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Vaishali Pandya and Snehal Pandya acquired the property at 30 Farmington Drive, Shrewsbury, from Ret Morelli on Dec. 30, 2022, for $1,050,000 which represents a price per square foot of $374. The property features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a garage. There's also a pool in the backyard. The unit sits on a 0.6-acre lot.
These nearby houses have also recently been purchased:
- A 2,892-square-foot home at 17C Farmington Drive in Shrewsbury sold in December 2022 for $930,000, a price per square foot of $322.
- On Farmington Drive, Shrewsbury, in October 2021, a 3,023-square-foot home was sold for $920,000, a price per square foot of $304.
- In September 2022, a 3,886-square-foot home on Rockwell Drive in Shrewsbury sold for $1,070,000, a price per square foot of $275.
Real Estate Wire is a service provided by United Robots, which uses machine learning to generate analysis of data from Propmix, an aggregator of national real-estate data. | 2023-01-19T00:27:16+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/realestate-news/2023/01/four-bedroom-home-in-shrewsbury-sells-for-1-1-million.html |
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi’s cholera outbreak has claimed more than 1,000 lives, according to the country’s health minister, who warned that some cultural beliefs and hostility toward health workers were slowing efforts to curb infections.
Cholera had killed 1,002 people as of Tuesday, while 1,115 people were hospitalized from the outbreak that started in March 2022, Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda said. It’s the country’s worst outbreak of the waterborne illness in two decades.
The country of 20 million people recorded 12 deaths from 626 new cases in 24 hours, she said.
Frustration and suspicion over the rising cases resulted in weekend violence. Angry villagers beat up health workers and damaged a facility at the Nandumbo Health Centre in the Southern Region’s Balaka district.
Residents accused health workers of denying them an opportunity to conduct dignified burials. They forced some health workers to vacate the facility, stoned a cholera isolation ward and forced the discharge of 22 cholera patients.
Esnath Suwedi, vice-chairperson of the Nandumbo area’s development committee, a traditional local authority, said people thought the health workers were acting “mysteriously.”
Suwedi said residents alleged the workers were using contaminated syringes to inject people. The Balaka district is one of the worst affected areas, recording 46 deaths from 1,450 cases in the outbreak.
Cultural burial rites are also becoming a source of contention, Chiponda, the health minister, said during a daily briefing Tuesday.
“For example, people who are dying of or who have died from cholera may be washed by family members, who then prepare funeral feasts for family and friends held very soon after death. Outbreaks of cholera commonly follow these feasts,” the minister said. | 2023-01-26T11:02:01+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/health/ap-health/ap-malawi-cholera-outbreak-death-toll-rises-above-1000/ |
Apple has a long history of designing products that aren’t the first to be introduced in a particular category but still redefine the market. With the company unveiling a headset equipped with virtual and augmented reality technology already available in other devices, here is a look back at some of Apple’s other breakthrough products:
THE MACINTOSH COMPUTER, UNVEILED JANUARY 1984
Heralded by a now-most famous TV commercial, the Macintosh computer lived up to the revolutionary promise made by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs during its 1984 unveiling. Among other things, the Mac ushered in the era of the graphical user interface (known as “GUI” in tech parlance) and the navigational mouse. In many ways, it was the first realization of Jobs’ vision to turn computers into “a bicycle of the mind.”
THE IPOD, UNVEILED OCTOBER 2001
Although it wasn’t the first of its kind, the iPod changed the way people thought about digital music players just like Jimi Hendrix changed the way thought about the guitar. The iPod was compact, stylish, initially capable of storing up to 1,000 songs (the capacity would extend far beyond that of the first model in 2001). It then spawned the iTunes story that provided a legal way to buy and download music at a time of rampant piracy. The device also signaled Apple might evolve into something more than a computer maker.
THE IPHONE, UNVEILED JANUARY 2007
It’s difficult to overstate how much the iPhone has changed the world. In technical terms, it introduced the convenience of touchscreens at the time that a physical keyboard was still all the rage on the top-selling smartphone – the BlackBerry – when Jobs first took out what was all-in-one computer, camera and music player out of his pocket in 2007. A year later, Apple would open a store that would make it common to think there must be an app for just about anything, render the BlackBerry obsolete and make smartphones indispensable.
THE IPAD, UNVEILED JANUARY 2010
The iPad created a middle ground between laptops and smartphone. The tablet provided people with a quicker, more convenient way to browse the web, check email, and read books than a laptop on a larger screen than smartphones – an advantage that became even more important as video streaming craze took off. The iPad’s success also pressured Microsoft to start building in more touchscreen options and adding other tablet-like features for its Windows operating system that powers most laptop and desktop computers.
THE APPLE WATCH, UNVEILED SEPTEMBER 2014
The Apple Watch created a device that made it possible to wear something akin to a smartphone on your wrist because it included cellular capability. It also offered some of the same apps people use on their smartphones. Apple initially marketed its smartwatch almost like a fashion accessory before pivoting once it realized that its fitness and health tracking features were the tools that people seemed to find most valuable.
AIRPODS, UNVEILED SEPTEMBER 2016
The AirPods helped popularize wireless headphones with an Apple chip that provided more reliable and stable connections with devices while making it easy to shift from one gadget to another. The product also served another key purpose for Apple: AirPods quickly muted the initial outrage of the company’s decision to remove the headphone jack from iPhones in 2016 while creating another lucrative sales channel. | 2023-06-06T13:49:06+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/through-the-years-apples-breakthrough-products/ |
The former Georgia police officer charged with the murder and kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl who went missing in July is facing new charges in connection with the alleged stalking and burglary of another woman.
Miles Bryant, an ex-cop with the Doraville Police Department, is already accused of kidnapping and killing 16-year-old Susanna Morales before dumping her naked body in the forest. He is being held without bond at the Gwinnett County Adult Detention Center on charges of concealing the death of another, filing a false report of a crime, murder and kidnapping.
And now, Bryant is facing burglary charges in the town of Snellville after a former classmate of his accused him of stalking her and breaking into her home in May 2019. The woman, Elesha Bates, said she wonders if Morales would still be alive had the burglary case not been dismissed.
Bates said she and Bryant knew each other since the fifth grade.
FORMER GEORGIA COP CHARGED IN MISSING TEEN'S MURDER FILED FALSE POLICE REPORT
A neighbor shared with Bates footage caught on a doorbell camera that shows a man, on numerous occasions, lurking around her door and pulling on the doorknob.
In February, Bates told FOX 5 Atlanta that she believed Bryant broke into her apartment once while she was not home, and shared photos of her damaged front door with the news outlet.
Bates said she was concerned about her safety and reported the incidents to the Doraville Police Department, Bryant's former employer, and the Gwinnett County Police Department.
Doraville Police said it conducted an administrative investigation. Officials said they spoke to Bryant about the incidents and that the behavior had stopped. Doraville Police said they told Bates to report any potential criminal charges to the Gwinnett County Police Department.
According to police, investigators closed Bates' case because of a ‘lack of leads.’ But an investigation into her case was reopened late last month after new information was received.
FIRED GEORGIA COP CHARGED WITH MURDER IN MISSING TEEN'S DEATH
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Bryant allegedly tampered with a locked bedroom window during the break-in, officials said.
He was charged with first-degree burglary in Snellville. | 2023-03-05T12:49:16+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/former-georgia-cop-charged-with-killing-16-year-old-missing-girl-has-been-charged-in/article_31ef1111-4cbd-56ef-a2c0-892eda6eca0a.html |
Industry Leading QSR Concept Flourishes Amid Increasing Inflation
WILMINGTON, N.C., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clean Eatz, one of the nation's leading wellness concepts in the QSR space, is on pace to achieve a rate of expansion in 2022 that will surpass any year prior for the restaurant franchise. The guiding metric for the brands success leading into 2023 being to establish 100 active locations by years end, as the Clean Eatz team has previously stated.
The franchise has signed 15 new agreements over the course of the past several months, bringing the total in development to over 80 headed into the third quarter. In addition, the brand has seen five new units open their doors and commence operations since the close of the first quarter, putting the total number of open and active units nationwide at 81 – a 17% growth rate since starting off the year.
Core to the expansion of the Clean Eatz brand has been the demand in communities and major metropolitan areas throughout the country for enhanced accessibility to "clean", affordable meal options.
"I'm so proud of what the Clean Eatz franchise has become," said Don Varady, Co-Founder of Clean Eatz. "As a concept built on helping educate people on the value and impact of healthy eating, nothing is more inspiring to our cause than seeing the continued system-wide expansion and growing recognition that the franchise builds on quarter by quarter."
Consumers are proving to be more cost-conscious than ever, given the record-high inflation taking its toll on everyday finances. Even still, most remain intent on prioritizing their personal health and dietary practices, which has worked well to highlight the cost-effective nature of the Clean Eatz menu. In turn, this has brought many new customers through our doors, acclimating themselves with the franchise and what it can afford them. It's also given the concept an AUV of over $1 million, an industry-leading figure capable of attracting the attention of aspiring business owners and future franchisees to the one-of-a-kind QSR brand.
"We've set a clear path for ourselves as far as what we can expect to accomplish and where we can anticipate standing come year's end," said Evonne Varady, Co-Founder of Clean Eatz. "Which means our team can focus on doing what we do best. Conceptualizing new menu items, building out the Clean Eatz community, and enacting means of helping our customers to live their best lives through the Clean Eatz culture."
To learn more about joining the health and wellness movement as a franchisee with Clean Eatz, visit https://www.cleaneatz.com/franchise.
ABOUT CLEAN EATZ
Clean Eatz, which launched in 2011 and started franchising in 2015, was co-founded by husband-and-wife duo Don and Evonne Varady, as a means of helping individuals and families change their lives by providing them with better nutrition options, a steady dose of health and wellness education, and a diverse support community that's committed to helping each other in becoming their best selves. By supplying such healthy alternatives, the Clean Eatz brand has continued to win over communities with their dine-in, grab-n-go, catering, marketplace, and weekly online meal plan selections.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Kent County’s prosecutor is anticipating a former Grand Rapids police officer will face trial on a murder charge in the killing of Patrick Lyoya.
Prosecutor Chris Becker, who is trying the case himself, told reporters Friday morning after a second day of testimony in the high-profile case that he believes the law is on his side in getting the case before a jury.
A judge will rule Monday, Oct. 31, if Christopher Schurr will stand trial for second-degree murder in Lyoya’s killing. The prosecution felt confident Friday morning, Oct. 28, the judge will rule in its favor.
“We stand on what we said in the courtroom today in arguing for bind over,” Becker told media outlets outside of the courtroom. “I think the law is on our side so we’ll see what the judge does.”
Grand Rapids District Judge Nicholas Ayoub said he would issue a written opinion Monday morning.
RELATED: Will police officer face murder trial for killing Patrick Lyoya? Judge to announce ruling next week.
“This is a question for the jury,” Becker said, in reference to the judge making a decision.
Lyoya’s friends and family were seated in the courtroom’s gallery throughout the two-day preliminary exam hearing. Just across the aisle were supporters of Schurr.
There were moments when Lyoya’s parents – Peter and Dorcas Lyoya– wiped away tears as they watched video footage of their son being shot in the back of the head as it played in court.
“I think it’s difficult for them,” Becker said of the family’s reactions. “Obviously, you’ve seen some of the emotions in the case and in court (Thursday) and how they reacted with some of those photos wasn’t easy for them.”
“It’s like picking an open wound,” he added.
Matthew Borgula and Mark Dodge, Schurr’s legal team, called Grand Rapids police Capt. Chad McKersie as its only witness to testify on Friday. McKersie testified that Schurr did not violate department policy when he shot and killed Patrick Lyoya during a fight for the officer’s Taser.
“(Schurr) went through his use-of-force options to the best of his ability at that time,” McKersie said.
Becker rested his case on Thursday after witnesses – including Lyoya’s friend who recorded video of the killing – described the confrontation before the officer reached for his gun and shot Lyoya.
Schurr shot Lyoya, a Congolese refugee, after a traffic stop on Nelson Avenue SE, just north of Griggs Street, during a struggle for control of the officer’s Taser.
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Lawsuit imminent against former Grand Rapids officer accused in Patrick Lyoya’s death: attorney | 2022-10-28T18:37:43+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2022/10/the-law-is-on-our-side-prosecutor-says-ahead-of-judges-ruling-on-police-officers-murder-charge.html |
DALLAS, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NYSE: NREF) ("NREF") announced today that its board of directors has declared a dividend of $0.53125 per share of NREF's 8.50% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, payable on October 25, 2022 to stockholders of record on October 14, 2022.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc., is a publicly traded REIT, with its shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NREF" primarily focused on originating, structuring and investing in first mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity and common stock, as well as multifamily commercial mortgage backed securities. NREF concentrates on investments in real estate sectors where its senior management team has operating expertise, including, among others, in the multifamily, single-family rental, self-storage, life science, hospitality and office sectors predominantly in the top 50 metropolitan statistical areas. More information about NREF is available at http://nref.nexpoint.com.
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Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina announced Monday that he is seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024.
The Senate’s only Black Republican, Scott kicked off the campaign in his hometown of North Charleston, on the campus of Charleston Southern University, his alma mater, and a private school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
In a speech, Scott emphasized his personal background, his family, and the “miracle of America.” Scott declared “I am America” as he blasted the “radical left” for “pushing us into a culture of grievances instead of a culture of greatness.” Criticizing the “liberal lie that our country is evil,” he said he is the “candidate the far left fears the most.”
He went on to criticize President Biden, whom he called “weak,” and what he described as a “nation in retreat.” There was no mention of the Republican frontrunner, former President Donald Trump.
A source of strength for Scott will be his campaign bank account. He enters the 2024 race with more cash on hand than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history, with $22 million left in his campaign account at the end of his 2022 campaign that he can transfer to his presidential coffers.
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PARIS (AP) — France’s national police chief has said that law enforcement officers under investigation shouldn’t be jailed like ordinary citizens, amid a walkout by numerous Marseille police over the detention of a colleague for his actions during nationwide riots.
The apparently unprecedented remarks by Frederic Veaux in a weekend interview — which got the support of the Paris police prefect — quickly triggered a debate, and raised fundamental questions about whether French law enforcement is above the law.
“Knowing that (the officer) is in prison stops me from sleeping,” Veaux said in an interview with Le Parisien, after a trip Saturday to Marseille to bring a message of support to police from himself and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. But he went further, saying he thinks that “ahead of an eventual trial, a police officer has no place in prison, even if he may have committed faults or grave error in his work.”
While police officers must account for their actions, “including before justice,” they shouldn’t be treated like “criminals and thugs,” Veaux said.
French police are often accused of on-the-job brutality and racism for singling out Black people or those with North African roots for identity checks or detention, while unions say that officers themselves feel maligned.
“No one is above the law,” President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview Monday from New Caledonia, the starting point of his trip in the Indo-Pacific. But he refused to respond directly to Veaux’s remarks about jailing law enforcement officers while judicial proceedings are underway.
Pressed for a response, Macron said that “we must respect laws democratically voted and obviously they themselves (police) fall under the law.”
He noted that 28 investigations into police behavior were opened since the riots, which erupted after a police officer shot and killed a young man with North African roots, Nahel M., on June 27 during a traffic control.
Above all, the president praised police in the face of “an unprecedented surge of violence” during the riots, in which 900 law enforcement officers were injured, and said that he understands “the emotions of our officers … and it must be heard while respecting the state of law for all.”
In a spontaneous move, police officers in Marseille have been calling in sick since the jailing Thursday of a member of the BAC, an elite police squad particularly active in Marseille, known for delinquency and drug dealing. It wasn’t known how many police were absent from the job, but the action worried authorities in Paris.
The jailed suspect is under investigation for group violence and using or threatening to use a weapon. Three colleagues also suspected are under strict house arrest. The four are being investigated for allegedly beating up a young man, reportedly of North African origin, at the start of July when the port city was under attack by rioters.
A noted police expert, Sebastian Roche, tweeted his concern about what is at stake.
“Equality before the law is threatened with rupture,” Roche tweeted. “Though it is a cardinal principle of a state of law.”
French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti reiterated in a tweet Monday the president’s message that “no one is above the law” and added that the independence of judicial officials is “an indispensable condition for respect of a state of law.”
The interior minister, who is Veaux’s boss, has made no comment. | 2023-07-25T00:51:04+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-french-national-police-chief-says-officers-under-investigation-have-no-place-in-prison/ |
Senior executive brings more than 30 years of finance expertise to leading renewable Independent Power Producer
NEW YORK and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arevon Energy, Inc. is pleased to announce the hire of Robert "Bob" Krakauer as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective February 22, 2023.
Bob Krakauer joins Arevon as the Chief Financial Officer, leading the company in strategic financial planning, analysis, and operational finance. He brings more than 30 years' experience in optimizing and developing finance operations, as well as implementing major strategic programs and improving business performance. Krakauer has led multiple leveraged buyouts and successfully raised capital in public and private equity, debt, and credit markets. His extensive experience as a senior executive and Chief Financial Officer spans multiple industries including semiconductor manufacturing and enterprise software.
Krakauer previously was the CFO of Lifelock, MagnaChip Semiconductor, ChipPAC, and Allied Signal Electronic Materials. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration in Operations and Decision Science from Santa Clara University in California.
"We are delighted to welcome Bob as the newest member of the executive Arevon team," said John Breckenridge, Arevon's CEO. "Bob has a proven results-driven track record of creating value in complex financial operations. His insights and leadership will elevate Arevon's $12 billion platform and further cement our place as a financial leader in the renewables sector."
"I am excited to join the high performing team at Arevon," said Bob Krakauer. "My priority is to continue to craft the right solution for every financial transaction to accomplish Arevon's mission of providing utility-scale renewable energy with superior returns."
Arevon is a leading renewable energy company with a portfolio of 160 solar, wind, energy, and hybrid solar-and-storage projects across the United States. Arevon's 6-gigawatt clean energy portfolio powers millions of homes and provides electricity to utilities, Fortune 100 companies, and major educational institutions.
About Arevon
Arevon Energy, Inc. is a leading renewable energy company, supplying clean energy to utilities and corporations across North America. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., and New York City, Arevon uses innovative approaches and leading-edge technology to finance and manage projects from development through construction to long-term commercial operation. Its financial prowess and industry expertise come together to improve the structure and performance of its platform of wind, solar, and energy storage power plants. Arevon was named one of Arizona's Top Workplaces in 2022. For more information, please visit: www.arevonenergy.com
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DENVER (AP) — A late spring Colorado snowstorm dumped several inches in the Denver metro area Saturday and knocked out electricity for about 210,000 customers, officials said.
The wet snow weighed down tree branches and sent them toppling onto power lines, the KUSA television station reported. Much more snow fell in mountainous regions of Colorado.
By Saturday night, power had been restored to 160,000 customers but about 50,000 still did not have it back, the Xcel Energy Colorado utility said in a statement.
The small Colorado community of Cripple Creek near the base of Pike’s Peak got 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow, KUSA reported. | 2022-05-23T13:45:27+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-stories/late-spring-colorado-snowstorm-knocks-out-power-for-210000/ |
It's still far too premature to try to use powerful new technologies to edit genes that can be passed down from generation to generation, according to the organizers of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing that concluded Wednesday in London.
Techniques that have made it easier to manipulate DNA still produce too many mistakes for scientists to be confident any children born from edited embryos would be healthy, according to the organizers of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing.
Moreover, a broad societal debate about the implications for humanity would be necessary before moving forward, the summit organizers said.
"Unacceptable at this time"
"Heritable human genome editing remains unacceptable at this time," the committee said in the summit's closing statement. "Heritable human genome editing should not be used unless, at a minimum, it meets reasonable standards for safety and efficacy, is legally sanctioned, and has been developed and tested under a system of rigorous oversight that is subject to responsible governance. At this time, these conditions have not been met."
Despite the statement, critics were disappointed, saying the summit gave short shift to the profound ethical debate swirling around inheritable genetic modifications.
Critics are also troubled by what they say has been a subtle but striking shift in the debate from whether genetic modifications that can be inherited should ever be done — the question raised at the international summit in 2018 — to a discussion of technical hurdles that must to be overcome to make those modifications safely.
"Are we hitting the brake, or hitting the gas?"
"We all know you, see a yellow light and sometimes you slow down and hit the brake and sometimes you hit the gas. And it behooves us to ask the question: Are we hitting the brake or hitting the gas," said Bill Hurlbut, a bioethicist at Arizona State University who helped organized a kind of parallel project called the Global Observatory for Genome Editing aimed at broadening the discussion. "I think here we're hitting the gas."
Hurlbut and others also say the debate is being held amongst a relatively small cadre of elite researchers and raises too many profound questions for humanity to limit it that way. It requires a much broader societal debate, they say.
"The approach taken by the organizers of the summit is an extreme case of scientific irresponsibility, and an unwillingness to accept that society has any right to set ethical limits upon science," said David King, who heads the watchdog group Stop Designer Babies.
The fear is that a mistake could introduce new genetic mutations into the human gene pool that would then be passed down for generations. Some critics also fear it could open a slippery slope to "designer babies" and other dystopian fears about creating a kind of super-race of humans.
The summit's concluding statement came after more than 400 scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients and others spent three days debating the pros and cons of new techniques that let scientists manipulate genes more easily than ever before.
It's the first summit since He Jiankui, a scientist from China, shocked the world at the last summit in Hong Kong in 2018 by announcing he had used the gene-editing technique called CRISPR to create the first genetically modified humans — twin girls he made from gene-edited embryos. The scientist's actions were denounced for many reasons, including the fact that no one knew if it was safe. A court in China ultimately sentenced him to three years in prison.
That episode hung over this year's summit like a huge shadow.
"While the potential benefits of the technology are clear, so also is the potential for it to be misused," said Linda Partridge, a geneticist at The Royal Society told the summit on the opening day Monday. "And while the specter of designer babies is easier to conjure the less you know about genetics, that doesn't mean that unscrupulous actors won't use the technology to further their own interests."
Huge strides made, too, in gene editing's potential benefits
During the summit, scientists presented the latest research showing that scientists have quietly made huge strides honing their gene-editing skills over the last five years.
On the one hand, they described new evidence about just how unsafe it would be to try to make any new gene-edited babies. The editing remains prone to missing the intended target in the DNA and instead creating unexpected mutations, the scientists reported.
"That's something that really has to worry us," said Dr. Dagan Wells, a reproductive geneticist at the University of Oxford. "These results really provide a warning."
But several scientists also described progress towards refining their skills to make it safer ways to edit human embryos, eggs and sperm, as well as new gene-editing techniques that are more precise.
Another ethical concern: Who can afford gene therapy?
On the final day, scientists, bioethicists and advocates debated the ethical pros and cons of someday using these techniques to modify human gene, eggs or sperm.
"There are a bevy of serious objections to reproductive genome modification," argued Tina Rulli, a bioethicist at the University of California, Davis.
"They include: Concerns about the safety of the modification ... the risk of dangerous modifications let loose in the human gene pool, a slippery slope to using the technology to make designer babies, unethical eugenic uses of the technology that harm disability communities, and unequal unfair access to the technology that only advantages the wealthy."
But others argued there could be enormous benefits, including eradicating thousands of terrible genetic diseases that plagued families for generations."
"This has the tremendous potential to transform human health," said Dietrich Egli, a biologist at Columbia University studying gene-editing in human embryos.
It could also help infertile couples have genetically related children, others said.
"Where having a biological family is still an imperative, in those situations and cultures, this could become a compelling reason for heritable gene-editing," said Ephrat Levy-Lahad, the director of the Medical Genetics Institute at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Israel.
A possible cure for some forms of sickle cell — but at what price?
The first two days of the summit focused on dramatic advances using gene-editing to treat diseases a wide variety of diseases in people who have already been born, ranging from rare genetic diseases to more common illnesses like cancer and heart disease.
The most dramatic advance has been for sickle cell disease and a related condition known as beta thalassemia. The summit highlighted Victoria Gray, a Mississippi sickle cell patient who NPR has been following for years. Gray and several dozen other patients have essentially been cured. And the treatment she got could be the first gene-editing treatment to get approved this year.
But that's also raising concerns — that the treatment's too complicated and will be too expensive to become widely accessible to everyone who needs it, especially in less affluent countries where sickle cell disease is most common.
"The extremely high costs ... are unsustainable"
In the closing statement, organizers stressed that making gene-editing therapies widely accessible has to be a priority.
"To realize its full therapeutic potential, research is needed to expand the range of diseases it can treat, and to better understand risks and unintended effects," Robin Lovell-Badge of the Francis Crick Institute, who led the summit, said while reading the closing statement. "The extremely high costs of current somatic gene therapies are unsustainable. A global commitment to affordable, equitable access to these treatments is urgently needed."
The summit was sponsored by the British Royal Society, the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences, the U.S. National Academies of sciences and medicine and The World Academy of Sciences.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-08T23:12:10+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2023-03-08/ethical-concerns-temper-optimism-about-gene-editing-for-human-diseases |
Can help deliver up to 10% medical cost reduction for employers, empowers employees with informed health benefits decisions
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chubb Workplace Benefits (CWB), a Chubb business that partners with benefits brokers and consultants to offer voluntary benefits to the employees of middle-market and large companies in the U.S., has announced it is the first voluntary benefits carrier to offer the Benefit Resource Genie™* service, alongside its voluntary benefits portfolio, to employer clients. The service provides a personalized, hands-on approach in helping employees understand and select health benefit options that best fit their needs. It also reduces employer medical costs, which often are eclipsed only by payroll as an organization's second-largest expense.
The Benefit Resource Genie™ service can help save employers up to 10% of their employee health care spend.** The service does so by helping employees identify optimal health plan coverage to minimize out-of-pocket costs. Coverage options may include those that are not employer-sponsored — such as ACA plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veteran Affairs (VA) benefits — and may better suit the employee's unique needs.
"At this critical economic juncture for employers, we're pleased to make available this leading-edge, personalized service alongside our portfolio of voluntary benefit solutions and support," said Alex Faynberg, Chubb Workplace Benefits' Division President. "Businesses are doing their best to meet the diverse benefits needs of employees while also trying to slow medical costs. The opportunity to support team members in making important choices about their coverage is a win-win for both the employer and the employee."
Benefit Resource Genie™ is delivered via a three-phased approach:
- Resource Impact Analysis: Provides the employer with an overview of the service's potential financial impact for the business using employee census data.
- Household Study: Specialists speak with employees to better understand their individual and/or family health and financial circumstances.
- Member Support and Alignment: With the information compiled during the Household Study, specialists educate employees on the best options for healthcare coverage. That may include plans outside those offered by the employer.
Benefit Resource Genie™ was developed, and is provided, by risk management firm Benefits All In, LLC (BAI). In a recent case study of a 1,200-employee residential care organization, more than one-third of the staff was alerted to alternative health care coverage options to best fit their individual needs. The results saved the employer nearly $500,000 in a six-month period.
Chubb Workplace Benefits is one of the nation's fastest-growing voluntary benefits worksite carriers over the last several years, according to Eastbridge Consulting.
* Benefit Resource Genie™ and Benefits All In are Trademarks of Benefits All In, LLC
**Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
About Chubb
Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. With operations in 54 countries and territories, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. As an underwriting company, we assess, assume and manage risk with insight and discipline. We service and pay our claims fairly and promptly. The company is also defined by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb maintains executive offices in Zurich, New York, London, Paris and other locations, and employs approximately 31,000 people worldwide. Additional information can be found at: www.chubb.com.
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CHICAGO — Courtney Vandersloot scored 18 points, Candace Parker grabbed 11 rebounds and the Chicago Sky beat the short-handed Phoenix Mercury 73-70 on Tuesday night in a WNBA Finals rematch.
Vandersloot made 1 of 2 free throws with nine seconds left in the fourth quarter for a 72-70 lead, and she knocked the ball away from Skylar Diggins-Smith on a drive at the other end. Rebekah Gardner also went 1 for 2 at the line for a three-point lead and former Chicago player Diamond DeShields did not hit the rim on a corner 3-pointer as time expired.
Kahleah Copper added 11 points, and Emma Meesseman and Gardner each scored 10 for Chicago (5-3). Parker was just 2-of-9 from the field as both teams shot under 42%.
Tina Charles scored 25 points for Phoenix (2-7). Diggins-Smith had 12 points and eight assists and DeShields added 10 points and seven rebounds.
Chicago jumped out to a 20-10 first-quarter lead after holding Phoenix to 4-of-20 shooting. Charles had six of the Mercury’s 10 points.
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Auto Techcelerators, an Opus IVS Company, Claims Coveted Best New Product Award in the Collision Category with Test Drive CoPilot™
DETROIT, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, today announced the winners of the New Products Showcase Awards held at the 2022 SEMA Show. The event recognizes the most cutting-edge new automotive products across the entire industry. This year, nearly 4,000 new products were submitted for consideration in 18 categories. Opus IVS™ company Auto Techcelerators was named the winner of the Best New Product Award in the Collision category for its revolutionary new product, Test Drive CoPilot™.
"Opus IVS is a technology company that innovates, and this award is a recognition by industry that our resources are focused focused on solving real challenges our customers face," said Brian Herron, CEO of Opus IVS. "Industry week has started off on a great note for us, and we are grateful for the recognition."
"I am humbled and proud to see my idea come to life and receive such a coveted award," said Frank Terlep, founder of Auto Techcelerators. "Test Drive CoPilot is designed to help collision repairers properly perform, validate and document ADAS systems on a vehicle operate as designed by the OEMs before the vehicle is delivered back to the vehicle owner."
The award-winning solution will be on display in SEMA's ADAS Garage, the SEMA Launchpad as well as alongside the future of ADAS Service, available today, in the Opus IVS booth #31095 in the South Hall Upper.
Meet Frank and the Autotechcelerators team at the SEMA Launchpad Corral in booth #22970 in the Central Hall, as well as in the Opus booth #31095 in the South Upper Hall at this year's Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show to run November 1-4 in Las Vegas. The winning solution can additionally be experienced at the ADAS Garage, also in the South Upper Hall.
Opus IVS is the Intelligent Vehicle Support division of Opus Group, formed through the merging of industry-leading companies DrewTech, Autologic, Farsight, BlueLink and AutoEnginuity to develop innovative automotive solutions for more than 50,000 repair shops and dealerships worldwide, giving them the confidence to get the most complex vehicles back on the road safely and efficiently. Opus IVS develops industry-leading OEM endorsed diagnostic technology with over 70 patents issued and pending related to remote flash programming, pre- and post-repair scanning, remote technical support, ADAS calibrations and vehicle network technology. The Opus IVS remote technical support connects the shop with 100+ brand-specific Dealer Master Technicians to help interpret trouble codes, review OEM service procedures and provide diagnostic assistance directly through the tool. Opus IVS is a division of Opus Group, which has over 2,600 employees, 34 offices globally and connects to 30M vehicles per year for OBD testing.
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HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden will return Monday night for the Philadelphia 76ers against the Houston Rockets after missing 14 games with a foot injury.
Harden, who spent just more than eight seasons with the Rockets before being traded to Brooklyn in January 2021, last played Nov. 2. He had a tendon strain in his right foot.
Harden won the MVP award with the Rockets in 2018 and was a three-time scoring champion in his time in Houston. | 2022-12-06T12:30:14+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-sixers-harden-to-return-monday-against-rockets-after-injury/ |
LONDON, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MAK-System, a worldwide leader in Blood Management systems, is proud to announce an extended and strategic partnership with New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe). Under the agreement, MAK-System will operate the MAK.care platform as a managed service, running the entire digital ecosystem on behalf of NYBCe. The 10-year arrangement will transform how blood is managed and delivered to patients by leveraging the benefits of managed services.
The MAK.care platform brings a new era in the blood and biologics management industry and allows for more efficient and scalable connectivity for all stakeholders, including Blood Centers, donors, healthcare providers, and the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. This will help NYBCe to better serve patients and save lives.
NYBCe is one of the largest independent, community-based, nonprofit blood centers in the United States and is currently undergoing a period of considerable expansion, with ambitious plans for growth and diversification into cell and gene therapies. The partnership with MAK-System will enable NYBCe to standardize workflows and best practices in the operating divisions while leveraging the latest healthcare technology innovations.
"We are delighted to be extending our relationship with MAK-System in becoming the first national blood center in the US to benefit from their new platform. Our combined business approach and a common mission to positively impact the lives of our donors and patients solidified our decision to continue our innovative efforts with MAK-System," said NYBCe President and CEO Christopher D. Hillyer, MD. "We look forward to working closely with MAK-System over the next ten years to achieve our shared goals."
"We are thrilled to be collaborating with NYBCe to bring our cutting-edge MAK.care platform to the US market," said Frank Jaubert, CEO of MAK-System. "We are extremely proud to have been selected by one of the largest and most prestigious blood centers. We believe this success will resonate in North America, as well as the global markets".
The platform, entirely operated by MAK-System as a managed service, will provide the highest level of service and security for users.
"MAK.care offers an entirely new model and provides the New York Blood Center with a safer digital ecosystem and access to the updates in technology and features in compliance with the regulations. The relationship is orientated around a clear set of Service Levels that guarantee the quality we expect over the next 10 years," said Jonathan Barba, VP of Information Technology at NYBCe.
About MAK-System
MAK-System is a worldwide leader in Blood Management systems, supplying innovative solutions to optimize the collection, storage, and distribution of Blood, Plasma, Tissue and Biologics for Cell & Gene Therapies. Nearly 1 in 3 blood donations globally are managed through our systems. With a footprint in 35 countries and almost 40 years of experience, committed to exemplary quality and customer service, MAK-System is dedicated to improving the lives of patients and healthcare providers worldwide.
About New York Blood Center
Founded in 1964, New York Blood Center (NYBC) is a nonprofit organization that is one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the world. NYBC and its operating divisions also provide a wide array of transfusion-related medical services to over 500 hospitals nationally, including Comprehensive Cell Solutions, the National Center for Blood Group Genomics, the National Cord Blood Program, and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, which — among other milestones — developed a practical screening method for hepatitis B as well as a safe, effective and affordable vaccine, and a patented solvent detergent plasma process innovating blood-purification technology worldwide.
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Maxime Cressy vs. Alex Michelsen: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Truist Atlanta Open
No. 105-ranked Maxime Cressy will face No. 190 Alex Michelsen in the Truist Atlanta Open Round of 32 on Monday, July 24.
In this Round of 32 match, Michelsen is favored (-115) versus Cressy (-110) .
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Maxime Cressy vs. Alex Michelsen Match Information
- Tournament: The Truist Atlanta Open
- Round: Round of 32
- Date: Monday, July 24
- Venue: Atlantic Station
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Court Surface: Hard
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Maxime Cressy vs. Alex Michelsen Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Alex Michelsen has a 53.5% chance to win.
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Maxime Cressy vs. Alex Michelsen Trends and Insights
- In the Round of 32 of the Hall of Fame Open on July 18, 2023 (his most recent match), Cressy lost to Michelsen 7-6, 4-6, 5-7.
- On July 22, 2023, Michelsen won his most recent match, 7-6, 6-4, over John Isner in the semifinals of the Hall of Fame Open.
- Cressy has played 27.2 games per match (25.8 in best-of-three matches) in his 44 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces).
- In his 33 matches on hard courts over the past 12 months, Cressy has played an average of 26.6 games (25.7 in best-of-three matches).
- In the past year, Michelsen has played 13 total matches (across all court types), winning 53.1% of the games. He averages 24.5 games per match (24.5 in best-of-three matches) and 10.6 games per set.
- Through six matches on hard courts in the past year, Michelsen has averaged 21.8 games per match (21.8 in best-of-three matches) and 10.9 games per set, winning 52.7% of those games.
- Cressy and Michelsen have met once dating back to 2015, in the Hall of Fame Open Round of 32. Michelsen won that match 6-7, 6-4, 7-5.
- Michelsen has clinched two sets against Cressy (good for a 66.7% win rate), compared to Cressy's one.
- Michelsen and Cressy have squared off in 35 total games, and Michelsen has won more often, securing 19 of them.
- Cressy and Michelsen have matched up one time, averaging 35.0 games and 3.0 sets per match.
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State Dept confirms death of 2nd American in Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is confirming the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine who is believed to be only the second American to have been killed in the conflict there.
The department said Tuesday that Stephen Zabielski had died in Ukraine and that it is in touch with his family to provide consular support and assistance. “Out of respect to the family during this difficult time, we have nothing further,” it said.
The department did not provide a date or the circumstances of his death but an obituary published in his hometown newspaper said Zabielski, 53, had died on May 15. The Recorder in Amsterdam, New York, where Zabielski had lived until 2018, said he had been killed while fighting in the village of Dorozhniank, Ukraine.
Zabielski is at least the second American to have been killed in combat in Ukraine. In late April, Willy Joseph Cancel, a 22-year-old former Marine from Tennessee was killed fighting in Ukraine.
In brief comments about Zabielski, the State Department reiterated longstanding advice it has given to Americans not to travel to Ukraine for any reason due to the fighting.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-21T17:24:35+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/21/state-dept-confirms-death-2nd-american-ukraine-war/ |
Argument led to shooting that left man in extremely critical condition in Phoenix
Angela Cordoba Perez
Arizona Republic
An argument between two men led to a shooting that left one of them in extremely critical condition on Wednesday morning, Phoenix police said.
The shooting took place just before 7:30 a.m. near 19th Avenue and Indian School Road, according to Phoenix police.
The man who was injured was taken to a hospital, and police said the suspect left the scene, possibly in a vehicle.
There was no suspect or vehicle description available as of noon Wednesday.
Reach breaking news reporter Angela Cordoba Perez at Angela.CordobaPerez@Gannett.com or on Twitter @AngelaCordobaP.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Teuvo Teravainen scored a tiebreaking goal late in the third period, Frederik Andersen stopped 29 shots and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Jalen Chatfield and Stefan Noesen also scored for the Metropolitan Division-leading Hurricanes, who won for the third time in four games.
Tyler Motte and Kaapo Kakko scored for the Rangers, who had won four straight were 6-0-1 in their last seven. Igor Shesterkin finished with 36 saves.
Teravainen scored his 11th goal with 2:33 left on a pass from defenseman Brent Burns, redirecting the puck past Shesterkin. The Hurricanes, who trailed 1-0 and 2-1, extended their lead over second-place New Jersey to two points and the third-place Rangers to eight points in the division.
The Rangers led 1-0 entering the third and were vying for their third-straight shutout before Chatfield tied the score at 9:49 — the first goal the Rangers allowed in more than eight periods. New York was coming off a 6-0 win over Pittsburgh on Saturday night and 7-0 against Nashville on Sunday.
Kakko then put New York back ahead 31 seconds later with his 13th goal, only to have Noesen answer right back 18 seconds later to tie it 2-2.
Motte opened the scoring at the 17-minute mark of the first, knocking the puck past Andersen for his third goal in four games and sixth of the season overall.
MILESTONE
Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal played his 729th game with Carolina on Tuesday, tying Glen Wesley for the second-most games played in franchise history since relocation from Hartford in 1997. Staal, 34, trails only his brother Eric, who played 909 games for the Hurricanes from 2003-16.
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Hurricanes: Host the Rangers on Thursday night to finish the home-and-home set in the opener of a four-game homestand.
Rangers: At Carolina on Thursday night to open a two-game trip. | 2023-03-22T03:58:07+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/carolina-hurricanes/teravainen-scores-late-hurricanes-rally-to-beat-rangers-3-2/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. arrests business tycoon long sought by China, accusing him of $1 billion fraud.
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- Routine traffic stop yields 2,000 rounds of ammo, firearm | 2023-03-15T17:20:25+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/alert-u-s-arrests-business-tycoon-long-sought-17840926.php |
Hurricane Darby has entered the Central Pacific as a Category 2 storm. However, weather officials expect rapid weakening soon.
Located about 955 miles east of Hilo at 5 a.m, Darby was packing maximum sustained winds of 105 mph and moving west-northwest at 16 mph, according to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu.
Weather officials expect Darby to continue on its current track through Friday morning before turning west.
Although Darby is on track to pass a few hundred miles south of the main Hawaiian Islands this weekend, the storm is forecast to become a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday before dissipating by Sunday, the CPHC said.
Hurricane-fore winds extend outward up to 15 miles from Darby’s center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles. | 2022-07-14T19:48:31+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/07/14/breaking-news/hurricane-darby-enters-central-pacific-as-category-2-forecast-to-lose-steam-soon/ |
What's working from home have to do with the banking crisis? Falling real estate values for office buildings could lead to defaults on loans banks made for the buildings.
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What's working from home have to do with the banking crisis? Falling real estate values for office buildings could lead to defaults on loans banks made for the buildings.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-06T12:27:44+00:00 | publicradioeast.org | https://www.publicradioeast.org/2023-05-06/companies-are-defaulting-on-loan-payments-for-unused-office-buildings |
Target on the defensive after removing LGBTQ+-themed products
NEW YORK (AP) — Target once distinguished itself as being boldly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.
Now it risks losing that status after removing some LGBTQ+-themed products, and hiding Pride Month displays in certain Southern locations, in response to online complaints and in-store confrontations that it says were a threat to employees’ well-being.
Target faces a potential second backlash from customers who are upset by the discount retailer’s reaction to aggressive, anti-LGBTQ+ activism, which has also been sweeping through Republican state legislatures. Civil rights groups chided the company on Wednesday for caving to anti-LGBTQ+ customers who tipped over displays and expressed outrage over gender-fluid bathing suits.
“Target should put the products back on the shelves and ensure their Pride displays are visible on the floors, not pushed into the proverbial closet,” Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson said in a statement. “That’s what the bullies want.”
The uproar over Target’s Pride Month marketing — and its response to critics — is just the latest example of how companies are struggling to cater to different groups of customers at a time of extreme cultural divides, particularly around transgender rights.
Bud Light is still dealing with the fallout after an attempt to broaden its customer base by partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Its parent company is tripling its U.S. marketing spending this summer as it tries to restore lost sales.
In Florida, Disney has been engaged in a legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis since expressing opposition to the state’s classroom limits on discussing gender identity and sexual orientation.
Allen Adamson, the co-founder and managing partner of the marketing firm Metaforce, said Target should have anticipated the backlash and varied the products it sells by region in the first place.
“Once they fold to the more extreme edges of the issue, then they’ve lost their footing,” he said. “If you can change a big brand just by knocking over a display, then they are on the defense, and you never win on the defense.”
Shares of Target, which is based in Minneapolis, fell nearly 3 percent on Wednesday.
According to a 2021 Gallup poll, 21% of people in Generation Z identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, compared with 3% of Baby Boomers. Gallup has also found that younger consumers are most likely to want brands to promote diversity and take a stand on social issues.
“Pulling back is the worst thing that they could have done, said Jake Bjorseth, who runs trndsttrs, an agency helping brands understand and reach Gen Z customers. “Not to expect potential backlash is to not understand what (LGBTQ+) members go through on a daily basis.”
It wasn’t long ago that Target was seen as a trailblazer among retailers in the way it embraced LGBTQ+ rights and customers.
It was among the first to showcase themed merchandise to honor Pride Month, which takes place in June, and it has been out front in developing relationships with LGBTQ+ suppliers.
In 2016, when national debate exploded over transgender rights, the company put out a press release that declared “Inclusivity is a core belief at Target” and said it supported transgender employees and customers using whichever restroom or fitting room “corresponds with their gender identity.”
After facing boycotts and backlash from customers, Target announced months later that more stores would make available a single-toilet bathroom with a door that could be locked.
The company is operating in a very different environment now.
There are close to 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have gone before state legislatures since the start of this year, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. At least 17 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, though judges have temporarily blocked their enforcement in some states.
The controversy at Target has been exacerbated by several misleading videos circulating online. In some, people falsely claimed the retailer was selling “tuck-friendly” bathing suits for kids. “Tuck friendly” suits allow trans women who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their private parts.
”Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior,” Target said in a statement Tuesday.
Online vitriol against Target’s Pride Month merchandise isn’t new. Law enforcement agencies last year monitored a social media threat from a young Arizona man who said he was “leading the war” against Target for its Pride Month merchandise, and he encouraged others to take action.
But it was business as usual at many Target locations on Wednesday.
At the Target in Topeka, Kansas, the Pride display remained up front, visible as shoppers passed a corral of shopping carts right after the entrance. It included Pride-themed clothing for kids, as well as T-shirts and women’s bathing suits for adults.
“I like that our local stores here have it front and center, when you walk in,” said Shay Hibler, a Topeka self-employed small business owner who was shopping with her 13-year-old daughter and supports LGBTQ+ rights.
Megan Rusch, a Kansas City-area resident who is studying criminal justice at Washburn University in Topeka, was shopping at the same store and said while stores in other areas might worry about their image locally, “This is a pretty diverse area.”
She said she believes it’s good for the stores to have the Pride displays so that LGBTQ+ customers feel included.
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Durbin contributed from Detroit. AP Writer John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas contributed to this report.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — It's been six days since residents of a Tennessee city were told that diesel fuel spilled into a local reservoir, and most of them still can't drink their tap water.
Many of the 40,000 people who live and work in the Memphis suburb of Germantown remained under an order Wednesday to avoid using water for everything except flushing toilets. They can't drink or boil tap water, or use it for showering or bathing. Officials advised using bottled water for personal use and the city has been distributing bottled water since Friday.
It was not immediately clear when tap water would be deemed safe for use. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation wants to see water samples come back clear of diesel before the advisory is lifted, spokesperson Eric Ward said in an email Wednesday. There have been no reports from officials about people getting sick.
The city first told residents on July 20 that a diesel fuel spill at a treatment plant tainted the water supply system. The order came after residents reported a fuel smell in their water. A generator being used at the plant because the facility lost power during recent storms spilled diesel fuel into a reservoir, officials said.
A small section of Germantown has been allowed to resume using water. There have been no reports from officials about people getting sick.
On Tuesday evening, officials said tests at the plant showed water there was clear of contamination and the city would continue testing the water and begin flushing its system. The announcement was framed by officials as good news — but it was not enough to lift the order.
"We know this situation has been an incredible inconvenience, disrupting the everyday lives of our families and businesses. And we apologize for that,” Germantown Mayor Mike Palazzolo said in a video message Tuesday.
Frustrated residents have taken to social media to complain about the problems.
Michael Wyrick, a 39-year-old accountant who lives with his wife and two daughters in Germantown, said living without tap water “has been an adjustment for sure.”
He said the laundry and dirty dishes have started to pile up — enough for him to take dishes to his Memphis office to clean them.
“You don’t realize how much water you use each day until you are constantly pouring it out of water bottles,” Wyrick said via email. “Not being able to bathe or shower has been challenging, especially with two young children, but friends and family have been very gracious and opened their homes to us.”
About 100 gallons of diesel contaminated about 4.2 million gallons of water that was held at the plant, officials have said.
A city consultant on Tuesday discovered contamination in soil immediately surrounding a pipe carrying clean water from the treatment plant into the underground reservoir. A breach in the pipe was found and fixed, and the contaminated soil was removed, Public Works Director Bo Mills said.
Contaminated water from the fuel spill has been pumped into the Wolf River through stormwater ditches, but officials say that won't seriously harm the river.
“Based on the amount of diesel fuel involved, total water in the system, and stream flow rate, TDEC does not believe this incident will have any significant impact to the water quality of the Wolf River,” said Ward, the environment and conservation department spokesperson.
Sarah Houston, executive director of the Protect Our Aquifer water conservation organization, questioned Germantown's decision to put a diesel fuel tank on top of the reservoir.
“There are lessons that we hope that Germantown takes away from this, and also other utilities in Shelby County, making sure that infrastructure that contains hazardous materials like diesel fuel is sited far away from interaction with drinking water supplies,” Houston said.
City officials have held a two news conferences, while also releasing video messages and posting details about the water distribution site on social media. But some residents have found the response and information distribution lacking, including answers about when the problem will be resolved, what the fire department does if a house catches fire, and how the problem affects hospitals, said Wyrick, the city resident.
While he says he feels lucky to live in Germantown — a predominantly affluent suburb known for good schools — Wyrick does question whether creating a backup plan for the current situation or improving roads has taken a back seat to business expansion and city growth. The city has added restaurants and apartment complexes in recent years, Wyrick noted.
“This situation has me looking forward to the next election," Wyrick said.
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Fresh Self-Defense Concept uses Cutting-edge Technology and Curriculum to Redefine Safety
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- United Defense Tactical, the first-of-its-kind firearms and self-defense training center, is announcing plans to expand their national footprint through franchising.
UDT's Reality Based Threat Training concept is a cutting-edge approach to training individuals in real-world threat scenarios. It employs advanced technology, immersive simulations, self-defense, mindset, de-escalation and more, to create a highly realistic training environment. Franchisees can offer community members a cumulative and educational training experience while eliminating the risk and danger of training with live ammunition.
United Defense Tactical was founded in Costa Mesa, California, four years ago when founder and Chief Instructor, Wes Fox, realized that society was grappling with a problem that wasn't being fulfilled anywhere else—the need for comprehensive, realistic and well-rounded self-defense and firearms training courses.
"Training in a static environment will not prepare you for danger in a dynamic one if someone is actively coming at you. You can't do what you haven't been trained to do," Fox said. "We're trying to teach everyone and anyone, from civilian to law enforcement and beyond, how to adequately assess a threat, remain calm under pressure and know the skills to lean on to save lives."
With 4 franchises already awarded and many more in the works across California and Nevada, United Defense Tactical is looking for single and multi-unit franchisees who want to equip local community members with the skills and strategies needed to defuse hostile situations and keep themselves and each other safe.
"People who decide to bring United Defense Tactical to their local communities will ultimately help save lives," Fox said. "From civilians, to businesses, schools, law enforcement and military, self-defense training is in high-demand. We know that violent crime rates are only going up. It's important to consider what your small business will be bringing to the table, and what needs it will be addressing in your community."
Franchisees will gain access to world-class programming, proprietary technology, comprehensive training, and guidance from leaders backed by decades of franchising excellence with protected territory rights, marketing support, operational guidance, technical support and preferred partner networks. The estimated investment required to open a United Defense Tactical franchise is between $250,000 to $500,000. To learn more about United Defense Tactical, or if interested in a franchise opportunity, please visit https://uniteddefensetactical.com/
About United Defense Tactical
With our flagship facility Founded four years ago and franchising since 2023, United Defense Tactical is a first-of-its-kind self-defense training center actively bringing safety and protection to communities, families, businesses, and individuals. United Defense Tactical provides the knowledge, confidence and skills to appropriately assess, de-escalate and respond to threat scenarios. For more information, please visit https://uniteddefensetactical.com/
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DUBLIN (AP) — In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call.
The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming.
Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, and not with the stadium’s internet connection.
“Due to technical issues caused by our payment provider, SumUp, we were unable to process card transactions for two hours at Aviva Stadium,” the company said in a statement.
It said the problem “was solely down to the external network system which the payment provider operates on to process transactions. This was not a technical issue isolated to Aviva Stadium or indeed Ireland.” The stadium went cashless in 2021.
Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue.
“Our team at Aviva Stadium were extremely quick to ensure that the fan experience was upheld and food and beverage kiosks were kept open serving customers for the entirety of this period,” it said. “We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this caused customers and would like to thank our employees at Aviva Stadium for the spirit they showed in keeping everything going.”
SumUp posted on its Twitter account minutes before kickoff that it was “experiencing issues with logins, payments, and other services.” Two hours later, it posted that the problem was resolved. It apologized to clients “for any disruption to your day.”
Ronan McGowan got “three or four” plastic cups of Guinness “but it took 40 minutes, I missed the game. It wasn’t good. In fairness, most people didn’t have cash. They did the right thing, under the circumstances.”
McGowan said people were also “ordering a lot of drinks,” which slowed everything.
Nebraska fan Elena Kuiper was already in line when she realized the beer was free. Afterward, she said “news traveled fast.” Her husband, Scott, said a man sitting next to him moved quickly.
“He took off right away and went up there to go get one,” he said Sunday at Dublin Airport.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tango, the browser extension and desktop application that automatically generates how-to guides while you work, today announced it has been named to the Chrome Web Store Favorite's of 2022 list after just one year in the market. The Chrome editorial team named Tango among its favorite tools based on its extension quality, compliance with program policies, end-to-end user experience, user delight, relevance and more. Today's recognition tops off the end to an impressive year of company growth, industry accolades and product milestones.
"For Tango, 2022 felt like catching lightning in a bottle, except it kept happening over and over,'' said Ken Babcock, Co-Founder and CEO of Tango. "I'm most proud of the team we've built and how we've focused on our customers. Building a beloved product requires that combination, and we've just scratched the surface. As we look ahead to 2023, we're motivated to deliver time-savings to creators - and soon consumers - of knowledge. For organizations, we will showcase how documentation is the number one leading indicator of operational excellence."
The rise of remote and hybrid work has accelerated the importance of process, knowledge sharing and documentation in successfully scaling teams and companies. Tango removes the friction from process documentation by making it easy to create how-to guides with perfectly cropped screenshots in seconds—empowering teams with the knowledge they need to succeed.
Key 2022 Achievements
- Successful Series A Funding: The company raised $14 million in its Series A funding in June, bringing its total funding to $19.7 million. In addition to Tiger, Slack and Atlassian Ventures, existing Tango investors also participated.
- Industry Recognitions: Tango was named to Fast Company's 2022 Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries. G2 Crowd Reviews also recognized Tango as the Fall 2022 Leader in three categories: Work Instructions, Screen & Video Capture, and Knowledge Management.
- Product Expansion: Building upon its flagship product, Tango released Workspaces in 2022 to enable teams to be more collaborative and easily document processes like standard operating procedures, training guides and product updates. Tango also launched the Enterprise Edition of its award-winning solution, featuring a secure enterprise Workspace, single sign-on and complete collaboration capabilities.
- Growing Customer Base: With a majority of users saving three or more hours every week with Tango, the company has seen an increase of 10x year-on-year, surpassing 200,000 active users and serving large organizations including LinkedIn, Netflix, Keller Williams, Indeed, Verizon, and Clincierge.
- Expanded Partner Network: Tango established strategic new partnerships in 2022, including its sponsorship of Guru's Knowledge Fest in September— a virtual experience exploring knowledge management strategies for the new world of work.
- Leadership and Team Expansion: Tango welcomed 22 new members to the team, including Nick Wentz, former VP of Marketing for Clearbit, as the organization's first Head of Marketing.
- Compliance Sorted: Tango officially became SOC 2 Type 2 compliant in 2022. This standard ensures an organization is securely handling customer data. To achieve this, the company implemented more than 100 security controls across the business.
To learn more about how Tango supports teams on their path to success while transforming process documentation, visit www.tango.us.
About Tango
Tango takes the pain out of documenting processes by automatically generating how-to guides while you work. Our browser extension and desktop application make it easy for teams to share and scale their knowledge so that everyone feels empowered to learn processes, use new tools, and be their best at work. Our mission is to make Process the operational backbone of any organization by surfacing and championing who gets what done and how. Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
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Federal law enforcement officials are in discussions with former vice president Mike Pence’s legal team to perform a consensual search of his Indiana home to ensure there are no additional classified materials on the property, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Pence, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, is the latest politician to face scrutiny for potentially mishandling classified materials after leaving elected office. The Justice Department currently has two separate criminal probes into classified documents found at President Biden’s and former president Donald Trump’s personal properties. In Trump’s case, the former president appears to have resisted government attempts to obtain official documents for months, including after a grand jury subpoena demanded the return of any material marked classified.
That led to an FBI search of Trump’s Florida property in which agents recovered 300 documents marked as classified. So far, the specifics around the retention of documents found on Pence’s property appear to be drastically different, with the former vice president’s lawyers saying they are being forthcoming with law enforcement. Biden’s lawyers have also said that they allowed law enforcement officials to search his properties.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that Pence’s team is in contact with the Justice Department to schedule a search.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
In a response on Twitter to reports of a potential search on Pence’s property, Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for Pence, accused Justice Department officials of leaking to the press. He declined to comment further.
In late January, a lawyer for Pence said that the former vice president brought in outside counsel with experience handling classified materials to search records stored in his Indiana home “out of an abundance of caution” after news broke that materials were discovered at Biden’s home.
The lawyer, Greg Jacob, said in a Jan. 18 letter to the National Archives that counsel “identified a small number of documents that could potentially contain sensitive or classified information interspersed throughout the records.” Jacob said that Pence was “ready and willing to cooperate fully.”
Jacob said that Pence gave the FBI permission to collect the classified materials on Jan. 19 and planned to deliver the boxes in which those documents were found to the National Archives on Jan 23.
O’Malley said at the time that no classified documents were found at the offices of Pence’s nonprofit organization, Advancing American Freedom.
In November, Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned veteran federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee day-to-day operations of the criminal probe of Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. Smith is also managing aspects of the Justice Department’s investigation of the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that are most closely linked to Trump.
In January, Garland appointed Robert Hur as a special counsel to oversee the Biden investigation.
The attorney general has not commented on the documents discovered at Pence’s home.
Isaac Arnsdorf contributed to this report. | 2023-02-03T01:05:09+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/02/pence-fbi-search-documents/ |
BRADENTON, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol is currently investigating an early Sunday morning hit-and-run crash in Manatee County that sent one man to the hospital with critical injuries.
According to FHP, the incident happened around 2:50 a.m. near 301 Boulevard East and 9th Street East.
Troopers said in a statement an unknown vehicle was traveling north on 301 Boulevard East, west of 9th Street East, when it collided with a person crossing the 301 Boulevard East travel lanes, west of the intersection of 9th Street East.
The vehicle fled the scene and remains unknown, troopers say.
Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to contact the Florida Highway Patrol or Crimestoppers.
This crash is still under investigation. No other information has been released at this time. | 2022-07-31T13:27:33+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/hit-and-run-manatee-county-bradenton-pedestrian-critically-injured/67-19672b0e-c086-4868-9bee-7ff442da76bb |
NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will be in New York Tuesday night, along with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown, to receive the Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award, as the nation’s oldest women’s foundation marks its 50th anniversary.
The appearance is set to be her first public event since she skipped the coronation of her father-in-law King Charles III earlier this month in order to stay at home in California for her son Prince Archie’s fourth birthday. Her husband Prince Harry attended the coronation in London and then rushed back to California.
Funds raised at the foundation’s annual gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan will be used to further the organization’s equity-centered initiatives and its mission of advancing women’s collective power.
The foundation will also honor Wanda Irving, co-founder of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project, and Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE, as well as abortion rights activist Olivia Julianna and LGBTQ+ advocate Rebekah Bruesehoff.
Teresa C. Younger, Ms. Foundation president and CEO, said in a statement that the honorees will be celebrate for “their many accomplishments and tireless work on behalf of gender and racial equity across the country and the world.”
Gloria Steinem, Ms. Foundation co-founder, will present Meghan the award for “her global advocacy to empower and advocate on behalf of women and girls.” Meghan and Prince Harry direct their philanthropy through their Archewell Foundation, which provided nearly 13 million COVID-19 vaccines with partner Global Citizen and helped resettle nearly 175,000 refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan in the United States with partner Welcome.US, according to its 2022 annual report.
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This story has been corrected to show that Archie turned 4, not 6. | 2023-05-17T04:16:09+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-set-to-receive-ms-foundations-woman-of-vision-award/ |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people after opening fire at a bar rented by a rival drug trafficker in northern Puerto Rico was found guilty on Friday following a retrial.
A federal jury also found Alexis Candelario Santana guilty of killing an unborn child and injuring 19 other people in the October 2009 mass shooting in which Candelario’s godson and cousin were killed.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that 17 different weapons were used in the shooting, with more than 330 shell casings found at the bar called La Tómbola in Toa Baja.
Authorities said that Candelario and others opened fire on people gathered outside the bar as they celebrated its grand opening and then entered the building and continued shooting.
Candelario, who also was convicted of 40 counts of drug trafficking, is scheduled to be sentenced in October. His attorneys said they would appeal Friday’s conviction.
Candelario previously had been found guilty in the case and received a life sentence in 2013, but an appeals court ordered a new trial after finding a judge erred in a proceeding.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that Candelario once ran a drug trafficking operation in Toa Baja from 1993 to 2003, despite being arrested in 2002 on various murder charges. He was released from prison in February 2009 and was arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands in December 2009, two months after the mass shooting. | 2023-07-22T12:03:57+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-puerto-rico-man-found-guilty-of-killing-8-at-bar-owned-by-rival-drug-trafficker-following-retrial/ |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — No one can accuse Carrie Underwood of underdressing — or underdelivering — when the country superstar puts out her latest record “Denim & Rhinestones” during the same weekend of CMA Fest and giving tens of thousands of fans a stadium-sized performance.
After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 49th annual music festival returned in-person last Thursday with crowds of fans getting autographs, going to fan club parties and watching artists from morning to late night at stages all around Nashville, Tennessee. An estimated 80,000 people attended the festival over four days.
“This is the first time I’ve ever put an album out during this crazy, awesome week, and it was definitely by design,” Underwood said. "Everybody’s going to be out and about, you know, having fun anyway. Like, why not? Why not make a thing out of it and choose this week to release ‘Denim & Rhinestones’?”
Denim and rhinestones were definitely the fashion along the streets of lower Broadway as massive crowds mingled downtown, popping in and out of bars, honky-tonks and musical stages. Underwood opened a pop-up site where fans could see her custom-made gowns and stage costumes from past award show performances and put themselves in scenes inspired by songs from her new record.
“We have different vignettes for people to be able to go and take pictures in," she said. “There’s denim walls. There’s like pink champagne. It looks like a giant bathtub with bubbles kind of in it.”
The multiple Grammy-winner put on several performances during the week of her album drop, including an Amazon Music livestream, a fan club party, two performances at the Grand Ole Opry and headlining Saturday night's CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium.
Underwood's stage shows have only gotten bigger and more elaborate over the years, incorporating 360-degree stages, surprise guests, huge video productions, rising stages, smoke, confetti and wind. Her next tour starts Oct. 15 and hits 43 cities, with direction from Barry Lather, who has worked on tours for Mariah Carey, Usher and Rihanna.
Fresh off a Las Vegas residency where she learned acrobatic skills to swing over the stage, Underwood said she just keeps trying to find new ways to entertain a crowd.
“I think it is so important to be able to just maximize the entertainment value when you’re putting on a show," Underwood said. "People don’t want to go to a concert and just see somebody stand up there and stand behind the microphone and just sing. And I feel like, as a woman, I can get away with all the wardrobe changes and just really take all the things that I love to do and just multiply them by a million and put on a good show.”
Underwood's last two records showed off another side of her singing, including a gospel album and a holiday music record. But she's back to her style of country pop, with tinges of '80s synths and rock, on her ninth studio record that is tailored for a summer festival season that is just rebounding after the pandemic.
“We decided not to fight against things if they didn’t sound a certain way," Underwood said. “I feel like over the past couple of years, we’ve all needed to have happy things to focus on. And when we were writing the album and recording the album, it was like, ‘We are going to write this, record this, make music as if we know we’re going to be going on the road,’ even though we didn’t.”
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Follow Kristin M. Hall at https://twitter.com/kmhall | 2022-06-13T16:38:18+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/Carrie-Underwood-amps-up-her-wattage-with-new-17238201.php |
It was meeting among the leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada. But all eyes were on President Biden and his Mexican counterpart, whose initial meetings were awkward to say the least.
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It was meeting among the leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada. But all eyes were on President Biden and his Mexican counterpart, whose initial meetings were awkward to say the least.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-01-11T14:33:57+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2023-01-11/the-summit-of-north-american-leaders-held-in-mexico-has-come-to-an-end |
Dozens of British students on a trip to the U.S. were left stranded in the country after their hotel mistakenly shredded their passports.
"Our staff are always on hand to support Brits in trouble overseas, and we have been in close contact with this school to assist them," a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson told the BBC. "We are processing their applications for emergency travel documents so the staff and children can return to the U.K. as quickly as possible."
The group of high school students of Barr Beacon School on a ski trip in New Hampshire had to extend their trip by four days as they await emergency documents from the British Embassy. Along with the four staff members leading the trip, around 42 passports were destroyed.
The Kancamagus Lodge, where the students had stayed during the trip, did not appear to have any explanation for why they had shredded the passports other than it had happened by mistake.
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"Unfortunately, the hotel managed to destroy the passports in their care, which has led to all those affected having to apply for Emergency Travel Documents," head teacher Katie Hobbs, who was not on the trip, told the Express & Star. "The group are at the British Embassy in New York today to finalize all of the documents before they fly home on Tuesday, four days later than planned."
The students spent time sightseeing in New York City while the embassy processed their paperwork, with the expectation to return to the U.K. on Wednesday. The families had to pay around $180 for the documents.
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One parent praised Hobbs for "problem-solving from a distance," staying up late to ensure all the parents received, filled out, and returned the paperwork to apply for the emergency documents as soon as possible.
"She has just communicated well with us and was really calm and really clear," the parent told the BBC. "She has just been phenomenal."
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"The silver lining is that they can have an amazing experience and I said ‘just be present and enjoy it,’" she added.
Hobbs in turn praised the four teachers leading the trip for working "around the clock to ensure that the pupils are all safe and returned home as soon as possible."
"I'm looking forward to receiving all of the party back very soon," Hobbs said.
The Kancamagus Lodge did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by time of publication. | 2023-03-01T19:02:22+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/students-stranded-after-hotel-accidentally-shreds-42-passports-report/article_45ede465-c187-5b80-85b7-2b4c75bc6178.html |
Video game consoles have come a long way since the Super Nintendo arrived in the U.S. in 1991 and launched a new generation of gamers, but sometimes there is no beating the classics.
The console was wildly popular, with more than 700 games released for the system in the U.S., and Kerry Hays (aka "Peebs" on the Twitch streaming platform) has been working on beating every. single. one.
"We had wondered, some of these games, had anyone ever even beaten them before? They were so weird and obscure or difficult," he said.
And so, Hays turned to the manuals. For those who weren't playing a lot of video games in the '90s, almost all of them came with a manual inside the case that had lots of helpful information.
The manual was where you would find the buttons to push and how the console works. It could also include your lore, backstory, and maybe even a map.
"And if you're really lucky, you get a little bit of a walkthrough that would tell you, like, the first 10% of the game," Hays said.
Modern games typically have an intro cut scene and a tutorial within the first hour of the game, but older games didn't have the time or the space to include those — hence the manuals.
Nowadays, though, a vintage game complete with a paper manual can be hard to come by. Which is why Hays collected copies of every single Super Nintendo manual in the English language.
The collection is hosted on the Internet Archive and contains upwards of 850 unique Super Nintendo manuals — and it's all free. Hays says he's not in it for the money.
"Preservation to me is everybody has access to this stuff when they want it and where they want it," he said. "It would be lovely to get paid, you know, a standard paycheck for this. That's just not what it's about."
Luke Plunkett covers gaming for Kotaku. He wrote about Hays' mission to collect every manual back in October 2020, and again when every English language manual was finally archived this July. He said it was the crowdsourcing aspect of Hays' project that caught his eye.
Hays said he started his collection with about 650 scans and then turned to the internet to see what strangers could offer. Then Plunkett's write up in Kotaku had even more people sending in submissions.
"There can be a ton more people who are like, 'Oh hey, I've got an old Super Nintendo manual lying around' or 'Oh, I've got some old Super Nintendo games at my parents house, I'll go and see if any of the games they need are there," Plunkett said.
And as if this wasn't enough, Hays isn't done yet.
"Everybody keeps asking me, 'Hey are you going to do this system and how are you going to do that system?' And I'm like, 'No, I think we're going to do all systems,' because why not?"
The myth of Sisyphus comes to mind, just pushing that boulder up the hill. But Hays says: "It's a fun boulder though. It's a fun boulder and you meet all sorts of interesting people all over the world."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-14T15:35:05+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2022-07-14/a-super-fan-collected-every-super-nintendo-game-manual-and-made-them-free |
Supreme Court won't intervene in defamation case against MyPillow head
The Supreme Court says it won't intervene in a lawsuit in which Dominion Voting Systems accused MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell of defamation for falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump.
As is typical, the high court did not say anything Monday about the case in rejecting it among a host of others. Monday is the first day the high court is hearing arguments after taking a summer break.
Lindell is part of a case in which Dominion also accused Trump allies Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani of defamation for falsely claiming that the election was "stolen." The Denver, Colorado-based Dominion has sought $1.3 billion in damages from the trio.
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A lower court judge in August of last year declined to dismiss the case and instead said it could go forward. Lindell had appealed that determination, but a federal appeals court said his appeal was premature. The Supreme Court declined to take up that issue.
Powell and Giuliani, both lawyers who filed election challenges on Trump's behalf, and Lindell, who was one of Trump's most vocal public supporters, made various unproven claims about the voting machine company during news conferences, election rallies and on social media and television.
There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across the country, including Trump's attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden's victory, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Dominion machines tabulated ballots in 28 states.
In September, a judge in Minnesota declined to dismiss a separate defamation lawsuit by a different voting machine maker, Smartmatic, against Lindell. Smartmatic's machines were used only in Los Angeles County during the 2020 election. MyPillow is based in Minnesota. | 2022-10-03T23:46:26+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/supreme-court-won-t-take-up-mypillow-head-s-defamation-case/41497110 |
HiStone reveals LUNA X HK568/HK568U, an all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) model revolutionizing the retail and hospitality industries
QINGDAO, China, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HiStone, a leading provider of innovative POS and Self-Checkout hardware solutions, announces the release of its latest addition to the LUNA X model range, the HK568/HK568U. This all-in-one POS model sets new standards in performance, flexibility, and user experience, solidifying HiStone's position as a reliable and premium-quality technology vendor in the industry.
The HK568/HK568U are equipped with Intel® Celeron® Elkhart Lake J6412 and Intel® Core™ Tiger Lake i3 CPUs respectively, delivering unparalleled processing power and performance to meet the ever-growing demands of modern businesses. This enhanced processing capability empowers retailers and hospitality providers to handle complex operations efficiently, ensuring frictionless payment services for their customers.
As one of the standout features of the HK568/HK568U, its smart hinge design enables seamless screen rotation and adjustable screen height. This flexibility enhances user comfort and convenience, providing operators with more freedom to configure the device according to their specific needs.
The 15.6" wide-screen POS display offers an immersive visual experience. This larger display brings greater clarity and detail to the forefront, enhancing both customer interactions and the overall user interface for operators. With the HK568/HK568U, businesses can provide their customers with a seamless and enjoyable purchasing journey.
Cube X box design adds value by optimizing counter space where room is an issue. The compact form factor ensures that businesses can maximize their operational efficiency without compromising on performance or functionality.
"HiStone's HK568/HK568U represents a significant milestone in our journey to provide the most reliable and high-grade solutions for the retail and hospitality industries," said Chris Yost, VP of Sales, North America region at HiStone. "Understanding today's business challenges, we deliver POS solutions that ensure the ultimate customer experience at scale."
With the launch of the HK568/HK568U, HiStone once again demonstrates its commitment to driving digital transformation and supporting businesses in the retail and hospitality sectors.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has determined that WNBA star Brittney Griner is being wrongfully detained in Russia, meaning the United States will more aggressively work to secure her release even as the legal case against her plays out, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Griner was detained at an airport in February after Russian authorities said a search of her bag revealed vape cartridges containing traces of cannabis oil. Since then, U.S. officials had stopped short of classifying the Phoenix Mercury player as wrongfully detained and said instead that their focus was on ensuring that she had access in jail to American consular affairs officials.
Now, though, U.S. officials have shifted supervision of her case to a State Department office focused on negotiating for the release of hostages and other Americans deemed wrongfully detained.
It was unclear what prompted the shift, though President Joe Biden’s administration had been under pressure from members of Congress and others to make Griner’s release a priority. The U.S. last week secured the release of Marine veteran Trevor Reed as part of a prisoner swap that also resulted in a convicted Russian drug trafficker being freed from prison in the U.S.
ESPN first reported the classification in Griner’s case. Two U.S. officials confirmed it on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it by name. | 2022-05-03T22:44:50+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/us-now-considers-brittney-griner-wrongfully-detained-by-russia/ |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamie Lee Curtis comes from a strong acting lineage and now she has brought home an Oscar for her family.
Curtis paid homage to her Oscar-nominated parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, after she won best supporting actress for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the blockbuster indie film “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” She plays an IRS agent who has several guises through different timelines in the multiverse.
The veteran actor made her long-waited first Oscar nomination count.
“My mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories,” Curtis said, beginning to cry as she accepted the award. “I just won an Oscar!”
When Curtis was asked backstage if her parents are proudly looking down on her, the actor offered some serious candor in her response.
“I don’t believe in a world where people are looking down on us,” she said. “I think we are them in our actions, in our deeds and in our ideas. We build our own. We give them to our children, and that’s how the world goes on. I am a product of them. I am a proud product of them. I know they would be incredibly proud of me.”
Curtis’ nomination comes more than 60 years after her mother was nominated for her supporting acting work in “Psycho.” Her father received a nod in 1959 in the best actor category for “The Defiant Ones.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, became the eighth oldest in the category’s history to win. She surpassed Judi Dench, who held the slot for her role in “Shakespeare in Love.”
Not bad for Curtis who had all but resigned herself to the idea that she was not going to be nominated for an Oscar in her career. The actor wore a face of surprise when she found out about her nomination in an photo she later posted on Instagram.
Curtis has starred in a number of films including the “Halloween” franchise movies starting in 1978, along with other notable projects such as “Trading Places,” “My Girl,” “True Lies,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “Freaky Friday” and “Knives Out.” But it was her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” that ultimately landed her in the Oscars’ record books.
“To all the people who supported the genre of movies I’ve made for all these years — the thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together,” Curtis shouted as she raised her trophy.
Last month, Curtis won at the SAG Awards for best supporting actress.
Curtis beat Angela Bassett, Kerry Condon, Hong Chau and Stephanie Hsu in the category.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matthew Biben, a leading litigator who focuses on banking, regulatory and enforcement matters, has joined King & Spalding as a partner in its New York office. Biben was most recently a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was Co-Chair of its Financial Institutions Practice Group.
Biben represents individuals, financial institutions and FinTech companies in a broad array of civil disputes, securities and bankruptcy litigation, and complex matters involving regulators. He regularly handles internal, domestic and international investigations and acts as counsel in litigated disputes with government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), State Attorneys General and various foreign regulators.
"Matt has built a stellar career, with experience at the upper echelons of government, the world's largest banks and private practice, making him an outstanding addition to our team," said Andy Bayman, head of the firm's Trial and Global Disputes practice group. "Matt's diverse litigation practice, in-depth understanding of the banking and regulatory environment, commercial acumen and legal prowess offer clients outstanding counsel and successful resolutions to their most critical issues."
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Biben was a partner and co-lead of the Banking Industry Group at Debevoise & Plimpton. He was previously General Counsel for JPMorgan Chase Consumer & Community Banking and Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Litigation at The Bank of New York Mellon. Before this, Biben served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division and was an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office.
"King & Spalding has tremendously impressive disputes and regulatory practices with a prominent emphasis on financial institutions, and this aligns perfectly with my background," Biben added. "The firm was an obvious choice of platform for me. I look forward to joining the team and contributing to the firm's litigation prowess and strength in the financial institutions sector."
Biben is a Benchmark Litigation "Litigation Star" and is recommended nationally by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US.
Biben received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, where he is now a Trustee. He earned his J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he now sits on the Board of Advisors and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law for the last 28 years, teaching seminars in legal philosophy, federal crime, and corporate law and governance.
Biben is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association and is an active member of the New York legal community, serving as a commissioner on the State of New York Commission on Judicial Nomination and sitting on the boards of the New York Legal Assistance Group, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and the New York Law Journal's Board of Editors.
Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 1,200 lawyers in 23 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality, and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at www.kslaw.com.
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Throughout the school year, Layne Langley, area nutrition agent with the LSU AgCenter, has been working with all the kindergartners and first graders at Bains Lower Elementary.
Each month, she taught the students nutrition and worked with the school gardens during their Play 60 time. Langley and Play 60 coach Lanya Mayer worked with the students in the garden, caring for 10 raised beds.
During the spring, the students learned about the grains food group and why it is important for them to make at least half their grains whole. They learned which foods are whole grain and which are refined grains. The students participated in the Great Grain Obstacle expending energy they received from eating grains.
The children learned about the Dairy Food Group, including what foods are part of the food group and what nondairy foods provide calcium. Youth participated in yoga, a bone-strengthening exercise.
In the Go, Slow & Whoa Snack lesson, the students learned what to look for when choosing a snack. They learned which snacks are Go Snacks, Slow Snacks, and Whoa Snacks.
The students were reminded how important it is to eat breakfast every day. They were given reasons why they should eat breakfast every day and reminded even in the summer months they need to make sure they are eating breakfast every day.
Always a highlight of the nutrition and school garden program is harvesting. Harvesting the radishes was very exciting for the nutrition and school garden classes.
The students sampled the radishes while Mayer and Langley conducted a taste test with 10 of 14 classes participating. Of the 191 students who tasted the radishes, 134 reported they liked it while 57 said they didn’t care for it.
With seeds donated by Nancy Ropollo, of Ins & Outs, the students planted lemon cucumber seeds. In 2022, the students also planted potatoes, cucumbers, squash and tomatoes.
Another highlight of the nutrition and school garden program was harvesting potatoes and kaleidoscope carrots. Mayer, along with her husband Doug, prepared an ABC Soup containing vegetables grown by the students, for all the pre-K, kindergarten and first grade students as well as the staff at Bains Lower Elementary. Mayer’s daughter, Jordan Verdicanno, served the soup.
Plans this summer are to plant 10 beds of pumpkin seeds donated by the LSU AgCenter in hopes they grow into great big pumpkins for the school’s Fall Festival.
For information about nutrition programs in West Feliciana Parish, contact Layne Langley at (225) 635-3614 or at lalangley@agcenter.lsu.edu. | 2022-06-21T07:25:13+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/st_francisville/article_3e77efae-e767-11ec-9b85-9f122230d245.html |
Kolten Wong Player Prop Bets: Mariners vs. Tigers - July 15
Published: Jul. 15, 2023 at 10:25 AM MDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Seattle Mariners, including Kolten Wong (batting .125 in his past 10 games, with two doubles, two walks and four RBI), take on starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen and the Detroit Tigers at T-Mobile Park, Saturday at 9:40 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his most recent game (0-for-1) against the Tigers.
Kolten Wong Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 15, 2023
- Game Time: 9:40 PM ET
- Stadium: T-Mobile Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Michael Lorenzen
- TV Channel: ROOT Sports NW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -128)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +300)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +160)
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Kolten Wong At The Plate
- Wong has five doubles, a home run and 15 walks while hitting .160.
- Wong has reached base via a hit in 19 games this season (of 53 played), and had multiple hits in six of those games.
- He has hit a home run in one of 53 games, and in 0.5% of his plate appearances.
- Wong has an RBI in 11 of 53 games this year, with multiple RBI in three of them. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 26.4% of his games this season, with two or more runs scored in 5.7%.
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Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Tigers has a collective 8.5 K/9, which ranks 18th in the league.
- The Tigers have the 23rd-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (4.51).
- Tigers pitchers combine to allow 111 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 21st in the league).
- Lorenzen gets the start for the Tigers, his 16th of the season. He is 3-6 with a 4.03 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 87 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander's most recent time out came on Thursday, July 6 against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed five scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- In 15 games this season, the 31-year-old has an ERA of 4.03, with 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .249 against him.
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BEIJING (AP) — China blasted an annual U.S. defense spending bill for hyping up the “China threat” while Taiwan welcomed the legislation, saying it demonstrated U.S. support for the self-governing island that China says must come under its rule.
“China deplores and firmly opposes this U.S. move,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted online Saturday, calling the new law a serious political provocation that blatantly interferes in China’s internal affairs.
President Joe Biden signed the $858 billion defense bill into law in Washington on Friday. It includes about $45 billion more than Biden had requested as lawmakers look to offset inflation and boost the nation’s military competitiveness with China and Russia.
The bill also repealed a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for U.S. troops.
In the Indo-Pacific region, the legislation authorizes increased security cooperation with Taiwan and requires expanded cooperation with India on emerging defense technologies, readiness and logistics.
A Taiwan Foreign Ministry statement thanked the U.S. Congress “for showing the great importance it attaches to Taiwan-U.S. relations and strengthening Taiwan’s security.”
China objects to U.S. support for Taiwan, an island of 23 million people off its east coast. The two split during the civil war that brought the communists to power in China in 1949.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said the U.S. defense bill “severely affects peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
China staged major military exercises around Taiwan in August after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island. The Chinese military sent 39 planes and three ships toward Taiwan earlier this week in a relatively large show of force. | 2022-12-24T13:02:38+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-china-blasts-us-defense-bill-while-taiwan-welcomes-it/ |
ST. HELIER, Jersey (AP) — ST. HELIER, Jersey (AP) — NovoCure Ltd. (NVCR) on Thursday reported a loss of $53.1 million in its first quarter.
The St. Helier, Jersey-based company said it had a loss of 50 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 36 cents per share.
The oncology drug developer posted revenue of $122.2 million in the period, also falling short of Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $127.9 million.
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- In search of sustainable solutions for data center construction, Amazon Web Services, Baker Concrete Construction and Holcim design specialized ECOPact® low-carbon concrete mix
- As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Holcim is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world
CHICAGO, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Holcim US, a leader in sustainable building solutions, today announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Baker Concrete Construction to provide innovative, low-carbon ECOPact® concrete for the construction of several Amazon Data Centers in Northern Virginia. The companies' goals on sustainability enabled a collaborative approach to the initiative.
Concrete contributes a significant share of embodied carbon in data center construction, and AWS is undertaking initiatives to reduce the carbon impact of the concrete required. For example, AWS implemented a new design standard requiring concrete with at least a 20% reduction in embodied carbon versus standard concrete for new U.S. data centers. Holcim's ECOPact mixes allow AWS to not only meet this requirement but almost double it.
"It's the choices we make today that will shape the world we live in tomorrow— and it's a changing world. New ideas, new technologies and new requirements are changing the ways we design, build and grow," said Cedric Barthelemy, Regional Head, Mid-Atlantic with Holcim US. "AWS and Baker Concrete Construction are known for bold thinking across business models, which extends to the companies' respective approaches to sustainability. Our partnership pairs AWS' experience in data warehousing and our expertise in designing low-carbon concretes to ultimately result in contributing to a more sustainable built environment."
Following a science-driven approach, Holcim is transforming standards for the building industry. Accelerating the use of low-carbon building materials is essential for Holcim to meet its worldwide 2030 climate target of reducing scope 1 and 2 emissions per ton of cementitious materials by 25% by 2030 (from a 2018 base year). Partnerships with companies like AWS further demonstrate Holcim's commitment to leading the building materials industry into a more sustainable future.
"As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon is committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement," said Gurmeet Sethi, AMER Head of AWS Data Center Procurement. "To help meet that commitment, AWS is focused on continuous sustainability-related innovation across our global infrastructure, and forging industry collaborations with companies like Holcim is one way we can do that. This will both allow AWS to further reduce carbon emissions associated with building of our data centers and create new opportunities to build infrastructure more sustainably across the region."
Accelerating innovation to create more sustainable options of building materials has been a driving force behind this partnership. Holcim and Amazon Web Services, along with HITT Contracting and Baker Concrete Construction, took a new approach and worked together to develop greener solutions, prioritizing the collaboration of engineers, architects, developers and builders early in the planning.
"Our approach is centered on working closely with like-minded partners, like Holcim and AWS, to drive innovation in low-carbon construction," said DJ Gibson, project executive at Baker Concrete Construction. "As a founding member of the ACI center of excellence for carbon-neutral concrete, this was an important project for us to demonstrate our commitment to sustainability."
"At HITT, we always strive to minimize our footprint and find innovative ways to reduce environmental impact on our projects. By working together and implementing this solution on our AWS data center jobs, we were able to overcome perceived barriers for using low-carbon concrete in place of traditional mixes, most notably with performance and timing," said Aaron Martens, vice president of technology at HITT Contracting. "The low-carbon benefits of ECOPact met all required design strengths at the intervals necessary to maintain the project schedule."
ECOPact is the industry's broadest range of green, low-carbon concrete products that provide a range of reduced carbon emissions, starting at 30%, compared to standard concrete. The partnership between AWS and Holcim led to the design of innovative concrete mixes that provide 35% to 45% less CO2. The use of ECOPact in the Amazon Data Center project, currently under construction, is estimated to reduce the total CO2 in the concrete by 39% (compared to the concrete with 100% ordinary Portland cement that would have been used otherwise).
Holcim and AWS will continue looking for ways to improve emissions savings for future projects completed together.
Holcim builds progress for people and the planet. As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Holcim is enabling greener cities, creating smarter infrastructure, and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, Holcim is becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. The company is driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling, to build more with less. Holcim is the company behind some of the world's most trusted brands in the building sector, including Aggregate Industries, Disensa, Holcim Building Products, Geocycle, Holcim, Lafarge, and Malarkey Roofing Products. Holcim is 70,000 people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates, and Solutions & Products.
In the United States, Holcim US includes nearly 350 sites in 43 states and employs 7,000 people. Our customers rely on us to help them design and build better communities with innovative solutions that deliver structural integrity and eco-efficiency.
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Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m. | 2022-12-26T05:00:52+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17677464.php |
2023 Corales Puntacana Championship Schedule: Sunday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Published: Mar. 25, 2023 at 9:39 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Entering play in round four at the 2023 Corales Puntacana Championship, Sam Stevens leads with a score of -14. Tune in to see as the action unfolds from Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course) in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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- Start Time: 6:45 AM ET
- Venue: Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course)
- Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Par/Distance: Par 72/7,670 yards
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Police: Suspect arrested, accused of sexually assaulting woman outside of Dollar General
GREEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) -A man is accused of following a victim to her car and sexually assaulting her in a Dollar General parking lot in Ohio, according to court records.
Based on the victim and witness statements and store video footage, WOIO reports 34-year-old Mark Newberry followed the victim to her car, stated that the victim was attractive, and inquired about her marital status.
He then without consent kissed her on the neck and grabbed her breast and buttocks while standing behind her, court documents said.
Police said the victim was able to get into the car and drive away.
Court documents said Newberry denied touching the victim when interviewed by police.
When Newberry was confronted about the store’s video footage, he did not comment and requested a lawyer, the documents stated.
Jail records show that Newberry is facing one count of sexual imposition.
A judge set his bond amount to $200.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to evacuate or stock up on sandbags amid surging creeks and rivers.
In New Mexico, emergency crews rescued people from at least two vehicles from high water Thursday night in Jemez Pueblo north of Albuquerque, the National Weather Service said.
But there were no immediate reports of any deaths of serious injuries. A flood warning was in effect for communities along the Jemez River into next week.
In Flagstaff, Arizona, neighbors on one street have been working side by side since Tuesday with shovels to stave off floodwaters from their homes.
Three creek-retention basins installed last year helped better navigate water that rushed down from burned mountains above the city, officials said. Still, water engulfed the shoulder of a local highway, and several roads and sidewalks were closed this week as the weather warmed and snow melted, making its way into neighborhoods. Sections of urban trails also were submerged.
Officials said it was a scenario that came without a playbook.
“It would be nice to have an exact model of what we need to do, but we don’t,” Flagstaff Vice Mayor Austin Aslan told the Arizona Daily Sun. “We don’t know what the next fire will look like, or where that scar will be. There’s small differences that will direct water to one neighborhood or another.”
Sandoval County in north-central New Mexico issued an emergency disaster declaration in the wake of severe flooding in communities near the Jemez River.
No evacuations had been ordered, but residents in an area between Jemez Pueblo and Jemez Springs that regularly floods in the summer rainy season were collecting sandbags as a precaution. A local police chief estimated a dozen homes and other structures along the river could be at risk of being inundated with water.
“Warm temperatures continue to cause rapid melting of snowpack, causing increased river flows,” the National Weather Service in Albuquerque said Thursday night.
The deluge also led to spillover from a wastewater treatment plant, which was contributing recycled water into the Jemez River. The U.S. Forest Service advised people not to fish in the river or drink water south of the plant.
In Salt Lake City, Mayor Erin Mendenhall signed an emergency order late Wednesday aimed at helping residents whose homes were threatened by flooding in the southeastern part of the city. Rapidly melting snow in the nearby mountains sent water coursing through a creek in the neighborhood, prompting the voluntary evacuation of about 100 homes.
The water was receding as cooler weather moved into the area. Even so, multiple mudslides were reported on canyon roads, including one that forced the temporary closure of Interstate 80 southeast of the city early Thursday.
On Wednesday, local officials north of Salt Lake City issued evacuation orders for at least 20 homes in Kaysville, where flooding ripped a large gash that damaged a street, sidewalks and driveways in a subdivision that was under construction.
Meanwhile, heavy snowpack and highs expected to reach 60 degrees Thursday were causing flooding in northwest Colorado, where transportation officials closed Highway 40 between Craig and Steamboat Springs, a popular ski area that has received more than 400 inches (1,016 centimeters) of snow this winter.
Flooding in the small mountain town of Hayden forced schools to close. Rain was in the forecast Thursday afternoon, with the expectation of turning to snow overnight.
The Colorado Department of Transportation posted photos online showing Dry Creek spilling over its banks at a bridge there, as well as floodwater threatening several parked recreational vehicles.
The National Weather Service said some roads might become impassable during the weekend and urged motorists not to drive through flooded crossings.
There were no reports of major damage, however, in Utah or Colorado as of Thursday.
In the Northern Plains, a speedy snowmelt and possible April showers stoked fears of heavy flooding. Residents have been assembling thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of sandbags to hold back water.
The Red River Valley, which includes Fargo in North Dakota and Moorhead in Minnesota, had one of the snowiest winters on record. Heavy rain could cause the river to rise quickly, Moorhead city engineer Bob Zimmerman told Minnesota Public Radio.
Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday at a news conference that the state is ready to respond with financial help for flooding if needed.
He added that warmer temperatures and rising waters from climate change have factored into the state’s months-long preparation for the spring flooding season.
Local, state and federal public safety and emergency management partners have ramped up monitoring and preparation efforts, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has declared a statewide emergency for spring flooding, and he made the National Guard available to help fight floods in the coming weeks, the Bismarck Tribune reported. The city of Bismarck opened sites for residents to fill their own sandbags.
In northern Montana, the Milk River was expected to rise to its highest level in more than a decade and swamp some rural areas.
Emergency officials along the river in Glasgow were patrolling the levee protecting the city of about 3,200 people to make sure it held up, said Valley County Disaster and Emergency Services coordinator Rick Seiler. Shelters were being arranged in case low-lying areas need evacuations.
The flooding was forecast to continue through next week, according to the National Weather Service.
Heavy rain was falling across the region on Thursday while snow continued to pile up at higher elevations, Seiler said.
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Associated Press writers Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis; Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana; Terry Tang in Phoenix; Thomas Peipert in Denver; and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report. | 2023-04-14T09:16:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/snowmelt-leads-to-heavy-flooding-from-southwest-to-rockies/ |
Groundbreaking event held at ERCOT Copperhead Solar & Storage Project in Falls County, Texas
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National Grid Renewables hosted project partners and landowners to celebrate the start of construction at its Copperhead Solar & Storage Project (Copperhead), a 150 megawatt (MW) solar and 100 megawatt hour (MWh) storage project in Falls County, Texas. During the groundbreaking event, National Grid Renewables also announced a 140 MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with The Hershey Company for Copperhead, marking the second PPA between The Hershey Company and National Grid Renewables after The Hershey Company's Noble solar PPA was announced in 2021. Edison Energy, a global sustainability and energy advisory firm, worked with The Hershey Company on its environmental initiatives and selection of National Grid Renewables' Copperhead.
For a short film covering the event, click here.
Copperhead is projected to produce an estimated $25 million in direct economic impact throughout its first 25 years of operation, including the production of new tax revenue, onsite operations jobs, and the creation of a charitable fund estimated at $600,000. Using the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator, the project is estimated to offset carbon dioxide emissions by 250,000 metric tons annually.
"Together with customers like The Hershey Company, National Grid Renewables is helping to build a clean, fair and affordable energy future," stated Blake Nixon, President for National Grid Renewables. "Projects like Copperhead promote sustainability and economic vitality at both global and local levels. Communities like those in the Falls County, Texas area can anticipate economic benefits for years to come as a result of welcoming renewable energy projects. With Copperhead, our commitment to the state of Texas and the ERCOT market remains strong, and we look forward to bringing this project to commercial operation to benefit local and statewide residents."
"We have ambitious goals to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by more than 50 percent and Scope 3 emissions by 25 percent by 2030 as part of our science-based targets," said Mark Kline, Director, Commodities and Specialty Procurement at The Hershey Company. "We're making great progress toward achieving those goals thanks to projects like Copperhead and the great work of National Grid Renewables."
As announced in its recently released ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Report, Hershey is on track to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions targets, having reported a 48 percent reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions against a 2018 baseline and a 18% reduction in Scope 3. The company's investment in three solar farm projects – two of which are through National Grid Renewables – plays a large role in the progress thus far.
Copperhead will utilize next-generation Series 6 thin film solar modules developed and produced by First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), a 100 MWh Fluence Gridstack™ battery energy storage system by Fluence Energy, Inc., and is being constructed by TIC—The Industrial Company, a subsidiary of Kiewit and industry-leading engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.
"As America's solar company, we are proud that Copperhead will be powered by our responsibly produced, ultra-low carbon photovoltaic solar technology, designed and developed here in the United States," said Darin Green, Senior Director, Business Development, First Solar. "Our thin film solar technology has the lowest carbon and water footprint of any commercially available PV technology today, while our integrated manufacturing process and tightly controlled supply chain allow for industry-leading transparency and traceability."
"We are honored to work alongside National Grid Renewables and The Hershey Company on their second utility-scale solar plus energy storage project in the ERCOT market," said John Zahurancik, SVP & President of Americas at Fluence. "This project is a great example of how solar plus storage deployments deliver impactful environmental benefits and reliable energy, along with local economic workforce development. Projects like this position us to influence global sustainability and provide tangible local community impact."
"We are proud to be a part of the Copperhead Solar & Storage Project and ready to get to work in designing and building the system," said Mike Gammill, Vice President of Solar Operations for TIC. "National Grid Renewables is making tremendous strides in advancing solar power generation, bringing a clean, reliable energy source to Falls County, Texas that will have a positive lasting impact on the community."
About National Grid Renewables
National Grid Renewables develops, owns and operates large-scale renewable energy assets across the United States, including solar, wind, and energy storage. As a farmer-friendly and community-focused business, National Grid Renewables repowers America's electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable, clean energy future. National Grid Renewables supports National Grid's vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for all. To learn more about National Grid Renewables, visit www.nationalgridrenewables.com or follow the company on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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by: AP Posted: Apr 14, 2023 / 10:11 AM EDT Updated: Apr 14, 2023 / 10:11 AM EDT SHARE WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration joins Supreme Court appeal to preserve access to abortion pill. | 2023-04-15T15:19:44+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/biden-administration-joins-supreme-court-appeal-to-preserve-access-to-abortion-pill/ |
The Los Angeles Rams will kick off the 2022 NFL Season against the Buffalo Bills on NBC on Thursday at 8:20 p.m. ET.
Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald, and the Los Angeles Rams will raise their Super Bowl banner Thursday night before kicking off the NFL season at home, where they became the second straight team to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy in their own stadium.
Somehow, they’re underdogs against the Buffalo Bills.
“It’s going to be fun,” Rams All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald said. “I’m pretty sure it’s going to be loud. ... We definitely got to go out there and play a good team and try to find a way to win.”
The Bills are preseason favorites to win the Super Bowl after falling short in the AFC divisional round against the Kansas City Chiefs last January. Josh Allen leads a dynamic offense and the Bills had the league’s stingiest defense in 2021.
“Going to play the defending Super Bowl champs and watching them raise their banner, that’ll be an interesting feeling for sure,” Allen said. “And I’ve talked to a few people who have played and coached in this game before, and just really the unanimous thing that they were talking about was it feels like playoff atmosphere. So, we got to understand that going in, not get too high, not get too low. Understand the flow of the game and just try to put our best foot forward.”
Under Sean McVay, the Rams are 5-0 in season openers.
Defending champions are 19-3 in Week 1 since 2000.
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Howard Bragman, a beloved Hollywood publicist who specialized in crisis relations and whose clients have included Monica Lewinsky, Cameron Diaz, Ricki Lake, Sharon Osbourne and Chaz Bono, has died after a short battle with leukemia. He was 66.
He died Saturday night in Los Angeles, his family said Sunday. Bragman was diagnosed with leukemia just 10 days ago and promptly hospitalized.
A native of Flint, Michigan, where he said he always felt like a martian as a “fat, Jewish, gay kid,” Bragman got his start in public relations in Chicago, working with clients like Anheuser-Busch. Eventually he made his way to Los Angeles and founded his own firm, Bragman Nyman Cafarelli (BNC), in 1989. He became known as a go-to for helping celebrities come out publicly, including “Family Ties” star Meredith Baxter, country singer Chely Wright, basketball players John Amaechi and Sheryl Swoopes and football player Michael Sam.
“Howard Bragman was an industry leader who masterfully used the power of the press to create positive change and visibility for LGBTQ people,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. “Throughout his long career, he worked with many LGBTQ notables to ensure their coming out stories were treated with dignity and created impact for the entire community. His own visibility as an out executive, paired with a trademark humor and bold approach to public relations, made unforgettable marks.”
Following BNC’s acquisition, he founded the firm Fifteen Minutes in 2005 and, later, LaBrea Media.
He wrote an advice book called “Where’s My Fifteen Minutes,” weaving in amusing anecdotes of a bygone Hollywood and relating that to the celebrity, media and audience landscape of today. He advised that “all press is not good press” and whoever said so is “an idiot.”
In addition to being an oft-quoted expert on celebrity crises, Bragman sometimes penned articles himself too, in publications from Playboy to the Los Angeles Times, and even appeared on various reality shows, including “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and as a guest judge on the first season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Bragman’s influence on the industry was wide-spanning. He was an adjunct professor of public relations at the University of Southern California, developed a media training manual for young actors in Nickelodeon tv shows and films, and media trained hundreds of professionals outside of Hollywood, from elected officials and attorneys to CEOs. He was also a passionate activist for LGBTQ rights and Jewish causes.
In 2021, he donated $1 million to establish the Howard Bragman Coming Out Fund at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, on the 50th anniversary of the school’s Spectrum Center, an LGBTQ support resource.
“I want to assure that other people get that same access that I had; life-changing, life-saving access,” he told the school’s paper at the time. “I don’t care how liberal the school is. I don’t care how accepting and loving your parents are. I don’t care how ‘woke’ the times are. Coming out is this most personal of journeys, and it’s a challenging journey.”
Bragman is survived by his husband Mike Maimone, his brother Alan and nieces and nephews. They asked that in lieu of flowers, for mourners to consider donating to the Coming Out Fund established in his name. | 2023-02-13T01:19:48+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-hollywood-publicist-howard-bragman-dead-at-66/ |
How to Watch the Green Bay vs. Cleveland State Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the Horizon Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 7, 2023 at 11:11 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Horizon championship will be decided Tuesday, as the No. 1 seed Green Bay Phoenix (27-4) play the No. 2 Cleveland State Vikings (29-4) at 12:00 PM.
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- When: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
- Where: Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis, Indiana
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Green Bay vs. Cleveland State Scoring Comparison
- The Vikings' 74.5 points per game are 21.1 more points than the 53.4 the Phoenix give up to opponents.
- When it scores more than 53.4 points, Cleveland State is 27-3.
- Green Bay is 24-3 when it gives up fewer than 74.5 points.
- The Phoenix score 10.9 more points per game (68.2) than the Vikings allow (57.3).
- Green Bay has a 22-2 record when putting up more than 57.3 points.
- Cleveland State has a 25-1 record when giving up fewer than 68.2 points.
Green Bay Schedule
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Owner Kwynn Everest makes every inch of her new, 1,200-square-foot shop work: Floors are handpainted by Hayden Gregg, art is by Charlie Hanavich, merchandising is by Stephen Tancibok, and interior design is by Helen Davis Interior Design—all Atlanta-based. They’ve created a colorful canvas for an eclectic and informed collection of tabletop items, home decor, and gifts.
About that name: “Odd McLean is my grandfather. He goes by Mack,” says Everest, a Florida native who moved here seven years ago. “None of my cousins or I will ever name a kid Odd, so I wanted to honor him by naming the store after him.”
Opening in March in Ansley Mall, the shop reflects Everest’s obsession with hospitality. A Four Seasons marketing and sales veteran who lives nearby and entertains often, she felt the neighborhood was missing a high-quality gifting destination. “There was a need for something funky, different, and unique here in Midtown,” she says.
Think Aerin Lauder and Tory Burch with maybe a touch of Iris Apfel. “Our customer is stylish, inviting, outgoing, and whimsical,” says Everest. “It’s someone who is confident, who loves unique things and appreciates quality. I feel like I’m bridging the gap between generations and between styles.”
She works directly with many vendors, such as Myto Design Ritual, a raffia accessories collection headquartered in Colombia. There are also neon Lucite pieces from Alexandra von Furstenberg, understated frames by Addison Ross, and handpainted ceramic tabletop pieces by Themis Z, a Greek company that has collaborated with bold-faced brands like Dior Maison.
Retail can be a tough business, but Everest wanted to bring interesting items that spark conversation to her community. “It’s really important to me that when you show up to a party with a gift, not everyone else will show up with the same thing,” she says. oddmclean.com
This article appears in our July 2022 issue. | 2022-07-22T23:51:15+00:00 | atlantamagazine.com | https://www.atlantamagazine.com/homeandgarden/odd-mclean-is-a-curiosities-shop-for-the-21st-century-shopper/ |
(WHTM) — Some of the biggest Eagles fans are sending their support from halfway around the world.
They are members of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division. Last year they left their base in Harrisburg for duty in Kuwait. They are looking forward to the big game. Maybe more than anybody!
They will be able to watch live, even from Kuwait! The 28th infantry division returns home this upcoming fall. | 2023-02-11T18:32:52+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/the-big-game/pennsylvania-national-guard-send-support-to-eagles-from-overseas/ |
‘Dry January’ benefits last longer than a month, study says
(CNN) – Tens of thousands of people across the country are in the first week of “Dry January,” where you abstain from alcohol.
Researchers say there’s evidence that cutting out alcohol, even for just a month, can have benefits that last well into the year.
The Washington Post reported on one study in BMJ Open which found that people who stopped drinking for a month saw significantly improved metabolism.
Those people also shed about four and a half pounds, had lower blood pressure and a substantial reduction in levels of insulin resistance.
Researchers also found that, months later, people who didn’t drink in January were drinking less alcohol in general, as compared to people who didn’t participate.
Medical professionals also say taking a break from alcohol can help you sleep better and elevate your mood and energy levels, which can reinforce the habit.
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A version of this story originally ran on Feb. 5, 2021
This week, millions of Americans are anxiously scanning air quality maps focusing on two colors: red and purple. Red indicates "unhealthy" air quality, and purple? "Very unhealthy."
When did purple become the color most associated with danger?
"Red is the color of alert, of stop signs," agrees information designer Giorgia Lupi, a partner at Pentagram. But she sees the choice as logical. "Purple is the next color in the spectrum, from yellow, to orange, to red."
Lupi's job is to translate data into visual images that are easier for our minds to process. Color, for her, is a vital tool. While purple often carries positive associations in Western culture — such as sumptuousness and royalty — Lupi also points to the color's unsettling lividity. "Think of bruises, and the color purple on skin when talking about disease," she suggests. "It is another level. It's darker, and a more advanced stage, if you will."
As for how purple came to officially represent "very unhealthy" air quality: Back in the 1990s, the Environmental Protection Agency held a conference in Baltimore. There was a lot on the agenda, including a brand new, color-coded air quality index.
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Scientist Susan Stone was there, along with a number of advocates and state, local and tribal officials.
The color designation was a topic "that really blew the discussion up," Stone recalls. "They were really getting too heated. We were all saying we need to call a break because otherwise people are going to start shoving each other."
In 2021, a spokesperson from the Environmental Protection Agency offered the following history:
In developing the AQI that we have today, the most heated discussions were about colors. At a large meeting in Baltimore (in either 1997 or 1998), we took an unscheduled break during the discussion of colors because we thought attendees were going to start pushing and shoving each other. The focus was entirely around the level of the standard and the color red. Those were the days before the huge wildfires out West, so it was extremely rare to get into the Hazardous range. We mostly hit very unhealthy levels with ozone. Even though we didn't have many continuous PM monitors then, we looked back at the filter-based PM data to evaluate the number of days in different categories.
There were two factions. The environmental groups wanted red in the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG) category to show that levels were higher than the levels of the NAAQS. EPA and many of the state, local and tribal representatives wanted red in the Unhealthy category, because that's when the AQI indicates that air quality can pose a risk to everyone. We were also concerned about message fatigue. In those days, it wasn't unusual to have 30 days when ozone was above the level of the standard.
We are not sure anyone knows for certain how the final decision was made, but in the end, DC decided to go with red at the Unhealthy category. The higher colors were decided by the AQI Team to show that as air quality worsens, it can be unhealthy for some people before it's unhealthy for everyone. And even once air quality reaches unhealthy, higher levels can dictate different actions. At orange, members of sensitive groups may have effects; at red, some members of the general population may be affected, and the effects to sensitive groups may be more serious. At purple it's an alert, and the risk is increased for everyone. Maroon - hazardous - represents emergency conditions. We don't typically see that except for wildfires and occasionally, dust storms.
Stone told NPR she never suspected how often purple would be used as a color for alarm.
"Looking at the data," she says, "if we put red as 'hazardous,' it would never occur."
Now, of course, hazardous days are not uncommon, and at least in some places, the AQI is turning to an even worse color: maroon. (Black, as it turns out, is less legible on maps, and it's hard to see borders.) For now, purple continues to show how royal a mess we're in.
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GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Opportunity knocked for Jack Jones at Lambeau Field, and the Patriots’ rookie was more than ready to answer it.
Given the start at boundary cornerback in place of an injured Jalen Mills, Jones forced a pair of takeaways and took one to pay dirt. On the second defensive snap of the game, he punched the ball away from Romeo Doubs after a bubble screen and recovered his own forced fumble.
Jones’ second takeaway was even more impressive.
Just before halftime, Aaron Rodgers was staring Allen Lazard down on an out route, and the rookie cornerback stepped in front of his receiver and returned it 40 yards for a touchdown. Improbably, the Patriots took a 10-7 lead into halftime.
“Personally, I feel like it’s disrespectful to throw an out route on me,” Jones said. “If you can throw ball past me to get to the receiver, I’m no good.”
When he saw nothing but green space in front of him after securing the interception, Jones was ecstatic.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Jones said. “Usually it’s hard to score on defense. Just to get a pick is hard on defense. When I got the pick, I’d seen nothing but open field. I just ran. I just kept going.”
It went as both the first touchdown and interception of his NFL career, and the fourth-round pick chalked it up to just playing the fundamentals well.
“I was just reading my keys,” Jones said. “He threw it outside. I had a chance to make a play on the ball, and by the blessing of God, I made a play and took it to the house.” | 2022-10-03T02:17:18+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2022/10/jack-jones-after-aaron-rodgers-int-its-disrespectful-to-throw-an-out-route-on-me.html |
11 mustangs die in US roundup in Nevada caught on video, showing horses with broken necks
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nearly a dozen wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada, deaths that a Las Vegas congresswoman is calling tragic proof of the urgent need to outlaw helicopters to capture the animals on federal land.
The 11 deaths so far include five young foals, four horses with broken necks and a stallion with a snapped rear leg that was chased by a helicopter and horseback rider as it tried to flee on three legs for 35 minutes before it was euthanized, according to witnesses.
The horse that broke the leg jumping over a trap fence last Wednesday was a lead Palomino stallion called “Mr. Sunshine” by those who’d watched him roam wild over the years southeast of Elko.
A longtime observer and defender of the mustangs caught the animal’s struggle on video.
“It made me physically ill to see what was done to that beautiful stallion I have known for years,” said Laura Leigh, the founder of Nevada-based nonprofit organization Wild Horse Education.
Leigh, who’s been fighting roundups in court for more than a decade and advocates ending them altogether, said the contracted wranglers were trying to pressure the mustangs into the temporary trap coral when the horse leaped out and broke the leg.
“He tried to buck off the searing pain and then struggled on three legs. He was then pursued to the far side of the valley and shot. The incident took longer than 30 minutes to resolve,” she said. “These barbaric, cruel, intentional acts must end.”
The deaths should serve as a wake-up call, said Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus. “A horse with a broken leg was chased in the sweltering heat by a helicopter,” she said, criticizing a Bureau of Land Management practice the she is trying to ban through House legislation.
“This latest instance of BLM mistreatment of Nevada’s wild horses is tragic,” Titus said Tuesday.
Leigh and others sued after the death of several horses during a roundup a decade ago, and the bureau adopted a Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program in 2015 that among other things prohibits helicopters from making contact with the mustangs.
But the agency has resisted efforts to stop using helicopters, saying they’re necessary to access remote herds.
“The BLM policies and staff prioritize the well-being and humane care of all wild horses during all gather operations,” bureau spokeswoman Heather O’Hanlon said in an email to The Associated Press on Monday. She said the agency has a Department of Agriculture veterinarian assessing and monitoring animal conditions and consulting with bureau officials to ensure the health and safety of horses and people.
Bureau spokeswoman Rita Henderson said injuries to wild horses and burros during roundups are rare. She said the “vast majority” — more than 99% — are gathered without severe incident or injury that causes death.
The bureau says its latest roundup started July 9 in eastern Nevada between Elko and Ely because overpopulated herds are seriously damaging the ecology of the range.
Nevada is home to nearly two-thirds of the 68,928 wild horses the bureau estimated on March 1 were roaming federal lands in 10 Western states stretching from California to Montana.
The agency plans to gather about 2,000 horses from the roundup in three areas — the Antelope Valley, Goshute and Spruce-Pequop. It says the estimated 6,852 horses is nearly 14 times what the range can sustain.
As of Tuesday, they had gathered 1,087, the bureau said.
By balancing the herd size with what the land can support, the agency aims to protect the habitat for other wildlife species including sage grouse, pronghorn antelope, mule deer and elk, said Gerald Dixon, the bureau’s Elko district manager.
But critics say the real purpose is to appease ranchers who don’t want horses competing with their livestock for precious, high-desert forage where annual precipitation averages less than 10 inches (25 centimeters).
The American Wild Horse Campaign is publicizing the graphic photos and video shot by Leigh and others “to educate the public about the BLM’s inhumane approach to wild horse management,” group spokeswoman Grace Kuhn said.
“This cruel treatment of wild horses in unacceptable and far below the standard that Americans expect for these iconic animals,” she said.
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TOKYO (AP) — A historic baseball stadium in Tokyo where Babe Ruth played could be demolished, part of a disputed redevelopment plan harshly criticized by environmentalists.
Ruth played at the Meiji Jingu Stadium in 1934 on a barnstorming tour with other American stars that included Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez and Jimmie Foxx. Ruth homered several times before 60,000 fans in games at the stadium, which is still home to the Japanese league champion Yakult Swallows.
Only three other major ballparks remain where Ruth played: Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and the Koshien Stadium in Kobe, Japan. Wrigley and Fenway have been renovated, but plans to save Meiji Jingu have been dismissed by developers and politicians.
The stadium was opened in 1926 in an area known as Meiji Gaien, a green patch in central Tokyo that’s famous for an avenue lined with about 150 ginko trees. Plans call for razing the ballpark and a neighboring rugby stadium and rebuilding them in different spots in the reconfigured space, making room for a pair of towering skyscrapers and a shopping area.
“I really think we shouldn’t sacrifice nature in order to get short-term economic growth,” said Natsuka Kusumoto, a university student campaigning against the redevelopment. “In order to stop global warming we have to face how to balance economic growth and nature conservation.”
She said real estate developers, construction companies and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike “don’t hear the voice of the people who live in this town.”
“Around this area in Jingu Gaien there are lots of trees that have been living for 100 years,” she said. “They will cut the old trees in order to build skyscrapers or rebuild this baseball stadium.”
The new baseball stadium will be built flush against the ginko trees, which environmentalists say will damage the complex root system and kill or damage the trees.
Opponents of the project have gathered about 180,000 signatures on petitions, and on Sunday hundreds protested in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building.
A Tokyo Shimbun poll last year showed 69.5% against the project.
The massive project could take 13 years to complete and the baseball stadium will stand for several more years. But the clock is ticking.
Koike, the Tokyo governor, is at the center of the storm. Activists believe she has the power to cancel the project but has given developers the go-ahead to start preliminary construction. The city’s Environmental Assessment Committee is still studying the project and has raised questions.
Famous Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, days before his death on March 28, sent an emotive letter to Koike to oppose the project as his last cause.
“We should not sacrifice the precious trees of Jingu that our ancestors spent 100 years protecting and nurturing, just for quick economic gain,” Sakamoto wrote, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
Koike touched on the redevelopment — being led by real estate company Mitsui Fudosan — at a press conference two months ago. She was a driving force behind the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but has not been implicated in the widespread corruption around the Games.
The presence of the Olympics helped the city pass an ordinance lifting height restrictions in the area, enabling plans for the new skyscrapers.
Koike said the number of trees in the area would increase from 1,904 to 1,998 through the redevelopment, and that “green area coverage” could increase from 25% to 30%.
“However, not all trees are equal. Huge 100 year-old trees provide significantly more CO2 sequestering and cooling effect than small new saplings,” said Rochelle Kopp, who runs a Tokyo management consulting company and is a leader of the protest movement.
She also said Koike was misleading to say “green area coverage” would increase.
“Although the surface area of green will increase, the volume of green will go down significantly due to the felling of large trees.”
Kopp said an injunction to stop preliminary work could be filed in the next few weeks. She also said 27 members of Japan’s national parliament have begun to examine the project. She said parts of the planning were complete, but much was still pending.
Koike has tried to distance the Tokyo city government from the project, suggesting it was an outside initiative. However, Kopp said records from a meeting in 2012 indicate the city government had proposed switching the location of the two stadiums to the national government.
Japan’s mainstream newspapers have given little coverage to the issue, although the left-leaning Asahi Shimbun has called for a major review of the project “on grounds it could result in significant environmental damage.”
Activists say lifestyles have changed since the pandemic, putting into question the need for more office space.
“When I was a child I played in Jingu Gaien,” area resident Mao Kawaguchi said at the weekend protest. “I think the forest in Jingu Gaien belongs to everybody. Frankly, I feel like my ability to live is being threatened, just for the interests of a very small number of companies. They want to change the place so they can squeeze as much money out of it as possible.”
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The 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Odds & Preview: Gemma Dryburgh
The 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club will have Gemma Dryburgh as part of the field in Sylvania, Ohio from July 13-16, up against the par-71, 6,561-yard course, with a purse of $1,750,000.00 at stake.
Looking to bet on Dryburgh at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic this week? Read on for the betting trends you can use before you make your picks.
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Gemma Dryburgh Insights
- Over her last 18 rounds, Dryburgh has shot under par four times, while also carding nine rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has recorded the best score of the day in one of her last 18 rounds, while scoring among the top five in two of those rounds.
- Dryburgh has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in three of her last 18 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day six times.
- Dryburgh has finished in the top 20 in one of her past five appearances.
- Looking at the past five tournaments she has entered, she made the cut four times.
- Dryburgh has finished with a score better than the tournament average in two of her past five appearances, including one finish within five strokes of the leader.
Over the last year
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Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Insights and Stats
- Dryburgh last played this event in 2022, and she did not make the cut.
- This tournament will take place on a par 71 listed at 6,561 yards, compared to the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- Highland Meadows Golf Club has seen an average tournament score of -8 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- The average course Dryburgh has played in the past year has been six yards longer than the 6,561 yards Highland Meadows Golf Club will be at for this event.
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -8.
Dryburgh's Last Time Out
- Dryburgh was good on the 16 par-3 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, averaging par to finish in the 74th percentile of competitors.
- Her 4.23-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open placed her in the 52nd percentile.
- Dryburgh shot better than 74% of the field at the U.S. Women’s Open on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.88 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 5.02.
- Dryburgh fared better on par 3s than most players her last time out, recording a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the other golfers averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Dryburgh carded fewer bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (3.0).
- Dryburgh carded the same number of birdies or better (three) as the field average on par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open.
- At that most recent competition, Dryburgh's showing on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse 10 times (compared to the field's better average, 8.4).
- Dryburgh ended the U.S. Women’s Open with a birdie or better on five of the 16 par-5s, bettering the field average of 2.8.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Dryburgh recorded fewer bogeys or worse (one) than the tournament average of 2.6.
Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: Highland Meadows Golf Club
- Location: Sylvania, Ohio
- Par: 71 / 6,561 yards
- Dryburgh Odds to Win: +8000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Former President Trump on Friday made his first post on Facebook in more than two years following his reinstatement to the platform by its parent company, Meta.
Trump posted a short video clip from the night of the 2016 presidential election. In it, he says: “Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business. Complicated.”
Trump’s most recent post before Friday was from Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters violently stormed the Capitol to try to stop the certification of President Biden’s election victory.
Meta suspended Trump from Facebook and Instagram the next day, saying his posts risked inciting further violence.
In January, the company announced it would reinstate Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, saying he would regain his ability to post to his millions of followers on each platform. The company also said it would put measures in place to “deter repeat offenses.”
“Like any other Facebook or Instagram user, Mr. Trump is subject to our Community Standards. In light of his violations, he now also faces heightened penalties for repeat offenses,” Nick Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta, said in January.
Twitter, which also suspended Trump’s account after the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, reinstated Trump last November after the company was bought by Elon Musk.
Trump’s return to Facebook gives him a powerful megaphone as he seeks to connect with supporters as part of his 2024 campaign for the White House. It could also provide a fundraising boost, as it will reconnect him with individuals who can help fuel his grassroots, small-dollar donor base.
Trump has also been posting on Truth Social, a social media platform he helped launch. On that platform, he frequently uses the rhetoric that got him suspended from platforms like Facebook in the first place, spreading claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. | 2023-03-17T21:42:49+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/hill-politics/trump-posts-on-facebook-for-first-time-since-reinstatement/ |
DAVOS, Switzerland and COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The AO Foundation and RIMASYS are pleased to announce that they have taken their strategic partnership to the next level with a full-stake investment by the AO in RIMASYS.
Building on a shared strategic vision and their recent successful collaboration, the AO and RIMASYS have mutually agreed that the AO takes over all remaining shares of the company. Both parties initially joined forces in their efforts to develop high-fidelity and scalable solutions to engage and educate surgeons. RIMASYS's technological capabilities and disruptive product portfolio complements the state-of-the-art expertise in orthopedics and trauma surgery that the AO has built with global impact over the past 60 years. This partnership focuses on advancing the technology and solutions used to train and engage practitioners worldwide in the surgical treatment of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders. It aims to scale and accelerate the growth and geographic reach of RIMASYS's unique technologies beyond Europe and to jointly develop future innovations to advance the surgical education ecosystem. This transaction concludes an initial minority investment in RIMASYS completed by the AO in February 2021.
RIMASYS and the AO remain separate organizations, with RIMASYS operating as a legal entity headquartered in Cologne, Germany, with its dynamic founders group committed to remaining at the helm of their company. RIMASYS retains its name, organizational structure, and business strategy while continuing as a reliable partner serving its customers and meeting its business obligations. Educational offerings such as World Surgery Tour and Trauma Academy will accelerate its growth independently.
Both parties will continue their existing partnerships; the AO continues its exclusive partnership with its industrial partner DePuy Synthes organizing more than 900 educational global events annually while RIMASYS continues its multivendor business model and acts as a source of innovative new educational formats, products, and services for the AO's global surgeon network
RIMASYS will benefit from the AO's expertise and extensive global reach to scale and roll out its educational offerings around the world. Meanwhile, the AO benefits from the fast-paced innovative development cycles of this agile young organization focused on enhancing surgical education, skill training, and medical device development. While lifelike fracture simulations, originally RIMASYS's core technology, have already been used in several AO educational offerings, the company also for the first time showcased their unique mobile OR theater (The Shard) at the recent flagship AO Davos Courses. Alongside this, as another view into the future of medical education and communication, RIMASYS created an immersive 3D platform to give a virtual experience of the famous AO Davos Courses.
"We believe that we complement each other's strengths to jointly address the long-term challenges of converging the real and digital world. Our ambition continues to best satisfy the needs of the new surgeon generation and all our partners who have supported us since the foundation of our company. Our dynamic start-up spirit will benefit from the global reach and reputation of the AO to build the professional network of the future for the surgical community—and ultimately improve patients' lives," says Marc Ebinger, CEO, and co-founder of RIMASYS.
"RIMASYS is a young, agile, and pioneering organization with a proven track record in educational innovation. With its motivated team and ambitious founders, it will help us drive innovation in online and offline education activities. We will ensure that RIMASYS retains its autonomy while receiving the support it needs to maintain its innovative spirit and unconventional solution development—we are proud to have them aboard and excited about the opportunities that this creates for both organizations," adds Florian Gebhard, president of the AO Foundation.
About RIMASYS
RIMASYS GmbH is a technology-driven health-tech start-up, founded as a university spin-off in 2016. Core of the Cologne-based company are proprietary biomechanical algorithms describing injury mechanisms, utilized to generate lifelike fractured anatomical specimens with closed soft tissue. RIMASYS focuses on enhancing surgical education with high-fidelity solutions and improving patient outcomes by advancing practical skill training and medical-device development. Further innovation is focused on digital health, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. The team of 50 young and ambitious professionals aims to build a disruptive ecosystem of solutions at a fast pace, enhancing surgeon education and interaction. For more information, visit: www.rimasys.com
About the AO Foundation
The AO is a medically guided, not-for-profit organization, a global network of surgeons, and the world's leading education, innovation, and research organization specializing in the surgical treatment of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders. The AO has a global network of over 460,000 healthcare professionals. Each year over 800 educational events are offered around the world, supported by nearly 7,000 faculty members, and attended by over 98,000 participants. The AO has 18,000 surgeon members working in the fields of trauma, spine, craniomaxillofacial, veterinary, and reconstructive surgery. For more information, visit: www.aofoundation.org
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Man killed while trying to clear downed tree from road in W.V., sheriff says
GRAFTON, W. Va (WDTV/Gray News) - A man was killed while attempting to move a downed tree from a West Virginia roadway, authorities said.
The man was driving a truck around 6:50 a.m. Friday when he came up to a downed tree, the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office said.
The man, who has not been identified other than being from Pennsylvania, put straps on the tree to attempt to pull it out of the road.
As he was working to remove the tree, another driver came from the opposite direction and hit the tree, which then hit the victim and pinned him against his truck, authorities said.
The man died on the scene.
Authorities said an investigation is underway to determine whether charges may be filed against the other driver.
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If your experience with ballpark foods has not been memorable, chances are you haven't been to T-Mobile Park in some time.
From tacos to poke and all the smoked meat in between, it's a veritable feast.
T-Mobile Park's Executive Chef Javier Rosa is the man responsible for all the deliciousness, and joined us to share a recipe for just one of his delectable dishes, arepas!
Arepas Recipe
By Chef Javier Rosa
25 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 cups precooked white corn meal
- 2 1/2 cups water, room temperature
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil, for the griddle or non-stick pan
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 410° F.
- Pour the water into a large bowl. Make sure it is room temperature.
- Add the salt. Blend well with a mixer, fork, or spatula to make sure it dissolves well.
- While you continue to beat the mixture, slowly add the corn meal — a little bit at a time.
- Once all the flour is added, keep mixing until the corn meal, water, and salt are thoroughly blended and dissolved.
- Set aside the masa in its bowl. Let it rest for 5 minutes so that the flour is thoroughly hydrated. This type of corn flour does not have any gluten, so it doesn’t need to be kneaded. The masa should be smooth, firm yet malleable.
- While waiting for the 5 minutes’ rest, heat your grill or nonstick pan over medium heat. Coat with a little bit of the oil.
- Fill a small bowl with water to wet your hands to make the arepas.
- Take about 2 tbsp of the masa in your damp hands. The masa should fit easily in your palm so that it is easy to shape into a small ball.
- Cross your hands, so that one is on top of the other, with the masa ball between them. Rotate your right hand in a circle, so that you are at the same time both pressing the masa into a flat disc and keeping its round shape.
- The last step in shaping your arepa is to quickly pass and lightly press the masa disc from one hand to the other until it is about ¾ of an inch thick and 4 inches wide. Smooth the edges with your fingertips (quickly dip them into the water bowl first) so that they stay as round as possible and without cracks.
- Place your arepas in batches on the preheated surface of your griddle or nonstick pan. Let each side turn golden, about 4 to 5 minutes per side. Check them often so that they don’t burn.
- Once they are nicely browned on both sides, place the arepas on a baking sheet in your preheated oven for 10 minutes. They should be somewhat puffy, so that if you tap an arepa lightly on top, it will sound like you are tapping an empty box.
- Serve arepas hot, whether you stuff with them with your choice of fillings or serve solo to accompany your favorite dish.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mottled bright green leaves of a pothos plant stood out against the flashy expanse of electric vehicles and smart products at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this year. This particular version of the familiar houseplant was bioengineered to remove 30 times the amount of indoor air pollutants of a typical house plant, according to Neoplants, the Paris-based company that created it.
Customers are already joining a waitlist for seedlings still in the nursery.
Neoplants founder and CEO Lionel Mora is a passionate former Google employee who sings a bit of a different tune than other founders at the electronics convention, with its technology-can-solve-anything vibe. He says before people turn to engineering solutions, they need to address consumption. But, “when it comes to innovation, we believe that biology is the way to go because it’s sustainable by design,” he said.
As countries grapple with how to limit global warming and protect natural resources and biodiversity, more companies are growing their own commitments to building sustainable supply chains and slowing emissions. For others, like Neoplants, addressing environmental issues is their whole reason for being.
Companies and start-ups at CES touched on a broad range of those efforts. Austin-based Pivet showcased biodegradable phone cases. Electric watercraft company Candela unveiled a 28-foot electric speedboat. Ukrainian start-up Melt Water Club presented its water purification method that uses freezing.
The Department of Energy even had a booth — a first, said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who spoke with The Associated Press ahead of her keynote on Friday.
Granholm said she is excited about a range of technologies at CES and beyond, from John Deere’s newest electronic farm equipment, to battery storage using alternative materials such as sodium salt, both of which she said the Department of Energy has helped fund.
Granholm also spoke about expanding the use of clean energy, including some forms of hydrogen, fusion and geothermal energy, highlighting the latter as an opportunity for the oil and gas industry.
“If they’ve used fracking to be able to get to oil and gas, they could be using that same technology to be able to extract the heat beneath our feet,” she said.
It could be a while before the oil and gas industry walks away from extracting fossil fuels. In the meantime, more companies are taking emissions reductions seriously. And the first step to reducing emissions is having a full understanding of them, said GreenSwapp founder Ajay Varadharajan. The Dutch company intends to help online grocers and food delivery services understand their carbon footprint, including those in their supply chain or “Scope 3” — often the toughest to track.
Varadharajan wrote an algorithm that pulls information about various edible products from published research papers, which allows him to assign a carbon footprint to every food’s barcode. The algorithm then fine tunes that number with information about a product’s farming techniques and packaging.
Using GreenSwapp’s app, CES attendees could scan the barcode of various milk containers on display to instantly compare their carbon footprint. The company claims this works on any food item with a barcode.
The information is helpful for conscious consumers, but Varadharajan says the real impact happens when food companies use it to track their emissions.
Some companies may want to share the information with customers. But he expects many to use it internally, preparing for possible regulations, he explained. The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to soon require publicly traded U.S. companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. The largest ones may need to disclose Scope 3 emissions related to their supply chain. Once finalized, the U.S. would join a growing number of countries including the U.K. and Japan that require large companies to disclose this information. The European Union is finalizing reporting standards.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company didn’t have a booth this year, but it did demo new tires on vehicles plastered in blue and yellow that rolled around Las Vegas.
The company currently has the largest market share for replacement consumer tires in the U.S. It says its new demo tire contains 90% sustainable materials, and has improved rolling efficiency, which helps people save energy, even when the tires are on electric vehicles.
Goodyear didn’t specify how much carbon is reduced in the new tire manufacturing process, or how much energy is saved through rolling efficiency.
“It’s very dependent on the type of vehicle and the type of tire being used,” said CEO Rich Kramer.
But the company’s line of ingredients appear to move in the right direction. Tires use many materials and this new one transitions away from petroleum products to surplus soybean oil to maintain pliability. It uses silica from rice husk waste residue for grip and fuel efficiency. The list goes on, and Kramer says the tire is an important step toward the company goal of reaching zero emissions by 2050.
But sourcing these materials in large quantities is an issue, he said.
“Can you get them at scale to be able to increase production? And then how do you change the manufacturing process for that? That’s a challenge, but a challenge we welcome,” he said.
There’s still some room for improvement in the sourcing of Goodyear’s rubber, said Sean Nyquist of Forest Stewardship Council, which works to certify sustainable rubber.
“In the last 20 years, there’s been significant deforestation as a result of natural rubber,” he said, as demand grew for rubber from trees instead of synthetic versions made in a lab.
Goodyear’s rubber sourcing follows the guidelines of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber. Nyquist says this is an important step, but third-party certification would add even more validity to sustainability claims.
Several tire companies are on a similar path, he said. The tires Pirelli makes for the plug-in version of the BMW X5 have obtained FSC certification, which guarantees rubber was sourced ethically, including forest management and labor practices.
There may not be a simple path to reducing emissions and building sustainable supply chains. But one place U.S. companies may now get more help is the record federal funding available to decarbonize buildings and transportation through the Inflation Reduction Act. Granholm says she believes the incentives to reduce energy use and scale clean technology are powerful.
“There’s policy innovation and there’s technology innovation, she said. “We’re all scanning to see what has the best impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and getting to our ultimate goal of saving the planet.”
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Associated Press writer Suman Naishadham contributed from Washington.
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For more coverage of CES, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/technology | 2023-01-09T23:34:43+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-ces-2023-companies-tout-environmental-tech-innovations/ |
Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office
A man claims three armed men robbed him of his car, cash and phone around 2:30 p.m. Monday in Bowman.
The man was at a friend’s Baxley Road home talking about cars when he saw a black pickup truck pull up, according to an incident report.
He claims three armed men got out of the truck. He knew two of them.
One of the gunmen accused him of breaking into his home, the man said. He denied the allegation.
One of the gunmen allegedly fired a weapon in the direction of the man. Another punched the man, the report said.
The man retreated into the woods, but noticed one of the gunmen drove away in his 2014 silver Nissan Maxima, which contained his phone and $80 in cash, the report said.
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The man went to another friend’s house and called law enforcement.
Deputies said the man had cuts and scratches on his arms, his face was swollen and his clothes were dirty and ripped.
The man said the scratches and cuts were from running through the woods, but his face was swollen because someone punched him.
The value of the stolen items is $3,580.
In other reports:
• Someone stole seven catalytic converters from Don’s Car Crushing, located at 1191 White Sands Road in Holly Hill, over the weekend.
The theft was reported on Monday.
The value of the catalytic converters is $700.
• Someone stole a stainless steel Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver with a pearl handle on Monday from a Lipstick Lane home in Santee.
The revolver is valued at $1,000.
• A U-Haul towing dolly was reported stolen Monday from Skylar Towing, located at 2765 Magnolia Street in Orangeburg. The dolly is valued at $5,200. | 2022-10-04T21:03:25+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/report-gunmen-stole-car-cash-phone-in-bowman/article_24a2dc90-7c2e-57a8-aea6-2d4a3a7f3019.html |
SEATTLE, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be nearly two million new cases of cancer diagnosed in 2023, and more than half a million cancer-related deaths. To that end, cancer and other disease-related research on the International Space Station (ISS) is of critical importance not only to NASA, but also to the Biden-Harris administration. This year, the 12th annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) takes aim at deadly diseases with its Day 1 keynote panel, "Igniting Innovation to Accelerate Disease Research on the ISS."
Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, the assistant director for space policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), moderates this important discussion. In 2022, The White House unveiled Cancer Moonshot—an initiative to bring renewed leadership to the fight against cancer. Joining Uzo-Okoro on this panel are Lisa Carnell, division director of Biological and Physical Sciences at NASA, and Michael Roberts, chief scientific officer at the ISS National Laboratory.
This conversation will explore how the National Low Earth Orbit Research and Development Strategy positions the microgravity research community to uniquely contribute to the success of cancer and other disease treatment innovation, and facilitates the development of therapeutics with results that benefit humanity and improve the quality of life for patients on Earth.
Our Day 1 morning keynote panel kicks off ISSRDC 2023, the annual conference that brings together leaders from the commercial sector, U.S. government agencies, and academic communities to foster innovation and discovery onboard the space station. ISSRDC will showcase how the space station continues to provide a valuable platform for research and technology development that benefits humanity and enables a robust and sustainable market in low Earth orbit.
The conference is hosted by the ISS National Laboratory, managed by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS); NASA; and the American Astronautical Society (AAS) at the Hyatt Regency Seattle July 31-August 3, 2023. To learn more about ISSRDC 2023, including how to register, exhibit, or become a conference sponsor, please visit the conference website.
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About the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory:
The International Space Station (ISS) is a one-of-a-kind laboratory that enables research and technology development not possible on Earth. As a public service enterprise, the ISS National Lab allows researchers to leverage this multiuser facility to improve life on Earth, mature space-based business models, advance science literacy in the future workforce, and expand a sustainable and scalable market in low Earth orbit. Through this orbiting national laboratory, research resources on the ISS are available to support non-NASA science, technology and education initiatives from U.S. government agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) manages the ISS National Lab, under Cooperative Agreement with NASA, facilitating access to its permanent microgravity research environment, a powerful vantage point in low Earth orbit, and the extreme and varied conditions of space. To learn more about the ISS National Lab, visit our website.
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BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, including 26 patients, authorities said Wednesday, and a dozen people had been detained including the hospital’s head and her deputy.
The fire broke out at the private Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and forced dozens of people to evacuate. Some who were trapped had to escape from windows using bedsheets tied together.
A nurse, a medical assistant and a family member also died in the incident, said Li Zongrong, deputy head of Fengtai district.
The cause of the fire is under investigation but officials say they believe it originated from welding sparks from work being done in the hospital’s inpatient wing. Among the 12 people who were detained was the head of the construction crew.
A total of 39 people are being treated for injuries, three of them in critical condition, officials said. Rescue crews and medical staff from around the city were mobilized, with squads plucking some of the 142 people who were evacuated from air conditioning units on the building’s exterior.
Safety rules are frequently ignored in China, but accidents on the level of the Changfeng fire are treated with a much higher level of scrutiny. Construction accidents sometimes result from corners being cut on work hours and safety conditions, while local officials are bribed to ignore violations.
The central government has pledged stronger safety measures since an explosion in 2015 at a chemical warehouse in the northern port city of Tianjin killed 173 people, most of them firefighters and police officers. | 2023-04-20T07:53:18+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/death-toll-in-beijing-hospital-fire-rises-to-29/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Coupang, Inc. (NYSE: CPNG) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of: a) Coupang securities between March 11, 2021 and July 12, 2022, inclusive; and/or b) Coupang common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement issued in connection with Coupang's March 2021 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 25, 2022
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Learn more about your recoverable losses in CPNG:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Coupang, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Coupang was engaged in improper anti-competitive practices with its suppliers and other third parties in violation of applicable regulations, including: (i) pressuring suppliers to raise prices of products on competing e-commerce platforms to ensure Coupang's prices would be more competitive; (ii) coercing suppliers into purchasing advertisements that would benefit Coupang financially; (iii) forcing suppliers to shoulder all expenses from sales promotions; and (iv) requesting wholesale rebates from suppliers without specifying any terms relating to rebate programs, all of which served to artificially maintain Coupang's lower prices and artificially inflate Coupang's historical revenues and market share; (b) Coupang had improperly adjusted search algorithms and manipulated product reviews on its marketplace platform to prioritize its own private-label branded products over those of other sellers and merchants, to the detriment of consumers, merchants, and suppliers; (c) unbeknownst to its Rocket WOW members, Coupang was selling products to non-member customers at lower prices than those offered to its Rocket WOW members; (d) Coupang subjected its workforce to extreme, unsafe, and unhealthy working conditions; (e) all of the above illicit practices exposed Coupang to a heightened, but undisclosed, risk of reputational and regulatory scrutiny that would harm Coupang's critical relationships with consumers, merchants, suppliers, and the workforce; and (f) Coupang's lower prices, historical revenues, competitive advantages, and growing market share were the result of systemic, improper, unethical, and/or illegal practices, and, thus, unsustainable.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Coupang you have until October 25, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Coupang securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the CPNG lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/coupang-inc-lawsuit-submission-form?id=32935&from=4.
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Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would beef up oversight of the Federal Reserve following two high-profile bank failures.
The bill would require an independent inspector general, who would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, to oversee Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The current inspector general for the Federal Reserve reports to the Fed board.
“After the Federal Reserve’s failure to properly identify and prevent the shocking failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, it’s clear we can’t wait any longer for big change at the Fed,” Scott said in a release announcing the bill. “It’s outrageous that the Federal Reserve, the world’s largest and most powerful central bank, does not have a truly independent inspector general to investigate it – an independent authority to fight for the transparency and accountability our citizens need.”
Warren, who has been an outspoken critic of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his leadership of the bank, echoed the call for an independent inspector general for the Federal Reserve.
“The recent bank collapses and regulatory failures by the Fed have underscored the urgent need for a truly independent Inspector General to hold Fed officials accountable for any lapses or wrongdoing,” Warren said in the release.
Warren blasted Powell earlier this week for rolling back regulations that she argues are key in preventing irresponsible banking behavior in the industry, since he took over the top position at the bank in 2018.
“Donald Trump ran for president saying he would lighten the regulations on these banks,” Warren said during an interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” on Sunday. “And then Jerome Powell just literally took a flamethrower to these regulations, in order to make them less and less effective.”
Scott said in a letter to Powell on Wednesday that the Fed had failed in its duty to regulate large financial institutions.
“For too long, the Federal Reserve has used its claim of independence to thwart Congress and the American people while being unable or unwilling to properly regulate and supervise the large financial institutions under its care,” Scott wrote. | 2023-03-22T17:36:02+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/politics/hill-politics/sens-rick-scott-elizabeth-warren-join-forces-for-federal-reserve-oversight-bill/ |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Myths, legends, and stories about nature have been a part of mankind for millennia. They guide us and are a way for us to understand our role in the natural world.
Sandy Geffner is the Coordinator of the Environmental Studies Program at UB. He is also the founder of Earth Spirit Educational Services and has studied nature, religion, and philosophy for decades.
"Most look at myth metaphorically and look at legend at least, a bit more literally. There can be a crossover, and they're both tutorials, they're designed to teach individuals and communities about the proper way to live and to perceive."
These perceptions differ from culture to culture and can have a profound effect on how we treat Mother Earth. Many cultures believe that all life is entwined, and have established a covenant with the natural world.
"These covenants are established because you see, the animals are brothers and sisters, as are the trees and the plants and the rocks, and the elementals," explains Geffner. " Earth is mother, the sky is the father. Everyone is family. Grandfather Sun, Grandmother Moon, everyone is family. That's what we learn in the stories."
Western culture, however, takes a different view. This belief system sees man as separate, occupying the upper echelon of existence, with dominion over all other life.
"In the Western traditions, there's a hierarchy in terms of our perception, and that's what makes the difference. And it goes back to our earliest myths and legends, in terms of how we perceive and how we act with the natural world around us," Geffner says.
That separation may explain in part the damage we have done to the planet. Geffner believes that perhaps our future lies in looking back, and embracing ancient lessons from other cultures that still hold true today.
"Once those stories fill your pockets, you're a different person. Because you have friends everywhere. And the Earth now is comfortable. The Earth now is like home. And there's only one thing you can do then. You take care of your home."
RELATED: | 2023-02-19T20:24:40+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/outdoors/legends-and-myths-teach-us-how-to-perceive-our-world-and-vary-across-cultures-outdoors-life/71-90fc6d9f-e654-4bcd-9570-9e4b42c1c90e |
IRS whistleblowers will testify to Congress as they claim ‘slow-walking’ of the Hunter Biden case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whistleblowers claiming the Justice Department improperly interfered with a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden will testify before Congress on Wednesday as House Republicans accelerate their probes into the president and his family.
Leaders of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees will lead a hearing with two Internal Revenue Service employees — Greg Shapley and an as-yet-unnamed “whistleblower x” — who claim there was a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” into Hunter Biden, including delayed enforcement actions in the months before the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.
It will be the first public testimony from the two IRS agents assigned to the federal case into President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, which was focused on tax and gun charges. The second agent, whose name was withheld in interview transcripts released by Republicans, is expected to have his identity revealed at the hearing.
The congressional inquiry into the Justice Department’s case against Hunter Biden was launched last month, days after it was announced that the younger Biden will plead guilty to the misdemeanor tax offenses as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to publicly disclose hundreds of pages of testimony from the IRS employees in which they described several roadblocks agents on the case faced when trying to interview individuals relevant to the case or issue search warrants.
One of Shapley’s most explosive claims was that U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware, the federal prosecutor who led the investigation, asked to be provided special counsel status in order to bring the tax cases against Hunter Biden in jurisdictions outside Delaware, including Washington, D.C., and California, but was denied.
Both Weiss and the Justice Department have vehemently denied such claims, saying that he had “full authority” of the case and never sought to bring charges in other states.
The second IRS whistleblower described his persistent frustrations with the way the case was handled, dating back to the Trump administration under Attorney General William Barr. He said he started the investigation into Hunter Biden in 2015 and began to delve deeply into his life and finances. Republicans have also sought testimony from other agents involved in the case but have been mostly unsuccessful thus far.
Republicans, including the three chairmen —Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, James Comer of Kentucky and Jason Smith of Missouri — have sought to paint the Justice Department’s case as rife with political interference and bias.
They have also called the plea agreement Hunter Biden made with prosecutors to likely avoid jail time a “sweetheart deal.”
Ahead of the hearing, Comer acknowledged it has been difficult for Republicans to succinctly outline Hunter Biden’s tangled financial affairs or to provide convincing evidence of any specific wrongdoing by the president or his family.
“It’s so hard to explain,” Comer told reporters at the Capitol.
“Hopefully these IRS agents can do a better job explaining than I can,” he said.
High-ranking officials at the Justice Department have countered these claims by pointing to the extraordinary set of circumstances surrounding a criminal case into a subject who at the time was the son of a leading presidential candidate.
And it remains unclear how much of the conflict the whistleblowers describe amounts to internal disagreement about how to pursue the wide-ranging probe or a pattern of interference and preferential treatment. Department policy has long warned prosecutors to take care in charging cases with potential political overtones around the time of an election, to avoid any possible influence on the outcome.
In one specific case, Shapley described IRS agents’ efforts to execute a search warrant of a storage facility in Virginia where the younger Biden’s documents were being stored. He said that the assistant U.S. attorney involved in the case reached out to Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a move that is seen as customary in cases involving high-profile individuals, but it ruined “our chance to get to evidence before being destroyed, manipulated, or concealed.”
A similar occurrence happened when the FBI officials notified Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail ahead of an effort to interview him and several of his business associates in order to avoid a potential shoot-off between two law enforcement bodies.
Democrats in the House have also pointed out that Weiss was appointed to his post by former President Donald Trump and the federal investigation into Hunter Biden was initiated by Trump’s Justice Department. Biden kept Weiss on the case when he won the election.
Nonetheless. Republicans have moved full steam ahead, issuing a series of requests for voluntary testimony from senior officials at the Justice Department, FBI and Internal Revenue Service, including Weiss. They have also requested a special counsel review of supposed retaliation against the whistleblowers who came forward with the claims.
Weiss wrote in a letter to Jordan earlier this month that he would be happy to testify before the committee when he is legally able to share information with Congress without violating the longstanding department policy of discussing an ongoing investigation.
Testimony from Justice Department officials could come after Hunter Biden appears for his plea hearing next week.
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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-19T10:56:56+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/07/19/irs-whistleblowers-will-testify-congress-they-claim-slow-walking-hunter-biden-case/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
07-13-18-21-32
(seven, thirteen, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $403,000
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
07-13-18-21-32
(seven, thirteen, eighteen, twenty-one, thirty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $403,000 | 2022-12-02T06:05:16+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17625731.php |
These noninvasive beauty treatments can help clear, smooth and brighten your skin
Whether you want to smooth fine lines and wrinkles, treat acne or just want glowing skin, light-emitting diode light therapy is a painless way to get the complexion you want. You can get light therapy treatments at your dermatologist’s office or a spa, but with at-home LED light therapy devices, you can save time and money.
If you want to upgrade your skin care routine, check out the latest Solawave light therapy wand and other top light therapy devices that can give you a healthy, glowing complexion.
In this article: Newkey 7-in-1 Full Light Therapy Mask, Pure Handheld 4-in-1 Therapy Wand and Foreo UFO Mini Smart Mask Treatment.
What is LED light therapy?
LED light therapy uses different wavelengths of light to penetrate the skin and treat various skin issues, including fine lines, wrinkles, acne, sun damage and rosacea. In addition, the LED light doesn’t contain ultraviolet rays, so light therapy devices are safe and don’t cause burning or peeling like many other targeted skin treatments.
While LED therapy can effectively address skin care concerns, regular treatments are crucial. Having an at-home light therapy mask, wand or other device makes it more convenient to treat your skin, so you see results more quickly.
Types of LED light therapy
The two most common wavelengths used for at-home devices are red and blue. These wavelengths penetrate the skin at different depths, so they target specific skin issues.
Red light reaches deeper layers of your skin, so it helps with skin regrowth and collagen production. As a result, it can help smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for smoother-looking skin. It’s also effective for reducing inflammation and boosting circulation to give you a healthy glow.
Blue light doesn’t penetrate the skin as deeply, but it works well to kill the bacteria that cause acne. It can also prevent your oil glands from overproducing oil, so you’re less prone to breakouts. You can also use blue light with red light to help reduce inflammation and scarring from acne.
Some at-home LED light therapy devices provide both red and blue light, so you can choose between the two wavelengths, depending on the skin issues you want to treat.
Best LED light therapy devices
Solawave 4-in-1 Radiant Renewal Skin Care Wand
This easy-to-use wand provides red light therapy, as well as galvanic current, therapeutic warmth and facial massage, to give you a spa-like experience at home. It requires just five minutes daily to improve the look of fine lines, wrinkles and dark circles.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Newkey 7-in-1 Full Light Therapy Mask
This versatile LED light therapy mask provides seven light wavelengths that address various skin issues, including acne, redness, fine lines, wrinkles and more. It also offers full facial coverage, so treatments are quick and easy.
Sold by Amazon
Pure Handheld 4-in-1 Therapy Wand
With red, blue and green LED light, this at-home therapy wand lets you target fine lines and wrinkles, inflammation, acne and dull skin. It also offers ionic and massage therapies to clear your pores, help skin care products absorb more quickly and improve your skin’s firmness.
Sold by Amazon
Foreo UFO Mini Smart Mask Treatment
This compact LED light therapy device is perfect for use on the go and only requires 90 seconds per treatment. It can help firm and brighten your skin and kill acne-causing bacteria.
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Aphrona 3 Color LED Light Therapy Mask
This full-coverage LED light therapy mask provides three wavelengths to target fine lines, wrinkles and acne. It is approved by the Food and Drug Administration and has a scratch-resistant exterior that’s easy to clean.
Sold by Amazon
Fxtiaa 7-in-1 Full-Coverage LED Therapy Mask
While the device provides full-face coverage, it’s more comfortable to use than most LED therapy masks. It offers seven light wavelengths to treat various skin issues and only requires 10 to 20 minutes of treatment a few times per week.
Sold by Amazon
Solawave Bye Acne 3-Minute Blue + Red Light Acne Treatment
This LED therapy device treats acne in just three minutes a day. It also helps reduce redness and inflammation and can even prevent future breakouts by killing acne-causing bacteria.
Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Aphrona LED Light Therapy Face Mask
This FDA-cleared LED light therapy mask uses red, blue and orange light to help smooth fine lines, treat acne and repair the skin. It has an easy-to-use one-touch on/off design and is completely wireless and hands-free.
Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
- The UUPAS LED Infrared Red Facial Light Therapy Device helps boost collagen production, reduce fine lines and brighten dark spots.
- The Foreo ESPADA Blue Light Acne Treatment effectively kills acne-causing bacteria in as little as 30 seconds per day.
- The Laduora 5-in-1 Dual Color Facial Wand provides dual wavelength therapy for the skin and offers a heated massage feature to increase blood flow.
- LightStim for Acne treats existing acne and prevents future breakouts by killing bacteria.
- The GLO24K Skin Rejuvenation Beauty Device offers LED light, thermal and massage therapies to give you smooth, glowing skin.
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Kevin Na, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, announced on Saturday that he has resigned from the tour, doing so rather than face potential discipline and/or legal action for playing in the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series.
Na, who is ranked 33rd in the world, announced his resignation on social media. Na is believed to be the first player to resign from the PGA Tour because of the tour's position on players competing in the rival series.
Na, a 19-year veteran of the PGA Tour, said he wanted the "freedom to play wherever I want and exercising my right as a free agent gives me that opportunity."
"However, to remain a PGA Tour player, I must give up my right to make these choices about my career," Na wrote. "If I exercise my right to choose where and when I play golf, then I cannot remain a PGA Tour player without facing disciplinary proceedings and legal action from the PGA Tour.
"I am sad to share that I have chosen to resign from the PGA Tour. This has not been an easy decision and not one taken lightly. I hope the current policies change and I'll be able to play on the PGA Tour again."
Na, 38, was one of 13 PGA Tour players listed as being included in the field for the first LIV Golf event, which begins Thursday at Centurion Club outside London. Dustin Johnson, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, Louis Oosthuizen and Sergio Garcia were among the others.
This was a very difficult decision for me. I hope my fans will continue to support me wherever I choose to play. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/3Vp2e7cPfH
— Kevin Na (@kevinna915) June 4, 2022
On May 11, the PGA Tour denied conflicting-event releases for players who requested a release to play in the London tournament, which coincides with the RBC Canadian Open. Sources told ESPN that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan told player agents at this week's Memorial in Dublin, Ohio, that players had to choose whether they're going to play on the PGA Tour or in the LIV Golf series and that they couldn't play in both.
In the past, Monahan has told players that if they competed in a conflicting event without a release, they would face punishment, including fines, suspensions and/or bans.
Na has earned nearly $38 million during his tour career. He has six top-25s in 12 starts on tour this season, including a tie for 14th at the Masters and a tie for 23rd at the PGA Championship.
"For now, please keep an eye out for LIV Golf," Na wrote. "It is an exciting new product and I hope you will enjoy the buzz it brings to golf. I am thrilled to begin the next chapter in my career, starting next week at the inaugural LIV Invitational series event in London. I hope you'll continue to support me." | 2022-06-05T20:17:51+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/34036642/kevin-na-resigns-pga-tour-participate-liv-golf-series |
BLAINE COUNTY, Idaho — Blaine County Sheriff deputies responded to a motorcycle crash on Sunday after the victim lost control of his bike.
Officials responded to the crash at 1:58 p.m. on Dry Creek Road near Carey, Idaho.
Paul Thomas Klimes, 26, flipped over his handlebars from descending down a hill, a press release from the Blaine County Sheriff's Office said.
Klimes was transported by air ambulance to Idaho Falls for serious injuries, none being life threatening.
The first responders used their own vehicles to reach Klimes, who was atop a ridge. The responding ambulance was 3-4 miles away, the release said.
Klimes 2033 Honda motorcycle did not seem to have body damage, the release said, but the left side brake handle was broken off by the impact from the crash.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has said he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants “a family, not an institution,” during a TV interview ahead of the publication of his memoir.
The interview with Britain’s ITV channel is due to be released Sunday. In clips released Monday, Harry was shown saying that “they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains” and that “they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile” — though it was not clear who he was referring to.
Harry, also known as the Duke of Sussex, and his wife, Meghan, have aired their grievances against the British monarchy since the couple stepped down as senior royals in 2020 and moved to California, where they now live with their two young children.
Harry, 38, has previously spoken about his estrangement from his father, King Charles III, and elder brother Prince William since his departure from the U.K.
Last month Netflix released “Harry & Meghan,” a six-part series that detailed the couple’s experiences leading to their decision to make a new start in the U.S.
In that documentary, Harry was scathing about how the royal press team worked, and spoke about how his relationship with William and the rest of the royal household broke down. Meghan described wanting to end her life as she struggled to cope with toxic U.K. press coverage.
Harry’s autobiography, titled “Spare” — recalling the saying “the heir and the spare” — is being released on Jan. 10. | 2023-01-02T16:43:25+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/prince-harry-says-he-wants-his-father-and-brother-back/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Department of Health and community partners across the state will come together during Human Trafficking Awareness Week, July 24-30, to participate in the Red Sand Project.
The Red Sand Project is an interactive art exhibition that brings awareness to human trafficking victims; recognizes and helps end human trafficking. Those participating will place non-toxic red sand into the sidewalk cracks to show how survivors have fallen into the cracks in society.
“We want organizations, community partners, and advocates to come together for people in our communities,” said Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Morgan McDonald. “With this project, we hope the sight of red sand in cracks in the sidewalk will keep victims from falling through the cracks in our awareness and systems meant to support them.”
In 2020, the National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 10,583 situations involving human trafficking, with 153 cases reported in Tennessee. In 2019, the National Human Trafficking Hotline identified about 11,500 trafficking situations, with 180 cases reported in Tennessee.
TDH has reported that about 40.3 million people are being trafficked worldwide.
“Tennessee communities need to be aware that human trafficking can happen to anyone anywhere,” said Tennessee Department of Family Health and Wellness Assistant Commissioner, Tobi Adeyeye Amosun, MD, FAAP. “We want every member of the community to be aware of risk factors for human trafficking and know how to connect potential victims with assistance.”
The Red Sand Project will also host educational events and provide resources for anyone who needs assistance. To see a nearby Red Sand Project in the area, contact a local health department or visit a local Welcome Center.
For those who need help escaping human trafficking, contact the Tennessee Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-855-558-6484.
For more information on human trafficking and the Red Sand Project, visit the redsandproject.org and humantraffickinghotline.org. | 2022-07-20T04:02:20+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/red-sand-project-returns-to-raise-awareness-of-human-trafficking/ |
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)The Gatorade bath for the head coach returned. Fans counted down the final seconds and there were fireworks above MetLife Stadium at the final tick. Tears were shed in the locker room.
Yes, the New York Giants are finally back in the playoffs.
Daniel Jones threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more and the Giants routed the Indianapolis Colts 38-10 Sunday to return to the postseason for the first time since 2016.
”It’s a beautiful thing and I’ll be honest,” said running back Saquon Barkley who carried the team to a 6-2 start. ”No one outside the men and women in that facility gave us a chance.”
Coming into the season the Giants were among the least likely teams to make the postseason.
They had five straight losing seasons, including a four-win season in 2021 that led to the firing of coach Joe Judge and general manager Dave Gettleman.
Buffalo assistant Joe Schoen was hired as general manager and he chose Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll to be the coach, his first head coaching job.
Taking a young team, Daboll got them to focus one week at a time and to believe in themselves. It paid off as the Giants (9-6-1) overcame injuries and a 2-4-1 slide in November and early December to become the third NFC East team to qualify for the postseason, joining Philadelphia and Dallas.
Daboll was doused with Gatorade after the game, a Giants’ tradition first associated with Bill Parcells in the 1980s.
”It was sticky,” the low-key Daboll said, noting the team was given the next two days off by Jones when he broke down things after the game.
Players said the locker room was full of joy.
”Loud, dancing, laughing, so many emotions,” defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence said. ”It’s all of the signs of excitement. We worked hard, starting in the spring with these guys with the new coaching staff, and it’s all playing out.”
Landon Collins, one of two players from the ’16 team, broke the game open late in the second quarter with a 52-yard pick-6 as the Giants (9-6-1) put a final stamp on a surprising playoff run.
The reeling Colts (4-11-1) lost their sixth straight game, and ninth in 10.
”We still got one more week. I’ve got to keep these guys playing good football for the last week, and try to get a win and finish this season off in the right way,” Colts interim head coach Jeff Saturday said.
The Giants looked liked the high-powered Bills where Schoen and Daboll were previously.
Their point total was a season high and it was the first time the team scored at least 30 points since getting 34 in a 37-34 loss to Dallas on Oct. 11, 2020.
Jones, who saw the team not pick up the fifth-year option on his rookie contract when he was the No. 6 overall pick in 2019, played like Bills star Josh Allen.
The 25-year-old threw touchdown passes of 6 yards to Richie James and Isaiah Hodgins in the first half and scored on a run of 18 and 10 yards in the second half. He finished 19 of 24 for 177 yards and had 11 rushes for 91 yards.
With the crowd shouting his name, Jones left the field to a standing ovation with about 7:30 remaining in the game.
”I mean it’s just exciting. I think, like I said, we’ve been through some tough times and to be on this side of it is a lot of fun,” Jones said.
The only negative for New York was seeing rookie Kayvon Thibodeaux doing snow angels after sacking and injuring Colts quarterback Nick Foles late in the second quarter. Foles, who fell on the ball according to Saturday, walked off the field, but he was taken to the locker room on a cart. He did not return.
Thibodeaux said he was celebrating and didn’t realize Foles was hurt, adding he hopes he heals quickly.
Sam Ehlinger played the second half and threw his first NFL TD pass, a 6-yarder to Michael Pittman.
NOTES: Indianapolis was 3 of 12 on third down. The Colts finished with 252 yards and had seven penalties for 60 yards. … Colts linebacker Bobby Okereke had a season-high 17 tackles. … Barkley finished with 58 yards rushing and has 1,312 yards for the season, breaking his career high of 1,307 set in 2018. … Jones has 708 yards rushing, extending his team record for a quarterback. … Collins’ pick-6 was his second of his career. He had one against the Rams in 2016 in London.
INJURIES
Colts: In addition to Foles, cornerback Brandon Facyson left the game with a concussion.
Giants: DL Leonard Williams left the game in the second half with a stringer.
UP NEXT
Colts: Host Houston on Sunday in the regular-season finale.
Giants: Travel down the New Jersey Turnpike to face the Eagles in Philadelphia.
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Friday, November 4th 2022, 5:33 pm
Hope, healing, love, and belonging, just some of the things stressed at this year’s level up conference, for the Making of Men – Waking of Women program.
The program was started by Steven Davis in 1995.
“It’s about giving young people the necessary tools to navigate the storms of life,” said Davis.
Over 100 students from metro schools were inspired through one-on-one interaction and speakers.
“For them to interact in a way that allows them to go back in their schools and be the seed, if you would, for change in their schools,” said Davis.
News 9’s Mike Glover, DeWayne Walker and Pastor Jessee Jackson spoke to motivate the students.
“Our young folks need to be inspired, and they need to see other people, that come from where they are right now and have overcome obstacles,” said Pastor Jesse Jackson, pastor of East Sixth Street Christian Church.
Along with great speakers, the students participated in classes on everything from finances to leadership, to self-esteem.
“You basically learn principles and how to carry yourself, and you learn how to write stuff down and journal, and stuff like that,” said Harding Prep senior student Sharika Russell.
The program is taught as a curriculum in Oklahoma City public schools.
“We teach them how to speak publicly and how not to fear that thing, to do it in spite of, and the way that they do that is through preparation,” said Davis.
The Making of Men – Waking of Women program is available for high school students for more information visit their website.
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November 4th, 2022 | 2022-11-05T13:31:46+00:00 | news9.com | https://www.news9.com/story/63659f7e32845c070b4fa207/local-mentoring-group-inspires-students-to-achieve-greatness- |
A group called Montana Paranormal investigates all things haunted — and for many, scary. But the paranormal is not to be feared, the group says.
Montana Paranormal founder Mari Schorzman, said, “My love for the paranormal led me to this, my eagerness to help people. Paranormal activity is a lot more frequent than people think. It just goes a lot more unreported than other phenomena."
Montana Paranormal goes into homes and businesses across the state to investigate paranormal phenomena. Their goal is to give the client an idea of what might be happening, if they believe some other entity is in the same building.
"People understanding that we're not faking is like huge to me. Especially because it's a business. I'm a business owner. This is what I do. This is what I put my heart into. And I don't want people to think that I'm faking it," said Schorzman.
This team of ghost experts includes a psychic medium that is extremely sensitive to the paranormal and helps identify hot spots of activity.
"When these gifts kind of come about, or when I start sensing something, it's really the feeling of someone's there. Either I start feeling that someone's there, I start getting sort of those images. I've been touched, I've been knocked down. They all have very different ways of kind of showing up," said Montana Paranormal psychic medium Airiam Uribe.
There are some people who do not believe in ghosts, but these paranormal experts have a philosophy of 'Don’t knock it 'til you try it.'
"I would say that if you're a naysayer, I think that you should really experience it. if you're going to say that it's not real, you should at least be able to say that you went and nothing happened," said Schorzman.
"I have met some naysayers that join us for an investigation or something and they change their tune real quick. So it's all about whether you get the experience or not," said Uribe.
While reporter Kiana Wilson says she was scared to death when joining the investigation, the team has a different outlook.
"No, ghosts are not scary. They're known as scary. And I think that's what draws a lot of people to fear. You watch TV shows about ghosts and you're scared because that's what they want you to think. But 99% of the time, there's nothing wrong. There's nothing evil," said Schorzman.
A lot of the paranormal activity that occurs on these investigations is feelings that cannot be documented or explained ... but when the hair on your arms stands up or you have a gut feeling that someone is near you, there may be no other explanation than something paranormal.
"It's really exciting. And I know there's a lot that you can't prove — you can't prove that it's paranormal, but it's still something unexplainable," said Schorzman.
This story was originally published by Kiana Wilson of Scripps News Missoula, in Montana.
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Around 200 semi trucks — many of them double loads — exit the Pisgah Stone Products mine near the Sardine Canyon summit each day, slowly entering U.S. Highway 89-91 before eventually matching the speed of vehicles traveling between Cache Valley and the Brigham City.
Mike Schugg, the mine’s managing partner, refused to discuss the truck traffic when contacted recently by The Herald Journal, nor would he comment on a state legislator’s failed attempt last winter to get funding for a highway interchange at the mine turnoff.
After the funding fell through, the Utah Department of Transportation has discussed possibly dipping into its safety budget to widen the highway at Mt. Pisgua Road for new turning and merging lanes. Installation of flashing signs before the turnoff to alert motorists about vehicles entering the highway are also being considered, but no final decision on either safety measure has been announced.
Two impending developments could raise risk levels along the scenic roadway already known for hazardous driving conditions.
First, the mine has reportedly installed new equipment that could double its production and thereby increase truck traffic. Second, a plan by UDOT to extend a center barrier through the entire canyon could block or impede left turns in and out of the mine, forcing trucks to travel north to Wellsville or south to Mantua to perform turnarounds.
Both of these factors were cited by Sen. Scott Sandall, R-Tremonton, in a legislative committee hearing in February, where Sandall appeared along with an attorney for Mt. Pisgah Stone Products to pitch the $26 million highway underpass and interchange to more safely route the trucks entering and leaving the mine.
Calling the traffic situation “quite a safety concern,” Sandall proposed a state expenditure for half the underpass on the condition the mining company pay the other half. In the end, neither the Legislature nor the company was willing to commit money to the project.
During the hearing, company attorney Ryan Peterson acknowledged the safety issues but told the committee the mine will continue to operate whether the highway is modified or not.
“There have been questions to us of ‘Why should the state participate in private business?’ ‘Why should they care?’ We just want to remind the committee that the mine can continue to function and do business as usual. Even with the barrier put in, they can continue to mine and run trucks,” Peterson said.
He added, “There is definitely a safety concern. There is a concern about 200 massive side-dumper trucks turning around in small communities like Wellsville and Mantua. They (the mine owners) obviously don’t want to impact those communities that way.”
Contacted Wednesday, Sandall said the turnaround scenarios posed by the attorney are unlikely under UDOT’s widening concept, which would leave a gap in the road barrier at the mine turnoff.
“My understanding in visiting with UDOT is that their intention would not be to put the barrier across there and make that have to be the way,” Sandall said. “They’re looking for a solution that is a little wider road right there where southbound trucks can get into a lane and then wait safely on the left side before turning across the oncoming traffic from the northbound side.”
The configuration would also provide an acceleration lane for trucks exiting the mine going south.
“It’s the crossing traffic that’s the main problem,” Sandall said, noting that lines of sight are limited at the turnout.
UDOT spokesman Mitch Shaw was not aware of the widening discussions when contacted by The Herald Journal last week, but he did say warning signs have been discussed as an “interim” measure.
The Pisgah mine extracts a variety of limestone aggregate and landscaping boulders from its operation just east of the state road maintenance shed at the Sardine Canyon Summit. Though not visible from U.S. 89-91 in the canyon, the quarry can be seen from the floor of Cache Valley looking north of Mt. Pisgah, identifiable by its landmark tower.
A recent letter to the editor in The Herald Journal decried the scarring of the land and general disruption created by Pisgah Stone Products.
“The amount of activity, trucks, loaders, etc. was appalling even to someone who is used to seeing Kennecott Copper mine on a daily basis from the other side of the Salt Lake Valley and the stone pits at the Point of the Mountain,” wrote the letter’s author, a Cache Valley native who now lives in Sandy. She said she drove up to the quarry site during a recent return visit after noticing a building in the distance and turning on Mt. Pisgah Road to explore.
Asked if he’d seen the letter, mine owner Schugg said he had not, but he defended the quarry operation as a legal and legitimate use of the land.
“We own it, we don’t lease it, so that would be like me criticizing that person for what they’re doing on their property,” Schugg said. | 2022-09-01T01:48:42+00:00 | hjnews.com | https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/canyon-congestion-safety-issues-surround-heavy-gravel-truck-traffic-from-sardine-canyon-mine/article_4c54042c-28ae-11ed-ad82-5f1fb0eb1d52.html |
Historical inflation rates in the U.S. have equaled some bike hikes ahead of the 2023 tax season. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced dozens of adjustments, due to inflation, that affect individual tax income brackets.
The changes include standard deductions and credits for 2023.
As the New York Times reported, tax filers who haven't seen their wages change with the pace of inflation could see some savings on their next federal income tax bill.
Inflation has increased the cost of just about everything from food and energy costs to the price of homes and vehicles.
Americans have seen the quickest price increase pace in 40 years, but it's the 7 percent increase in policy interest rates that have brought about a very noticeable pain for bank accounts.
The standard deduction, which the majority of Americans claim on their tax returns, will see a change.
Republicans changed it amid their tax overhaul passed in 2017 under then-President Donald Trump.
As Forbes reported, the standard deduction is now claimed by over 85% of taxpayers instead of itemized deductions.
The Trump-era overhaul tie rates to a measure of inflation called the chained Consumer Price Index, which increases at a slower pace than the standard Consumer Price Index.
In this latest round of changes by the IRS, the top income tax rate of 37 percent will apply in 2023 to those individual taxpayers earning $578,125 (or $693,750 for married couples filing jointly).
That's up from $539,900 for individual filers.
Middle-class workers and lower earners will see rates change.
Earners above $231,250 will see a 35 percent rate, which will apply to married couples filing jointly and earning $462,500.
The 32 percent rate will apply to those making above $182,100 and filing individually or to married couples filing jointly and making $364,200.
The 24 percent rate will apply to those making above $95,375 for individuals or $190,750 for couples filing jointly.
The 22 percent rate will apply to those making above $44,725 and filing individually or $89,450 for married couples and filing jointly.
The 12 percent rate will apply to individual filers making above $11,000 and to married couples filing jointly who make $22,000.
The lowest rate, 10 percent, will apply to those making up to $11,000.
For many Americans, inflation-adjusted weekly earnings dropped by about 4 percent from September last year to September this year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. | 2022-10-19T02:19:49+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/irs-2023-inflation-adjustments-could-equal-lower-tax-rates-for-many |
BOSTON, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, today announced a new partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim. The two companies will leverage Ginkgo's natural product discovery capabilities to accelerate the discovery and development of novel therapeutic molecules to address diseases with high unmet patient needs that are out of reach of conventional drug discovery.
Hundreds of millions of people are living with diseases that to date cannot be cured or are inadequately treated. Breaking through this inertia requires, in many cases, the use of new techniques to act on molecular targets which are exceedingly difficult to address with traditional approaches. More than half of all targets predicted to be involved in human disease are as of yet considered "undruggable" for this reason.
Ginkgo and Boehringer Ingelheim will collaborate to mine Ginkgo's metagenomic sequence database, which provides access to a vast reservoir of structurally novel bioactive molecules, potentially enabling the rapid identification of lead molecules as starting points for the potential discovery of novel treatments to transform patients' lives.
"Ginkgo is well-positioned to help partners like Boehringer Ingelheim complement their drug discovery efforts particularly when it comes to natural product discovery," said Jason Kelly, CEO and co-founder at Ginkgo Bioworks. "We are thrilled to work with Boehringer Ingelheim leveraging our Foundry and Codebase to unlock new possibilities in biopharma innovation."
Ginkgo has built one of the broadest and deepest metagenomics databases worldwide, aided by its recent acquisition of Zymergen. The database comprises over three terabases of sequence data and over two billion proprietary protein sequences from a variety of microbes, creating a unique foundation for the discovery of novel therapeutic molecules.
Under the terms of the partnership Ginkgo will receive upfront research fees and is eligible to receive success-based research and development, regulatory, and commercial milestone payments for a specified number of projects up to an aggregate total of $406 million. Ginkgo is also entitled to potential further downstream value in the form of royalties on sales.
About Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo's biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect and respond to a wide variety of biological threats. For more information, visit ginkgobioworks.com and concentricbyginkgo.com, read our blog, or follow us on social media channels such as Twitter (@Ginkgo and @ConcentricByGBW), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks and @ConcentricByGinkgo), or LinkedIn.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett said critics of stock buybacks are “either an economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue” or both, and all investors benefit from them as long as they are made at the right prices.
Buffett used part of his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday to tout the benefits of repurchases that fiery Wall Street critics like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and many other Democrats love to criticize. The federal government even added a 1% tax on buybacks this year after they ballooned to roughly $1 trillion in 2022.
“When you are told that all repurchases are harmful to shareholders or to the country, or particularly beneficial to CEOs, you are listening to either an economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue (characters that are not mutually exclusive),” wrote Buffett, who himself is a long-time Democrat.
Investor Cole Smead said Washington D.C. should take note of Buffett’s view on buybacks.
“Any politician, regardless of the aisle side, should stand up and be at attention to a statement like that,” said Smead, who is with Seattle-based Smead Capital Management.
Buffett used his typical self-deprecating style to say Berkshire’s remarkable record of doubling the returns of the S&P 500 over the last 58 years with him at the helm is the result of only “about a dozen truly good decisions – that would be about one every five years.”
He recounted a few of those in his letter, but kept his message — which has long been one of the best-read documents in the business world — remarkably brief this year at a little over eight pages. And he devoted an entire page to a tribute to his 99-year-old partner Charlie Munger.
“I think investors — whether they be investors in Berkshire or just students of Berkshire — look to him for more and I think they may come away wanting more,” CFRA Research analyst Cathy Seifert said.
Buffett pointed out how much Berkshire benefits from dividends that it receives from the huge investments in its portfolio like Coca-Cola and American Express even though he refuses to pay a dividend at the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate he leads because he believes he can generate a bigger return for shareholders by investing that cash. Coke paid Berkshire $704 million in dividends last year and American Express added $302 million, and those payments helped push the value of those stakes to $25 billion for Coke and $22 billion for American Express. Berkshire paid $1.3 billion for each of those investments in the 1990s.
Buffett said the key lesson for investors is that “it takes just a few winners to work wonders. And, yes, it helps to start early and live into your 90s as well.”
Berkshire said its’ fourth-quarter profit fell sharply to $18.2 billion from $39.6 billion a year earlier as the paper value of its investments fell.
So those bottom line numbers were again distorted by the value of Berkshire’s sizeable stock portfolio. That’s why Buffett maintains that operating earnings are a better measure of Berkshire’s performance because they exclude derivatives and investments. But by that measure, Berkshire’s operating earnings also declined to $6.7 billion, or $4,584.46 per Class A share, from the previous year’s $7.3 billion, or $4,904.23 per Class A share.
That’s well below what Wall Street predicted. The three analysts surveyed by FactSet predicted Berkshire would report operating earnings per Class A share of $5,305.83 on average.
Analysts said that overall the results were still strong, but higher claims costs continued to hurt Geico’s results while railroad traffic slowed at BNSF and rising interest rates hurt several of Berkshire’s businesses that are tied to the housing market, like its nationwide network of Realtors and its Clayton Homes manufacturing housing unit.
Berkshire’s performance tends to follow whatever the U.S. economy is doing because so many of its dozens of manufacturing, utility and retail businesses follow those trends. In many ways, the conglomerate is a barometer of the economy.
Whenever Buffett sees opportunities, Berkshire continues to invest in whole companies and stocks. He was particularly aggressive last year when he made a net investment of roughly $53 billion by the calculations of Edward Jones analyst Jim Shanahan. Much of that went into stock of oil producers Occidental Petroleum and Chevron and last fall’s $11.6 billion acquisition of Alleghany Corp. insurance.
But even with all that spending, Berkshire’s cash hoard grew to $128.6 billion at the end of the year, up from $109 billion at the end of the third quarter. Berkshire’s businesses generate so much cash that it piles up quicker than Buffett can invest it.
At the start of this year, Berkshire boosted its stake in the Pilot Flying J network of 750 truck stops to 80%, up from the 38.6% it acquired in 2017, so that will help this year’s earnings. | 2023-02-25T21:27:39+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-buffett-touts-benefits-of-buybacks-in-his-shareholder-letter/ |
HELENA — The availability of affordable housing is one of the major issues people in Montana have been talking about. Now, the Montana Legislature is starting to consider a series of proposals for tackling the issue.
“We’ve heard people loud and clear, that housing affordability out there is crazy – it’s insane,” said Senate President Sen. Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton.
Ellsworth said lawmakers have been looking at the issue from many different angles. He highlighted a variety of proposals, from Republicans’ bill to offer tax rebates to property owners to a bill revising laws on transferring property within a family.
The Legislature is also hearing a series of bills aimed at speeding up subdivision reviews:
- House Bill 211, sponsored by Rep. Larry Brewster, R-Billings, would change the rules on when authorities must hold multiple hearings on a planned subdivision.
- Senate Bill 130, sponsored by Sen. Forrest Mandeville, R-Columbus, would allow cities to consolidate planning boards, zoning commissions and boards of adjustment into a land-use board.
- Senate Bill 226, sponsored by Mandeville, would allow the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to certify independent entities to review subdivision applications.
- Senate Bill 227, sponsored by Mandeville, would allow DEQ to authorize some experienced applicants to review subdivision applications.
“The question is what can we do on the supply side – because the demand is definitely there,” Ellsworth said. "I think the one thing we can do – because we can’t effectuate the prices of lumber, you can't effectuate the prices of labor – but certainly land and the opportunity for land to be open for development.”
One bill that got a hearing Tuesday is House Bill 337, sponsored by Rep. Katie Zolnikov, R-Billings. It would prohibit cities and towns from requiring a minimum lot size of more than 2,500 square feet, if a lot has both municipal water and sewer service. It would also limit municipalities’ authority to require building setbacks and open space.
Zolnikov said during the hearing that the bill would provide more flexibility and argued it would only lead to significantly more development in the areas where there’s the most demand for housing.
“The beauty of this bill is it puts things like development into the free market,” she said.
HB 337 drew opposition from local government representatives, including the Montana League of Cities and Towns. Kelly Lynch, the League’s executive director, said municipalities are willing to be part of the discussion on how land-use changes can improve housing availability, but they don’t want a top-down mandate from the state.
“There's no flexibility whatsoever – it just says you shall do this,” she said. “Lot sizes will be the size and setbacks will be the size. No matter where you are, no matter what the issues are in your community.”
Lynch said a number of cities have recognized the seriousness of the housing issue and started making their own zoning changes. She said reducing minimum lot sizes can be part of the solution, but they’re not right for every community.
Lynch said the League is working with lawmakers on an alternate proposal. The bill text is not yet available, but she said it would likely require cities and towns to adopt several policies to support housing availability, out of a list of about 20 options.
“We’ve taken the position that we’d rather have a menu of options and then have the communities pick from that list those reforms that work best for their communities,” said Lynch.
Also up for a hearing Tuesday was Senate Bill 194, sponsored by Sen. Mary Ann Dunwell, D-Helena. It would offer landlords a tax credit if they rent a home to a long-term tenant at lower than market rate.
Dunwell said the proposal would be just one tool to address the housing issue, but potentially one that could make a big difference.
“It’s a win-win for everyone: It's win-win for renters to be able to stay in their rentals and afford their rents, and it's win-win for landlords so they can stay in business,” she said.
SB 194 would set the credit at $200 for every $100 they set rent below 110% of the federal government’s “fair market rent” for the county. In the initial fiscal breakdown of the bill, budget analysts assumed that credit would be for the entire year, but Dunwell said her intention was for the amount to be monthly – so at least $2,400 per year.
Also on Tuesday, Democratic leaders in the Legislature released details on their proposal to put $1.5 billion of the state’s budget surplus toward investment in several key priorities, including workforce housing. | 2023-02-01T02:21:16+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/68th-session/montana-legislature-hearing-wide-variety-of-bills-on-housing-affordability |
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government approved a draft bill Tuesday that widens abortion rights for teenagers and may make Spain the first country in Europe entitling workers to paid menstrual leave.
The measures are part of a package of proposals that will be sent to the Spanish parliament for debate. The package includes an extension of abortion rights, scrapping the requirement for 16- and 17-year-olds to obtain parental consent before terminating a pregnancy.
The Spanish move comes just as the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to reverse that country’s constitutional right to abortion, in place for nearly a half-century.
Spanish government spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez said the proposals represented “a new step forward for women, a new step forward for democracy.”
The Spanish government also proposes giving workers who are experiencing period pain as much time off as they need, with the state social security system — not employers — paying for sick leave. As with any other temporary medical incapacity, a doctor must sign off on the health problem.
The driving force behind the law is the junior member of Spain’s left-wing coalition government, the “United We Can” Party. It was not immediately clear whether the Socialist-led coalition has enough support in parliament to pass the proposed legislation, which could take months.
The government, which came to power almost four years ago, has made women’s rights one of its political banners. The Cabinet has 14 women and eight men in ministerial positions.
Abortion on demand is permitted in Spain through the 14th week of pregnancy. The draft bill also scraps the requirement of a three-day waiting period between requesting an abortion and the pregnancy being terminated.
The latest generation of contraceptive pills, including morning-after pills, are to be provided free of charge by the national health service under the proposals. They currently cost up to 20 euros ($21) at pharmacies, according to the government.
Spanish Equality Minister Irene Montero says if the proposals are approved by lawmakers, Spain will be the first European country to grant paid sick leave for period pains.
“The days of (women) going to work in pain are over,” Montero said, adding that government institutions had to “discard taboos, stigmas and guilt regarding women’s bodies.”
She expressed support for feminist movements fighting for abortion rights in the United States and Poland, as well as in Chile, Argentina and Colombia.
Government officials have said that slight discomfort would not qualify women for menstrual leave. The proposed law targets more serious symptoms, such as diarrhea, fever and bad headaches, they say.
The proposals stirred debate over whether the menstrual leave measure would help or hinder women in the workplace, with some fearing women could be stigmatized.
Some private companies in Europe have voluntarily adopted period policies. Parts of Asia, ranging from Japan to South Korea, have long had menstrual leave rules, though the extent to which they are used has been debated.
Italy considered the idea in 2016, proposing a bill that would have provided three fully paid days off to workers who obtained medical certificates. The proposal failed to progress before the parliamentary term ran out in 2018. | 2022-05-17T21:21:22+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/spanish-govt-proposes-wider-abortion-rights-menstrual-leave/ |
Starring Brittany Hall (Ballers)Demetrius Shipp Jr. (All Eyez on Me, CW's All American), Stephen Bishop (The Terminal List), Kris D. Lofton (Power Book IV: Force, True to the Game 3), and Elyse Mirto (Dynasty)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Manny Halley Productions kicked off its 2023 release with original action/thriller IMANI. Officially airing on Paramount/ VIACOM's BET and BET+ the high-acclaimed film stars Brittany S. Hall (Ballers) as the electrifying Faith Newford. A year after what she thinks was a car accident, a seemingly normal wife and mother slowly recovers from amnesia, only to learn that she is actually a highly sought after Army Special Ops Lieutenant who holds a secret that would blow the lid on a widespread government conspiracy.
Directed by famed music video director Mike Ho, the film takes viewers on the ride of their life with suspenseful, spine-chilling cliffhangers.
IMANI co-stars Demetrius Shipp Jr. (All Eyez on Me), Stephen Bishop (The Terminal List), Kris D. Lofton (Power Book IV: Force, True to the Game 3), Elyse Mirto (Dynasty) and Michael Monks (King Saud). The film was produced by Manny Halley, p.g.a., Rodney Turner II, p.g.a. and Yolanda Halley, p.g.a. for A Manny Halley Production and written by Amaleka McCall and Tu-Shonda Whitaker.
"This movie is action packed from beginning to end," says executive producer Manny Halley. "We're here to stay…and I'm going on record (to say) that 2023 will be an epic year for us."
IMANI will be available on BET and BET+ on January 5th, and in select theaters. Be sure to tune in.
Faith Media Distribution is a streamlined, highly focused, and audience-driven distribution company, with the flexibility and nimbleness to constantly be responsive to the urban consumer market. There is no existing enterprise with a development and production model that creates, distributes, and markets to the urban audience at the pace in which they can. Within a short period, Faith Media has built a reputation of consistently providing urban-themed film products that are commercial, critical, and audience successes.
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2 young children killed in house fire, officials say
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (WNDU/Gray News) - A 3-year-old and a 4-year-old were killed in a house fire early Thursday morning in Michigan, according to officials.
The Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety was called just after 3:30 a.m. to a reported house fire with people trapped inside.
Officials said three adults and four children were able to escape the home before first responders arrived. However, WNDU reports two young children were later found dead inside the home.
The identities of the children were not immediately released and autopsies are scheduled.
According to authorities, several people who escaped were taken to the hospital for injuries they suffered.
Officials said the home was severely damaged by the fire and estimated to be a total loss.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Copyright 2023 WNDU via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-02T23:42:42+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/03/02/2-young-children-killed-house-fire-officials-say/ |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home should be fired, an attorney for the child’s mother said Thursday.
The child, Aderrien Murry, was hospitalized five days for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs after an Indianola Police Department officer shot him in the chest early Saturday, attorney Carlos Moore said. Aderrian returned home to Indianola on Wednesday.
“We are demanding justice,” Moore said during a protest that his law office showed on livestream video.
“An 11-year-old Black boy in the city of Indianola came within an inch of losing his life,” Moore said at Indianola City Hall. “He had done nothing wrong and everything right.”
Aderrien’s mother, Nakala Murry, said her son is “blessed” to be alive but he does not understand why an officer shot him.
“This was the worst moment in my life and I feel like nobody cares. That’s my child, y’all,” Nakala Murry said Thursday as she cried in the lobby of city hall.
Moore said Nakala Murry asked her son to call police at about 4 a.m. Saturday when the father of one of her other children showed up at her home. Moore said the man was irate and Nakala Murry felt threatened.
“He called the police to come to his mother’s rescue,” Moore said of Aderrien. “He called his grandmother to come to his mother’s rescue. The police came there and escalated the situation.”
Moore said two officers responded, and one kicked the front door before Nakala Murry opened it. She told them the intruder had left the home but three children were inside, Moore said.
Moore said Nakala Murry told him that Sgt. Greg Capers, who is Black, yelled into the home and said anyone inside should come out with their hands up. Moore said Aderrien walked into the living room with nothing in his hands, and Capers shot him in the chest.
Indianola City Attorney Kimberly Merchant confirmed to The Enterprise-Tocsin newspaper in Indianola that Capers is the officer who fired the shot.
Moore told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that Indianola officials have suspended Capers with pay during an investigation into the shooting.
AP left phone messages Thursday for Merchant, Indianola Mayor Ken Featherstone and Police Chief Ronald Sampson. They did not immediately respond.
Nakala Murry and Moore were joined by a few other people Thursday as they sat in the city hall lobby and sang “We Shall Overcome.”
Indianola has about 9,300 residents and is in the rural Mississippi Delta, about 95 miles (153 kilometers) northwest of Jackson.
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation announced Saturday that it is examining the shooting, as it does most shootings involving law enforcement officers in the state. The bureau said a person younger than 18 had received “significant injuries” after being shot by an Indianola Police Department officer.
“MBI is currently assessing this critical incident and gathering evidence,” Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bailey Martin said Thursday in response to questions from AP. “Upon completing the investigation, agents will share their findings with the Attorney General’s Office. Due to this being an open and ongoing investigation, no further comment will be made.” | 2023-05-27T05:43:03+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-attorney-demands-firing-of-mississippi-police-officer-after-11-year-old-boy-is-shot/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-6-6-2-9
(two, six, six, two, nine)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
2-6-6-2-9
(two, six, six, two, nine) | 2022-06-29T04:42:18+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17273159.php |
Studies show increases in income utilization and surrender activity
SEATTLE, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the results of its three 2022 Variable Annuity Industry Experience Studies, which analyze policyholder behavior across 21 companies spanning 14 years.
The three studies cover surrender behavior, income utilization and partial withdrawals, and annuitization of guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) riders. The studies indicate that after significant reductions in income utilization for guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits (GLWB) and surrender behavior following the onset of the pandemic, subsequent activity appears to be returning toward prior levels.
"The value of policyholders' lifetime income and death benefit guarantees is highly dependent on a person's behavior through varying market conditions across the product lifecycle, which in turn makes this a critical risk factor for annuity companies," said Timothy Paris, a consulting actuary with Milliman and co-author of the studies. "Our results demonstrate that the pandemic had a significant impact on policyholder behavior and provides the data-driven insights that annuity companies need to set realistic assumptions in their pricing, valuation, and risk management, even in volatile market conditions."
More broadly, the studies confirmed prior evidence of lower surrender behavior for variable annuity contracts that are utilizing income and even lower surrender behavior when the guarantees are more valuable. The studies confirmed that policyholders are very responsive to GLWB designs that provide higher benefits if they defer income commencement and this is even more pronounced as the benefits become more valuable due to market movements. The studies also explored policyholder behavior across factors including attained age, duration, tax status, contract size, type and value of guarantees, and distribution channel.
The studies incorporate seriatim data from 21 companies totaling over 96 million contract-years of exposure spanning January 2008 through December 2021. The studies and Recon® model development and data visualization tools are available for purchase by calling Nathan Wilbanks at (312) 577-2909 or Timothy Paris at (312) 873-9719 or by visiting https://www.milliman.com/en/Products/Life-and-Annuity-Experience-Studies. The most recent prior studies were completed in 2021 by Ruark Consulting, prior to its acquisition by Milliman.
About Milliman
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PORTLAND, Maine — A frantic 911 call to report at least one person had been fatally shot led law enforcement to discover four bodies at a home in Maine and eventually to arrest a man who fired at vehicles on a nearby highway before confessing to police that he was behind the killings.
According to heavily redacted transcripts from 30 emergency calls that the Maine Department of Public Safety provided to The Associated Press on Friday, the first sign of trouble on April 18 came with a call at 9:18 a.m. The dispatcher tells the caller to not go back inside the property in rural Bowdoin, but to return to his vehicle and wait for police to arrive. Dispatch asks about a bullet hole in a vehicle and how many people live at the house.
“And who do you think is the deceased?” the dispatch asks the caller. The caller’s response is redacted.
Authorities identified those killed as the parents of the shooting suspect, Cynthia Eaton, 62, and 66-year-old David Eaton; along with their longtime friends, Robert Eger, 72, and 62-year-old Patti Eger.
The agency removed many details from the calls as well as the identities of the callers in the documents requested under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act but the volume of calls points to chaos and the time stamps indicate a quickly evolving situation. Shannon Moss, state police spokesperson, said the redactions were necessary because the investigation is ongoing.
A little more than an hour after that first call, a flood of 911 calls in rapid succession indicated a gunman was firing wildly at vehicles about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away on I-295 in Yarmouth. State police quickly connected the dots between the two crime scenes, even as calls were made to police dispatchers in Augusta, Brunswick, Houlton, Westbrook and Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties.
The I-295 shootings left three people injured.
After his arrest in Yarmouth, 34-year-old Joseph Eaton confessed to the killings in Bowdoin as well as the highway gunfire, police said. He had been released from prison just days earlier after completing a sentence for aggravated assault.
Eaton has been charged with four counts of murder but has not yet been charged in the highway shootings.
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Follow David Sharp on Twitter @David_Sharp_AP | 2023-06-02T23:24:40+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/06/02/maine-shootings-911-transcripts/c87680d2-0195-11ee-9eb0-6c94dcb16fcf_story.html |
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EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — As the sun set over the Rio Grande, about 120 Cubans, Colombians and Venezuelans who waded through waist-deep water stepped into Border Patrol vehicles, soon to be released in the United States to pursue their immigration cases.
Across the border in the Mexican town of Piedras Negras, Honduran families banded together in a section of downtown with cracked sidewalks, narrow streets and few people, unsure where to spend the night because city's only shelter was full.
The opposite fortunes illustrate the dual nature of U.S. border enforcement under pandemic rules, known as Title 42 and named for a 1944 public health law. President Joe Biden wanted to end those rules Monday, but a federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction that keeps them intact.
The U.S. government has expelled migrants more than 1.9 million times under Title 42, denying them a chance to seek asylum as permitted under U.S. law and international treaty for purposes of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
But Title 42 is not applied evenly across nationalities. For example, Mexico agrees to take back migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. For other nationalities, however, high costs, poor diplomatic relations and other considerations make it difficult for the U.S. to fly migrants to their home countries under Title 42. Instead, they are typically freed in the U.S. to seek asylum or other forms of legal status.
Hondurans in Piedras Negras ask Cubans arriving at the bus station for money, knowing Cubans will have no use for pesos because they will go directly across the border. While Mexico agreed in April to take some Cubans and Nicaraguans expelled under Title 42, the vast majority are released in the U.S.
“It was in an out,” Javier Fuentes, 20, said of his one-night stay in a rented house in Piedras Negras. On Sunday morning, he and two other Cuban men walked across the Rio Grande and on a paved road for about an hour until they found a Border Patrol vehicle in Eagle Pass, a Texas town of 25,000 people where migrants cross the river to the edge of a public golf course.
Overnight rains raised water to about neck-level for most adults, a possible explanation for the absence of groups numbering in the dozens, even over 100, that frequent the area many days.
“Slow start to the morning,” a Border Patrol agent said as he greeted Guard troops watching four Peruvians, including a 7-month-old boy who crossed with his parents after several days crammed into a rented room in Piedras Negras with 17 migrants.
As the water dropped again to waist-level, about three dozen migrants gathered at a riverfront public park that also drew local residents in Piedras Negras, which considers itself the birthplace of nachos. Infants and young children joined a largely Honduran crowd to cross. One Honduran woman was eight months' pregnant in obvious pain.
Eagle Pass, a sprawling town of warehouses and decaying houses that many major retailers have overlooked, is one of the busiest spots in the Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes about 250 miles (400 km) of sparsely populated riverfront. Last year, about 15,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, assembled in nearby Del Rio, which isn't much larger than Eagle Pass. Grain fields are about all that separates either town from San Antonio, about a three-hour drive.
The relative ease of crossing — migrants walk across the river within a few minutes, often without paying a smuggler — and a perception that it is relatively safe on the Mexican side has made the remote region a major migration route.
Texas’ Rio Grande Valley has long been the busiest of nine Border Patrol sectors on the Mexican border, but Del Rio has surged to a close second this year. Yuma, Arizona, another spot known for relative safety and ease of crossing, has jumped to third-busiest.
Del Rio and Yuma rank sixth and seventh in the number of agents among the nine sectors, a reflection of how Border Patrol staffing has long lagged shifts migration flows.
Other parts of the border are less patrolled than Del Rio, a plus for migrants trying to elude capture, but are more rugged and remote, said Jon Anfinsen, president of the National Border Patrol Council's Del Rio sector chapter.
Anfinsen calls the Del Rio sector "sort of a happy medium” for migrants seeking to balance the appeal of remote areas with safety.
Cristian Salgado, who sleeps on streets of Piedras Negras with his wife and 5-year-old son after fleeing Honduras, said the Mexican border town is “one of the few places where you can more or less live in peace.”
But his excitement about the Biden administration's plans to lift Title 42 on Monday evaporated with the judge's ruling. “Now there is no hope,” he said.
His pessimism may be a bit misplaced. Hondurans were stopped nearly 16,000 times on the border in April, with slightly more than resulting in expulsion under Title 42. The rest could seek asylum in the U.S. if they expressed fear of returning home.
But Cubans fared far better. They were stopped more than 35,000 times in April, and only 451, or barely 1%, were processed under Title 42.
“Cubans get in automatically,” said Joel Gonzalez, 34, of Honduras, who tried eluding agents for three days in Eagle Pass before getting caught and expelled. Agents told him asylum the U.S. was no longer available.
Isis Peña, 45, turned down an offer from a fellow Honduran woman to cross the river. The woman called from San Antonio, saying she was freed without even being asked if she wanted to claim asylum. The woman now lives in New York.
Peña tried crossing herself the next day, an experience she doesn't want to repeat for fear of drowning. After about four hours in custody, an agent told her, “There is no asylum for Honduras.” | 2022-05-23T05:03:20+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Court-ruling-extends-uneven-treatment-for-17191399.php |
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