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Steele, Lando F.
Lando F. Steele, age 82 of Dayton, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the River Oaks Memory Care-Community. He was born on November 30, 1940, in Dayton, Ohio, the son of the late Frank & Gertrude H. "Billie" (Dunno) Steele. Mr. Steele was a retired Manager of Duriron Company, Inc. Preceded in death by his son Michael Steele, and his sister Nancy Huesman. He is survived by his loving family, his daughter Tracy Sexton, his son Lando L. Steele, 3 grandchildren Paul Sexton and wife Jessica, Nathan Sexton, and Matthew Sexton, as well as numerous other relatives and many friends. A Celebration of Life will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at the Swart Funeral Home, West Carrollton with Rev. Dr. Joel Getts officiating. The family will receive friends from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (1 hour prior to service) on Saturday at the funeral home. If so desired memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association in memory of Mr. Lando Steele. Please share your condolences at www.swartfuneralhome.com. Sympathy, Love, and Thinking of You cards may be sent to The Family of Mr. Lando Steele, C/O Swart Funeral Home, 207 E. Central Ave., West Carrollton, Ohio 45449.
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Numerous gaming-related projects, including DC Comics' superhero NFT card collection, Delysium, StarHeroes, and VeeFriends' "Book Games," join ImmutableX to achieve greater stability, scalability, and security
SYDNEY, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From the world's first playable AAA blockchain game Delysium to iconic DC Comics' superheroes like Batman and Superman, the world's most highly anticipated web3 projects are opting to migrate to, or launch, on ImmutableX — an industry-leading NFT minting and trading platform and a Layer-2 rapid-scaling solution on Ethereum.
Noting the need for greater stability, scalability, and security as top reasons for their move, projects such as Cross the Ages, Delysium, and Ember Sword were initially developed on Ethereum scaling platform Polygon but ultimately chose ImmutableX.
One of the most ambitious web3 gaming projects to date, Delysium is a play-and-earn massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Set in a dynamically generated, AI-powered open-world experience, the first playable AAA game is truly player-owned and allows gamers to become a full-fledged part of its ecosystem.
Meanwhile, the collapse of the Terra Network saw games like Deviants' Factions, Undead Blocks, Tatsumeeko, and StarHeroes move to ImmutableX. Nifty League from Ethereum Layer-1. Developers have found migration a simple task, noting that they could easily implement Immutable APIs for a vertically-integrated "one-stop shop" solution.
Projects porting over to ImmutableX also cite the need for a fully dedicated gaming chain that benefits from the network effects of Ethereum while incurring little to no gas fees or debilitating transaction latency.
Serving as another draw for projects, Immutable launched a $500 million developer and venture investment fund in June. The fund was designed to accelerate the growth of the ImmutableX protocol by providing investment support and blockchain gaming expertise, including direct access to advisory for tokenomics, game design, and community and marketing support.
ImmutableX is also attracting brand new projects in addition to those migrating from other ecosystems. In March, Cartamundi and Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced the launch of new hybrid physical and NFT trading cards based on legendary superheroes such as Batman and Superman — with their digital parts minted on ImmutableX. And in August, Belarusian-American entrepreneur and internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk — creator of NFT collection VeeFriends — revealed a series of gamified Book Games on ImmutableX.
"So many top-tier Web3 projects choosing to build on ImmutableX is great recognition for what we're building — and we're just getting started," said Robbie Ferguson, Co-Founder and President of Immutable. "I'm very excited by the caliber of projects partnering with Immutable and the pace at which they're joining. As Immutable brings the next billion players to web3, continuing to build the most scalable, secure and developer-friendly network will be crucial in enabling builders to bring their creative visions to life."
In addition to offering superior security and scalability, ImmutableX has been attracting gaming titles because the platform is designed for games by games. Immutable Games Studio, has over four years experience building top tier web3 games, including legacy title Gods Unchained and the highly anticipated Guild of Guardians.
"We're witnessing a demand for security, stability, and scalability in the industry, which is why many partners are joining ImmutableX. Our gas-free and carbon-neutral environment, 99.99% network uptime, and vertically integrated APIs for game studios deliver dependability, streamlined integration, and an overall better user experience for gamers. We believe this trend will continue as the web3 industry grows," added Ferguson. "That's why we go beyond infrastructure solutions, offering additional advisory services, white glove launch and post-launch assistance, and a world-class support team."
Immutable is advancing the next generation of web3 games through ImmutableX, an industry-leading NFT minting and trading platform and the world's first Layer 2 rapid scaling solution on Ethereum.
Today ImmutableX, leveraging ZK roll-up technology from Starkware, has grown to become the leading platform to mint, trade and scale web3 games and NFT projects on Ethereum, offering builders and innovators a carbon-free, no gas fee solution with unlimited speed, scalability, security, and liquidity. ImmutableX is the platform of choice for world-class web3 games such as Guild of Guardians, Illuvium, Embersword, Planet Quest and many more.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Carson Roccaforte hit a three-run home run to help power a nine-run seventh-inning rally that carried Louisiana past Maine 19-10 in an elimination game at the Coral Gables Regional Saturday.
Louisiana scored all of its runs in bunches, pushing across four runs in the second inning, and three in both the fourth and fifth before erupting for nine in the seventh on eight hits.
Connor Higgs opened the seventh by drawing a walk and scored on a deep double to left center by Julian Brock. Caleb Stelly and CJ Willis each followed with two-run singles. Roccaforte followed with a three-run home run and Higgs capped his inning with a two-run shot to left.
Jake Marquez, Jeremiah Jenkins and Dean O’Neill each homered for Maine (32-21).
Carson Fluno (4-1) worked seven innings in the start for the Ragin’ Cajuns, scattering five runs on 10 hits, walking one and striking out four.
Caleb Leys (5-1) worked four innings for the Black Bears, allowing seven runs on five hits and three walks and took the loss.
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Julia Grabher vs. Lucia Bronzetti: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Grand Prix Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem
In the final of the Grand Prix Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem on Saturday, Julia Grabher (ranked No. 74) takes on Lucia Bronzetti (No. 102).
Bronzetti is favored to capture the tournament title over Grabher, with -145 odds against the the underdog's +115.
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Julia Grabher vs. Lucia Bronzetti Match Information
- Tournament: The Grand Prix Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem
- Round: Finals
- Date: Saturday, May 27
- Venue: Club des Cheminots
- Location: Rabat, Morocco
- Court Surface: Clay
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Julia Grabher vs. Lucia Bronzetti Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Lucia Bronzetti has a 59.2% chance to win.
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Julia Grabher vs. Lucia Bronzetti Trends and Insights
- In the semifinals on Friday, Grabher took down No. 195-ranked Julia Riera, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6.
- Bronzetti advanced to the finals by defeating No. 35-ranked Sloane Stephens 6-1, 6-1 on Friday.
- Grabher has played 31 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces), and 21.3 games per match.
- Grabher has played 16 matches on clay over the past 12 months, and 21.4 games per match.
- In the past 12 months, Bronzetti has competed in 21 total matches (across all court surfaces), winning 42.9% of the games. She averages 22.2 games per match and 9.9 games per set.
- On clay surfaces, Bronzetti has played nine matches and averaged 20.8 games per match and 8.5 games per set.
- Grabher and Bronzetti have not played each other since 2015.
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Transaction combines firm's real assets and specialty finance expertise to meet growing loan demand
MINNEAPOLIS, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Castlelake, L.P. ("Castlelake"), a global alternative investment manager with approximately 17 years of experience investing in asset-rich opportunities, today announced that it has made a $150 million investment in Swedish specialty lender, IMH. The investment includes the acquisition of IMH's existing loans and a financing facility for the origination of new loans.
IMH focuses on lending up to SEK 50 million to small to medium-sized real estate investors and developers to address their short-term liquidity needs in areas such as construction and operations, and bridge loans backed by real estate assets. In its 8 years of existence, IMH has lent over SEK 1.3 billion in Sweden. In a market where there is a lack of credit availability for these borrowers, Castlelake believes that by partnering with IMH it can help expand access to high-quality loans that support local residential real estate investment.
"Partnering with IMH is an exciting next step for Castlelake as we continue to expand our presence in Europe and the Nordic region," said Philipp Braschel, Partner, European Real Assets at Castlelake. "IMH and its experienced management team are well-positioned to provide capital to a growing but underserved market, and we believe this investment can deliver value to our investors as well as IMH and its stakeholders."
"Castlelake has been an incredible partner throughout this process, and IMH expects to benefit greatly from their deep expertise in both the specialty finance and real assets space, making them an ideal choice as we chart the next steps on our expansion journey," said Jonas Hägerbäck, CEO of IMH.
This transaction builds on the Castlelake's experience investing in a diverse set of asset-rich opportunities across Europe, where it has acquired more than 7,000 assets across 12 European countries since its founding in 2005. It also taps the firm's experience in specialty finance, having invested over $3 billion in such opportunities, including acquisitions of more than 3,500 commercial and industrial loans and financing or acquiring more than 5 million consumer receivable accounts. Castlelake's recent activity in northern Europe includes $500 million in loans to real estate developers and investors that are active in transitioning assets to more modern usages and more than $600 million in financing facilities to consumer and small business credit originators in the UK.
Castlelake, L.P. is a global alternative investment manager focused on investments in real assets, specialty finance and aviation. Founded in 2005, Castlelake manages approximately $21 billion of assets. The Castlelake team comprises more than 200 experienced professionals, including 89 investment professionals, across six offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit https://www.castlelake.com/.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — UPS announced November 1 that they plan to hire more than 825 seasonal employees in the Syracuse area during its annual UPS Brown Friday.
UPS Brown Friday is a promotional event that starts Friday, November 4, and aims at hiring additional seasonal workers for the holiday season.
Nationwide, UPS plans to hire more than 60,000 seasonal employees in total with more than 450 in-person and virtual job interviews nationwide where applicants can get hired in just 25 min.
This comes from a broader effort from UPS to hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers back in July to prepare for peak holiday season.
Last year, there were nearly 35,000 people who were hired as seasonal employees that earned permanent positions, proving there is a pathway from the program to a career at UPS.
The job hiring event in Syracuse starts Friday, November 4, and Saturday November 5 at the UPS Customer Care Center in East Syracuse from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | 2022-11-03T22:55:11+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/ups-plans-to-hire-more-than-825-seasonal-employees-at-brown-friday-event/ |
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Quarterbacks Stetson Bennett of Georgia, Max Duggan of TCU, C.J. Stroud of Ohio State and Caleb Williams of Southern California were announced as finalists for the Heisman Trophy on Monday night.
The award given to the outstanding player in college football, determined by a vote of more than 900 sports journalists and past winners, will be presented Saturday at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Bennett has quarterbacked defending national champion Georgia to a second straight spot in the College Football Playoff and is 24-1 as the Bulldogs' starter since last season.
The sixth-year player from Blackshear, Georgia, was most valuable player of the Southeastern Conference championship game after throwing for 274 yards and four touchdowns in a 50-30 win over LSU that ran the Bulldogs’ record to 13-0.
Of Georgia’s three all-time wins over a No. 1-ranked team, Bennett was quarterback for two of them. He was at the controls for the Bulldogs’ win over Alabama in the national championship game last January, and he passed for two TDs and ran for another in a 27-13 win over Tennessee last month.
Duggan willed TCU to its first CFP appearance with an inspiring performance in the Big 12 championship game against Kansas State.
Duggan, who had heart surgery two years ago, was at the center of one of the signature sequences of the season. It happened late in the fourth quarter when he broke loose for 40 yards and then, visibly out of breath, ran for an 8-yard TD and completed his 2-point pass to bring the Frogs back from an 11-point, fourth-quarter deficit. Duggan came up just short of the goal line on a run in overtime, and the Frogs lost for the first time this season, 31-28.
The fourth-year player from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was Gary Patterson's starter for two seasons before first-year coach Sonny Dykes picked Chandler Morris over Duggan in the preseason. Duggan regained the job for the second game because of an injury to Morris and ended up leading the Big 12 in every major passing category.
Stroud, in his third season out of Inland Empire, California, is a Heisman finalist for the second year in a row. He was fourth in voting last year. He came into this season regarded as the front-runner and remained the favorite as Ohio State piled up impressive numbers through the first eight games.
But he struggled against Northwestern, the worst team in the Big Ten, and he couldn’t rally the Buckeyes in the second half of their most recent game, a 45-23 home loss to Michigan.
Still, Stroud has the nation’s highest passer rating and is tied for the lead with 37 touchdown passes.
Williams transferred to USC from Oklahoma in February, two months after Lincoln Riley was hired away from the Sooners.
The second-year player from Washington is responsible for a nation-leading 21.7 points per game. He turned in a gutty performance in the Pac-12 championship game Friday, injuring his left hamstring on a 59-yard run in the first quarter but staying in the game and finishing with 363 yards passing and three touchdowns despite a noticeable limp in the 47-24 loss to Utah.
Williams has thrown for 37 touchdowns against just four interceptions and has amassed a school-record 4,447 total yards. Including his 10 rushing touchdowns, he has accounted for a school-record 47.
Williams and Stroud also are finalists for the Maxwell Award as the top performer in the college game, and they are joined by Duggan as finalists for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award.
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DENVER — There probably won’t be many Yankees fans upset with the injury news coming out from the manager’s office after Saturday night’s 6-3 win over the Rockies.
Josh Donaldson is hurt again.
This time, it’s the third baseman’s right calf, and it’ll probably lead to another injury list stint for a chronically slumping veteran who was shelved for 51 games earlier this season with a right hamstring strain.
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The Yankees’ designated hitter in Saturday’s game, Donaldson noticeably limped running out a seventh-inning groundball to shortstop in his last at-bat.
Here’s Aaron Boone’s short but telling response to Donaldson’s calf issue:
“Not great.”
It’s not right for fans to feel good about any player being injured, of course, especially someone on your team, but Donaldson has become the new Joey Gallo at Yankee Stadium.
Donaldson earned the constant boos. He has hit 10 homers in 106 plate appearances over 34 games, but is batting a measly .142 because he has only five other hits, four singles and a double.
That’s not what fans expect from a former MVP who is making $21 million this season, his last in a four-year, $92-million contact.
Donaldson, 37, got on the bad side of Yankees’ fans in 2022 when he had a poor first season with the club. He also received a lot of bad press last summer for instigating an incident with White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson that got him suspended by MLB for a game, plus he joined the Yankees having labeled ace Gerrit Cole as the face of MLB pitchers who doctor baseballs.
This season, Donaldson played in five of the Yankees’ first six games before ending up on the IL on April 6 and not returning until June 2. He hit two homers his first game back in a loss to the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, but other than a few solo homers here and there since, he’s had very little success at the plate.
This weekend, Donaldson is hitless in seven at-bats over two games at Coors Field, leaving him 4-for-29 in nine July games.
Donaldson only has been used as DH in his four games since July 8 because he was dealing with an issue that the Yankees wouldn’t reveal. Taking a page out of hockey, Boone called it a “lower body” issue.
Before Saturday’s game, Boone declared Donaldson ready to play third base again.
Atter, Boone admitted that Donaldson’s issue has been calf soreness all along, but he says the latest discomfort is in “a different spot. Boone added that Donaldson has been dealing with calf discomfort “off and on all year.”
Donaldson will find out how bad his injury is on Sunday when he gets an MRI, but regardless he’s expected to miss time.
Fortunately for the Yankees, Donaldson’s injury occurs just as utility infielder DJ LeMahieu finally is heating up. A .220 hitter at the All-Star break, the two-time batting champ returned to go 2-for-4 in Friday’s loss and then 3-for-4 in Saturday’s victory.
If Donaldson gets on the IL, shortstop Oswald Peraza probably will be recalled from Triple-A for the second time this season. The 23-year-old Venezuelan hit .188 with three RBI in 12 games when he was with the Yankees from April 16 to May 9.
In Triple-A, Peraza is hitting .261 with 12 homers and 28 RBI in 48 games. He hit nine homers in 11 games for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre from May 9 to June 1, but has been slumping lately with three hits in 27 at-bats over his last seven games.
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Randy Miller may be reached at rmiller@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-07-16T11:01:25+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2023/07/yankees-lose-slugger-to-injury-in-win-over-rockies.html |
How to Watch the Rangers vs. Rockies Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for May 21
Published: May. 21, 2023 at 8:12 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Marcus Semien and Brenton Doyle will look to continue their recent offensive production when the Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies square off at Globe Life Field on Sunday, at 2:35 PM ET.
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Rangers vs. Rockies Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, May 21, 2023
- Time: 2:35 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSSW
- Location: Arlington, Texas
- Venue: Globe Life Field
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Rangers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rangers are eighth-best in MLB play with 60 total home runs.
- Texas is fourth in baseball, slugging .449.
- The Rangers' .270 batting average is second-best in the majors.
- Texas scores the second-most runs in baseball (284 total, 6.3 per game).
- The Rangers' .340 on-base percentage is second-best in MLB.
- The Rangers' nine strikeouts per game rank 19th in the majors.
- The 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Texas' pitching staff ranks 21st in the majors.
- Texas has the eighth-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.86).
- The Rangers have the third-lowest WHIP in baseball (1.188).
Rangers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Andrew Heaney (2-3 with a 4.71 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 42 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Rangers, his ninth of the season.
- In his most recent outing on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, the lefty went six innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering four hits.
- Heaney is seeking his third straight quality start.
- Heaney is seeking his third straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.3 innings per appearance on the mound.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn into the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Thursday will go down in the history books as incoming justice Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first Black woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jackson’s midday swearing-in ceremony coincides with the start of retirement for outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer.
She’s becoming the court’s 104th associate justice and is a historic addition to a historically unpopular court.
Gallup reports confidence in the institution is at the lowest it’s ever recorded.
Polls indicate a strong majority of Americans disagree with the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court says the opinions it’s releasing today are the last of this session. The court is expected to start releasing its final rulings at 10 a.m.
A planned protest is already scheduled for tonight over a case involving the Environmental Protection Agency.
The court could strip it of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Another high-profile case deals with immigration. It’s about whether the Biden administration can end the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” border policy.
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Keeping your home warm without spending a fortune can be a challenge in this age of rising energy prices. Radiator heaters are known to be effective, but could they solve your energy woes, and are they safe?
While there were once safety issues associated with them, you shouldn’t have any problems with new models. Still, there’s plenty more to know about them.
In this article: De’Longhi TRD40615E Full Room Radiant Heater, Honeywell HZ-789 EnergySmart Electric Oil Filled Radiator Heater and Dreo Radiator Heater.
What are radiator heaters?
Radiator heaters, also known as radiant heaters, are space heaters that use natural convection to heat spaces. This is the transfer of thermal energy from a hot surface to the cooler air around it.
These heaters are generally oil-filled. When you switch them on, electricity heats the oil inside them, which warms up external surfaces that in turn transfer their heat to the air around them. The warm air then circulates due to natural convection currents, which helps evenly and consistently heat whole rooms.
Are radiator heaters safe?
There was a time when radiator heaters had some safety issues. If they tipped over, they could leak oil and keep on heating, which posed a fire risk. However, radiant heaters sold today have an automatic shut-off that turns the heater off if it tips over. The oil is also sealed in the system so it won’t leak if the heater tips.
With these potential safety issues solved, radiator heaters are very safe. In fact, they’re often considered safer than heaters with exposed heating elements because they don’t get as hot to the touch.
Radiator heater pros
There’s a lot to love about radiant heaters. These are just some of their benefits:
- Quiet operation: Radiators run practically silently, while forced-air heaters produce constant noise from their fans.
- Long-lasting heat: The oil inside radiator heaters stays warm for quite a while after the unit switches off, so you won’t start getting cold again right away.
- Heats large areas: Most space heaters only warm the area that they’re pointing at, but natural convection lets the warmth from a radiator heater warm a whole room.
- Better for people with allergies: Heaters with fans can stir up dust and other allergens, but this isn’t an issue with radiator heaters.
- Energy-efficient: Because these heaters warm a whole room and stay hot for a while after switching off, there’s no need to run them constantly, which saves energy. It’s also energy-efficient to use a single radiator heater when you only need to warm one room, as opposed to heating your whole house with central heating.
- Consistent temperatures: Radiator heaters often use thermostats to maintain a consistent temperature, so the unit will shut off once the temperature’s reached and switch back on again when the room cools down again.
Radiator heater cons
Radiator heaters have some drawbacks as well, which are worth considering before you buy.
- Slow to heat up: Unless you’re sitting directly next to the heater, it may take around 20 minutes to notice the effects.
- Fairly large: Radiator heaters are fairly big and bulky, so you might not like how much floor space they take up or may consider them eyesores.
Best radiator heaters
De’Longhi TRD40615E Full Room Radiant Heater
This effective radiator heater has a thermal slot design to maximize surface area for more effective heating while keeping the exterior temperature safe and low. It has three heating levels and a digital thermostat to help keep heating consistent.
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De’Longhi Comfort Temp Full Room Radiant Thermostat
Thanks to its permanently sealed oil system, it doesn’t need refilling, and there’s no chance of leaks. Additionally, it has anti-tip protection. The “Comfort Temp” system is designed to help maintain the optimal room temperature.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Pelonis Electric Oil-Filled Radiator
You can switch among three heat settings, and the unit switches off when the desired temperature is reached to maintain comfortable heat. Heavy-duty casters make it easy to wheel the heater between rooms.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Honeywell HZ-789 EnergySmart Electric Oil Filled Radiator Heater
It’s easy to heat your room just how you want with the easy-to-use control panel on this radiator. You can be certain of its safety, thanks to its automatic shut-off, tip-over protection, overheat protection and insulated wiring.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
The digital thermostat and remote control make it simple to heat your space as much or as little as you like. Its large fins and U-shaped heating tubes help it release heat effectively and efficiently.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Initiative will nurture the next generation of hospitality talent in Singapore
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) and Marina Bay Sands have established a $1 million scholarship program that will help build a pipeline of new talent for the hospitality industry in Singapore through Sands Cares, the company's community engagement program. The scholarship initiative is designed to advance hospitality careers in Singapore to capitalize on the tremendous tourism growth projected over the coming years.
The Sands Hospitality Scholarship Program will benefit more than 100 Singaporean students pursuing hospitality or tourism-related courses of study at six Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) including Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic and the Singapore Institute of Technology in Singapore.
The program kicks off in 2023 and aims to encourage more of the region's brightest talent to consider a career in the hospitality industry, while building on the longstanding commitment by Sands and Marina Bay Sands to support Singapore's economic and tourism goals.
The Sands Hospitality Scholarship Program complements a variety of Sands Cares efforts to support hospitality industry workforce development. Other hospitality education initiatives span contributions to higher education institutions, additional scholarship programs, on-property and industry-supported training opportunities for students and hospitality professionals, and mentorship support from company representatives.
"The hospitality industry's greatest asset lies in its people, and developing hospitality talent is especially important as the sector undergoes rapid transformation," said Ron Reese, senior vice president of global communications and corporate affairs, who spearheads corporate responsibility initiatives at Sands. "Singapore's resilient tourism industry is expected to grow robustly with international travel resuming. By investing in education to help youth establish careers in hospitality, we are supporting the future of our industry and Singapore's continued leadership as a top global travel destination."
The Sands Hospitality Scholarship Program joins other corporate-supported Sands Cares initiatives in Singapore, which include the Sands Cares Accelerator, a program that assists nonprofit organizations in expanding their reach and driving deeper impact, and the Sands Cares Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World and the Sands Cares Food Kit Build, both aimed at supporting people facing hardship in Sands' local communities. To learn more about Sands Cares, please visit https://www.sands.com/responsibility/communities/#our-program-sands-cares.
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Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts.
Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and community investment to help make our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
Sands' portfolio of properties includes Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and The Venetian Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao and Sands Macao in Macao SAR, China, through majority ownership in Sands China Ltd.
Sands is dedicated to being a leader in corporate responsibility, anchored by our core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. Our ESG leadership has led to inclusion on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for World and North America and recognition as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies. To learn more, visit www.sands.com.
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Marina Bay Sands is Asia's leading business, leisure and entertainment destination. The integrated resort features Singapore's largest hotel with over 2,200 luxurious rooms and suites, crowned by the spectacular Sands SkyPark and iconic infinity pool. Its stunning architecture and compelling programming, including state-of-the-art convention and exhibition facilities, Asia's best luxury shopping mall, world-class dining and entertainment, as well as cutting-edge exhibitions at ArtScience Museum, have transformed the country's skyline and tourism landscape since it opened in 2010.
Marina Bay Sands is dedicated to being a good corporate citizen to serve its people, communities and environment. As one of the largest players in hospitality, it employs nearly 10,000 Team Members across the property. It drives social impact through its community engagement program, Sands Cares, and leads environmental stewardship through its global sustainability program, Sands ECO360.
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A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set aside by an appeals court in a move some legal experts called irregular.
Kichwa tribes lived in the area of Cordillera Azul National Park for centuries before the park was founded in 2001 in what the Kichwa say was theft of their land. Major companies such as Shell and TotalEnergies have spent more than $80 million since then buying credits in the park to counter their carbon emissions.
That money hasn’t helped the Puerto Franco community of Kichwa, who fell into food poverty after losing free access to hunt, fish and gather in the park area. The community celebrated a dramatic legal victory in April, when Judge Simona del Socorro Torres Sánchez ruled that creating the park without their consent had violated their rights. She ordered authorities to begin granting them title to the land, to ensure they benefit from conservation activities in the park and participate in its management.
Ten days after that ruling, an appeals court ruled that CIMA, the acronym for the nonprofit that runs the park for the Peruvian government and administers the carbon credit project, had been improperly added as a co-defendant in the case. The appeals court threw out the ruling and with it the benefits ordered for the tribe, citing “the presence of insurmountable defects both in due process and in the motivation of the judicial decision.”
CIMA welcomed that ruling. “As with any judicial process in Peru, formal procedures … must be followed,” executive director Jorge Aliaga said by email.
But three Peruvian lawyers who reviewed the case at the request of The Associated Press questioned the appellate court’s action. Two said they believed CIMA appears to have been participating as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, and even if a procedural error had been made early on, it didn’t amount to a violation of due process. All three said it was wrong to throw out the entire verdict.
“It’s not normal at all,” said Pedro Grández, a constitutional lawyer and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He said the court was “trying to weigh in on the substance of the matter when it hasn’t reviewed anything of substance, only the procedure.”
Juan Carlos Díaz, also a constitutional lawyer at Pontifical Catholic, said he saw “no grounds” to annul the original ruling, noting that CIMA’s lawyer had taken part in the judicial hearing in which it was added as co-defendant and presented no objections.
“I think the appeals court made a mistake,” Diaz said.
Constitutional law expert Silvia Sánchez, an associate professor at the Academy of the Magistrature, which trains Peruvian judges, said there were “irrelevant or minimal issues for breaking an entire process and returning it to the hearing.”
The case would have gone back to Torres Sánchez due to the supposed procedural error, but Peru’s government successfully asked the same appellate panel to consider the merits of the case. The government argues that the statute of limitations has expired for the Kichwa to make a claim. The government also says that it’s impossible for the park to overlap with Kichwa territory because that territory has never been legally defined.
An AP investigation in December found that park land almost certainly includes Kichwa ancestral territory, by the definition of an International Labour Organization (ILO) Indigenous convention Peru signed in 1994.
Some Kichwa members wept as they described to AP the hardships of losing access to the land. Unable to clear trees for farmland and sandwiched between protected areas, they relied on an overfished river for food and said they could no longer afford to educate their children.
Peruvian authorities had argued in legal filings that the community didn’t object to the park’s creation in 2001, nor raise complaints during a mapmaking workshop two years later.
But Torres Sánchez ruled that the Kichwa’s rights had been “violated several times” when the park was created without prior consultation. That the Kichwa didn’t request consultation “does not exonerate the state from its obligation to carry it out,” she wrote, adding that attaining Indigenous consent “is not a formality to be overcome.”
Her ruling ordered park rangers to allow the Kichwa full access to the forests. It also implied the Kichwa might share in the money raised from carbon credit sales, ordering Peru’s parks authority Sernanp to “comply with the right of the native communities … to benefit from conservation activities in their territories.”
Torres Sánchez said Puerto Franco had not benefited “one iota” from the huge proceeds of the conservation project, even though Kichwa guardianship had helped sustain the forests.
Cell phone service in the park region is patchy, and attempts to reach members of the Puerto Franco Kichwa by phone were unsuccessful.
The Forest Peoples Programme, a nonprofit that has advocated for the Kichwas, said the first ruling had set a precedent for Indigenous tribes across Peru. FPP’s Matías Pérez Ojeda del Arco described the appellate court’s tossing it out as a “clear judicial irregularity,” and called on the Peruvian authorities to investigate.”
Grández, of Pontifical Catholic, argued that the lower court’s ruling should stand going into that appeal.
“If I were (Judge Sánchez), I’d say my sentence holds until the appeals court reviews the substance,” he said. “Right now, the community still has a ruling in its favor.”
The Peruvian government did not respond to several requests for comment.
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This story has corrected the style for judge’s surname on second reference.
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Mitra Taj, a journalist in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Finance ministers of major Pacific Rim economies pledged Thursday to combat inflation and target spending to support sustainable growth at a meeting in Bangkok ahead of a summit next month.
Asked about possible disagreements over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Thailand’s finance minister, host of the meeting, acknowledged there were “varying views” among the senior officials of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which includes Russia and many other Asian-Pacific nations.
China, another APEC member, is among countries that have refrained from joining the U.S. and many Western nations in condemning the attack and calling for Russia to withdraw.
But Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said the discussions Wednesday and Thursday focused mainly on economic issues and on how to cope with the ramifications of the crisis.
“The only thing we can do is that we understand that the situation has already happened,” Arkhom said. “The consequence of the situation, that’s the thing that we need to work together to resolve, particularly the impact for the majority of the people, especially for the vulnerable groups.”
APEC economies are focused on finding ways to help people cope with prices pushed higher by the fallout from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he said.
As has often become the case for international meetings where consensus has proven elusive, the finance ministers did not issue a communique as is customary. Instead, Arkhom issued a chairman’s statement.
It cited “unprecedented risk” as central banks roll back stimulus programs and raise interest rates to cool inflation at multi-decade highs.
The tightening of monetary policy comes at a time when one of the biggest drivers of global economic activity, China, is contending with sharply slowing growth and a downturn in its property sector.
It also has driven the value of the U.S. dollar sharply higher against many other currencies. That has raised risks for financial markets, inflating costs of debt repayments and making imports of food, oil and other vital commodities painfully costly for many economies.
On Thursday, the dollar briefly traded above 150 yen, adding to expectations Japan might try to stem its slide beyond a 32-year low by intervening in the market. That’s a far cry from the days when Tokyo faced criticism for seeking to keep the yen from strengthening to gain a competitive price advantage for Japanese exports.
The APEC chair’s statement said members had recognized that “excessive volatility or disorderly movements” in exchange rates can hurt economic and financial stability.
At the same time, they pledged to refrain from adjusting exchange rates “for competitive purposes.”
A Western official who attended the talks but spoke on condition that he not be named in order to brief reporters about the closed-door sessions said that improving the security of supply chains was a major topic in the two-day meeting.
One of the main questions raised was whether multinational corporations would be likely to shift their factories outside of China to other APEC economies to help reduce risk of the kinds of disruptions seen in the past few years due to the pandemic and other issues, the official said. | 2022-10-21T07:53:36+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-pacific-rim-finance-leaders-mull-ways-to-curb-inflation/ |
The GOP field grew by two candidates this week in the campaign for the presidential nomination. But even with more faces in the race, Donald Trump remains the frontrunner.
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The GOP field grew by two candidates this week in the campaign for the presidential nomination. But even with more faces in the race, Donald Trump remains the frontrunner.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Entrepreneurs in Santa Fe are being given an opportunity that will help them in the early stages of opening their business. David Ahern-Seronde is the owner of Apicklelypse Hot Sauce, he’s taking advantage of The Kitchen Table Santa Fe, it’s a shared kitchen that gives chefs a chance to start their food business.
Andrea Abedi, is one of the founders of The Kitchen Table Santa Fe. She said they opened in May and already had 10 chefs who had signed up to use the kitchens. The chefs have access to the kitchen 24/7 and it comes with everything cooks may need. “We have everything from ovens, stoves, three compartment sinks, dish washers, we have a cold kitchen,” Abedi.
Fernando Ruiz is the chef and owner of Escondio Catering in Santa Fe. He said he understands the challenges of opening a business and he’s glad to see The Kitchen Table Santa Fe is taking some of the stress off of new entrepreneurs. “To try to prep everything in Albuquerque, drive it up to Santa Fe and/or Espanola or Taos because a lot of my work is Northern New Mexico and it was just a hassle,” said Ruiz.
As for Ahern-Seronde he’s already seeing his dream come to life. “I just launched in Albuquerque at Salsa Saint and they’re in Old Town they’re a really nice boutique chile shop,” said Ahern-Seronde.
The Kitchen Table Santa Fe also helps business owners with any paperwork they need in order to start their business. | 2023-07-31T15:13:17+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/santa-fe-company-helping-people-start-their-food-business/ |
Chauvin moved to Arizona federal pen to serve time in George Floyd killing
(AP) - Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions.
Chauvin was taken Wednesday from a maximum-security prison in a Minneapolis suburb, where he often spent most of his day in a 10-by-10-foot cell, to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
The Tucson facility houses 266 inmates, both male and female, as part of a larger complex that includes a high-security penitentiary and a minimum-security satellite camp.
Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Randilee Giamusso declined to detail the circumstances of Chauvin’s confinement, citing privacy, safety and security concerns.
Experts said earlier that Chauvin was likely to be safer in the federal system. It typically houses less-violent inmates, and he’d be less likely to mix with inmates he had arrested or investigated as a Minneapolis police officer.
“It’s dangerous to be an officer in any prison,” former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said after Chauvin was sentenced last month. “It’s even more dangerous in state prison because of the nature of the inmate population. There are gangs, for example. And police officers just don’t do well there. Those risks are reduced in a federal prison.”
The federal prison system does house many high-profile inmates, but it is also plagued by gangs and chronic violence. The entire federal prison system was put on a nationwide lockdown in January after two inmates were killed and two others were injured during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in Texas.
The Bureau of Prisons has also faced increasing scrutiny of violent incidents and serious misconduct in its ranks. Associated Press investigations have uncovered abuse, neglect and leadership missteps, including rampant sexual abuse by workers, severe staffing shortages, inmate escapes and the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chauvin was sentenced last month in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to 21 years on federal civil rights charges after pleading guilty in an agreement with prosecutors. He was already serving 22 1/2 years for his conviction in state court on murder and manslaughter charges; a condition of the agreement called for the sentences to be served concurrently and in federal prison.
Chauvin, who is white, killed Floyd by pinning the unarmed Black man to the pavement with his knee for 9 1/2 minutes as bystander video captured Floyd struggling to breathe and crying out for help. Floyd was suspected of passing a counterfeit bill at a nearby grocery store.
Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, touched off a firestorm of protests around the world and refocused attention on police brutality and racism.
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson suggested when sentencing Chauvin that he be placed near family who live between Iowa and Minnesota. But federal officials are not bound by judicial requests.
Last month Magnuson also sentenced ex-Minneapolis police Officer J. Alexander Kueng to three years in prison and former Officer Tou Thao to 3 1/2 years on criminal civil rights charges related to the Floyd killing. They intend to appeal their sentences. Earlier in July, former officer Thomas Lane was sentenced to 2½ years. He’s been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado later this month.
The three former officers were on trial at the same time three men were in court in Georgia, facing federal hate crime charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who was Black. They were eventually convicted.
Two of the men agreed to plead guilty in the case in exchange for serving their sentences in federal prison, saying they feared for their safety in state prison. The judge rejected the deal in part because Arbery’s family strongly opposed it.
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This story has been corrected to show the correct spelling of Randilee Giamusso’s name.
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What are the best Sennheiser products?
Sennheiser is a top electronics brand specializing in audio products. It’s not as glamorous as other industry-leading brands, but there’s no question that their audio devices and equipment are of exceptional quality.
Sennheiser makes several kinds of audio electronics, primarily headphones and sound bars. However, it can be challenging when browsing its products to find the best ones. While most Sennheiser products are worth a look, a few premium devices are comparable to those of other top brands.
What are the most popular kinds of Sennheiser products?
Headphones
Headphones are the most common Sennheiser products with several styles available, so you can choose something that suits your needs. There are bulkier over-ear headphones for superior audio quality and lightweight in-ear headphones suitable for exercising and traveling. There are also high-end TV headphone systems specially designed for watching TV.
Sound bars
Sennheiser only offers one sound bar. However, it delivers fantastic audio quality, including crystal-clear dialogue and deep bass. It has everything you could ever want in a sound bar and is a terrific addition to any home theater or speaker setup.
What should I look for in Sennheiser headphones?
Audio quality
It might seem unnecessary to mention, but you want your headphones to deliver high-quality sound. Over-ear headphones are equipped to deliver deeper bass, but they should also reproduce clear mids and highs. Finding headphones that provide the sound you’re looking for can take some trial and error, but it’s best to consider your favorite genres and go from there.
Ingress Protection
An Ingress Protection, or IP, rating refers to a device’s resistance to dust particles and moisture. The first digit represents a device’s dust protection level, while the second indicates moisture resistance. For example, headphones with an IP54 rating offer limited dust protection and are resistant to water splashes from any direction.
Headphones with an IP rating are crucial for exercising, as those without an IP rating can become damaged by sweat and other moisture. Also, those without an IP rating aren’t suitable for environments like the beach where sand can get inside them.
Controls
The best Sennheiser headphones have built-in controls for managing music playback and accessing virtual assistants, such as Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. Touch controls can also be used for managing phone calls and volume, and sometimes they can be customized through a smartphone app based on your preference.
Noise-canceling and transparency modes
Active noise-canceling is appealing for those who are often in noisy environments and want to drown out the exterior sound for a smoother listening experience. However, a transparency mode enhances ambient sound and helps wearers gain a better sense of their surroundings, which is helpful for cyclists and joggers.
Battery life
Top-quality wireless headphones should offer at least 20 to 30 hours of battery life. Wireless earbuds usually offer five to 10 but can be recharged in their portable case multiple times, often providing 18 to 24 total hours of listening.
Best Sennheiser products
Best in-ear headphones
Momentum True Wireless 3 Earbuds
These earbuds have a built-in equalizer, a sensitive transducer and an adaptive function to deliver excellent audio quality. They have active noise-cancellation to block external noise and a transparency mode for listening to your surroundings. Plus, they are splash-resistant and offer up to 28 hours of battery life.
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These are terrific for anyone who wants affordable workout earbuds that deliver excellent sound. They offer a secure fit and adjustable acoustics for optimizing sound quality and noise-canceling. The music playback controls are customizable, and an IP54 rating means they’re dust- and splash-resistant.
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These earbuds are a terrific option for those working with a budget who don’t mind the conjoined wired design. They last up to 10 hours on a full charge and support AAC codec for high-quality audio streaming. Plus, they have a three-button control system for managing calls and music playback.
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Best over-ear headphones
Momentum 3 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones
These headphones have a robust design but are still lightweight enough for traveling. They have intuitive controls, an automatic on and off function and a feature that pauses playback when you remove them from your head. Also, the soft ear pads offer a plush feel, and the durable leather headband makes for a premium build quality.
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PXC 550-II Wireless Headphones
Look no further if you want wireless headphones with a sturdy, traditional build. These headphones deliver superior sound quality, up to 30 hours of listening time and one-touch access to voice assistants, such as Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. Plus, the ergonomic design provides a comfortable fit even for extended periods.
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These affordable headphones have a stripped-down design but still offer high-quality audio and up to 30 hours of listening. Users can customize sound through the Sennheiser Smart Control app, and the intuitive controls can be used to control playback or access voice assistants.
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Sound bars and other headphones
This sound bar is expensive, but you’ll probably never need to purchase another one again. It delivers 5.4.1-channel high-quality sound and impressive 30-hertz bass without needing a subwoofer. It supports wireless streaming over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and it uses Sony’s 360 spatial audio technology for immersive listening.
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These heady-duty headphones deliver audiophile-grade sound quality in a closed-headphone design. They have a 56-millimeter ring radiator transducer system that finely tunes audio quality and gorilla glass receptors for outstanding spatial sound reproduction.
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These headphones have a circumaural design engineered to provide an immersive listening experience while watching TV. There are hearing preset modes for enhancing dialogue or increasing dynamic range during music playback, and the transmitter supports analog and digital inputs.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Select John Deere Gator utility vehicles have been recalled due to a fire hazard.
According to the recall, the impacted vehicles could have an issue where the fuel could leak from under the fuel cap, posing a potential fire hazard.
Around 1,600 Gators nationwide were impacted by the recall, but only those with the model number XUV590E, XUV590M, or XUV590M S4 printed on the hood.
While no incidents or injuries have yet been reported as a result of the issue, if you have an impacted vehicle, you’re advised to stop use immediately and contact an authorized John Deere dealer for a free inspection, and if necessary, free repair.
Find a full list of all vehicle serial numbers included in the recall online here. | 2023-06-11T14:44:30+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/8news-consumer-alerts/nearly-2000-john-deere-gators-recalled-for-fire-hazard/ |
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DETROIT (AP) — Eric Haase had three hits, including one of three Detroit homers, and the Tigers snapped a six-game losing streak with a 14-7 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday.
The Tigers had scored only two runs in their last four games, but set a season high for runs Saturday.
“I don't know if we had a sense this was coming, but we knew we needed to go out and do it,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “Today was every guy in the lineup stepping up, and I'm thankful, because they needed it. Everyone on this team needed a game like this.”
Javy Baez and Robbie Grossman also homered and top prospect Riley Greene scored twice in his major league debut.
“I'm feeling awesome — it has been a busy couple days, but I just wanted to get to playing baseball,” said Greene, who went 2 for 3 with two walks. “Once I got that first hit out of the way, all my nerves were gone. Now we go.”
Rony Garcia (1-2) picked up the win, allowing four runs on four hits in six innings.
Texas starter Taylor Hearn (4-5) allowed eight runs and 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings.
“It was just a lot of balls down the middle,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. "A major league starter has to go out there and be able to execute pitches. That lineup obviously hasn't been scoring a ton, and if you execute against them, you can get them out.
“We didn't do that today.”
Adolis Garcia gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead with a first-inning homer before the Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the inning.
With one out, Grossman hit his first homer of the season. Miguel Cabrera flew out before Haase doubled and scored on Baez's fourth homer. Greene followed with a single in his first big league at-bat.
“We gave up the quick run, but we came right back with Robbie hitting his first one, and then Javy hits one,” Hinch said. “This has been a tough week, and after Garcia hit one a mile in the first inning, it was huge to have that kind of inning.”
The Tigers added a fourth run in the second on a run-scoring double play, then made it 6-1 in the fourth on RBI singles by Willi Castro and Cabrera.
Jesus Tinoco replaced Hearn and immediately gave up a three-run homer to Haase.
Kody Clemens made it 10-1 in the fifth, picking up his first career RBI with a sacrifice fly that was also Greene's first run. Castro added an RBI triple later in the inning.
Meanwhile, Rony Garcia retired 13 straight batters after Adolis Garcia's homer before the Rangers rallied in the sixth.
Leody Tavares doubled and took third when Baez couldn't handle a line drive by Zach Reks. Marcus Semien hit into a double play, making it 11-2. Corey Seager followed with a homer and Adolis Garcia tripled and scored on Baez's second error of the inning.
That pulled Texas within 11-4, but Detroit scored three times off Jose Leclerc in the bottom of the inning. Leclerc was pitching for the first time since July 26, 2020 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
“It was a good day just to see Jose out there wearing our uniform,” Woodward said. “The results aren't what he wanted, but he's back pitching in the majors. That's the biggest step.”
The Rangers scored three runs against Jason Foley in the ninth.
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The Tigers played in Detroit Stars throwbacks as part of their annual Negro Leagues Weekend. The Rangers wore their normal blue tops and gray pants rather than a themed uniform.
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The teams finish a four-game series on Sunday, with Detroit's Drew Hutchison (0-4, 4.58) facing the Rangers' Dane Dunning (1-4, 4.04).
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As Argentina’s powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández stepped from her car outside her apartment building and began shaking hands with a throng of a well-wishers, a man came forward with a gun, put it just inches from her face and pulled the trigger with a distinct click.
The weapon apparently jammed.
Fernández's security detail seized the gunman and took him away, and the 69-year-old former president of Argentina appeared unhurt. But the apparent assassination attempt against the deeply divisive figure Thursday night shook the country and threatened to further roil its tumultuous political scene.
The gunman was identified as Fernando André Sabag Montiel, a 35-year-old street vendor and Brazilian citizen who has lived in Argentina since 1998 and had no criminal record, authorities said. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Authorities shed no light on a possible motive and were investigating whether he acted alone or was part of a larger plot.
“There is no confirmed hypothesis,” said a Security Ministry official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. “Everything is being investigated.”
The country's political leaders quickly condemned the incident, with President Alberto Fernández holding a late-night national broadcast to tell Argentines just how close the vice president came to being killed.
The president, who is not related to his vice president, said the man's semiautomatic handgun was loaded with five bullets but “didn’t fire even though the trigger was pulled.”
Argentina, a country with a history of political violence, seemed to be in a state of shock Friday morning. The streets of Buenos Aires were quiet after the president declared a national holiday in the wake of what he called “the most serious incident since we recovered democracy” in 1983 after a military dictatorship.
Allies of Fernández, who was president from 2007 to 2015, called for a march in Buenos Aires to express their support and repudiate the incident.
No politician awakens more passion in Argentina than Fernández, who has both fervent supporters and ardent detractors.
The left-of-center leader is on trial on corruption charges involving public works while she was president. Some of her staunchest supporters had been gathering daily outside her apartment since Aug. 22, when a prosecutor called for a 12-year prison sentence for her and a ban on holding public office ever again. She has vehemently denied all charges and cast herself as a victim of political persecution.
“If you touch Cristina, what chaos we’ll make!" supporters had chanted.
In recent days, some of her allies charged that her detractors were trying to spark violence, with Security Minister Aníbal Fernández saying the opposition "is looking for someone to die on the street.”
Following Thursday's incident, some of her supporters pointed the finger at the opposition for what they said was hateful speech that could push people toward violence.
Before the apparent attempt on her life, Fernández had made a habit of leaving her apartment every day around noon, greeting supporters and signing autographs before getting in her vehicle to go to the Senate. She had a similar routine every evening.
Over the weekend, her supporters had clashed with police during an effort by law enforcement to clear the area, and the strong police presence around the apartment was then reduced, though her supporters kept coming.
In Thursday's incident, which was captured on video, those around the vice president looked shocked and confused.
It was not clear whether Fernández understood what had just happened. Video appeared to show her covering her face and ducking. But seen from another angle, it looked as she had dropped something and crouched to pick it up.
Even as her security detail went into action, Fernández continued greeting supporters in the upscale Recoleta neighborhood of Argentina’s capital.
Government officials and former leaders decried the episode as a threat against democracy and the rule of law.
“When hate and violence are imposed over the debate of ideas, societies are destroyed and generate situations like the one seen today: an assassination attempt,” Economy Minister Sergio Massa said.
Patricia Bullrich, president of the opposition Republican Proposal party, accused President Fernández of using the episode for political gain.
“Instead of seriously investigating a serious incident, he accuses the opposition and the press, decreeing a national holiday to mobilize activists," she said.
Fernández has been at the center stage of Argentine political life for almost two decades, revered by some for her left-leaning social welfare policies and reviled by others as corrupt and power-hungry. She was the country's charismatic first lady during President Néstor Kirchner’s 2003-07 administration, then succeeded her husband.
As opposition to her rule began rising, Fernández increasingly portrayed herself as the victim of attacks from powerful special interests because of her defense of the poor and workers.
In one of the most dramatic incidents of her two-term presidency, a prosecutor who had accused Fernández of sealing a deal with Iran to cover up its alleged involvement in a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires died shortly before he was set to present evidence against her in 2015.
Allies of the former president insist Nisman died by suicide. But the opposition has long contended that he was murdered or driven to kill himself.
Brazil’s authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has frequently criticized the left-leaning Argentine government, weighed in Friday on the apparent assassination attempt.
“I lament it, and there are people already trying to blame me for that problem,” Bolsonaro said. “It is good that the attacker didn’t know how to use a gun, otherwise he would have been successful. ”
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Daniel Politi reported from Santiago, Chile.
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Like many people, there’s a good chance you enjoy a dash of cinnamon in sweet classics from oatmeal to apple pie. But did you know this spice can be enjoyed in a wide range of dishes and beverages, providing a slew of health benefits to boot?
Here, a dietitian breaks down those health benefits, how to enjoy this versatile spice, and more.
Health benefits of cinnamon
According to Annelie Vogt von Heselholt, a registered dietitian and doctor of clinical nutrition specializing in cancer nutrition, cinnamon provides a wide range of health benefits. For starters, cinnamon is rich in a type of antioxidants called polyphenols that have anti-inflammatory properties.
“[These antioxidants] can help protect against heart disease, control hyperglycemia and improve how your cells react to insulin,” she explains.
Cinnamon may also play a role in reducing aging and protecting the brain from degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s dementia, Vogt von Heselholt adds.
Does cinnamon help with inflammation?
No surprise here that the answer is likely yes.
“Since cinnamon is very high in antioxidants, it may help reduce what’s called oxidative stress that can cause inflammation, chronic diseases, and cancer,” Vogt von Heselholt says.
What is the best way to take cinnamon?
According to Vogt von Heselholt, cinnamon comes in two main varieties, Cassia and Ceylon. The Cassia variety is commonly found in supermarkets and contains coumarin, a potentially toxic compound. Ceylon cinnamon, on the other hand, doesn’t have coumarin and is a healthier and safer choice to consume on a regular basis.
You can buy it in sticks, powders, and in supplement forms. Vogt von Heselholt recommends using it in various foods, from homemade cinnamon tea to hummus, smoothies, stir-fries, and more.
Health benefits of cinnamon tea
Unsurprisingly, consuming cinnamon in tea is another equally good way to reap the health benefits of cinnamon. According to Vogt von Heselholt, drinking cinnamon tea can help protect against heart disease, control hyperglycemia and improve how your cells react to insulin.
“It may also play a role in reducing aging and protecting the brain from degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease,” she says.
Benefits of cinnamon and honey
Cinnamon and honey are often a winning combination when it comes to flavoring sweet breakfast dishes and desserts. They also complement each other quite well when it comes to health benefits, Vogt von Heselholt says.
“Cinnamon can help reduce inflammation, control hyperglycemia, and reduce heart disease, while honey, on the other hand, is packed with antioxidants, has antibacterial properties, and may suppress the common cough,” she says. “In combination, they may help reduce heart disease and hyperglycemia.”
Can you drink cinnamon every day?
As with many things in life, it’s possible to have too much of a good thing, and that includes cinnamon. According to Vogt von Heselholt, consuming too much of the Cassia variety of cinnamon can potentially cause side effects because of its higher coumarin content, in addition to other plant compounds that shouldn’t be consumed in large amounts.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic looked as if he were a bit surprised by the question.
And maybe he should have been.
The query, essentially, was this: Are you the favorite to win the championship at Wimbledon? Now, sure, there is some work to be done to collect that trophy.
First Djokovic, 36, needs to beat No. 8 seed Jannik Sinner, 21, on Friday in what represents the largest age gap between two men’s semifinalists at the All England Club in the professional era, which began in 1968.
And after that, Djokovic would need to beat the winner of that day’s other match — No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz or No. 3 Daniil Medvedev — in the final on Sunday.
This, then, was Djokovic’s reply: “I mean, I don’t want to sound arrogant, but of course I would consider myself the favorite.”
What Djokovic might have been forgiven for saying, but was too polite to, was: “Come on, my friend. Is that really what you want to ask? Of course I expect to win the title. And you should expect me to win the title. And everybody should expect me to win the title.”
Start by looking at his accomplishments relative to the other three men still around at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament:
—Djokovic has won seven Wimbledon titles. The other three guys have won a total of zero.
—Djokovic has reached his 12th Wimbledon semifinal. The other three guys have never played in one.
—Djokovic has won a men’s-record 23 Grand Slam titles, including both so far this year. The other three guys have won a total of two: Medvedev at the 2021 U.S. Open, Alcaraz at the 2022 U.S. Open.
—Djokovic will be participating in his 46th major semifinal on Friday, equaling Roger Federer’s record for men. The other three guys have raised their combined total to 10: Medvedev is into his sixth, Alcaraz his third, Sinner his first.
And then there’s also this: Djokovic is a combined 12-5 against the other three guys head-to-head. He leads Sinner 2-0, including a win in last year’s Wimbledon quarterfinals. Sinner took the first two sets in that one but blew the huge lead and lost in five.
After eliminating No. 7 Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals Tuesday, Djokovic was asked during his on-court interview what it feels like to constantly be the player every else is focused on trying to beat.
“I know they want … to win,” he said. “But it ain’t happening. Still.”
One thing working in Djokovic’s favor these days, unlike during most of his time on tour, is he no longer needs to deal with Federer, who announced his retirement last year, and currently does not need to worry about Rafael Nadal, who has been sidelined since January with a bad hip and indicated that, if he is able to return to competition, 2024 will be his final season.
Next to try to solve Djokovic, who has won 26 consecutive Grand Slam matches overall and 33 in a row at Wimbledon, will be Sinner, considered one of the leading members of the sport’s next generation.
Djokovic’s scouting report on Sinner: “He’s so young, so of course it’s expected that he’s going to improve. He is improving, no doubt, I think, with the serve. He’s been serving better. On grass, obviously, (that) makes a difference. He’s a very complete player.”
Sinner’s description of facing Djokovic: “It is also a little bit mental, no? If you play against Novak, it’s always tough to play … especially (at) Grand Slams.”
At 20, Alcaraz is even younger than Sinner, against whom he is already developing a rivalry thanks to some stirring matches between them. And Alcaraz has accomplished more so far. But he wants to do much more in the sport.
He and Medvedev, 27, offer contrasting styles that could produce a scintillating matchup. Still, all eyes on Friday — and, most assume, Sunday, too — will be on Djokovic.
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Process management specialist to resell and implement OpenText solutions including Content Management to support regional customers in their digital transformation initiatives
WATERLOO, ON, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), a global leader in information management, today announced expanded local support for OpenText™ solutions in the DACH region following a newly signed partnership agreement with process and consulting specialist Scheer Group. Leveraging OpenText's Information Management platform that helps customers organize, integrate, and protect data and content as it flows through business processes inside and outside the organization, Scheer will be able to offer its customers increased choice for in-region deployment of its process management and digital enablement technologies and services.
Under the new partnership, Scheer will resell components from OpenText´s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite – including OpenText™ Extended ECM that allows content to be transparently integrated with other leading applications such as SAP S/4HANA®, SAP® SuccessFactors®, Salesforce®, Microsoft® Office 365® . OpenText's Enterprise Content Management and Digital Process Automation technologies will complement Scheer's SAP Competence Center and its extensive team of process consultants. By allowing customers to adopt Information Management solutions that are complementary to the RISE with SAP offering, this partnership will help customers accelerate their migration to SAP S/4HANA® with the benefits of OpenText. The partnership will initially focus on serving customers within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (the "DACH" region) with plans for geographic expansion in the future.
"We are pleased to welcome Scheer into the OpenText Global Partner ecosystem," said Werner Rieche, Managing Director, Germany, and Vice President Sales, DACH at OpenText. "Information is every organization's most valuable asset. By combining our award-winning Information Management solutions with Scheer's process and digital enablement capabilities, Scheer customers will benefit from having access to the right information at the right time to deliver operational excellence and bottom-line improvements."
"As companies around the globe prioritize a digital-first approach to their operations, it is essential that they are able to seamlessly bring business and IT together through clear processes and dynamic information management tools," said Mario Baldi, CEO at Scheer Group. "We are excited to share the news of our partnership with OpenText, enabling our customers to benefit from leading information management technologies to help realize renewed value from data and content, and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives."
Scheer is a leading specialist for efficient business process management with over 35 years of experience. Leveraging in-depth industry know-how and strong IT competencies, Scheer is trusted by organizations in a variety of industry sectors who want to optimize and streamline business processes including those that are document-based. Already partnering with some of the largest software companies in the world including SAP and Microsoft, Scheer customers will be able to leverage OpenText Information Management solutions that best support their business while complementing enterprise solutions already in place.
Delegates attending OpenText World EMEA 2022, taking place June 21-22, will have the opportunity to hear from Werner Rieche and Mario Baldi in a session scheduled at 13.00-13.30 CET on June 22 in which they will share their visions and solutions for successful projects and how customers and partners are actively shaping the future of Information Management.
To learn more about Scheer Group and its partnership with OpenText visit www.scheer-group.com/en/customers-partnerships/opentext-partnership/.
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Scheer GmbH is the flagship company of the Scheer Group, which operates in various European countries as well as in the U.S.A., Singapore, and Australia. As a consulting and software house with proven process expertise, Scheer supports companies in the development of new business models, with the optimization and implementation of efficient business processes as well as with the dependable operation of their IT systems. The integrated architecture comprises various consulting solutions and products: it offers dependable solutions for the end-to-end digitization of business models and processes as well as for the implementation of new technologies in digital business. Scheer is the partner of choice for many well-known companies working towards the useful and efficient implementation of SAP and SAP S/4HANA. Furthermore, consulting in the context of the current development of business process management and process mining supports the quality of innovative business model processes. Customers benefit from high levels of Scheer sector expertise, gained from diverse consulting projects, professional IT implementation and the possibility of having their applications or the entire IT-architecture run and managed in the cloud by Scheer experts. For more information, please visit www.scheer-group.com.
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Seventeen apartment buildings were evacuated Saturday in a Russian city near the Ukrainian border after an explosive device was found at the site where a bomb accidentally dropped by a Russian warplane caused a powerful blast this week, authorities said.
The bomb blast late Thursday rocked part of Belgorod, leaving a large crater and three people injured. The Russian Defense Ministry quickly acknowledged that a weapon accidentally released by one of its own Su-34 bombers caused the explosion.
The ministry said an investigation was underway but did not elaborate on the details of the weapon, which military experts said likely was a powerful 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) bomb.
The governor of Belgorod province, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported Saturday that sappers examining the site of Thursday's blast found and decided to detonate what he called an “explosive object” that was “in the immediate vicinity of residential buildings.”
The precautionary evacuations ended later in the day, according to Belgorod Mayor Valentin Demidov.
“The bomb was removed from the residential area. Residents are being delivered back to their homes,” Demidov wrote on Telegram.
Russian authorities did not say if the detonated device was dropped by accident on Thursday and if so, if it was a remnant of or separate from the bomb that exploded in the city.
Belgorod, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the Russia-Ukraine border, has faced regular drone attacks since Russia sent troops into Ukraine last year. Russian authorities have blamed those strikes on the Ukrainian military, which refrained from directly claiming responsibility for the attacks.
Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has sent relations with the West into deep freeze, with frequent expulsions of diplomats on both sides.
On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that German authorities had “decided on another mass expulsion of employees of Russian diplomatic missions in Germany.” It said that Moscow would expel German diplomats in response.
A ministry statement said that “as a reaction to the hostile actions of Berlin,” Russia decided to “mirror” the expulsions by Germany and “significantly limit” the maximum number of staff at German diplomatic missions in Russia.
Germany's Foreign Ministry said it took note of the comments. It said that the German government and Russia had been in contact in recent weeks on “questions regarding the staffing of the respective diplomatic missions" and that a flight on Saturday took place in that context. It didn't elaborate.
The German air force said earlier that a Russian plane flew to Berlin with diplomatic clearance on Saturday, but didn't specify who or what was on board. Special clearance is required because the European Union closed its airspace to Russian aircraft shortly after the war in Ukraine started.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine-war | 2023-04-22T14:17:18+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/04/22/apartments-evacuated-after-explosive-found-in-russian-city/ |
The Uvalde school district's police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Chief Pete Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News Friday that his resignation is "the best decision for Uvalde." He was elected to the District 3 council position on May 7 and sworn in on May 31. The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety told a Senate hearing last month that Arredondo made "terrible decisions" as the massacre unfolded on May 24 , and that the police response was an "abject failure."
“After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city council for District 3. The mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I feel this is the best decision for Uvalde,” Arredondo said. | 2022-07-02T20:50:20+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/uvalde-schools-police-chief-resigns-from-city-council |
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New book audio: Trump falsely claimed he gave Kim letters to Archives in 2021
By Jeremy Herb, CNN
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed he had given the letters he exchanged with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the National Archives last year when he was interviewed by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for her forthcoming book, according to audio of the interview obtained by CNN.
Trump also claimed in his interviews with Haberman that he was not watching television while the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol unfolded, which has been contradicted by testimony of White House aides to the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
Haberman’s book, “Confidence Man,” is being released on Tuesday. The book, which includes new details about Trump’s time in the White House, chronicles how the former President’s rise in the world of New York City politics and real estate in the 1970s and 1980s ultimately shaped his worldview and his presidency.
Haberman told The New York Times, which first reported the audio clips, that she asked Trump in a September 2021 interview “on a lark” whether he had taken any memento documents from the White House. Trump told Haberman, “Nothing of great urgency, no,” before bringing up the Kim letters unprompted.
“I have great things though, you know. The letters, the Kim Jong Un letters. I had many of them,” Trump said.
“You were able to take those with you?” Haberman asked.
“No, I think that has the … I think that’s in the archives, but most of it is in the Archives. But the Kim Jong Un letters, we have incredible things. I have incredible letters with other leaders.”
CNN and other outlets have previously reported that Trump, in fact, had kept the Kim letters among the tens of thousands of government documents that he took to his Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving the White House. The letters were among the items in the boxes he turned over to the National Archives in January, which also included classified material that prompted the Archives to refer the matter to the Justice Department.
In another audio clip of her interview with Trump, Haberman asked how Trump found out that rioters had breached the Capitol. The former President claimed he wasn’t watching television.
“I had heard that afterwards, and actually on the late side. I was having meetings. I was also with (then-White House chief of staff) Mark Meadows and others. I was not watching television. I didn’t have the television on,” he said.
Trump continued: “I didn’t usually have the television on. I’d have it on if there was something. I then later turned it on and I saw what was happening.”
But there have been multiple accounts that Trump did, in fact, watch the chaos at the Capitol unfolding on television, and it was a focus of one of the January 6 committee’s hearings earlier this year.
Haberman told the Times she thought Trump’s lies about what he was doing on January 6 represents two things: “His desire to construct an alternate reality, and his particular sensitivity to anyone suggesting he watches a lot of television, which he associates with people diminishing his intelligence (even though he watches a very large amount of television).”
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AKRON, Ohio — Social justice activists called for widespread police reforms while marching through the streets of Akron on Tuesday, a day after a grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94 shots at Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed after what started as a traffic stop.
Organizers of the march told dozens of protesters to make their voices heard but urged them not to become violent.
Protests following Walker’s death and the release of body-camera footage of the shooting led to daily protests last summer and a citywide curfew. City leaders in recent days set up a protest zone downtown in anticipation of more demonstrations.
Walker was shot 46 times in a barrage of gunfire that lasted just under seven seconds on June 27 after he jumped out of his still-moving car and ran from police.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said Monday the state’s investigation found that Walker fired at least one round at officers while he was in his car and then later while he was running on foot, he reached toward his waistband and raised a hand as officers were chasing.
The officers, not knowing Walker left his gun in the car, believed he was going to fire again, Yost said.
Representatives of Walker’s family and some local leaders, including Democratic U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes, have called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the Akron Police Department.
On Tuesday, Walker’s mother and sister rode in a vehicle leading the protest through the city while marchers carrying Black Lives Matter flags and “Justice for Jayland” signs followed behind.
Longtime activist Tamika Mallory told a crowd before the march that firing nearly 100 shots “is not policing we want in our community.”
“That is not humane. It is not right. It is something we must challenge,” she said.
Bobby DiCello, an attorney for Walker’s family, said that those who came to the march were lifting the spirits of his surviving relatives. “You are helping this family. You are helping them find meaning in their day,” he said.
He also wanted everyone to know that Walker, who had no criminal history and recently worked as a food delivery driver and volunteered as a wrestling coach, was “not the kid on the corner, he was not the guy on the streets.”
DiCello disputed how the state’s investigation described Walker as shooting at police when he fired outside his car window.
“There’s no gun pointed at anyone. You don’t see it ever,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
At the time of the shooting, Walker was grieving his fiancée’s recent death, and state investigators were asked Monday at a news conference if his death could have been suicide.
Anthony Pierson, an assistant state attorney general, declined to speculate about Walker’s state of mind and said there was no direct evidence he was suicidal.
Authorities checked Walker’s online history and found in the weeks before his death searches for phrases including “drinking bleach” and “quickest ways to die,” according to the state’s investigative report.
DiCello said Walker had been distraught, but that didn’t play a role in his death.
“Did he look at things that people look at after they lose someone? Yeah. Does that have anything to do with 96 bullets? No,” he said. “Because a young man was in distress, you’re saying that the force we used was OK because he wanted to die anyway?” ___
Seewer reported from Toledo. | 2023-04-18T20:14:45+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/04/18/jayland-walker-police-shooting-ohio-protest/14643912-de23-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html |
Mom, 2 girls killed in ‘heart-wrenching’ crash on Mother’s Day
WHITEWATER, Calif. (KESQ) - A tragic crash that took place on a California interstate on Mother’s Day killed a mother and two girls and left six other family members injured.
The two-car collision just before 7:30 a.m. Sunday involved a black Tesla and red Chevrolet Suburban on eastbound Interstate 10 near Whitewater. Investigators say the Suburban was hit in the left rear by the Tesla, causing the SUV to hit the center divider and overturn.
“So, this was a traumatic scene with injuries of young people and a mother on Mother’s Day, and it’s heart-wrenching,” said California Highway Patrol Officer Jason Montez.
Nine members of the same family were traveling in the Suburban when it crashed, according to the CHP. At least five of them were ejected from the SUV, and one woman was partially ejected.
The woman who was partially ejected was pronounced dead at the scene. She was identified as 31-year-old Cecilia Villalobos by the Riverside County coroner’s office.
Two girls, ages 8 and 12, were also pronounced dead at the scene.
Four other people in the SUV – a 3-year-old girl, a 7-year-old girl, an 11-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy – suffered major injuries, according to Montez. Two of the victims were airlifted to a trauma center.
A family member who was driving separately and witnessed the crash says they were on the way to Indio.
The crash closed down a six-mile stretch of the interstate for around eight hours, delaying thousands of drivers. Those included Sandy White and her daughter, Jasmine Colek, who were planning to spend Mother’s Day in Joshua Tree.
The mother and daughter say they’re grateful to be safe and together in light of the crash.
“Today is supposed to be such an important day of celebration for people that you love. So, it’s devastating that – it’s never good for something like this to happen but especially today, when people are wanting to be together and be with their loved ones,” Colek said.
Investigators say the cause of the crash was not immediately known.
CHP officers say not all of the people in the Suburban were buckled in at the time of the crash. Only eight seat belts were available in the SUV.
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The Broncos defense did plenty of dancing and trash-talking during Thursday’s practice at the UCHealth Training Center.
A few interceptions and several pass break-ups during the first few team periods allowed the group to puff its chest out on the last practice before Saturday’s preseason game at Buffalo.
Broncos offensive coordinator Justin Outten welcomed that adversity ahead of Denver’s second preseason game.
“That was great to get hit in the mouth at practice,” Outten said. “The defense was playing at a high level and it was good for us to have to wake up… We ended up getting an explosive touchdown (later in practice) and that was the way to respond. (This practice) is going to be a good coaching point moving forward in meetings here.”
Head coach Nathaniel Hackett gave props to the defense, while also noting his offense needs to find out how to get in its groove more quickly. With backup Josh Johnson quarterbacking last Saturday against the Cowboys, the Broncos started the game punt, punt and turnover on downs before finding the end zone on their fourth drive.
“The defense is playing really well, and the offense has to step up,” Hackett said. “(Thursday’s offensive performance) wasn’t good enough. They didn’t do good enough. There were some mental errors and some missed blocks. There were some drops, all that kind of stuff. And it wasn’t just one guy, it was a combination of everybody and the reality of it is is they have to work through that.”
While Hackett has made it clear the Broncos will continue to rest their starters during the final two preseason games, Buffalo coach Sean McDermott told local reporters Thursday his starters will play a “healthy amount” on Saturday in Orchard Park.
“We want to see (our backups) come out there and play versus the best in the league,” Hackett said. “So I think it’s an unbelievable opportunity for those (bubble roster) guys to step up and show what they can do.”
Injury updates. After being excused from practice for personal reasons Wednesday, right tackle Billy Turner didn’t practice again Thursday. The Broncos activated Turner, who had an offseason knee scope, from the Physically Unable to Perform list on Monday. Hackett said there hasn’t been a setback with his knee, and that the lineman spent Thursday “getting extra treatment for making sure that he’s working through his knee and getting everything right so he can get back here and be full speed.”… Center Lloyd Cushenberry, who has also been dealing with a knee injury, returned to the field Thursday without pads and as an observer… Inside linebacker Jonas Griffith (elbow), defensive lineman Marquiss Spencer (knee), guard Netani Muti (knee), wideout Tyrie Cleveland (throat) and safety Kareem Jackson (vet day) also didn’t practice on Thursday.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker will miss the rest of the season after injuring his left knee in the fourth quarter of the ninth-ranked Volunteers loss to South Carolina.
Tennessee announced Sunday that Hooker had a torn ACL and thanked the fifth-year senior transfer from Virginia Tech for being part of the Volunteers' resurgence.
“Forever a Tennessee legend and the ultimate teammate, we know Hendon will come back stronger than ever as he embarks on a promising NFL career,” the school said.
Hooker has been one of the best quarterbacks in the country and a leading Heisman Trophy contender as the Volunteers (9-2) became a surprise entry into the College Football Playoff race.
He has thrown 27 touchdown passes and just two interceptions this season, directing the highest scoring team in the country at 46.5 points per game.
With the Vols trailing by 18 early in the fourth quarter Saturday, Hooker kept the ball on an option play and went down without being hit. He missed the rest of the game and now Tennessee will play out the season without him.
Tennessee is at Vanderbilt next Saturday. While unlikely to remain in the playoff race, the Vols could still land a New Year's Six bowl bid with another victory.
Hooker came to Tennessee in 2021 after three seasons at Virginia Tech and didn't win the starting job initially last season. He ended up throwing 31 touchdowns passes and helping the Vols to a 7-6 season under first-year coach Josh Heupel.
This season, Hooker and the Vols really took off. He finishes with 3,135 yards passing and another 430 yards and five touchdowns rushing.
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NEW YORK, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) between April 27, 2017 and February 25, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important May 2, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
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(The Hill) – Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, said on Sunday that the committee is continuing to receive more testimony as its series of public hearings continue.
Kinzinger told CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Dana Bash that new witnesses have come forward since Cassidy Hutchinson, a Trump official who served as an aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified to the committee publicly last week.
“This happens every day,” Kinzinger said. “Every day we get new people that come forward and say, ‘hey, I didn’t think maybe this piece of the story that I knew was important, but now that you guys are — I do see this plays in here.’”
The committee had planned to pause its public hearings until later in July but suddenly scheduled last week’s hearing with Hutchinson one day prior.
Hutchinson testified that Trump knew the crowd gathered for his rally on Jan. 6 was armed, but she said he wanted the Secret Service to remove metal detectors on the edge of the Ellipse so more people would enter the security perimeter and fill empty space.
She also testified that Trump following the rally lunged for the steering wheel in his Secret Service vehicle in an attempt to join his supporters at the Capitol.
Members of the Secret Service who were in the car are reportedly prepared to testify that they were not assaulted by Trump and that the former president did not try to grab the steering wheel.
That response has led many Republicans to cast doubt on Hutchinson’s credibility. Kinzinger on Sunday declined to say what corroborating evidence the committee has to back up her claims.
“Cassidy Hutchinson has testified under oath,” Kinzinger said. “We find her credible, and anybody that wants to cast disparagement on that that was firsthand present should come and also testify under oath and not through anonymous sources.” | 2022-07-04T00:16:14+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/kinzinger-says-more-witnesses-have-come-forward-after-hutchinson-testimony/ |
Amin Aaser remembers as a child growing up in Minnesota that his Muslim faith often made him feel like an outsider, and being required to follow its practices and tenets “sometimes felt like going to the dentist.”
Those memories are part of what spurred Aaser, now a married man with a 5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, to spend Ramadan producing an online, interactive “Ramadan Camp” for Muslim children ages 5-12 throughout the world.
The Noor Kids Ramadan Camp started two years ago during the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, about 90,000 families have signed up, and about 3,000 families join live every night, he said.
The camp is streamed from a warehouse in Brooklyn Park that is designed to resemble a treehouse. Children spend between 30 minutes and an hour hearing stories, playing games, making projects, listening to guest speakers and sharing prayers.
It's all intended to find fun ways to help the children learn and discuss the tenets of their faith while meeting other Muslim children around the world.
Aaser said Ramadan is the most important time of the year for Muslims, who fast from sunup to sundown while focusing on improving themselves and building their faith. Busy Muslim parents who are fasting can often struggle to bring the spirit of Ramadan into their hearts and homes, he said, and the camp is designed to ease that burden.
Anum Ahmad, the mother of a 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter in Toronto, said the camp has become an almost daily ritual for her family. Although Toronto has a large Muslim population, her son attends a public school with only one other Muslim child, she said.
“It makes a big difference for him to see other kids his age, speaking the same terms we use at home,” Ahmad said. “I can see in his expression how excited he is to see that there are so many other people like him around the world. For the first time I’ve seen a spark related to his religious identity.”
The camp is a continuation of Aaser’s mission since 2012 to help Muslim children embrace their faith and feel accepted, particularly in areas where they are a religious minority.
He said that as a child he was so embarrassed when his friends laughed at his mother's hijab while he played baseball that he asked her to pick him up 15 minutes after the game ended. And the only other Muslims he saw were at a mosque or on television.
As he grew, he wondered how he could help other Muslim children — including his niece and two children — to be confident and accept their Islamic beliefs.
In 2012, he and his brother, Mohammed, began Noor Kids, which has grown to provide child-centered books and online programs that emphasize building character with age-appropriate stories about traits such as gratitude, resilience and courage.
In 2016, after his mother died and in the midst of a divisive U.S. presidential election, Aaser decided to leave a career in venture capital and, with his wife, focus solely on building the Noor Kids brand.
Today, Noor Kids has a team of about 15 people across the world, with most concentrated in Brooklyn Park.
Ahmad said her family has read the Noor Kids books for years because they contain analogies that explain Islamic teachings in a colorful way that appeals to children.
“Sometimes when parents try to explain difficult concepts, it may become a bit preachy, so I feel like I’m maybe not doing the best job of that” she said. “And sometimes if (her son) hears the teaching from someone that he thinks is really cool, like Amin, it can have a very different impact. It’s important to hear it from someone other than parents.”
Aaser said he doesn’t want the interaction in Ramadan Camp to stop when the holiday ends this week, so Noor Kids has launched Muslim Treehouse, which will provide twice-a-week programs to his young audience.
“I hope that through Noor Kids and our online programs we can build a better future for kids,” he said. “The mind of a child is where change begins, and if you can plant the seeds of character and citizenship, my hope is it will pay off for these individuals in the long term.” | 2023-04-16T16:45:41+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2023/04/16/ramadan-camp-reaches-muslim-children-across-the-globe/ |
WELL is a purpose-driven organization, that is at the "heart of healthcare" and is committed to practitioner enablement, safeguarding patient data, and a healthy place to work!
VANCOUVER, BC, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) ("WELL" or "the Company"), a digital health company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce the release of its inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting the company's ESG practices and performance. The report covers the year ended December 31, 2021, and details WELL's ongoing commitment to empowering practitioners and positively impacting health outcomes while highlighting the company's commitment to improve and enhance its practices around environmentalism, social awareness, and governance.
"We are proud to introduce our inaugural ESG Report that showcases our commitments, efforts, and responsibilities to drive real positive societal change for all of our stakeholders," said Hamed Shahbazi, CEO and Founder. "WELL's outlook remains positive across all aspects of our business, including delivering on our strategic ESG priorities. For 2022, our goals include augmenting our ESG performance indicators, continuing to build a best-in-class employee experience, and continuing to deliver on our purpose to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients".
Shane Sabatino, Chief People Officer at WELL, and the executive responsible for WELL's ESG Strategy said, "This report represents a significant step forward in our commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance issues and provides stakeholders clarity on how we will accomplish these goals. People are at the heart of everything we do, ESG will continue to grow as a key focus for WELL, and we look forward to providing future updates and building upon our sustainable strategies".
WELL's 2021 ESG Report is guided by several global ESG standards, including Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Health Care Delivery and Software & IT Services Industry Standards, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The report provides a detailed view of ESG matters that the Company believes are the most relevant to our stakeholders while ensuring there is a foundation of good governance in all that we do, including the following ESG Priorities (highlights and achievements):
- Helping practitioners deliver improved health outcomes, WELL is a tech-enabled healthcare company that empowers physicians with a powerful line-up of digital tools and services we refer to as our practitioner enablement platform.
- Our offering provides all the benefits of a fully managed hybrid environment inclusive of brick and mortar and/or virtual delivery capabilities including online and offline medical office assistant support, billing & back-office management, and referral workflow support. It ensures healthcare providers can optimize their schedules so they can spend more time with their patients and less time doing administrative work.
- WELL's digital offerings reduce wait times, travel times (reducing GHGs), and other traditional socio-economic barriers that are often associated with accessing in-person care.
- Safeguarding the privacy and security of our patients' data while empowering them to proactively leverage their health information is a core element to achieving our mission to positively impact health outcomes.
- Continued investment into WELL's cybersecurity approach to build and improve capabilities
- 100% of WELL's EMR Group is certified in ISO27001, ISO13284 or ISO13485
- WELL had zero reportable data breaches in 2021
- Diversity is highlighted in the ESG report as an invaluable strength at WELL. Currently WELL has 70% of Senior Executive team members representing a visible minority. Furthermore, WELL is committed to achieving at least 33% female representation on its board by the end of 2022.
- Developed a comprehensive COVID-19 response to protect patients and staff in all WELL owned clinics, which resulted in zero COVID-19 outbreaks
- Continued support for a range of well-being initiatives, available to all team members and business units, to help team members stay physically and mentally healthy in a psychologically safe work environment
The full-length report can be found at esg.well.company and on the investor relations section of the company's website.
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Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
WELL is a technology enabled healthcare company whose overarching objective is to positively impact health outcomes to empower and support healthcare practitioners and their patients. WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services. WELL uses this platform to power healthcare practitioners both inside and outside of WELL's own omni-channel patient services offerings. As such, WELL owns and operates Canada's largest network of outpatient medical clinics serving primary and specialized healthcare services and is the provider of a leading multi-national, multi-disciplinary telehealth offering. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WELL" and on OTCQX under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.
This news release may contain "Forward-Looking Information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including, without limitation: information regarding the Company's goals, strategies and growth plans; including but not limited to WELL's diversity target for the board. Forward-Looking Information are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. Forward-Looking Information generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-Looking Information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking and the Forward-Looking Information does not guarantee of future performance. WELL's statements expressed or implied by these Forward-Looking Information are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of WELL 's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-Looking Information is qualified in its entirety by inherent risks and uncertainties, including: direct and indirect material adverse effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the primary healthcare sector in general; regulatory and legislative changes; that future results may vary from historical results; inability to obtain any requisite future financing on suitable terms; any inability to realize the expected benefits and synergies of acquisitions; that market competition may affect the business, results and financial condition of WELL and other risk factors identified in documents filed by WELL under its profile at www.sedar.com, including its most recent Annual Information Form. Except as required by securities law, WELL does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
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Egg prices may be going up in the U.S., but don’t try to save money by buying them in Mexico. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, raw eggs and poultry from Mexico are prohibited from entry into the U.S.
Failure to declare such items could result in penalties of up to $10,000, CBP said.
“There has been a large increase in the volume of prohibited food items, such as raw eggs and raw poultry meat, brought by travelers from Mexico. We would like to remind the traveling public that federal agricultural regulations remain in effect,” said Jennifer De La O, CBP Director of Field Operations in San Diego.
The ongoing outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) is being blamed for increases in prices of eggs and poultry according to USDA’s Economic Research Service. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirms that this outbreak has caused the loss of over 57 million birds, mainly chickens and turkeys, in the United States alone, CBP notes.
This is the deadliest bird flu outbreak in history, and while the current bird flu outbreak is believed to initially have been spread by wild birds, previous outbreaks of this and other avian diseases like Newcastle disease have been linked to human movement of birds and avian products. Even a soiled bird cage or used egg carton could potentially spread these diseases.
The USDA has issued guidance to zoos and bird keepers on how best to keep their birds healthy and reduce the risk from bird flu and other infectious diseases. Reducing the outbreak’s impact is of paramount importance, and preventing the spread, including the prohibition of importing items that may spread the disease from other countries, CBP reports.
CBP encourages travelers to declare all agricultural items to a CBP officer upon arrival to avoid penalties. Travelers should not attempt to bring fruits, vegetables, or meats into the United States without first confirming they are permitted. Raw eggs and poultry from Mexico are prohibited and will be confiscated at the port.
For more information, travelers may visit the Bringing Agricultural Products into the United States section of the CBP website. | 2023-01-21T15:42:39+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/news/cbp-dont-bring-eggs-from-mexico-into-the-u-s/article_9d22c160-991d-11ed-a3fa-177f3db0c012.html |
URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Two were arrested, and police are still searching for the third after an armed robbery involving an attempted social media purchase.
The armed robbery occurred at Aspen Court Apartment Complex around 11:00 p.m., said the Urbana Police Department.
Officers learned a man planned to buy items via social media, at a specified location. Once he arrived, he was lured to secondary location, Aspen Court Apartment Complex. Three males robbed the man at gunpoint with an extended magazine pistol. They struck the victim in the head with the weapon. Officers gave the victim medical aid for his injuries.
After receiving a tip, officers with the Urbana Police Department went to the Aspen Court Apartment Complex on Saturday around 4:30 p.m. Officers found two males possibly involved with the incident, both refused to comply and ran, said the Urbana Police Department.
Officers were able to arrest Jakeif Green of Urbana before he entered an address off of Hunter Street and Lierman Street. The other arrested individual is a 16-year-old with an outstanding warrant of Aggravated Battery to a Peace Officer. Police reported that they conducted a court-ordered search of the address and found items stolen from the victim along with an extended magazine pistol.
Green is at the Champaign County Satellite Jail with a $150,000 bond for armed robbery. The juvenile was transported to the Champaign County Youth Detention Center and is awaiting legal proceedings, said police.
The Urbana Police are still trying to locate the third man and asking anyone with additional information or video footage to contact them at 217-384-2320. If you wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 217-373-TIPS; 373tips.com; or the P3 mobile tips app. | 2022-10-31T23:30:56+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/urbana-police-arrest-two-still-searching-for-one-in-armed-robbery/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-6-7
(six, six, seven)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
6-6-7
(six, six, seven) | 2022-06-15T20:08:19+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17244013.php |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – More than 60,000 Bissell vacuums are being recalled because they can overheat and pose a fire hazard, according to officials.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, certain models of the Bissell Multi-Surface Wet Dry Vacuum are being recalled because the battery pack can overheat and start smoking.
The recalled vacuums include models:
- 2551
- 2551W
- 25519
Officials said the model numbers are “visible when the clean water tank is removed.”
There have been 66 reports of vacuums smoking and “emitting a burning odor” and “five reports of the battery pack catching on fire,” officials said. And of those five, three caused some property damage and “one burn injury.”
The vacuums were sold at Walmart as well as online through Bissel, Walmart, QVC, Amazon, Costco, Kohls, Wayfair and several others between January 2019 and November 2022, officials stated.
If you have one of these vacuums, officials said to stop using it and to contact Bissell for a battery pack replacement. | 2023-01-13T15:48:48+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/more-than-60000-vacuums-recalled-because-they-could-catch-fire/ |
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Associated Press
NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor who faces at least five felonies for allegedly sexually abusing Indigenous girls is scheduled to face a judge for the first time in the case on Thursday.
The possible charges against Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, include sex trafficking and sexual assault, according to court records. Clark County prosecutors have not said when they will formally charge him or whether more charges will be filed.
Las Vegas police arrested Chasing Horse this week following a monthslong investigation into alleged abuse that authorities said spanned two decades.
He remained held at a Clark County jail without bail Wednesday evening on the sexual assault charges. A judge on Thursday is expected to address his custody status and could set bail.
Known for his role as young Sioux tribe member Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film, Chasing Horse gained a reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a so-called medicine man who performed healing ceremonies.
He is believed to be the leader of a cult known as The Circle with a strong following of people who believed he could communicate with higher powers, according to an arrest warrant.
Police said he abused his position, physically and sexually assaulting Indigenous girls and women, taking underage wives and leading the cult. He was arrested outside the home he shares with his five wives near Las Vegas.
Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation.
A 50-page search warrant obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press claimed Chasing Horse trained his wives to use firearms, instructing them to “shoot it out” with police officers if they tried to “break their family apart.” If that failed, the wives were to take “suicide pills.”
He was taken into custody as he left his home in North Las Vegas. SWAT officers were seen outside the two-story home in the evening as detectives searched the property.
Police found found firearms, 41 pounds (18.5 kilograms) of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms and a memory card with multiple videos of sexual assaults, according to an arrest report released Wednesday.
Additional charges could be filed in connection with the videos of the underage girls, the report said.
There was no lawyer listed in court records who could comment on his behalf and Las Vegas police said Chasing Horse was “unable” to give a jailhouse interview Wednesday.
Las Vegas police said in the search warrant that investigators identified at least six sexual assault victims, including one who was 13 when she claims to have been abused. Police also traced sexual allegations against Chasing Horse to the early 2000s in Canada and in multiple states including South Dakota, Montana and Nevada, where he has lived for about a decade.
One of Chasing Horse’s wives was offered to him as a “gift” when she was 15, according to police, while another became a wife after turning 16. He also is accused of recording sexual assaults and arranging sex between victims and other men who paid him.
His arrest comes nearly a decade after he was banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking.
Fort Peck tribal leaders voted 7-0 to ban Chasing Horse in 2015 from stepping foot again on the reservation, citing the alleged trafficking and accusations of drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal members, Indian Country Today reported.
Angeline Cheek, an activist and community organizer who has lived on the Fort Peck Reservation most of her life, said she clearly remembers the tensions that arose inside the council’s chambers when Chasing Horse was banished.
“Some of Nathan’s supporters told the members that something bad was going to happen to them,” Cheek told the AP. “They made threats to our elders sitting in the council chambers.”
Cheek said she remembered Chasing Horse visiting the reservation frequently when she was growing up, especially during her high school years in the early 2000s when she would see him talking with her classmates.
Cheek, now 34, said she hopes Chasing Horse’s arrest will inspire more Indigenous girls and women to report crimes and push lawmakers and elected officials across the U.S. to prioritize addressing violence against Native people.
But she said she also hopes the cultural significance of medicine men doesn’t get lost in the news of the crimes.
“There are good medicine men and medicine women among our people who are not trying to commercialize the sacred ways of our ancestors,” she said. “They’re supposed to heal people, not harm.”
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Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
GRASS VALLEY, Calif., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in Grass Valley, located in the Fowler Center at 2108 Nevada City Highway. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in 45 minutes or less.
The store is owned by Anita and Ken Gardella.
"We are excited to serve people in Grass Valley with fast and affordable tech repair," said Anita Gardella. "By offering free diagnostics on all device issues, matching competitors' prices, and guaranteeing fast-turnarounds on device repairs, we're dedicated to making our customers' experience affordable and convenient."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or by calling the store at (530) 977-2003. Walk-in service is also available. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 1-year limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 750 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to expand our presence throughout Northern California," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
2108 Nevada City Hwy, Grass Valley, CA 95945
(530) 977-2003
About Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 750 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Republican candidate for Michigan governor on Friday compared Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s policies to the 2020 plot to kidnap the Democratic incumbent, remarks that Democrats criticized as making light of a serious and dangerous crime.
Tudor Dixon referred to the kidnapping plot at two separate events.
“Sad thing is, Gretchen will tie your hands, put a gun to your head and ask if you’re ready to talk,” Dixon told a crowd at an event in Troy while speaking about the need to cut business regulations. “For someone so worried about being kidnapped, Gretchen Whitmer sure is good at taking business hostage.”
At an event later Friday, Dixon referenced an appearance Whitmer made with President Joe Biden at the Detroit Auto Show.
“I’ll tell you the look on her face, she was like: ‘Oh my gosh this is happening. I’d rather be kidnapped by the FBI,’” Dixon said.
Two men were convicted last month of plotting to kidnap Whitmer because they were angry about pandemic-related restrictions she imposed. Prosecutors said they were part of a group who conspired to abduct Whitmer at her vacation home and to blow up a bridge to disrupt police so they wouldn’t be caught. The FBI said it broke up the plot before it could occur.
The jury’s conviction came in a second trial against the two men, Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox. At an earlier trial, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict, while two other men were acquitted. Their lawyers argued the men were big talkers who were set up by the FBI and said there was no actual plot.
The Democratic Governors Association called Dixon’s comments “utterly disqualifying for the role of Michigan governor,” while Whitmer’s campaign criticized Dixon for “dangerous rhetoric.”
“Threats of violence are no laughing matter, and the fact that Dixon spent the day making joke after joke about it shows that she is absolutely unfit to serve in public office,” Whitmer campaign spokeswoman Maeve Coyle tweeted.
Dixon was endorsed by former President Donald Trump during the GOP primary and is now trailing Whitmer in fundraising and support. She campaigned Friday with Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., who called the conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer “the fake kidnap plot orchestrated by the FBI.”
Dixon criticized the media for not reporting on what she called attacks against her during Biden’s recent visit, saying he “called me all kinds of names and put my life in danger.”
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BEIJING, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited Ayutthaya National Art Museum in Ayutthaya, Thailand on Friday. The event was joined by spouses of some leaders who attended the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting.
Naraporn Chan-o-cha, wife of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, welcomed Peng when she arrived and accompanied her during the whole tour.
The museum's exhibition hall displays works of art for the Thai Royal family's major celebrations and traditional Thai handicrafts. Peng listened to the introduction of the art collections and praised the craftsmanship and techniques of Thai artisans.
The museum was built for preserving and developing traditional handicrafts and also helping families in poverty-stricken areas. Peng pointed out that it is similar to China's concept of poverty alleviation in underdeveloped areas.
The museum also sells handicrafts made by children out of education who have been trained in a handicraft training center of the Palace School. Peng said she would buy some of their works to support anti-poverty projects of the Thai Royal family.
Making and selling handicrafts has helped lift people out of poverty in many areas in China. Handicrafts, such as paper-cuts from northwest China's Shaanxi Province, embroidery and batik from southwest China's Guizhou Province, were developed to improve local people's income.
Intangible cultural heritage is also playing an important role in China's poverty alleviation efforts. From 2018 to 2020, over 2,200 intangible cultural heritage workshops have been built across the country, according to the country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism. These workshops have created half a million jobs, lifting more than 200,000 households out of poverty, People's Daily reported.
Noticing a lotus candle holder, Peng said Chinese people love lotus and appreciate its noble quality of growing out of mud without being stained. Naraporn agreed, saying lotuses are used to pay respect for Buddha by Thai people. Peng said it once again shows that Chinese and Thai people share similar values.
China and Thailand are friendly neighbors with a long history of cultural exchanges. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Thailand in 1975, the forms of cultural exchanges between the two countries have been expanding and the content has become increasingly rich.
Through the efforts of Peng and Naraporn, Nanjing University of the Arts in China and Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music in Thailand signed an academic memorandum of understanding in March, 2019. Since then, the two schools have been deepening cooperation through personnel exchanges, joint research and personnel training in the field of music.
In the field of literature, Princess of Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has also contributed a lot to cultural ties between the two countries. She likes Chinese culture and has translated many Chinese literature works into the Thai language. The Princess, the first Thai Royal family member to visit China, has paid about 50 visits to China and has published several travel notes on her trips. She has become a recipient of China's Friendship Medal in 2019.
Chinese has been a popular language among Thai students in recent years, with more than one million students learning Chinese in schools. In Thailand, there are more than 2,000 primary and secondary schools offering Chinese courses, Xinhua reported. Since 2003, China has sent more than 20,000 volunteers to teach Chinese language in Thailand's schools.
During the visit, Peng communicated with other spouses of APEC economies' leaders as well and they took photos together.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Max Verstappen has already been crowned champion in one of the most dominant seasons in Formula 1 history. His Red Bull team is streaking toward the constructor’s title as well.
And yet the big question looming over this week’s United States Grand Prix is what to do about Red Bull’s cost cap breach in 2021 and whether the team and its drivers should be punished?
While Verstappen struts as a two-time champion in a chase for a record-tying 13th win this season, rival teams and drivers say F1 must find a way to penalize Red Bull for breaking a critical rule that is supposed to reign in the big-spending teams and level the playing field from the front of the grid to the back.
Although the series governing body has called the spending breach “minor,” it could still be several million dollars. The FIA has not announced any sanctions or disclosed how much money Red Bull overspent.
What the FIA decides to do will be considered a major test of first-year president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s leadership. A spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for an update or whether the FIA will announce anything before the end of the season.
Red Bull’s rivals want action.
McLaren team boss Zak Brown called any spending violation cheating.
Ferrari, the series’ biggest legacy team and Red Bull’s closest rival this year for the championship, has called for “maximum penalties” for overspending. Ferrari has also argued that any improper boost in car development impacts not just one season but several, as teams are in a constant arms race for the future.
Potential penalties for minor overspending range from a reprimand to reduced budgets or even deduction of driver and team championship points. But few think FIA would do something as harsh as stripping Verstappen’s 2021 title, or re-open this season’s championship.
Still, Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas, who was Lewis Hamilton’s teammate last season at Mercedes when Verstappen won the championship over Hamilton on the last lap of the final race, said “harsh“ measures are called for.
“It has to be something that hurts,” Bottas told The Associated Press. “If you spend more money than other teams are allowed to spend, obviously you are gaining an advantage. It should be harsh.”
Red Bull so far has said little other than the team believed it had stayed within spending limits in 2021, and that it was “surprised and disappointed” with the FIA’s findings of violations.
Formula One first announced a budget cap would be implemented in 2019, and it started last season with a limit of $145 million. It was scaled down to $140 million for 2022 and drops to $135 million for 2023, excluding driver salaries and engine costs. By calling the violation “minor,” the FIA indicated Red Bull’s overspending was under 5% of the total budget.
Even if the spending breach is considered minor, rival teams point to the razor-thin margin between Verstappen and Hamilton in last season’s championship. Verstappen won 10 races, Hamilton eight.
In a letter this week to the FIA president and copied to F1 president Stefano Domenicali, McLaren’s Brown said any team found guilty of overspending should be penalized that amount and face an equal reduction the next season.
Violating teams should also be penalized in competition, such as losing wind tunnel time for car and engine development, Brown wrote.
“The bottom line,” Brown wrote, “is any team who has overspent has gained an unfair advantage both in the current and following year’s car development.”
Haas team principal Guenther Steiner told the AP any penalties should carry well into the future, even for several years, if F1 expects to compel teams with a lot of money to stay within the rules.
“It needs to be not only financial (punishment), because just financial is too easy. You pay your way out of it. It needs to be competition-wise, you get deductions, something that needs to be more than money,” Steiner told AP.
But, Steiner said, there’s no point in taking a championship away from a driver.
“Rhe celebrations have been done. Now to have a new champion? Who cares?” Steiner told AP. “The majority of the people already believe who they believe won.”
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AP Auto Racing Writer Jenna Fryer contributed.
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A guy dressed as a turtle stands outside Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center as windows above the parking lot vibrate with dubstep music. Turtle man holds the door as I approach, a ridiculously jubilant smile on his face like it’s some inside joke I’m outside of.
If he’s any indication of what’s waiting for me inside, it should be an interesting evening. I’m heading to Siren Farms, an event space on the fourth floor of the Russell Industrial Center specializing in uncommon houseplants with a zero-alcohol “smart bar.”
For those of us who don’t drink, Siren Farms is a welcome alternative to crowded bars filled with drunk people that charge $12 for a mocktail. Here, mocktails start at around $6 and are the focus rather than an afterthought.
Inside, pendant lights with exposed bulbs hang alongside paper lanterns and trailing philodendrons. Rows of staghorn ferns and boncel fingers sit in front of bright windows. Benches with plush pillows invite me to cozy up with a drink and stay a while.
Tonight is a “St. Psilocybin Day” celebration with the Michigan Psychedelics Society. In one corner, a woman with a massive Amanita muscaria mushroom hat sells her art. (The red mushroom with white dots on her head is reminiscent of the Super Mario character Toad.) Across the room, plant cuttings crowd a table waiting for roots to grow, undisturbed by the guy voguing on the dance floor.
Siren Farms opened inside the Russell in September of 2022 and is run by Michelle Donaldson, Lauren Osburn, Susan Rhodes, and Ted Sheets. Rhodes and Sheets also own the Ferndale gay bar Soho.
Donaldson, who moved to Michigan six years ago from Oklahoma, has been sober for two years. She previously ran farm-to-table restaurant Tallgrass Prairie Table and a breakfast joint called The Bramble in Tulsa. She came to Detroit to work for Union Joints opening Eminem’s Mom’s Spaghetti restaurant, but soon realized the corporate dining world wasn’t for her. She and the rest of the Siren Farms crew decided to open the “smart bar” as a place for sober people to build community as an act of harm reduction.
“At some point, drunk people get fucking annoying,” she says about typical bars. “I also went to [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings and it was not for me at all. There’s a lot of sanctimony and pretentiousness, and it’s really easy to be ostracized from something that’s meant to be uplifting. The religious side of it was also very hard for me as an atheist and I didn’t feel like I was getting the support I needed. I sought that out in my group of friends who were sober, and wanted to have a semblance of an adult scene where we could meet people without alcohol.”
Siren Farms is also a for-rent space that’s often used for fashion shows, photoshoots, and music videos. Eventually, they plan to start offering classes on plant care like how to propagate in addition to their regular plant pop-up sale at The Congregation.
During this year’s Dirty Show, the space hosted its own erotic art exhibit for artists who weren’t accepted into the bigger spectacle happening downstairs.
At the bar, Donaldson and Osburn are inundated with orders. Drinks are carefully crafted with fresh herbs and fruit as Donaldson puts her culinary skills to work. I order a “Swingers Sing-a-Long” (in part because I like the name) made with lime, pineapple, coriander honey, and tonic. It tastes overbearingly earthy, like a fresh-picked flower thrown in a blender with the roots and dirt still attached.
Every now and then the voguer spins a giant staff around that looks like the ends should be on fire. He takes a knee as he rolls the tall torch over his shoulders and onto his back before it swivels around his neck. A slim man in a fedora swings his poi balls in front of a projector that casts an image of his silhouette in animated waves like a Windows Media Player visualizer. A second poi dancer joins him, then a third — it’s giving warehouse rave.
Donaldson assures me this isn’t the typical vibe.
“It’s usually pretty chill,” she says. “Usually there’s 20 to 30 people in here. Sometimes we have a curated playlist, sometimes we just play records or have a live band. We see a lot of the same people come in. At first, they don’t know each other but it’s interesting to see people start talking about what brought them here for a zero alcohol atmosphere and they end up making friends, exchanging phone numbers, and coming back.”
Donaldson went sober during the pandemic when her drinking, fueled by 20 years in the service industry, spiraled out of control.
“It got to a point where I was lying to my family and I could see it negatively affecting them, so I made the choice to stop,” she says. “The journey has been hard. There’s a huge amount of depression, anxiety, and guilt that comes with years of alcohol abuse. To deal with that, I turned to plants and plant medicine, and I don’t think I would be sober without microdosing to heal myself.”
Donaldson does fundraising for the Michigan Initiative for Community Healing, a group that’s working on a ballot initiative to decriminalize entheogenic plants and substances like psilocybin mushrooms statewide. In 2021, Detroit voters decriminalized entheogenic substances, and in recent years so have Ann Arbor, Ferndale, and Hazel Park.
She adds, “When you stop drinking, people tend to fall to the wayside and you lose friends because it’s hard for them to look in the mirror. I find a lot of my free time is spent outdoors, communing with nature and I don’t feel the need to seek out alcohol anymore. Having this space and being able to hold space for other people fills that need for me.”
As I sit on a bench the Siren Farms crew built out of salvaged materials, a book of Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic catches my eye. It’s on a bookshelf with Lovecraft Country, All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit, and a deck of oracle cards that entrances me for the next hour. Somehow reading a book at a bar while people dance to a techno DJ around you doesn’t feel out of place.
The experience inspires me to write this poem on the spot, which I call “Is there a Meetup where all the poi swingers tell each other where to meet up that night?”
Siren Farms isn’t the only spot for a mocktail in metro Detroit, but it’s one of few places that are completely alcohol-free. In case you want to go out with friends who do drink, here are a few other options so you never have to feel left out.
Dragonfly
2929 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit; dragonflydetroit.com
Dragonfly has creative mocktails and low-alcohol drinks, plus a killer happy hour where N/A drinks are only $6.
Kiesling
449 E. Milwaukee Ave., Detroit; kieslingdetroit.com
This swanky hangout in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood has a few mocktails, N/A beers, and kombucha on the menu.
Eastern Palace Club
21509 John R Rd., Hazel Park; epchp.com
Tiki vibes abound at this reimagined Hazel Park bar with a Key West theme.
Grey Ghost
47 Watson St., Detroit; greyghostdetroit.com
Grey Ghost offers a decent selection of mocktails for special occasions or hot dates.
Is there
like
a Meetup
Where all the poi swingers
Tell each other
Where to meet
up that night?
You know, poi
Those little strings with balls that people twirl around at Techno Fest
Whoever singing on this track (if you can call it singing)
Keeps repeating, “I want your soul”
And I want to give it to her
The poi swingers twirl glowing lights
that change
red, blue, and green as they dance a tango amongst swinger and swung
A girl with hair so green it matches the marijuana plants on her bell bottoms peruses a wall of plants
But the monstera she wants is just out of reach
The woman with the cat ears and spiked backpack
Snaps a pic of the DJ with her head cocked to one side
As if she’s just read the Book of Revelations
and is perplexed by the lines
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. And he who was seated on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new”
Is there
like
a Meetup
Where all the poi swingers
Tell each other
Where to meet
up that night?
And, if so, how do I join?
Because they look so happy
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BELMONT, Mich. (AP) — Jennifer Kupcho opened a two-stroke lead over defending champion Nelly Korda on Friday in the LPGA Meijer Classic, shooting a 5-under 67 in windy conditions for her second straight bogey-free round.
A stroke ahead entering the morning round after a career-best 63 on Thursday afternoon, Kupcho had a 14-under 130 total at wind-swept Blythefield Country Club.
“It’s really windy out here,” Kupcho said. “I don’t recall it being this windy the last couple years, so this is definitely interesting, definitely a challenge. You definitely have to use your brain a lot.”
Korda holed out from 82 yards for eagle on the par-5 14th in a bogey-free 65. She’s making her second start since returning from a four-month break because of a blood clot in her left arm.
“It spun right back into the hole,” Korda said about the eagle. “Not many people saw it. It was that part of the golf course that no one really saw, but it was fun.”
Kupcho won the major tournament at Mission Hills in the California desert in early April for her first LPGA Tour victory. On Friday, she parred the first eight holes, finally breaking through on the par-5 18th.
“I started out not really hitting it great, so was really just trying to stay patient,” Kupcho said. “Couple holes saved par, so I actually got out of the holes pretty well.”
She made it three straight with birdies on the par-4 first and second and added two more on the par-3 fifth and par-5 eighth.
“I didn’t really expect a whole lot coming out here today,” Kupcho said. “Set a pretty low bar for myself, so to come out and play well, it was nice to see.”
The second-ranked Korda tied for eighth two weeks ago in the U.S. Women’s Open in her first event since early February. She also is the defending champion next week in the KPGA Women’s PGA at Congressional.
“There were definitely some numbers I’ve never had into some holes on this golf course,” Korda said about the wind. “I mean, it’s both ways. You have some really short yardages holes and some really long ones, so kind of evens it out. But it’s definitely tougher playing in the wind.”
Carlota Ciganda was third at 11 under after a 65. The Spaniard eagled the par-5 eighth and 18th — hitting downwind 9-iron approaches on each — and also had six birdies and three bogeys. She was 7 under on the five par-5 holes.
“I think the key was that I hit a lot of greens both days, yesterday and today,” Ciganda said. “It’s pretty tricky with the wind.”
Past champions Lexi Thompson and Brooke Henderson were 10 under with Madelene Sagstrom.
Henderson, the ShopRite LPGA Classic winner Sunday in New Jersey and 2017 and 2019 champion at Blythefield, eagled the 18th for the second straight day in a 66. She played alongside Korda.
“Excited for the weekend,” Henderson said. “I have to make some moves tomorrow, but definitely looking forward to the opportunity.”
Thompson, the 2015 winner, matched Sagstrom with a 69.
“Midway through the front nine, I was like, `Can we turn around and start going the other way in the good wind?'” Thompson said “But it was a matter of staying patient and really committing to your lines on those crosswind holes.”
Caroline Masson (68) and Anna Nordqvist (70) were 9 under.
Gerina Mendoza, a stroke back after an opening 64, had a 72 to fall six strokes back at 8 under. Jessica Korda, Nelly’s older sister, also was in the group at 8 under after her second 68.
“Honestly, just trying to keep it in play,” Jessica Korda said. “It was really windy out there.”
U.S. Women’s Open champion Minjee Lee was 7 under after a 69. | 2022-06-18T18:16:55+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/kupcho-leads-lpga-meijer-classic-with-korda-2-strokes-back/ |
Socially-relevant sports drama from Pensé Productions hits the road with fresh new faces
LOS ANGELES, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket, Stranger Things) and Cynthia McWilliams (Real Husbands of Hollywood, Bosch) are set to star in the cycling drama Hard Miles. The film will co-star Leslie David Baker (The Office) and newcomers, Jahking Guillory, Jackson Kelly, Zach T. Robbins, and Damien Diaz. Multi-platinum country music star and cycling enthusiast Dierks Bentley makes a cameo appearance in the film.
Based on a true story, Hard Miles chronicles the journey of Coach Greg Townsend and his Ridge View Academy cycling team. Townsend, who is a consultant on the film, works for Rite of Passage, an organization that runs facilities for young men convicted of crimes ranging from substance abuse violations to gang-related offenses. Cycling and exercise are part of the of a holistic program designed to help the young men heal and grow.
Modine will portray coach Townsend, who led the cycling team for the past three decades. McWilliams supports as empathetic youth counselor Haddie, and Dierks Bentley cameos as the fictitious "Bike Shop Bob".
The movie has also enlisted the help of cycling veterans and former pros Christian Vande Velde and George Hincapie. A Hard Miles inspired charity ride is in the works with Gran Fondo Hincapie, a renowned cycling event held in different cities across the US.
Hard Miles is written and directed by 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow R.J. Daniel Hanna, with Christian Sander co-writing and producing. Scott Sander is exec producing for Pensé Productions. Cast includes Emily Kincaid, Judah Mackey, and Jaxon Goldenberg.
Production is underway in Los Angeles and Lone Pine, CA.
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Prime Video will add Black Friday game to NFL package in ‘23
The NFL will expand to Black Friday beginning next season.
The league announced Tuesday that Amazon Prime Video will stream a game on the day after Thanksgiving. The first Black Friday game will kick off at 3 p.m. ET on Nov. 24, 2023. The teams will be announced in May when the regular-season schedule is expected to be released.
Prime Video is in its first season as the exclusive carrier of “Thursday Night Football” and will expand to 16 games next season.
The package, which goes through the 2033 season, averages $1.2 billion per season, but Amazon will pay between $50 million and $70 million per year for the additional game.
NFL owners passed a resolution during the league meetings in March that gave the league permission to schedule another short turnaround game the week of Thanksgiving.
Marie Donoghue, Amazon’s vice president of global sports video, said discussions about a Black Friday game began while the original contract was being negotiated last year, but that it picked up more steam this year.
Donoghue said Amazon will treat the game like one of the biggest of the season.
“Given what that day already means to millions of Americans, and how many of them interact with Amazon and what a strong presence Amazon has. And also, the fact that there were no NFL games on that day, we thought we could treat it like a Super Bowl,” she said.
The NFL has regularly played three games on Thanksgiving Day since 2006. The prime-time game was originally carried by NFL Network before NBC took it over in 2012. CBS and Fox alternate carrying the early game from Detroit and the late afternoon matchup from Dallas.
There were rumors this summer that the Black Friday game would be fast-tracked to this year, but the day is already packed with the World Cup and high-profile college football matchups.
The United States will face England in a World Cup group stage match on Fox at 2 p.m. ET. College football has long used Black Friday as a day to showcase rivalry games, and this year is no exception with Texas vs. Baylor, North Carolina vs. NC State, Missouri vs. Arkansas, Iowa vs. Nebraska and Florida State vs. Florida among the matchups.
“This year we were focused on the 15 Thursdays they already had. But now as we get here almost to the halfway point and see the great success out of the gate with Amazon, it felt like the right time to take the next step forward, and add to the partnership and expand onto Black Friday,” said Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media.
According to Nielsen, Prime Video is averaging 10.8 million viewers through the first five games. The past two games have not been must-see TV as Indianapolis defeated Denver 12-9 in OT and Washington held on for a 12-7 victory over Chicago.
The game this Thursday will be a matchup of 2-4 teams when New Orleans visits Arizona. The Oct. 27 matchup features Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The league has eight weeks set aside to cycle through byes, but all 32 teams are in action for Week 12 this season, which is the week of Thanksgiving.
The additional game also means there will be eight windows to fill with intriguing matchups while satisfying five broadcast partners. Schroeder said the league had the same case this year with Christmas week and that they will use that as a template for how to build the week of Thanksgiving.
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ATLANTA — On Tuesday, nonprofits, charitable organizations and 11Alive will all be focusing on giving back.
The GA Gives campaign coincides every year with Giving Tuesday, a tradition that was started to follow the shopping holidays of Black Friday and Cyber Monday with a reminder that the holidays are about helping others, too.
11Alive is a sponsor of GA Gives, which last year helped raise more than $27 million from over 180,000 donations for nonprofits in the Peach State. This year marks 10 years since the founding of GA Gives, and in the last decade, it has seen more than 556,000 donations raise more than $90 million.
Here's how you can contribute
It's simple - just go to the GA Gives website, and click the green "give now" button.
From there, you'll be taken to a page listing the organizations that participate. You can filter it by location, on the right-hand side, or search for a particular group in the top left corner.
Once you've found the organization you want to donate to, you can click through to their page, and click "donate."
You can also watch Atlanta and Company on 11Alive Tuesday from 11 a.m.-noon as nonprofits and guests come on to highlight the GA Gives campaign.
40th Can-A-Thon
On Friday, the giving will continue as 11Alive celebrates the 40th anniversary of Can-A-Thon.
All day on Dec. 2, we'll be asking viewers around metro Atlanta to drop off cans at the locations in the graphic below. And if you can’t attend the drop-off event on December 2, all the way up through December 31 you can help us fight hunger from the comfort of your home or the palm of your hand:
- Donate Online: salvationarmy.org
- Amazon Wishlist: Search “Can-A-Thon” to find our shopping list to fulfill a need
- Marietta: 202 Waterman Street SE, Marietta, GA 30060
- Atlanta: 967 Dewey St, Atlanta, GA 30310
- Lawrenceville: 3455 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville, GA 30044
- Brookhaven: 2090 North Druid Hills Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329 | 2022-11-28T21:37:40+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/community/gagives-giving-tuesday-how-to-help/85-609e6f5f-5603-4272-bd5c-6402c9042336 |
- 91,000 visitors in-person at the Porte de Versailles expo venue
- 300,000 online visits
- 146 nationalities
- 400 million people reached by the event on social networks
- 4.3 million viewers of VivaTech News, the event's broadcast news channel
- 3 billion views on social networks
PARIS, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VIVA TECHNOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL TECH HUB
More than 350 speakers were present, among them Evan Spiegel (Snap), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), CZ (Changpeng Zhao) (Binance), Bret Taylor (Salesforce), Sumbul Desai (Apple) or Ryan Roslansky (LinkedIn). As well as Christel Heydemann (Orange), Bernard Arnault (LVMH), Renaud Dumora (BNP Paribas), Elliot Grant (Google X), Jonas Prising (ManpowerGroup), Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm), Luca De Meo (Renault), , Nicolas Hieronimus (L'Oréal), Yann Le Cun (Meta), Eric Schmidt (Schmidt Future), Garry Kasparov (ambassadeur Avast), Michael Kassan (MediaLink), Jérémy Zimmer (United Talent Agency), Kevin Mayer (Candle media), Thierry Breton (Commission européenne), Stanislas Niox-Chateau (Doctolib), Olivier Storch (Geopost/DPD Group), Marc Pritchard (P&G), Sébastien Borget (The Sandbox), Tami Bhaumik (Roblox), Audrey Azoulay (UNESCO), Alexandre Prot (Qonto), Fleur Pellerin (Korelya), Frédéric Mazzella (Blablacar). In addition, as every year, French President Emmanuel Macron was also present and took the time to meet with many young entrepreneurs from startups in all sectors.
The VivaTech audience was filled with emotion as President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the tech and startup industries to support Ukraine. The call was broadcast in the form of a hologram in seven European countries with the participation of Gayle King, Amanda Holden, Peter Gabriel and Bernard-Henri Lévy.
MORE THAN EVER THE ESSENTIAL RENDEZ-VOUS FOR BUSINESS
This edition of Viva Technology has once again given the technology sector privileged access to international customers, major investors and new markets. More than 2,000 exhibitors – which included 1,800 startups, 45% of them international, and 700 investment funds – met during three days dedicated to professionals. More than 161,000 business connections were made, 71% of which were international interactions on the digital platform. According to the startups present, more than 25% of their annual business leads were made during these three days.
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ComEd will deliver $434 million in tax refunds to its customers over three years beginning in January.
The refund represents “excess deferred income taxes” collected by ComEd as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
The utility, which serves more than 4 million residential and business customers across northern Illinois, wanted to distribute the refund over 39 years, but state regulators favored an accelerated schedule backed by consumer advocates and the Illinois attorney general’s office.
“There’s no reason that we should wait 39 years,” said David Kolata, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board, a nonprofit watchdog group. “It makes way more sense just to get money back to consumers faster.”
Over the course of three years, the average ComEd customer will receive about $3 per month through the tax refund, Kolata said.
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved the plan last week to credit nearly $485 million in tax refunds to the state’s electric customers beginning in 2023, including $434 million from ComEd and nearly $51 million from Ameren. The refunds will show up as a line item on customer bills through 2025.
ComEd will distribute $65 million in 2023, between $195 million and $282 million in 2024, and the remaining amount in 2025, according to ComEd spokesman David O’Dowd. The credit will vary by customer, based on distribution charges, and will increase in the second year to reflect the larger amount refunded.
“ComEd forecasts that the average monthly residential bill for distribution charges will be $35 in January of 2023, resulting in a benefit of more than 80 cents,” O’Dowd said. “Larger (commercial and industrial) customers could realize a benefit in the hundreds of dollars.”
The Republican-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law by then-President Donald Trump in December 2017, lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, and creating a windfall for companies large and small. It also reduced the tax rate for utilities, which had already collected the federal income tax from consumers at the higher rate, built into the monthly bills.
The Illinois utilities wanted to give the excess income tax collected to consumers over decades, while the attorney general’s office pushed for a quicker timetable. The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in September, added a provision requiring the electric utilities to issue the refunds by the end of 2025.
ComEd customers began receiving a carbon mitigation credit in June, which was also provided for through the state’s climate act. The average customer is getting a $20 monthly credit generated through profits at the state’s nuclear plants. The carbon mitigation credit appears as a new line item on ComEd bills through May 2023.
When the tax refund shows up on customer bills, it may be more than offset by ComEd’s proposed $199 million increase in electricity delivery charges. If approved by state regulators, the utility’s largest rate hike in nearly a decade would add $2.20 per month to the average residential customer bill beginning in January 2023. | 2022-07-12T20:48:41+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-comed-tax-refund-20220712-izudh7f2qzgodeyl4cqz7w32dq-story.html |
Last year, Delaware State opened with a game against overmatched Cairn, a Division III school from Pennsylvania.
Monday brings a significantly tougher opener for the Hornets as they travel to Blacksburg, Va., to take on Virginia Tech, the defending Atlantic Coast Conference tournament champion.
What’s the best advice for the Hornets of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, who lost their final 24 games last year?
Guard the perimeter.
Virginia Tech returns its three most accurate shooters from last year’s team that ranked No. 3 in Division I with a 3-point success rate of 39.2 percent. The marksmen are Darius Maddox (50.6 percent), Sean Pedulla (44.7 percent) and Hunter Cattoor (41.7 percent).
The trio combined for 157 3-pointers last year and that number should grow as Maddox and Pedulla figure to play larger roles this year.
Also back is stat-sheet stuffer Justyn Mutts, who averaged 10.1 points per game while leading Tech in rebounds (265), assists (123), steals (43) and blocks (34).
“I’m as excited about this team’s potential and prospects as I’ve ever been,” said fourth-year coach Mike Young. “You always hope there are other talented players coming through the ranks and I think that’s where we are with this team.”
Adding length are 6-9 transfers Grant Basile, who averaged 18.4 points and 8.5 rebounds at Wright State, and Mylyjael Poteat, who contributed 7.7 points and 4.2 rebounds at Rice. John Camden, a 6-8 wing, was highly touted before his injury-marred freshman year at Memphis.
Freshman Rodney Rice, a product of national power DeMatha, could start immediately in the backcourt.
After the departure of the top three scorers from last year, Delaware State coach Stan Waterman will count on 6-11 transfers Brandon Stone (Robert Morris) and Raymond Somerville (Cal State Bakersfield).
Also bringing size to the backcourt are 6-6 Jevin Muniz and 6-5 Aaron Lemon-Warren, both incoming freshmen.
“We’ve got some new guys mixing in with older guys who have transferred in, so there’s a nice blend to go with the returning guys and will hopefully provide a nice nucleus for us,” Waterman said.
–Field Level Media | 2022-11-04T21:53:50+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/sharp-shooting-virginia-tech-takes-aim-at-delaware-state/ |
How to Watch the Red Wings vs. Canadiens Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for April 4
Published: Apr. 4, 2023 at 1:18 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Detroit Red Wings (34-33-9) visit the Montreal Canadiens (30-41-6) -- who've lost three straight -- on Tuesday at 7:00 PM ET.
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Red Wings Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN+, TSN2, RDS, and BSDETX
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- Where: Bell Centre in Montréal, Québec
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Red Wings vs. Canadiens Head-to-Head
Red Wings Stats & Trends
- The Red Wings have allowed 249 total goals (3.3 per game), ranking 19th in league play in goals against.
- The Red Wings' 223 total goals (2.9 per game) rank 24th in the NHL.
- In the past 10 games, the Red Wings have earned 70.0% of the possible points with a 4-6-0 record.
- Defensively, the Red Wings have allowed 34 goals (3.4 per game) in those 10 matchups.
- They are scoring at a 2.6 goals-per-game average (26 total) during that span.
Red Wings Key Players
Canadiens Stats & Trends
- The Canadiens' total of 282 goals allowed (3.7 per game) is 28th in the NHL.
- With 214 goals (2.8 per game), the Canadiens have the league's 26th-ranked offense.
- In the past 10 games, the Canadiens have earned 70.0% of the possible points with a 4-6-0 record.
- Defensively, the Canadiens have given up 37 goals (3.7 per game) in those 10 matchups.
- They have scored 34 goals during that time.
Canadiens Key Players
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine announced a high-profile prisoner swap early Thursday that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in Mariupol during a long Russian siege. In exchange, Ukraine gave up an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Volodymr Zelenskky said his government had won freedom from Russian custody for 215 Ukrainian and foreign citizens. He said many were soldiers and officers who had faced the death penalty in Russian-occupied territory.
Russia officials didn’t immediately confirm or otherwise comment on the swap.
Of the total, 200 Ukrainians were exchanged for just one man — pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, who is Ukrainian. The 68-year-old oligarch escaped from house arrest in Ukraine several days before Russia’s invasion Feb. 24 but was recaptured in April. He faced up to life in prison on charges of treason and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for mediating coal purchases for the separatist, Russia-backed Donetsk republic in eastern Ukraine.
Putin is believed to be the godfather of Medvedchuk’s youngest daughter. His detention sparked a heated exchange between officials in Moscow and Kyiv. Medvedchuk is the head of the political council of Ukraine’s pro-Russian Opposition Platform-For Life party, the largest opposition group in Ukraine’s parliament. The government has suspended the party’s activity.
“It is not a pity to give up Medvedchuk for real warriors,” Zelenskyy said in a post on his website. “He has passed all the investigative actions provided by law. Ukraine has received from him everything necessary to establish the truth in the framework of criminal proceedings.”
In another swap, Ukraine gained the release of five more citizens in exchange for 55 Russian prisoners it was holding, Zelenskyy said.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the exchanges, calling them “no small feat,” but adding that “much more remains to be done to ease the suffering caused by the war in Ukraine,” his spokesman said. The U.N. chief reiterates the need to respect international law on the treatment of prisoners and will continue to support further prisoner exchanges, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
According to Zelenskyy, many of those freed belonged to Ukraine’s Azov regiment, whom he called heroes. More than 2,000 defenders, many in the Azov unit, marched out of the Azovstal steel plant’s twisted wreckage into Russian captivity in mid-May, ending a nearly three-month siege of the port city of Mariupol. Five of the released Azov commanders are now living in Turkey, according to a post on Zelenskyy’s website. | 2022-09-22T11:27:33+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-steel-plant-defenders-putin-ally-exchanged-in-prisoner-swap/ |
New details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his Manhattan jail cell with his hands over his ears, desperate to muffle the sound of a toilet that wouldn’t stop running.
Epstein was agitated and unable to sleep, jail officials observed in records newly obtained by The Associated Press. He called himself a “coward” and complained he was struggling to adapt to life behind bars following his July 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges — his life of luxury reduced to a concrete and steel cage.
The disgraced financier was under psychological observation at the time for a suicide attempt just days earlier that left his neck bruised and scraped. Yet, even after a 31-hour stint on suicide watch, Epstein insisted he wasn’t suicidal, telling a jail psychologist he had a “wonderful life” and “would be crazy” to end it.
On Aug. 10, 2019, Epstein was dead.
Nearly four years later, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to Epstein’s suicide, as well as his health history, internal agency reports, emails and memos and other records.
Taken together, the documents the AP obtained Thursday provide the most complete accounting to date of Epstein’s detention and death, and its chaotic aftermath. The records help to dispel the many conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s suicide, underscoring how fundamental failings at the Bureau of Prisons — including severe staffing shortages and employees cutting corners — contributed to Epstein’s death.
They shed new light on the federal prison agency’s muddled response after Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
In one email, a prosecutor involved in Epstein’s criminal case complained about a lack of information from the Bureau of Prisons in the critical hours after his death, writing that it was “frankly unbelievable” that the agency was issuing public press releases “before telling us basic information so that we can relay it to his attorneys who can relay it to his family.”
In another email, a high-ranking Bureau of Prisons official made a spurious suggestion to the agency’s director that news reporters must have been paying jail employees for information about Epstein’s death because they were reporting details of the agency’s failings — impugning the ethics of journalists and the agency’s own workers.
The documents also provide a fresh window into Epstein’s behavior during his 36 days in jail, including his previously unreported attempt to connect by mail with another high-profile pedophile: Larry Nassar, the U.S. gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of athletes.
Epstein’s letter to Nassar was found returned to sender in the jail’s mail room weeks after Epstein’s death. “It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him,” the investigator who found the letter told a prison official by email. “I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?”
The letter itself was not included among the documents turned over to the AP.
The night before Epstein’s death, he excused himself from a meeting with his lawyers to make a telephone call to his family. According to a memo from a unit manager, Epstein told a jail employee that he was calling his mother, who’d been dead for 15 years at that point.
Epstein’s death put increased scrutiny on the Bureau of Prisons and led the agency to close the Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2021. It spurred an AP investigation that has uncovered deep, previously unreported problems within the agency, the Justice Department’s largest with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an $8 billion annual budget.
An internal memo, undated but sent after Epstein’s death, attributed problems at the jail to “seriously reduced staffing levels, improper or lack of training, and follow up and oversight.” The memo also detailed steps the Bureau of Prisons has taken to remedy lapses Epstein’s suicide exposed, including requiring supervisors to review surveillance video to ensure officers made required cell checks.
Epstein’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg, said people detained at the facility endured “medieval conditions of confinement that no American defend that should have been subjected to.”
“It’s sad, it’s tragic that it took this kind of event to finally cause the Bureau of Prisons to close this regrettable institution,” Weinberg said Thursday in a telephone interview.
The workers tasked with guarding Epstein the night he killed himself, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were charged with lying on prison records to make it seem as though they had made their required checks before Epstein was found lifeless. Epstein’s cellmate did not return after a court hearing the day before, and prison officials failed to pair another prisoner with him, leaving him alone.
Prosecutors alleged they were sitting at their desks just 15 feet (4.6 meters) from Epstein’s cell, shopped online for furniture and motorcycles, and walked around the unit’s common area instead of making required rounds every 30 minutes.
During one two-hour period, both appeared to have been asleep, according to their indictment. Noel and Thomas admitted to falsifying the log entries but avoided prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. Copies of some of those logs were included among the documents released Thursday, with the guards’ signatures redacted.
Another investigation, by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is still ongoing.
Epstein arrived at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on July 6, 2019. He spent 22 hours in the jail’s general population before officials moved him to the special housing unit “due to the significant increase in media coverage and awareness of his notoriety among the inmate population,” according to the psychological reconstruction of his death.
Epstein later said he was upset about having to wear an orange jumpsuit provided to inmates in the special housing unit and complained about being treated like he was a “bad guy” despite being well behaved behind bars. He requested a brown uniform for his near-daily visits with his lawyers.
During an initial health screening, the 66-year-old said that he had 10-plus female sexual partners within the previous five years. Medical records showed he was suffering from sleep apnea, constipation, hypertension, lower back pain and prediabetes and had been previously treated for chlamydia.
Epstein did make some attempts to adapt to his jailhouse surroundings, the records show. He signed up for a Kosher meal and told prison officials, through his lawyer, that he wanted permission to exercise outside. Two days before he was found dead, Epstein bought $73.85 worth of items from the prison commissary, including an AM/FM radio and headphones. He had $566 left in his account when he died.
Epstein’s outlook worsened when a judge denied him bail on July 18, 2019 — raising the prospect that he’d remain locked up until trial and, possibly longer. If convicted, he faced up to 45 years prison. Four days later, Epstein was found on the floor of his cell with a strip of bedsheet around his neck.
Epstein survived. His injuries didn’t require going to the hospital. He was placed on suicide watch and, later, psychiatric observation. Jail officers noted in logs that they observed him, “sitting at the edge of the bed, lost in thought,” and sitting “with his head against the wall.”
Epstein expressed frustration with the noise of the jail and his lack of sleep. His first few weeks at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Epstein didn’t have his sleep apnea breathing apparatus he used. Then, the toilet in his cell started acting up.
“He was still left in the same cell with a broken toilet,” the jail’s chief psychologist wrote in a email the next day. “Please move him to the cell next door when he returns from legal as the toilet still does not work.”
The day before Epstein ended his life, a federal judge unsealed about 2,000 pages of documents in a sexual abuse lawsuit against him. That development, prison officials observed, further eroded Epstein’s previous elevated status.
That, combined with a lack of significant interpersonal connections and “the idea of potentially spending his life in prison were likely factors contributing to Mr. Epstein’s suicide,” officials wrote.
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Associated Press writers Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland, Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, Sam Metz in Salt Lake City, Jake Offenhartz and David B. Caruso in New York, Russ Bynum in Savanah, Georgia, Gene Johnson in Seattle and Brooke Schultz in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report. | 2023-06-02T00:59:59+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/06/01/ap-obtains-records-shedding-new-light-on-jeffrey-epsteins-jail-suicide-and-frantic-aftermath/ |
Man breaks his own state record by catching massive 122-pound catfish
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Tennessee officials say a man has broken his own fishing record when it comes to his latest catch.
According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Micka Burkhart set a new state record by catching a 122-pound catfish last month out of the Cumberland River.
Officials said Burkhart caught the massive blue catfish in the Barkley Reservoir along the river in Stewart County on June 28.
It officially weighed in at 122 pounds and 2 ounces while being 57.5 inches long with a girth of 42.4 inches.
The new record surpasses Burkhart’s previous mark of a 118-pound catfish that he also landed while fishing in the Barkley Reservoir in September 2022.
Burkhart ended up releasing both of his trophy catches, officials said.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A Webb County assistant district attorney has quit in the middle of a high-profile capital murder case involving a former Border Patrol agent, the San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday.
Joshua “Josh” Davila was the second-chair prosecutor in the trial against Juan David Ortiz, a former Border Patrol supervisor accused of killing four women in Laredo in 2018.
The trial began Monday in San Antonio after a judge granted a change of venue from Laredo, Texas.
On Wednesday, Davila questioned witnesses but was gone but Thursday.
The Express-News reported that Davila blasted the Webb County District Attorney’s Office on social media, writing, “I have officially left the Webb County District Attorney’s office. That is the most unprofessional and toxic work place I’ve ever had to deal with. I do not recommend it. I’m sorry to anyone I let down,”
The newspaper reported that a spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office confirmed Davila’s departure.
Ortiz, 39, a 10-year veteran of the Border Patrol, is charged with four counts of murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful restraint.
He’s accused of killing 29-year-old Melissa Ramirez; 42-year-old Claudine Luera; 28-year-old Humberto “Janelle” Ortiz; and Guiselda Cantu. Prosecutors have described the alleged victims as sex workers.
On Monday, a woman who alleged that Ortiz threatened to kill her took the stand.
According to an affidavit, Erika Pena alleged that on Sept. 14, 2018, Ortiz “pointed a firearm” at her but she said she managed to escape before flagging down a Texas state trooper.
Pena testified that she had been involved in prostitution and had taken drugs, including heroin, in front of Ortiz. She said the two were in his truck when he “pulled a gun on me.”
Pena said Ortiz threatened her after she brought up the recent death of the sex workers and that one of them was her best friend.
Pena said she was able to escape and encountered a trooper who was pumping gas.
According to the arrest affidavit, Ortiz verbally confessed to killing four women between Sept. 3-15, 2018.
He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. | 2022-12-02T04:00:45+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/border-report-tour/report-prosecutor-quits-amid-capital-murder-trial-against-ex-border-agent/ |
NORFOLK, Neb. (KCAU) – Nearly 20 years ago, the body of a baby boy was discovered at Nebraska’s Elkhorn River. Now, the mother has been identified.
On June 17, 2004, police recovered the body of the full-term infant from the Norfolk Fork of the river in Norfolk, according to a release from the Norfolk Police Division.
The release said that an autopsy was unable to determine whether or not the baby was alive before being found. Additional investigations were unable to determine the mother’s identity at the time.
DNA samples were compared to several individuals and revisited on multiple occasions as new technologies became available, but they were unsuccessful until this year.
In March 2023, Norfolk Police worked with the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s (UNMC) DNA lab to investigate the death.
Through a genetic genealogy service, UNMC was able to determine a possible mother, according to the release.
Officials traveled to where she lived. With the help of law enforcement, authorities made contact with her, the release said.
Officials said the mother, who gave a sample of her DNA to confirm her identity, told them she was a juvenile when she gave birth at her home. She said the baby was stillborn and that she disposed of the body in the river.
Another individual was also identified, interviewed, and determined to have been aware of the pregnancy and stillbirth.
Police said the statute of limitations had expired for any misdemeanor crime that may have been committed in this case. There is also insufficient evidence for prosecution. | 2023-07-05T21:06:21+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/mother-identified-almost-20-years-after-babys-body-found-at-nebraska-river/ |
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Leona Maguire of Ireland has been on a tear since the start of the month and not even an elite field in the KMPG Women’s PGA Championship, intermittent rain and a tough Baltusrol course slowed her down.
The winner Sunday in Michigan for her second LPGA Tour title, Maguire birdied four of her final six holes for a 3-under 68 and a one-shot lead over three players Friday at the halfway point of the second of five majors in women’s golf this year.
“This is uncharted territory for me,” Maguire said. “Whatever happens this week, I’m sure I’ll learn a lot, and just sort of taking it one day at a time. I think this golf course demands that. I think you can’t think more than one shot ahead, let alone a hole or a round ahead.”
Maguire had five birdies and two bogeys in shooting her seventh straight round in the 60s, dating to the final round at the Mizuho Americas Open. The 28-year-old former Duke star, ranked 12th in the world, had a 5-under 137 total at Baltusrol.
Maguire didn’t know about her 60s streak and she struggled at Mizuho most of the week after developing blisters following a tournament in Las Vegas.
“But, yeah, feel like my game has been in really good shape for a couple weeks now. Obviously, it was last week, and nice to continue that to this week,” said Maguire, who joked that playing in the rain was like being back home.
There are plenty of players close to the lead.
Mel Reid (67) of England, Xiyu Lin (71) of China and rookie Celine Borge (69) of Norway were tied for second, a shot ahead of first-round leader Lee-Anne Pace (73) of South Africa and fifth-ranked Minjee Lee of Australia, who pushed herself into the hunt for the second major with a 67 on a dreary day.
“Obviously, had a really nice day today, and I’m hoping that the momentum carries on into the weekend,” Lee said.
The Lower Course at Baltusrol has been the big winner this week. Through two rounds there were only 15 players under par and some of the biggest names in women’s golf won’t be around for the weekend, missing the cut at 5 over.
Still in contention are first-time winner Ruoning Yin of China at 2 under, two-time major winner Brooke Henderson of Canada, top-ranked Jin Young Ko of South Korea and Celine Boutier of France, along with Americans Gina Kim, Allisen Corpuz Mina Harigae, all at 1 under.
“If my shot is getting better and putter is still like the first couple days, yeah, I think I can chance to get win this week,” said Ko, who won the Founders Cup in New Jersey last month, beating Lee in a one-hole playoff.
Rose Zhang, who burst onto the women’s golf scene with a win at Mizuho in her first event as a professional, struggled and needed a birdie on her last hole to finish with a 74 and a 2-over score.
“Coming in it was definitely a little rough,” Zhang said. “I was putting myself in positions that were not ideal, and when you’re out here, especially at a major championship venue, it is difficult to get up-and-down.”
While there is a tremendous amount of attention being paid to Zhang the past month, most forget that Maguire had the longest stay as the world’s No. 1 ranked amateur until turning pro in 2018. Zhang broke her record.
Among those who missed the cut were No. 2 Nelly Korda, No. 4 Lilia Vu, No. 6 Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand and No. 9 Georgia Hall of England. Lexi Thompson, ranked No. 9, needed four straight birdies late in her round to get to 4 over.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-24T04:10:08+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/irelands-leona-maguire-keeps-rolling-with-a-68-takes-halfway-lead-at-the-kmpg-womens-pga/ |
The U.S. life expectancy is 76 years according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. Others are living beyond that benchmark. Government numbers show there are more than 72,000 centenarians in the U.S., or those who've reached the age of 100.
The CDC predicts life expectancy for all Americans grow to 85.6 years by 2060. They credit current patterns in mortality caused by an more vaccinations, fewer infectious diseases, and alcohol and smoking prevention programs.
Jan Gantz is already past that. She celebrated her 90th birthday in April surrounded by friends and family at her home in Sarasota, Florida.
"I'm almost 5-6 months from my 91st year and I still don't know how I got to be 90. And as I told somebody, it happens one day at a time. And then all of a sudden, it's like what?" said Gantz. "The party was beautiful, they put so much planning into it."
You're probably wondering what her secret is to staying happy and healthy.
"I play mahjong several times a week, I go to the gym twice a week — that doesn't mean it's fun necessarily, I try and do water aerobics, entertain at least once a week and I go out socially," said Gantz.
The number of Americans 90-and-older has nearly tripled since the 1980s.
But Jan still has some ways to go to reach the bar set by these two: Jeanne Louise Calment of France and Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
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The oldest female and male ever lived to 122 years and 116 years, respectively, according to Guinness World Records.
Family members say Calment had a good diet, but had a sweet tooth and ate about two pounds of chocolate a week.
Kimura's life motto was reportedly "eat light to live long."
There might be some truth to the old saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
A study out this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed obesity and diabetes can deter how long we live. Researchers recommended a Mediterranean diet focused on seafood and veggies and went light on meat and sugar.
Regular exercise can slow down father time and reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
German researchers analyzed a handful of studies and determined regular exercise can add almost four years to some people's life span. Good genes also factor in. It's estimated about a quarter of the variation in life span is dictated by genetics.
Yet the science to all the specific genes and how they help longevity is still in the works. And then there's lifestyle.
The more seniors stay mentally active, the more it can prevent Alzheimer's disease, according to the National Institute on Aging.
It's something Jan Gantz at 90 has been able to do, even through isolation during the pandemic.
"I spent time reading, interacting on the computer with people playing mahjong and games, and it was just a different time. And I feel very blessed to have gotten through that and not feeling scarred by a lot of it," said Gantz.
When asked what advice Gantz has for others looking to live a long and happy life, she gave an answer that's reflective of how she's lived hers.
"Be kind. And smile. You go out with a smile, you're always going to meet somebody. And kindness I think in today's world is going to go so far," she said.
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SANTA CLAUS, Ind. (WGN) — The most expensive home currently listed on Zillow in the Midwest isn’t some mansion in Minneapolis or a penthouse in Chicago. The honor falls to a $47,900,000 farm in southern Indiana.
Big Tree Farm, near the border with Kentucky, is a 550-acre, or 0.86 square mile estate featuring a main home, a guest quarters building, an entertainment facility a.k.a. honky-tonk roadhouse, a full 1950s style diner, and its own classic car museum, among numerous other features.
In total, the property features 65,000 square feet of roof-covered space, 15 beds, 16 full baths, three half-baths, eight lakes, and a 2,042-square-foot pool. Its additional amenities include a shooting range, tennis facility, basketball court, miniature log cabin playground, horseshoe pit, multiple stone fire pits, and woodland nature trails.
The main residence was inspired by the traditional mountain log cabin. Offering 8,786 square feet of living space, six bedrooms, and five full- and one half-bathrooms, the entire structure is porch-wrapped and includes a walk-out basement.
The 8,350 square feet guest quarters, known as The Stables, have the look of a horse stable from the outside, but inside, the three two-bedroom, two-bathroom suites are influenced by Four Seasons Hotel New York. This separate structure from the main residence comes with its own shared living spaces and fitness center. It’s also where the property’s main pool can be found which comes with its own covered outdoor bar and dining space.
Located at 5382 E State Road 162 in Santa Claus, Indiana, its owner and creator is multi-millionaire B. Edward Ewing. Ewing made his fortune through a combination of real estate and business management. He grew up in nearby Jasper and, in an interview with Palmetto House, described the origin of his Big Tree Farm dream when he saw the white fences and green pastures of a Kentucky farm at about 12 years old.
About 30 years later he had achieved enough financial success to buy the first 100 acres. According to the interview, development began with the “party barn,” which would become the entertainment facility. From there, a slow and methodical build-up took place over the subsequent three decades. Ewing said he personally staked every flag and ran every design wire for each of the roughly 20,000 trees, all of the 3.5 miles of walkways, and every landscaping bed.
To put the sheer size of this property in perspective, one acre is approximately 209 feet in length and width. That means if the property were perfectly square, it would measure about 115,000 feet in length and width. That’s equivalent to approximately 400 football fields. For those familiar with Chicago, a single city block is about 3 acres, making Big Tree Farm equal to more than 183 city blocks.
Living spaces aside, Big Tree Farm includes a 9,124 square foot entertainment facility that can fit 600 seated guests, a 2,400 square foot 1950s diner fit for 150 guests, and a 26,413 square foot car museum with room for 250 vehicles (car collection not included) and an attached 2,400 square foot automotive maintenance facility. This is all in addition to the shooting range, tennis facility, basketball court, miniature log cabin playground, horseshoe pit, multiple stone fire pits, and woodland nature trails.
You can view the complete Zillow listing here, or read more about the listing from agent Kara Hinshaw at BigTreeFarm.com. | 2023-05-16T00:11:07+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/at-nearly-48m-this-is-zillows-most-expensive-midwest-listing/ |
Donald Trump’s legal problems appear to have escalated significantly on Thursday with federal charges over the retention of top secret documents, but investigators aren’t done yet.
The former president faces a string of inquiries in various states and venues as he campaigns for a second term in the White House. He’s already been charged in a 34-count indictment in New York in a hush money case. The others include federal and state investigations into his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and a civil case that threatens his ability to ever again do business in New York.
Trump, a Republican, has denied any wrongdoing and says he is being targeted by Democrats trying to keep him from reclaiming the presidency in 2024.
Here’s a look at the top probes:
HUSH MONEY SCHEME
Trump became the first former U.S. president in history to face criminal charges when he was indicted in New York in March on state charges stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters.
He pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Each count is punishable by up to four years in prison, though it’s not clear if a judge would impose any prison time if Trump is convicted.
The counts are linked to a series of checks that were written to his lawyer Michael Cohen to reimburse him for his role in paying off porn actor Stormy Daniels, who alleged a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, not long after Melania Trump gave birth to their son, Barron. Those payments were recorded in various internal company documents as being for a legal retainer that prosecutors say didn’t exist.
The former president is next set to appear in court on Dec. 4, two months before Republicans begin their nominating process in earnest.
GEORGIA
For over two years, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia.
She wrote in a letter to the county sheriff that she expects to announce any charging decisions between July 11 and Sept. 1. In a separate letter to a county Superior Court judge, she suggested that any indictments would likely come in August.
The Democratic district attorney’s investigation began shortly after the release of a recording of a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the then-president suggested that Raffensperger could “find 11,780 votes” — just enough to overtake Democrat Joe Biden and overturn Trump’s narrow loss in the state.
But the investigation’s scope broadened considerably after that, and Willis convened a special grand jury to hear testimony from witnesses including high-profile Trump allies, such as attorney Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and high-ranking Georgia officials, such as Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp.
Prosecutors advised Giuliani and Georgia Republicans who served as fake electors that they were at risk of being indicted. The fake electors signed a certificate asserting Trump had won the election and declaring themselves the state’s electors, even though Biden had won the state and Democratic electors had already been certified.
A court filing in early May indicated that Willis had reached immunity deals with at least eight fake electors, suggesting they may be cooperating with authorities.
The foreperson on the special grand jury indicated publicly that the panel had recommended multiple indictments. It’s now up to Willis to decide whether to convene a regular grand jury and pursue criminal charges in the case.
Trump and his allies have denied wrongdoing, and he has repeatedly described his phone call to Raffensperger as “perfect.”
2020 ELECTION AND CAPITOL RIOT
Special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents, has also been leading a team probing efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election that he falsely claimed was stolen.
Federal prosecutors have been especially focused on a scheme by Trump allies to put forth a slate of fake presidential electors in key battleground states who falsely declared that Trump, not Biden, had won the 2020 election. They have issued subpoenas to a number of state Republican Party chairs.
Federal prosecutors have brought multiple Trump administration officials before that grand jury for questioning, including former Vice President Mike Pence.
In a sign of the wide-ranging nature of the investigation, election officials in multiple states whose results were disputed by Trump have received subpoenas asking for past communications with or involving Trump and his campaign aides.
A House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol recommended that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against Trump and associates who helped him launch a wide-ranging pressure campaign to try to overturn his 2020 election loss.
NEW YORK CIVIL CASES
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Trump and the Trump Organization, alleging they misled banks and tax authorities about the value of assets including golf courses and skyscrapers to get loans and tax benefits.
That lawsuit could lead to civil penalties against the company if James, a Democrat, prevails. She is seeking a $250 million fine and a ban on Trump doing business in New York. Manhattan prosecutors investigated the same alleged conduct but did not pursue criminal charges.
A civil trial is scheduled in state court for October.
In a separate civil case in federal court in New York, Trump was found liable in May of sexually abusing and defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. The jury rejected Carroll’s claim that Trump had raped her in a dressing room.
Trump was ordered to pay $5 million to Carroll. He has appealed and has adamantly denied her accusations. | 2023-06-09T06:04:32+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/here-are-the-other-investigations-trump-has-to-worry-about/ |
HOUSTON, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fencing Supply Group (FSG) today announced that it has acquired Hartford Fence Supply, a respected leading wholesaler of vinyl and aluminum fencing products in the Tampa, Florida market.
"It is truly an exciting time, and we are thrilled to welcome the talented and dedicated people of Hartford Fence to our Fencing Supply Group team," said Andrea Hogan, CEO of Fencing Supply Group. "We are building North America's premier distribution company for fencing and outdoor living products, and Hartford Fence is the ideal complement to our existing footprint in the Tampa area."
"At Hartford Fence, we are proud of our team and the reputation we have built for outstanding service to our customers, "remarked Jeremy Bolt, owner of Hartford Fence Supply "Today, we found the right partner in Fencing Supply Group, who will help us build upon our history of excellence."
Fencing Supply Group is a portfolio company of The Sterling Group, an operationally focused private equity firm focused on the industrial sector. Sterling has deep experience in the building products distribution industry, having previously partnered with entrepreneur owners to build Roofing Supply Group, Construction Supply Group, and Artisan Design Group. Fencing Supply Group and Sterling intend to continue to support the platform through organic growth initiatives and an active acquisition strategy.
Founded in 2021, Fencing Supply Group (FSG) is a group of industry-leading fencing distributors. FSG is the largest wholesale distributor and manufacturer of fencing and outdoor living supplies in the United States. FSG businesses serve professional fencing contractors who provide new, improvement, and repair fencing services across residential, industrial, commercial, and infrastructure end markets. The FSG model combines local relationships, service, and expertise with national scale and resources to benefit customers, employees, and suppliers. Current FSG companies include Binford Supply, Cedar Supply, Fence Supply, Merchants Metals, Pro Access Systems, Sharon Fence Distributors, Specialty Fence Wholesale Jacksonville, Specialty Fence Wholesale Mulberry, and Vinyl By Design, which collectively operate over 70 branches across more than 30 states.
Founded in 1982, The Sterling Group is a private equity investment firm that targets controlling interests in basic manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services companies. Typical enterprise values of these companies at initial formation range from $100 million to $750 million. Sterling has sponsored the buyout of 64 platform companies and numerous add-on acquisitions for a total transaction value of over $14.0 billion. Sterling recently closed its fifth investment fund with $2.0 billion in commitments and currently has over $5.1 billion of assets under management. For further information, please visit sterling-group.com.
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LOS ANGELES – Memphis Grizzlies agitator Dillon Brooks was ejected from Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Saturday night after striking LeBron James in the groin.
Brooks committed the flagrant foul while guarding James near midcourt just 17 seconds into the second half, and James went down in obvious pain. Officials tossed Brooks after a brief video review, leading to a raucous celebration in the Los Angeles stands.
Brooks had been booed every time he touched the ball in Game 3 because of his behavior during and after Game 2 in Memphis. Most notably, the 27-year-old Brooks called the 38-year-old James “old" while dismissing the impact of the top scorer in NBA history.
Brooks and James were matched up again in Game 3, and James was largely dominating until Brooks' ejection.
James scored 12 points in the first half while the Lakers went up by 29 points early and eventually built a 53-37 halftime lead. Brooks struggled mightily, scoring seven points on 3-for-13 shooting while missing four of his five 3-point attempts.
Brooks led the NBA in technical fouls this season, committing 18. He served two one-game suspensions for his behavior.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-23T04:03:54+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/sports/2023/04/23/grizzlies-dillon-brooks-tossed-for-blow-to-lebron-in-game-3/ |
CLEVELAND (AP) — A driver breached a gate at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and drove onto the airfield, prompting a temporary shutdown of operations, officials said.
An airport spokesperson told TV stations that the vehicle went through the gate at about 9 p.m. Wednesday and went onto the airfield, damaging runway lights. The driver then abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot, the spokesperson said.
The airport said operations were temporarily put on hold “to maintain the highest level of safety and security.” Cleveland police apprehended the suspect, officials said.
Several flights heading to Cleveland were diverted to other airports during the shutdown, which lasted for about half an hour, officials said.
Drivers also crashed through fencing at the airport in February 2019 and again in July 2020, Cleveland.com reported. | 2022-11-24T16:40:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Airport-shut-down-briefly-after-driver-goes-17608707.php |
2nd person pulled from partially collapsed apartment building in Iowa
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC/Gray News) - A woman rescued from a partially collapsed apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, is the second person to be pulled from the debris.
The woman was brought down to safety Monday night as crews with the Davenport Fire Department continued to check windows of other upper apartment units by knocking and looking inside with a firetruck bucket ladder, KWQC reports.
Video of the woman submitted by a KWQC viewer shows her waving from a third-floor apartment before being taken to safety. City officials have not provided any additional information on her at this time.
After the woman was found in the building, crowds of people could be seen outside, visibly upset and voicing concerns that there may still be others inside. The city has tentative plans to begin demolition of the building Tuesday morning.
The woman is the second person to be removed from the building that partially collapsed around 4:55 p.m. Sunday. Officials confirmed Monday that a person was “extracted” overnight and taken to the hospital. The condition of the person was not known, according to Fire Chief Mike Carlsten.
No deaths had been confirmed, Carlsten said, and it was unclear how many people, if any, were still missing. He encouraged anyone concerned about a possible missing loved one to contact 911.
Also on Monday, city officials said that the owner of the apartment building was served with a notice and order for demolition. Residents will not be allowed back inside.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a disaster proclamation for Scott County in response to the partial collapse.
During a Sunday evening news conference, Carlsten said the back of the six-story apartment complex had collapsed and separated from the building. Crews also found evidence of a natural gas leak, and water had leaked throughout the floors of the structure.
In the initial response, fire crews rescued seven people and escorted more than a dozen others from the building.
Emergency crews and K9 units then worked through the night as part of a rescue effort, but Carlsten said the building was structurally unsound and posed a risk to responders.
The cause of the collapse is not clear at this point.
Copyright 2023 KWQC via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-30T06:54:15+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/05/30/2nd-person-pulled-partially-collapsed-apartment-building-iowa/ |
HILVERSUM, The Netherlands, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group N.V. (EURONEXT: UMG) will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 on March 2, 2023 after that day's close of the Euronext market.
The company will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 6:15PM CET. A link to the live audio webcast will be available on investors.universalmusic.com and a link to the replay will be available after the call.
While listeners may use the webcast, a dial-in telephone number is required for investors and analysts to ask questions. Investors and analysts interested in asking questions can pre-register for a dial-in line at investors.universalmusic.com under the "Financial Reports" tab.
About Universal Music Group
At Universal Music Group, we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation, and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms, and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. For more information, visit www.universalmusic.com.
CONTACT: investorrelations@umusic.com
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Mom shoots intruder while hiding with children in the bedroom, sheriff’s office says
HIDALGO COUNTY, Texas (Gray News) – A mother hiding with her children in a bedroom shot a man accused of breaking into her home Tuesday, according to the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman told responding deputies the man had broken into the house through the garage and was trying to get into the bedroom where she and her children had locked themselves.
Authorities said the homeowner warned the man she had a gun and called the police, but he kept trying to get into the bedroom.
According to deputies, the woman shot once through the door and hit the man in the arm.
The sheriff’s office said the man, identified as 36-year-old Carlos Garcia, ran from the home and was found about 100 yards away in an open field.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment before being charged with burglary of habitation with intent.
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Leader in space exploration joins forces with agencies to increase access to space and expand commercial opportunities in respective countries
PARIS, Sept. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Space, a global leader in space exploration, and its operating company Nanoracks, today announced while at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) that the company has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Colombian Space Agency, El Salvador Aerospace Institute, the Mexican Space Agency, the Guatemalan Association of Space Sciences and Engineering, and the Costa Rican startup Orbital Space Technologies. Nanoracks and Voyager signed an individual MoU with each agency, with the intent of opening up access to space and furthering commercial space opportunities within the respective countries.
"This is a momentous occasion, not only for our teams at Voyager and Nanoracks but also for the growing space economies of each and every one of these countries," said Jeffrey Manber, President of International and Space Stations at Voyager. "We look forward to working closely with the space agencies in Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and potentially more countries in the region to support their current space initiatives and work together to make future commercial space platforms accessible.
"This is a major initiative to help ensure that as we move towards commercial space stations, the doors are open for countries that are emerging space nations," says David Marsh, Vice President of Strategy at Nanoracks. "Nanoracks has been focused on making space accessible since day one, and we are proud to carry the legacy forward from the International Space Station to Starlab. We cannot wait to get to work with our friends from the Latin America region."
Colombian Space Agency
This agreement outlines support of projects and plans for the continued development of space activities in Colombia as well as participation in Starlab and George Washington Carver Science Park (GWCSP) planning efforts. By working together, the companies will support near term space activities in Colombia, grow cooperation with the space, commercial, and scientific communities within the country and continue to advance the future of space technologies and capabilities for Voyager and its portfolio companies.
"Not only is this agreement an essential step in supporting the development of Starlab and other future ISS experiments, it is also an opportunity in the new space age to be in the space with some of Colombia's key space initiatives, including our GreenSat CubeSat project, our Vision Agro program, and our Aprendiendo con Galileo program and education," said Pilar Zamora Acevedo, executive director at the Colombian Space Agency by private initiative. "We are eager to begin working closely with the Voyager and Nanoracks teams and help accelerate growth for our country in the space industry."
El Salvador Aerospace Institute (ESAI)
This agreement is to help expand space exploration activities in collaboration with businesses, institutions, non-governmental and government agencies within El Salvador, which includes the development of the STEAM framework of knowledge with social benefits for the Salvadoran economy and its citizens. This agreement also supports cooperation and collaboration with ESAI and Nanoracks for Starlab and the GWCSP.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to support efforts around Starlab and the GWCSP and to leverage the unique capabilities of Voyager, and its portfolio companies, to plan for future Salvadoran payloads, equipment, and astronauts," said Luis Alfaro, president and CEO of ESAI. "We look forward to sharing knowledge and collaborating on the future of commercial space activities within the North Triangle of Central America and beyond."
Mexican Space Agency
This agreement will explore projects and plans for future space activities in Mexico, including satellites, lunar payloads, and youth engagement efforts while building technical expertise and expanding the economic base of Mexico. Similar to the other MoUs, this agreement will also allow the Mexican Space Agency to participate in the development of Starlab and provide input for elements of the GWCSP.
"Signing this MoU with Voyager Space is essential in order to further the integration of Mexico to the international space community and promotes the effective development of space activities within our country," said Dr. Salvador Landeros Ayala, Director General of the Mexican Space Agency. "By joining forces, we will be able to execute on our joint objectives in a timely manner and change the course of our future in space for the better."
Guatemalan Association of Space Sciences and Engineering (AGICE)
This MoU is intended to support space activities in Guatemala with a specific focus on educational programs. In addition to collaborating on near-term support for the Association's objectives and programs, the AGICE will also have the opportunity to participate in Starlab and GWCSP.
"There is a growing need and interest in space from the Guatemalan community and we are eager to continue to build upon this momentum with Voyager," said Katherinne Herrera Jordan, president of AGICE. "Voyager and Nanoracks are making waves with the development of Starlab while simultaneously moving the future of commercial space forward. We welcome the chance to collaborate with them and extend our reach in the space industry."
Orbital Space Technologies
This agreement is with Costa Rica's first space startup and will support the development of additional capabilities and technologies within the growing space sector in Costa Rica, helping to launch new space initiatives and eventual ground station services in the region. The MoU also allows for the participation in Starlab and GWCSP.
"It's an exciting step for us to sign this agreement with Voyager and move forward in furthering the development of the space sector in Costa Rica and Central America," said Valeria Dittel, CEO of Orbital Space Technologies. "We are hopeful that this collaboration will reap massive benefits for our region, not only to establish ourselves as a strong force in the industry but also to support key initiatives such as access to microgravity experimentation in Latin America."
About Nanoracks
Nanoracks, powered by Voyager Space, is a global leader for providing commercial space services. Nanoracks owns and operates private hardware on the International Space Station and has launched over 1,300 research experiments, deployed over 300 small satellites, and installed the Bishop Airlock. Today, Nanoracks leverages over a decade of experience to develop new commercial space systems in direct response to customer needs. These space systems include converting commercial launch vehicle upper stages into functional secondary platforms, building new habitable space stations, supplying payload and crew airlock systems and services infrastructure, and more.
Follow @Nanoracks on Twitter to learn more or visit https://nanoracks.com.
About Voyager Space
Voyager Space is a space technology company with nearly 20 years of spaceflight heritage. Voyager's long-term mission is to create a vertically integrated NewSpace company capable of delivering any space mission humans can conceive. The firm's first-in-industry model is uniquely tailored to support the growth needs of commercial space companies by replacing traditional private capital models with a longer-term approach that provides permanent capital.
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2 stabbed in ‘unprovoked’ attack at Target; suspect fatally shot
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) - Two people, including a 9-year-old boy, were taken to a hospital after they were stabbed inside a Target in Los Angeles.
Authorities say the boy and a 25-year-old woman were shopping Tuesday night when a 40-year-old man approached them in what appears to be an unprovoked attack.
The suspect, believed to be a homeless man, allegedly approached the boy and told him repeatedly that he “was going to stab and kill him.”
Police say the suspect then grabbed a “butcher-style” knife from the kitchen section and attacked the boy. After bystanders stepped in to help the child, he then allegedly attacked the woman.
A security guard shot the suspect in the stomach, killing him.
The boy is listed in stable but critical condition with a deep laceration to his left shoulder.
The woman underwent surgery to treat a stab wound to her chest.
Authorities say a third person was injured after customers trampled them while exiting the store.
The investigation is ongoing, and police are reviewing the store’s security footage.
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U.S. Marine shoots, kills alleged gas station robber
ARDMORE, Ala. (WAFF) - A convicted sex offender from Pennsylvania was shot and killed Monday night at an Ardmore gas station and Limestone County Sheriff’s deputies say a U.S. Marine was behind the gun.
Deputies say the Marine witnessed 53- year old James Henry of Collegeville, PA pointing a gun at the store clerk and demanding money.
Deputies are calling this Marine a “Good Samaritan” because he gave Henry several verbal commands to drop his gun. They went on to say Henry did not comply with the marine’s commands and pointed his gun at the marine who then shot the suspect. The Marine was legally armed according to authorities.
First responders gave aid but Henry died from his injuries on the scene.
Hendy is also connected to another robbery that took place on Monday night, this one in Athens. Stolen funds from both robberies have been recovered.
All stolen funds from both robberies were recovered and no innocent victims or bystanders reported any injuries.
No arrests have been made and this is an active investigation. Once is it complete, the findings will be presented to a Limestone COunty Grand Jury.
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(CNN) — A Philadelphia firefighter died early Saturday, when a building collapsed soon after a fire there was extinguished.
Four of his comrades and a city worker were pulled alive from the rubble, a fire official said.
The collapse of 300 W. Indiana Ave. in the city’s Fairhill neighborhood came shortly before 3:30 a.m., — about 90 minutes after firefighters were called to fight the fire there — and sent colleagues scrambling to rescue those trapped inside, 1st Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said.
“Our department lost a member bravely fighting a fire and then caught in a building collapse after the fire was over,” he said.
“We just finished up pulling … our brothers out of this place. It’s going to be a rough few weeks coming up,” Murphy told reporters Saturday morning.
Details about what led to the fire in the building and what it housed weren’t immediately available. City records describe it as a three-story structure in a commercial/mixed-use part of town.
Four firefighters and a city licensing and inspections worker were rescued and sent to a hospital. The licensing worker was released, and the four firefighters remained hospitalized Saturday morning in stable condition, Murphy said.
Later Saturday, officials identified the firefighter who died as Lt. Sean Williamson, 51, according to a news release from the city. Williamson was a 27-year veteran of the fire department, the release said.
Williamson was “one of our most experienced lieutenants,” Fire Commissioner Adam K. Thiel said during a briefing.
“I’m almost speechless,” Thiel said. “I’m not done crying.”
Officials identified the five others injured as Fire Marshal Lt. Sylvester Burton; Lt. Clarence Johnson; firefighter Dennis Daly; firefighter Robert Brennan, Jr.; and Thomas Rybakowski, a supervisor with the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections.
The Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the blaze with help from the ATF, the release said. No cause has yet been determined, it added.
A search and rescue operation after a blaze
Firefighters were called to the building at 1:53 a.m. because of a box alarm and found a fire, which they put out, Murphy said.
As firefighters focused on displaced residents and “overhaul” — looking for remaining fire in concealed spaces — the building collapsed, Murphy said. Eight occupants of the property were safely evacuated, the city’s news release said.
One person jumped from the second floor to avoid getting trapped. Others were pulled out systematically, Murphy said.
During rescue efforts, rescuers had “dialogue” with those trapped, including tapping on the debris “so somebody could know that somebody was in there,” Murphy said.
Three firefighters and the inspector were initially trapped but rescued and taken to the hospital, the news release said.
This was a “lean-to/pancake collapse,” Murphy said, in that while some collapsed material might have fallen flat on a surface, other material might have leaned against a wall, creating space. “There were a lot of void spaces,” Murphy said.
At the site, firefighters and others stood near or walked around a large pile — more than head-high — of metal, wood and other debris, video from CNN affiliate WPVI showed.
Williamson was one of two fire department members who were trapped under debris after the collapse, the city’s news release said. He was pronounced deceased on the scene at roughly 6:45 a.m., officials said.
The other member, Brennan, was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition, the release said.
The fire response for the building’s collapse was placed under control shortly after 7:10 a.m., it added.
At least nine agencies helped with recovery efforts, including Philadelphia police and the American Red Cross, the fire department added on Twitter.
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Beats. Booze. Baba’s Place. And footy (well, rugby too, actually). The beloved Henson Park is hosting a mighty fine party for the upcoming Newtown Jets home game on Saturday, June 24, and you’re invited.
The Inner West footy club has teamed up with (pun intended, haha) the Music and Booze Company andl) and LGBTQI+ vibe creator Kat Dopper from Heaps Gay for what might just be their most atmospheric home match to date, and you don’t want to miss it. They’ve titled it ‘Welcome Day’ because no matter your age, race, heritage or gender, you’re bound to have bucketloads of fun.
In celebration of the eclectic and “culturally significant” area that welcomed the Jets as a club many years ago, the oldest rugby league club in Australia is hoping to shape an event that’ll encapsulate the eccentricities and creativity of the community. There’ll be FBi radio DJs and heaps of distillers like Young Henrys, DNA Distillery, and Archie Rose slinging cocktails, seltzers and brews.
That’s not to mention the good food – crispy Mexican bites from Tito’s Tacos, Baba’s Place’s Mediterranean meats and slices from Slick Rick's Pizza, just to name a few. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir will be belting out the tunes and you’ll find heaps of games for the little ones so they’re entertained while you’re spectating.
In what might be the ultimate mark of inclusivity and diversity, the rivalry between rugby union and rugby league will be squashed with an epic sports lineup. The mens and womens teams from Petersham Rugby Club and Briars Rugby Club will go head to head as the opening act, if you will, before the Jets play the Parramatta Eels. One day, two awesome sports and masses of united fans. Count us in.
The event is ticketed and runs from 11am to 6pm. You’ll be able to buy tickets at the gate, but it’s recommended snapping them up online in advance for $20 (adult), $10 (kids aged 12-18) and free for kids under 12. You can book here. | 2023-06-08T23:10:32+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/sydney/things-to-do/welcome-day |
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Kemar Lawrence, Luis Amarilla and Franco Fragapane scored second-half goals and Minnesota United beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 on Friday night for its third straight victory.
Lawrence tied it in the 71st minute to end Vancouver’s MLS shutout streak at 342 minutes, taking a pass from D. J. Taylor and drilling a shot past goalkeeper Cody Cropper. Amarilla gave Minnesota (8-8-3) the lead in the 84th with a hard shot from outside the box, and Fragapane connected in the 88th.
Second-half substitute Lucas Cavallini scored in the 63rd for Vancouver (7-9-3). | 2022-07-09T07:31:42+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Minnesota-United-rallies-to-beat-Vancouver-3-1-in-17294137.php |
A woman detained inside an Oklahoma police car is accused of slipping out of her handcuffs, stealing an assault rifle, and firing at officers.
Police released a video of the incident earlier this week.
According to the Grady County Sheriff's Department, Rachel Clay used the rifle and grazed a deputy and a bystander.
The sheriff's department said the woman was acting erratically. Deputies were not planning on transporting her to jail before the incident.
She later tested positive for meth.
"When we detain somebody, they actually go in handcuffs," Undersheriff Gary Boggess, Grady County Sheriff's Department, "They place you in the back seat of the patrol car. While in the back seat of a patrol car, she was able to get her wrist free from the handcuffs, and the handcuffs were put on properly. She was able to reach up on our consoles — there's several switches — one is a gun switch to unlock the gun lock, and she found it, unlocked the gun lock, and was able to retrieve an AR-15 rifle."
After a standoff with officers, she surrendered three and a half hours later. Clay is being held on a $1 million bond. | 2022-08-18T13:57:10+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/national/woman-slips-out-of-handcuffs-steals-and-fires-deputys-rifle |
Shortly after debuting its latest exhibition, "Sunshine," featuring works by artist Mark Fleuridor, at its gallery space on Biscayne Boulevard, YoungArts unveiled the lineup for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
It's a robust season filled with collaborative presentations with Miami Light Project, Miami Film Festival, the Betsy Hotel, and Nu Deco Ensemble. All those, in addition to an Art Basel VIP Brunch on November 30, National YoungArts Week set for January 9-15, 2023, and a spring exhibition in May.
Planning a season following nearly three years of uncertainty due to the pandemic was no easy feat, but Lauren Snelling, artistic director at YoungArts, says it was all about finding a balance.
"Planning this season has been a careful balance of consideration for returning to a [modified] version of in-person programming and a thoughtful recognition of the learnings of the past two years. Programs for both current winners [ages 15-18 years] and past winners [ages 15-60] have evolved to best serve the artists in our community throughout the various stages of their careers," Snelling explains.
The YoungArts leadership team used the lessons of those pandemic years to its advantage.
"We have learned so much over the last two years on how to strengthen our online presence and digital community building and look forward to continuing that work, but nothing compares to the energy of being in person," says deputy director Rebekah Lanae Lengel.
Collaboration was also a strong factor in planning the season. "We are leveraging our collegial partnerships in order to expand the resources available to all artists and to see the fruits of labor two years in the making," Snelling says.
Putting together the opening exhibition by Fleuridor was a passion project for associate curator Luisa Múnera, who says the process of creating this exhibition was completely different from previous shows she's worked on. Because YoungArts primarily focuses on producing group exhibitions, this allows it to showcase the work of intergenerational artists from across the United States. Because of this, most of those installations are worked on via email with the artist. With Fleuridor's show, that was different.
"The fact that Mark is local to Miami allowed for collaboration to flourish. I was able to conduct studio visits where I witnessed firsthand the works that I had seen on his website and social media channels," Múnera explains.
She knew she did not want to curate the show without Fleuridor's insight and voice being part of the process. In working with him, she had the opportunity to learn about his process, techniques, motivations, goals, and ambitions for the future.
"During the exhibition installation, we worked closely in deciding layout, which pieces made sense together, how color moves through the space... every day allowed for conversation that revealed layers within each work," Múnera adds.
Once "Sunshine" wraps up on December 10, the National YoungArts Week Exhibition will open to the public on January 9 and run through the 15th.
"This exhibition is a group show featuring the work of 15- to 18-year-old designers, photographers, and visual artists. Every year, YoungArts welcomes a guest curator to curate this show, and we are so pleased to have Adeze Wilford, curator at [Museum of Contemporary Art] in North Miami, organizing the 2023 show," Múnera says.
The annual weeklong exhibition brings together the next generation of innovative, forward-thinking, and curious voices from around the United States who are "exploring, questioning, and rethinking the world we live in through their artistic practice. Witnessing their work at such young ages gives me hope for our future," Múnera explains.
Lanae Lengel is excited about welcoming all the winners that week in January. "We are so excited to celebrate the 2023 class of winners in January during National YoungArts Week in Miami and celebrate all the brilliant innovative artists of the YoungArts community throughout the season as we share their incredible work and energy," she adds.
Snelling echoes that statement, saying that the energy that comes from witnessing artists in creation who are experimenting with their craft, sharing their process and outcomes, and learning from one another in real-time "is what it's all about, whether it is young artists at National YoungArts Week or mid-career artists developing something new in a residency."
There are also a few new initiatives this season. They include piloting an in-person program for current honorable mention and merit-level winners in all ten YoungArts Week disciplines that focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration.
"Led by two separate creative teams, up to 80 young artists will have the opportunity to attend a three-day program in Miami and engage in immersive exercises, discussions, and sharing sessions, as well as gain insight from accomplished guest artist-led workshops," Snelling says.
Earlier this month, YoungArts partnered with the Miami Light Project to present Shamel Pitts' creation of Touch of Red with his collective, Tribe, at the Miami Theater Center.
"A long-time collaborator and host of YoungArts Miami workshops and performances in the past, Miami Light Project's support of this project made possible the National Performance Network's co-commission, development, and performance grants for the company and partner presenters in five states," Snelling explains.
YoungArts will also be collaborating with Nu Deco Ensemble in several yet-to-be-announced programs.
For more on YoungArt 2022-23 season, including dates, times, and evolving programs, visit youngarts.org.
– Josie Gulliksen, ArtburstMiami.com | 2022-11-12T02:08:57+00:00 | miaminewtimes.com | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/youngarts-foundation-reveals-its-2022-23-event-lineup-in-miami-15677180 |
Which popular concealer at Sephora is best?
Concealers can help add to a look by making a face look more refreshed and relaxed. There are tons of product options when it comes to considering a concealer that’s right for you. The various brands make an effort to separate their products from the rest of the market so take a moment to see what makes some of the most popular products at Sephora so special. If you have sensitive skin, consider talking to your doctor or dermatologist before deciding on a product. Find the most popular concealer at Sephora and proudly add it to your makeup bag.
What is concealer?
Concealer is a product that works to improve the color of skin on areas of worry, such as on red marks or dark circles. The product works to restore the natural look of the skin and tends to be lighter in nature than foundation.
The product is not to be confused with foundation, which may seem at times to do a similar job. Foundation is intended to be the base of most other beauty products and although it does help to hide and smooth some areas of concern, it is not the same as concealer. That’s why concealers usually go after foundation when applying makeup.
How can I find my perfect shade?
Sephora makes finding your perfect concealer shade easy. Ask for assistance at a store location and someone will work with you to find the perfect color to match your skin, as well as address any personal areas of concern, like dryness or blemishes. Try to go to a store during hours with less foot traffic in order to have the ideal shade-matching experience.
Are there different types of coverage levels?
Yes. Concealer comes with different formula options in order to offer different levels of coverage. Generally the largest amount of coverage is considered to be called full coverage.
Most popular liquid concealers at Sephora
Concealers come in a wide variety of forms and one of the most popular is called liquid. Liquid concealers work well to cover color blemishes and tend to be more popular than other types of concealers. In a pinch, you can sometimes get away with using liquid concealer like foundation.
Most popular liquid concealers at Sephora
The vegan concealer includes both standard and miniature options with a relatively even amount of shades that are available in both size options. It is a medium-coverage concealer that’s intended to look relatively natural and can be worn for an extended period of time. The concealer comes in a liquid form and works best with a wide range of skin types from normal to oily.
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This vegan concealer offers full coverage in order to more fully hide areas of concern. The concealer comes in a wide range of shades that help with a natural finish. This specific concealer is multi-purposed and can even be used for other purposes, such as contouring and highlighting selected areas of the face.
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Dior Forever Skin Correct Concealer
The natural-looking concealer comes in over 20 different shades. It comes in a full-coverage formula that can be worn for around a full day if needed. It’s long-lasting and even helps moisturize the skin during the course of its use.
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Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Liquid Touch Brightening Concealer
The medium-coverage concealer comes with over 20 different shades that are available in a natural finish. The vegan concealer helps to brighten the color of the face and comes without parabens. The concealer can be used on a wide range of skin types, such as dry and combination.
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This concealer comes in a natural finish that even offers medium coverage. It offers a helpful amount of coverage in order to better cover areas of concern, such as dark spots and dark circles. The concealer is cruelty-free and also vegan, so it’s ideal for most animal lovers.
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Most popular cream concealers at Sephora
Cream concealers are generally much thicker than liquid concealers. The thicker consistency often makes it easier for cream foundations to hide more extensive blemishes, such as dark circles and red marks or even slight indents on the face.
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NARS Soft Matte Complete Concealer
The vegan concealer is full coverage and comes in a matte finish. This concealer manages to look natural and works with normal to oily skin. It comes with ingredients such as peptides and health-inspired additions, such as Vitamin A and Vitamin C to help boost the overall health and vitality of the skin.
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Most popular stick concealers at Sephora
A stick concealer is an ideal option for applying makeup on-the-go or when simply needing a quick touch-up. Keep in mind that both stick and cream concealers are more susceptible to increased heat, so try to keep them out of warm areas like hot cars in order to help preserve their structural integrity.
Most popular stick concealer at Sephora
FENTY BEAUTY by Rihanna Match Stix Matte Contour Skinstick
The vegan, medium-coverage matte stick comes in about five different options. It includes a formula that is free from harmful additives, such as parabens, and it also avoids gluten, which makes it a more friendly option for people with Celiac and an aversion to placing gluten near their lips. The concealer moves from cream to powder once it’s properly blended and warmed on the skin.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland leaders have unanimously agreed to pay $200,000 in attorney fees after a doomed bid to avoid releasing decades-old legal documents.
The documents the city officials were forced to release deal with the long-contentious issue of how utility bureaus are supposed to handle ratepayer money, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
Retired developer Mark Bartlett first requested three legal opinions and a memo from the city in September 2015.
At the time, the city was preparing to disconnect open-air reservoirs in Mount Tabor Park — an area where both the Bureau of Parks and Recreation and the Water Bureau owned land. Bartlett believed the city was inappropriately treating the land as if it had one owner — instead of being owned by the water bureau, which is funded by ratepayers, and the parks bureau, which gets money from the general fund.
Bartlett asked for legal opinions and a memo he had seen mentioned in an email, dating back to the 1980s and 1990, which he believed detailed the rules around keeping assets of rate-payer bureaus distinct from those of general fund bureaus.
He believed the documents would show the city was knowingly violating its own rules.
The city denied the request, claiming attorney-client privilege, which gives people the right to keep their communication with their attorney confidential. Bartlett appealed to the Multnomah County district attorney. Then district attorney Rod Underhill sided with him, citing a state law that said — with few exceptions — documents older than 25 years must be disclosed.
But Portland’s election officials made the rare decision to keep fighting, reportedly worried they would receive inferior legal advice if their attorneys knew everything would one day be made public. The city sued Bartlett, asking a judge to declare that the documents he wanted were covered by attorney-client privilege.
The move concerned government transparency advocates.
A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge ruled for the city. But the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed that decision and on appeal the Oregon Supreme Court ruled for Bartlett in April. Justices wrote that they had “no authority to rewrite public records law” and suggested the city take the issue to the state legislature.
According to deputy city attorney Denis Vannier, who presented to City Council on Wednesday, Bartlett’s attorneys said they were going to ask for $405,000 in attorney fees. The city agreed to settle with Bartlett and pay $200,000. | 2022-07-14T01:33:35+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Portland-to-pay-200K-after-losing-public-records-17303768.php |
Raises $18 Million in New Equity Financing
Appoints Healthcare Luminary Dr. Ismail Kola to Board of Directors, Adding Clinical Development Expertise
Progresses European Commercial Launch with Rollout to Key Distributors and Leading Hospitals and Blood Centers
LEXINGTON, Mass., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemanext Inc., a leading innovator in blood processing, storage, and transfusion technology, today announced the successful first close of its Series B fundraising round. Taken together with the exercise of outstanding warrants, this close brings an additional $18 million of equity capital from noted global private investors with deep finance and healthcare expertise. To date, the company has raised approximately $130mm (inclusive of $8mm in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health).
The Company also announced the appointment of Dr. Ismail Kola to its Board of Directors. Dr. Kola was formerly Executive Vice President of UCB S.A. and President and Chief Scientific Officer of UCB New Medicines. He previously served as Chief Scientific Officer at Schering-Plough Corporation and held various senior positions at Merck. Dr. Kola holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has held several professorships at leading universities worldwide, including Cambridge University. This announcement of Dr. Kola's appointment follows that of Dr. Paul Ness, formerly Senior Director of the Division of Transfusion Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, earlier this year.
Martin Cannon, CEO of Hemanext, said: "As Hemanext advances on all fronts, we are fortunate and gratified to be supported by an exceptional group of successful and respected new investors who have joined our core investment community in this B round. Among them is Dr. Kola, who also joins our Board of Directors and strengthens our expanding community of world-class medical thought leaders. Dr. Kola has built an extraordinarily successful career in the development and commercialization of therapeutic solutions to some of the most challenging clinical problems. With his broad drug development expertise, and his global scientific stature as a trusted strategic resource to many pioneering biotechnology and life science companies, Hemanext will benefit greatly from his passion for patient welfare and recognized expertise in areas vital for the realization of the enormous potential of our company."
Dr. Ismail Kola said: "I believe there is a significant unmet need in transfusion medicine that makes Hemanext's technology and mission absolutely essential to the global healthcare ecosystem. I have spent my career bringing life-changing new therapies to fruition, with the ultimate goal of making patients' lives better. That is what excites me most about Hemanext – its patient-centric approach. I look forward to supporting the company as it continues to expand its presence and bring its new technology to the market."
Commercial Launch in Europe
In August, Hemanext entered into distribution agreements with two leading medical device distributors in the Nordics and Italy, bolstering its sales capabilities across key European markets and strengthening its relationships with top blood centers and clinicians in each region.
Hemanext has now received initial commercial orders in Europe, with implementation planned in several blood establishments by the end of the year. This milestone comes after the Company received CE Mark certification for the Hemanext ONE Red Blood Cell (RBC) Processing and Storage System in 2021 and commenced targeted post CE-mark certification clinical studies in 2022. The Company looks forward to expanding its presence into additional markets in Europe in 2023.
Series B and C Equity Rounds
The Company will be keeping the current Series B available to investors for the next few weeks. Hemanext expects to begin a Series C round with institutional investors in 2023.
Sonenshine Fulford Group, a collaboration between Sonenshine Partners in the U.S. and The Fulford Group in the U.K., is advising Hemanext in its fundraising.
About Hemanext
Hemanext is a privately held medical technology company based in Lexington, MA that is dedicated to improving the quality, safety, efficacy, and cost of transfusion therapy. The company's research and development efforts center on the study of hypoxically stored red blood cells (RBCs). The company's aim is to significantly improve the quality of stored RBCs.
About Hemanext ONE®
In Europe, the system is CE Marked for the processing and storage CPD/PAGGSM Red Blood Cells, Leukocytes Reduced (LR RBC) that have been prepared and processed with the HEMANEXT ONE® system within 24 hours of collection. The HEMANEXT ONE® system limits the O2 and CO2 levels in the storage environment. Red Blood Cells Leukocytes Reduced, O2 /CO2 Reduced may be stored for up to 42 days at 1-6°C. HEMANEXT ONE® is used for volumes no greater than 350 ml of LR RBC.1
In the United States, the product remains available for investigational use only, pending marketing authorization from the FDA.
Preclinical data show that the medical device can maintain RBCs at or below 20% oxygen saturation for up to 42 days2, thereby creating hypoxic RBCs. Clinical studies are underway to measure the impact of hypoxic RBCs on patient outcomes and the potential cost savings.3,4
Visit Hemanext.com to learn more about the Company.
Hemanext Media Contact:
Nathan Riggs / Hallie Wolff
nathan.riggs@kekstcnc.com / Hallie.Wolff@kekstcnc.com
1 Hemanext ONE®, Instructions for Use for the European Union (April 2021), DOF
2 Brouard, D et al. Vox Sang 2018; 113: 153.2018.
3 Frank, S et al. Anesthesiology 2017;127(5):754-764.
4 DOF. Document.Calculation.2021
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SOURCE Hemanext Inc. | 2022-11-07T17:38:56+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/11/07/hemanext-announces-close-series-b-equity-funding-round/ |
CDC signs off on boosters for 5 to 11-year-olds
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds following the independent vaccine advisers recommendation for an additional dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine following a primary series.
The CDC's vaccine advisers voted 11-1, with 1 abstention Thursday to support recommending a booster dose, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized earlier this week.
The recommendation they voted on was: "A single Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine booster dose is recommended for persons ages 5-11 years at least 5 months after the primary series, under the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization."
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices endorsed the booster for children at least five months after they received their two-dose series. This would be a third dose for healthy children and a fourth dose for children who are immunocompromised.
The committee voted for the booster after hearing details about Pfizer's application to the FDA to expand access to the boosters for this age group. Waning antibody levels have been seen in children who have received a primary vaccination series, and booster doses achieved antibody levels higher than what was seen after the primary series.
The company said data from its clinical trials showed it raised omicron-fighting antibodies by 36 times in this age group. The trial that included 4,500 children ages 5 through 11 saw no new safety issues, according to the company.
"Overall, the benefits of COVID vaccines continue to outweigh the risks as we continue to see, regardless of what age group is highlighted, receipt of the Covid vaccine primary series continues to be critically important for the prevention of severe Covid-19 morbidity and mortality and overall Covid-19 vaccine booster doses have been shown to increase protection against all outcomes in those 12 and over," said Dr. Sara Oliver, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and the lead for the COVID-19 vaccines ACIP Work Group. "It's likely that children ages 5 through 11 would benefit from a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose."
The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been tough on kids. Studies from the New York State Department of Health and the CDC found that the effectiveness of two doses of Pfizer's vaccine for children ages 5 to 12 fell significantly during the omicron surge, falling from 68% to about 12% against infection. Two doses of the vaccine did seem to keep kids out of the hospital.
While not at the same levels as during the omicron wave, COVID-19 cases among children have been increasing. The number of new COVID-19 cases among children in the U.S. grew nearly 76% last week from two weeks prior, the American Academy of Pediatrics said Monday.
According to the latest report from the CDC, 1,547 children have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. and 364 of them were in the 5-11-year-old age range.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says that almost 13.2 million kids in the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic, with more than 5.3 million of those cases coming this year. Those numbers are probably undercounted, as testing has fallen off in much of the country.
Looking at electronic health records, with more than 700,000 doses administered, there were no real safety problems found with the Pfizer vaccine in children, according to a presentation given to the committee.
Anaphylaxis rates in children ages 5-11 following the Pfizer vaccination were comparable to the rate seen in people ages 12 and older. In the three months after the initial vaccine series, there were 10 potential cases of myocarditis or pericarditis, both types of heart inflammation, but four of those cases were determined not be related to the vaccination, the CDC said in its presentation.
"The general picture is that myocarditis associated with mRNA vaccination relative to viral myocarditis tends to be clinically mild and patients have good prognosis and a fairly short recovery period," the CDC's Dr. Tom Shimabukuro told the committee.
The rates were also lower in this age group than were seen in adolescence. The rate was also lower after a booster dose.
Most children, if they experienced any problems with the vaccine were considered non-serious, like pain at the injection site. This was similar to adults' reaction after their second dose.
Vaccination is an important protection for children. The risk of dying from COVID-19 for children 12 years and older in February of 2020 was 20 times higher among unvaccinated children, compared to those with the primary vaccine series and a booster dose.
While scientists initially believed that COVID-19 didn't impact children nearly as much as it did adults, deaths from COVID-19 in 5 -11-year-olds were greater than for a number of other pediatric vaccine preventable diseases. In 2020, it was one of the leading causes of death for children in this age range.
"It's important to highlight that vaccine coverage for these other conditions, these other diseases, is relatively high, indicating that most parents accept vaccination for Hepatitis A, meningococcal, varicella, rubella and rotavirus even though deaths from these diseases are relatively rare," said Dr. Matt Daley, who is chair of the COVID 19 vaccines workgroup and a senior investigator with the Institute for Health Research Kaiser Permanente Colorado.
Parents should also keep in mind that a child who gets Covid-19 can, like adults, develop long-COVID, Daley said, even after a child has a mild case of Covid-19. Long Covid symptoms can last for years after the initial infection. People who were previously vaccinated were less likely to have symptoms between 12 and 20 weeks after infection compared to those that were unvaccinated, the CDC said.
Children ages 5 - 11 were also the most vulnerable age group to develop multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, also known as MIS-C, a rare but serious Covid-19-related condition. Among this age group, there have been 3,800 MIS-C cases and 16 deaths, according to the CDC's presentation.
"Data do not suggest potential safety concerns regarding a Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster for children five to seven years of age beyond those previously identified in older age groups," said Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot in her safety findings presentation to the committee.
Talbot was the one expert who voted against the booster dose for this age group. While she is in favor of vaccinating children against COVID-19, she thinks public health leaders should concentrate on the low vaccination rate among this age group instead of focusing on boosters.
"I really want children to be vaccinated," said Talbot, an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. "We really need to spend our time and effort on educating the 70% who have not been (vaccinated). Boosters are great once we've got everyone their first round and I think that needs to be a priority."
In the 5-11 age group, only 35% of children have had one dose and only 28% are fully vaccinated according to the CDC.
Following the ACIP vote, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky will decide whether to sign off on the ACIP recommendation.
Walensky, who gave opening remarks in the meeting advocated for more people of all ages to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
"There are too many who do not have the protection necessary as we face yet another increase in cases and hospitalizations," she told the committee. "We all hoped to never see the death tolls rise this high, reaching a number that was unfathomable when we first learned of this virus."
"The sadness I feel for lives lost, the families devastated and the communities changed is steep," Walensky added. "We have the tools we need to protect these people from severe disease and prevent any more tragic deaths." | 2022-05-20T02:22:05+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/cdc-signs-off-boosters-5-11-year-olds/40052854 |
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Pennsylvania unseals search warrant in Idaho killings
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Law enforcement officials seized dark clothing, medical gloves, a flashlight and other items from a Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, according to newly unsealed court documents.
The records were made public Tuesday, two months after Pennsylvania State Police arrested Bryan Kohberger at his parents’ home in eastern Pennsylvania.
Kohberger, a 28-year-old former doctoral student at Washington State University, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths in Moscow, Idaho.
The bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found on Nov. 13, 2022, at a rental home across the street from the University of Idaho campus. The slayings shocked the rural Idaho community and neighboring Pullman, Washington, where Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University.
Pennsylvania State Police swabbed Kohberger’s DNA and seized a silver flashlight, four “medical-style gloves,” a white Arizona Jean Co. T-shirt, a black Champion sweatshirt, a pair of black-and-white size 13 Nike shoes, black Under Armour socks, black Under Armour shorts and black Under Armour boxers, according to an inventory of the items.
The significance of the items, if any, was not immediately clear.
A roommate who lived in the home where the attack took place has told authorities she was awakened in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, opened her bedroom door and saw a masked figure clad in black clothing walking past her.
Kohberger’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for late June. He has yet to enter a plea.
Additional warrants from Kohberger’s arrest in Pennsylvania are due to be made public Wednesday.
Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove — but no weapon — when they searched Kohberger’s Washington state apartment, according to documents released in January.
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First civilians leave Mariupol steel plant; hundreds remain
May 2, 2022 - 4:55 am
Updated May 2, 2022 - 5:01 am
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — People fleeing besieged Mariupol described weeks of bombardments and deprivations as they arrived Monday in Ukrainian-held territory, where relief workers awaited the first group of civilians freed from a steel plant that is last redoubt of Ukrainian fighters in the devastated port city.
Video posted online Sunday by Ukrainian forces showed elderly women and mothers with small children climbing over a steep pile of rubble from the sprawling Azovstal steel plant and eventually boarding a bus.
More than 100 civilians from the plant were expected to arrive in Zaporizhzhia, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) northwest of Mariupol, on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The evacuation, if successful, would represent rare progress in easing the human cost of the almost 10-week war, which has caused particular suffering in Mariupol. Previous attempts to open safe corridors out of the city on the Sea of Azov and other places have broken down. People fleeing Russian-occupied areas in the past have said their vehicles were fired on, and Ukrainian officials have repeatedly accused Russian forces of shelling agreed-upon evacuation routes.
“Today, for the first time in all the days of the war, this vitally needed green corridor has started working,” Zelenskyy said Sunday in a pre-recorded address published on his Telegram messaging channel.
At least some of the people evacuated from the plant were apparently taken to a village controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, though Russian state media reported they would be allowed to continue on to Ukrainian-held territory if they wanted to. In the past, Ukrainian officials have accused Moscow’s troops of forcibly relocating civilians from areas they have captured to Russia; Moscow has said the people wanted to go to Russia.
While official evacuations have often faltered, many people have managed to flee Mariupol under their own steam in recent weeks. Others are unable to escape.
“People without cars cannot leave. They’re desperate,” said Olena Gibert, who was among those arriving an a U.N.-backed reception center in Zaporizhzhia in dusty and often damaged private cars. “You need to go get them. People have nothing. We had nothing.”
She said many people still in Mariupol wish to escape the Russian-controlled city but can’t say so openly amid the atmosphere of constant pro-Russian propaganda. A siege of the city since the early days of the war has trapped civilians in terrible conditions, with scarce access to food, water, medicine and electricity. They have suffered intense bombardment, including a Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital and the bombing of a theater.
Anastasiia Dembytska, who took advantage of the brief cease-fire around the evacuation of civilians from the steel plant to leave with her daughter, nephew and dog, told The Associated Press her family survived by cooking on a makeshift stove and drinking well water.
She said could see the steel plant from her window, when she dared to look out.
“We could see the rockets flying” and clouds of smoke over the plant, she said.
A defender of the plant said Russian forces resumed shelling the plant Sunday as soon as some civilians there were evacuated.
Denys Shlega, commander of the 12th Operational Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard, said in a televised interview that several hundred civilians remain trapped alongside nearly 500 wounded soldiers and “numerous” dead bodies.
“Several dozen small children are still in the bunkers underneath the plant,” Shlega said. It was unclear whether there would be further evacuation attempts.
Before the weekend evacuation, about 1,000 civilians were also believed to be in the the sprawling, Soviet-era steel plant, along with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters. As many as 100,000 people may still be in Mariupol overall.
The city, which had a pre-war population of more than 400,000, is a key Russian target because its capture would deprive Ukraine of a vital port, allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, and free up troops for fighting elsewhere in the Donbas, now Russia’s main focus.
A Ukrainian officer at the plant urged groups like the U.N. and the Red Cross to ensure the evacuation of wounded fighters, though he acknowledged that reaching some of the injured is difficult.
“There’s rubble. We have no special equipment. It’s hard for soldiers to pick up slabs weighing tons only with their arms,” Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, told the AP in an interview. “We hear voices of people who are still alive” inside shattered buildings.
The Azov Regiment originated as a far-right paramilitary unit and is now part of the Ukrainian military.
In his nightly address Sunday, Zelenskyy accused Moscow of waging “a war of extermination,” saying Russian shelling had hit food, grain and fertilizer warehouses, and residential neighborhoods in the city of Kharkiv, in the Donbas and other regions.
After failing to capture Kyiv in the opening weeks of the war, Russian forces have embarked on a major military operation to seize the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces struck dozens of military targets in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, including concentrations of troops and weapons and an ammunition depot near Chervone in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The information could not be independently verified. The Ukrainian president’s office said at least three people were killed and another three, including a child, were wounded in the eastern Luhansk region over the last 24 hours. It said that four people were wounded in the shelling in Donetsk, another eastern region.
The regional administration in the Zaporizhzhia region farther west said that at least two people died and another four were wounded in the Russian shelling of the town of Orikhiv.
A full picture of battle unfolding in eastern Ukraine is hard to capture. The fighting makes it dangerous for reporters to move around, and both sides have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
Western officials say Russia is advancing slowly in its eastern offensive and has captured some villages, but is inflicting heavy civilian casualties through indiscriminate bombing. Ukrainian forces are fighting their offensive village-by-village while civilians flee airstrikes and artillery shelling.
The British Defense Ministry said in a daily briefing Monday that it believes more than a quarter of all the fighting units Russia has deployed in Ukraine are now “combat ineffective” — unable to fight because of loss of troops or equipment.
The British military believes Russia committed over 120 so-called “battalion tactical groups” into the war since February, which represents 65% of all of Moscow’s combat strength.
Ukraine’s military claimed Monday to have destroyed two small Russian patrol boats in the Black Sea. Drone footage posted online showed what the Ukrainians described as two Russian Raptor boats exploding after being struck by missiles.
The AP could not immediately independently confirm the strikes.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance has flowed into Ukraine during the war, but Russia’s vast armories mean Ukraine still needs massive support. Zelenskyy has appealed to the West for more weapons, and tougher economic sanctions on Russia.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other U.S. lawmakers visited Zelenskyy on Saturday to show American support.
European Union energy ministers were meeting Monday to discuss a new set of sanctions, which could include restrictions on Russian oil — though Russia-dependent members of the 27-nation bloc including Hungary and Slovakia are wary of taking tough action.
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Varenytsia reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists Yesica Fisch in Sloviansk, Jon Gambrell and Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, and AP staff around the world contributed to this report. | 2022-05-02T15:19:37+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/first-civilians-leave-mariupol-steel-plant-hundreds-remain-2570284/ |
New research published in The New England Journal of Medicine reveals that people with certain genetic loss-of-function mutations have more than 50% lower risk of nonalcoholic liver disease and nonalcoholic cirrhosis
Regeneron and Alnylam have developed an siRNA therapeutic candidate targeting CIDEB that could enter clinical stages of development in the next year
Unprecedented size of Regeneron Genetics Center human sequence database – representing approximately two million individuals and growing – enables discovery of protective gene variants too rare to be previously identified
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) announced today that scientists from the Regeneron Genetics Center® (RGC) have uncovered rare genetic loss-of-function mutations in the CIDEB gene that are associated with substantial protection from liver disease, including serious diseases such as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. The new discovery has been published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
"The unprecedented protective effect that these CIDEB genetic variants have against liver disease provides us with one of our most exciting targets and potential therapeutic approaches for a notoriously hard-to-treat disease where there are currently no approved treatments," said Aris Baras, M.D., Senior Vice President and Head of the Regeneron Genetics Center at Regeneron. "RGC has repeatedly demonstrated the value of large-scale genetic sequencing in identifying novel and important targets for many serious diseases and this is yet another example of how we are fueling our pipeline through genetics discovery. Our growing dataset enables us to discover more rare and more powerful protective variants with the ultimate goal of improving human health."
In the largest sequencing study to date on the genetic basis of liver health, RGC sequenced the exomes of more than 540,000 individuals across five ancestry groups and multiple cohorts, including the UK Biobank and the Geisinger Health System MyCode cohort. By analyzing this genetic data in conjunction with deidentified health records, RGC researchers found that individuals who carry loss-of-function mutations in one of two copies of the CIDEB gene had an approximately 53% reduction in the risk of nonalcoholic liver disease and approximately 54% reduction in the risk of nonalcoholic cirrhosis. The study also found that CIDEB mutations had greater protective associations in individuals with obesity or type 2 diabetes, who are traditionally at higher risk for NASH, compared to individuals without these conditions.
Therapeutics that effectively mimic these protective mutations by blocking CIDEB expression or function could, therefore, potentially help prevent or treat NASH and other forms of liver disease. Based on these findings, Regeneron has already initiated a new therapeutic program to target CIDEB utilizing collaborator Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s RNA interference technology which can effectively silence genes in the liver. Regeneron and Alnylam already have two other investigational gene silencing treatments for NASH identified via human genetics, targeting the PNPLA3 and the HSD17B13 genes. The HSD17B13 program, which is in early-phase human clinical trials, was initiated based on a previous RGC discovery of protective associations for mutations in the HSD17B13 gene.
"RGC's discovery of CIDEB mutations, with one of the most powerful protections from liver disease seen to date, is a milestone in our understanding of the genetic basis of this disease," said Luca A. Lotta, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President and Head of Cardiometabolic and Musculoskeletal Disease Genetics at Regeneron. "By catalyzing multiple therapeutic development programs targeting distinct genetic mechanisms of liver disease, the RGC's insights are helping Regeneron develop a diversified slate of genetically-validated targets for NASH, including HSD17B13, PNPLA3 and now CIDEB."
The CIDEB discovery represents the latest example of rare protective gene variants that were identified through the unprecedented size of the RGC large-scale database, that includes genomic data from approximately two million volunteers. Other recently published examples include the discovery of rare gene variants in the GPR75 gene that provide protection against obesity. The CIDEB and GPR75 protective genetics findings suggest that the rarer the genetic discovery, the stronger the effect on disease protection – providing promise for novel therapeutic applications.
About NASH and CIDEB
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a severe type of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which can lead to cirrhosis, a condition in which liver tissue is replaced by scar tissue, and liver failure. NASH is rapidly becoming the leading cause of liver transplant and poses a substantial unmet medical need; dozens of drug development programs have failed leaving a large treatment gap with no currently approved therapies. In the United States, it is estimated that nearly 25% of adults have NAFLD, and more than 6% have NASH.1
The CIDEB gene is most highly expressed in human liver cells, where it has been hypothesized to enable fat buildup by helping enlarge fat-storage structures called "lipid droplets" within cells. After discovering the protective association through exome sequencing and health record comparisons, scientists studied the mechanism of the protective CIDEB mutations by silencing the CIDEB gene in human cells to mimic loss of function mutations. They found that this prevented fat buildup in liver cells and resulted in smaller lipid droplets.2,3,4
About the Regeneron Genetics Center
The Regeneron Genetics Center LLC (RGC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that focuses on early gene discovery and functional genomics. The primary goal of RGC is to improve patient outcomes by identifying novel drug targets, clinical indications for development programs, and genomic biomarkers for pharmacogenomic applications. RGC is tackling large-scale sequencing and analytical approaches and has established numerous collaborations with leading human genetics researchers. To enable this large-scale sequencing and analysis program, RGC utilizes fully automated sample preparation and data processing, as well as cutting-edge cloud-based informatics.
At RGC, scientists around the globe with diverse skills and backgrounds work together to uncover the genetic basis of human disease. Their efforts have culminated in landmark discoveries like CIDEB in NASH and have led to multiple new therapeutic development programs at Regeneron across a range of therapeutic modalities. Since its inception in 2014 and through a network of over 120 collaborators globally, RGC has developed one of the largest and richest human genetics datasets in the world by sequencing around 2 million exomes.
About Regeneron
Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for nearly 35 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to nine FDA-approved treatments and product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune®, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.
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These statements concern, and these risks and uncertainties include, among others, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic) on Regeneron's business and its employees, collaborators, and suppliers and other third parties on which Regeneron relies, Regeneron's and its collaborators' ability to continue to conduct research and clinical programs, Regeneron's ability to manage its supply chain, net product sales of products marketed or otherwise commercialized by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Products"), and the global economy; the nature, timing, and possible success and therapeutic applications of Regeneron's Products and product candidates being developed by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Product Candidates") and research and clinical programs now underway or planned, including without limitation the use of human genetics in Regeneron's research and any potential therapeutics targeting the CIDEB gene mutations discussed in this press release for protection from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH") and cirrhosis; the extent to which the results from the research and development programs conducted by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (including those discussed in this press release) may be replicated in other studies and/or lead to advancement of product candidates to clinical trials, therapeutic applications, or regulatory approval; uncertainty of the utilization, market acceptance, and commercial success of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates and the impact of studies (whether conducted by Regeneron or others and whether mandated or voluntary), including the studies investigating gene silencing treatments for NASH targeting the PNPLA3 and the HSD17B13 genes referenced in this press release, on any of the foregoing or any potential regulatory approval of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the likelihood, timing, and scope of possible regulatory approval and commercial launch of Regeneron's Product Candidates and new indications for Regeneron's Products; the ability of Regeneron's collaborators, licensees, suppliers, or other third parties (as applicable) to perform manufacturing, filling, finishing, packaging, labeling, distribution, and other steps related to Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the ability of Regeneron to manufacture and manage supply chains for multiple products and product candidates; safety issues resulting from the administration of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates in patients, including serious complications or side effects in connection with the use of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates in clinical trials; determinations by regulatory and administrative governmental authorities which may delay or restrict Regeneron's ability to continue to develop or commercialize Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; ongoing regulatory obligations and oversight impacting Regeneron's Products, research and clinical programs, and business, including those relating to patient privacy; the availability and extent of reimbursement of Regeneron's Products from third-party payers, including private payer healthcare and insurance programs, health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit management companies, and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; coverage and reimbursement determinations by such payers and new policies and procedures adopted by such payers; competing drugs and product candidates that may be superior to, or more cost effective than, Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; unanticipated expenses; the costs of developing, producing, and selling products; the ability of Regeneron to meet any of its financial projections or guidance and changes to the assumptions underlying those projections or guidance; the potential for any license, collaboration, or supply agreement, including Regeneron's agreements with Sanofi, Bayer, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 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Macon man charged with fleeing traffic stop, dragging Bibb Co. deputy
Officials say the man reached speeds of up to 111 mph after fleeing a traffic stop
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A Macon man was arrested and charged after police officials say he dragged a female Bibb County Sheriff’s Office deputy while trying to escape a traffic stop
According to Bibb County Sheriff’s Office officials, the man was pulled over on Bloomfield Road for having a missing tail light on his Honda Accord.
After speeding off from the traffic stop, multiple officers blocked the driver in on Rocky Creek Road.
The man reached up to 111 mph in the pursuit. After police stopped the vehicle, he got out and attempted to run on foot where he was later arrested.
Officials say deputies discovered a bookbag inside the vehicle containing a handgun, counterfeit cash, drugs, and packaging material. The man, whose identity has not been released by police officials, faces numerous charges including fleeing, aggressive driving, aggravated assault, and probation violation.
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MANCHESTER, England, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartKem, Inc. (OTCQB: SMTK), a company seeking to reshape the world of electronics with its disruptive organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) that have the potential to drive the next generation of displays, is a gold sponsor of this year's Business Conference at Display Week 2023 taking place in Los Angeles, USA. SmartKem Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ian Jenks, will be giving the keynote speech on Wednesday, May 24th at 9:40am PT.
DATE: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
TIME: 9:40am PT
LOCATION: Los Angeles Convention Center
Ian Jenks will be giving an in-person keynote speech titled 'The Next Generation of MicroLED Displays' as part of the Business Conference segment of Display Week. SmartKem recently announced that, together with its development partner, it has created the first monolithic microLED display using its high performance organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) technology. The novel display was created by printing an OTFT backplane directly on top of Gallium Nitride LEDs. SmartKem believes that this unique process has the potential to lower the cost and accelerate the commercialization of microLED displays. Consumer electronics companies are actively developing microLED displays which promise higher brightness, lower power consumption and longer lifetime. MicroLEDs are particularly important for portable powered displays such as smartwatches and AR/VR displays which cannot accommodate large batteries.
Existing methods of creating microLED displays use physical transfer of LEDs from the wafer upon which they are manufactured to a separate TFT display backplane, where they must be laser welded to the contact pad of the transistor to make an electrical connection. Because high resolution displays require the transfer of millions of tiny LEDs, this process carries a significant risk of placement error. Even if a 99.9% placement yield is achieved, a full HD colour display will have over 6,000 faulty sub-pixel LEDs that would need to be identified, removed, and re-attached.
SmartKem's patented core chemistry enables its semiconductor inks to be processed at 80°C, a significantly lower temperature than other existing methods. These lower temperature inks can be printed directly on top of the microLEDs which would be damaged at the higher temperatures used by other existing methods. This eliminates the mass transfer and laser welding processes, and the placement error described above. Importantly, existing low-cost manufacturing tools currently used for LCD backplane manufacturing can be used for OTFT fabrication.
Attend the Business Conference on Wednesday, May 24th, to hear more about SmartKem's unique TRUFLEX® materials and its ability to deliver the next generation of displays.
For more information on the conference, visit: https://www.displayweek.org/
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About SmartKem
SmartKem is seeking to reshape the world of electronics with its disruptive organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) that have the potential to drive the next generation of displays. SmartKem's patented TRUFLEX® semiconductor and dielectric inks, or liquid electronic polymers, are used to make a new type of transistor that could potentially revolutionize the display industry. SmartKem's inks enable low temperature printing processes that are compatible with existing manufacturing infrastructure to deliver low-cost displays that outperform existing models. The company's electronic polymer platform can be used in a number of display technologies including microLED, miniLED and AMOLED displays for next generation televisions, laptops, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets, smartwatches and smartphones.
SmartKem develops its materials at its research and development facility in Manchester, UK, its semiconductor manufacturing processes at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) at Sedgefield, UK and retains a field application office in Taiwan. The company has an extensive IP portfolio including 125 granted patents across 19 patent families and 40 codified trade secrets. For more information, visit: www.smartkem.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @SmartKemTRUFLEX.
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BERLIN (AP) — German climate activists temporarily brought traffic to a standstill in some parts of Berlin on Monday by gluing themselves to streets all over the capital.
Members of the group Last Generation have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany in the past year in an effort to pressure the government to take more drastic action against climate change. On several occasions, they have glued themselves to the roads, enraging some motorists and prompting accusations of extremism from conservative politicians.
In addition to the road blocks, the activists said Monday they would also block traffic by marching very slowly through the city later in the day as they already did on Friday.
In the morning, there were more than 30 road blocks across the city, German news agency dpa reported.
“We will no longer accept that the government has no plan to stop the destruction of our livelihoods,” Last Generation said in a statement. ”We are resisting now.”
According to the Berlin police, up to 500 officers were on the streets in the city all day to prevent the blockades or end them quickly, dpa reported. A police helicopter was hovering over the city to alert colleagues on the ground about the blockades as well.
The group said last week that its members would step up their actions in the coming days and try to “peacefully bring the city to a standstill.”
The protests led to traffic jams on many of Berlin’s main roads and a city highway, as well as in some of the outer neighborhoods of the German capital.
While some people seemed to support the protesters’ fight for climate protection, others — especially angry drivers who were stuck in congested traffic — tried to pull the activists off the roads violently even though officials have warned motorists repeatedly not to engage in vigilantism against the group.
In some cases, it took more time than in the past to detach protesters from the streets because some of them used a different kind of glue this time. Instead of using oil to detach the protesters’ hands from the streets, officers had to use tools and damage the asphalt to remove the protesters.
Last Generation wants Germany to stop using all fossil fuels by 2030 and take short-term measures including the imposition of a general speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) on highways as a way of cutting transport emissions.
Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said Monday that the current German administration has done more to curb climate change than any of its predecessors.
“We are a parliamentary democracy. There are possibilities to express criticism. I have my doubts that such massive disruptions of public order and the like serve the intended purpose,” he told reporters in Berlin. “Naturally we don’t support such forms of protest.”
Asked whether Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to meet with the activists, like other politicians have and are planning to, Hebestreit said he wasn’t aware of any appointments.
“Such talks make particular sense if one wants to exchange views and not if the aim is to force through maximum demands,” he added.
Transport Minister Volker Wissing, who has rejected the demand for a speed limit, plans to meet activists on May 2. He has sharply criticized the group for its road blockades in the past.
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Frank Jordans contributed to this report. | 2023-04-24T15:23:01+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/climate-protesters-try-to-bring-berlin-traffic-to-a-halt/ |
PARIS (AP) — The humble baguette — the crunchy ambassador for French baking around the world — is being added to the U.N.’s list of intangible cultural heritage as a cherished tradition to be preserved by humanity.
UNESCO experts gathering in Morocco this week decided that the simple French flute — made only of flour, water, salt, and yeast — deserved U.N. recognition, after France’s culture ministry warned of a “continuous decline” in the number of traditional bakeries, with some 400 closing every year over the past half-century.
The U.N. cultural agency’s chief, Audrey Azoulay, said the decision honors more than just bread; it recognizes the “savoir-faire of artisanal bakers” and “a daily ritual.”
“It is important that these craft knowledge and social practices can continue to exist in the future,” added Azoulay, a former French culture minister.
With the bread’s new status, the French government said it planned to create an artisanal baguette day, called the “Open Bakehouse Day,” to connect the French better with their heritage.
Back in France, bakers seemed proud, if unsurprised.
“Of course, it should be on the list because the baguette symbolizes the world. It’s universal,” said Asma Farhat, baker at Julien’s Bakery near Paris’ Champs-Elysee avenue.
“If there’s no baguette, you cant have a proper meal. In the morning you can toast it, for lunch it’s a sandwich, and then it accompanies dinner.”
Despite the decline in traditional bakery numbers, France’s 67 million people still remain voracious baguette consumers — purchased at a variety sales points, including in supermarkets. The problem is, observers say, that they can often be poor in quality.
“It’s very easy to get bad baguette in France. It’s the traditional baguette from the traditional bakery that’s in danger. It’s about quality not quantity,” said one Paris resident, Marine Fourchier, 52.
In January, French supermarket chain Leclerc was criticized by traditional bakers and farmers for its much publicized 29-cent baguette, accused of sacrificing the quality of the famed 65-centimeter (26-inch) loaf. A baguette normally costs just over 90 euro cents (just over $1), seen by some as an index on the health of the French economy.
The baguette is serious business. France’s “Bread Observatory” — a venerable institution that closely follows the fortunes of the flute — notes that the French munch through 320 baguettes of one form or another every second. That’s an average of half a baguette per person per day, and 10 billion every year.
Although it seems like the quintessential French product, the baguette was said to have been invented by Vienna-born baker August Zang in 1839. Zang put in place France’s steam oven, making it possible to produce bread with a brittle crust yet fluffy interior.
The product’s zenith did not come until the 1920s, with the advent of a French law preventing bakers from working before 4 a.m. The baguette’s long, thin shape meant it could be made more quickly than its stodgy cousins, so it was the only bread that bakers could make in time for breakfast.
The “artisanal know-how and culture of baguette bread” was inscribed at the Morocco meeting among other global cultural heritage items, including Japan’s Furyu-odori ritual dances, and Cuba’s light rum masters. | 2022-11-30T12:13:33+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-crunch-time-un-puts-baguette-on-cultural-heritage-list/ |
CAIRO (AP) — A leading rights group urged the U.S. and Libya on Monday to explain the legal basis of a surprise extradition of a former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
U.S. authorities announced in December that they had arrested Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi on allegations that he was behind the bomb that brought down the New York-bound flight just days before Christmas in 1988. The attack killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
Mas’ud’s arrest and extradition has raised questions about the legal basis of how he was picked up, just months after his release from a Libyan prison, and sent to the U.S. American officials have said his transfer was lawful and described it as a culmination of years of cooperation with Libyan authorities.
Libya and the U.S. don’t have a standing agreement on extradition, so there was no obligation to hand Mas’ud over. Libyan officials told The Associated Press in December that militias loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity were behind his detention and handover to the U.S.
Human Rights Watch said Mas’ud’s saga has raised rights concerns.
“It appears that no Libyan court ordered or reviewed Mas’ud’s transfer to the US, and he had no chance to appeal, raising serious due process concerns,” said Hanan Salah, associate Middle East and North Africa director at HRW.
Mas’ud was picked up from his home in Tripoli’s Abu Salim district, which is controlled by a network of militias allied with Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Libya’s public prosecutor’s office has challenged the move and opened an investigation.
Dbeibah acknowledged his government’s role in the extradition, calling Mas’ud a “terrorist.” The prime minister, however, did not explain the legality of his arrest or transfer to the U.S. He did not provide hard evidence for any of his allegations.
The rights group also called for the U.S. to hold a fair trial and allow the suspect to challenge his extradition. It also urged Libyan authorities to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for “violently seizing Mas’ud from his home.”
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Of those killed on the flight, 190 were American citizens.
A breakthrough in the decades-long investigation came in 2017 when the U.S. Justice Department received a copy of an interview that Mas’ud, a former explosives expert with Libya’s intelligence services, had given to the North African country’s law enforcement in 2012, while in custody following the collapse of Moammar Gadhafi’s decades-long rule.
Libya has been torn by civil war since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed Gadhafi in 2011. The North African country is divided between Dbeibah’s government and a rival government based in eastern Libya headed by Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha.
Human Rights Watch said Libya’s detention facilities were mired in abuses — including torture and intimidation — to extract confessions during Mas’ud’s years in Libyan prisons. It called the U.S. to ensure that “no coerced confessions, including confessions made under torture, are used as part of the prosecution.”
Mas’ud is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the U.S. in connection with the Lockerbie attack but the first to appear in an American courtroom. U.S. officials have not explained how he was taken into their custody. | 2023-02-13T16:28:35+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-rights-group-questions-lockerbie-suspects-extradition/ |
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department detailed stunning allegations against former President Donald Trump in a criminal indictment unsealed Friday, including allegations he stored classified documents in a bathroom and shower at his Florida club, flaunted the documents to people without security clearances and at times tried to conceal material from his own lawyers as well as investigators.
In the indictment, prosecutors spell out the types of classified material the Republican presidential candidate is accused of keeping at his Florida beach club after he left office in 2021, along with where he is said to have kept them and what he did with them.
A look at key moments as described in the indictment:
FLAUNTING DOCUMENTS
In July 2021 at Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course, the former president showed a writer, a publisher and two of his staff members — none of whom had a security clearance — a “plan of attack” that had been prepared by the Defense Department and a senior military official. In the meeting, which prosecutors said was recorded on audio, Trump told them the plan was “highly confidential." “As president, I could have declassified it,” he said. “Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret.”
In August or September 2021, more than six months after he was no longer president, Trump showed a classified map of a military operation in a foreign country to someone working for his political action committee who also did not have a security clearance. Trump acknowledged that he should not be showing the staffer the map and warned the staffer not to get too close.
DOCUMENTS STORED IN BATHROOM AND SHOWER
Trump, known for keeping mementos, kept hundreds of classified documents, along with newspapers, press clippings, notes and cards in cardboard boxes at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, according to the indictment.
Although “tens of thousands of members and guests” visited the club between the time that Trump left office and that federal agents retrieved the documents in August 2022, Trump had documents stored in various places around the resort, including a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom and a storage room.
The documents included “information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries, United States nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack,” the indictment said.
‘I DON’T WANT ANYBODY LOOKING THROUGH MY BOXES'
When a grand jury in May 2022 issued a subpoena for classified records at Mar-a-Lago, Trump sought to defy the order, telling his attorneys, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes," according to notes from a lawyer detailed in the indictment. The former president asked his attorneys if it would be better “if we just told them we don’t have anything here," according to the lawyer's recollection.
DIRECTING LAWYERS TO ‘PLUCK IT OUT’
One of Trump's lawyers in June 2022 identified 38 documents with “classified” markings and put them in a folder, which he sealed with duct tape. He then went to see Trump, who asked the attorney: “Did you find anything? Is it bad? ... Is it good?”
The attorney told federal investigators that he discussed the folder with Trump and the former president made a gesture that suggested he wanted the attorney to identify “anything really bad” and “you know, pluck it out.” The attorney clarified that Trump did not articulate such instructions beyond making that “plucking motion." The attorney said he did not “pluck” anything from the folder but instead immediately contacted the FBI and another Trump attorney.
KEEPING DOCUMENTS FROM HIS LAWYERS
Trump told his valet Walt Nauta “to move boxes of documents to conceal them” from the FBI, the grand jury and one of his own lawyers, according to the indictment.
The former president agreed at a May 23, 2022, meeting with his lawyers that one of them would return at a later date to look through storage boxes at Mar-a-Lago for classified documents. Before the lawyer could return, prosecutors said, Trump directed Nauta to remove 64 boxes from the storage room and bring them to his residence. He had Nauta return 30 boxes just before the lawyer showed up to look for documents, the indictment said.
Trump's lawyers turned over some records to authorities on June 3, 2022. Trump told his attorneys that he was “an open book,” even though earlier in the day, Nauta had loaded “several of Trump’s boxes ... on aircraft that flew Trump and his family north for summer," the indictment said.
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Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Michael R. Sisak in New York, Meg Kinnard in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Gary Fields in Washington contributed to this report.
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More on Donald Trump-related investigations: https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump | 2023-06-09T21:41:45+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2023/06/09/key-moments-in-trump-indictment-showing-off-classified-material-storing-documents-in-a-bathroom/ |
CHICAGO, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NextName, a leading platform in supporting collegiate athletes in monetizing their name, image, and likeness (NIL), has joined forces with the Prospect League, a premier collegiate summer baseball league. This partnership enables Prospect League players to create and sell personalized digital collectibles on the NextName website, allowing them to generate revenue from their NIL rights. Currently, NextName is working with over 20 talented Prospect League baseball players to develop their digital collectibles.
NextName, at the forefront of embracing NCAA regulations that allow college athletes to profit from their NIL, empowers athletes to capitalize on their personal brand value. Through cutting-edge technology, NextName creates and sells digital collectibles, providing fans with an immersive experience while athletes monetize their popularity and engage with their fan base.
The Prospect League, renowned for its exceptional collegiate summer baseball talent, has seized the opportunity to collaborate with NextName, providing players with an additional avenue to maximize their earning potential. This partnership opens new revenue streams for Prospect League athletes, leveraging their collegiate stardom and expanding their digital presence.
NextName will collaborate closely with Prospect League baseball players to design personalized digital collectibles that encapsulate each player's unique journey and skill set. Fans and collectors can purchase these digital collectibles on the NextName website at https://nextname.io/prospect-league, fostering interactive connections between supporters and their favorite athletes.
"We are excited to partner with the Prospect League and offer their exceptional baseball players an opportunity to monetize their NIL through NextName," said Tom Segal, Director of Operations at NextName. "Our mission is to empower collegiate athletes, and this collaboration perfectly aligns with our vision of unlocking the value of their personal brand. We look forward to working with the talented Prospect League players and providing them with a platform to connect with fans and generate income."
The NextName and Prospect League partnership represents a groundbreaking advancement in collegiate sports, demonstrating a shared commitment to the success and well-being of student-athletes. By facilitating the creation and sale of digital collectibles, NextName revolutionizes how athletes benefit from their NIL, reshaping the future of collegiate athletics.
To learn more about NextName and their mission to empower collegiate athletes, visit https://nextname.io. For information about the Prospect League and its exceptional baseball talent, please visit https://www.prospectleague.com.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas 2023 French Open Odds
Stefanos Tsitsipas will start play in the French Open against Jiri Vesely (in the round of 128). In his most recent match he was knocked off by Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals to conclude a strong run at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Tsitsipas is +1600 to win at Stade Roland Garros.
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Tsitsipas at the 2023 French Open
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: May 21 - June 11
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Tsitsipas' Next Match
In his opening match at the French Open, on Sunday, May 28 (at 5:00 AM ET) in the round of 128, Tsitsipas will play Vesely.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +2200
- US Open odds to win: +1000
- French Open odds to win: +1600
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Tsitsipas Stats
- Tsitsipas last played on May 20, 2023, a 5-7, 5-7 loss to No. 3-ranked Medvedev in the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia.
- In 20 tournaments over the past 12 months, Tsitsipas has won one title, and his overall record is 46-19.
- In five tournaments on clay over the past year, Tsitsipas has gone 14-5.
- Over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Tsitsipas has played 65 matches and 25.2 games per match.
- On clay, Tsitsipas has played 19 matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 22.3 games per match while winning 56.4% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Tsitsipas has won 85.8% of his service games, and he has won 22.5% of his return games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages on clay over the past year, Tsitsipas has won 84.9% of his games on serve, and 27.8% on return.
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McDonald’s debuts Big Mac sauce now exclusively for dipping
CHICAGO (Gray News) - McDonald’s says Big Mac fans will be able to enjoy now even more of its secret sauce.
Starting April 27, customers can order the Big Mac sauce in dipping cups that will feature retro packaging inspired by the original Big Mac sandwich.
McDonald’s describes the sauce as creamy, tangy, slightly sweet and perfectly dippable.
The dip cups will be available at no extra charge with any purchase of Chicken McNuggets. It can also be ordered a la carte and will be available through the fast-food restaurant’s app.
Representatives with McDonald’s say the Big Mac has been a staple on their menu since it debuted nationally in 1968. An owner in Pittsburgh came up with the idea for a double burger sandwich.
The sandwich even created a social media craze when 10,000 bottles of Big Mac sauce were given away in the U.S. in 2017.
According to McDonald’s, the dipping sauces will be available at participating locations for a limited time and while supplies last.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-19T20:10:01+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/04/19/mcdonalds-debuts-big-mac-sauce-now-exclusively-dipping/ |
WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cure Alzheimer's Fund has announced that 2022 marks its 18th consecutive year of record results for contributions raised to fund research into Alzheimer's disease. A total of $32 million for the year represented an increase of nearly 14% from 2021 in funds received through the generosity of nearly 24,000 donors. In 2022, 100 research grants representing $27.4 million were issued to scientists throughout the world, the most in a single year.
"2022 was the strongest year in Cure Alzheimer's Fund history," said Tim Armour, CEO of Cure Alzheimer's Fund. "The generosity of so many has enabled Cure Alzheimer's Fund to invest in research that contributes to significant advances in our understanding of the disease. We are deeply grateful and humbled by the dedication of our donors, Board of Directors, Trustees and researchers for their commitment that will, one day, lead to a cure."
The 2022 Annual Report detailing the financial results and research investments is now available in the reports section of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund website, CureAlz.org, or through this link: bit.ly/444LqvG.
Cure Alzheimer's Fund is a nonprofit dedicated to funding the most promising research to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimer's disease. Since its founding in 2004, Cure Alzheimer's Fund has contributed $173 million to research, and its funded initiatives have been responsible for several key breakthroughs—including the groundbreaking Alzheimer's in a Dish™ study. One hundred percent of all donations go directly to research. For more information, please visit Cure Alzheimer's Fund at http://www.CureAlz.org/.
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NFL preseason games typically allow veterans to readjust to game speed, while rookies and unproven players use the opportunity to try and make a strong impression in front of coaches and fans.
When the Ravens face the Tennessee Titans in their 2022 preseason opener Thursday night at M&T Bank Stadium, there will be much more at stake than just a roster spot. Baltimore will be seeking to extend its NFL-record 20-game preseason win streak, which dates to 2015.
Even though some of the Ravens players said the streak hasn’t crossed their minds, they still think it’s cool to be undefeated in exhibition games over the past six years.
“We haven’t lost in a while, right?” veteran tight end Nick Boyle said. “It’s cool. Everything you do, you always want to win. So, I think it’s something special.”
With a 37-3 over Washington at FedEx Field last August, the Ravens broke the NFL record set by the Green Bay Packers, who won 19 straight preseason games from 1959 to 1962 under Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi. That run of dominance is nothing new for the Ravens, who are 67-32 all-time in preseason play, including 40-12 under coach John Harbaugh.
Fullback Patrick Ricard said he doesn’t talk about the winning streak, fearing something bad will happen. Still, he couldn’t help but admire the organization for keeping it going this far — and outscoring opponents 477-219 along the way.
“I think it just proves the depth we have here, the type of scouting and the draft [acumen] that the front office has,” Ricard said. “It just shows that we’re always a ready team when it comes to preseason.”
Veteran safety Tony Jefferson II said the streak stems from preparation and focusing on the details.
“Everything we do is 100%,” Jefferson said. “As long as you’re not making the same mistakes, I feel like that gives you the ability to play fast, and I think that’s kind of the main key when you go out in preseason games — just play fast. It’s not like a big game plan that you really have to study; it’s pretty vanilla.”
Last preseason, the Ravens dominated their opponents. After defeating the New Orleans Saints, 17-14, they outscored the Carolina Panthers and the Washington Commanders a combined 57-3.
However, starting running back J.K. Dobbins and linebacker L.J. Fort each tore their ACL during those victories, keeping them sidelined for the entire regular season. Dobbins, a 2020 second-round pick, finally returned to practice Monday as the Ravens slowly bring him back up to speed nearly a year after he suffered the knee injury against Washington.
Harbaugh said Saturday that he doesn’t plan to play experienced starters such as quarterback Lamar Jackson, outside linebacker Justin Houston, newly acquired safety Marcus Williams, tight end Mark Andrews and cornerback Marlon Humphrey as he guards the health of his front-line players after an injury-riddled 2021 season.
“I think you can kind of extrapolate who will play and who won’t, and then there will be some decisions with some guys that we haven’t completely made yet,” Harbaugh said.
For Boyle, just playing at all is something to be thankful for. The veteran tight end suffered a knee injury in a road loss to the New England Patriots on Nov. 15, 2020, and didn’t return to the field until Week 10 last season. The initial procedure, which he called “the worst surgery of my life,” repaired meniscus, PCL, MCL and fracture damage. A clean-up procedure, which he underwent last summer, further delayed his return to the field.
Even though it’s just a preseason game, he’s looking forward to playing Thursday.
“I think that would be really good for me,” Boyle.
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Search continues for medical transport plane that crashed with 3 on board
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - A sprawling search by air and sea is continuing Friday for a medical transport plane that crashed off Maui with three people onboard.
KHNL reports rescue crews have spotted oil sheen and recovered aircraft debris. But Coast Guard officials said it hasn’t been confirmed the debris is from the downed craft.
Global Medical Response owns the aircraft and confirmed the crew was headed to Hawaii Island to pick up a patient.
“We are doing everything we can to bring our team members home,” the company said.
The Coast Guard said multiple aircraft and vessels have joined the widening search.
Overnight, flight radar was reported as showing a Coast Guard airplane flying across the Alenuihaha Channel between Maui and Hawaii Island to search for the missing crew.
Amid the ongoing search, Coast Guard officials said their aircraft reported seeing a sheen in the search area and a patrol boat recovered some aircraft debris. But officials said it’s not known if they belong to the missing aircraft.
“It does correlate with the last known position of the plane, but we can’t for certain say that it’s from the same aircraft,” said Lt. Commander Andrew Williams, Coast Guard rescue mission coordinator.
Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board said it is responding to investigate the crash.
Officials have said it wasn’t immediately known what may have caused the plane to come down. The weather Thursday night was rainy and windy, and the channel where the plane came down is known for choppy ocean conditions.
“We’re praying that we find the people involved in this accident,” said Maui County Mayor Mike Victorino.
Meanwhile, Global Medical Response said it is currently reaching out to the families of the missing crew. Hawaii Life Flight has also paused its transport flights as the search continues.
“Our caregivers are delivering care to patients who need service the most,” said Speedy Bailey, of American Medical Response Hawaii. “The pause is a time to take care of our caregivers, so we’re doing that right now and we’re deeply concerned for all the family involved and the family of our caregivers.”
Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth released a statement, extending his support to the families of crew members aboard the plane.
“The service they provide to our community is truly invaluable, and we mahalo all who risk their lives daily to save the lives of others. Our administration remains hopeful in the Coast Guard’s search and eagerly awaits any sign of good news.”
The company has been operating in Hawaii since 2010, according to its website.
Copyright 2022 KHNL via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-17T04:53:36+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/12/17/search-continues-medical-transport-plane-that-crashed-with-3-board/ |
14-year-old with rare condition hopes for lung transplant so she can continue singing
SOLDIER, Iowa (KETV) – After a health crisis fully surfaced, a teen in Iowa is hoping she can get a lung transplant so she can continue doing what she loves most: singing.
The sound of Katie Hoskins’ voice is music to her parents’ ears. However, about six months ago, her parents started noticing changes in her daughter.
Her mother, Vera Hoskins, said Katie would get tired easily and started having panic attacks.
“We could tell something was wrong,” Vera Hoskins said. “We weren’t sure what.”
Recently, Katies’ symptoms took a turn for the worst.
“When she came in the kitchen, she walked to the pantry and she had to rest,” Vera Hoskins said. “And then she walked to the counter, and then she had to rest.”
Moments later, Katie’s mother said it looked like she was about to pass out.
“Grabbed her shoulders and I said ‘Look at me,’ and when she picked her head up and looked at me, her face was completely white, her lips were completely white and her pupils instantly flashed, dilated,” Vera Hoskins said.
She said she told Katie to keep breathing through her nose and out her mouth as she dialed 911.
“She’s trying, she’s trying but I can tell something was just not right,” Vera Hoskins said. “She’s looking worse.”
The teen from Soldier, Iowa, then went to a local hospital before being transferred to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Nurse practitioner Venus Anderson said Katie seemed to have Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease (PVOD).
“What we believe for Katie to have is PVOD, is what’s caused her pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare,” Anderson said. “And so this is the rarest of the rare ... ideologies of pulmonary hypertension.”
Anderson said Katie’s heart failed the night she went to the hospital.
“When the lungs are ill and sick with high resistance, the heart can only overcome that for so long,” Anderson said.
Katie now has to get a lung transplant.
“I don’t know, I’m alive right now. So that’s good,” she said.
Katie’s parents were told the life expectancy after a lung transplant is six to seven years, but getting it would improve her quality of life.
“We want to give her as much as we possibly can, as many experiences as we possibly can while she’s here,” Katie’s father, Adam Hoskins, said.
Because there is nowhere to get a pediatric lung transplant in Omaha, Katie was flown to Texas for evaluation, where she was approved for a lung transplant and will soon be on the list for a donor.
“There will be multiple medications for her to take, frequent follow up appointments, things like that to make sure that she can stay infection free, specifically in the first year after transplant,” Anderson said.
In the meantime, Katie’s voice has been filling her hospital room.
“She’s been singing to us, and playing her ukulele when she feels good,” Anderson said.
Katie’s parents are hopeful she can get the transplant so they can continue to hear the sweet sounds of Katie for as long as possible.
“I want to do things that I want to do because I don’t want to look back on my life and regret things that I didn’t do,” Katie said.
Copyright 2022 KETV via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-02T22:36:25+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2022/11/02/14-year-old-with-rare-condition-hopes-lung-transplant-so-she-can-continue-singing/ |
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