenosha and major public and private sector partners on Tuesday officially announced the creation of the Kenosha Emerging Leaders Academy, which will serve middle school and high school youth along with young adults ages 18-24 and aims to provide them with the skills and resources to pursue college, as well as, other career paths.
The announcement was made during a press conference in the former Brown National Bank Building at 2222 63rd St. where the academy is planned. The city-initiated project is being developed in partnership with Carthage College, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Herzing University, Gateway Technical College, Jockey International, Best Buy, the Kenosha YMCA, the Students Engagement through Groups and Activities program, gener8tor and the Mahone Fund.
Planned for the Uptown district, the academy would be located within a few blocks of the proposed Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood, a neighborhood focused on innovation, education, training, learning and work opportunities. Plans for the academy include a new teen technology center through a collaboration with Jockey International, the Kenosha YMCA and Best Buy. City officials said renovation of the building is expected to be completed by the end of the year and the academy would open to full programming as early as January 2023.
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Terry Flores
Each group selected has a project supervisor who will help guide the students in their project and to serve as the communication liaison with the Packers and Brown County United Way. The projects should be complete by the end of the school year.
Western Illinois University College of Education and Human Services Scholar Jocelyn Pantoja , of Waukegan, Ill., graduated at the end of the fall 2022 term with a bachelor’s degree in Law Enforcement and Justice Administration and a minor in Psychology, with highest academic distinction, summa sum laude. She is also the Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Departmental Scholar, and a Centennial Honors Scholar.
At WIU, Pantoja is a volunteer and secretary at the campus Food Pantry, is secretary of the campus Minorities in Blue chapter, is a member of the Psi Chi international honor society for psychology, and is a member of the Centennial Honors College. Off campus, Pantoja is a scholar recipient of the Pullman Foundation, and is an intern with the Buffalo Grove Police Department.
After graduation, Pantoja’s goal is to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Evanston (Ill.) Police Department. She is the daughter of Maria Guadalupe Vargas and Sergio Pantoja Reyes.
Photos: The monarch butterfly
A monarch butterfly flies to Joe Pye weed, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, in Freeport, Maine. The populations of both insect species have struggled in recent years. Rapid development and climate change are escalating the rates of species loss, according to a May United Nations report. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Robert F. Bukaty
A monarch butterfly is buzzed by a bumblebee as it sips nectar on a Joe Pye weed, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, in Freeport, Maine. The populations of both insect species have declined sharply in recent years. Rapid development and climate change are escalating the rates of species loss, according to a May United Nations report. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Robert F. Bukaty
A fresh monarch butterfly wing is seen soon after it emerged in Washington, Sunday, June 2, 2019. Farming and other human development have eradicated state-size swaths of its native milkweed habitat, cutting the butterfly's numbers by 90% over the last two decades. It is now under considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
A fresh monarch butterfly wing is seen soon after it emerged in Washington, Sunday, June 2, 2019. Farming and other human development have eradicated state-size swaths of its native milkweed habitat, cutting the butterfly's numbers by 90% over the last two decades. It is now under considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
The monarch butterfly wing pattern is seen though its transparent chrysalis in Washington, Sunday, June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
Laura Moore displays a newly emerged monarch butterfly on her finger in her Greenbelt, Md., yard, Friday, May 31, 2019. Despite efforts by Moore and countless other volunteers and organizations across the United States to grow milkweed, nurture caterpillars, and tag and count monarchs on the insects' annual migrations up and down America, the butterfly is in trouble. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
This photo shows a monarch butterfly after it emerged in Washington, Sunday, June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
A Monarch butterfly eats nectar from a swamp milkweed on the shore of Rock Lake in Pequot Lakes, Minn., Sunday, July 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
Ann Heisenfelt
A couple of Monarch butterflies mate at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, near the town of Chincua, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. The Monarchs are not endangered, but scientists say deforestation could threaten its existence. (AP Photo / Marco Ugarte)
Marco Ugarte
Monarch butterflies fly in the Amanalco de Becerra sanctuary, on the mountains near the extinct Nevado de Toluca volcano, in Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The Monarch butterflies arrive in central Mexico usually around the first week of November, after their yearly 4000-kilometer (some 2500 miles) migration from Canada and the United States, and begin their return around March. (AP Photo/ Marco Ugarte)
Marco Ugarte
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019 file photo, a monarch butterfly rests on a man's forehead at the Amanalco de Becerra sanctuary, in the mountains near the extinct Nevado de Toluca volcano in Mexico. Tree loss in the wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly in central Mexico is down by about 25% in 2019 compared to last year as a sharp drop in Illegal logging more than made up from an increase in tree deaths due to lack of water or disease, experts said Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. (AP Photo /Marco Ugarte, File)
Marco Ugarte
Monarch butterflies cling to branches in their winter nesting grounds in El Rosario Sanctuary, near Ocampo, Michoacan state, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Rebecca Blackwell
FILE - In this July 1, 2019, file photo, a monarch butterfly lands on a penta plant in the front yard of Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts in Miami Shores, Fla. Homeowners can attract butterflies to their gardens with a multitude of plants that include fennel, dill, and milkweed. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Wilfredo Lee
A Monarch butterfly pauses in a field of Goldenrod at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Gene J. Puskar
In this Jan. 4, 2015 photo, a swarm of Monarch butterflies fly between trees, in the Piedra Herrada sanctuary, near Valle de Bravo, Mexico. The population of the butterfly, that migrates thousands of miles each year from winter nesting grounds in Mexico, has been shrinking partly because farmers are growing more herbicide-resistant crops that have stripped millions of acres of milkweed they depend on to nourish them along their route. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Rebecca Blackwell
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2022-12-05T01:41:45+00:00
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kenoshanews.com
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https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/school-news-green-bay-packers-award-grant-to-kusd/article_cff59ec8-73ed-11ed-ad2c-5304bc7dbea8.html
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Don’t sweat it; still a chance to win $940M Mega Millions
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players whose numbers didn’t hit or who forgot to even buy a ticket will have another shot at a nearly $1 billion Mega Millions prize when a drawing is held Friday night.
The estimated $940 million jackpot has been growing for more than two months and now ranks as the sixth-largest in U.S history.
Even as the prize grows larger, the odds of winning remain the same at one in 302.6 million.
The $940 million jackpot is for winners who choose an annuity, paid annually over 29 years. Winners usually want cash, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $483.5 million.
If there is no winner, the next drawing will be held Tuesday night.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-01-06T16:14:10+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/2023/01/06/dont-sweat-it-still-chance-win-940m-mega-millions/
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since Barkev's launched over 40 years ago the company has become industry-recognized for their unique engagement and wedding ring designs, and there are plans for rapid expansion in 2023 in response to both demand and trends Barkev's is seeing.
One of those trends is the e-commerce boom that has taken place over the past few years, and the innovative experience Barkev's provides allows customers to see samples of rings at home before purchasing which has totally revolutionized e-commerce in the jewelry space. Barkev's has big announcements around this coming in the new year.
Additionally, since Barkev's controls the process from start to finish in-house (creating designs, sourcing gemstones and crafting pieces) the company has the ability to think outside of the box, and there are a few top secret lines in the works that will be showcased in 2023.
Barkev's is happy to celebrate another year in business (41 years total) and looking forward to what the future has in store.
For more information on Barkev's or to browse their collections, visit the company website: https://www.barkevs.com
If you're a journalist interested in learning more about Barkev's plans for the future, feel free to call or email the company.
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Barkev's is a leading designer of unique jewelry and for over 40 years the company has been recognized for its engagement ring designs ranging from classic white diamond solitaires to blue diamond and black diamond engagement rings.
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2022-12-21T14:44:33+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/12/21/top-engagement-ring-designer-barkevs-is-expanding-2023-revolutionizing-jewelry-e-commerce/
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-3-1-6
(seven, three, one, six)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-3-1-6
(seven, three, one, six)
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2022-06-13T20:35:05+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17238722.php
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WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae's (OTCQB: FNMA) April 2022 Monthly Summary is now available. The monthly summary report contains information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.
Fannie Mae advances equitable and sustainable access to homeownership and quality, affordable rental housing for millions of people across America. We enable the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and drive responsible innovation to make homebuying and renting easier, fairer, and more accessible. To learn more, visit:
fanniemae.com | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | Blog
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2022-05-31T20:49:03+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/05/31/fannie-mae-releases-april-2022-monthly-summary/
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SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office released information regarding an escapee being captured after a short absence from the Tom Green County Detention Center
According to the release, inmate Delfino Gonzales Hill escaped from the Tom Green County Detention Center at approximately 1:56 p.m. Wednesday, March 22.
Multiple 911 calls were received by the San Angelo Police Department and the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office describing a male subject wearing an orange jumpsuit running in and out of traffic near U.S. Highway 277.
At 2:20 p.m. Hill was located by law enforcement when he then subsequently barricaded himself inside a vehicle parked in a construction area located within the 4000 block of the highway. The release states that evidence found in and around the vehicle indicates that Hill “may have come into possession of a firearm during the term of his escape.”
At 3:00 p.m. the Tom Green County Special Response Team utilized a tactical approach to the vehicle and removed Hill from the vehicle.
Hill was initially arrested by the SAPD for two felony-level offenses on Wednesday, March 15, when he poured gasoline onto himself while holding a lighter.
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2023-03-22T23:57:33+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/state-regional/man-who-threatened-to-set-himself-on-fire-captured-after-escaping-texas-jail/
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New research identifies opportunities for advisors to engage with millions of U.S. households seeking human-centric, technology-supported financial advice
RADNOR, Pa., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eMoney Advisor (eMoney), a leading provider of technology solutions and services that help people talk about money, today unveiled new research findings during the first day of the 2022 eMoney Summit, the industry's premier event for planning-led financial professionals. Running for the ninth year, the three-day event is being held virtually through Wednesday, Oct. 19.
Following opening remarks from newly appointed eMoney CEO Susan McKenna, Head of Financial Planning Matt Schulte was joined by Dr. Emily Koochel, eMoney's senior financial planning education consultant and co-author of The CFP Board's The Psychology of Financial Planning, to present highlights of eMoney's extensive research that inspired this year's theme, "Bridging the Gap".
The research identifies the top trends influencing the future of financial advice and the opportunity for advisors to better connect and engage with the potential 88 million U.S. households looking for financial planning services. A summary is below:
As part of a four-part research effort[i], eMoney surveyed advisors who were asked about their comfort level discussing personal topics. There was a steep decline from more traditional planning topics toward more difficult conversations.
- Only 23% of advisors said they were "extremely comfortable" discussing personal topics with clients like serious illness.
- Less than one in five (18%) advisors reported that they were "extremely comfortable" discussing divorce planning and discussions around premarital planning with their clients.
The research showed end-clients valued the following:
- Help in identifying discrepancies (39%)
- Exposing them to new ideas and different opinions (34%)
- General encouragement through education and understanding (28%)
- Understanding their financial anxiety, beliefs, and behaviour (28%)
- 55% of advisors said personalization was "very important" to them.
- 72% of consumers reported "understanding their financial stress" as one of the most important considerations for personalizing the financial planning process. Also, being actively engaged (60%) and using easy-to-understand language (60%) were ranked high on their list of priorities.
"Advisors can make the biggest impact in bridging the gap by providing end-clients with a greater sense of control over their finances. One of the main barriers to seeking financial help is people feeling vulnerable about expressing their level of financial knowledge and know- how. To be successful, advisors must deliver their insights in a way that is easy to understand and ensure that they normalize and encourage questions," said Koochel.
"Technology is also key. Our research revealed that most end users want both a human and technology aspect to their planning and investment advice. Technology can enhance advisors' offerings and support the process of building a comprehensive financial plan that's ready for all of life's twists and turns," said Schulte.
Day one of the 2022 eMoney Summit also included the announcement of a new partnership with the Financial Behavior Keynote Group. The partnership will enable eMoney to leverage the group's award-winning scholars, practitioners, and educators to ensure the business has a solid understanding of financial wellness and psychology and their place within the industry.
In addition to eMoney leadership, attendees heard from Trish Haskins, head of integration solutions at Fidelity Investments. Haskins shared insights on how advisory practices should take a structured approach to using technology to enhance the client experience and drive business growth.
The 2022 eMoney Summit is proudly sponsored by Fidelity Institutional, Allianz, Charles Schwab and Nationwide.
To view the Summit agenda, please visit emoneyadvisor.com/summit2022/agenda/.
eMoney Advisor, LLC ("eMoney") provides technology solutions and services that help people talk about money. Rooted in comprehensive financial planning, eMoney's solutions strengthen client relationships, streamline business operations, enhance business development and drive overall growth. 100,000 financial professionals across firms of all sizes use the eMoney platform to serve more than 5 million households throughout the U.S. For more information, please visit: emoneyadvisor.com.
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2022-10-17T16:26:22+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/10/17/emoney-advisor-unveils-new-research-focused-bridging-gap-between-financial-advisors-americans-during-day-1-annual-summit/
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New Harry Potter game ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ will feature first transgender character
(CNN) - The much-anticipated videogame “Hogwarts Legacy” is set for launch on certain consoles Friday.
The game will feature the first transgender character in the Harry Potter franchise.
It’s significant because in the past, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has made controversial comments that some call anti-trans.
Variety reports the trans character Sirona Ryan is the proprietor of the Three Broomsticks Pub.
It’s evident as she tells players it took her classmates time to realize she was “a witch... not a wizard.”
“Hogwarts Legacy” players will enter the wizarding world as a novice wizard from more than a hundred years ago and try to master spells and potions.
“Hogwarts Legacy” will roll out on other consoles, including PS4 and Xbox One in April and Nintendo Switch in July.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-02-07T19:32:35+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2023/02/07/new-harry-potter-game-hogwarts-legacy-will-feature-first-transgender-character/
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