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New program offers marketing support and on-demand training to registered partners representing DTEN's award-winning video collaboration solutions.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DTEN, a leading provider of video-first, touch-enabled conferencing solutions, introduces the new DTEN Thrive Partner Program, a comprehensive initiative expanding DTEN's commitment to resellers and integrators. The new program empowers global partners to grow expertise about DTEN's best-in-class hardware; drive customer momentum through the buyer evaluation process; and, ultimately, close more sales and earn additional revenue.
"The new DTEN Thrive Partner Program is designed to enable and accelerate success for our resellers and integrators, streamlining the buying experience for both our partners and their customers," says Wei Liu, CEO of DTEN. "The enhanced program provides the knowledge, the tools, and the support for them to clearly represent the value of DTEN solutions."
The DTEN Thrive Partner Program is launching as recognition and demand for DTEN hardware continues to grow globally. Now, every registered partner has access to co-branded collateral, joint campaign materials, and marketing resources, readily accessible via a dedicated online portal. Product training is provided through on-demand training courses and interactive webinars.
Four progressive levels –Registered, Silver, Gold, and Platinum – are distinguished within the DTEN Thrive Partner Program. High-performing resellers and integrators will gain additional benefits based on sales volume, completion of training, and joint business planning opportunities.
"Partners will have the opportunity to advance through the program levels, gaining new resources and opening up new potential revenue at each step," continues Liu. "From registration to the highest tier of participation, DTEN will provide the resources to drive our partners' growth."
Resellers and integrators are encouraged to visit www.dten.com/partners to learn more about the DTEN Thrive Partner Program.
About DTEN
DTEN is changing the way people connect and collaborate through immersive, video-first devices and subscription services. Our solutions are found in businesses, schools, homes and hybrid environments worldwide, delivering intuitive, high-quality and real-life video conference experiences for every meeting space. As recipient of multiple international awards, DTEN is recognized for plug-and-play simplicity, superior audiovisual clarity, and fluent, elegant designs. DTEN was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California; Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is an investor. Find more at www.DTEN.com.
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AP source: Alabama’s Brandon Miller declares for NBA draft
Alabama All-America forward Brandon Miller is heading to the NBA after displaying versatile talent and athleticism in a lone season of college ball that was blemished by revelations he was present at a fatal shooting in January near campus.
ESPN first reported on Miller’s decision, and a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed the report to The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Miller hadn’t yet made an official declaration for the draft.
The 6-foot-9, 200-pound freshman, who was one of the nation’s top high school recruits, is projected as a potential top 5 draft pick.
Miller displayed his accurate 3-point shooting and athleticism in the most productive season of any freshman in Alabama history. He led the Tide to their first No. 1 ranking in 20 years and first No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed.
Miller averaged 18.8 points and 8.2 rebounds while hitting 38% from 3-point range. But he was scoreless in his first March Madness game, and went 3 of 19 and scored just nine points in a Sweet 16 loss to San Diego State.
Miller was described as a cooperating witness after the Jan. 15 shooting and was never charged with a crime.
But he and the Tide were dogged by off-court questions for the final two months of the season. Former Alabama player Darius Miles and another man were charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris, who was killed in early on Jan. 15.
Miller and fellow freshman Jaden Bradley were placed at the scene as well. According to police testimony, Miller brought Miles his gun. Miller’s attorney said the Tide forward was on his way to pick Miles up when Miles texted asking him to bring the weapon, but that Miller never handled the gun and didn’t know any criminal activity was intended.
Miller received threats after the news came out, and was accompanied by a university-provided security guard. “It doesn’t bother me,” Miller said of the threats at the NCAA regional in Birmingham, Alabama, “I send it to the right people and they handle it.”
Alabama finished the season 31-6 and won the Southeastern Conference regular-season and tournament titles.
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Lori Harvey was spotted out celebrating her birthday over the weekend, giving us fashion envy once again in a super cute black look that we’re absolutely swooning over!
Lori broke the internet when she seemingly confirmed that the dating rumors of her being boo’ed up with actor Damson Idris were true after the actor shared a photo of the duo together in honor of her 26th birthday. We’re definitely loving how Lori is celebrating her birthday in style!
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North Carolina redshirt freshman quarterback Drake Maye has been voted ACC Player of the Year.
Maye becomes the first Tar Heels player to win the award since Lawrence Taylor in 1980.
Maye, a graduate of Myers Park High School in Charlotte, has thrown for 3,847 yards and 35 touchdowns this season, and has rushed for 629 yards and six more touchdowns.
He is just the ninth FBS quarterback since 2010 to post 3,500 passing yards, 35 passing touchdowns, 500 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns in a single season.
On that list, he joins Robert Griffin III, Tajh Boyd, Johnny Manziel, Marcus Mariota, McKenzie Milton, Kyler Murray, Trevor Lawrence and Deshaun Watson, who did it twice.
Maye is also a semifinalist for Walter Camp National Player of the Year and the Davey O'Brien, Maxwell and Alexander Awards.
He's also been named to the watch list for the Manning Award, which recognizes college football's top quarterback.
Maye, who's father Mark was a UNC quarterback from 1983-88, starred locally for the Mustangs and initally committed to Alabama before signing with North Carolina.
He will lead the Coastal-division winning Tar Heels in the ACC Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday against Clemson. | 2022-11-30T23:18:06+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/sports/unc-qb-drake-maye-voted-acc-player-of-the-year/275-25802ba1-cb19-4f9a-bd04-5a8cb80350f2 |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZeroSum Market First Report is the automotive industry's first source to predict month-end vehicle movement, providing vital supply and demand trend data to automotive marketers and dealers. ZeroSum uses predictive modeling to accurately estimate new vehicle inventory, pricing trends, and market share.
By the end of April 2023, ZeroSum predicts that new vehicle inventory will reach over 1.8 million vehicles, an increase of 47% since March 1. New vehicle prices remain high—an average of $50,636—keeping both prices and inventory on an upward trajectory since October 2022.
Used car inventory has increased 17% since the February 1 low of 1.5 million, with inventory expected to reach 1.7 million by month's end. April 2023 used car prices were up 0.69% from the start of March. It is the first time in over a year that used car prices have increased, although notable that prices are down an overall 9.05% since April 2022.
Yahoo Finance reports that increased interest rates on auto loans could impact or delay a buyer's decisions. "Dealers now say interest rates are the No. 1 issue holding their business back, replacing inventory shortages and the economy as the top problems a year ago." The interest rate on loans is 8.95%, up from 5.66% last year. A way dealers can navigate the increased interest rates to satisfy buyers is to provide increased incentives, like discounted financing.
ZeroSum's Take: What You Need to Know
Inventory is increasing overall in both the new and used car markets as new car prices reach new highs, but this slight increase in used car prices this month may suggest that the used car market may not be on a long-term price decline.
Here are your key takeaways:
- New car inventory is still on an upward trajectory, despite the slight dip predicted this month. However, new car prices are at the highest we've seen to date.
- Used car inventory is on the rise. This month saw a slight price increase, but prices are still far below the peak the industry saw them at last year.
- EV/Hybrid vehicle inventory is still rising, and consumers are more interested than ever in purchasing. The market is becoming more diverse every day, and consumers are now realizing that EV/Hybrid vehicles are not as expensive as they once were.
New Vehicles Retail Outlook
By the EOM, ZeroSum is expecting new vehicle inventory to sit at 1,822,856. This is a slight decline from the first of the month, which had new car inventory at 1,860,996. Despite this small decline, inventory is up 81.55% vs this time last year. With new product inventory remaining strong, dealers should verify that they have a plan to maintain their turn rates, or risk higher carrying costs from longer days on lot.
This is the seventh month in a row that the average price of a new vehicle has increased, up 1.28% to $50,636. This now puts the average price of a new vehicle at the highest to date. For reference, in April 2022 the average new vehicle price was $46,716.
The gap in MSRP and price has been increasing—widening for the seventh straight month to $538. Dealers should be prepared to negotiate with customers and be willing to bring down prices or offer incentives to stay competitive in their markets.
Used Vehicles Retail Outlook
It's been a tumultuous couple of months for used car inventory, with fluctuations in availability swinging in both directions every other month. However, ZeroSum is reporting that used vehicle inventory has increased for the second month in a row, up 6.99% from March. The availability of used cars sits at 1,698,479 at the beginning of April, and ZeroSum predicts that by EOM this number will be 1,764,115.
For the first time in a year, used car prices are on a slight upward trend, now up 0.69% from March at an average price of $30,801. In April 2022, the average price was $33,866, so even with this month's increase the average used car price is still well below the prices we were seeing in 2022.
This is good news for dealers. There has been a steady increase in used car inventory and a slight increase in price which should make for a better selling market. But dealers should be cautious, this slight upward swing in price is the first we've seen in a year and doesn't necessarily indicate that the price will continue to increase in the coming months.
Electric Vehicles Retail Outlook
April 2023 hasn't seen the sharp increase in electric and hybrid inventory that we saw in March, however the market continues its upward trend, growing 13.43% month-over-month. Gas/electric hybrid inventory is still leading the new inventory (up 18.84%) followed up pure electric (up 12.06%). Plug-in hybrid inventory is up again by 6.87%, which falls below the increase we saw last month (March 2023 plug-in inventory was up 13.74 %) but still up overall.
It's been a turbulent month for EV maker Tesla. The manufacturer reported a gross margin decrease for Q1, with a drop of 24% net income. Tesla fell short of its expectations of 22.4%, coming in at 19.3%. For the 6th time this year, Tesla originally announced its decision to cut prices in order to maintain growth over profits. However, CEO Elon Musk walked back on that announcement and instead raised the price of the Model S and X premium electric vehicles.
Post-pandemic inventory remains relatively high with EVs, used, and new cars still flowing into the market. Despite a slight increase this month, used car prices have dropped overall from last year. However, with the cost of used and new cars still higher than before the pandemic, and the EV market continuing to evolve, dealers need to continue monitoring emerging trends to stay competitive.
To view supplemental charts, visit our website: https://www.zerosum.ai/market-first-report/april-2023-new-vehicle-inventory-is-predicted-to-dip-slightly-as-used-car-prices-increase-for-the-first-time-in-months
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ZeroSum is a leader in software, marketing, and data. Powered by its SaaS platform, MarketAI, ZeroSum is simplifying and modernizing automotive marketing by leveraging artificial intelligence, data, and scaling ability to acquire new customers. ZeroSum is the first and only company that matches consumer demand with automotive data in real time. For more information, visit www.zerosum.ai.
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Ford offered up the rights to the first customer example of its redesigned 2024 Mustang via a charity auction over the weekend, and the final bid came in at $565,000.
The sale took place at Barrett-Jackson’s annual auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, and all proceeds are to be donated to JDRF, a charity that supports the fight against diabetes. The auction also saw the sale of the rights to the first 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV.
The first of the new seventh-generation Mustangs, the car with a VIN ending in 001, is confirmed to be a Mustang GT. It hasn’t been built so the winning bidder still has the chance to configure the car to their liking.
Ford also sold the rights to first examples of the most recent Shelby GT500, Mach 1, and Bullitt via charity auctions. It’s not unusual for bids to enter seven-figure territory during such sales, so the latest bid is more on the conservative side. For example, the rights to the first 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 sold for $1.1 million back in 2019.
Ford revealed the 2024 Mustang last September. It lands in showrooms this summer, in EcoBoost, GT, and the new Dark Horse grade. The EcoBoost comes with a 315-hp 2.3-liter turbo-4, while the GT offers a 5.0-liter V-8 with 480 hp in standard guise or 486 hp with an available active exhaust option. The Dark Horse shares the Mustang GT’s 5.0-liter V-8 but gets a 500-hp tune. Buyers can choose between a 6-speed manual or 10-speed automatic.
Pricing information will be released closer to the market launch.
Other highlights of the recent Barrett-Jackson included a one-off Ferrari F40 in Nardo Gray that sold for $2.75 million, as well as a pair of Ford GT Carbon Series supercars that each sold for $1.32 million.
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DORCHESTER, Mass. — From a portrait of Jackie Kennedy looking into the eyes of George Washington to a painting of a Queen proudly displaying what appears to be a chocolate chip cookie, there are plenty of reasons why Louise Reilly Sacco says the art in the museum she oversees has missed the mark.
"Something has gone wrong in the execution," Sacco explained.
As the Permanent Acting Interim Director of the Museum of Bad Art, also known as MOBA, Sacco hardly ever uses the word bad. But looking around at MOBA’s collection, it’s hard not to wonder, "What were these artists thinking?"
"We celebrate art that will be noticed in no other venue," Sacco said.
It was a friend of Sacco's brother who spotted a spectacularly bad painting put out on trash day. He told friends to collect other bad art they found on the curb and decided to have an art show as a joke.
That was three decades ago.
"This was supposed to be around for one night and now it’s been 30 years," Sacco noted.
MOBA’s collection is now comprised of hundreds of paintings that all missed the mark in one way or another.
"Sometimes the concept was beyond their skills. Other times, they didn’t know which end of the paintbrush to grab but their heart and soul were in it," Sacco noted.
It’s not just the art that draws people in. It’s also the names and interpretations that can't be ignored.
A painting of President John F. Kennedy Jr. titled "President Kennedy Eating Ice Cream" reads, “By eliminating the background information and focusing on the president's face, the artist may have created the most repugnant image of one of the most photogenic political leaders the world has ever known.”
The description of an overweight cat looking at a basket of fruit titled “Fat Cat“ reads, “This tubby tabby seems to be unhappy about the variety of snacks available.”
"Just like the interpretation in any museum, it tells you why this piece is here," Sacco adds.
Before the pandemic, the gallery was located in the basement of a theatre. But they had to move out due to the pandemic. That's how they recently ended up partnering with Dorchester Brewing Company in Boston. Art from the gallery now hangs right next to pinball machines and video games.
It turns out, bad art and good beer pair together like fine wine and cheese.
"The art definitely engages customers. We see people who weren’t together talking about art now," said events manager Derek Rayner.
Sacco knows these painting of George Washington and Jackie Kennedy are not works by Picasso, but she believes that this museum is proof that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
"We celebrate them," she said. "We love them." | 2023-02-15T15:54:41+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/a-musuem-that-celebrates-bad-art-has-become-incredibly-popular |
BISMARCK, N.D., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU) today announced that it has entered into a cooperation agreement with Corvex Management LP under which Corvex Partner James H. Gemmel will be appointed to MDU Resources' board of directors, subject to approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the Federal Power Act.
Initially, Mr. Gemmel will be appointed as a non-voting observer of MDU Resources' board of directors. Following the required FERC approval, the size of MDU Resources' board of directors will increase by one director and Mr. Gemmel will be appointed to fill the new director position.
"MDU Resources continues to make meaningful progress toward completing the planned spinoff of our Knife River construction materials business, and we are moving forward in parallel with the strategic review of MDU Construction Services Group. As we execute on these significant initiatives, we believe James will add to the diversity of experience and expertise already represented on our board. We are pleased to have been able to work constructively with Corvex and value their input into the value-enhancing work underway," said Dennis W. Johnson, chair of the board.
"We appreciate the productive engagement we have had with MDU Resources' board and management team. We believe they are committed to unlocking the value of MDU Resources' world-class assets through the spinoff of Knife River and recently announced strategic alternatives process for MDU Construction Services Group. This is an important time for MDU Resources and as a significant investor with deep industry and financial expertise, we believe we can be value-added partners. We look forward to working with Dave Goodin, his team and the board to execute on the company's strategic goal of setting up two pure-play public companies with industry-leading performance," said Mr. Gemmel.
Under the cooperation agreement, if the FERC approval for Mr. Gemmel's appointment as a director is received at least 15 business days prior to the date on which MDU Resources expects to mail its proxy statement relating to its upcoming 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, then Mr. Gemmel will be appointed to the board for a term expiring at the 2023 Annual Meeting and MDU Resources will nominate him for re-election at the 2023 Annual Meeting. If the FERC approval is received less than 15 business days prior to the expected mailing date of the proxy statement, Mr. Gemmel will be appointed to the board immediately after receipt of the FERC approval or the conclusion of the 2023 Annual Meeting, whichever is later, with a term to expire at the 2024 Annual Meeting. MDU Resources' 2023 Annual Meeting is scheduled for May 9.
In addition, Corvex has, among other things, agreed to abide by certain standstill, voting and other provisions of the cooperation agreement. Under the cooperation agreement, Mr. Gemmel will offer his resignation from the board under certain circumstances, including completion of the separation of both MDU Resources' Knife River business and MDU Resources' MDU Construction Services Group business. The cooperation agreement is included as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by MDU Resources with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and PJT Partners are serving as financial advisors to MDU Resources and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as its legal advisor.
About James Gemmel
James H. Gemmel is a Partner at Corvex Management, a multibillion-dollar investment management firm that focuses on fundamental, valued-based investments. Mr. Gemmel has spent 15 years in professional investment management performing deep fundamental research and making concentrated investments in companies across a range of sectors. Mr. Gemmel has significant experience working collaboratively with management teams and boards of directors to create shareholder value, including several of the largest U.S. corporations: Exelon Corp., Occidental Petroleum, and The Williams Companies. Before joining Corvex, Mr. Gemmel worked as an investment analyst at Federated Hermes Inc. and as an investment analyst for the Prudent Bear Fund of David W. Tice & Associates. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
About MDU Resources
MDU Resources Group, Inc., a member of the S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats indices, is Building a Strong America® by providing essential products and services through its regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses. For more information about MDU Resources, visit www.mdu.com or contact the Investor Relations Department at investor@mduresources.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
The information in this release includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements contained in this release, including statements about the receipt of required regulatory approvals for Mr. Gemmel's appointment as a member of the MDU Resources board of directors, as well as MDU Resources' goal to create two pure-play public companies, its planned separation of Knife River Corporation and its strategic review of MDU Construction Services Group, are expressed in good faith and are believed by the company to have a reasonable basis. Nonetheless, actual results may differ materially from the projected results expressed in the forward-looking statements. For a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, refer to Item 1A-Risk Factors in MDU Resources' most recent Form 10-Q and 10-K.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Houston received the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night, the selection committee rewarding the Cougars at the expense of Kansas, which had been hoping its national title defense would include a stop just down the road from its campus in Lawrence.
Instead, the top-ranked Cougars will try to reach their hometown Final Four starting off in Birmingham, Alabama, with the potential of playing a Sweet 16 game and a regional final in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Cougars (31-3) lost to Memphis in the American Athletic Conference title game Sunday. They were playing without Marcus Sasser, the league player of the year and likely All-American, who had strained his groin in the first half of their semifinals and will be a question mark leading up to Thursday’s opener against Northern Kentucky.
“The most important thing is Marcus, not winning,” Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson said about his decision to hold Sasser out Sunday. “His health going forward is the most important thing here.”
The selection committee usually takes into consideration injuries — and the possibility a team will be without a star — when it seeds the field. But chairman Chris Reynolds said Houston still earned the second overall seed over Kansas, which expects to have recovering coach Bill Self back after he missed the Big 12 Tournament, thanks to its body of work this season.
“They were competitive in all their games they lost except today,” Reynolds said, “and we understand today they weren’t with their best player. For that reason, we put Houston at No. 2 (overall).”
The No. 1 seed is the first for the Cougars since 1983, the height of their Phi Slama Jama era, when Hall of Fame coach Guy Lewis led Clyde Drexel and Co. to the first of their back-to-back national championship games.
Texas (26-8) earned the No. 2 seed in the Midwest after finishing second in the Big 12 in the regular season and romping past the Jayhawks in Saturday night’s conference title game despite missing injured forward Timmy Allen.
It was quite a reward for the Longhorns, who endured the firing of Chris Beard early in the season amid allegations of domestic violence and rallied around interim coach Rodney Terry, who led them to their most wins since 2010-11.
“We have tried to respect every opponent that we played this season with the thought in mind that every game is an NCAA Tournament game,” said Terry, whose team will play No. 15 seed Colgate on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa.
“I thought our guys have had an incredible run this entire season,” Terry added. “Our body of work, our strength of schedule, playing in the best league in the country — you know, I think we made a good case for what came our way.”
THE REST OF THE REGION
Xavier earned the No. 3 seed and will play No. 14 seed Kennesaw State, making its first NCAA trip, on Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Musketeers are in the field for the first time since 2008 in the first year of Sean Miller’s second term.
Indiana and All-America candidate Trayce Jackson Davis are the fourth seed and will play No. 13 seed Kent State in Albany, New York. Flashes coach Rob Senderoff was on then-coach Sampson’s staff at Indiana from 2006-08.
Miami earned the No. 5 seed and will play Missouri Valley champ Drake on Friday in Albany. Iowa State is seeded sixth and will play the winner of a First Four game between Mississippi State and Pittsburgh. Seventh-seeded Texas A&M will play Penn State on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, while eighth-seeded Iowa faces Auburn on Thursday in Birmingham.
ROAD TO HOUSTON
The Cougars have one of the nation’s best backcourts in Sasser — assuming he’s healthy — and Jamal Shead, and they have plenty of experience on the big stage, going to the Final Four two years ago and the Elite Eight last season. That makes them the heavy favorite to escape the Midwest Region and play in another Final Four at NRG Stadium.
There is plenty of star power in the Midwest, though, and that means plenty of teams that can make a run.
The Musketeers are led by star guard Souley Boom, Indiana twice beat Purdue this season, Miami has high-scoring Isaiah Wong and Iowa State and Texas A&M played in two of the nation’s toughest leagues in the Big 12 and SEC.
“We do not have the best players; we have never had the best players,” Aggies coach Buzz Williams said. “We do not have the best coaches, I’m for sure not the best coach. But I don’t think our program is built on I’m trying to be the best coach or this player is trying to be the best player. We’re trying to be the best team that we can be.”
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By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Little hits turn into big wins for the Cleveland Guardians.
José Ramírez hustled to reach third base leading off the 10th inning with a popup that dropped in left field, 200 feet from home plate. Oscar Gonzalez drove him in with the tiebreaking run on an even shorter opposite-field flare to right, then scored on Josh Naylor’s double, the only hard-hit ball of the inning.
“It’s not an easy way to win but it doesn’t mean you can’t,” Guardians manager Terry Francona said after Cleveland overcame a two-run deficit to beat the New York Yankees 4-2 Friday. The victory evened the best-of-five AL Division Series at one game apiece.
Winner Emmanuel Clase pitched 2 1/3 innings, his most in the major leagues, and combined with Trevor Stephan and James Karinchak for 4 1/3 innings of one-hit relief. Cleveland, 29th among the 30 big league teams in home runs, stopped a six-game postseason losing streak to the Yankees,
“We just try find a way on base,” Naylor said. “If it’s a bloop hit, it’s a bloop hit. If it’s a hard-hit single, double, whatever the case it, we just try to hustle, try to make things happen on the field, try to put pressure on the defense.”
Game 3 will be at Cleveland on Saturday night. There is no travel day because a rainout Thursday had pushed Game 2 back a day.
“Good starting rotation, a great bullpen. They got nasty stuff down there,” Yankees slugger Aaron Judge said.
Judge went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts and dropped to 0 for 8 with seven strikeouts and a walk in the series. He is 2 for 37 with 27 strikeouts against Cleveland in three playoff series, including all four of his four-strikeout postseason games.
“Just a little late,” Judge said. “When you’re a little late, you’re missing pitches that you usually doing some damage on. You’re swinging at stuff that you usually don’t.”
Fresh off setting the AL home run record with 62, he was booed by some fans in the sellout crowd of 47,355 after whiffing against Stephan in the seventh.
“It’s the Bronx, man,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Great hitters go 0-for on a given day.”
First pitch was at 1:08 p.m. in the first early afternoon postseason start in the Bronx since Game 2 of the 2006 Division Series against Detroit. Shadows crept across the field from the first-base side in the middle innings on a cloudless afternoon, reminiscent of so many World Series games at old Yankee Stadium in the 1940s and ’50s.
Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run, opposite-field homer to right in the first off 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber, Stanton’s 10th homer in 20 postseason games.
Cleveland tied the score against All-Star Nestor Cortes when Andrés Giménez had an RBI single in the fourth and Amed Rosario homered into the Yankees bullpen in the fifth.
Cortes saved two runs in the fourth with an acrobatic leap and throw to first from a sitting position on Myles Straw’s two-out, one-hop smash. Falling off the third-base side of the mound, Cortes extended his glove hand to snag the ball as he hit the mound with his head toward first. He leaned back and made a one-hop throw to first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who scooped the ball for the out.
‘I’m supposed to make that play 100% of the time. Just a little bit more dramatic effect into it,” Cortes said. “The bounce pass was probably the best idea because if I were to get up and go, I would probably would have been late.”
Lou Trivino, Jonathan Loáisiga, Wandy Peralta and Clay Holmes followed Cortes and combined for four hitless innings.
Jameson Taillon made his first big league relief appearance after 143 starts, and Ramírez sliced a fastball that rookie left fielder Oswaldo Cabrera missed by inches as third baseman Josh Donaldson, his back to the plate, pulled up to avoid a collision. Donaldson fired the ball past second for an error as Ramírez hustled all the way and slid into third headfirst.
Gonzalez, whose 15th-inning homer Saturday completed a first-round sweep of Tampa Bay in the wild-card round, fought off an outside curve, and hit a ball at 59 mph that went 164 feet and dropped midway between Judge in right and second baseman Gleyber Torres. Naylor added an RBI double that bounced on a hop off the wall in right-center.
Clase threw 33 pitches, 10 more than his regular-season high. He entered after Karinchak walked the bases loaded in the eighth, then retired Kyle Higashioka on an inning-ending lineout to Ramírez at third.
“It was preparing mentally and remembering when I was a starter in the minor leagues and try to do the same thing,” Clase said through a translator.
New York had just six hits and went 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position in a tense, 4-hour, 10-minute marathon.
“I think my blood pressure is already kind of bad, so that’s OK,” the 63-year-old Francona said. “I get it taken care of well before the game.”
STARTERS
Bieber gave up two runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings. Cortes allowed two runs, six hits and three walks in five innings.
HE’S BACK
New York’s Matt Carpenter returned from a broken left foot that had sidelined him since Aug. 8. He pinch hit against Stephan with two on and two outs in the sixth, and he struck out.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: OF Andrew Benintendi (right wrist surgery), RHP Frankie Montas (right shoulder inflammation) and RHP Ron Marinaccio (right shin) are headed to the Yankees’ complex in Tampa, Florida, to work out in hopes of returning in later rounds.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Severino (7-3, 3.18) makes his first postseason start for the Yankees since 2019 and RHP Triston McKenzie (11-11, 2.96) will be on the mound for the Guardians after pitching six scoreless innings in Game 2 against Tampa Bay. Severino pitched seven no-hit innings at Texas in his last regular-season start.
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Jailed Kremlin opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. likened judicial proceedings against him on Monday to the sham Stalin-era and later proceedings that condemned his countrymen to prison or death sentences.
Kara-Murza also said he's proud of his public statements and behavior for which he's facing charges of treason and spreading false information about the Russian military in Ukraine.
A journalist and a prominent government opponent who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, Kara-Murza has been behind bars since his arrest a year ago. He made his comments near the end of his closed-door trial in a statement posted on Russian social media sites.
Speaking to a Moscow court, he said the level of opaqueness about the charges against him surpassed the trials of Soviet dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s, and the language used against him was reminiscent of the 1930s, when Soviet citizens were arrested on fabricated charges and put on show trials.
Lawyer Maria Esimont, who is representing Kara-Murza, reported that a verdict is expected April 17, with the prosecutor requesting a 25-year sentence to be served in a “strict regime” prison colony where conditions are harsh and prisoners are held in locked cells rather than in barracks.
The charges against Kara-Murza stem from his March 15 speech to the Arizona House of Representatives in which he denounced Russia’s military action in Ukraine. Investigators added the treason charges while he was in custody.
In his statement, Kara-Murza said he was jailed for his political views, “for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, for many years of struggle against (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s dictatorship.”
“Not only do I not repent of any of this, I am proud of it,” he said, adding that he looks forward to a day “when those who kindled and unleashed this war, and not those who tried to stop it, are recognized as criminals.”
Russia adopted a law criminalizing spreading “false information” about its military shortly after it sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Authorities have used the law to stifle criticism of what the Kremlin calls “a special military operation.”
Kara-Murza was an associate of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was killed near the Kremlin in 2015. Russian officials have denied responsibility for the poisonings Kara-Murza alleges occurred in 2015 and 2017. | 2023-04-10T22:21:00+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/kremlin-opponent-defiant-in-statement-during-17889359.php |
HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden won’t be in a vulnerable security situation even if Finland joins NATO first, the Finnish president said Sunday, as both Nordic membership candidates negotiate bilateral military pacts with the United States.
“It is possible that Finland joins NATO before Sweden,” Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said in interview published by the Swedish public broadcaster SVT on Sunday. “Should we have refused Turkey’s offer to ratify? That sounds a bit crazy. It would have been a terribly difficult situation if we had said ‘no’ to Ankara.”
Niinistö referred to his Friday visit to Ankara where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his government would move forward with ratifying Finland’s NATO application, paving the way for the country to join the military bloc, but wouldn’t ratify Sweden’s bid before disputes between Ankara and Stockholm are solved.
Both Finland and Sweden applied to become NATO members 10 months ago in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, abandoning decades of nonalignment.
NATO requires the unanimous approval of its 30 existing members to expand, and Turkey and Hungary are the only countries that haven’t yet ratified the Nordic duo’s bids.
Should Sweden’s NATO membership talks with Turkey drag on for a long time, many Swedish security policy experts agree it would put Stockholm in a vulnerable military position in the Baltic Sea region.
Niinistö said that Finland, Sweden and Denmark are currently in separate talks with the United States on security matters in an attempt to reach a bilateral military pact similar to what Norway has concluded with Washington before.
“I think that is a big change, almost bigger than NATO membership,” Niinistö said of the ongoing talks with the U.S. when asked what happens to Sweden’s security if talks to join NATO drag on. “It means a lot if we (Nordic countries) all have a direct and a quite similar (military) agreement with the United States.”
Since announcing their intention to join NATO in May 2022, Finland and Sweden pledged to enter the Western military alliance jointly at the same time.
Niinistö told SVT that the Nordic neighbors were determined to enter NATO “hand in hand as long as it is in our hands, but the ratification of Finnish NATO membership is in the hands of Turkey and Hungary.” | 2023-03-19T16:31:02+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/niinisto-sweden-security-ok-if-finland-joins-nato-first/ |
WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, May 8, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
334 AM PDT Sun May 8 2022
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 4 to 7 feet with dangerous rip
currents.
* WHERE...Ventura County Beaches.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...There is an increased risk for ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Large
breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off beaches and
rocks, and capsize small boats near shore. There is an
increased risk of ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull
swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off
beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions, or stay
near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly in
such conditions, stay off the rocks.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to
elevated surf of 3 to 6 feet with local sets to 7 feet.
* WHERE...Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...There is an increased risk of drowning due to the
hazardous conditions. Rip currents can pull swimmers and
surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and
rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Surf may increase on Sunday, and a High
Surf Advisory may be needed for west-facing beaches.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Stay off rock jetties, since
they can be deadly locations in such conditions.
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves of 3 to 6
feet on western facing beaches.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast and Santa
Barbara County Southeastern Coast.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PDT THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 7 to 10 feet with dangerous rip
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Beaches and Santa Barbara
County Central Coast Beaches.
* WHEN...Until 11 AM PDT.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A wolf pack in northeastern Washington state has killed another calf, forcing the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to determine whether to cull the pack, officials said.
The Togo pack of wolves has attacked three calves over the past 30 days, surpassing the threshold of livestock kills for the department to consider killing one or two wolves to curb the livestock killing, The Capital Press reported.
The other killings of livestock were confirmed on May 17 and May 18. The latest calf killed belonged to a different rancher than the first two that were attacked, officials said.
The Togo pack territory in Ferry County is the only one that Fish and Wildlife classifies as a “chronic-conflict zone” because of the frequency of livestock attacks.
Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind has authorized culling the pack five times since 2018 and killed one wolf in the five attempts.
Fish and Wildlife officials met Thursday to discuss a recommendation for Susewind.
Susewind authorized culling the pack last summer. The department didn’t kill a wolf, but said the ground search for the pack may have discouraged it from attacking more cattle.
The pack has been attacking in private pastures patrolled by ranchers and state-funded range riders, which the department says is the best non-lethal way to prevent wolf-livestock conflicts.
If the department decides on lethal control, it typically tries to kill one or two wolves and then suspends action to determine whether livestock attacks stop.
The department counted seven wolves in the Togo pack at the end of 2021. | 2022-06-09T23:05:41+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Wolf-pack-kills-calf-forcing-decision-on-lethal-17231670.php |
Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified Wednesday morning as it approached Florida's west coast, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph. The hurricane was a Category 4 as of 5 a.m. PST, only 2 mph away from the most dangerous Category 5 status.
"This is a major, major storm," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday morning. "It's something that we knew would be significant with the strengthening of this over the last night ... It potentially could make landfall as a Category 5." The hurricane tore across Cuba on Tuesday, leaving 11 million without electricity.
The center of the storm will make landfall later today, likely somewhere between Tampa and Fort Myers, slowly moving across the central Florida peninsula into Thursday. Much of Florida was already experiencing impacts overnight, and there were several tornado warnings.
The National Weather Service said "catastrophic storm surge flooding" is likely in some areas of southwest Florida and shared a map showing the storm surge impact around the perimeter of the state.
"A storm of this magnitude will produce catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge on the Gulf Coast of Florida and the highest risk areas are ranging from Collier County up to Sarasota County," DeSantis said. "The current track has the storm making landfall in Charlotte County."
A storm surge occurs when sea water rises over and above the forecast astronomical tides, according to the hurricane center. The surge in Florida amid Hurricane Ian will be compounded by heavy rainfall.
The hurricane center also has an interactive map showing the impact storm surges can have on Florida's coast, and you can opt to see the impacts of storms ranging from Category 1 to 5.
You may also want to track Ian's path: The hurricane center has a map that updates regularly showing the hurricane's path, and you can also find real-time satellite imagery from the agency. | 2022-09-28T15:42:53+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Hurricane-Ian-storm-surge-map-17472609.php |
News Tribune, May 5, 1983
- Home sales in Duluth, boosted by lower mortgage interest rates, increased by nearly 57% in the first three months of 1983. Through March of this year, 213 homes were sold in Duluth compared to 136 in the same period of 1982.
- Jeno's Inc. is shifting five to seven jobs from its traffic and purchasing departments in Duluth to Ohio, according to Carl Hill, the company's acting president. In 1982, Jeno's moved most of its manufacturing operations — involving hundreds of jobs — from Duluth to Wellston, Ohio.
News Tribune, May 5, 1923
- Minnesota Gov. Jacob A.O. Preus yesterday announced he will succeed the late Sen. Knute Nelson as U.S. Senator from Minnesota, following Nelson's death in April. Lieut. Gov. Louis L. Collins will become the new governor of Minnesota when Preus resigns.
- Construction of a second hospital in Duluth to provide additional room and facilities for the care of contagious diseases was urged at a Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday. A survey will be undertaken immediately to determine the best location for such a hospital. | 2023-05-05T12:17:48+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-100-years-ago-minnesota-governor-became-u-s-senator |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping property insurance bill on Friday. How much and when it will work to stabilize the stormy market is another question.
One of the key goals of the legislation is to keep the claims process from ending up being settled in courtrooms, a problem that DeSantis said drives up legal costs for insurers.
“This bill reins in the incentive to litigate,” DeSantis said before signing the bill in Fort Myers, an area devastated by Hurricane Ian in September. “This is going to make a huge, huge difference.”
Florida has struggled to keep the insurance market healthy since 1992 when Hurricane Andrew flattened Homestead, wiped out some insurance carriers and left many remaining companies fearful to write or renew policies in Florida. Risks for carriers have also been growing as climate change increases the strength of hurricanes and the intensity of rainstorms.
But beyond being prone to hurricanes, DeSantis said Florida needs to reduce legal costs for insurers.
“Florida’s property insurance market was very good for lawyers. Very good. It’s made a lot of people very, very rich. But the question is, is that in your best interest to have a situation like that? And I don’t think it is,” DeSantis said.
The bill new law will create a $1 billion reinsurance fund, put disincentives in place to prevent frivolous lawsuits and force some customers to leave a state-created insurer of last resort, Citizens Property insurance, for a private insurer, even if the policy costs more. It will also set more stringent deadlines throughout the claims process to try to insure homeowners don’t face coverage delays.
Mimi Bright of Parkland said she wasn’t expecting relief for policyholders any time soon, but she’s glad that lawmakers are addressing the subject.
Bright’s home insurance premiums jumped from about $4,600 a year to nearly $8,000 after her carrier went out of business and she had to switch to the Citizens. She said she’s concerned about the new bill’s provision that could force a homeowner to accept a policy from a private insurer even if it’s more expensive.
“So much for protecting the consumer, right?” Bright said.
Average annual premiums have risen to more than $4,200 in Florida, which is triple the national average. About 12% of homeowners in the state don’t have property insurance, compared to the national average of 5%, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a research organization funded by the insurance industry.
The insurance industry has seen two straight years of net underwriting losses exceeding $1 billion in Florida. Six insurers have gone insolvent this year, while others are leaving the state.
But Democrats opposed the bill, saying it doesn’t do anything to help stop huge rate increases and cancellations that homeowners are struggling with.
The legislation will remove “one-way” attorney fees for property insurance, which require property insurers to pay the attorney fees of policyholders who successfully sue over claims, while shielding policyholders from paying insurers’ attorney fees when they lose.
It will also eliminate the state’s assignment of benefits laws, in which property owners sign over their claims to contractors who then handle proceedings with insurance companies.
The bill would force people with Citizens policies to pay for flood insurance and require moves to private insurers if they offer a policy up to 20% more expensive than Citizens. Citizens recently topped 1 million policyholders for the first time in a decade.
In a plus for consumers, it will also speed up deadlines for insurance companies to respond to and act on claims. To help at a time when companies are slammed with claims, the law allows insurers to begin the claims process through video, photos and teleconferences rather than sending an agent to every damaged property.
The new law comes as Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier steps down from his position. DeSantis said Friday the position has already been posted.
DeSantis also signed a bill to provide property tax rebates to people whose homes were left uninhabitable by Ian. The bill also provides money for recovery.
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Associated Press Writer Mike Schneider in Orlando contributed to this report. | 2022-12-16T21:32:38+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/ap-desantis-signs-bill-seeking-to-stabilize-insurance-market/ |
DALLAS, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ACE Cash Express (ACE), a Populus Financial Group brand, raised $54,841 for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) during their annual fundraising event, the Give A Little Campaign. ALSF is changing the lives of children with cancer by funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.
One of the projects supported by ALSF donations are Young Investigator Grants which are designed to fill the critical need for startup funds for less experienced researchers to pursue promising research ideas. These grants encourage and cultivate the best and brightest researchers of the future to pursue ideas for novel treatments and cures for pediatric cancer, as well as safer and less toxic cancer treatments for children. Attracting and retaining the best and brightest early career scientists is critical to the future of childhood cancer research. Funding at this stage will encourage and steer promising researchers toward long-term careers in pediatric oncology investigation, and the ACE contribution will fund a Young Investigator Grant for one year.
"We are delighted that ACE Cash Express chose to partner with us again this year. Their employees and customers are long standing supporters, and their dedication truly makes a difference," said Liz Scott, Alex's Mom and Co-Executive Director at Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. "We are grateful for their continued partnership in the fight to end childhood cancer."
Since Alex set up her first lemonade stand in 2000, ALSF has raised more than $250 million. That money has helped fund more than 1,000 cutting-edge research projects at nearly 150 institutions, created a Travel For Care program to help support families of children receiving treatment, and developed resources, such as their SuperSibs program to help people everywhere affected by childhood cancer.
"We are proud to support Alex's Lemonade Stand, funding research for new and less toxic treatments," said Eric Norrington, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for Populus Financial Group. "Our ACE associates value the important mission of ALSF, and thanks to our valued customers, we are able to support ALSF as they fund pediatric cancer research and support the families of children battling cancer."
Nationally, ACE's 2022 Give A Little Campaign, which supports several organizations, raised more than $164,000 through the commitment of ACE Cash Express employees and the generosity of our customers. All the money raised went directly to charities across the country including AdoptAClassroom.org, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, American Red Cross, Autism Speaks, Back on My Feet, Feed My Starving Children, Feeding America's Local Food Banks and Homes For Our Troops. This fundraiser is a part of the ACE Community Fund, ACE's charitable–giving program, which has donated more than $16 million since its inception in 2004 to organizations in communities where ACE operates.
About Populus Financial Group
Populus Financial Group™ provides financial services through its family of brands including ACE Cash Express®, ACE Elite® Visa® Prepaid Debit Card, Flare Account® and Porte™. Populus Financial Group delivers a broad range of financial products and services including short-term consumer loans, card services, check cashing, money transfers, bill payments and money orders. Visit PopulusFinancial.com for more information.
About Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of 4-year-old Alexandra "Alex" Scott, who was fighting cancer and wanted to raise money to find cures for all children with cancer. Her spirit and determination inspired others to support her cause, and when she passed away at the age of 8, she had raised $1 million. Since then, the Foundation bearing her name has evolved into a national fundraising movement. Today, ALSF is one of the leading funders of pediatric cancer research in the U.S. and Canada raising more than $200 million so far, funding nearly 1,000 research projects and providing programs to families affected by childhood cancer. For more information, visit AlexsLemonade.org.
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As new, highly-transmissible COVID variants spread across the U.S., in some cases evading immunity from earlier infections, many are wondering if they are eligible for a booster shot and, if so, when?
Currently, not everyone is eligible for a second COVID booster shot, but experts are urging anyone who has not yet received their first booster dose to get one.
So who is eligible for which shots and what do we know about what's ahead?
Here's the latest:
Who is eligible for their 1st COVID booster shot?
Currently, anyone over the age of 5 can receive one booster shot at least five months after completing their first series.
"You should have had a booster by now," Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said during a Facebook Live Tuesday. "Everybody over the age of 5, unless you're just started getting vaccinated, should have had at least three vaccines - J&J and then two boosters or two Pfizer, Moderna and one booster. So everybody should have had at least three vaccines."
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Most recently, federal regulators authorized a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot for ages 5 to 11 in mid-May.
“We encourage every parent or guardian of children five and older to consider a booster vaccination for their eligible child,” IDPH Director Amaal Tokars said in a statement at the time. “And if your children have not yet received their primary dose, it’s not too late to start now."
The CDC's panel of independent vaccine experts voted overwhelmingly in favor of boosters for kids in the age group after reviewing and discussing the data during a five-hour public meeting. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on the recommendation later in the evening, giving pharmacies, doctors' offices, and other health-care providers the green light to start administering the shots.
Who is eligible for a 2nd COVID booster shot?
When it comes to a second booster shot, however, only some groups are currently eligible.
Currently, Americans 50 and older can get a second COVID-19 booster if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination. Those over 12 with weakened immune systems are also eligible.
"The reason to do that booster is especially for people, again, who are at high risk," Arwady said. "Europe has still not broadly even recommended a second booster for people over 50 or even over 60 and in that setting they are starting to really see, you know, not just cases, but hospitalizations really go up and so there is a general feeling that, especially if people are getting more severe outcomes, you want to make sure those people are protected," Arwady said. "So this is why the move and the strong recommendation for anybody over 50 - get that second booster please. Get it now."
When should you get a booster shot?
For those who are fully vaccinated, but not boosted, experts say many are "overdue."
Booster shots should be administered at least five months after full vaccination.
When could more people be eligible for a second booster shot?
Chicago's top doctor said the rest of the population may not see authorization for a fourth COVID shot until the fall, when she predicts a new kind of booster could be finalized.
"The updated vaccine in the fall is likely to be more protective against infection because it will cover a lot of the variants that have come along since, you know, alpha and delta and omicron," Arwady said, adding that "it's going to be a new formulation of the vaccine that's been brought up-to-date."
The CDC has not yet said when authorization could come for additional age groups.
Get the latest news on COVID-19 in your inbox. Click here to sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter. | 2022-07-12T19:34:06+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/can-you-get-a-second-covid-booster-shot-heres-whos-eligible/2879553/ |
The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison
(AP) - Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move to her new home —-a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.
The federal judge who sentenced Holmes, 39, in November recommended that she be incarcerated in a women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, located about 100 miles from Houston, where she grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Once she enters prison, Holmes will be leaving behind two young children — a son born in July 2021 a few weeks before the start of her trial and a 3-month old daughter who was conceived after a jury convicted her on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022.
Holmes has been free on bail since then, most recently living in the San Diego area with the children’s father, William “Billy” Evans. The couple met in 2017 around the same time Holmes was under investigation for the collapse of Theranos, a startup she founded after dropping out of Stanford University when she was just 19.
While she was building up Theranos, Holmes grew closer to Ramesh, “Sunny” Balwani, who would become her romantic partner as well as an investor and fellow executive in the Palo Alto, California, company.
Together, Holmes and Balwani promised Theranos would revolutionize health care with a technology that could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick.
The hype surrounding that purported breakthrough helped Theranos raise nearly $1 billion from enthralled investors, assemble an influential board of directors that include former Presidential cabinet members George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and James Mattis and turned Holmes into a Silicon Valley sensation with a fortune valued at $4.5 billion on paper in 2014.
But it all blew up after serious dangerous flaws in Theranos’ technology were exposed in a series of explosive articles in The Wall Street Journal that Holmes and Balwani tried to thwart. Holmes and Balwani, who had been secretly living together while running Theranos, broke up after the Journal’s revelations and the company collapsed. In 2018, the U.S. Justice Department charged both with a litany of white-collar crimes in a case aimed at putting a stop to the Silicon Valley practice of overselling the capabilities of a still-developing technology — a technique that became known as “fake it ‘til you make it.”
Holmes admitted making mistakes at Theranos, but steadfastly denied committing crimes during seven often-fascinating days of testimony on the witness stand during her trial. At one point, she told the jury about being sexually and emotionally abused by Balwani while he controlled her in ways that she said clouded her thinking. Balwani’s attorney steadfastly denied Holmes allegations, which was one of the key reasons they were tried separately.
Balwani, 57, was convicted on 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in a trial that began two months after Holmes’ ended. He is currently serving a nearly 13-year sentence in a Southern California prison.
Maintaining she was treated unfairly during the trial, Holmes sought to remain free while she appeals her conviction. But that bid was rejected by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who presided over her trial, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, leaving her no other avenue left to follow but the one that will take her to prison nearly 20 years after she founded Theranos.
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Ingenuity, along with a list of other high-quality investors, helped raise over $1 million for Unmudl's expansion
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. , April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), through its workforce training arm CNM Ingenuity, is proud to announce it has joined other investors to raise over $1 million in new funding for the Unmudl Skills-to-Jobs Marketplace.
Other new investors include Deborah Quazzo, Potencia Ventures, Cengage Group, and two firms in Canada – South Fraser Law Group and Family Dental Health. They have joined previous investors Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL3, LLC); WGU Labs; Christopher L. Curran, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Tyton Partners; James Caras, Founder of Catalyst Education and Sapling Learning; Holly Sparkman, CFO at Windsor America; Stephanie Boone, Founder and CEO of Wondercide; and Dr. Kirpal Singh, psychiatrist, and philanthropist.
CNM is a Hispanic-Serving Institution and a founding college of Unmudl, the Skills-to-Jobs Marketplace powered by America's community and technical colleges, where learners around the country can take coursework provided by a consortium of colleges and employers. Unmudl facilitates access to workforce training as well as job-focused upskill and reskill courses across a diverse range of professions and trades. Through Unmudl, learners can achieve their education and career goals by simultaneously enrolling in online and in-person classes from multiple community colleges.
"CNM is thrilled to watch Unmudl meet a number of growth milestones and we're now excited to watch as the organization continues to develop new and creative ways to serve the diverse needs of working learners," says Tracy Hartzler, CNM's President and Chair of the Unmudl Steering Council.
As a founding college of Unmudl, CNM is aware that community colleges need to be agile and innovative to meet the constantly changing workforce needs of a rapidly evolving economy. More specifically, the need for an "upskilling and reskilling" educational system is growing because traditional job progression and work-to-retirement pathways have changed or even disappeared.
Before the pandemic, CNM leaned into CNM Ingenuity's accelerated Deep Dive Technology bootcamps to meet this changing need because those programs allow learners to complete training for high-tech and high-demand jobs in as little as 10 weeks. Post-pandemic, the college has continued to offer these bootcamps and has also grown its offerings to include new skills-based training in other high-demand areas, such as mechatronics, that are available through the Unmudl portal.
"As community college leaders, we are always trying to ask ourselves, 'How do we meet our community where it needs to be met and develop programming that will help them the most?' Unmudl is a clear example of how we can answer this question," President Hartzler says.
Unmudl also serves as a key resource for employers because the platform has a searchable database of learners with certifications and trainings that can quickly be matched to employer needs. Many employers rely on Unmudl for coursework to help their employees reskill or upskill in order to meet changing industry needs, and more than 55 employers have hired employees out of courses on Unmudl to fill positions. Because industry needs are evolving rapidly, Unmudl serves as a solution that can build and deliver a pipeline of potential employees with programs designed to specifically meet an industry need, or even more targeted for an individual company's needs.
Currently, Amazon has a need to improve its process for finding and hiring equipment maintenance technicians, a specialized mechatronics position requiring a rigorous hiring schedule to meet growth demands. Amanda Willard, Strategic Workforce Developer, teamed with Unmudl and CNM to develop a customized "Mechatronics for Equipment Maintenance" course. The new program was launched in April 2022 and directly aligns to skill and competency requirements for Amazon's Maintenance Tech II positions. Today over 250 working learners have enrolled via Unmudl and some completers have been hired.
Kyle Lee, CEO of CNM Ingenuity, says a single community college cannot meet the demands of all businesses that need qualified employees or upskilling programs, but by pooling resources through Unmudl, there's now an effective solution.
"Unmudl allows for a critical scaling of the marketplace," he says. "Learners and businesses are both trying to grow, and Unmudl is the tool kit we can use to make that partnership work."
Going forward, President Hartzler says she's excited to see continued growth at Unmudl and knows CNM will continue to benefit from the partnership.
"Unmudl is allowing CNM and other community colleges to test the customer experience for both learners and employers and completely redesign this experience," she says. "Through that testing, we can then come back to CNM and CNM Ingenuity and figure out ways to use Unmudl's model to better meet the needs of our local community of learners and business partners."
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Rose receives latest 'unreal' reception from Bulls fans originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
By the time the fourth quarter of Friday's game passed its midpoint, Chicago Bulls fans in attendance to witness a 23-point loss to the New York Knicks were done trying to egg their team on.
Even the scattered boos that cascaded as the Knicks pulled ahead by as many as 30 subsided at a certain point.
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Instead, the boisterous few who stayed until the final buzzer shifted their focus to a different way to get their money's worth: Willing Derrick Rose into the game for the final few ticks.
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Rose has been on the outside looking in of the Knicks' rotation for the last six games. In that span, Tom Thibodeau has opted for younger legs in the backcourt — mainly, Miles "Deuce" McBride — and slid the 34-year-old former MVP into an end-of-bench leadership role, which Rose has handled with grace.
But Thibodeau's heart softened at the thought of Rose receiving his typical hometown reception in the waning moments of a Knicks win. And so he asked the player with whom he's experienced so much if he was ready to suit up.
"I can't repeat what he said," Thibodeau said postgame when asked about that interaction. "But he was excited."
Added Rose: "I can't say it (what he responded) right now, because they said that they'll fine me or something like that. But I told them I'm ready."
And so Rose sprinted from out of the visitors tunnel to a raucous standing ovation, then entered the game at the 3:31 mark of the fourth quarter to "MVP" chants. After he drilled his first 3-point attempt, the crowd swelled again.
"It was amazing," Rose said. "I tried to hold it in. But always getting acknowledged like that, it means a lot. We did a lot here. I'm happy I was able to get in."
Rose said his fiancée and kids were in the stands, and while he was too focused in the moment to look back at them, he saw them right after the final buzzer.
"They crying. They was crying and cheering," Rose said with a smile. "Talking about somebody's cutting onions and all that stuff."
Rose's decorated, yet ultimately fraught, Bulls tenure may have come to an unceremonious end with his 2016 trade to the Knicks, especially because that deal was the start of a transient mid-career phase that featured stops in Cleveland, Minnesota and Detroit.
But he maintains his deep appreciation for the city of Chicago, its fans, and the Bulls organization. Even all these years later.
"Always. Always," Rose said when asked if he was surprised by the reception. "You never know how important, or just the way that we played back then, how it affected people. To come here and see all the love and receive all the love that we got, it was unreal.
"That's why I've never talked ill on the franchise or the people from the franchise. When I was here, it was nothing but love. I saw (former Bulls general manager) Pax (John Paxson) before the game, I ain't get a chance to see (Bulls President and CEO) Michael (Reinsdorf). But the way their family showed so much love to me, and Pax, the way he was honest the whole time I was here. It was all I asked for."
Thibodeau understands the deep connection Rose shares with the franchise and city as well as anyone.
"This is home for him. I would say New York is his adopted home, he loves New York," Thibodeau said. "But I think coming back here, it means something to him. And this organization, he meant a lot to the organization, but the organization means a lot to him too."
That duo left Chicago with two wins over the Bulls this week. And each result — an overtime heartbreaker and second-half rout — was demoralizing in its own way for the current team.
But for those few moments at the end of the fourth quarter, the nostalgia clouded the scoreboard. | 2022-12-17T06:21:58+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/derrick-rose-receives-unreal-reception-from-bulls-fans-in-latest-return/3024639/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. consumers will finally get the chance to try avocados from Jalisco after 25 years in which neighboring Michoacan has been the only Mexican state authorized to send the green fruit to the U.S. market.
That just may help with prices, which have soared this year to over $2 per fruit amid a dip in production in Michoacan.
Growers and packers in Jalisco, just northwest of Michoacan, expressed hope that their state can provide more consistent production levels and stability for prices for avocados, which have fluctuated widely amid seasonal supply shortages.
Eleven trucks bearing 200 tons of avocados from Jalisco lined up Thursday in the mountain town of Zapotlan El Grande to set out for the United States.
“When we were talking about very high prices a month ago, it was because the market wasn’t getting enough supply,” said Javier Medina Villanueva, president of the Jalisco Avocado Export Association. “So we believe that the entry of Jalisco will close that supply shortage. … I think prices will stabilize.”
Consumers in the United States won’t immediately recognize the difference: Jalisco avocados won’t bear any special tag, and will be labelled simply as “avocados from Mexico” — a phrase promoted for years by producers in Michoacan.
The head of the Michoacan-based Association of Mexican Avocado Growers and Packers, Jose Luis Gallardo, said he doesn’t see Jalisco, or any of the other Mexican states now clamoring for U.S. export certification, as competition.
“Today is a day of joy for everyone, knowing that Jalisco is here, but it is going to be happier when the State of Mexico comes, when Nayarit, Colima, Puebla, Morelos come,” Gallardo said of the other states, noting there was room for more exports; last season’s production in Michoacan was down by about 200,000 tons.
Mexico currently supplies about 92% of U.S. imports of the fruit, and Mexico’s agriculture department says it is working to get more states certified. About a half dozen states grow significant quantities of the fruit, which prefers higher altitudes and cooler climates in Mexico.
Medina Villanueva noted that meeting U.S. sanitary requirements wasn’t easy. “It took 10 years,” he said. “It took patience.”
U.S. agricultural inspectors have to certify that Mexican avocados don’t carry diseases or pests that would harm U.S. orchards. The Mexican harvest is January through March, while U.S production runs from April to September.
The inspections were halted in February for about 10 days after one of the U.S. inspectors was threatened in Michoacan, where growers are routinely subject to extortion by drug cartels. Some packers in Michoacan were reportedly buying avocados from other, non-certified states and trying to pass them off as being from Michoacan, and were angry the U.S. inspector wouldn’t go along with that.
Exports resumed after Mexico and the United States agreed “to enact the measures that ensure the safety” of the inspectors.
Francisco Trujillo, the head of Mexico’s plant and animal safety agency, noted that the Michoacan export ban should be a lesson for Jalisco producers.
“Caution should be part of this day of festivity,” Trujillo said, noting that avocados certified for export were worth four or five times as much as those destined for domestic markets, creating “temptations” to pass off non-certified fruit. “We could run the risk that this festive day becomes a tragedy” if the U.S. were to ban exports again, he said.
Exports were worth about $2.8 billion to Mexico in 2021. The price Mexican growers get for their crops — as little as $1 per pound — is still far higher than any other crop they could grow, so much so that avocados have lifted thousands of small producers out of poverty.
Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro acknowledged that his state will have to avoid problems that have plagued the reputation of avocados in Michoacan, where some growers have cut down native pine forests to plant avocado trees and dried up local water supplies to irrigate them. Drug cartels have also extorted protection payments from avocado growers and packers.
Alfaro said Jalisco has plans “to develop a security program … so that this product can be produced in the orchards, be shipped through Jalisco and reach its final destination safely.”
Alfaro also said he would push to certify Jalisco avocados as free from deforestation, something Michoacan has been slow to do.
“The idea of pushing a plan to certify avocados as free from deforestation shouldn’t just be an issue for some growers. We want to establish that as an obligation for the good of the whole industry,” Alfaro said.
Anti-logging activist Guillermo Saucedo, who was abducted by gunmen in the town of Villa Madero, Michoacan in 2021, said he doubted the government or growers would act in his forest-clad hamlet, where he said newly cleared fields, wells and holding ponds used to water avocado plantations continue to appear.
“The authorities don’t take action,” said Saucedo. “They let them do whatever they want.”
At this point, Jalisco has only about 20,000 acres (8,420 hectares) of avocado orchards certified as pest free, a small amount compared to over nearly 300,000 acres (120,000 hectares) in Michoacan. But Alfaro said another 65,000 acres (26,000 hectares) in Jalisco were in line to be certified. | 2022-07-29T17:49:36+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/2nd-state-in-mexico-begins-avocado-exports-to-u-s-market/ |
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage and insulting the president and state institutions.
Once in force, the bans will affect foreign visitors as well as citizens. They're part of an overhaul of the country's criminal code that has been in the works for years. The new code also expands an existing blasphemy law and keeps a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia's six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. The code still needs approval from the president, and the government says it will not be fully implemented for several years.
The amended code says sex outside marriage is punishable by a year in jail and cohabitation by six months, but adultery charges must be based on police reports lodged by a spouse, parents or children.
Citizens could also face a 10-year prison term for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism.
Rights groups criticized some of the revisions as overly broad or vague and warned that adding them to the code could penalize normal activities and threaten freedom of expression and privacy rights.
However, some advocates hailed the passage as a victory for the country's LGBTQ community. After fierce deliberation, lawmakers eventually agreed to remove an article proposed by Islamic groups that would have made gay sex illegal.
The revised code also preserves the death penalty, despite calls from the National Commission on Human Rights and other groups to abolish capital punishment. But the new code adds a 10-year probationary period to the death penalty. If the convict behaves well during this period, their sentence will be reduced to life imprisonment or 20 years' imprisonment.
The code maintains a previous ban on abortion, but updates it to add exceptions already provided in a 2004 Medical Practice Law, for women with life-threatening medical conditions and for rape, provided that the fetus is less than 12 weeks old.
Under Indonesian regulations, legislation passed by Parliament becomes law after being signed by the president. But even without the president's signature, it automatically takes effect after 30 days unless the president issues a regulation to cancel it.
President Joko Widodo is widely expected to sign the revised code in light of its extended approval process in Parliament. But the law is likely to gradually take effect over a period of up to three years, according to Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Hiariej.
"A lot of implementing regulations must be worked out, so it's impossible in one year," he said.
The code restores a ban on insulting a sitting president or vice president, state institutions and the national ideology. Insults to a sitting president must be reported by the president and can lead to up to three years in jail.
Hiariej said the government provided "the strictest possible explanation that distinguishes between insults and criticism."
The current penal code is a legacy of Dutch colonial administration. Updates have languished for decades while legislators in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation debated how to adapt the code to its traditional cultures and norms. Indonesia proclaimed independence on Aug. 17, 1945.
A previous revised code was poised for passage in 2019, but President Widodo urged lawmakers to delay a vote amid mounting public criticism that led to nationwide protests in which tens of thousands of people participated. Opponents said it contained articles that discriminated against minorities and that the legislative process lacked transparency. Widodo instructed Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly to obtain input from various groups as lawmakers debated the articles.
A parliamentary taskforce finalized the bill in November and lawmakers unanimously approved it on Tuesday, in what Laoly praised as a "historic step."
"It turns out that it is not easy for us to break away from the colonial living legacy, even though this nation no longer wants to use colonial products," Laoly said in a news conference.
"Finalizing this process demonstrates that even 76 years after the Dutch Criminal Code was adopted as the Indonesian Criminal Code, it is never too late to produce laws on our own," Laoly said. "The Criminal Code is a reflection of the civilization of a nation."
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that laws penalizing criticism of public leaders are contrary to international law, and the fact that some forms of expression are considered insulting is not sufficient to justify restrictions or penalties.
"The danger of oppressive laws is not that they'll be broadly applied, it's that they provide avenue for selective enforcement," said Andreas Harsono, a senior Indonesia researcher at the group.
Many hotels, including in tourism areas such as Bali and metropolitan Jakarta, will risk losing visitors, he added.
"These laws let police extort bribes, let officials jail political foes, for instance, with the blasphemy law," Harsono said.
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Roblox players discover Maretime Bay with customizable pony avatars
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- My Little Pony trots into Roblox with new game, "Visit Maretime Bay," in celebration of new episodes of My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, now on Netflix. The experience recreates the iconic series setting of Maretime Bay, a seaside town destination where everyone is welcome, and self-expression runs free. In a first of its kind twist, upon entering the game, players' Roblox avatars will undergo a magical transformation into a customizable pony avatar—a feature unique to the "Visit Maretime Bay'' experience that enables fans to go beyond the screen and fully immerse themselves in this world of friendship, fun and adventure.
"When we started to imagine how My Little Pony would show up in the metaverse, it was really important for us to stay true to our core values of friendship, self-expression, and celebrating each other's uniqueness," said Jessica Murphy, SVP Entertainment Brand Marketing, Entertainment One. "We're pushing what's possible on Roblox through a novel experience that allows kids and their parents to transform their typical avatar into a Pony, allowing them to become part of the story as they interact with our characters. And, we're focused on ensuring that our fans enjoy Maretime Bay in a free, safe environment."
Hasbro's diligence in developing a secure experience for kids includes elimination of both the chat feature as well as any monetization through Robux (Roblox's premium currency). However, a robust in-world crystal-based economy can be used to redeem even more customizations for a user's pony avatar, providing seemingly endless opportunities for self-expression in "Visit Maretime Bay."
Once they've created their custom pony, players will have free rein to explore the many activities that the experience has to offer, from collecting crystals to taking selfies with the Mane 5 ponies. By playing a series of minigames and exploring Maretime Bay, players can earn badges inspired by the ponies' cutie marks, which draw upon the unique personality traits of the show's beloved characters. Plus, players can "earn their wings" and other limited edition accessories for their Roblox avatar's inventory such as the "Sparky the Dragon" shoulder pet, allowing them to continue their self-expression outside of the "Visit Maretime Bay" game.
The Roblox activation is part of My Little Pony's integrated "Visit Maretime Bay'' campaign, developed in partnership with Media.Monks, which positions the fictitious show location as the hottest new vacation spot that families can visit without leaving home. The campaign also includes a partnership with Tripadvisor, and marks the first time the travel company has partnered with a kids entertainment brand. While browsing the Tripadvisor platform, Maretime Bay is listed as an actual family vacation destination with attractions one can experience by watching the series on Netflix. Plus, parents can look out for "Visit Maretime Bay" creative ads for the My Little Pony: Make Your Mark series in their social feeds via TripAdvisor and My Little Pony handles.
Coinciding with the "Visit Maretime Bay'' campaign, Hasbro is furthering My Little Pony's brand promise of friendship and self-expression by supporting organizations that bolster the confidence of young girls. A partnership with Girl Scouts of the USA, now in its second year, will feature a fun patch that Daisy and Brownie troops across the country can earn when they complete Girl Scout and My Little Pony challenges. My Little Pony will also celebrate girls everywhere by sponsoring Rebel Girls' upcoming Rebel Girls Fest: Be the Change at bookstore events across the US and Canada in October.
Following an incredible brand transformation that spans multi-platform animated content, including nearly 500 minutes of original animation dropping in 2022 alone, new music, the first ever official My Little Pony podcast, toys, apparel, accessories, cross-category products and more, My Little Pony is leveraging new technology, adapting to meet their audience everywhere they are, and encouraging self-expression amongst a new generation of fans.
ABOUT MY LITTLE PONY
Since launching in 1983, MY LITTLE PONY has catapulted from an iconic toy into a worldwide entertainment universe with multiple verticals including toys, games, licensed consumer products, publishing, music, a thriving YouTube channel, digital gaming, live experiences and much more. In September 2021, MY LITTLE PONY: A NEW GENERATION launched on Netflix and introduced the next generation of ponies to a new generation of kids. The feature-length film became the #1 kids property upon launch and was awarded the Common Sense Media Seal for Families. This success continued in 2022 with the launch of two new series: MY LITTLE PONY: TELL YOUR TALE, an inventive, comedic 2D animated series on YouTube, and MY LITTLE PONY: MAKE YOUR MARK, a dazzling 3D animated series on Netflix whose inaugural special debuted on the "Kids Top 10 List". These new projects announced a new era for the brand, with a renewed focus on inspiring viewers to explore, express and celebrate what makes them unique. Kids can see themselves reflected in this new generation of ponies, whose diverse interests and storylines match their own. With an array of fresh, expanded touchpoints that span new music, a podcast, fashion and interactive experiences amongst other categories, children can engage with their beloved pony characters. For more information on MY LITTLE PONY, please visit: https://mylittlepony.hasbro.com
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Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is a global play and entertainment company committed to Creating the World's Best Play and Entertainment Experiences. From toys, games and consumer products to television, movies, digital gaming, live action, music, and virtual reality experiences, Hasbro connects to global audiences by bringing to life great innovations, stories and brands across established and inventive platforms. Hasbro's iconic brands include NERF, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, MY LITTLE PONY, TRANSFORMERS, PLAY-DOH, MONOPOLY, BABY ALIVE, POWER RANGERS, PEPPA PIG and PJ MASKS, as well as premier partner brands. Through its global entertainment studio, eOne, Hasbro is building its brands globally through great storytelling and content on all screens. Hasbro is committed to making the world a better place for all children and all families through corporate social responsibility and philanthropy. Hasbro ranked among the 2020 100 Best Corporate Citizens by 3BL Media, has been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere Institute for the past nine years, and one of America's Most JUST Companies by Forbes and JUST Capital for the past four years. We routinely share important business and brand updates on our Investor Relations website, Newsroom and social channels (@ Hasbro on Twitter and Instagram, and @HasbroOfficial on Facebook.)
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3M settles 'forever chemicals' water pollution lawsuit for $10B
Chemicals manufacturer 3M announced that it has reached a $10.3 billion settlement with U.S. public water suppliers that have detected PFAs – known as "forever chemicals" – in their drinking water.
The deal, which the Minnesota-based company says is "not an admission of liability" – will provide "funding for public water suppliers (PWS) nationwide that have detected PFAs in drinking water, as well as for eligible PWS that may detect PFAS at any level in the future."
"PFAS is the biggest chemical threat to America’s collective public drinking water and has been found in public water systems throughout the country affecting millions of Americans," Scott Summy, one of the lead attorneys for those suing 3M and other manufacturers, said in a statement.
"We have reached the largest drinking water settlement in American history which will be used to help filter PFAS from drinking water that is served to the public," Summy added. "The result is that millions of Americans will have healthier lives without PFAS in their drinking water."
3M TO CUT 6,000 JOBS IN SECOND ROUND OF LAYOFFS THIS YEAR
FILE - 3M Global Headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota, US, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (Ben Brewer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
PFAS, called "forever chemicals" because they last so long in the environment, have been associated with serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight.
"PFAS" is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that are used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs and countless other consumer products. The chemical bonds are so strong that they don't degrade or do so only slowly in the environment and remain in a person's bloodstream indefinitely.
The Environmental Protection Agency in March proposed strict limits on two common types, PFOA and PFOS, and said it wanted to regulate four others. Water providers would be responsible for monitoring their systems for the chemicals.
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FILE - Mike Roman, chairman and chief executive officer of 3M Co., reacts during a panel discussion at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing, China, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. (Takaaki Iwabu/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Summy’s legal firm Baron & Budd said "lawsuits allege that 3M and several other companies manufactured and/or sold products containing PFAS, despite being aware of the chemicals’ propensity to contaminate the environment and pose potential health risks to humans, including the development of cancers."
"Settlement funds will pay public water systems that have already detected PFAS in their water, will pay the costs of testing for those that have not yet tested, and will provide funds to those that find PFAS after testing," the law firm added.
3M said the $10.3 billion agreement is subject per court approval.
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"This is an important step forward for 3M, which builds on our actions that include our announced exit of PFOA and PFOS manufacturing more than 20 years ago, our more recent investments in state-of-the-art water filtration technology in our chemical manufacturing operations, and our announcement that we will exit all PFAS manufacturing by the end of 2025," 3M chairman and CEO Mike Roman said in a statement.
But the company also said, "If the agreement is not approved by the court or certain agreed terms are not fulfilled, 3M is prepared to continue to defend itself in the litigation."
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What do you need to start home composting?
Are you interested in composting at home but not sure where to begin? Composting is incredibly simple and requires just a little planning and some small purchases to get set up and started.
Every household produces food waste like banana peels, coffee grounds, onion skins, apple cores and citrus rinds. If you’ve been tossing all this compostable waste into the trash, your kitchen likely starts to smell foul regularly, even though you frequently take out your garbage. There’s a better way. Repurpose your waste and keep it out of landfills by turning it into nutrient-rich soil you can use to grow your own plants and food.
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Why compost?
Composting is good for the environment because it keeps food waste out of landfills and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Approximately ⅓ of food worldwide is wasted and created 63 million tons of wasted food in 2018 alone. Only 32% of wasted food was kept out of landfills through measures like composting in 2018.
When food waste makes it to a landfill and becomes buried under layers of garbage, it’s unable to decompose properly because decomposition requires light and oxygen. It breaks down instead through anaerobic decomposition, which produces methane as a byproduct, a potent greenhouse gas that traps 25 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide does.
Compost also serves as rich humus for your plants and lawn and can replace chemical fertilizers in your garden.
What food scraps can you compost?
Start with fruit and vegetable scraps like the tops of strawberries, the ends of asparagus, the skins of kiwis and potatoes. You can also compost eggshells, tea bags, coffee grounds and old flowers.
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Your bin can live on your counter, near where you prepare food. Use charcoal filters to keep your bin from smelling like rotting food, or you can store your compost scraps in your freezer to keep them from creating odors in your kitchen.
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What shouldn’t go in my compost bin?
To avoid attracting rodents and other wildlife to your compost bin, it’s a good idea not to compost meat, bones, fish and oily cooked foods.
Note that just because a piece of packaging like the bowl from your take-out says that it’s compostable doesn’t mean it will break down in your at-home compost heap. These materials often require an industrial composting process to decompose.
Master the layering of greens and browns
All compostable scraps are either carbon-based “brown” materials or nitrogen-based “green” materials. The secret to healthy compost is maintaining a balance of carbon and nitrogen, or browns and greens, in your compost.
Greens
Green scraps are nitrogen and protein-rich and allow microorganisms to thrive in your compost pile, leading to decomposition. Greens include food scraps like fruit and veggies, kitchen waste, leaves and grass clippings.
Brown
Brown scraps are carbon-rich and include matter like dried leaves, branches, stems, wood, shredded brown paper and newspaper, coffee filters, eggshells, egg cartons and corn stalks.
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Healthy compost needs more carbon than nitrogen because too much nitrogen will restrict airflow and create a soggy, smelly heap that can’t decompose. Aim to have about ⅓ green materials and ⅔ brown materials.
Shred your browns by tearing or cutting them with scissors as much as possible before layering them in your compost to promote a light and fluffy compost body and allow oxygen and water to flow freely through your compost. This promotes aeration and decomposition.
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How to make compost at home
Heap composting
Heap composting is the most budget-friendly way to compost because it requires no bin and is simply a pile of scraps on the ground. This option works well if you have ample yard space and likely won’t work well for you if you share a yard with multiple people or lack outdoor space.
Your heap should sit on a pile on the bare ground rather than concrete to allow worms and other insects and organisms to colonize it. Place your heap somewhere with partial sunlight. Ensure your heap location isn’t in standing water.
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Tumblers and bins
Compost bins are containers that house your compostable materials to allow them to decompose. The most straightforward compost bin is simply a large container that houses your brown and green materials while they decompose. These bins are enclosed on the sides and the top, with a removable lid to allow you to dump in the waste. The bottom is typically open to enable the material to sit directly on the ground.
Simple bins are typically relatively inexpensive, but they can be difficult to turn and sometimes take multiple months longer for compost to decompose.
Outdoor Compost Tumbler Rotating Garden Composter Bin
A more efficient option is a compost tumbler, which consists of a large barrel sitting atop tall legs with a handle that allows you to spin and tumble the waste within the composter drum. Rotating the barrel mixes the compost inside, which speeds up decomposition by keeping the microbes in the waste actively feeding.
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The drum also maintains a high internal temperature, which speeds up the process of composting and allows you to compost year-round, even in cold months. These compost tumblers also prevent odors and rodents from accessing or eating through your bin, making them a good choice for composting in a residential area without much yard space.
Vermicomposting
Keep your vermicompost in a spot in your home with a consistent temperature to ensure your worms are comfortable. Don’t place your worm farm directly next to a heater, oven or AC unit or vent. Worm compost units typically produce no smell, so you can keep it in your kitchen to easily throw in food scraps or store it somewhere like a closet.
Follow the instructions which come with your worm farm for how to begin composting, as various units have slightly different setups. Purchase red wiggler worms separately.
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Your worm farm will likely come with worm bedding, but you can also purchase it separately. You should spread some soil on top of the bedding in an even layer to make your worms feel more comfortable in their environment.
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Top compost bin
Dual Chamber Tumbling Composter
What you need to know: This is a convenient and efficient option to quickly create compost in your yard.
What you’ll love: You can easily tumble your compost by turning the chamber. It keeps heat and moisture contained for fast compost decomposition. The thick plastic and tall legs make this compost bin inaccessible to wildlife like rodents.
What you should consider: A bit pricier than other compost bin options.
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Top compost bin for the money
What you need to know: This is an economical option for someone who wants to create compost in their yard and doesn’t want to invest in a closed bin.
What you’ll love: It’s very easy to assemble, can be used freestanding or anchored into the ground and is great for yard waste such as grass trimmings.
What you should consider: It won’t deter critters, keep out rain or keep in heat, so you’ll need to cover with a tarp for optimal performance.
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Worth considering
110 Gallon Garden Composter Bin Made from Recycled Plastic
What you need to know: This is a suitable bin for someone starting out with outdoor composting who wants to house their compost heap to keep it contained and deter critters.
What you’ll love: It’s easy to assemble, has a simple and attractive design, is large enough to house all of your compost and includes a convenient door on the bottom to harvest your cured compost.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that this bin has thin plastic and can be eaten by wildlife.
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CT Boston/Norton MA Zone Forecast for Sunday, May 7, 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. East winds
around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows around 40. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the upper 30s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
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400 AM EDT Mon May 8 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 40s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
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Brewers vs. Pirates Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 16
Friday's game features the Milwaukee Brewers (34-34) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (34-33) clashing at American Family Field in what should be a close matchup, with a projected 4-3 win for the Brewers according to our computer prediction. First pitch is at 8:10 PM ET on June 16.
The probable pitchers are Julio Teheran (1-2) for the Brewers and Rich Hill (6-5) for the Pirates.
Brewers vs. Pirates Game Info & Odds
- When: Friday, June 16, 2023 at 8:10 PM ET
- Where: American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- How to Watch on TV: Apple TV+
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Brewers vs. Pirates Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Brewers 4, Pirates 3.
Total Prediction for Brewers vs. Pirates
- Total Prediction: Under 8.5 runs
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Brewers Performance Insights
- The Brewers have played as the favorite in five of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Milwaukee and its opponents are 3-6-1 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Brewers have won one of their last two games against the spread.
- The Brewers have entered the game as favorites 35 times this season and won 19, or 54.3%, of those games.
- Milwaukee has entered 35 games this season favored by -115 or more and is 19-16 in those contests.
- The Brewers have a 53.5% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Milwaukee ranks 25th in the majors with 274 total runs scored this season.
- The Brewers have the 13th-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (4.12).
Pirates Performance Insights
- The Pirates have played as the underdog in five of their past 10 games and have gone 1-4 in those contests.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, Pittsburgh and its foes are 6-3-1 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Pirates are 1-2-0 against the spread over their past 10 contests (three of those matchups had a spread listed by oddsmakers).
- The Pirates have been underdogs in 49 games this season and have come away with the win 22 times (44.9%) in those contests.
- This season, Pittsburgh has been victorious 19 times in 44 chances when named as an underdog of at least -105 or longer on the moneyline.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Pirates have a 51.2% chance of pulling out a win.
- Pittsburgh scores the 21st-most runs in baseball (294 total, 4.4 per game).
- Pirates pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.32 ERA this year, which ranks 17th in MLB.
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ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Emergency officials in Mississippi said 23 people have been killed by tornadoes that tore through the state on Friday night, destroying buildings and knocking out power as severe weather that produced hail the size of golf balls moved through several southern states.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency confirmed there had been 23 deaths as of 6:20 a.m. Saturday with dozens of injuries and four people missing throughout the state. The agency said in a Twitter post that search and rescue teams from numerous local and state agencies were deployed along with personnel to assist those impacted by the tornadoes.
The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado caused damage about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of Jackson, Mississippi. The rural towns of Silver City and Rolling Fork reported destruction as the tornado swept northeast at 70 mph (113 kph) without weakening, racing towards Alabama through towns including Winona and Amory into the night.
The National Weather Service issued an alert as the storm was hitting that didn’t mince words: “To protect your life, TAKE COVER NOW!”
“You are in a life-threatening situation,” it warned. “Flying debris may be deadly to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be destroyed. Considerable damage to homes, businesses, and vehicles is likely and complete destruction is possible.”
Cornel Knight told The Associated Press that he, his wife and their 3-year-old daughter were at a relative’s home in Rolling Fork when the tornado struck. He said the sky was dark but “you could see the direction from every transformer that blew.”
He said it was “eerily quiet” as that happened. Knight said he watched from a doorway until the tornado was, he estimated, less than a mile away. Then he told everyone in the house to take cover in a hallway. He said the tornado struck another relative’s home across a wide corn field from where he was. A wall in that home collapsed and trapped several people inside. As Knight spoke to AP by phone, he said he could see lights from emergency vehicles at the partially collapsed home.
Rolling Fork mayor Eldridge Walker told WLBT-TV he was unable to get out of his damaged home soon after the tornado hit because power lines were down. He said emergency responders were trying to take injured people to hospitals. He did not immediately know how many people had been hurt.
A former mayor of Rolling Fork, Fred Miller, told the television station a tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house.
Storm chaser Reed Timmer posted on Twitter that Rolling Fork was in immediate need of emergency personnel and that he was heading with injured residents of the town to a Vicksburg hospital.
The Sharkey-Issaquena Community Hospital on the west side of Rolling Fork was damaged, WAPT reported.
The Sharkey County Sheriff’s Office in Rolling Fork reported gas leaks and people trapped in piles of rubble, according to the Vicksburg News. Some law enforcement units were unaccounted for in Sharkey, according to the the newspaper.
Rolling Fork and the surrounding area has wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields and catfish farming ponds. More than a half-dozen shelters were opened in the state by emergency officials.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a Twitter post Friday night that search and rescue teams were active and that officials were sending more ambulances and emergency assets to those affected.
“Many in the MS Delta need your prayer and God’s protection tonight,” the post said. “Watch weather reports and stay cautious through the night, Mississippi!”
This was a supercell, the nasty type of storms that brew the deadliest tornado and most damaging hail in the United States, said University of Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Walker Ashley. What’s more this a night-time wet one which is “the worst kind,” he said.
Meteorologists saw a big tornado risk coming for the general region, not the specific area, as much as a week in advance, said Ashley, who was discussing it with his colleagues as early as March 17. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center put out a long-range alert for the area on March 19, he said.
Tornado experts like Ashley have been warning about increased risk exposure in the region because of people building more.
“You mix a particularly socioeconomically vulnerable landscape with a fast-moving, long-track nocturnal tornado, and, disaster will happen,” Ashley said in an email.
Earlier Friday a car was swept away and two passengers drowned in southwestern Missouri during torrential rains that were part of a severe weather system. Authorities said six young adults were in the vehicle that was swept away as the car tried to cross a bridge over a flooded creek in the town of Grovespring.
Four of the six made it out of the water. The body of Devon Holt, 20, of Grovespring, was found at 3:30 a.m., and the body of Alexander Roman-Ranelli, 19, of Springfield, was recovered about six hours later, Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Thomas Young said.
The driver told authorities that the rain made it difficult to see that water from a creek had covered the bridge, Young said.
Meanwhile, the search continued in another southwestern Missouri county for a woman who was missing after flash flooding from a small river washed a car off the road. The Logan Rogersville Fire Protection District said there was no sign of the woman. Two others who were in the car were rescued. Crews planned to use boats and have searchers walking along the riverbank.
When a woman’s SUV got swept up in rushing flood waters Friday morning near Granby, Missouri, Layton Hoyer made his way through icy-cold waters to rescue her.
Some parts of southern Missouri saw nearly 3 inches (8 centimeters) of rain Thursday night and into Friday morning as severe weather hit other areas. A suspected tornado touched down early Friday in north Texas.
Matt Elliott, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said the severe weather was expected across several states.
The Storm Prediction Center warned the greatest threat of tornadoes would come in portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Storms with damaging winds and hail were forecast from eastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma into parts of southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois.
More than 49,000 customers had lost power in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee as of Friday night, according to poweroutage.us.
In Texas, a suspected tornado struck about 5 a.m. in the southwest corner of Wise County, damaging homes and downing trees and power lines, said Cody Powell, the county’s emergency management coordinator. Powell said no injuries were reported.
The weather service had not confirmed a tornado, but damage to homes was also reported in neighboring Parker County, said meteorologist Matt Stalley.
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Associated Press writer Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri, Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington, Robert Jablon in Los Angeles, and Jackie Quinn in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report. | 2023-03-25T12:14:08+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/2-dead-in-missouri-flash-flood-tornado-threat-in-the-south/ |
(The Hill) – Former President Trump topped his closest Republican challenger by nearly 40 points in a new poll of likely GOP voters following the news of his federal indictment.
The CBS News and YouGov poll found that 61 percent of likely GOP voters would vote for Trump in the 2024 Republican primary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) trailed in second-place, garnering 23 percent of the vote.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former Vice President Mike Pence each received four percent of the vote while presidential candidate Nikki Haley received 3 percent of the vote. When asked what candidates they would consider voting for right now, 75 percent of likely GOP respondents said they would consider Trump and 51 percent said they would consider DeSantis.
Twenty-one percent of voters said they would consider Scott, 16 percent said they would consider Pence and 15 percent said they would consider Haley. Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy received 13 percent of the vote, while former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received seven percent when voters were asked what candidates they were considering.
Sixty-one percent said news of Trump’s indictment does not affect their view of him. When asked what should happen to Trump if he is convicted of the federal charges, 80 percent of likely GOP voters said he should be able to be president.
The Justice Department charged Trump in a 37-count indictment last week over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House. Justice Department evidence revealed that the former president had documents containing nuclear and military secrets and the charges hold several decades of prison time.
The poll included responses from 1,798 respondents interviewed between June 9 and 10 after the indictment was unsealed. The margin of error for the sample is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. | 2023-06-12T15:54:06+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/trump-tops-desantis-by-38-points-in-new-poll-after-news-of-indictment/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un attended groundbreaking ceremonies for new housing and farming projects, which are part of his push for domestic achievements as the country’s economic isolation deepens amid his defiant pursuit of nuclear arms.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim broke ground Wednesday for the construction of a huge greenhouse farm in the outskirts of the capital, Pyongyang, where senior North Korean official Jo Yong Won in a speech said that providing Pyongyang residents with “fresh vegetables in all seasons” was a “top priority.”
Kim also attended a ceremony marking the start of second-stage construction project to build 10,000 new homes in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district. The project is part of broader plans to supply 50,000 new homes in the capital under a five-year national development plan that runs through 2025.
Experts say North Korea has severe shortages in quality housing that deepened over decades of economic decay. But living conditions are much better in capital Pyongyang, where Kim in past years has pushed huge development projects that upgraded housing for elites and changed the city’s skyline.
Kim Tok Hun, premier of North Korea’s Cabinet, gave a speech encouraging the “army-civilian builders” to produce “eye-opening miracles in the construction of the capital city in the great era of Kim Jong Un.” He stressed that the construction should be “carried out without fail” in the face of unspecified “harsh difficulties.”
The ceremonies came a week after Kim Jong Un staged a massive military parade in Pyongyang where troops rolled out around a dozen intercontinental ballistic missiles — an unprecedented number despite limited resources while diplomacy remains stalled.
But the costs of Kim’s nuclear push appear to be piling up. North Korea’s ruling Korean Workers’ Party is planning to hold a major meeting this month to discuss the “urgent” task of improving agricultural production as outside experts and officials say the country’s food insecurity could be getting serious.
Already battered by decades of mismanagement and U.S.-led sanctions over Kim’s nuclear ambitions, the North Korean economy took a further hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the country to shield its poor health care system with stringent border controls that significantly reduced trade with China, its main ally and economic lifeline.
During a December political conference, ruling party members identified key economic projects for 2023 that emphasized construction and agricultural activities — focuses that are less dependent on trade as industrial production has been decimated by sanctions and halted imports of factory materials.
State media reports on the latest meeting of North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament in January hinted that Kim’s government was still struggling to revive the moribund economy. | 2023-02-17T01:58:14+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-north-koreas-kim-breaks-ground-for-housing-farm-projects/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Xin Xin, the last panda in Latin America, is not your average bear. A native of Mexico, she’s the only remaining member of a diaspora descended from giant pandas China gifted to foreign countries during the 1970s and 1980s.
Mexico’s Chapultepec Zoo is one of only two zoos that houses pandas without the direct supervision of the Chinese government. That era may soon end after more than 50 years because Xin Xin, the granddaughter of pandas gifted by China, is childless, in menopause and, at 32, very old.
It could be the end for pandas in Latin America altogether if Mexico’s government balks at the price of a new panda.
Xin Xin is a second-generation Mexican-born panda, tracing her lineage to Pe Pe and Ying Ying, who arrived to the zoo in 1975. They were part of China’s early “panda diplomacy,” a period when the charismatic animals were gifted to countries around the world. In 1984, China ended panda gifts, switching to a policy of high-priced loans.
This history has made Mexico one of a few countries able to keep locally born panda cubs. Since 1985, the loan program has required that zoos return any cubs to China.
After Shuan Shuan’s death, Mexican officials began speaking with China’s ambassador. China now loans giant pandas for between 10 and 15 years at a cost of $1 million annually, meant to support panda conservation in China.
The austere administration of Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appears unlikely to agree to this price. “Another arrangement will definitely have to be found, but it will depend a lot on the will and necessities of both countries,” said Fernando Gual, director of Mexico City Zoos and Wildlife Conservation.
Xin Xin’s own interests are more down to earth. She passes the time relaxing in a hammock and padding tranquilly around her enclosure looking for bamboo. Sometimes, her trainer also hides her favorite treat, red apples.
Watching Xin Xin, Gual smiled as he remembered the July 1, 1990 morning when her mother Tohui surprised everyone at the zoo by giving birth to a four-ounce Xin Xin, far from the camera that recorded her movements 24 hours a day.
“It’s impossible not to have an attachment to these animals,” Gual said. “We saw most of them being born here.” Tohui was the second panda ever born outside China, and the first to survive infancy, living to age 12. Pop star Yuri released a song expressing the city’s pride and excitement.
The life expectancy of a giant panda in the wild is about 15 years, but in captivity they have lived to be as old as 38. Decades of conservation efforts in the wild and study in captivity saved the giant panda from extinction, increasing its population from fewer than 1,000 at one time to more than 1,800 today in the wild and captivity.
Mexico’s remarkable success makes it one of only two zoos to run a panda program outside the control of the Chinese government, according to the Congressional Research Service. The other is in Taiwan, which received two pandas in 2008 in exchange of a pair of endangered sika deer.
Eight pandas have been born at in Mexico, of whom five survived to adulthood. Decades of study at the Chapultepec Zoo have yielded extensive knowledge, as well as genetic material — cryogenically preserved semen and ovarian tissue — that scientists here hope will allow them to continue assisting in the pandas’ conservation even after Xin Xin is gone.
Carlos Cerda Dueñas, a researcher at the Monterrey Institute of Technology who has studied panda diplomacy, said that Mexico’s strategic importance could encourage China to make a deal, but that López Obrador’s preference for austerity could make reaching an agreement “very difficult.”
China’s suspended new panda loans for a time during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the government of President Xi Jinping recently revived it, sending a pair of pandas to World Cup host Qatar.
China is Mexico’s second most important trade partner, behind the United States, and China’s government has been working to expand its influence in Latin America. The possibility of leaving the region without any pandas could be leverage for Mexico.
What is not in doubt is the drawing power of the pandas.
At the Chapultepec Zoo there is a panda museum displaying photographs of the animals over the years, plaster casts of their footprints, bits of panda hair and dozens of children’s drawings. Shuan Shuan’s last birthday piñata is there too.
But Xin Xin is the real attraction. She got a birthday piñata, shaped like a panda and stuffed with apples and carrots, on July 1.
On a recent day, Juan Vicente Araya of Costa Rica marveled at Xin Xin, alongside his family.
“When we decided to travel to Mexico, from the oldest to the youngest, everyone at home came with the dream of being able to see a panda,” Araya said, as he patted the head of his young son, who was playing with a stuffed panda his parents bought him on the visit.
Araya, who works for a U.S. company, said the first thing his group of family and friends did after arriving in Mexico City from Costa Rica was to go to the zoo to see Xin Xin.
“In Latin America we don’t have a lot of opportunities to see a panda,” he said. “The truth is it was worth it for us to come from Costa Rica. We’re very excited to meet her.” | 2022-11-17T22:03:54+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-down-to-its-last-panda-mexico-ponders-what-could-come-next/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-10-11-18-35
(three, ten, eleven, eighteen, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-10-11-18-35
(three, ten, eleven, eighteen, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000 | 2022-07-17T04:52:51+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17310138.php |
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — An emotional Brittney Griner apologized Thursday for her actions as her drug possession trial drew to a close Thursday in Russia, and a prosecutor urged that the American basketball star be convicted and sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison in a case that reached the highest levels of U.S.-Russia diplomacy.
With a judge set to issue a verdict later in the day and a conviction all but certain, Griner made a final appeal to the court and said she had no intention to break the law by bringing vape cartridges with cannabis oil when she flew to Moscow in February to play basketball in the city of Yekaterinburg.
"I want to apologize to my teammates, my club, my fans and the city of (Yekaterinburg) for my mistake that I made and the embarrassment that I brought on them," Griner said, her voice cracking. "I want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the Phoenix Mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the WNBA, and my amazing spouse back at home."
She called it "an honest mistake," adding: "hope in your ruling it does not end my life."
Under Russian law, the 31-year-old Griner faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. but judges have considerable latitude on sentencing.
Although a conviction is all but certain, given that Russian courts rarely acquit defendants and Griner has admitted to having vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her luggage, judges have considerable latitude on sentencing.
Lawyers for the Phoenix Mercury center and two-time Olympic gold medalist have pursued strategies to bolster Griner's contention that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage due to hasty packing. They have presented character witnesses from the Russian team that she plays for in the WNBA offseason and written testimony from a doctor who said he prescribed her cannabis for pain treatment.
Griner lawyer Maria Blagovolina argued that Griner brought the cartridges with her to Russia inadvertently and only used cannabis to treat her pain from injuries sustained in her career. She said she used it only in Arizona, where medical marijuana is legal.
She emphasized that Griner was packing in haste after a grueling flight and suffering from the consequences of COVID-19. Blagovolina also pointed out that the analysis of cannabis found in Griner's possession was flawed and violated legal procedures.
Blagovolina asked the court to acquit Griner, noting that she had no past criminal record and hailing her role in "the development of Russian basketball."
Another defense attorney, Alexander Boykov, also emphasized Griner's role in taking her Yekaterinburg team to win multiple championships, noting that she was loved and admired by her teammates.
He told the judge that a conviction would undermine Russia's efforts to develop national sports and make Moscow's call to depoliticize sports sound shallow.
Boykov added that even after her arrest, Griner won the sympathy of both her guards and prison inmates, who supported her by shouting, "Brittney, everything will be OK!" when she went on walks at the jail.
Prosecutor Nikolai Vlasenko insisted that Griner packed the cannabis oil deliberately, and he asked the court to hand Briner a fine of 1 million rubles (about $16,700) in addition to the prison sentence.
It's not clear when the verdict will be announced. If she does not go free, attention will turn to the high-stakes possibility of a prisoner swap.
Before her trial began in July, the State Department designated her as "wrongfully detained," moving her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government's chief hostage negotiator.
Then last week, in an extraordinary move, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, urging him to accept a deal under which Griner and Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia on an espionage conviction, would go free.
The Lavrov-Blinken call marked the highest-level known contact between Washington and Moscow since Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than five months ago. The direct outreach over Griner is at odds with U.S. efforts to isolate the Kremlin.
People familiar with the proposal say it envisions trading Griner and Whelan for the notorious arms trader Viktor Bout, who is serving a prison sentence in the United States. It underlines the public pressure that the White House has faced to get Griner released.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that Russia has made a "bad faith" response to the U.S. government's offer, a counteroffer that American officials don't regard as serious. She declined to elaborate.
Russian officials have scoffed at U.S. statements about the case, saying they show a disrespect for Russian law. They remained poker-faced, urging Washington to discuss the issue through "quiet diplomacy without releases of speculative information."
Photos: Brittney Griner's detention in Russia
Photos: WNBA star Brittney Griner through the years
The vote Tuesday was the first test of voters' feelings about abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in late June. Plus, get a rundown of key election outcomes tonight across the nation.
Abortion backlash in Kansas. Greitens' collapse in Missouri. Trump's revenge against disloyal Republicans. Here are the takeaways from Tuesday's primaries.
Police say Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed Wednesday in a car crash in her northern Indiana district along with two members of her congressional staff and another person. Get more info on that and more trending news here.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China in 25 years.
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, center, is escorted in a court room prior to a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. | 2022-08-04T14:23:24+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/update-griner-apologizes-in-closing-arguments-russian-prosecutors-seek-9-1-2-year-sentence/article_2ea1cb44-344e-59a5-8b63-097da6021339.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A United Airlines flight leaving Hawaii in December 2022 experienced a steep dive and came within 800 feet of hitting the Pacific Ocean after takeoff, according to a recent report.
The plane, a Boeing 777, took off from Kahului Airport in Maui amid heavy rain and a flash flood warning on Dec. 18, 2022, reported The Air Current, an aviation-industry publication. According to data reviewed by the outlet, the plane had reached roughly 2,200 feet before beginning the dive — at about 8,600 feet per minute — and dipping below 775 feet above the ocean.
The dive and recovery happened over a period of only 45 seconds. The flight ultimately landed safely at the San Francisco International Airport.
News of the incident only recently came to public attention after the report, the Associated Press reported.
“When you’re in an airplane like that and it’s going down, you just hold tight to your faith,” said Rod Williams, a passenger who spoke with Nexstar’s KRON about his experience on the Dec. 18 flight. “You hold tight to the things you trust and believe in.”
Williams added that he felt strong “pressure” in his head “when we met that apex and took a dive.”
Indeed, a dive such as the one experienced on the United flight reportedly produces 2.7 times the force of gravity on the plane and its passengers, The Air Current reported.
A spokesperson for United Airlines said an internal safety report was filed after the incident and the aircraft was inspected before its next flight. An investigation led to more training for the pilots, according to the airline.
“Safety remains our highest priority,” the spokesperson said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the agency is still seeking information about the incident, according to a spokesperson.
The incident occurred the same day severe turbulence rocked a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu, seriously injuring 11 people. Airline officials called that an “isolated and unusual event.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-02-15T01:24:35+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/united-flight-came-within-800-feet-of-ocean-during-post-takeoff-dive-report-says/ |
The short-term solution to the water problem in Jackson, Miss., has been free drive-thru bottle water pickup sites.
But that's an issue for people who have no way to get to the water, like April Williams. Her car's been broken down for a week and it'll likely be another before the part she needs can come in. On Thursday, she was down to half a case of bottled water in an apartment with three adults and two young kids.
"The main thing we need, it's a struggle to get right now," Williams said. "You'd be surprised to know how much you need water to survive."
Jackson residents without transportation — or the gas money to spend waiting in some cases hours — have felt abandoned during the city's water crisis. Local nonprofits have been delivering water directly to some residents, but they're still working on scaling up to dealing with a problem that stretches across the city.
City agencies like the fire department have been passing along names of low-income neighborhoods where transportation options are sparse to the Salvation Army. That's how the aid group found Williams about a mile west of Jackson State University and gave her several cases.
Water pressure has now been mostly restored in Jackson. But a boil water notice remains across the city. Williams kept her tub filled with water in case she needed it to flush the toilet.
Dorthy Young sipped from one of her last three palm-sized water bottles when the Salvation Army arrived. She's 85 years old and can't get around without a walker or wheelchair. A neighbor who saw the Salvation Army's truck come by asked for some cases to drop at Young's door. Cleaning up the dishes piled up in her sink was her priority after getting the clean water.
"I worry about it cause you can't get your dishes clean," Young said.
The city's been partnering with the Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition, a collaboration of aid groups in Jackson, for distribution sites and home deliveries. Jackson has dealt with boil water notices for decades, so the nonprofits are used to home water deliveries.
But those past notices were in just pockets of the city — the groups weren't prepared for all of Jackson's water supply to be threatened. This week, the coalition expects to ramp up the home deliveries. While there's no clear timeline for repairs to the city's failed water treatment plant, the coalition plans to continue providing clean water for weeks.
"We know we're going to have boil water notices during the repairs," said Rukia Lumumba, the executive director of the People's Advocacy Institute. She's also the sister of Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. "We're going to need clean water from somewhere outside of the pipes."
Springboard to Opportunities works with five affordable housing communities in Jackson. Aisha Nyandoro, the group's chief executive officer, spent much of last week on the phone tracking down water to deliver to the families she works with. She finally connected with an Alabama sheriff who personally drove down a large load with several pallets of water on Thursday.
The families in these complexes make on average $12,000 per year, according to Nyandoro. Even if they have a car, they can't afford waiting in long water lines.
"Time costs," Nyandoro said. "Gas costs. So it's all of these pieces that so many of us take for granted that families are having to negotiate right now."
Yvette Day is one of the residents Springboard to Opportunities delivered water to on Thursday. She could afford a car, but she's waiting first to see if she wants to remain in Jackson or follow her daughter to Texas. Apartments in the Lone Star State are pricier, but Jackson's constant water problems are pushing her toward moving.
The water pressure dropped again at these apartments, but for a new reason — water has been gushing out of the manhole and flooding the street throughout the morning.
"I just want to leave," Day said. "I just want to move."
Copyright 2022 Gulf States Newsroom. To see more, visit . | 2022-09-06T13:56:07+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/news/2022-09-06/in-jackson-miss-volunteers-work-hard-to-bring-water-to-residents-who-need-help |
Philadelphia gun violence: Deadly double shootings erupt as Memorial Day Weekend begins
PHILADELPHIA - A violent start to Memorial Day Weekend in Philadelphia has left two people dead, and another two critically injured, in two separate double shootings.
Two men were found struck in the first shooting of the morning on the 300 block of Cambria Street just after 3 a.m. Saturday.
A 26-year-old suffering from multiple gunshot wounds was pronounced dead at a local hospital; while a 22-year-old is in critical condition after being shot twice.
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Two women were then struck by more gunfire as a second double shooting erupted just a few hours later on the 100 block of East Allegheny Avenue.
The first victim, a 44-year-old woman, died after being shot twice. A 21-year-old woman is said to be in critical condition after also being shot twice.
No arrested have been made in either shooting, and no weapons recovered.
Both double shootings are under investigation. | 2023-05-27T17:21:02+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/philadelphia-gun-violence-deadly-double-shootings-erupt-as-memorial-day-weekend-begins |
There are two types of people you’ll find working in a factory like Advanced Food Products in New Holland, plant supervisor John (Jay) McMillan explained to four Pequea Valley Intermediate School seventh- and eighth-graders on a mission to make a video aimed at changing the stigma of manufacturing.
The video will debut Monday as part of the annual What’s So Cool About Manufacturing? contest.
One type of person focuses on a job, driven by setting and achieving goals. Another type thrives when things go wrong, enjoying days that vary with new problems to solve, McMillan said as a GoPro camera recorded as they shared pizza in the break room of the maker of cheese sauces, beverages, puddings, spreads and soups.
McMillan’s insight permeated the video even as his exact words were cut, according to Kent Haberern, a Pequea Valley School Intermediate School paraeducator who coached the audio-visual club team of five students.
The students edited four hours of interviews and plant footage down to a 2½-minute pitch. Their target audience? Teachers who shape students’ views of careers and of manufacturing.
Pequea Valley Middle School is one of four Lancaster County schools involved in the regional contest this year. Four Lancaster manufacturers also participated in what is seen as an important workforce development tool.
The video contest gives students a chance to encounter manufacturers and form impressions beyond stereotypes. While no one expects the contest to lead directly to hiring, teachers and students said it has changed their view of jobs in manufacturing. The videos they make and public voting in the competition serve to market the businesses profiled to the community.
Whether they choose a career in manufacturing, the project also gives the students a chance to hone skills they will use when they join the workforce.
Michelle Shirey, enrichment and career coordinator at Cocalico Middle School, which has participated for two years, said the contest is aligned with Pennsylvania’s career standards.
“This project has teamwork and collaboration at every level,” said Shirey, adding that technical skills gained are important to students as well.
Cocalico Middle School students spent nearly 30 hours editing footage from their tour of Savencia Cheese USA in New Holland this year, she said.
What did those seventh-graders learn aside from technical skills?
“Perseverance,” Shirey said.
MORE: Few Lancaster County schools participate in What's So Cool About Manufacturing contest
Workers wanted
With about 38,000 workers, manufacturing makes up about 17% of Lancaster County’s gross domestic product, the second largest sector in the local economy. Even as the sector is predicted to contract, there will be more jobs to fill due to retirements, experts have said.
Earlier this year, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) said talent disruptions and opportunities are among the top trends affecting manufacturers in 2023. Manufacturers are confronting a range of challenges around the workforce, including labor shortages and skills gaps, while also figuring out how to take advantage of previously untapped talent pools, NAM said in a January report.
The U.S. Department of Labor projects a decline in many manufacturing occupations, but jobs such as CNC programmers are expected to grow fast, with 3,600 needed nationally each year in the next eight years.
Last year, the York-based Manufacturers’ Association’s Annual Manufacturing Wage & Salary report showed that manufacturers expect to make more than 880 new hires over the next 12 months, a historic high for the survey. The survey reported the manufacturing workforce is aging faster with 20% of the companies reporting that a third or more of their workforce could retire in the next five years.
A glimpse behind the scenes
Pequea Valley Intermediate School and Advanced Food Products allowed LNP | LancasterOnline a glimpse behind the scenes as four middle school students toured the facility 158 W. Jackson St. where 60% of the employees have been there less than three years.
The young video production team scouted the best place to shoot footage. Anthony Rostad, an eighth-grader, used the GoPro camera to focus on lines of large unlabeled cans moving along conveyors and machines picking up cardboard boxes, among other things. The students balanced their enthusiasm for exploring the plant with the company’s need for privacy (one machine is the specially designed aseptic packaging processor, the only one in the United States).
Kevin Millisock, process supervisor at Advanced Food Products, shows Pequea Valley Intermediate School students around the packaging side of t…
“If you ever wanted to get into making good money, get into industrial maintenance,” supervisor Keith Millisock told the students.
Industrial maintenance workers can earn six figures, he said. Haberern reminded them what six figures meant.
The students were surprised by what they learned: the work was not monotonous and there were a variety of jobs to do.
What surprised the Pequea Valley Intermediate School video team?
“How everyone did their own thing,” said eighth-grader Makayla Kofroth. “They each had their special part to keep (production) going.”
Caleb Haines, a seventh-grader, was impressed by the variety of products made.
Caedmon Marshall, also in seventh grade, asked what’s the most a person could earn in manufacturing and learned that some people who work with computer programming make $40 to $50 an hour. Plant manager McMillan said manufacturing has become more automated.
Marshall asked what the hardest job in the plant was. Physically, McMillan said, some jobs require lifting 50-pound bags of ingredients. Mentally, the hardest job might be a mid-level supervisor, McMillan told the students. That person has to understand decisions made in upper management and be able to explain them to people who work for them so that they can carry through company plans and goals.
Jay McMillan, plant Manager at Advanced Food Products, left, if filmed by Pequea Valley Intermediate School student Anthony Rostad as he does …
Projects build multiple skills
The video shoot was just a small part of the project, Haberern said. Kofroth and Marshall met during lunch and other class periods to edit the footage.
Each of the students grew through the experience, Haberernsaid. Rostad was “just phenomenal about shooting with a GoPro,” getting great footage and sound when it was hard to do.
They helped each other when their roles got overwhelming, Haberern said.
“We all agreed we don’t want to sound like we’re reading copy or feel like we are acting,” Haberen said. “They tried hard to just be themselves on camera. Caedmon and Makayla took charge of that and had fun with that.”
After submitting their video, the students focused on a strategy to gain votes in the competition.
Haberen said the project made concepts in audio-visual production come alive for the students in a way that doesn’t happen when they stream events.
“For (assistant principal) Christy Collins to ask me to do this was just golden,” Haberern said. | 2023-03-11T11:23:32+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/public-voting-starts-monday-in-the-whats-so-cool-about-manufacturing-video-contest-heres-a/article_85202fc0-bf52-11ed-8d8c-cb8ea3670274.html |
(The Hill) – New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman released a pair of photos to corroborate reporting in her forthcoming book that White House staffers regularly found ripped-up printed paper clogging a toilet in the presidential residence during former President Trump’s administration.
The photos, shared with Axios on Monday, reportedly show small pieces of paper in a toilet in the White House and another from an overseas trip.
“That Mr. Trump was discarding documents this way was not widely known within the West Wing, but some aides were aware of the habit, which he engaged in repeatedly,” Haberman told the outlet.
Reports of Trump-era White House officials attempting to flush documents down toilets first surfaced in February, as reported in Haberman’s forthcoming book.
“You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan,” a spokesperson for Trump told Axios. “We know … there’s enough people willing to fabricate stories like this in order to impress the media class — a media class who is willing to run with anything, as long as it anti-Trump.”
The National Archives confirmed in January that some of the documents it received from the Trump administration had been ripped up and taped back together.
Haberman has covered Trump for years, dating back to his time as a real estate mogul in New York City. Her new book on on the former president’s life debuts in October. | 2022-08-08T18:22:27+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/haberman-shares-photos-of-trump-era-white-house-toilet-clogged-with-wads-of-paper/ |
DENVER (AP) — The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in other Western states whose rivers feed the parched desert region.
The weather modification method uses planes and ground-based cannons to shoot silver iodide crystals into clouds, attracting moisture to the particles that falls as additional snow and rain.
The funding comes as key reservoirs on the Colorado River hit record lows and booming Western cities and industries fail to adjust their water use to increasingly shrinking supplies.
"This money from Reclamation is wonderful, we just have to decide how exactly it’s going to benefit us," said Andrew Rickert, who coordinates Colorado's cloud seeding for the Colorado Water Conservation Board.
The federal funding will go toward upgrading manual generators to ones that can be remotely operated, and using planes to seed clouds in key parts of the Upper Colorado River Basin, according to Southern Nevada Water Authority documents for its board meeting.
Securing enough generators could be a challenge, Rickert said. “There's not a lot of makers of cloud seeding generators," he said. “Not only do we have to make sure we can find that, but that they could make as many as need.”
The Bureau of Reclamation declined to comment about the funding decision.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority said the grant, while administered by Nevada, is not exclusively for the state's benefit. “It will all be used to do cloud seeding in the Upper Basin for the benefit of all the river’s users,” wrote public outreach officer Corey Enus over email.
In the Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah and Colorado have been seeding clouds for decades. Wyoming has nearly a decade of experience, and New Mexico began warm weather seeding last year in the eastern part of the state.
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming spend between about $1 million and $1.5 million a year for cloud seeding. Utah's legislature recently expanded their investment in cloud seeding programs in next year’s state budget, allocating more than $14 million.
Numerous studies indicate cloud seeding can add 5% to 15% more precipitation from storm clouds.
Since 2007, various groups have helped fund cloud seeding in Upper Basin states. In 2018, several entities, including the Southern Nevada Water Authority, began to formally fund those efforts, collectively contributing about $1.5 million annually.
The grant from the reclamation bureau will be spread out over two years, temporarily doubling financial support for the Upper Basin cloud seeding from outside parties.
The seven Colorado River basin states are still negotiating with the Bureau of Reclamation on how they will conserve 2 million to 4 million acre-feet of water — or up to roughly one-third. The Bureau is expected to release a draft proposal this month and expects to finalize plans by mid-August, when it typically announces the amount of water available from the Colorado River for the following year.
With such an over-allocated river, everyone will have to use less, particularly the agricultural sector, said Kathryn Sorenson of the Kyl Center for Water Policy think tank.
“I think a lot the allure of this type of program is it's easier to talk about how do we get more than to talk about who has to use less,” she said.
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(THE CONVERSATION) – In American culture, Christmas is supposed to be synonymous with joy. The familiar carols proclaim this message, with “Joy to the World” resounding in thousands of churches, while its secular counterpart exhorts listeners to have “A Holly Jolly Christmas.”
The real emotions of the season are a bit more complex. For many people, late December produces a kind of toxic brew of nostalgia and melancholy. It’s difficult not to remember loved ones missing from the holidays. People move, grow apart, pass on – all these hit home with a special poignance at this time of year, and other kinds of changes, too. Parents might even remember with nostalgic sadness a more innocent time when their children still believed in Santa. Nearly everyone has too much to do, and gift-giving can be a minefield.
I’ve been writing about the role that music plays in social life for most of my career as a religion scholar. And each November, when Christmas music starts its multi-week marathon, I’m especially sensitive to the songs that go off script – the songs that recognize how the “most wonderful time of the year” can actually feel far from it.
Blue Christmas
Elvis Presley captured some of this sentiment in his song “Blue Christmas,” which tells a tale of romantic separation: “I’ll have a blue Christmas without you/ I’ll be so blue just thinking about you.” Romantic holiday heartbreak is even more explicit in 1980s pop group Wham!‘s “Last Christmas”: “Last Christmas I gave you my heart/ But the very next day you gave it away.”
The notion of Blue Christmas is increasingly recognized by churches, of all places, where one would expect the message of holiday joy to be the least conflicted. Some congregations now offer Blue Christmas services, where readings emphasize the reality of loss but also the message of hope represented by the birth of Christ.
Sometimes called Longest Night services, this tradition is partly inspired by the winter solstice – the longest night of the year. It’s also a reminder that seasonal affective disorder might have something to do with people’s melancholy. It’s no wonder that Romans, pagans and others around the world celebrated the winter solstice with bonfires. Today, many people light small paper lanterns called luminaria, a custom that developed in the southern U.S. borderlands.
Season of waiting
In fact, the four weeks of Advent, the period of the church calendar leading up to Christmas, have a kind of somber quality that is at least as important to the season than the festive 12 days of Christmas. “The tyranny of relentless mandatory celebration leaves us exhausted and often, ironically, feeling emptier,” Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren wrote in a 2019 column for The New York Times. “To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep, wordless desire for things to be made right and the incompleteness we find in the meantime.”
Churches often emphasize the sense of mystery and confusion leading up to the birth of the child Christ. Probably the best known Advent song is “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” whose mournful, chantlike melody goes back to 15th-century France.
The opening verse refers to the inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem, conquered by Babylon and mourning in “lonely exile” there. Awaiting a messiah or “Immanuel,” meaning “God with us,” predicted by the prophet Isaiah, they yearn for him to “disperse the gloomy clouds of night/ And death’s dark shadows put to flight.”
From war to the White House
Beyond church doors, a very different song that captures the bittersweet quality of the holidays is Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time is Here,” with its moody jazz harmonies and waltz-feel behind an angelic-sounding children’s choir. It’s the opening song of the classic “Peanuts” animated TV special that begins, fittingly, with a depressed Charlie Brown going to Lucy for therapy.
But “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” might convey the atmosphere of nostalgia and melancholy better than any other. Recorded in October 1943, almost exactly halfway through World War II, the song became a hit for iconic crooner Bing Crosby, just as his “White Christmas” had the year before.
“I’ll be home for Christmas,” he sings in his rich baritone, describing snow and mistletoe he’s hoping for – before listeners realize he may be home “only in my dreams.”
Crosby’s version, with its unique little warble on the final syllable of “I’ll be home for Christ—ma-a-as,” is probably the best known – popularity due, in part, to how it captured the feelings of a world at war. Two decades later, astronauts Frank Borman and Frank Lovell requested the song be piped up to them as they returned to Earth aboard the Gemini 7 spacecraft.
Ironically, the BBC banned the song during World War II because of fear it might lower morale, saying it had “adopted a policy of excluding sickly sentimentality which, particularly when sung by certain vocalists, can become nauseating and not at all in keeping with what we feel to be the need of the public in this country.”
The most recent cover version is by the Cuban-American singer and songwriter Camila Cabello. In a performance last year at the White House, she brought in a mariachi band, giving her rendition a distinctly Mexican sound. She also makes a slight modification to account for today’s more abundant gift-giving, switching in “presents under the tree” instead of “presents on the tree.”
My favorite is Frank Sinatra’s 1957 rendition, with his usual cooler-than-cool sense of nonchalance – you get an impression that he’s really not in much of a hurry to get home to celebrate, after all. Which may be how many of us feel, at least part of the time, at this season of the year.
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Spending on travel and entertainment is up, even as Americans contend with stubborn inflation. One reason the economy is doing so well is that people keep spending money.
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Spending on travel and entertainment is up, even as Americans contend with stubborn inflation. One reason the economy is doing so well is that people keep spending money.
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GUANGZHOU, China, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The official website of the 131st Canton Fair is open on April 15, 2022. A range of innovative products made with new materials, technologies and processes are uploaded by shoe manufacturers. Self-developed foaming technology and specialized breathable materials are applied to ensure lightness, elasticity and durability, as well as the internal and external air circulation of shoes, so as to reduce stuffiness and keep feet dry. Such innovations have become a norm.
China is one of the most outstanding players in the global footwear industry. After joining the World Trade Organization, thanks to its labor advantage, China's show makers have built a complete industry chain and multiple industry clusters specialized in various shoe categories through over 20 years of development. Such clusters include shoe production bases in Guangdong centered around Guangzhou and Dongguan, in Zhejiang around Wenzhou and Taizhou, a women's shoe production base around Chengdu and Chongqing and the Fujian sports shoe production base around Quanzhou and Jinjiang.
With the deepening of China's Smart Manufacturing Strategy, Canton Fair has actively motivated exhibitors to keep innovating. In recent years, more and more shoe exhibitors have benefited from independent innovation and gradually shaken off the labels of "original equipment manufacturer"(OEM), switching to high-end intelligent manufacturing and overseas brand expansion.
Among China's brands, represented by ANTA, Li-Ning, and Xtep, some made breakthroughs in materials and processes to expand from the sports and leisure shoe market to professional sports such as marathon, weightlifting and boxing. Some brands actively embrace the digital innovation trend, promote the integration of the shoe manufacturing industry with the internet, big data, robots and standardization, and introduce high-end intelligent assembly lines to control manufacturing costs and enhance efficiency.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, in 2021, China's exports of shoes and boots reached USD47.9 billion, up 35% YoY, with export prices retaining an uptrend, by 15%. The shoe manufacturing industry and supply chains showed strong momentum, helping stabilize foreign trade.
Alan Liu, Deputy Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Canton Fair noted, "At the 131st Canton Fair, we will help companies expand new channels, promote domestic-international dual circulation and enable comfortable China-branded shoes to make their journey around the globe."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Monday that the United States and NATO played no part in the Wagner mercenary group’s short-lived insurrection in Russia, calling the uprising and the longer-term challenges it poses for President Vladimir Putin’s authority “a struggle within the Russian system.”
Biden and U.S. allies supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion emphasized their intent to be seen as staying out of the mercenaries’ stunning insurgency, the biggest threat to Putin in his two decades leading Russia. They are concerned that Putin could use accusations of Western involvement to rally Russians to his defense.
Biden and administration officials declined an immediate assessment of what the 22-hour uprising by the Wagner Group might mean for Russia’s war in Ukraine, for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin or for Russia itself.
“We’re going to keep assessing the fallout of this weekend’s events and the implications from Russia and Ukraine,” Biden said. “But it’s still too early to reach a definitive conclusion about where this is going.”
Putin, in his first public comments since the rebellion, said “Russia’s enemies” had hoped the mutiny would succeed in dividing and weakening Russia, “but they miscalculated.” He identified the enemies as “the neo-Nazis in Kyiv, their Western patrons and other national traitors.”
And Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the special services were already investigating whether Western intelligence services were involved in Prigozhin’s rebellion.
Over the course of a tumultuous weekend in Russia, U.S. diplomats were in contact with their counterparts in Moscow to underscore that the American government regarded the matter as a domestic affair for Russia, with the U.S. only a bystander, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
American diplomats also stressed to Moscow that they expected Russia to ensure the safety of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and Americans detained in Russia, Miller said.
In a video call between Biden and leaders of U.S.-allied countries over the weekend, all were determined to give Putin “no excuse to blame this on the West,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
“We made clear that we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it,” Biden said. “This was part of a struggle within the Russian system.”
Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said Putin in the past has alleged clandestine U.S. involvement in events — including democratic uprisings in former Soviet countries, and campaigns by democracy activists inside and outside Russia — as a way to diminish public support among Russians for those challenges to the Russian system.
The U.S. and NATO “don’t want to be blamed for the appearance of trying to destabilize Putin,” McFaul said.
A feud between Prigozhin and Russia’s military brass that has festered throughout the war erupted into the mutiny that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city. They rolled for hundreds of kilometers toward Moscow, before turning around on Saturday, in a deal whose terms remain uncertain.
Biden’s national security team briefed him hourly as Prigozhin’s forces were on the move, the president said. He had directed them to “prepare for a range of scenarios” as Russia’s crisis unfolded, he said.
Biden did not elaborate on the scenarios. But national security spokesman John Kirby addressed one concern raised frequently by the public, news media and others as the world watched the cracks opening in Putin’s hold on power — worries that the Russian leader might take extreme action to reassert his command.
Putin and the Kremlin have made repeated references to Russia’s nuclear weapons since invading Ukraine 16 months ago, aiming to discourage NATO countries from ratcheting up their support to Ukraine.
“One thing that we have always talked about, unabashedly so, is that it’s in nobody’s interest for this war to escalate beyond the level of violence that is already visited upon the Ukrainian people,” Kirby said at a White House news briefing. “It’s not good for, certainly, Ukraine and not good for our allies and partners in Europe. Quite frankly, it’s not good for the Russian people.”
In the aftermath of the mutiny, both Prigozhin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made public comments Monday aiming to play down the crisis.
In an 11-minute audio statement, Prigozhin said he acted “to prevent the destruction of the Wagner private military company” and in particular in response to an attack on a Wagner camp that killed some 30 of his fighters.
Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend, telling him, ”’No matter what happened in Russia, let me say again, no matter what happened in Russia, we in the United States would continue to support Ukraine’s defense and sovereignty and its territorial integrity.” Biden said. He said he intended to speak with Zelenskyy again late Monday or early Tuesday.
The Pentagon is expected to announce Tuesday that it is sending up to $500 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armored vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defense systems, U.S. officials said Monday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid has not yet been publicly announced.
Biden, in the first weeks after Putin sent tens of thousands of Russian forces into Ukraine in February 2022, had issued a passionate statement against the Russian leader’s continuing in command. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said then, as reports emerged of Russian atrocities against civilians in Ukraine.
On Monday, U.S. officials were careful not to be seen as backing either Putin or his former longtime protege, Prigozhin, in public comments.
“We believe it’s up to the Russian people to determine who their leadership is,” Kirby said.
White House officials were also trying to understand how Beijing was digesting the Wagner revolt and what it might mean for the China-Russia relationship going forward. China and Russia are each other’s closest major partner. The White House says Beijing has considered — but not followed through on — sending Russia weaponry for use in Ukraine.
“I think it’d be fair to say that recent developments in Russia had been unsettling to the Chinese leadership,” said Kurt Campbell, coordinator for the Indo-Pacific at the White House National Security Council, speaking at a forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “I think I’ll just leave it at that.”
China values Russia as a friend in part to keep from standing alone against the U.S. and its allies in disputes. With Russia’s invasion and resulting international sanctions sapping Russian resources and now sparking a rebellion, McFaul said, Ukraine and its allies could make the case: “‘Xi Jinping, you know, if you want your buddy to stay in power, maybe this is the time to put some pressure on him to wrap up this war.”’
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report. | 2023-06-27T15:22:31+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-says-the-us-and-nato-had-no-involvement-in-the-insurrection-in-russia-by-a-mercenary-force/ |
As of last month, the 2023 Genesis GV70 is now built in the U.S.—but only in one of its variants, a new battery-electric version dubbed Electrified GV70.
Behind that debut lies a story. When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last August, building EVs in the United States became far more important than it was the day before. That’s because one provision in the sprawling industrial-policy bill restricted purchase incentives for new battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to those models assembled in the United States.
At the time, the list of battery-electric vehicles meeting that requirement was short: the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV, Ford F-150 Lightning, GMC Hummer EV, Nissan Leaf, and all four Tesla models (Model S, Model X, Model 3, and Model Y). Since then, the list has expanded to include the Cadillac Lyriq and Volkswagen ID.4.
That’s how I found myself in Montgomery, Alabama, in February, watching a set of electric automated guided vehicles maneuver a Genesis GV70 crossover into position and slowly hoist the truck seven feet into the air. A separate robot vehicle then rolled a battery pack into position underneath the newly built SUV and lifted it into place.
Once the heavy pack was in position, a team of experienced plant technicians from the “Genesis Multi-Function Team” swarmed under the vehicle. They bolted the pack into place and connected its high-voltage cables, liquid cooling pipes, and more. After following the vehicle through its production process, their last step was to test charging before the new GV70 Electrified rejoined the rest of the cars built on the same line and waited for a test driver.
The battery-insertion demonstration and the ensuing speeches by company employees and local, state, and national politicians were dubbed the “Electrified GV70 Celebration Event.” The goal was to show that Hyundai’s large plant in Montgomery, opened in December 2005, was now building an EV along with hundreds of thousands of internal combustion models a year.
Ramping up for U.S.-built EVs
The plant at present builds the Elantra compact sedan, Tucson compact crossover, Santa Fe mid-size crossover, Sonata sedan, and Santa Cruz pickup truck.
The Genesis Electrified GV70 is a battery-powered version of its well-reviewed and successful GV70 compact crossover, on sale in the U.S. for more than a year with a choice of turbo-4 or V-6 gasoline engines. In 2022, the brand sold 19,141 GV70s, and the total would have been higher if U.S. dealers could have gotten more vehicles to meet buyers’ “insatiable appetite” for it, said Ted Mengiste, VP of sales operations for Genesis U.S.
The decision to add GV70 production to Montgomery reportedly came together quickly. Hyundai officials met with state Governor Kay Ivey only in March 2022, the deal was announced the next month, and early vehicles rolled off the lines nine months later.
That made Montgomery not only the first non-Korean Genesis plant, but the company’s first in the U.S. to build battery-electric vehicles (though it was already building plug-in hybrid versions of the Tucson and Santa Fe). A month after the Alabama announcement, Hyundai said it would build an entirely new U.S. plant in Georgia, to assemble up to 300,000 EVs a year. The passage of the IRA appears to have accelerated those plans with a potential expansion to 500,000 units a year and the possibility of Genesis EVs from that plant, too.
Electric cars and gas models on the same line
The secret to running multiple models interspersed on the same production line is a consistent assembly process, with the same pieces welded together or assembled into the in-process shell at the same points, regardless of whether it’s a simple compact sedan or a luxury SUV. That consistent process lets the plant build not just the GV70 interspersed with the various Hyundai models, but insert the front and rear powertrains into the vehicle in the same spot on the line that the gasoline drivetrains—with front- or all-wheel drive—are lifted up from underneath and bolted into place.
GV70 stampings are brought in and welded together in the same order as those for the Santa Fe, and the completed shell travels along the same line to the same paint shop. Every tenth vehicle on the line might be a GV70—meaning a production rate of six per hour on one shift—according to Robert Burns, vice president and chief administrative officer for Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Inc.
But, Burns told Green Car Reports, the Genesis brand uses a more complex clear-coat paint process than the Hyundai vehicles. To simplify that process, GV70 shells are batched at the entrance to the paint shop, then painted in a group once the Hyundai clear-coat has been swapped out of the paint nozzles and the Genesis ingredients loaded. Then the painted Genesis shells are inserted back into the production sequence in specific positions that correspond to the order of the “kitted” EV running gear and other components queued up for later in the process.
Back on the line, the electric GV70’s bright-orange high-voltage wiring harness is inserted into the vehicle along with the regular harness. Its connectors are in place awaiting the front and rear motors, each with power electronics sitting on top, and they are connected together at the same time the myriad pieces of the regular harness are connected to their various motors, switches, and instruments.
Battery pack marriage: Different than Tesla, for sure
The one piece of assembly that couldn’t be accommodated on a production line built for vehicles with engines was the insertion of the half-ton, several-foot-long battery pack under the cabin floor. All GV70 Electrified models roll off the end of the regular line minus a battery, and hence unable to power themselves.
That’s where the robot carts come in: the electric Genesis SUVs divert into a new area at the end of the line where they’re moved by the AGVs into position under a huge frame. Adjacent to the frame, a collection of electric carts holds fully-charged battery packs comprised of nickel-manganese-cobalt cells provided by battery maker SK On. The GV70 is lifted into the air, the AGV moves a pack underneath it and lifts it into place, and the Multi-Function Team does the bolting, wiring, and connecting from there.
Once the battery has been inserted and connected, and the GV70 lowered back down, the Multi-Function Team members fill the cooling system that keeps the battery and motors at the desired temperature for longest life. They do a quick test of charging and discharging, to ensure all connections are working properly, and then the GV70 Electrified can be driven out of the plant.
Along with all Hyundai models built there, the Genesis then heads onto the two-mile test track where all Montgomery-built vehicles are checked for consistent acceleration, braking, and handling, water-tight seals, suitably low noise level, and a host of other qualities.
How does the Genesis Electrified GV70 drive?
We had a chance to drive an early production version of the Alabama-built Electrified GV70 for half an hour on several roads and a highway near the assembly plant. The vehicles offered to reporters carried VINs from 000170 to 000230, suggesting they had been built within the few weeks prior. Build quality was excellent, with no observable defects.
The test route was largely straight roads, and the local terrain is almost entirely flat, so we can’t really weigh in on the handling and roadholding. Our brief drive suggested the electric GV70 benefits from the extra weight and lower center of gravity of its battery pack.
Colleague Marty Padgett attended a later first-drive event; for comprehensive impressions, read his review of the GV70 Electrified, along with the pricing that hadn’t been established at the time of our plant visit.
Like the Electrified G80 sedan that preceded it—and despite the confusing “electrified” moniker, often used for hybrids and plug-in hybrids—the Electrified GV70 is a full battery-electric vehicle. The same 77.4-kilowatt-hour battery pack used in the Ioniq 5 hatchback and the upcoming Ioniq 6 sedan powers a pair of 160-kilowatt motors, one each on the front and rear axles. Total output is 320 kw (429 horsepower) and 516 lb-ft of torque, and a “Boost” function allows the motors to deliver 355 kw (483 hp) for up to 10 seconds via a steering-wheel button. Two trim levels are available: Advanced and Prestige, roughly equivalent to the top two of three trims on the gasoline GV70.
All-electric by 2030
Genesis will sell only battery-electric models by 2030, the brand said in September. Its last new model with gasoline power will arrive in 2025, with a five-year runout before new gasoline vehicles vanish from its showrooms at the turn of the decade.
Alabama-built Electrified GV70 models will start to appear in U.S. buyers’ driveways by the end of March, Hyundai said. Canadian buyers, however, will receive their electric GV70s from the main production line in Ulsan, South Korea—as will the rest of the world’s markets.
Genesis provided airfare, lodging, and meals to enable Green Car Reports to bring you this first-person report.
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TSUKUBA, Japan, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A research team at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) has shed light on how electrical conduction in oxide nanosheets can be markedly affected by small changes in their atomic arrangement.
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The physical properties of a material are dictated by the arrangement of its atoms. This holds true not only for classical three-dimensional crystals but also for two-dimensional structures such as atomically thin nanosheets that are quickly becoming the cornerstone of many next-generation technologies.
However, the detailed atomic arrangement of certain nanosheets has not been fully elucidated, which limits experts' understanding of the origin of their desirable properties. This problem is also encountered when investigating ruthenate nanosheets, conductive oxides with promising applications in electronics and energy storage.
The mystery underlying the conduction mechanisms in ruthenate nanosheets motivated a team of researchers at WPI-MANA, led by Dr. Satoshi Tominaka, to further investigate their atomic structure. In a recent study, they analyzed how the possible structural symmetries in ruthenate nanosheets altered their conducting properties.
The researchers employed a pair distribution function (PDF), which described the probability of finding two atoms at a certain distance apart inside a material. Using PDF, they found that ruthenate nanosheets with the same atomic composition can adopt two different atomic arrangements, leading to differences in their symmetry. "Although the structural difference was not large, symmetry changes resulted in remarkably different properties, with ruthenate nanosheets behaving either as a graphene-like semimetal or a semiconductor as confirmed by our calculations," explains Dr. Tominaka. "This highlights the importance of symmetry analysis, even in low-dimensional materials."
Overall, this study paves the way to a better understanding of oxide nanosheets, which could be a game changer in the development of future electronic and electrochemical devices.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and former top FBI officials, rejecting the former president’s claims that they and others acted in concert to concoct the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his administration.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said in a sharply worded ruling on Thursday that Trump’s lawsuit, filed in March, contained “glaring structural deficiencies” and that many of the “characterizations of events are implausible.”
He dismissed the idea that Trump had sued to correct an actual legal harm, saying that “instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.”
The lawsuit had named as defendants Clinton and some of her top advisers, as well as former FBI Director James Comey and other FBI officials involved in the investigation into whether Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign had coordinated with Russia to sway the outcome of the election.
Other defendants include the founders of a political research firm that hired a former British spy to investigate ties between Trump and Russia, and a well-connected Democratic lawyer who was recently acquitted on a charge of lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he presented the bureau with information it wanted to investigate.
But none of the claims, the judge wrote, supported Trump’s claims of a conspiracy against him.
“What the Amended Complaint lacks in substance and legal support it seeks to substitute with length, hyperbole, and the settling of scores and grievances,” Middlebrooks wrote.
A 2019 Justice Department inspector general report did identify certain flaws by the FBI during the Russia investigation, but did not find evidence that the bureau’s leaders were motivated by political bias in opening the probe and said the inquiry was started for a legitimate purpose.
A separate investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller produced criminal charges against nearly three dozen people and entities and found pervasive Russian interference in the election, but did not establish a criminal conspiracy with the Trump campaign.
Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, said Friday that Trump would appeal the dismissal. | 2022-09-09T19:55:17+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/judge-dismisses-trumps-russia-probe-lawsuit-against-clinton-fbi/ |
The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned on July 29. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby's natural history auction.
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The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned on July 29. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby's natural history auction.
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Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc is pleading with fans to respect his privacy.
In a since-expired Instagram Story, Leclerc asked fans to stop turning up outside his residence in Monaco. He wrote that his home address had "somehow become public" in recent months, leading to people "gathering beneath my apartment, ringing my bell and asking for pictures and autographs."
“While I’m always happy to be there for you and truly appreciate your support, please respect my privacy and refrain from coming to my house,” Leclerc wrote to his 10.5 million Instagram followers on Sunday.
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Leclerc said he'll always stop for fans on the streets or at the racetrack but would ignore anyone who comes to his home.
“Your support, both in person and on social media, means the world to me, but there is a boundary that should not be crossed,” he wrote.
Leclerc, who drives for Ferrari, is one of the biggest stars in a sport that has substantially increased in popularity thanks to the Netflix series "Formula 1: Drive to Survive." The 25-year-old Leclerc has recorded five victories and taken 18 pole positions across 105 starts. | 2023-04-12T02:42:45+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/f1-star-charles-leclerc-asks-fans-to-stop-coming-to-his-home/3012586/ |
Workers at more than 150 Starbucks locations across the country are planning to go on strike as the coffee chain and a union representing baristas clash over displays supporting LBGTQ+ causes in stores during Pride month.
Starbucks Workers United said in a tweet Friday that 3,500 workers will be on strike over the next week.
Baristas at two Chicago stores will strike over the weekend, according to an organizer with the union. The stores set to strike Saturday and Sunday are located at 6075 N. Lincoln Ave. in North Park and 116 S. Halsted St. in Greektown. Baristas at unionized cafes in Urbana and Carbondale will also strike, according to the union.
Starbucks has consistently denied claims by union organizers that it was banning Pride displays in its U.S. stores after brands like Disney, Target and Bud Light suffered a related backlash and negative social media campaigns in some parts of the country.
Even brands like Chick-fil-A, which closes on Sundays for a day of “rest and worship,” and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have been targeted online by anti-LBGTQ+ groups and individuals.
Starbucks on Friday said that the union is using misinformation as part of ongoing contract negotiations.
“Workers United continues to spread false information about our benefits, policies and negotiation efforts—a tactic used to seemingly divide our partners and deflect from their failure to respond to bargaining sessions for more than 200 stores,” Starbucks said in a written statement.
A Buffalo Starbucks location was the first to unionize in early 2022 and at least 358 Starbucks stores have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold union elections, but those efforts have slowed in recent months with pushback from some workers who have resisted organization efforts.
The union that represents baristas, Workers United, says that store managers around the country have curtailed or removed displays during a monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ people. In some cases, the union said, managers told workers that Pride displays were a safety concern, citing recent incidents at Target where some angry customers tipped over merchandise and confronted workers.
Seattle-based Starbucks said last week that there had been no change to any policy on the matter and that its support is “unwavering.” The company has been outspoken in its support for LGBTQ+ employees for decades. It extended full health benefits to same-sex partners in 1988 and added health coverage for gender reassignment surgery in 2013.
Starbucks Corp. is also currently selling Pride-themed tumblers in its stores designed by Toronto artist Tim Singleton, who is gay.
Chicago Tribune contributed. | 2023-06-23T16:54:56+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-starbucks-pride-ap-20230623-dzfcxcmiangdbjevftkxttcoty-story.html |
PHOENIX (AP) — While the fight song for the Philadelphia Eagles may be “Fly, Eagles Fly,” the offensive formula that carried the team to the Super Bowl was more grounded.
With a trio of capable running backs, one of the best running quarterbacks and a dominating offensive line, the Eagles eschewed the pass-happy approach that has taken over the league in recent years to rely more on the ground game to overwhelm opponents physically.
“It’s like a boxing match,” running backs coach Jemal Singleton said. “Hopefully we’re getting enough body blows in the first and second quarter that when it comes to the third and fourth quarter, those body blows get a little bit heavier and you start to diminish your opponent a little bit. That’s part of what we try to do is just stay physical throughout the game.”
Few teams have done that as well as the Eagles, who have run the ball on half their offensive plays and averaged 153.9 yards rushing per game, including the playoffs — which would be the highest mark for a Super Bowl champion since the 1998 Denver Broncos. Philadelphia’s 39 TD runs are the most ever in a season.
The Eagles have a variety of options to fuel the running game with Miles Sanders leading the way with a career-high 1,269 yards and 11 TDs in a contract year.
“This year was kind of one of those years where I just wanted to make everybody feel me,” Sanders said. “So I just took it upon myself to just control what I could control and just go out there and ball out every game, every time I touch the ball and make everybody pay for it.”
He has done that and gotten plenty of help from Boston Scott and Kenneth Gainwell, as well as quarterback Jalen Hurts. Gainwell leads the team with 160 yards rushing this postseason, with Scott adding two TD runs.
“It’s a really cool situation because we are all able to do pretty much everything you want,” Scott said. “Whatever is asked of us, whether it’s pass-block, running routes, running in between the tackles, outside speed, we can all do it. It’s not really a situation where defense is going to be like, OK, this guy’s in and he’s doing this and that. It kind of helps us be unpredictable.”
While some teams try to fool defenses with motion, the Eagles prefer a more static approach, believing a line led by All-Pro center Jason Kelce and right tackle Lane Johnson can control the trenches without using deception.
Philadelphia used motion on just 34% of running plays — about 10 percentage points lower than the next-lowest team.
“You might know what’s coming, but the NFL is all about matchups,” Johnson said. “So they’re going to put matchups on and create matchup problems for the D-line, for linebackers with our schemes and what we do.”
While the backs get the majority of the yards on the ground, the threat of Hurts running fuels the run game for the Eagles. They were held to 154 yards rushing in the two games he missed with a shoulder injury — about half their season average.
Hurts has rushed for 833 yards in his 17 starts with his 15 touchdown runs the most ever for a quarterback in the regular season and playoffs combined.
But just his presence is what makes the run game so successful.
“Even if he’s handed the ball off, he may hold a guy for one step that allows us to hit a crease and gain 10 more yards we wouldn’t have gotten had he not been a threat as a runner,” Singleton said. “He’s a big part of our run game, a big part of what we do. I wouldn’t say honorary member, he might be the president of the entire deal.”
The Chiefs use a different philosophy offensively, leaving the ball in Patrick Mahomes’ hands to win by the pass.
Kansas City threw the ball on nearly 62% of offensive plays in the regular season, which would be the second-highest mark ever by a team to win the Super Bowl, behind only Tampa Bay in 2020.
They know slowing the Eagles run game down and forcing Hurts to pass will be key to their success on Sunday. But that won’t come easily.
“The talent is in the players No. 1, the scheme No. 2, and then you put a quarterback in there that can do the things he can do, that makes them really difficult to defend,” defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said. “You have to be on point with scheme. Players have to be on point with responsibility. You can see when that doesn’t happen with people they’ve played, they expose them.”
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AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report.
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Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open
(AP) – Tiger Woods withdrew from the U.S. Open on Tuesday, saying that his damaged right leg needs more time to get stronger to contend in the majors.
Woods made a surprise return at the Masters, just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a February 2021 car crash outside Los Angeles. He made the cut at Augusta National, then played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills.
Even though he made another cut, Woods was limping badly on Saturday and withdrew after the third round, the first time he had withdrawn on the weekend at a major.
Woods posted Tuesday on social media, “My body needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.”
He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews, where he won two of his three claret jugs.
This will be the sixth time in the last 12 years Woods does not play the U.S. Open, which he has won three times, most recently at Torrey Pines in 2008 when he had a double stress fracture in his left leg and shredded knee ligaments that required reconstructive surgery when the event was over.
He last played in 2020 at Winged Foot and missed the cut.
Before the previous two majors, Woods sent the internet buzzing, with private plane tracking sites indicating he was at Augusta National and Southern Hills a week or so early for a scouting trip, a clear sign he was thinking about playing.
There was no such flight to Boston this time. Woods last competed at The Country Club at Brookline in 1999, when he won his singles match against Andrew Coltart as part of an amazing American rally to win the Ryder Cup.
“We’re disappointed we won’t see him in Boston,” said Mike Whan, the CEO of the USGA. “But personally, I’m happy for him that he’s looking after his health. I’d rather see Tiger long-term than just in the 2022 U.S. Open.”
Woods always had his sights on St. Andrews, even after he played in the Masters. He said after the Masters he wasn’t sure whether he could play in the PGA Championship or the U.S. Open, but he would be at the British Open.
The Old Course is relatively flat, the easiest of the four majors to walk.
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A day before the Pentagon celebrated the June 1 start of Pride Month, top defense leaders were quietly enforcing a militarywide ban on drag performances.
The move became public after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley stepped in to stop a drag show at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., which had been scheduled for Thursday.
In enforcing the ban, which stems from a long-standing Defense Department policy that has not always been applied, critics say the Pentagon appears to have acquiesced to GOP pressure in recent months to cancel those performances at military installations.
Republican lawmakers, in hearings and letters to the Defense Department, have raged over drag shows and diversity programs, which they claim hurt recruiting efforts and compromise warfighting.
LGBTQ rights groups have slammed the apparent shift from the Pentagon, noting the U.S. has a long history of supporting drag shows going back to at least World War I.
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said Austin has been “unwavering” in supporting LGBTQ groups, but by banning drag shows, he “chose to side with the politics of fear and discrimination peddled by extreme members of Congress.”
The GOP has beamed with approval over the news this week and appears emboldened to press the issue further.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he was “glad the Pentagon has made clear this shouldn’t be allowed.”
“China is building hypersonic missiles while the U.S. Secretary of Defense is being forced to explain why there are drag shows on our military bases,” Johnson said in a statement. “The fact that these events were scheduled once again calls into question the priorities of our military’s leadership.”
The enforcement first came to light after NBC News reported on the drag show cancellation at Nellis Air Force Base. The Air Force pointed to recent congressional testimony from Austin in explaining the scrapped plans — the defense chief said drag events are “not something that the department funds.”
Citing a policy on standards of conduct and ethics regulation, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said this week “certain criteria” must be met for nongovernment individuals and organizations using Defense Department facilities and equipment.
“Hosting these types of events in federally funded facilities is inconsistent with regulations regarding the use of DoD resources,” she said in a statement regarding the Nellis Air Force Base drag show cancellation.
“We are proud to serve alongside any and every young American who takes the oath that puts their life on the line in defense of our country. Service members and their families are often involved in a host of special interest activities related to their personal hobbies, beliefs, and backgrounds.”
A White House official referred questions about the policy to the Pentagon.
Robinson of the Human Rights Campaign noted the Pentagon’s move comes as LGBTQ Americans are facing growing threats and fears of violence.
“For decades, our community has fought for our right to exist without shame or exception, yet the Secretary’s decision to ban an event that has happened in prior years reinforces false tropes about LGBTQ+ culture,” Robinson said in a statement.
“At a time when we are under attack, the Pentagon is ceding to extremist forces focused on taking away our rights —leaders responsible for national defense ought to do better.
The event’s cancellation appears to be the first time senior Defense officials have enforced the policy, as Nellis AFB hosted a Pride Month drag show in June 2021.
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, a former Navy digital ambassador, performed in drag under the name “Harpy Daniels” while serving on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan from 2016 to 2018. Kelley also received intense backlash from the GOP for appearing as a drag queen.
Other drag shows and drag-themed events have also taken place on military installations across the country in previous years.
When asked why the ban has now been applied, the Pentagon did not respond.
The action seems to stand in contrast to Austin’s official statement to mark the start of Pride Month, released Thursday, in which he said he believes “that the story of America should be one of widening freedom, not deepening discrimination” and vowed to ensure LGBT individuals could continue to serve.
“This Pride Month, we honor the service, commitment, and sacrifice of the LGBTQ+ Service members and personnel who volunteer to defend our country,” Austin states. “Their proud service adds to America’s strength.”
Some GOP lawmakers still aren’t satisfied with the ban on drag shows on military bases.
Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.), a frequent critic of diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the Pentagon, said the “decision to end drag shows on military bases is a positive first step” but added he would “not stop until all wokeness is weeded out of our military.”
“Why were they happening in the first place?” Alford said in a statement. “Earlier this year, Secretary Austin came before the House Armed Services Committee and told us that drag shows were not taking place on U.S. military installations. Clearly, that was not true.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) also hailed the decision, calling it a “huge victory.”
“Drag shows should not be taking place on military installations with taxpayer dollars PERIOD!” he tweeted.
Gaetz had questioned Austin and Milley about “drag queen story hours” on U.S. military installations in the U.S. and in Germany during a March House Armed Services Committee hearing.
Milley responded to the questioning that he was not aware of the events and wanted to “take a look at those, because I don’t agree with those.”
Austin replied that the event is “not something that the department funds.”
The comments from the nation’s top defense officials were scooped up by the GOP and conservative media.
The testimony at that hearing appears to have marked a shift in the enforcement of ethics and standards of conduct policies for drag shows on military installations.
An Air Force official confirmed to The Hill that “consistent with Secretary Austin’s congressional testimony, the Air Force will not host drag events at its installations or facilities.”
“Commanders have been directed to either cancel or relocate these events to an off-base location.”
The March hearing was followed by a House Republican letter to Austin in May, led by Alford, demanding he “put an end to any drag shows and any ‘drag queen influencers’ performing in our military” and instead focus on “patriotism” and pride in “American greatness.”
“We’re at a time where America’s youth has very little desire to serve and protect our nation,” the House Republicans wrote at the time. “The Navy’s decision to use drag queens as a recruitment tool is outrageous and a disgrace to those who have previously served.”
Defense officials were also facing pressure from the Senate side.
Sen. Steven Daines (R-Mont.) last month introduced legislation to ban Pentagon funding for drag shows on military bases.
Daines had expressed outrage at previous drag show events in Virginia and Nevada as well as a 2021 event in his home state that reportedly included a drag queen story hour for children.
The Pentagon’s retreat from the culture wars this Pride Month also appeared to extend to social media.
The Navy’s official Instagram and Twitter accounts removed Thursday posts celebrating the start of Pride Month.
The Instagram post depicted a fighter jet with the LGBTQ+ flag colors in its wake, but by Friday morning, the image was gone.
In a statement to The Hill, a Navy spokesperson acknowledged the original posts but would not say why or when they were removed.
“The US Navy posted graphics in support of the start of Pride month to honor the service, commitment, and sacrifice of the LGBTQ+ Service members and personnel who volunteer to defend our country,” they said in a statement.
The Modern Military Association of America, the nation’s largest organization of LGBTQ+ service members, military spouses, veterans and their families, said in a statement to The Hill they were “deeply troubled” by the drag ban and were “determining next steps regarding communications with the Pentagon and Biden administration about this issue.”
The group pointed out that drag performances have long been a part of military history, including during WWII, when all-male theater performances were produced with soldiers dressing in drag to impersonate women.
The group said it was “concerned that censorship of LGBTQ-friendly events sends the message to LGBTQ+ members of the armed forces that wearing their preferred clothing or acting in a manner different from the gender assigned to them at birth is unacceptable.”
It noted that nearly 80,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual people were currently in active service, along with another 15,000 transgender people.
“Ensuring our ranks reflect the diversity of the American people is essential to morale and cohesion,” it added. | 2023-06-02T21:48:43+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/pentagon-bans-drag-shows-on-military-bases-after-gop-pressure/ |
Which cotton throw blanket is best?
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(The Hill) – Former Vice President Mike Pence’s attorney advised him on Jan. 5, 2021, that if he blocked the certification of electoral votes the following day as then-President Trump was urging him to do, he would likely face a loss in court or a “standoff” with Congress, according to a memo released for the first time on Saturday.
In the memo, which was obtained by Politico, Pence lawyer Greg Jacob evaluated a proposal from Trump legal adviser John Eastman on how Pence could refuse to count electoral votes from “any state for which an alternate but uncertified slate of electors has been submitted.”
“If the Vice President implemented Professor Eastman’s proposal, he would likely lose in court,” Jacob concluded. “In a best-case scenario in which the courts refused to get involved, the Vice President would likely find himself in an isolated standoff against both houses of Congress, as well as most or all of the applicable State legislatures, with no neutral arbiter available to break the impasse.”
Pence’s ultimate decision to go against Trump and continue as normal with the certification of votes led to tension between the two and made the then-vice president a target amid the violent insurrection on Jan. 6, where many Trump supporters expressed anger toward Pence over his refusal to overturn the election results.
Pence has since reiterated that he did not have the authority to do so. “President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election,” the former vice president said earlier this year. “The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. Frankly, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
The release of Jacob’s memo to Pence comes days after the first of a series of public hearings held by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In Thursday’s prime-time hearing, the committee laid out the framework of its case asserting that Trump was at the center of an effort to remain in power that directly led to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Jacob, who met with the House panel in February, is expected to testify in an upcoming hearing.
In the memo to Pence, Jacob noted that Eastman himself acknowledged his proposal would violate the 1887 Electoral Count Act and laid out multiple provisions of that law Pence would be breaking if he held up the certification as Eastman urged.
Jacob also said that Eastman’s advice was contradicted by the Electoral Commission of 1877 decision authored by a Supreme Court justice.
In that decision, Republican Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley wrote of the vice president: “He is not invested with any authority for making any investigation outside of the joint meeting of the two Houses.”
Jacob further noted that the proposal was “strongly in tension” with a federal district court ruling issued the previous day.
During the Capitol attack, Jacob emailed Eastman.
“And thanks to your b——-, we are under siege,” he wrote. | 2022-06-12T16:14:00+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/pences-lawyer-told-him-blocking-vote-certification-would-likely-lead-to-court-loss-standoff-with-congress/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canvas Medical, the EMR platform that enables clinician-developer collaboration to build differentiated care models, has added industry veteran JP Patil as Chief Product Officer. Patil was most recently Vice President, Data Platform at Included Health where he oversaw all aspects of how data is gathered, enriched, and applied to raise the standard of healthcare. As part of these efforts, Patil and his teams developed the systems to evaluate physician quality and understand how to match patients to physicians to create the best possible outcomes at the lowest cost. During his tenure at Included Health, Patil also ran the Care Platform team for over three years, creating the internal tools and systems that care coordinators and clinicians used to manage and deliver care to patients.
"Canvas is building a platform that we sorely needed at Included Health. Many of the new age healthcare providers that I worked with or talked to all had the same issues: the off-the-shelf EMR they were using limited the type of care they could provide, not amplify it," said Patil. "An EMR platform that empowers clinicians and developers to iterate and build the care models that best serve their patients and themselves is game changing for healthcare. Canvas has the right vision, platform foundation, and team to deliver."
"As a product leader at Grand Rounds and then Included, JP brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about building an EMR platform to serve both clinicians and the software developers who nurture those clinicians' tools," said Canvas CEO, Andrew Hines. "With the addition of JP to Canvas, we are in a great position to foster deeper, more strategic relationships with our customers and to continue building the product development organization that will scale with the growth of Canvas's customer base."
Additionally, Canvas is pleased to announce that its EMR platform has earned HITRUST CSF Certified status for information security by HITRUST, placing Canvas in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. This important third-party certification of the entire Canvas product and all of its processes and procedures demonstrate Canvas's commitment to information security and data privacy for its customers. This certification is often a requirement from customers engaging in advanced payment models with health plans.
"We at Canvas are humbled by the dependency our customers take on us," said CTO and Co-founder Beau Gunderson. "Anyone who's completed HITRUST CSF certification knows a stronger security posture is just one consequence of the process, and we wholeheartedly accept the responsibility of keeping up with the certification as the nature of threats and risk continuously evolves."
Canvas engages in a multitude of strategies to assess and improve the effectiveness of its platform and information security controls. Achieving HITRUST CSF certification demonstrates the high quality of its information risk management and compliance programs. In addition to HITRUST CSF certification, the company's EMR platform is ONC-Certified to ensure customers of the platform are able to meet the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies. Its offerings include an ONC-Certified EMR with intuitive care coordination and management workflows, a FHIR API and Workflow SDK that provide industry leading platform extensibility, and end-to-end RCM functionality. The company works with customers of all care models and verticals, from direct-to-consumer virtual care to at-risk complex care and everything in between. For more information about Canvas Medical, visit canvasmedical.com.
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Multiple tornadoes have killed at least one person and injured nearly two dozen in Mississippi
JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — Multiple tornadoes swept through Mississippi overnight, killing one and injuring nearly two dozen, officials said.
State emergency workers were still working with counties Monday morning to assess the damage from storms in which high temperatures and hail in some areas accompanied tornadoes. The death and injuries were reported by officials in east Mississippi’s Jasper County. In a Monday morning news release, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said more than 49,000 homes in central Mississippi were without power.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said the tornadoes struck in Jasper County and Rankin County, which borders the capital city of Jackson. Emergency crews were doing search and rescue missions and damage assessments, deploying drones in some areas because they were impossible to reach by vehicle due to downed power lines.
Tens of thousands of people in Hinds County were still without power Monday morning after high winds pummeled the state early Friday.
Reeves said the state is opening command centers and shelters for those displaced by the severe weather.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — The percentage of packages delivered to homes in New York City doubled during the pandemic and it has held steady.
More than three million boxes, envelopes and items move around the boroughs on a typical day. The city is trying to deal with the demand and the congestion.
A proposal moving through the New York City Council would require the Department of Transportation to “redesign the city’s truck route network to improve safety, increase visibility, reduce traffic congestion and emissions, and reduce vehicle miles traveled.”
Councilmember Alexa Avilés of Sunset Park, Brooklyn has sponsored the legislation.
“Leaving our truck network untouched since the 1970s, can you believe that? A lot has changed in the world. This is well overdue,” she said.
The legislation would also require DOT to consult with agencies, residents, and representatives from businesses, environmental and climate justice organizations, street safety organizations, industrial business zone administrators, and the trucking, logistics and last-mile delivery industries.
DOT representatives gave testimony and answered questions from council members at Monday’s hearing of the council transportation committee.
Eric Beaton, deputy commissioner for transportation planning and management, said the administration supports the redesign.
“We look forward to creating a safer and more sustainable and efficient freight system that grows the economy, supports jobs, and delivers the goods that residents and businesses need,” he said.
Currently, trucks are limited to specific routes, including some local streets. The department would work, generally, to allow trucks in commercial districts, industrial areas and on wider streets.
“The network does have to create connect to itself in a reasonable way. We will find the best streets to do that,” Beaton said.
The DOT has been working on the issue on a number of fronts.
The agency is creating delivery spaces and zones along streets, encouraging cargo bike delivery, and signing up companies to deliver overnight. Long-term solutions include more use of the city’s waterways for deliveries.
The bill has more than a majority number of sponsors.
“It’s not about killing the industry. We have to think about the quality of life for the people who live where they’re driving through and accountability,” said Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, chair of the council transportation committee.
UPROSE is a community action group based in Sunset Park that promotes sustainability and resiliency.
“They can work together to reroute truck paths to insure congestion and health issues in areas that have been overlooked are prioritized finally,” said Sarah Elbakari with UPROSE.
Neighbors organized a task force in Queens and have worked with the administration of Mayor Eric Adams to address overnight truck parking. Bill Perkins, who serves on the task force, credits enforcement and dialogue with the trucking industry.
”Working to find places to park. They want to do the right thing. The trucking association is partnering to make sure communities are not infested with trucks,” Perkins said.
Beaton asked the council to reconsider one portion that would also require the implementation of daylighting at each intersection adjacent to the truck route network. The department would prefer to review each location and determine what’s best.
If the full City Council passes the bill, the department would submit draft by the beginning of November. | 2023-04-11T03:50:51+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-council-proposal-would-redesign-truck-routes-around-the-city/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will take up the issue of affirmative action again Monday — the second time in six years — but with the conservative majority now generally expected to end the use of race in higher education admissions.
That would be a major shift for the court, which first ruled in favor of affirmative action policies in admissions in 1978. The earlier cases on affirmation action are each known by a single name: Bakke, Grutter, Gratz and Fisher.
During arguments Monday in cases involving North Carolina and Harvard, those names may be used as shorthand for the cases they represent. But real people are behind them.
A look at what they have done since the Supreme Court made their names synonymous with the issue of race in higher education:
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978
Allan Bakke was in his 30s when he applied to the medical school at the University of California, Davis. Rejected twice, Bakke sued. He said the school's decision to set aside 16 seats for minority students in a class of 100 discriminated against him as a white man. The Supreme Court agreed and ordered him admitted. But the court allowed the use of race as a factor in admission if it was part of an overall evaluation of an applicant. Bakke graduated in 1982 and worked for years as an anesthesiologist in Minnesota. He has kept out of the spotlight since his case.
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Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003
Barbara Grutter was Michigan resident who applied to the University of Michigan Law School in 1996. Grutter, who is white, had a 3.8 grade point average but was rejected. She sued for discrimination, claiming the school's policies gave certain minority students a significantly greater chance of admission. The Supreme Court said in a 5-4 decision that the law school's admissions policy, which considered race as one factor in admissions, was not illegal. The decision allowed the continued use of race in admissions.
The Bollinger in the case was Lee Bollinger, who was sued in his capacity as the university's then-president. Bollinger, now Columbia University's president, told reporters recently that he is “worried about the outcome” of the current cases.
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Gratz v. Bollinger, 2003
The companion case to Grutter's involved Jennifer Gratz, a white woman denied undergraduate admission to Michigan. Unlike Grutter, Gratz won her case. The Supreme Court agreed that the school's undergraduate admissions system was flawed because it relied too heavily on race.
Frustrated that affirmative action survived anyway, Gratz was instrumental in Michigan's passage of Proposal 2, which ended race-based preferences in state university admissions. The ban survived its own trip to the Supreme Court. Gratz went on to open a microbrewery in Florida with her husband.
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Fisher v. University of Texas, 2013 and 2016
Abigail Fisher is Supreme Court famous twice over. Fisher, who is white, sued after being rejected in 2008 from the University of Texas at Austin. A cello player who also participated in math competitions and did volunteer work, she graduated just shy of the top 10% of her class. She argued the university's policy discriminated against her because of race, in violation of the Constitution.
Her first Supreme Court case was inconclusive. Three years later, when her case returned to the court, the justices in a narrow ruling upheld the school's use of affirmative action. Only seven justices ruled in the case, however, because Justice Antonin Scalia had died and Justice Elena Kagan was recused.
Fisher, who has called herself an “introverted person,” graduated from Louisiana State University in 2012 and worked in finance, but she hasn't given up on the affirmative action issue. Now in her 30s she's one of the leaders of Students for Fair Admissions, the group that brought the UNC and Harvard cases to the high court. The group's head is Edward Blum, a former stockbroker who also financially backed Fisher's original case and other race-based Supreme Court cases.
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Lead investor Mercia, alongside Intuitive Ventures and Black Opal, invests in Optellum's pioneering AI-powered lung-health technology
OXFORD, England and HOUSTON, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Optellum, an Oxford-based medtech company that provides a breakthrough AI platform to diagnose and treat early-stage lung cancer, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round. The investment will enable Optellum to scale its base, operations, and commercial launches in the UK and USA; accelerate research and development; and expand its platform into personalized therapy decisions by integrating imaging data with molecular data, robotics, and liquid biopsies.
This funding round was led by Mercia, with additional investors Intuitive Ventures (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) and Black Opal Ventures (New York, NY, USA). Existing investors, including St John's College in the University of Oxford, IQ Capital, and the family office of Sir Martin & Lady Audrey Wood, also participated in this round.
Lung cancer is the most common type of cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in the world. Approximately 150,000 people in the United States and 1.8 million people worldwide die from lung cancer each year. The current worldwide five-year survival rate is 20 percent, primarily because most patients are diagnosed after symptoms have appeared and the disease has progressed to an advanced stage (Stage III or IV). In contrast, the survival rate for small tumors treated at Stage 1A is up to 90 percent. This disparity highlights a critical need for diagnosis and treatment at the earliest stage possible.
Optellum is the leader in AI-enabled lung cancer diagnosis, and the first and only medtech company to attain FDA clearance, CE-MDR in the EU, and UKCA in the UK for its software platform Virtual Nodule Clinic. This first-of-a-kind platform can help physicians identify and track at-risk patients, and optimally diagnose the signs of lung cancer early, so treatment can be started sooner for patients with tumors, and invasive procedures such as biopsies on benign lesions can be minimized.
Jason Pesterfield, CEO at Optellum, said: "With this strong support and commitment of highly specialized investors, we are positioned to accelerate commercial deployment in both the UK and the United States to expand our installed base. Following years of research and clinical trials that have shown the impact of our software on the diagnosis of at-risk lung nodules, we're focused on expanding patient access to this crucial technology and identifying deadly lung cancer faster in more at-risk people. The funding will also boost our research and development with world-leading institutions and partners to progress further innovation."
Lead investor Mercia brings expertise in software technologies having a significant impact on global health issues and an existing portfolio that includes AI and machine-learning technology.
Investment Director at Mercia, Stephen Johnson, said: "Optellum is the latest in a series of companies to channel research from the UK's world-leading universities into commercially viable products that can make a difference to the provision of medical care. Having observed Optellum achieve great milestones over the years, we are now excited to become part of their success and apply our experience with scaling up software and deep-tech companies to help accelerate Optellum's impact on patient lives across the world."
Intuitive Ventures, the independent venture-capital arm of Intuitive (NASDAQ: ISRG), a world leader in medical robotics, including lung cancer care, was founded in 2020 to accelerate the future of minimally invasive care. The investment team supports Optellum's ambitions to think and move beyond earlier diagnosis into decision support across the treatment pathway, integrating liquid biopsies, molecular tests, and drug therapies.
"Lung cancer is an urgent public health crisis and Optellum's groundbreaking approach utilizing AI to accelerate early detection and intervention may fundamentally alter the healthcare community's approach to combating this disease," said Oliver Keown, MD, managing director of Intuitive Ventures. "Optellum is uniquely positioned to align and provide considerable value to patients, providers, and payers alike. Intuitive Ventures is thrilled to provide our full arsenal of financial and strategic support to Optellum as we work towards a world of better outcomes for cancer patients."
Physician-led, female-founded fund Black Opal Ventures has a mission to build better businesses and a better future at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Its expertise in reimbursement and health economics will assist Optellum, which recently announced a New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification for Medicare patients in the USA.
Founder Tara Bishop, MD, commented: "We value solutions that make medicine more accurate and accessible. The strong validation data that underpins the Optellum solution has demonstrated its ability to make a difference to patients. We share Optellum's vision of making this available to every doctor in every hospital – and transform the diagnosis and treatment path for lung cancer."
Optellum's platform was developed and clinically validated in partnership with leading universities and healthcare systems around the world. Optellum also has strategic collaborations with GE Healthcare and the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson to accelerate clinical deployments and continue the advancement of the platform. In the UK, Optellum's solution is being used to predict at-risk lung nodules in a multi-center study with NHS Trusts as part of a major investment in AI for healthcare.
Optellum is a commercial-stage lung health company providing artificial intelligence decision-support software that assists physicians in early diagnosis and optimal treatment for their patients. The company was founded so that every lung disease patient is diagnosed and treated at the earliest possible stage, when the probability of better health outcomes is highest. In 2021, the Oxford-based medtech company achieved FDA 510(k) clearance for the application of AI decision-support software in lung cancer diagnosis, and has since announced strategic partnerships in the USA with GE Healthcare and the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson, while the Virtual Nodule Clinic has been implemented in leading healthcare systems across the USA. Optellum has headquarters at the Oxford Centre for Innovation in Oxford, United Kingdom and a U.S. office at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. For more information, visit optellum.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Navy decided to hire a familiar face to take over its football program – and Brian Newberry doesn’t expect a major overhaul to the way the Midshipmen operate.
”This is not a rebuild. Our program is not broken,” said Newberry, who was promoted Monday. ”We’ve got a great nucleus of players coming back. My expectations for what we can achieve next year are sky-high.”
The former defensive coordinator replaces Ken Niumatalolo, who was fired after going 4-8 this season. When athletic director Chet Gladchuk spoke with reporters last week, he spent a lot of time outlining his expectations for the program in what seemed like an attempt to explain Niumatalolo’s ouster.
However, he and Newberry made it clear Tuesday that there is a lot about Navy football that isn’t going to change.
”We’re not going to necessarily get the biggest, the strongest and the fastest, but we’re going to recruit people with incredible desire and determination,” Gladchuk said. ”Developing those players and making good players great players is something that’s really important at the Naval Academy.”
Navy also stayed in house the last time it changed coaches. In 2007, when Paul Johnson left to take over at Georgia Tech, Niumatalolo was promoted. He coached Navy’s bowl that season, then was in charge for 15 more years and set a program record for wins.
But the Midshipmen went just 11-23 the past three seasons.
Newberry was Navy’s defensive coordinator for the past four seasons. Gladchuk said he met with a number of players, and Newberry had quite a bit of support.
”Both sides of the ball,” Gladchuk said. ”You’d think that the defensive players that are closest to Coach Newberry would be his greatest advocates, but that wasn’t necessarily the case. The offense as well, were extremely supportive.”
Newberry’s defense was sixth in the nation against the run this year, and it certainly wasn’t to blame for Navy’s season-ending loss to Army – when the Midshipmen allowed only 153 yards of offense. Linebackers coach P.J. Volker is staying on as defensive coordinator.
As for the offense, Navy isn’t about to abandon its triple option.
”We know we’ve got to be able to run the football, we know we have to have an element of triple option,” Newberry said. ”There’s a lot of ways to skin a cat, talking to a lot of different people, a lot of people out there really creative in what they’re doing.”
Newberry played at Baylor and graduated in 1998. He previously was defensive coordinator at Kennesaw State, Northern Michigan, the University of the South and Washington & Lee.
”Being a head coach has never necessarily been the end-all, be-all for me. I didn’t grow up with that being the main goal for me,” he said. ”I love being a coordinator, I love calling the plays. It wasn’t until probably the last really three or four years … that I really started to see myself in that role.”
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Expands capabilities in EO residual and microbiology testing for medical devices
FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Millstone Medical Outsourcing, the industry's leading partner of choice for medical manufacturers' post-manufacturing and aftermarket services, announces its completed acquisition of Ethide Labs on November 14, 2022.
Headquartered in West Warwick, Rhode Island, Ethide Labs has more than 60 years of experience in regulatory testing services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Ethide Labs is an ISO 13485:2016 certified testing laboratory that completes over 5,000 tests annually on more than 100 unique products. Its capabilities include ethylene oxide (EO) residual, microbiology, bioburden, sterility, and package integrity testing and environmental monitoring services. With a technical staff of degreed scientists who are active members of the American Society for Microbiology, an FDA-compliant facility, and adherence to the most rigorous national and international standards, Ethide Labs is aligned with Millstone's commitment to operating under the highest quality standards.
Bringing Ethide Labs into the Millstone family of companies ensures in-house access to a full range of specialty precision testing services. The acquisition will also further strengthen Millstone's Tier 1 end-to-end expert sourcing and support services. It follows closely the acquisition earlier this month of MycoScience, a Connecticut-based company specializing in advanced laboratory and environmental testing services for medical and pharmaceutical device manufacturers.
"We are excited to bring Ethide Labs into the Millstone family of companies," Millstone Medical Outsourcing CEO Karl Neuberger said. "Millstone is dedicated to helping our customers focus on the products that change patients' lives through best-in-class post-manufacturing services that ensure quality, compliance, and business success. With the specialty testing expertise and proven success of Ethide Labs, we continue to expand the end-to-end support we offer in-house—with the quality and expertise our customers have come to rely on."
The Ethide Labs leadership team will join Millstone's experts. Regarding the acquisition, Ethide Labs CEO Sarath Koruprolu said, "For 60 years, Ethide Labs has supported the medical device market and related industries with expert guidance and accelerated turnaround times so our customers can focus on bringing products to market faster. We are thrilled to join forces with Millstone and to bring our expertise together with theirs to deliver life-changing and lifesaving products."
Millstone Medical Outsourcing is a leading provider of customized outsourcing solutions to the medical device industry with a client roster of the most prominent global OEMs as well as emerging growth companies. Millstone delivers superior quality service, unparalleled expertise, and guaranteed ROI. The company offers advanced inspection, sterile and non-sterile packaging, loaner kit processing, and distribution services to device and product manufacturers worldwide. Millstone is privately held and operates state-of-the-art facilities in Fall River, MA, and Olive Branch, MS. The company is FDA registered and ISO certified by BSI, Inc. to ISO 13485: 2016. For more information, please visit www.millstonemedical.com.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won his second straight World Cup downhill race to start the season, despite feeling under the weather.
Although dealing with an illness all week in training, Kilde powered through the challenging Birds of Prey course Saturday in a time of 1 minute, 42.09 seconds. It was enough to hold off Marco Odermatt of Switzerland by 0.06 seconds. James Crawford of Canada was third to earn his second career World Cup podium finish.
Kilde also won the opening downhill last weekend in Lake Louise, Alberta.
“It’s been a tough week,” Kilde said after the race. “I caught the flu in Lake Louise after a very, very nice weekend. It really hit me hard. Then I got a couple of days to rest and take it easy. … I felt OK. Still feeling it a little bit in my system.”
The Beaver Creek crew members had the course in solid shape a day after a downhill race was canceled due to high wind and snowfall.
Kilde reached speeds around 75 mph (121 kph) in picking up his eighth World Cup downhill victory. That tied him with Kjetil Jansrud for the third-most downhill wins in the World Cup discipline among Norwegian men. The total trails only Aksel Lund Svindal (14) and Lasse Kjus (10).
“I found a really, really good set-up with my equipment and also with my skiing,” Kilde explained. “I believe in myself. I trust in myself. I have a good game plan. When I stand on the start, I don’t dwell on anything. I know that this plan is what I do and when I do that it’s going to be fast.”
Odermatt has been on the podium in all four World Cup races this season as he tries to defend his overall World Cup title. The 25-year-old finished third in the opening downhill of the season last weekend. He’s also won a giant slalom race and a super-G.
Ryan Cochran-Siegle wound up in seventh place for the top American finish. He was ninth in the downhill in Lake Louise.
“It’s been solid,” Cochran-Siegle said of his strides in the discipline. “A couple of little things here and there that pushed me off that top three. You have to ski with a lot of intensity and ski without abandon, in a sense. Today was a good step.”
Switzerland’s Beat Feuz, who won the Olympic downhill gold medal at the Beijing Games last February, tied for ninth.
The Beaver Creek stop on the circuit comes to a close Sunday with a super-G race. Odermatt will be the favorite after holding off Kilde in the opening super-G last weekend.
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Which sleep trainers for toddlers are best?
Keeping your toddler on a specific sleep schedule can be challenging. Luckily, there are numerous effective sleep trainers that help encourage a proper sleep schedule for your child. Many sleep trainers use faces, colors and sound to teach your child when it’s time to sleep or wake up. If you’re looking for an effective sleep trainer for your toddler, the LittleHippo Mella Ready to Rise Children’s Sleep Trainer is an ideal choice.
What to know before you buy a sleep trainer for toddlers
How do sleep trainers work?
Similar to alarm clocks, most sleep trainers can be set to produce sounds at a specific time of day. Many sleep trainers feature fun designs that appeal to children and have color settings that can be used to indicate when it’s time to wake up or go to sleep. Additionally, sleep trainers often have soothing sleep sounds to encourage your child to sleep.
Importance of sleep for toddlers
According to MayoClinic, sleep deprivation may cause behavioral and performance issues for young children. Toddlers tend to thrive when they’ve had at least eight to nine hours of sleep each night. Keeping your child on a regular sleep schedule helps to ensure they get enough sleep. It may take some time for your child to adjust to a new sleep routine, so you must remain calm and be patient with them until they get it right.
Other ways to help your child’s sleep routine
- Diet: Make sure your child doesn’t consume too much sugar or any caffeine throughout the day, especially as it gets close to bedtime.
- Exercise: Encouraging your child to get at least 1 hour of physical activity throughout the day is an easy and healthy way to improve their sleep habits.
- Screen time: Bright screens can discourage children from sleeping. It’s good to limit screen time as it gets closer to bedtime.
- Quiet activities: Quiet family activities like puzzles, reading, talking and coloring are suitable leading into bedtime.
What to look for in a quality sleep trainer for toddlers
Easy to use
Many sleep trainers for toddlers have numerous features to help your child’s sleep routine. With so many features, using the device can feel complicated. Buying a sleep trainer that’s easy to understand ensures you get the most out of your device’s features.
Adjustable lights
Most sleep trainers use lights and colors to indicate when to go to sleep or wake up. Buying a sleep trainer with adjustable lights allows you to set the device to your child’s favorite color.
Some sleep trainers may shine a specific color for 30 minutes or more prior to time to wake up. This feature is excellent for children who tend to wake up early, as it lets them know they can quietly play until it’s time to wake up.
App connectivity
App connectivity isn’t a necessary feature for a great sleep trainer, but it can make the device easier to use. Most sleep trainers with companion apps allow you to set specific intervals for naps and sleep directly from your phone.
Child-friendly design
Many sleep trainers are designed to resemble dogs, dinosaurs or robots. Buying a sleep trainer with a child-friendly design makes it more likely your toddler will enjoy using it.
How much you can expect to spend on a sleep trainer for toddlers
Standard sleep trainers tend to cost around $35-$50. Sleep trainers with app connectivity may cost $60 or more.
Sleep trainers for toddlers FAQ
Are sleep trainers portable?
A. Due to their wide range of features, most sleep trainers have to be plugged into a power source to operate.
Can sleep trainers be used for anything besides sleep training?
A. Many sleep trainers can also be used as a timer for various activities.
What’s the best sleep trainer to buy for toddlers?
Top sleep trainer for toddlers
LittleHippo Mella Ready to Rise Children’s Sleep Trainer
What you need to know: This popular sleep trainer features three sleep sound options and six night-light colors.
What you’ll love: The feature-packed LittleHippo Mella Sleep Trainer features multiple colors and faces that let your kids know when it’s time to sleep or wake up. This device features nap timers as well as the standard sleep trainer options. The buttons are on the bottom and can be locked so your child can’t change the settings. The optional “play” feature lets early risers know they can quietly play until it’s time to wake up.
What you should consider: The lights are bright and can’t be adjusted.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top sleep trainer for toddlers for the money
I-Code Time to Wake Alarm Clock for Kids
What you need to know: This affordable sleep trainer has eight different color settings.
What you’ll love: The Time to Wake Alarm Clock features 17 soothing sounds to help your child sleep, including the ocean, rain and piano music. The screen displays a moon icon when it’s time to sleep and a sun icon when it’s time to wake up. The lights have three different brightness levels.
What you should consider: This sleep trainer occasionally loses track of time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Hatch Baby Rest+ Sound Machine
What you need to know: This advanced sleep trainer can be controlled directly from your smartphone.
What you’ll love: The Hatch Baby Rest Sound Machine has a sleek design and multiple color and brightness settings. This sleep trainer is compatible with both iOS and Android phones. It’s designed to help little ones settle down for the night, as well as telling them when it’s time to get up.
What you should consider: Some users find it tricky to set up and figure out all the features.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BRADENTON, Fla. — A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing 81-year-old man on Wednesday who was last seen leaving his home at 9:30 a.m. in Bradenton, deputies say.
Robert McGinley left his home on Tahitian Drive in a 2018 blue Ford Escape with the Florida license plate Y96YZY, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Authorities say he is 5-foot, 3-inches, weighs about 150 pounds and was last seen wearing blue shorts and a blue shirt.
The 81-year-old reportedly suffers from multiple conditions and has gone missing in the past.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored his second goal of the game 3:13 into overtime, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Tuesday night to clinch a playoff spot.
Jack Johnson and Evan Rodrigues also scored for Colorado. Devon Toews and Mikko Rantanen each had two assists, and MacKinnon also had one. Alexandar Georgiev made 28 saves for his 36th win of the season.
“Huge two points, and I liked the way our guys played. I thought we competed hard right from the start of the game," Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “Obviously, things got tight in the third period, but we continued to play, and you know, we fought the puck at times.”
Kevin Labanc had two goals, Jacob Peterson also scored, and Logan Couture added two assists for San Jose. Kaapo Kahkonen finished with 38 saves.
“We’re just all competitors. It doesn’t matter if we’re in it or not. We’re competing every single game. We compete to win, and we compete for each other," Labanc said. (Some) guys are playing for contracts. Guys are playing to move up in the lineup, make a good showing for themselves for next year. We’re all working hard. We’re all competing.”
In the extra period, MacKinnon got a pass from Toews on the right side, skated in on Kahkonen on a breakaway, and fired a shot past the goalie's blocker side for his 36 goal and 100th point of the season.
“Yeah, it’s good. Tons of amazing players on this team helped me a ton," MacKinnon said. "Obviously, I don’t need to say the names, but everyone has helped me a lot throughout the season. So it’s fun to get it for sure.”
Peterson scored on the power play at 5:50 of the third as he got a pass in front from Danil Gushchin and quickly beat Kahkonen for his second of the season to pull the Sharks to 3-2.
Labanc got his second of the game and 15th of the season to tie it just 1:21 later as he jumped on a loose puck in front, turned, and fired it past Georgiev.
“A little bit of frustration, but really proud of the way we competed and the way we played -- especially after what happened the last time we played these guys,” Sharks coach David Quinn said. "I really thought we came with an effort and a compete that we’re going to need from here on in.”
Johnson started the scoring 4:29 into the game as he took a shot from the point that deflected off a Sharks defender and into the net. It was his second.
Rodrigues scored 1:55 later for his 15th to give Colorado a 2-0 lead. After Mikko Rantanen hit the post earlier, Rodrigues was able to spin and put a rebound in.
Labanc beat Georgiev over his glove off a rush to put the Sharks on the scoreboard with his 14th with 7:05 left in the second. Erik Karlsson earned the secondary assist on the play, giving him 96 points.
With 2:06 to go in the second frame, MacKinnon fired a shot through Kahkonen's five-hole to push Colorado's lead to 3-1 with 2:06 left in the middle period.
“We outplayed them. Even our power play," MacKinnon said. "We had so many chances to keep going, and hopefully, we can bury one, but yeah, I thought we played a pretty solid game.”
MILESTONES
Kahkonen has now played in 100 career NHL games. ... Avalanche forward Logan O'Connor played in his 200th career game.
UP NEXT
The teams meet again Thursday night in San Jose.
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By COLLEEN BARRY
AP Fashion Writer
MILAN (AP) — The Milan Fashion Week that opens Wednesday is showcasing collections by perhaps its most ethnically diverse lineup of designers, including the debuts of the new creative directors of Salvatore Ferragamo and Bally and the return of Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean after a two-year hiatus.
But Jean and other industry insiders behind a campaign to open the Italian fashion world to talent from minority backgrounds say true inclusivity remains elusive.
Jean, who debuted in Milan in 2013, pledged on the heels of Black Lives Matter protests not to return to Milan Fashion Week as long as she remained the only Black designer represented. This week, she won’t be.
Maximilian Davis, a 27-year-old British fashion designer with Afro-Caribbean roots, is making his debut as the creative director for Salvatore Ferragamo. Filipino American designer Rhuigi Villasenor is bringing Bally back to the runway for the first time in 20 years. Tokyo James, founded by British-Nigerian designer Iniye Tokyo James, is presenting a women’s-only collection.
Jean said the real shift that persuaded her to return to the Milan runway was the work of the We Are Made in Italy campaign, which she launched in 2020 with Milan-based African American designer Edward Buchanan and Afro Fashion Week Milano founder Michelle Ngonmo.
Jean is scheduled to headline a runway show with Buchanan and five new We Are Made in Italy designers, including a Vietnamese apparel designer, an Italian-Indian accessory designer and an African American bag designer. It is the third WAMI group to present their collections in Milan.
“We are making ourselves felt,’’ Jean told The Associated Press. “We invited all these young people. We created the space. There have been gains.”
Among the 2-year-old campaign’s successes: Both Trussardi and Vogue Italia have used WAMI’s database of fashion professionals of color who are based in Italy, although the listings have not been employed as industry-wide as the founders hoped. One of the designers from the first WAMI class, Gisele Claudia Ntsama, has worked in the design office at Valentino.
Giorgio Armani, who helped launch Stella Jean in 2013, pitched in with textiles for the new WAMI capsule collections to be displayed here. Conde Nast and European fashion magazine nss are helping to fund their production. The three WAMI founders are covering the rest from their own pockets after the fashion council offered a venue for the show but limited funding compared with previous seasons.
Ngonmo said Italian fashion houses too often confuse diversity — such as showcasing Black models — with true inclusivity, which would involve employing professionals in the creative process.
“I have a feeling they don’t understand at all what diversity means. They tend to confuse diversity with inclusion,’’ she said.
Buchanan said he holds on to his optimism but acknowledged that the post-pandemic market is difficult as stores are not investing in collections by new designers.
“We knew going into this that this was going to be a slow grow,’’ Buchanan said. “Working with the designers, we have to be transparent about what is ahead of them. … They are not going to be Gianni Versace tomorrow.”
Jean noted that the new designers for major fashion brands did not come up through the Italian system but from abroad. Despite the progress, she and her collaborators still see some resistance to hiring people of color in creative roles and to the idea that “Made in Italy” can involve homegrown Black talent.
“It is more glamorous to have someone from the outside,’’ she said.
Jean said she is also waiting for the Italian fashion council to follow through on an invitation to create a multicultural board within its structure. She said she feels the initial industry embrace of the diversity project has cooled.
“None of us believed the totality of the promises. Now we are entering a territory that we know well, when people feel free and comfortable not to maintain promises. It is obvious,’’ Jean said.
As for her future: “I am at a crossroads,’’ the designer said. “My traveling companions are outside the door that I was allowed to enter. For a while, being the only one in the room, you feel special. But when you see that many of those who are still outside the door are better than you, you understand that you were not special. You were very lucky.”
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This version corrects the age of British designer Maximilian Davis to 27, not 26.
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DENVER (AP) — An automatic recount confirmed Monday that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert won her reelection bid against Democrat Adam Frisch. The nail-biter race showed the congresswoman’s combative style is wearying voters in her conservative Colorado district.
Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced the results Monday evening. Frisch netted a total of four votes in the recount, far from enough to close a 500-plus vote gap with Boebert. An Aspen City Councilman, Frisch had already conceded the race last month after the first tally put him just under the state’s margin for a mandatory recount.
Few expected the race to come down to such a narrow margin. In her first term in office, Boebert rocketed to national renown for her staunch support for former President Donald Trump, aggressive use of social media and willingness to engage in personal feuds with Democratic representatives.
Frisch ran against what her called her “ angertainment,” saying he wouldn’t back U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as party leader and describing himself as a nonpartisan problem-solver. Few gave him much of a chance in the conservative 3rd Congressional District, which edges up against some famed, liberal ski towns but is dominated by vast, less glamorous and energy-rich swathes of rural Colorado. | 2022-12-13T19:57:57+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-recount-confirms-rep-lauren-boebert-narrowly-won-reelection/ |
Customers will have more options than ever when using Carbon DLS, enabling teams to create better products in less time, from design to production
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FORMNEXT -- Henkel and Carbon today announced the expansion of their strategic relationship to offer several new resins, which are expected to be available on the Carbon idea-to-production platform in 2023. This follows the successful 2020 launch of LOCTITE IND405 Clear, a tough, clear resin that is used in production applications such as enclosures and housings.
Loctite IND147, fully validated for shipping as of Formnext 2022, is a photopolymer resin with high stiffness and high-temperature resistance. It was created for product designers and engineers who need a quick and easy way to print molds, fixtures, and manufacturing tools with smooth surfaces and accurate dimensions used under high-heat applications in industrial, consumer, and automotive markets. Additional resins from the expanding partnership are also expected to become available in 2023.
"The expansion of our partnership with Carbon follows the success we've had together and builds on our shared focus on production applications and better end-use parts for our customers," said Sam Bail, Director of 3D Printing Sales from Henkel. "Carbon's platform allows us to provide LOCTITE 3D printing's unique industrial resins, creating more value for our customers."
This strategic partnership builds on the unique combination of Carbon's open material platform and DLS printing process with Henkel´s materials expertise, providing a portfolio of resins while expanding the possibilities for end-use parts, in less time.
"We've shared a great deal of success with Henkel and are thrilled to further expand our partnership with these new resins," said Jason Rolland, SVP of Materials from Carbon. "With this partnership, Carbon has the most comprehensive one-part and dual-cure resin portfolio in the industry, providing an open solution for customers to create better products in less time."
Formnext 2022 attendees can learn more about Henkel resins validated for the Carbon platform in the Carbon booth at Formnext (Hall 11.1 D22), or visit www.carbon3d.com. Henkel will also be showcasing their material portfolio at the show (Hall 11.1 E29), or visit www.LoctiteAM.com
About Henkel
Henkel operates globally with a well-balanced and diversified portfolio. The company holds leading positions with its three business units in both industrial and consumer businesses thanks to strong brands, innovations, and technologies. Henkel Adhesive Technologies is the global leader in the adhesives market. In its Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses, Henkel holds leading positions in many markets and categories around the world. Founded in 1876, Henkel looks back on more than 140 years of success. In fiscal 2021, Henkel reported sales of more than 20 billion euros and adjusted operating profit of around 2.7 billion euros. Henkel employs more than 52,000 people globally – a passionate and highly diverse team, united by a strong company culture, a common purpose to create sustainable value, and shared values. As a recognized leader in sustainability, Henkel holds top positions in many international indices and rankings. Henkel's preferred shares are listed in the German stock index DAX. For more information, please visit www.henkel.com.
About Carbon
Carbon is a 3D printing technology company helping businesses to develop better products and bring them to market in less time. The Carbon DLS™ process combines versatile printers, advanced software, and best-in-class materials to deliver functional parts with end-use performance and aesthetics, helping engineers and designers to create products that outperform expectations. From prototyping and low-volume production to production-at-scale, global organizations use the Carbon process to create a wide range of functional end-use parts and print them reliably wherever and whenever they need them through Carbon's production network partners. Carbon is a venture-backed company headquartered in Redwood City, CA. To learn more, follow Carbon on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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The elitist, high-browed critics don’t give country music any respect.
They would prefer people attend operas or listen to classical music rather than tune in a classic country radio station. That is despite country music’s history of ably treating every important theme the world has ever known.
I don’t think about the elitists and their tastes much. Every time I’m embarking on a journey to hunt pen-raised pheasants, though, it seems the words to a country song, unbidden, fill my mind.
“No, it’s not love, not like ours was,” sang Merle Haggard. “No, it’s not love, but it’s not bad.”
And I think some jealous, malignant force is trying to make me feel guilty for shooting hatchery birds — as if I were secretly watching soccer when a baseball game was on television or something. So, I mentally curse whatever malignant force is behind my feelings.
Maybe I should curse the songwriter, too. Sure, we might not love hunting pen-raised pheasants as much as we love hunting wild birds. The experience isn’t bad, though.
We can take three things to the bank: Wild trout are better than hatchery trout. Wild pheasants are better than hatchery pheasants. Our spouses are going to grumble if we bring home yet another shotgun. Let’s put numbers one and three aside for now and focus on number two.
A generation ago, Michigan had great pheasant hunting. Our parents and grandparents regaled us with tales of great pheasant hunts.
Then, about the time people of my generation reached hunting age, things changed.
Pesticides took out a bunch of the bugs pheasants feed on. Farm fields got bigger and fence rows disappeared. Swamps got drained and wood lots vanished. The population grew. People spread out across the countryside. Subdivisions and malls and parking lots and Interstate highways covered the places people used to hunt. Pheasant numbers crashed.
We can’t house people and pheasants in the same places. Personally, I’d prefer fewer people and more pheasants, but I have no voice in the matter. The point is, few wild pheasants are around. Drink and the devil have done for the rest — with the drink being the elixir we call progress. Anyone wondering why pheasant season opened across the state with little fanfare, now knows.
Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has tried to help. There was the attempt to introduce Sichuan pheasants, a variety biologists thought might take to Michigan’s brushlands. The DNR tried put-take hunting, an older version of the current Michigan Pheasant Hunting Initiative. Neither effort had satisfactory results, though.
Fortunately, private enterprise has stepped in to fill the void. Pheasant preserves dot the countryside now. And, the previously mentioned MPHI sprang into existence, too. It originally was funded with taxpayer dollars.
Now, some donated funds and proceeds from Michigan’s new pheasant license are keeping the program going. In fact, the DNR recently announced this year’s planned rooster-release numbers. A total of 2,083 birds will be released. It seems a paltry number, especially when compared with last year’s release of nearly 5,000 birds. Still, anyone who wants a taste of pheasant hunting can visit one of the stocked state game areas or a private preserve and find some sport.
And what of those released birds?
Well, sure, they’re not wild birds.
Look at the flip side, though.
With a $25 pheasant license and a tank of gas, a parent and a child can go to one of Michigan’s state game areas and possibly flush (and maybe shoot) some pheasants.
For the cost of a parent-child outing to watch the Detroit Lions, the pair could visit a pheasant preserve and be guaranteed an opportunity to get some shooting in. At today’s prices, we can wait until next year to buy a new pair of hunting boots and use those dollars for a pheasant hunt.
We shouldn’t denigrate the preserve experience, either. The birds aren’t wild. But, their upbringing hasn’t changed their genetics.
We might have to goad some preserve birds into flight. But I’ve had cunning roosters lead my dog clear across a field. I’ve had them flush well out of gun range. And, once we get a bird in the pot, there’s no difference between one that grew up in a field and one raised in a pen.
Anyway, I hunt preserve birds, and I make trips to state game areas where pheasants are getting released, too. I make no bones about it. If the experience seems like a less-than-genuine pheasant hunt to me, it doesn’t seem that way to my dog. She loves the outings. Maybe the hunts aren’t quite like the wild-bird-hunts of yore, but they’re not bad. | 2022-10-28T08:18:14+00:00 | cadillacnews.com | https://www.cadillacnews.com/sports/enjoying-what-we-have-for-pheasant-hunting-it-s-not-love-but-it-s-not/article_357b60c8-564f-11ed-a180-df7400cd65b4.html |
Next-generation consultancy recognized for commitment to helping students navigate the first steps of their professional careers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Guidehouse, a leading global provider of consulting and managed services to public sector and commercial clients, is proud to announce that it has received a 2023 Campus Forward Award in the enterprise early career program category by RippleMatch, the all-in-one platform for early career recruitment.
Guidehouse is recognized for the firm's unwavering commitment to seeking out and hiring early career talent, their emphasis on diversity & inclusion, and investments in nurturing and retaining the next generation of talent.
RippleMatch determines its winners through a deep dive into each company's commitment to early career talent through their internship programs, their approach to virtual recruitment, learning and development, candidate experience, and their prioritization of diversity & inclusion.
"We are immensely proud to be recognized by RippleMatch for our innovative approach to recruiting and building early talent," said Scott McIntyre, Chief Executive Officer of Guidehouse. "At Guidehouse, we engage, inspire, and empower our professionals to solve big problems and to make a positive impact on our communities where we work and live. This recognition underscores our commitment to cultivating and supporting the next generation of leaders."
Highlights of Guidehouse's talent commitments include:
- Innovative and Multi-Faceted Approach to University Recruitment: The Campus Recruiting team at Guidehouse is passionate about recruiting the next generation of future leaders. The Campus team works strategically with a network of universities to deepen relationships and position the organization as an employer of choice. In addition, the Campus team guides internal staff to foster connectivity with students and alumni networks across the globe.
- Overarching Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: At Guidehouse, inclusion, diversity, and equality are at the core of the organization. Guidehouse's unwavering commitment to these values spans across its work and is central to its impact worldwide. Interns and new hires are highly encouraged to join Guidehouse's Inclusion & Diversity Program which is comprised of seven inclusion networks: Black, Latinx, OPEN (LGBTQ), PanAsian, Veterans, Women, and Young Professionals.
- Impactful Internship Program: Guidehouse's Internship Programs offer the leaders of tomorrow a robust experience to launch their professional careers. In 2021, 90% of 2021 summer interns received offers to join Guidehouse full-time following graduation. The mission of the Guidehouse Internship Program is to staff interns on real-world projects, showcase the inclusive and diverse Guidehouse culture, and provide interns with a meaningful experience in the consulting industry.
A Great Place to Work® certified company globally, Guidehouse is widely recognized for its people, culture, support, flexibility, and leadership. For more information about careers at Guidehouse, please visit our careers page.
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has over 16,500 professionals in over 55 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kimi Raikkonen couldn’t get over how many restarts there were in the waning laps of NASCAR’s first road course race of the season. Jordan Taylor called his NASCAR debut “a race of survival” and Jenson Button found much of it “a bit silly.”
That was the verdict from three of the most experienced road racers in the world after a mess of a NASCAR race that took three overtimes to be decided. Tyler Reddick finally won it Sunday when the race at Circuit of the Americas went seven laps past the scheduled distance to reach a conclusion.
Raikkonen, who scored his final Formula One victory on the Texas road course in 2018, found himself fourth on one of the many late restarts with a view of the lead out his front windshield. That didn't last long; he was gobbled up, run off course and shuffled back to a 29th-place finish.
“It looked like you’d be very good, then three corners later, somebody’s going the wrong direction,” the former F1 world champion said. “It’s such a shame how it went in the end, but I think we did the right thing. We were there. But then on the restart it’s how it was.”
Button, the 2009 F1 world champion who has two more NASCAR races scheduled this season and is part of NASCAR's lineup in a modified stock car for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, was the highest-finishing road course ringer at 18th. It was an eye-opening experience for the British driver based on the length of the race — the overtimes sent it past its scheduled distance of 68 laps for a run time of 3 hours, 30 minutes — and the physical nature of NASCAR drivers using stock cars to slam into one another.
Button said he experienced heat exhaustion during a race he found 60% enjoyable but “40% of it kind of felt a bit silly, the amount that we were hitting each other.”
“In Turn 1 I would turn in and get whacked ... and on the exit I got a big whack back,” Button said. “The revenge is enjoyable, but there’s points where it feels that we could do better. I mean the action’s amazing, don’t get me wrong, The first 10 laps, it just destroyed me. Every time I was in a corner I had someone overtaking me.”
And then there was Taylor, a four-time IMSA sports car champion and class winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans who was driving Chase Elliott's car for Hendrick Motorsports. His Chevrolet should have been a contender, but Taylor, who is accustomed to driving in fields full of cars with various speed capabilities and vastly different talent levels, found the entire event “definitely wild.”
“I wouldn’t say I survived. I feel like I’m beat up. Every restart, you just get smashed in the front, rear, side,” Taylor said after finishing 24th. "It was pretty much just survival. The guys knew I’d be a little bit more hesitant, so they would take advantage of it.
“I’d say it was a disappointing day. We had good pace, but we just got shuffled back every restart. Tough day.
And that's what NASCAR road course racing has become, especially with the durable Next Gen car that can withstand considerable bumping and banging and typically still finish a race. Veteran Cup drivers have been lambasting declining on-track etiquette, which was evident Sunday on nearly every restart as dozens of cars would launch into the first turn with little regard to who or what they hit.
Reddick said it's a combination of the strength of the car and aggressive drivers angling for every position possible on track.
“The way that things kind of have progressed, the front and rear bumpers of this car are really resilient. You can really hit someone pretty hard without knocking the nose of your car out. The rear bumpers are really tough, too," Reddick said. “You look at Turn 1 here, Turn 1 at Indy road course, they’re very inviting corners with a lot of room. It’s just a product of restarts and the nature of NASCAR racing and how aggressive all the drivers are. Someone’s going to be on the short end."
It made for an exhausting end of the race with 10 cautions over the final 15 laps — enough for exasperated spectators calling for a mercy rule. Because there are only six road courses on NASCAR's 38-race schedule — including the inaugural street course race scheduled for downtown Chicago in July — the current crop of drivers don't have the road racing experience to produce a quality show.
The same thing happened in February at the preseason exhibition race inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where drivers struggled for a long stretch to complete more than a handful of laps under green on the temporary short track. While NASCAR wants diverse tracks on its schedule, a lack of practice and testing has made it difficult for many in the field to find a comfort level on the unfamiliar circuits.
That makes for sloppy racing for a series that touts itself as the best in the United States. If NASCAR truly wants to diversify its product, it needs to give teams on-track time to acclimate to the new style of racing.
And while the three overtimes may have felt excessive, the winner wouldn't have wanted the race to end any other way.
“We’d be robbing the fans of a finish. That’s what they deserve,” Reddick said. “They deserve a good finish to the end. They deserve to see us make it back to the white flag. I think the rule the way it is is the way it should be. The fans pay a lot of good money to come out here, watch a good race, a good finish. Deserve to put that product out there for the fans.”
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AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-27T22:19:00+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/column-cota-yet-another-sloppy-nascar-road-17862994.php |
RENO, Nev. (AP) _ Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (CZR) on Tuesday reported a second-quarter loss of $123 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Reno, Nevada-based company said it had a loss of 57 cents. Earnings, adjusted to account for discontinued operations, were 16 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 25 cents per share.
The casino and resort operator posted revenue of $2.82 billion in the period, which beat Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.77 billion.
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LANSING, MI – A 19-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was hit by a U-Haul vehicle in Lansing.
According to WILX-TV in Lansing, the woman was walking near 600 West Willow Street when the vehicle hit her just after 11 p.m. on Thursday.
She was transported to Sparrow Hospital and is in stable condition, according to the TV station.
A suspect is in custody. The investigation is ongoing. | 2023-05-05T15:49:02+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/05/19-year-old-woman-hit-by-u-haul-in-lansing.html |
Chinese automaker Geely’s Zeekr brand on Tuesday unveiled the 009, an electric van that marks the production debut of battery supplier CATL’s cell-to-pack battery tech.
Zeekr’s second model, following the 001 hatchback, the 009 is a six-seat van is expected to start deliveries in China in 2023. There are no plans to offer it in the United States, although it does appear large enough for this market.
Zeekr teased the van earlier this year, confirming use of CATL cell-to-pack tech, which skips the modules battery cells are usually placed in to form a pack, with some technological leaps to maintain proper monitoring and cooling and make the modules unnecessary.
CATL revealed the latest version of cell-to-pack tech in April, claiming that it could deliver 13% more power by volume than the 4680-format cells Tesla is shifting to—as well as impressive energy density of 355 watt-hours per kilogram with current-tech lithium-ion cells and 160 watt-hours per kilogram with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells.
In the 009, that increased power and energy density translates to an estimated 514 miles from the van’s 140-kwh pack, as measured on China’s CLTC testing cycle. That might still top 400 miles on the more stringent EPA testing cycle.
A pair of motors provide a combined 536 hp. They use silicon carbide tech to achieve 98.5% efficiency, and can propel the 009 from 0-62 mph in 4.5 seconds, Zeekr claims—quick for a van.
The slab-sided 009 sharply contrasts the sleek-looking 009, but still manages a coefficient of drag of 0.27, according to Zeekr. The body shell also features a one-piece die-cast aluminum rear section that Zeekr claims aids crash protection.
To help avoid getting into a crash in the first place, the 009 gets a driver-assist system based around Mobileye chips, with seven 8-megapixel HD cameras, four 2-megapixel surround-view cameras, and one long-range and 12 short-range radar units for the sensor suite. Zeekr, which is expected to be publicly listed soon by parent Geely, said it will offer up to 30 driver-assist features.
Inside, passengers can use a 15.6-inch monitor that folds down from the ceiling to stream content or host videoconferences, while relaxing in nappa leather seats with massage.
Zeekr was formed in March 2021 as a “premium electric car company” under Geely, which also owns Volvo, Polestar, Lotus Cars, and Black Cab maker London Electric Vehicle Company, with in-house developed brands like Lynk & Co. and Geometry as well. While Zeekr aims for an “asset light operation strategy” that looks to suppliers for core tech—as demonstrated by the CATL partnership—other brands have their own engineering resources.
Volvo and Polestar are sharing some components—with the Polestar 3 and Volvo EX90 both built on the companies’ Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) platform, although they’re going their own way on motors and other performance components.
Cell-to-pack is not the only leading-edge battery tech that Geely is considering. It’s also considering the wider availability of battery swapping tech for its budget-oriented Geometry EV brand.
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- CATL-Vinfast collaboration may mean more EVs for emerging markets | 2022-11-03T00:33:28+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/automotive/internet-brands/zeekr-009-electric-van-debuts-catl-cell-to-pack-battery-tech/ |
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)Kaylynne Truong scored 20 points to lead No. 23 Gonzaga to a 63-53 win over Portland to snap a first-place with the Pilots on a Saturday when the Bulldogs retired the jersey of Courtney Vandersloot.
Truong, who went over 1,000 points for her career, made 4 of 8 3-point tries including one with four minutes left to give the Bulldogs (23-3, 13-1 West Coast Conference) an 11-point lead that Truong stretched to 13 with a pair of free throws.
Brynna Maxwell kept her streak alive of making a 3-pointer in every game this season with two makes and 13 points. Yvonne Ejim and McKayla Williams added 11 points each. Gonzaga finished 7 of 21 from the arc, 6 of 13 in the second half.
Alex Fowler and Maisie Burnham scored 13 points each for the Pilots (18-7, 12-2), who had a six-game win streak snapped.
After a ragged first half that ended with Portland leading 19-18, Gonzaga outscored the Pilots 27-15 in the third quarter with a stretch that included seven straight makes.
Neither team reached 34% shooting in the first half when the teams combined to go 2 of 17 from the arc.
Portland’s only two WCC losses have come against Gonzaga, which has won six straight over the Pilots.
Gonzaga is host to Pacific and Portland is home against Saint Mary’s, both games on Thursday.
VANDERSLOOT HONORED Vandersloot was present with a sellout crowd at 6,000-seat McCarthey Athletic Center when her No. 21 jersey was retired before the game, the first Gonzaga women’s player to be so honored.
The point guard, who earned a number of All-American honors including a second-team pick on The Associated Press team, was a three-time player of the year in the WCC and set the NCAA single-season assists record with 367 as a senior when she led Gonzaga to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.
She was the first Division I player, female or male, to reach career totals of both 2,000 points and 1,000 assists.
Vandersloot recently signed a free-agent contract with the New York Liberty after having spent her entire WNBA career with the Chicago Sky, who drafted her with the third overall pick in 2011. She helped lead the Sky to their only championship in 2021.
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Update: John Gilliland was located in Benton County, Arkansas. He will soon be reunited with family, TCSO said in the early hours of Thursday.
A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing Tulsa County man with Alzheimer's.
John Gilliland, 83, was last seen about 7 a.m. Wednesday driving a gray 2008 GMC Sierra pickup with license plate HQQ-656 in the 16800 block of West 53rd Street, west of Sand Springs.
As well as having Alzheimer's disease, Gilliland has additional medical conditions that require daily medications.
Anyone with information about his location is asked to call 911. | 2022-07-14T13:00:39+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/community/sandsprings/news/update-silver-alert-canceled-after-tulsa-county-man-with-alzheimers-found-in-arkansas/article_9e303370-02ec-11ed-8f8e-33be404b207d.html |
“Cruel Country,” Wilco (dBpm Records)
Wilco goes country as only it can on “Cruel Country,” an immensely rich 21-track, roughly 80-minute deep dive into America that is a raw and engaging take on our tumultuous times.
For longtime fans of Wilco, “Cruel Country” feels in some ways like an extension of the rock band’s “Mermaid Avenue” collection with Billy Bragg that were based on lyrics of Woody Guthrie. But “Cruel Country,” a reference more to the subject matter than the musical style, is very much Wilco’s take on America as it currently exists.
“I love my country stupid and cruel/red, white and blue," lead singer and songwriter Jeff Tweedy sings on the title track.
While death hangs heavy over “Cruel Country,” the record offers solace in music and community.
“All you have to do is sing in the choir with me," Tweedy sings in as much an invitation as an aspiration.
It’s fitting that the tracks were recorded live by the band playing together at Wilco’s loft in Chicago, with minimal overdubs. That gives “Cruel Country” a raw, real feel that’s befitting the songs. Tweedy described the method as “messy. Like democracy.”
“Country Song Upside-Down” perhaps comes closest to stating Wilco's thesis for “Cruel Country.”
“I found a song upside-down,” Tweedy sings. “A country song/Without a doubt/Dying sky and water/Rainbow/Flickering out.”
The record comes on the heels of Wilco celebrating the 20th anniversary of its most revered record, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.” While the band looked back to celebrate that milestone, it’s maybe no accident that it quickly followed up its anniversary shows with a completely different-sounding genre-bending record.
As Tweedy writes in the liner notes, “Cruel Country” is an attempt to “challenge our affections for things that are flawed.”
“Cruel Country" isn't all cruel and it isn't all country music, either. But it's likely to stand the test of time and still be talked about 20 years from now.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced plans to file articles of impeachment against President Biden on Thursday, alleging he has violated his oath of office in not securing the country’s borders and protecting national security.
Greene said at a press conference this will be the “first set” of articles she introduces against Biden, whom she said has purposefully failed to fulfill his responsibilities of the presidency.
“It is with the highest amount of solemnity that I announce my intention to introduce articles of impeachment today on the head of this America-last executive branch, that has been working since Jan. 20, 2021, to systematically destroy this country, the president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden,” Greene said.
Her announcement comes after she said Tuesday that she would introduce articles of impeachment against FBI Director Christopher Wray and Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Greene said she has also introduced articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Georgia Republican and ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Biden has refused to enforced immigration laws and secure the border, “deliberately” compromising U.S. national security. She said he has allowed migrants to “invade” the country while depriving border control agents of the resources and policies they need to perform their duties.
Greene said Biden has also allowed fentanyl to “flood” into the country and kill Americans every day.
She also slammed the administration over its plan to direct Customs and Border Protection to release migrants into the U.S. without a set court date or way to track them. Under the plan, migrants need to check in with an app until they are given a court date to appear.
Greene said the policy amounts to “catch-and-release,” allowing the migrants to be released instead of being held in custody until their court date.
“His policies, directives and statements surrounding the southern border have violated our laws and destroyed our country,” she said. “Biden has blatantly violated his constitutional duty, and he is a direct threat to our national security.”
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
Updated at 10:05 a.m. | 2023-05-18T14:29:41+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/hill-politics/greene-announces-plans-to-file-articles-of-impeachment-against-biden/ |
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Over 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian beach, the second group in as many days to arrive in the island nation’s northernmost province of Aceh.
The group of 61 men, 36 women and 22 children that landed Wednesday morning in North Aceh district’s Bluka Teubai village were taken to the fisherman hall and will stay there while waiting for further information from the local authorities, said Nawafil Mahyudha, head of Dewantara sub-district.
A group of 110 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees also landed in the North Aceh district on Tuesday after traveling in a boat for more than a month. They were aiming for Malaysia after leaving Myanmar but were stranded in Aceh waters.
In March, 114 Rohingya refugees were also found on a beach in neighboring Bireuen district.
Hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh since August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched operations in response to attacks by a rebel group. Myanmar security forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and the burning of thousands of Rohingya homes.
Groups of Rohingya have attempted to leave the camps in Bangladesh by sea to seek better life in other Muslim-majority countries in the region. Malaysia has been a common destination for the boats even though many Rohingya refugees who land there face detention.
Although neighboring Indonesia is not a signatory to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, the U.N. refugee agency said that a 2016 presidential regulation provides a legal framework governing the treatment of refugees on boats in distress near Indonesia and helps them disembark in the country. | 2022-11-17T02:02:59+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-second-boat-of-over-100-rohingya-lands-on-indonesian-beach/ |
Carlson latest in string of high-profile Fox News oustings
NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson has been ousted by Fox News, where he hosted the conservative cable network’s most popular program. He is the latest high-profile Fox News personality to be forced out by the network, which just last week agreed to pay nearly $800 million to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over false election claims. Here’s a look at other notable people who had a successful run at Fox before their abrupt departures.
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ROGER AILES
Ailes built Fox News Channel from scratch and ran it for nearly two decades, but he was ousted as chief executive in 2016 following allegations that he forced out a former anchor who rejected his sexual advances.
The blustery executive transformed the cable news business and simultaneously changed the national political conversation. Top-rated Fox News and Fox Business, which he also ran, provided a flashy television home for conservatives who felt left out of the media and enabled the rise of former President Donald Trump.
Ailes’ slogans — “fair and balanced” and “we report, you decide” — appealed to an audience that believed mainstream outlets didn’t live up to those promises.
Ailes’ downfall began with the filing of a lawsuit by news cohost Gretchen Carlson, who charged that he sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances and spoke out about a pervasive atmosphere of sexual harassment at Fox.
Ailes denied the charges, but 21st Century Fox hired a law firm to investigate, and eventually chairman Rupert Murdoch decided to fire him.
Reportedly, Ailes got a farewell payment of at least $40 million, though exact details were not given. He died at age 77, less than a year after his ouster.
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BILL O’REILLY
O’Reilly was a combative broadcast journeyman when Ailes hired him in 1996 and turned him into the opinionated star of the prime-time Fox News Channel lineup.
The 20-year run of “The O’Reilly Factor” and its high ratings came to define the bravado of the network, but the host was fired following an investigation into harassment allegations.
In his “no spin zone,” O’Reilly pushed a populist, conservative point of view and was quick to shout down those who disagreed with him.
The downfall of Fox’s most popular — and most lucrative — personality at the time began with a report in The New York Times that five women had been paid a total of $13 million to keep quiet about disturbing encounters with O’Reilly. Dozens of his show’s advertisers fled within days.
O’Reilly denied any wrongdoing.
Since leaving Fox, O’Reilly has hosted a podcast and embarked on speaking tours. He is also one of the country’s most popular nonfiction authors. The books in his “Killing” historical series, including “Killing Lincoln” and “Killing Reagan,” have consistently sold 1 million or more copies in hardcover.
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ERIC BOLLING
Bolling was cohost of the late-afternoon Fox News program “The Specialists” until he was let go in 2017, amid allegations he sent a lewd photo and text messages to three female colleagues.
He denied the accusations.
Bolling had joined Fox in 2008 after working as a commodities trader. He hosted the weekend show “Cashin’ In” on Fox Business.
A vocal supporter of Trump, Bolling wrote a 2017 op-ed accusing establishment Republicans of betraying the then-president with their version of a plan to overhaul the nation’s health system.
Since July 2021 he has hosted a weeknight program, “Eric Bolling The Balance,” on the conservative channel Newsmax TV.
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GLENN BECK
Beck quickly became a major network star when he was added to the Fox News Channel lineup in 2009, but after two years his show sunk in the ratings and suffered from an advertiser boycott.
His antic style was popular with tea party activists and he drew thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington in 2010 for what he called a “restoring honor” rally.
Some of Beck’s statements got him into trouble. After he said that then-President Barack Obama had “a deep-seated hatred for white people,” critics appealed to commercial buyers to spurn his program. More than 400 Fox advertisers told the company they did not want their commercials on Beck’s show.
In 2011, Beck told his audience that he was leaving Fox to build his own media network, TheBlaze. He has built a powerful brand through a daily radio show, best-selling books and personal appearances.
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MnDOT gives behind-the-scenes look at operations
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – MnDOT gave members of the media a behind-the-scenes look at operations Monday in Rochester.
Plow operators work with a sophisticated computer system. It tells them what road conditions are like so they know how much salt or brine to apply. Plow operators are trained on how to make salt brine, and how to load and manage the salt supply, which they get from a barge in June.
The team of operators said they are a closely knit group, and safety is the number one priority. They said they also hope motorists will remember safety when sharing the road with plows.
“I always wanted to look here since I was a little kid,” MnDOT Maintenance Supervisor Jake Siemers said. “Watching the orange plows going up and down the road. I love working here. The people are great, and the work is great. Just give us space, we’re just trying to make the roads safe for everyone to get home. don’t crowd the plow, stay back, stay alive so we can get you guys home.”
For Southeast Minnesota District 6, there are 102 snowplows.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — From small towns to big cities, every government across the U.S. was offered a slice of $350 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds to help shore up their finances, cover pandemic-related costs and invest in community projects.
Officials in 1,468 local governments effectively said “no," turning away a potential total of $73 million, according to an Associated Press analysis of data compiled from every state. The declined money ranged from $177 for the one-person village of Monowi, Nebraska, to $3.9 million for DeWitt County, Texas, population about 20,000.
The city of West Alton, Missouri — a community of more than 500 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers — turned down a potential $106,341 in federal aid. Though the rejected amount was almost half the size of the city’s budget, there wasn’t much discussion about accepting it during a city council meeting.
“The conversation probably lasted 15 seconds. Without having really any need for it, it wasn’t something we felt like we wanted to get in the middle of,” Mayor Willie Richter said.
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Other small-town mayors and village administrators provided a variety of reasons for rejecting the federal money. Some thought they had no eligible uses for it. Others didn’t want the hassle of dealing with the federal bureaucracy, or were politically opposed to the financial aid approved last year by the Democratic-led Congress and President Joe Biden.
The AP’s analysis identified 1,460 small cities, towns, villages or townships that declined a potential allocation of $61 million. That amounts to about 5% of the nation’s roughly 28,000 small local governments, but just 0.3% of the total dollars allotted for those entities. Eight counties also have forgone a total of $12 million. No states or territories declined funds.
The U.S. Treasury Department said it was pleased with the overall response to the American Rescue Plan, which marked the first time it had distributed money to such a broad swath of governments across the U.S.
The program “was born out of an understanding that the economic effect of the crisis was being felt by jurisdictions of all sizes,” said Jacob Leibenluft, the Treasury’s chief recovery officer. He added: “The vast, vast, vast majority of recipients saw a need to use these funds.”
The pandemic relief money began flowing to governments one year ago.
Data released by the Treasury show that, as of the end of 2021, a total of 1,756 states, territories and larger cities and counties had budgeted about $106 billion of the initial $208 billion they received. That money helped expand high-speed internet, assist residents with housing costs, provide aid to small businesses, shore up depleted unemployment funds and pay for public health initiatives and government services, among other things.
The Treasury hasn't released data yet on how smaller governments used the money.
A second payment for local governments could come from the Treasury as soon as this month. But smaller governments that rejected the initial payment aren't eligible for the second round — a source of regret among at least some local officials.
The Village of the Branch, on New York's Long Island, probably could have used the federal aid to improve the village hall, pave streets or repair water drainage systems, Mayor Mark Delaney said. But that wasn’t clear to Delaney and other village board members when they declined the funds before New York’s decision deadline in August. At that time, the eligible uses seemed limited and the federal reporting burdensome, Delaney said.
Under a final Treasury rule issued in January, the village could have used its entire $183,149 allotment for almost any government services. But by then, the village's share already had been reallocated among other local New York governments.
“Because you did the right thing and you responded quickly, you basically lost out on an opportunity,” Delaney said.
The Treasury Department said it worked with states and associations for local governments to simplify the application process, clarify the rules and encourage participation.
Larger governments that got paid directly by the federal government had no deadline to accept the money. Among smaller communities, some had more time to make decisions than others.
States were in charge of passing along funds to so-called “non-entitlement units” of government — generally cities with fewer than 50,000 residents. Once a state received that money, it had 30 days to distribute it. But some states requested as many as eight monthly extensions from the Treasury, pushing their deadlines into 2022.
The board of Algoma Township, Michigan, voted last July to decline its $1.3 million allotment.
“We’re very liberty-oriented, and we didn’t want to be stuck as a township with any kind of strings attached or mandates," said township Supervisor Kevin Green, who considers the federal aid a waste.
But as Michigan kept extending the response deadline — and township officials learned that their share would be redistributed to others — Green and some of his colleagues had a change of heart. They ultimately accepted the money. Though they haven't spent it yet, it could help offset the rising costs — due to inflation — of planned park improvements, he said.
“As conservative as we are, we’re also practical,” Green said.
Minnesota, which has a more extensive township form of government than most states, had the greatest number of governments declining to apply for the federal aid. More than 500 local governments — about one-fifth of its “non-entitlement units” — turned away a potential total of $11.8 million.
“We did everything we could to publicize this. We made a huge effort,” said Steve Fenske, general counsel of the Minnesota Association of Townships. But "we certainly don’t have full engagement. So some of them didn’t know it was going on.”
The Treasury's online procedures posed a hurdle to some smaller governments, said Irma Esparza Diggs, senior executive and director of federal advocacy for the National League of Cities.
“If you’re unfamiliar with the federal grant process and what the reporting requirements are, the assumption is that it’s all going to be too complicated, and it’s always easier to give the funding back than to figure it out," she said.
The chief executive of DeWitt County, located between Houston and San Antonio, said he turned down the federal aid because the county already had enough cash for its budget. He also raised concerns about the federal program.
“It seemed pretty selfish to manufacture a need to apply for federal dollars that are borrowed on the backs of the children and grandchildren of our county constituents,” DeWitt County Judge Daryl L. Fowler, a Republican, said in an email to the AP.
The upscale community of Brier, Washington — with fewer than 7,000 residents — turned down the largest amount among cities, at more than $1.9 million. The city north of Seattle has a small staff that includes a police force and public works crew. But it has no sewage treatment plant, mental health facilities, cultural centers or low-income housing.
“We just don’t have a lot of the things that ordinarily cities would have to use the funds for," Mayor Dale Kaemingk said.
As the lone resident of the northern Nebraska village of Monowi, Elsie Eiler runs both the town tavern and town government. She didn't want the “mess” of dealing with the federal government.
“The town is doing fine,” she said. "If it comes down to it and it needs some funds, I’ll put some in myself.”
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Massachusetts man wins $25K for life lottery prize — six times
DORCHESTER, Mass. - A military veteran who's been playing the same lottery numbers for over 20 years finally had his strategy pay off — six times over.
Raymond Roberts Sr. won the Massachusetts State Lottery's Lucky for Life game, which awards $25,000 a year for a minimum of 20 years. But he won the prize six times in a single drawing after buying six tickets with the same numbers.
Roberts told lottery officials it was just "intuition" to buy multiple tickets with those numbers, which are a combination of anniversary dates and birthdays. He said he has been playing those numbers in multiple games for more than 20 years.
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The Vietnam-era veteran claimed his prizes Thursday, choosing the $390,000 lump sum cash option on five of the six prizes for a total of $1.95 million before taxes. For his sixth prize, he received the first of a minimum of 20 annual payments of $25,000, lottery officials said.
Roberts said he plans on using a portion of his winnings to buy a motorcycle.
He purchased his winning ticket at a liquor store in Fall River, Massachusetts, which will receive bonuses for selling the winning tickets totaling $30,000 — $5,000 for each of the six tickets. | 2022-12-19T20:49:36+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/massachusetts-man-wins-25k-for-life-lottery-prize-six-times |
In this edition of Law Talk, attorney Anna Czarples discusses New York State Pothole Laws, and when a municipality is liable for a pothole that causes injury to somebody.
As Spring starts and warmer weather rolls in, people are ready to get outside and start activities such as biking. The question this week is, if a biker hits a pothole and sustains a major injury, who would be liable since it’s a public roadway?
The answer can be complicated. Due to systems involving governmental immunity, you cannot sue municipalities, villages, towns, cities or counties unless they permit you to sue them. Czarples says that you cannot bring a claim for an injury that you sustained in a pothole unless the municipality or other governmental entity had prior written notice of the defect.
Say that you notice a large pothole on a county owned road outside of your house. You must give the county written notice and the opportunity to fix the defect before bringing a claim for being injured as a result of it. If no one had written to the governmental entity to fix a pothole before a biker gets injured from it, they are not liable.
In practice, this means that it can be very difficult to bring a claim against a governmental entity for an injury sustained from a pothole or road defect, even when they are to blame for the defect existing in the first place. Czarples says that very few people write in to notify local municipalities of damaged roads, and that the process for notifying the county can be complicated. Typically the first time that local municipalities will be notified of a defect is when somebody is injured from it, and in that event they are already not liable.
If you notice a pothole or a defect in the road and you’re concerned about somebody being injured by it, you can find out who owns it and look into how to give a written notice to its owner.
Be sure to check back each month as Anna Czarples discusses different topics associated with personal injury or other legal topics as you decide. If you have a question that you would like to see potentially answered during Law Talk, please email it to LawTalk@wetmtv.com. Anna Czarples is based out of Corning and works with clients from around the region. | 2023-04-05T17:03:23+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/law-talk/law-talk-new-york-state-pothole-laws/ |
The 97th Air Mobility Wing will be conducting an active shooter and Antiterrorism exercise on Altus Air Force Base on May 31, 2023.
The main gate will be closed for approximately 10 minutes between 8:30 a.m. and 8:40 a.m. All base personnel and individuals with business on the installation are encouraged to avoid entry or exit during this time.
Base personnel, residents and visitors may also hear simulated gun fire, exercise alerts over the giant voice system, and alert radio messages from the hours of 8:30 a.m. through 12:00 p.m. Base services will be limited during these hours due to the complex nature of this type of exercise. Emergency response vehicles and first responders will be responding accordingly for this exercise.
Exercises of this nature are critical for evaluating Department of Defense response actions to a lockdown incident and to prepare for this in the most realistic manner. Base and community personnel have been and will continue to be focused on improving response plans for the safety of everyone on the installation.
For further information about the exercise, contact the 97th Public Affairs Office at (580) 481-7700.
The 97th Air Mobility Wing serves as “Mobility’s Hometown,” training 70% of the Air Force’s mobility aircrew on the C-17 Globemaster III, KC-135 Stratotanker, and KC-46 Pegasus. | 2023-05-25T08:48:44+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/97th-air-mobility-wing-to-conduct-active-shooter-exercise-31-may/article_84d51ba4-1b5d-5069-b8d5-980c299d40be.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to make the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that Russia’s “naked aggression” in Ukraine is an affront to the heart of what the international body stands for as he looks to rally allies to stand firm in backing the Ukrainian resistance.
Biden, during his time at the U.N. General Assembly, also planned to meet Wednesday with new British Prime Minister Liz Truss, announce a global food security initiative and press allies to meet an $18 billion target to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
But White House officials say the crux of the president’s visit to the U.N. this year would be a full-throated condemnation of Russia as its brutal war nears the seven-month mark.
“He’ll offer a firm rebuke of Russia’s unjust war in Ukraine and make a call to the world to continue to stand against the naked aggression that we’ve seen these past several months,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in previewing the president’s address. “He will underscore the importance of strengthening the United Nations and reaffirm core tenets of its charter at a time when a permanent member of the Security Council has struck at the very heart of the charter by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
The address comes as Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine have announced plans to hold Kremllin-backed referendums in days ahead on becoming part of Russia and as Moscow is losing ground in the invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced a partial mobilization to call up 300,000 reservists and accused the West of engaging in “nuclear blackmail.”
Biden is confronting no shortage of difficult issues as leaders gather this year.
In addition to the Russian war in Ukraine, European fears that a recession could be just around the corner are heightened. Administration concerns grow by the day that time is running short to revive the Iran nuclear deal and over China’s saber-rattling on Taiwan.
When he addressed last year’s General Assembly, Biden focused on broad themes of global partnership, urging world leaders to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses. And he offered assurances that his presidency marked a return of American leadership to international institutions following Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.
But one year later, global dynamics have dramatically changed.
Stewart Patrick, senior fellow and director of the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Washington think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote in an analysis that Biden’s task this year is “immense” compared to his first address to the U.N. as president.
“Last year, the U.S. leader won easy plaudits as the ‘anti-Trump,’ pledging that ‘America was back,’” Patrick said. “This year demands more. The liberal, rules-based international system is reeling, battered by Russian aggression, Chinese ambitions, authoritarian assaults, a halting pandemic recovery, quickening climate change, skepticism of the U.N.’s relevance, and gnawing doubts about American staying power.”
Beyond diplomacy, the president is also doing some politicking. This year’s gathering comes less than seven weeks before pivotal midterm elections in the United States. Shortly after arriving in Manhattan on Tuesday night, Biden spoke at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser for about 100 participants that raised nearly $2 million, and he’s set to hold another fundraiser on Thursday before heading back to Washington.
His Wednesday address comes on the heels of Ukrainian forces retaking control of large stretches of territory near Kharkiv. But even as Ukrainian forces have racked up battlefield wins, much of Europe is feeling painful blowback from economic sanctions levied against Russia. A vast reduction in Russian oil and gas has led to a sharp jump in energy prices, skyrocketing inflation and growing risk of Europe slipping into a recession.
Biden’s visit to the U.N. also comes as his administration’s efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal appears stalled.
The deal brokered by the Obama administration — and scrapped by Trump in 2018 — provided billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement to dismantle much of its nuclear program and open its facilities to extensive international inspection.
Sullivan said no breakthrough with Iran is expected during the General Assembly but Biden would make clear in his speech that a deal can still be done “if Iran is prepared to be serious about its obligations.” He added that administration officials would be consulting with fellow signatories of the 2015 deal on the sidelines of this week’s meetings.
This year’s U.N. gathering is back to being a full-scale, in-person event after two years of curtailed activity due to the pandemic. In 2020, the in-person gathering was canceled and leaders instead delivered prerecorded speeches; last year was a mix of in-person and prerecorded speeches. Biden and first lady Jill Biden were set to host a leaders’ reception on Wednesday evening.
China’s President Xi Jinping opted not to attend this year’s U.N. gathering, but his country’s conduct and intentions will loom large during the leaders’ talks.
Last month, the U.N. human rights office raised concerns about possible “crimes against humanity” in China’s western region against Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups. Beijing has vowed to suspend cooperation with the office and blasted what it described as a Western plot to undermine China’s rise.
Meanwhile, China’s government on Monday said Biden’s statement in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview that American forces would defend Taiwan if Beijing tried to invade the self-ruled island was a violation of U.S. commitments on the matter, but it gave no indication of possible retaliation.
The White House said after the interview that there has been no change in U.S. policy on Taiwan, which China claims as its own. That policy says Washington wants to see Taiwan’s status resolved peacefully but doesn’t say whether U.S. forces might be sent in response to a Chinese attack.
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Follow AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly at https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly | 2022-09-21T12:39:19+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-biden-at-un-to-call-russian-war-an-affront-to-bodys-charter/ |
Top Player Prop Bets for 76ers vs. Nets NBA Playoffs Game 1 on April 15, 2023
The Philadelphia 76ers host the Brooklyn Nets at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday (tip at 1:00 PM ET). Those looking to place a player prop bet can find odds for Joel Embiid, Mikal Bridges and others in this outing.
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76ers vs. Nets Game Info
- Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Wells Fargo Center
NBA Props Today: Philadelphia 76ers
Joel Embiid Props
- Saturday's points prop bet for Embiid is 33.5 points. That is 0.4 more than his season average of 33.1.
- Embiid has collected 10.2 rebounds per game, 1.3 fewer than his prop bet in Saturday's game (11.5).
- Embiid's year-long assist average -- 4.2 per game -- is 0.7 higher than Saturday's assist prop bet value (3.5).
- Embiid has connected on 1.0 three pointer per game, 0.5 more than his over/under in Saturday's game (0.5).
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James Harden Props
- Saturday's over/under for James Harden is 20.5. That's 0.5 less than his season average.
- He averages 0.6 more rebounds than his prop bet Saturday of 5.5.
- Harden averages 10.7 assists, 1.2 more than Saturday's prop bet (9.5).
- His 2.8 made three-pointers average is 0.3 higher than his over/under on Saturday.
Tobias Harris Props
- Tobias Harris' 14.7 points per game are 1.2 points higher than Saturday's over/under.
- Harris has pulled down 5.7 boards per game, 0.2 more than his over/under for Saturday's game.
- Harris averages 2.5 assists, the same as Saturday's over/under.
- Harris' 1.7 three-pointers made per game is 0.2 more than his over/under on Saturday.
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Mikal Bridges Props
- The 26.5-point over/under for Bridges on Saturday is 6.4 higher than his scoring average.
- Bridges averages 0.1 fewer rebounds than his over/under on Saturday (which is 4.5).
- Bridges averages 3.3 assists, 0.8 more than his over/under for Saturday.
- Bridges, at 2.0 three-pointers made per game, averages 0.5 less than his over/under on Saturday.
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Spencer Dinwiddie Props
- Spencer Dinwiddie has averaged 17.3 points per game in the 2022-23 season, 0.2 points less than Saturday's over/under.
- Dinwiddie's year-long assist average -- 6.5 per game -- is 2.0 assists lower than Saturday's assist over/under (8.5).
- Dinwiddie's 2.3 made three-pointers per game is 0.8 more than his over/under in Saturday's game (1.5).
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(WHTM) – Thousands of toy monkeys are being recalled due to a potential choking hazard.
The recall affects approximately 6,000 “Screaming Plush Monkey” toys, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The issue specifically concerns the toy monkey’s eyes, which can detach and pose a choking hazard.
Anyone with this toy should immediately take it away from children and contact Diamond Visions, the toy’s Wisconsin-based importer, for instructions on how to receive a full refund.
No injuries have been reported.
The monkeys were sold at “hardware and variety stores nationwide” between September 2021 through November 2022, the CPSC said. The monkey’s paw, when pressed, triggers a pre-recorded screaming sound. The monkey’s arms can also be wrapped around an object or a person’s neck, and attached via Velcro on the front paws.
The toys, which came in brown, blue or pink, sold for around $6 apiece, according the the notice.
The recalled plush monkeys can be further identified by their tags, which are printed with “Model TM-3280” and “Diamond Visions, Inc.”
Contact information for Diamond Visions is available at the CSPC’s official site. | 2023-04-28T17:00:01+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/consumer-watch/screaming-monkey-toy-recalled-over-choking-hazard/ |
SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — Warning of a Republican “culture of losing,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sought Saturday to weaken former President Donald Trump's grip on the GOP as he courted voters in battleground Iowa.
DeSantis, expected to announce his 2024 presidential campaign any day, briefly flipped burgers and pork chops at a picnic fundraiser in Sioux Center that drew hundreds of conservatives to the northwest corner of the state. At the podium, he highlighted his willingness to embrace conservative cultural fights and sprinkled his remarks with indirect jabs at Trump.
“Governing is not about entertaining. Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling,” said DeSantis, who wore a blue button-down shirt without a tie or jacket. “It’s ultimately about winning and producing results.”
Trump, a candidate since November, had hoped to demonstrate his political strength with a large outdoor rally in Des Moines, the capital, later in the day, but he canceled the event due to a tornado warning.
Voters in the state are sizing up DeSantis and Trump, two Republican powerhouses who are among a half dozen GOP candidates already in the race or expected to announce imminently. Trump is well ahead of his rivals in early national polls, while DeSantis is viewed widely as the strongest potential challenger.
Trump was hoping to return to the comfort of the campaign stage after a tumultuous week.
On Tuesday, a civil jury in New York found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million. A day later, during a contentious CNN town hall, he repeatedly insulted Carroll, reasserted lies about his 2020 election loss and minimized the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
DeSantis has burnished his reputation as a conservative governor willing to push hard for conservative policies and even take on a political fight with Disney, which he highlighted in Sioux Center. But so far, he hasn't shown the same zest for taking on Trump, who has been almost singularly focused on tearing down DeSantis for months.
On Saturday, DeSantis avoided Trump's legal entanglements or his falsehoods about the 2020 election, but he highlighted the GOP’s recent string of electoral losses. He did not say it explicitly, but the Republican Party has struggled in every national election since Trump's 2016 victory.
“We must reject the culture of losing that has impacted our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over,” DeSantis said. “If we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or on other side issues, then I think the Democrats are going to beat us again.”
It's uncertain whether DeSantis' political successes in Florida can be replicated on the national stage.
Even before he formally enters the race, he's already facing questions about his ability to court donors and woo voters.
The Iowa visit, his second in two months, was expected to help address concerns about his sometimes awkward personal appeal as he met with Republican officials, donors and volunteers, all under the glare of the national media. But DeSantis devoted a brief 15 minutes for meeting voters, photos or handshakes at the event in Sioux Center, where more than 600 people had gathered to see him at an event billed as a family picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra.
He met before the event with state lawmakers who Thursday and Friday announced they were endorsing him. DeSantis left any early Iowa organizing to his allied super political action committee, which had set up a table where prospective supporters for his yet-to-be-announced presidential campaign could sign up.
The road outside the museum was flanked with DeSantis 2024 campaign signs.
Trump’s team had expected more than 5,000 to attend the rally at an outdoor amphitheater in downtown Des Moines for the purpose of collecting information on would-be supporters and encouraging them to commit to Trump.
Trump’s 2024 Iowa campaign, unlike his rag-tag 2016 second-place Iowa effort, is putting together a more disciplined, data-driven operation. The Saturday event was aimed at encouraging attendees to sign up with the campaign on a website so the campaign could maintain contact with them, keep them posted on how and where to caucus, and recruit campaign volunteers.
In a social media post, Trump promised to reschedule the event.
At least for Trump, the emerging rivalry with DeSantis has turned increasingly personal.
DeSantis has largely ignored Trump’s jabs, which have included suggesting impropriety with young girls as a teacher decades ago, questioning his sexuality and calling him “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
Trump’s campaign began airing an ad mocking DeSantis for yoking himself to the former president in 2018 when he ran for governor, even using some Trump catchphrases as a nod to his supporters in Florida.
Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., also has aired spots highlighting DeSantis’ votes to cut Social Security and Medicare and raise the retirement age. The group even targeted DeSantis' snacking habits, running an ad that called for him to keep his “pudding fingers” off those benefits. That was a reference to a report in The Daily Beast that the governor ate chocolate pudding with his fingers instead of a spoon on a plane several years ago.
DeSantis has said he does not remember doing that.
The pro-DeSantis super PAC, Never Back Down, has hired Iowa staff and begun trying to organize support for the governor before a 2024 announcement. The group announced Thursday that state Senate President Amy Sinclair and state House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl would endorse DeSantis' candidacy. On Friday, it rolled out roughly three dozen more state lawmakers who would endorse him.
During DeSantis' appearance in Sioux Center, Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst were in attendance.
After his speech, DeSantis moved swiftly through the crowd after his speech, making small talk with voters as he maneuvered through the large audience, trailed by reporters, TV cameras and a security detail. He then dashed outdoors to pose with Reynolds and Feenstra while tending to burgers and pork chops at the grill.
Lyle and Sonia Remmerde of Rock Valley managed a handshake. She said DeSantis’ style comes across as “normal.”
“One of the things when you compare Trump and DeSantis, I think DeSantis has — how do you say? — a much more smooth approach,” said Lyle Remmerde, 65. “He’s less abrasive.” | 2023-05-14T03:19:19+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/desantis-iowa-trump/67-add22ac1-bcce-4f06-bb25-bc56be2c6db5 |
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From the first day of heat acclimatization practice on Aug. 8, until the very last Lancaster-Lebanon League football team is still standing later this fall, we’ll bring you three L-L League gridiron facts on a daily basis to keep you in the loop about what’s happening around the league …
Top takeaways from Friday’s Week 3 games, after a trip home from the hill, where Elco grabbed a 21-0 lead on the way to a 21-12 victory over Columbia, in a game that lived up to the hype.
1. Seven teams remained unbeaten Friday night: Solanco put on its rally caps for a 29-26 dub over Penn Manor; Exeter remained red-hot, pitching a 35-0 shutout in a whitewash win over West York; in a battle of old-school rivals, Manheim Central KO’d Cocalico 35-19; Elizabethtown’s offense kept on sizzling in the Bears’ 41-28 victory in Hersheypark Stadium against Lower Dauphin; in a battle of unbeatens, Elco remained undefeated with a 21-12 win over Columbia; Hamburg’s offense lit up yet another scoreboard with a 54-34 triumph over Eastern York; and Lancaster Catholic picked off Octorara 41-7. … Wyomissing will go for a 3-0 start Saturday afternoon when the Spartans host Trinity. … Some intriguing matchups in Week 4 for the undefeated gang: Solanco is at Ephrata; Exeter is at Governor Mifflin, which picked up its first win Friday, and that will be a much-anticipated, circle-it-in-red-pen rematch of last year’s D3-5A finale, won by the Eagles; Manheim Central has a home clash vs. Susquehannock, as the Barons drew the Week 4 Section 2 nonleague date; E-town has the Section 3 Week 4 nonleague clash and the Bears will go for 4-0 vs. Red Lion, which coughed up a lead and fell to Reading on Friday; Elco is at Conrad Weiser for a 6 p.m. kick on Saturday; Lancaster Catholic gets old friend Columbia up on the hill; and Hamburg is at Annville-Cleona. … Wyo, by the way, is at rival Berks Catholic in the Holy War showdown next Friday. Circle that one, won’t you.
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2. Four teams that had 2-0 starts suffered their first loss Friday night: Cedar Crest fell to Warwick 26-20; Hempfield came up short vs. Central York 30-20; Columbia rallied valiantly but fell to Elco 21-12; and in the score of the night, Garden Spot fell to Conestoga Valley 41-35 in an absolute OT thriller as the Buckskins won their second straight.
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3. Seven teams got up off the mats and picked up their first victories Friday: Kutztown held off Pottsville Nativity BVM 26-20; Donegal defeated Palmyra 30-13; Daniel Boone beat Muhlenberg 39-15; Northern Lebanon plucked York Tech 20-7; Warwick stopped Cedar Crest 26-20; Governor Mifflin squeezed past Boyertown 17-14 and Schuylkill Valley dropped Susquenita 31-13. All of those teams can now exhale moving forward. … One squad remained winless Friday: Pequea Valley put up a crooked number on the scoreboard for the first time this season, but the Braves fell to Hanover 13-6. PV goes for its first win in Week 4 with a Section 5 opener at Northern Lebanon. … Berks Catholic will go for its first victory Saturday afternoon when the Saints play at Pope John Paul II. BC is 0-2 for the first time since 2011.
Plenty more coverage from the Week 3 slate coming up over the weekend, including coverage from Saturday’s games, plus Helmet Sticker winners, notables and stat leaders. Stay tuned.
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Richard (Dick) York Berneman
February 11, 1933-June 28, 2023
Richard (Dick) York Berneman of Kingston, ID, died June 28, 2023, at the age of 90.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Thursday, July 6, 2023, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the By-The-Way-Suites, 801 Division St., Pinehurst, ID.
Dick was born on February 11, 1933, in Mason City, Iowa to Francis and Hazel (Thurman) Berneman. He attended Mason City Schools. Dick served in the US Army and was stationed in Hinterbrand, Austria.
To his union with Frances Decker, they were blessed with six children: Susan Morris, Sandra (Domenico) Marino, Sally (Dan) Bitker, Alan (Nancy) Berneman, Theresa Sellers, and Carol (Stephen) Carmack. His grandchildren are Antonio Marino, Teresa Whiteman, Toni Gonnerman, Kelly Francis, Krista Fix, Tiffany Wygle, Joshua and Jacob Berneman, Dennis Sellers, Stacy Burke, Billy Arnold, and John Haan. Dick also has 19 great-grandchildren and 10 great great-grandchildren.
For the last 52 years, he was in a loving marriage with Donna (Bonnie) Wester.
In 1961, he began work as a maintenance painter at Lockheed Aeronautical Company in Burbank, CA. Due to his quality work ethics, he became an outstanding acting department manager. Upon retiring in 1990, they moved to the Silver Valley and opened Bonnie's Creations Gift Shop in Pinehurst, featuring concrete lawn fountains, benches, and birdbaths. Later, he operated By-The-Way Campground.
Dick was a talented mechanic. He was a hard worker, caring supervisor and role model, often helping friends and family. He dirt-track raced at the North Iowa Speedway in Mason City. In California, Dick enjoyed fishing the ocean, competition drag racing, bowling (once scoring a perfect game), and riding motorcycles. While in Idaho, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, and breakfast at McDonald's.
He is also survived by his brother, James Berneman of Mason City, Iowa. Dick was preceded in death by his sisters, Lorraine Jenison and Kay Schoephoester; and brothers, Bernard, Robert (Duke) and Francis.
Memories of Dick and messages of condolence may be shared with his family online at www.shoshonefuneralservice.com. Shoshone Funeral Services, Kellogg, is assisting the Berneman family with arrangements. | 2023-07-03T05:57:07+00:00 | globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/richard-dick-york-berneman/article_98a0c6e7-25b1-5908-aba2-14f7bb04caa8.html |
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of people attended a street protest in Bulgaria’s capital Thursday to oppose a revision of the Election Code that reinstates paper ballots, which the previous reformist government had replaced with voting machines.
The We Continue the Change party and the Democratic Bulgaria political alliance called the protest in Sofia, describing the switch as an attempt by the parties of the “old establishment” to allow the corruption of the election process.
Police cordoned off the Parliament building to prevent the angry demonstrators from storming it, but the protest remained peaceful.
The leader of the We Continue the Change party, Kiril Petkov, called on Bulgarians to stand up for their rights and join the protest.
“Today is the day when the democratic vote of every Bulgarian citizen will be substituted, the day when we open the door to 15% invalid ballots, when the distortion of the vote makes the whole system work corruptly,” he said ahead of the event.
The Election Code amendments were approved last week during an all-night sitting of the National Assembly’s legal affairs committee, with support from the center-right GERB party of three-time Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, the Socialist Party and a party representing Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish citizens.
The rushed move comes as a political stalemate in the European Union’s poorest member country has added to the economic woes of many Bulgarians at a time of galloping inflation and rising energy costs.
Bulgaria currently is governed by a caretaker Cabinet with limited powers following its fourth general election in less than two years.
The October election produced another fragmented parliament, where so far fruitless efforts to form a viable governing coalition are likely to result in another election early next year. | 2022-12-02T18:15:57+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-bulgarians-protest-reinstatement-of-paper-election-ballots/ |
NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Invivyd, Inc. f/k/a Adagio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IVVD, ADGI) between November 29, 2021 and December 14, 2021, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than April 3, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Invivyd securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Invivyd class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=11658 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than April 3, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the published epitope mapping, structural studies, and sequence analyses which defendants had used to claim ADG20 was effective against Omicron were insufficient, unreliable, and inadequate to make claims of effectiveness of ADG20 against Omicron; (2) claims regarding ADG20's efficacy against Omicron lacked a reasonable factual basis; (3) ADG20 was over 300 times less effective against the Omicron variant as compared to its effectiveness against previous variants; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. As a result of defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the significant decline in the market value of Invivyd's common stock, members of the Class have suffered significant damages.
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