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DUBLIN, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) announced today that management will participate in a fireside chat as part of the BofA Securities 2022 Biotech SMID Cap Conference on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. ET (1:00 p.m. GMT). The live webcast may be accessed under the Investors tab on www.alkermes.com and will be archived for 14 days.
About Alkermes plc
Alkermes plc is a fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines in the fields of neuroscience and oncology. The company has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products focused on alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of product candidates in development for neurological disorders and cancer. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Alkermes has a research and development center in Waltham, Massachusetts; a research and manufacturing facility in Athlone, Ireland; and a manufacturing facility in Wilmington, Ohio. For more information, please visit Alkermes' website at www.alkermes.com.
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Givex will launch its best-in-class gift card program in 900 locations in 40 countries, with more than 1,000 to follow in phase two
TORONTO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Givex Information Technology Group Ltd. ("Givex") (TSX: GIVX) announced today it has been named global gift card provider by a popular Spanish fashion retail brand. The agreement will kick off within a few weeks with 900 locations in 40 countries, including the whole of Europe, the United States, and Oman, Qatar.
"We are thrilled to announce the latest win for Givex Europe, with a storied retailer with a sizable global footprint," said Francois Simarro-Doyon.
"This is a major step forward for Givex's continued international growth."
Givex is a comprehensive global customer engagement and business insights platform. In addition to gift card programs, Givex offers GivexPOS, loyalty programs, payment systems and robust analytics to help its clients make efficient business decisions.
"Our ability to deliver elite gift card programs continues to be recognized by notable retailers across the globe," said Simarro-Doyon. "This announcement is a clear illustration of our ability to provide solutions for retailers of any size, in any industry. We are hard at work on the first phase of the launch and expect to share more good news during the balance of the year."
Givex (TSX: GIVX; OTCQX: GIVXF) is a global fintech company providing merchants with customer engagement, point of sale and payment solutions, all in a single platform. We are integrated with 1000+ technology partners, creating a fully end-to-end solution that delivers powerful customer insights. Our platform is used by some of the world's largest brands, comprising approximately 100,000+ active locations across more than 100 countries. Learn more at www.givex.com.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dan Ives, tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, about fees social media platform Reddit imposed on third-party app developers. Protests blacked out parts of the site.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dan Ives, tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, about fees social media platform Reddit imposed on third-party app developers. Protests blacked out parts of the site.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until July 18, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Pegasystems Inc. (NasdaqGS: PEGA), if they purchased the Company's shares between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Pegasystems and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 9, 2022, post-market, the Company disclosed that a Virginia state court jury deliberating over a lawsuit brought by one of its principal competitors, Appian Corporation ("Appian") for stealing its trade secrets and violating the commonwealth's computer crime law had awarded Appian more than $2 billion for the Company's "willful and malicious" trade secret misappropriation.
On this news, shares of Pegasystems plummeted from $65.93 per share on May 9, 2022, to close at $52.25 per share on May 10, a one-day decline of 21% that wiped out over $1 billion in market capitalization.
The case is City of Fort Lauderdale Police and Firefighters' Retirement System v. Pegasystems Inc., et al., No. 1:22-cv-00578.
ClaimsFiler has a single mission: to serve as the information source to help retail investors recover their share of billions of dollars from securities class action settlements. At ClaimsFiler.com, investors can: (1) register for free to gain access to information and settlement websites for various securities class action cases so they can timely submit their own claims; (2) upload their portfolio transactional data to be notified about relevant securities cases in which they may have a financial interest; and (3) submit inquiries to the Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC law firm for free case evaluations.
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Hard rock legend Ozzy Osbourne announced the cancellation of his 2023 tour dates in the U.K. and continental Europe.
Osbourne issued a statement early Wednesday saying damage to his spine suffered in an accident four years ago will prevent him from touring.
“I am honestly humbled by the way you’ve all patiently held onto your tickets for all this time, but in all good conscience, I have now come to the realization that I’m not physically capable of doing my upcoming European/UK tour dates, as I know I couldn’t deal with the travel required,” Osbourne said.
The 74-year-old Grammy winner and former vocalist for the metal band Black Sabbath said “my singing voice is fine” but said he remained physically weak following three operations, stem cell treatments, physical therapy and Hybrid Assistive Limb treatment, which uses a robotic exoskeleton to help improve movement and balance.
He thanked his family, fans, band and crew members and fellow metal pioneers Judas Priest.
“Never would I have imagined that my touring days would have ended this way,” Osbourne said. “My team is currently coming up with ideas for where I will be able to perform without having to travel from city to city and country to country.”
Ticket refunds will be available at the point of purchase, the statement said.
Osbourne previously cancelled tour dates in Europe and North America in 2019 due to health problems, including a “bad fall” in which he said he injured vertebrae in his neck.
The singer, who enjoyed solo success after leaving Black Sabbath, announced in 2020 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a nervous system disorder that affects movement.
Osbourne and the other three members of Black Sabbath were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Osbourne and his family, including his wife, Sharon, and two of his three children were the stars of their own reality show called “The Osbournes.” | 2023-02-01T14:44:46+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/entertainment-news/ap-ozzy-osbourne-cancels-2023-european-tour-dates-cites-injury/ |
SpaceX Reschedules Testing, Closures Announced
NEAR BROWNSVILLE - SpaceX testing was rescheduled for Thursday.
Highway 4 leading to the launch site will be closed to drivers for one hour.
The closure is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m.
Boca Chica Beach will remain open.
SpaceX hasn’t said why Wednesday’s scheduled testing was canceled. | 2022-06-13T22:57:07+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/spacex-reschedules-testing-closures-announced |
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mueller Industries Inc. (MLI) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $138.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Collierville, Tennessee-based company said it had net income of $2.46.
The copper, brass, aluminum and plastic products company posted revenue of $877.6 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $658.3 million, or $11.64 per share. Revenue was reported as $3.98 billion.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB) between September 24, 2020 and May 31, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 26, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enochian BioSciences securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 26, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Serhat Gumrukçu, the inventor and co-founder of Enochian BioSciences, was not a licensed doctor and had no verifiable degrees beyond high school; (2) accordingly, the scientific and technological underpinnings of Enochian BioSciences' product pipeline, purportedly invented by Gumrukçu, were dubious at best; (3) accordingly, the defendants had significantly overstated the commercial prospects for the Company's product pipeline; (4) Enochian BioSciences' senior leadership knew Gumrukçuhad a criminal history that included fraud; (5) accordingly, Enochian BioSciences' reliance on Gumrukçu, and its consulting and licensing agreements with G-Tech Bio, LLC and Seraph Research Institute ("SRI"), both of which are controlled by Gumrukçu, subjected the Company to a heightened risk of reputational and financial harm, as well as threatened the integrity of the Company's scientific findings; and (6) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Retirement of Approximately $263 Million of Debt Strengthens Canopy Growth's Balance Sheet and Preserves Cash to Support Future Growth
SMITHS FALLS, ON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or the "Company") (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC) announced today that it has closed (the "Final Closing") its previously announced exchange transaction (the "Transaction") of certain 4.25% unsecured notes due 2023 (the "Notes") in order to reduce its debt obligations by approximately $263 million. Constellation Brands, Inc. ("CBI"), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Greenstar Canada Investment Limited Partnership ("GCILP"), participated in the Transaction.
"As we navigate global economic and capital market headwinds, this action has enabled us to deleverage our balance sheet, preserve cash, and reduce interest payments by addressing a substantial portion of our 4.25% unsecured notes," said Judy Hong, Chief Financial Officer at Canopy Growth. "We continue to assess all available options to further optimize our balance sheet and address the remaining 4.25% unsecured notes in advance of their maturity to ensure Canopy Growth is well positioned to continue investing in the highest potential areas of our business to drive future growth."
Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Transaction, Canopy Growth acquired and cancelled approximately $263 million (approximately USD$203.6 million) aggregate principal amount of its outstanding Notes from a limited number of holders (the "Noteholders"), including GCILP, a subsidiary of CBI, for an aggregate purchase price (excluding accrued and unpaid interest in the amount of approximately $5.4 million (approximately USD$4.2 million), which was paid in cash) of $260 million (approximately USD$201.6 million) (the "Purchase Price") payable in common shares of the Company (the "Canopy Shares").
The Company satisfied the Purchase Price as follows: (a) on the initial closing, 35,662,420 Canopy Shares (the "Initial Closing Shares") were issued to the Noteholders, other than GCILP, based on a price equal to USD$3.50 per Canopy Share, which was the closing price of the Canopy Shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market ("Nasdaq") on June 29, 2022; and (b) on the Final Closing 11,896,536 Canopy Shares were issued to the Noteholders, other than GCILP, based on the volume-weighted average trading price of the Canopy Shares on the Nasdaq for the 10 consecutive trading days beginning on, and including, June 30, 2022, being USD$2.6245 (the "Averaging Price"). In addition, on the Final Closing, 29,245,456 Canopy Shares were issued to GCILP based on a price per Canopy Share equal to the Averaging Price.
Pursuant to the Transaction, the Company acquired and cancelled $100 million (approximately USD$77.5 million) aggregate principal amount of the Notes held by GCILP in exchange for 29,245,456 Canopy Shares, representing approximately 6.7% of the issued and outstanding Canopy Shares on a non-diluted basis immediately prior to the Final Closing. Upon completion of the Transaction, CBI, though GCILP and CBG Holdings LLC, holds 171,499,258 Canopy Shares, representing approximately 35.7% of the issued and outstanding Canopy Shares on a non-diluted basis.
GCILP's participation in the Transaction (the "Insider Participation") is considered to be a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). Pursuant to Section 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101, the Company is exempt from obtaining a formal valuation and minority approval of the Company's shareholders with respect to the Insider Participation as the fair market value of the Transaction is below 25% of the Company's market capitalization as determined in accordance with MI 61-101. In addition, the Transaction was approved by the board of directors of the Company with Ms. Judy A. Schmeling, a director of CBI, Mr. Garth Hankinson, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of CBI, Mr. Robert Hanson, Executive Vice President and President – Wine & Spirits Division of CBI and Mr. James Sabia, Executive Vice President and President - Beer Division of CBI, each having disclosed their interest in the Transaction by virtue of their positions with CBI and abstaining from voting thereon. The Company did not file a material change report 21 days prior to the closing of the Transaction as the details of the Insider Participation in the Transaction had not been finalized at that time.
The Transaction was conducted as a private placement, and the Canopy Shares issued in the Transaction were issued pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act in transactions not involving any public offering. This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities described above, nor will there be any offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP acted as legal counsel to Canopy Growth. HudsonWest LLC and BMO Capital Markets acted as financial advisors and exchange agents to Canopy Growth.
Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED, NASDAQ:CGC) is a world-leading diversified cannabis and cannabinoid-based consumer product company, driven by a passion to improve lives, end prohibition, and strengthen communities by unleashing the full potential of cannabis. Leveraging consumer insights and innovation, Canopy Growth offers product varieties in high-quality dried flower, oil, softgel capsule, infused beverage, edible, and topical formats, as well as vaporizer devices by Canopy Growth and industry-leader Storz & Bickel. Canopy Growth's global medical brand, Spectrum Therapeutics, sells a range of full-spectrum products using its colour-coded classification system and is a market leader in both Canada and Germany. Through Canopy Growth's award-winning Tweed and Tokyo Smoke banners, Canopy Growth reaches its adult-use consumers and has built a loyal following by focusing on top quality products and meaningful customer relationships. Canopy Growth has entered into the health and wellness consumer space in key markets including Canada, the United States, and Europe through BioSteel sports nutrition, and This Works skin and sleep solutions; and has introduced additional hemp derived CBD products to the United States through its First & Free and Martha Stewart CBD brands. Canopy Growth has an established partnership with Fortune 500 alcohol leader Constellation Brands.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "estimates", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company or its subsidiaries to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release. Examples of such statements and uncertainties include statements with respect to the benefits of the debt repurchase and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors.
Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including inherent uncertainty associated with projections; expectations regarding future investment, growth and expansion of operations; regulatory and licensing risks; changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial and stock markets and the impacts of increased rates of inflation; legal and regulatory risks inherent in the cannabis industry, including the global regulatory landscape and enforcement related to cannabis, political risks and risks relating to regulatory change; risks relating to anti-money laundering laws; compliance with extensive government regulation and the interpretation of various laws regulations and policies; public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry; and such other risks contained in the public filings of the Company filed with Canadian securities regulators and available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission through EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar, including the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2022.
In respect of the forward-looking statements and information, the Company has provided such statements and information in reliance on certain assumptions that they believe are reasonable at this time. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information or forward-looking statements in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Should one or more of the foregoing risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Although the Company has attempted to identify important risks, uncertainties and factors which could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be others that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements included in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update such forward-looking information or forward-looking information to reflect new information, subsequent events or otherwise unless required by applicable securities laws.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the passage of H.R 6833, Peter L. Saltonstall, President and CEO of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), issued the following statement:
"NORD is pleased that Congress approved a full five-year reauthorization of several critical FDA user fee programs prior to the September 30th deadline. Every five years, Congress is tasked with reauthorizing these vital programs, which help ensure patients gain access to essential therapies and diagnostics in a timely manner. Letting these programs lapse would have been devastating to the many patients in the rare disease community who still lack effective treatment and who have placed so much hope in the thousands of products under development that could help them better manage or even cure their conditions."
However, NORD is deeply concerned that Congress included only a short-term reauthorization of other critical programs like the orphan drug grants program and failed to include several bipartisan policy reforms important to the rare disease community. Since 1992, user fee reauthorizations have presented an important opportunity to make necessary FDA-related policy improvements and clarifications, and enhance accountability of the FDA. This is why NORD and the rare disease community have been so vocal about the urgent need to include provisions to clarify the scope of orphan drug exclusivity, strengthen the accelerated approval pathway and improve clinical trial diversity as part of a comprehensive user fee package. Failing to act now to ensure the continuation of these programs and to include these important policies jeopardizes the future of both.
We urge Congress to immediately enact a full five-year reauthorization of the important programs that support rare disease drug development and resume negotiations on the numerous FDA reforms, such as those around accelerated approval and orphan drug exclusivity, that have broad bipartisan support and would directly benefit the rare disease community."
The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is the leading independent advocacy organization representing all patients and families affected by rare diseases in the United States. NORD began as a small group of patient advocates that formed a coalition to unify and mobilize support to pass the Orphan Drug Act of 1983. Since then, the organization has led the way in voicing the needs of the rare disease community, driving supportive policies, furthering education, advancing medical research, and providing patient and family services for those who need them most. Together with over 330 disease-specific member organizations, more than 17,000 Rare Action Network advocates across all 50 states, and national and global partners, NORD delivers on its mission to improve the lives of those impacted by rare diseases. Visit rarediseases.org.
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SALINA, Kan. (KSNW) — On Friday, Sept. 23, a blood stem cell donor registration drive was held for a student at South Salina High School to identify potential matching donors. The drive received so many registrations that organizers are hosting a follow-up event.
Calvin Davis, 14, is battling myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and is in urgent need of a blood stem cell transplant. MDS is a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature or become healthy blood cells.
Davis is currently taking classes online while he undergoes treatment. With a blood stem cell transplant, he would be able to return to school and continue doing the things he loves, including basketball, soccer, and running track.
“It is hard to remain positive, but I keep thinking about my dog and how happy she’ll be to see me when I get home,” said Davis.
In order to undergo the transplant, he must find his perfect match.
According to DKMS, a blood stem cell donor center, 70% of people suffering from blood-related illnesses must rely on donors outside of their families to save their life.
Friday’s drive held by DKMS, along with local radio station 99KG, received over 300 registrations.
Registration drive held for Calvin Davis on Friday, Sept. 23 (Courtesy: MarinoPR/DKMS)
Due to the outpouring of support from the community, 99KG is hosting a follow-up event to provide more people with the opportunity to sign up.
This drive will take place on Thursday, Sept. 29, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the 99KG Radio Station, 1825 S Ohio St. in Salina.
Anyone in good health between the age of 18 and 55 is encouraged to attend the registration drive. Potential registrants will review medical eligibility, fill out a registration form, swab the insides of their cheeks, and then drop off their completed packet before leaving the drive.
“Look … we’re in a time crunch and will do whatever it takes to make it the absolute easiest for the most amount of people to see if they’re a match!!!,” said Shane McClintock, 99KG Program Director. | 2022-09-29T00:49:28+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/blood-stem-cell-donor-registration-drive-being-held-for-salina-south-student-thursday/ |
Walmart is now selling over-the-counter hearing aids after FDA rule change
(CNN) -- Walmart announced Monday that its customers can for the first time buy over-the-counter hearing aids without a prescription and medical exam by a doctor.
The move comes shortly after the US Food and Drug Administration announced a long-awaited rule change in August pertaining to hearing aids.
Instead of getting a prescription, visiting a hearing health professional and having a custom fitting, people with mild to moderate hearing loss will now be able to buy hearing aids directly from a store or online
The OTC hearing aids are available to Walmart shoppers in the US who are 18 years and older “with perceived mild-to-moderate hearing loss without a medical exam or fitting adjustment needed by an audiologist.”
Walmart said prices for the hearing aids range from $199 to $999 per pair, including brands such as Lexie powered by Bose (priced at $849 to $999) and HearX (priced at $199 to $299).
“Offering easy access to OTC hearing aids, something that seems quite small, is a solution that can improve our customers’ health outcomes and their ability to live better and healthier,” Dr. John Wigneswaran, chief medical officer at Walmart, said in a statement.
The retailer said shoppers can now buy the OTC hearing aids on Walmart.com and in Walmart Vision Centers in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
It plans to soon make them available to additional Walmart Vision Centers nationwide. The company currently operates more than 3,000 Vision Centers across the country.
An estimated 1 in 8 people in the US ages 12 and older have hearing loss in both ears, and the rate increases significantly with age. About a quarter of people 65 to 74 have hearing loss, and that goes up to 50% around age 75.
The FDA said its rule change would make hearing aids much more widely available and much cheaper across the country.
The agency estimates the new rule could result in savings of about $2,800 a pair. Most private insurers don’t cover hearing aids, which aren’t cheap.
On average, people spend at least $4,000 out of pocket for devices for both ears, according to a 2020 study published in JAMA.
-- CNN’s Carma Hassan and Jen Christensen contributed to this story.
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DENVER — Sandy Prince has never forgotten the day 10 years ago her son Carter entered this world. He was three months premature and weighed just five pounds.
Carter spent 78 days in the NICU. Prince credits the nurses at the Rose Medical Center NICU for saving her son’s life in those early days and helping him grow.
“I don’t know how else to thank them,” she said with tears in her eyes. “I thank them a million times, but words only do so much.”
Many of those nurses still work in the NICU, and now Prince does as a volunteer, too.
“They saved my baby, so that’s why I’m here,” she said. “It means the world. I owe them everything.”
NICU director Tracy Anderson was one of the nurses at Prince’s bedside 10 years ago when Carter was born, calling it a pleasure to be part of the family’s journey. Anderson said it was easy to say “yes” when Prince called and asked if she could be a NICU volunteer.
“She has just given back as part of her journey and her closure, which is meaningful,” Anderson said.
Carter is now a spunky fourth grader with a younger sister, and his mom likes to show the nurses pictures of the two growing up.
Still, she has a soft spot in her heart for the tiny babies in the NICU. Luckily, being a NICU volunteer comes with some perks, like occasionally cuddling those little ones.
“It’s not very often, which is good,” Prince said. “But it’s the best part of it.”
This article was written by Kevin S. Krug for KMGH. | 2022-08-22T18:57:25+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/news/national/mom-of-preemie-dedicated-to-helping-those-who-saved-her-son |
MORGAN COUNTY, Ind. — On November 8, voters in Morgan County will decide who will take a county-wide position. They will also vote on some state-wide, national, and township-level positions.
The contested county-wide election is for the county commissioner. You can follow along below for the latest results from that race. | 2022-10-25T21:19:48+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/your-local-election-headquarters/following-the-general-election-in-morgan-county/ |
LOS ANGELES , Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Official Tort Claimants' Committee ("TCC") of the Boy Scouts of America is pleased to announce that on September 8, 2022 the Bankruptcy Court approved the Boy Scouts' chapter 11 plan of reorganization ("Plan"), establishing the overall framework for a Survivor trust that will evaluate and pay claims. Plan approval comes more than two and half years after the case was filed in a detailed 280-page Bankruptcy Court decision. The TCC is represented by Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP.
"The TCC is proud to put this phase of the bankruptcy case to rest," said John Humphrey, Co-Chair of the TCC. He added that "The TCC has been fighting for Survivors for more than two and a half years and we are ready to move onto the next phase of the process so that the Settlement Trustee can be formally appointed and begin setting up the trust."
Doug Kennedy, Co-Chair of the TCC, remarked "I hope the Boy Scouts will immediately implement the Youth Protection measures that were part of the Plan. While the Plan is an extremely complicated document, the Youth Protection measures are straight-forward protocols designed to help ensure kids are safe. To that end, the Boy Scouts should not wait until the Plan is fully effective before putting them in place."
On September 15, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), the TCC will hold a Town Hall to discuss the terms of the Plan, what they mean for Survivors, and the process of establishing the Settlement Trust that will administer Survivor claims.
Survivors and counsel can attend the Town Hall by logging onto or calling the following:
Zoom: https://pszjlaw.zoom.us/j/82272826295 (no registration required)
Dial-In by Telephone: 888-788-0099 (Toll Free), Webinar ID: 822 7282 6295. If asked for a "Participant ID," just press #
If you are not able to attend the Town Hall you can view a recording that will be posted on the TCC's website: http://www.tccbsa.com. In addition to Town Hall information, the TCC's website contains a variety of resources directed to Survivors.
More information on the restructuring can be found at https://www.tccbsa.com.
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Warnock, Walker locked in tight race in Georgia; runoff possible
Atlanta — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker were locked in a tight race in Georgia on Tuesday night as elections officials continued to count ballots in the state that determined partisan control of the Senate nearly two years ago and could do so again in these midterm elections.
The question is whether either contender can win the contest outright or they head to a Dec. 6 runoff. The state’s quirky election law means Tuesday could be just Round 1. Georgia requires a majority to win statewide office, and with incomplete returns showing a close race and a third-party candidate on the ballot, it’s possible neither Warnock nor Walker will surpass the 50% threshold.
“I don't come to lose,” Walker, a celebrity athlete turned politician, said during brief remarks to supporters at his election watch party in suburban Atlanta.
Warnock followed shortly before midnight, telling his supporters gathered in downtown Atlanta that he'd expected a close race and would continue watching the tally.
“That's where we are, so y'all just hang in there,” he said. “I'm feeling good.”
A runoff campaign would be a four-week blitz that, depending on the outcomes in other Senate contests, could reprise the 2020 election cycle, when two Senate runoffs in Georgia doubled as a national winner-take-all battle for Senate control. Victories from Warnock and Ossoff left the chamber divided 50-50 between the two major parties, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving Democrats the tie-breaking vote.
A runoff would mean another month of Warnock hammering Walker, who is making his first bid for public office, as unqualified and Walker assailing Warnock as a rubber-stamp for the White House.
“Raphael Warnock votes with Joe Biden 96% of the time,” Walker has told voters again and again. “He’s forgotten about the people of Georgia.”
Warnock, who is also the senior minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, answers that Walker is “not ready” and “not fit” for high office. That’s an allusion to Walker’s rocky past, from allegations of violence against his ex-wife to accusations by two women Walker once dated that he encouraged and paid for their abortions despite his public opposition to abortion rights.
Both approaches highlight the candidates’ most glaring liabilities.
Amid generationally high inflation and with Biden’s popularity lagging in Georgia, Warnock wants voters to make a localized choice, not a national referendum on Democrats as a whole. Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator, Warnock pitches himself as a pragmatist who cuts deals with Republicans when they’re willing and pushes Democratic-backed cost-cutting measures when they’re not. Among the top accomplishments Warnock touts: capping the cost of insulin and other drugs for Medicare recipients.
“I’ll work with anybody to get things done for the people of Georgia,” Warnock said.
Walker, meanwhile, denies that he’s ever paid for an abortion. And glossing over a cascade of other stories — documented exaggerations of his business record, academic achievements and philanthropic activities; publicly acknowledging three additional children during the campaign only after media reports on their existence — Walker touts his Christian faith and says his life is a story of “redemption.”
Through the scrutiny he calls “foolishness,” the Republican nominee has campaigned as a cultural and fiscal conservative. Walker, who is also Black, pledges to “bring people together” while framing Warnock as a divisive figure on matters of race and equality. Walker justifies his attack using snippets of Warnock’s sermons in which the pastor-senator discusses institutional racism.
Republicans used similar tactics against Warnock ahead of his runoff victory on Jan. 5, 2021. Warnock won that contest by about 95,000 votes out of 4.5 million cast.
If the race ultimately heads to a second round, it could be because of GOP-leaning voters like Doreen Hendricks, who cast her ballot Friday, the final day of early in-person voting, in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker in DeKalb County.
Hendricks said she voted to reelect Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, but felt “angry” about her choice in the Senate race.
“I feel like the Georgia GOP was persuaded to accept Herschel Walker,” Hendricks said. “Unfortunately, I voted for the Libertarian. I’m not crazy about the Libertarian, either. I know it’s probably going to lead to a runoff.”
Indeed, returns have shown Walker running behind Kemp by a notable margin.
Nearly half of Georgia voters say the economy is the most pressing issue facing the country, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 3,000 voters in the state.
Rising costs were named as a top concern among the state’s voters as they cast their ballots, with roughly 9 in 10 saying the inflated prices of groceries, gas and other goods were an important factor in their votes this election.
Only 1 in 10 Georgia voters identify the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strip women of the constitutional right to an abortion as the most important issue facing the country, while almost 5 in 10 identify the economy and jobs. But abortion still weighs on how many people voted. About 7 in 10 Georgians say it is an important factor in how they voted.
Georgia voters were more likely to say that Warnock has the appropriate experience to serve effectively in the Senate than to say so of Walker, according to AP Vote Cast.
Nearly 6 in 10 voters said Warnock has the right background to serve as a senator. Only about 4 in 10 said the same about Walker, a football icon in Georgia.
The state’s voters were also more likely to say that Warnock has strong moral values, with roughly half of voters saying so about the senator. About 4 in 10 voters said the same about Walker.
Associated Press journalists Jeff Amy and Stephen Smith contributed to this story. Amanda Seitz contributed from Washington. | 2022-11-09T06:01:45+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/08/georgia-senate-warnock-walker-tight-race/69630653007/ |
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Dollar General Corp. (DG) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $526.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based company said it had net income of $2.33.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 23 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.55 per share.
The discount retailer posted revenue of $9.46 billion in the period, beating Street forecasts. Twenty-two analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $9.43 billion.
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NEW YORK (AP) — As Paul Stastny approached the goal line in the corner, he just decided to fling it toward the net.
It went in, and the Carolina Hurricanes are moving on to the second round of the playoffs again.
Stastny scored 6 minutes into overtime, and the Hurricanes beat the New York Islanders 2-1 on Friday night in Game 6 to advance to the second round for the third straight year and fourth in the last five.
Derek Stepan started the winning sequence when he intercepted Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech’s clearing pass. Stepan skated up and passed to Stastny, who fired a sharp-angle shot from the goal line that deflected off Sorokin’s left pad and between his legs.
“Once Steps kept it in I knew Steps would get it to me,” Stastny said. “I tried to attack. I was thinking I’d have 2-on-1. Once Jesse (Puljujarvi) started coming towards me instead of staying wide, then I figured I’m just going to shoot it without looking. Done it in practice before. … Just the element of surprise. Get lucky some times, and was fortunate to go in.”
It was Stastny’s third career overtime playoff winner.
Sebastian Aho tied it midway through the third period for the Hurricanes. Frederik Andersen stopped 33 shots while playing for the first time since April 13.
“They came in pretty hard in the first so I had a chance to get into it,” said Andersen, whose last postseason start was in the 2020 playoff bubble for Toronto. “Just tried not to get too far ahead of myself. Tried to enjoy the moment and take it a shot at a time. It was fun. For me it was a while since I played in the playoffs and it was something I was very excited about.”
Cal Clutterbuck scored for the Islanders, and Ilya Sorokin finished with 39 saves. New York was eliminated in the first round for the first time in its last five trips to the postseason.
The Hurricanes advanced to face the winner of the series between the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils. The Devils lead 3-2 heading into Game 6 on Saturday night.
It was the Islanders’ second overtime loss in the series. They also lost 4-3 in Game 2 in North Carolina.
“Not only two overtime games, but in both we had third-period leads, and that really stings,” Islanders coach Lane Lambert said.
After getting outshot in each of the first two periods, the Hurricanes had a 19-5 edge in the third and tied the score midway through the period.
“Sometimes when you’re just trying to hold on, it doesn’t work well,” Islanders center Mathew Barzal said. “I think the first two periods we were playing aggressive and the third period we just kind of sat back and (tried to) clog it up and make it hard. Sometimes when you do that, it can go the other way.”
Sorokin denied a backhand shot by Jesse Puljujarvi 2:13 into the third to keep the Hurricanes off the scoreboard. At the other end, Andersen saved a shot by Casey Cizikas less than 10 seconds later. Sorokin also had a nice glove save on Jordan Martinook at 8:17.
Aho scored from doorstep at 9:24, knocking the puck down with his glove before sending it past Sorokin. It was his fourth goal of the series.
“The third period was all in their end and we still had to scratch and claw just to get the one,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “And then obviously found a way in overtime.”
The Islanders outshot the Hurricanes 17-11 in a scoreless second period that saw both sides have plenty of scoring chances.
Sorokin gloved Brady Skjei’s point shot 1:03 into the second period. Andersen then gloved a shot from between the circles by Brock Nelson four minutes later.
Jesperi Kotkaniemi nearly tied it for Carolina, but his shot hit off the crossbar at 7:48. The Islanders than had sustained pressure in the offensive zone around the middle of the period, with Andersen stopping attempts by Scott Mayfield and Cizikas less than 20 seconds apart.
The UBS Arena crowd erupted in boos when Aho knocked down New York defenseman Sebastian Aho with 3 1/2 minutes left in the middle period, earning an interference penalty. The Islanders managed three shots on goal during the power play.
The Islanders got on the scoreboard when they took advantage of a Hurricanes turnover in the neutral zone. Clutterbuck got pass from Ryan Pulock, skated up the right side and fired a shot from the right circle past Andersen at 9:20 of the first period for his first goal of the series.
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The Hurricanes turned to Andersen after Antti Raanta had started the first five games of the series. Raanta gave up three goals on 22 shots in a 3-2 loss in Game 5. For the series, Raanta has a 2.59 goals-against average and .906 save percentage.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP)Freshman quarterback Bert Emanuel Jr. rushed for 293 yards and the first three touchdowns of his career as Central Michigan rallied from a 17-point deficit to beat Buffalo 31-27 on Wednesday night.
Emanuel, who saw his first game action the week before as part of a three-quarterback rotation, ran for a 75-yard touchdown on the Chippewas’ first play from scrimmage in the the second half and tied the game at 24-all late in third quarter on an 87-yard run. On that run, he was pulled down on top of another Bulls defender but regained his footing before spinning away and taking off for the end zone.
His 1-yard score midway through the fourth quarter gave Central Michigan (4-6, 3-3 Mid-American Conference) the lead.
Emanuel’s 293 yards came on 24 carries in the absence of leading rusher Lew Nichols III, who missed the game with a toe injury.
Cole Snyder was 19-of-32 for 191 yards with an interception for Buffalo (5-5, 4-2). Ron Cook ran for 100 yards on 22 carries with a touchdown. The Bulls had 204 yards rushing in the first half but just 36 in the second.
Buffalo’s Shaun Dolac, the nation’s leader with 68 solo tackles, added nine more, though Wednesday he was bested by Central Michigan’s Thomas Incoom, who had 10. Alex McNulty kicked two field goals to become Buffalo’s single-season record holder with 18.
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Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were sold:
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
4. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
6. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
7. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
8. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
9. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
10. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
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Sources: AP archives, www.megamillions.com and www.powerball.com | 2023-02-04T14:29:27+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-what-are-the-10-largest-us-lottery-jackpots-ever-won-3/ |
Norfolk Southern sued by widow of conductor trainee killed in Alabama railway accident
The wife of a Norfolk Southern employee killed late last year in a railway accident in Bessemer, Alabama, has sued the embattled rail giant for negligence that resulted in his wrongful death.
Walter James Griffin III, 43, was working as a conductor trainee along with a conductor inside the cab of a Norfolk Southern train on Dec. 13, 2022, when a metal beam protruding from the car of another train crashed through the window, striking them both. Griffin was killed while the conductor was seriously injured.
A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the train on which Griffin and the conductor were traveling passed a stationary train on an adjacent track, and an angle iron that had been welded to a gondola car hooked to the other train had broken loose. The hanging, broken angle iron pierced the left front-door window of the train in which Griffin was riding.
Griffin's widow, Sherita Fields, filed suit in Alabama against Norfolk Southern, along with U.S. Pipe Fabrication LLC and one of U.S. Pipe's employees. According to the lawsuit, Griffin was his family's primary wage earner, and he leaves behind one child who is a minor.
Norfolk Southern did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment on the lawsuit, but it said in an earlier statement following Griffin's death that the company was "grieving the loss of a member of our team" and "our hearts go out to his loved ones during this extremely difficult time."
The lawsuit adds to Norfolk Southern's mounting legal troubles.
The rail freight behemoth has been hit with multiple class-action lawsuits from residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed on Feb. 3 in the town, causing untold environmental damage.
More than 1,000 people were evacuated immediately following the spill, with many reporting health concerns.
On Tuesday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over the East Palestine derailment, looking to hold the railway company responsible for the disaster.
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Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw has apologized for the derailment and vowed to make things right with the community, pledging that the company – which has set up a family assistance center in East Palestine to help families affected by the disaster – is committed to cleaning up the area affected by the spill.
So far, Norfolk Southern has paid out more than $20 million in reimbursements and investments for residents, Shaw told a Senate committee last week, calling the payouts a "down payment."
In response to Yost's lawsuit, Norfolk Southern issued a statement that addressed several of the concerns in his complaint and noted that company officials had met with the attorney general this week "to discuss three additional programs we plan to develop in conjunction with his office and other community leaders and stakeholders."
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In the statement, Norfolk Southern committed to setting up a long-term medical compensation fund for East Palestine residents, making investments to bolster the local economy and "provide tailored protection for home sellers if their property loses value due to the impact of the derailment" and take action to protect the area's drinking water over the long term.
Read more of this story form FOX Business. | 2023-03-16T03:44:02+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/norfolk-southern-sued-by-widow-of-conductor-trainee-killed-in-alabama-railway-accident |
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — It appears Major League Baseball just lost one of its biggest attractions at the All-Star Game: Shohei Ohtani on the mound.
Ohtani said he doesn’t expect to pitch in next week’s showcase after leaving the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-5 loss to the San Diego Padres with a blister on the middle finger of his right hand Tuesday.
“It’s going to be pretty tough. As of now I’m planning on not pitching,” Ohtani said through an interpreter.
The two-way superstar could still play a significant role if he’s healthy enough to remain the starting designated hitter for the American League next Tuesday in Seattle.
Ohtani exited on the mound against the Padres in the sixth inning. When his spot in the lineup at DH came up in the ninth, he was replaced by a pinch-hitter.
“When I came out of the game I was kind of in the moment, so we will see about going forward the next few days,” Ohtani said. “On the pitching side, I have like nine, 10 days until the next start so hopefully I will heal in time.”
Ohtani was pulled after giving up consecutive home runs to Xander Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth with none out in the sixth.
The right-hander’s start had been pushed back a day due to a cracked fingernail. His velocity was down Tuesday, and he left trailing 5-1.
“It was hard for me to put full pressure on it,” Ohtani said.
He left his previous start as a pitcher but remained in the game as the DH and homered, giving him 10 strikeouts and two home runs in a 4-2 win against the Chicago White Sox.
“It’s my understanding they put an acrylic nail on there because of where it was cracked and it might have just irritated the skin on the side of the finger,” Angels manager Phil Nevin said. “It felt like he just didn’t have command of his pitches going into the sixth and we talked about it and he felt good and warmed up and he gave me a thumbs up.”
Asked if the blister would hamper Ohtani’s ability to bat, Nevin said: “I don’t think so. It’s just the tip of the middle finger and I think he’s going to be OK.”
Ohtani’s exit came several hours after the Angels learned they’ll be without fellow All-Star slugger Mike Trout for several weeks because of a broken left wrist.
Ohtani became a two-way All-Star for the third straight year when he was picked for the AL pitching staff by players on Sunday, 10 days after fans voted him to start at designated hitter. Also on Sunday, Ohtani and Trout homered in the same game for the 30th time, helping the Angels beat Arizona 5-2.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2023-07-05T07:36:27+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-ohtani-leaves-angels-game-with-blister-after-giving-up-consecutive-homers/ |
Which BenQ projector is best?
There are few things more exciting than watching your favorite superhero dish out justice to nefarious villains, or tracking an aerodynamic pass from the quarterback to a wide receiver for a perfect touchdown. Of course, the best way to see all the action is on a massive TV.
But those can be impractical or prohibitively expensive. The next best solution? A much smaller projector that produces a larger-than-life 100-inch display. BenQ has fantastic options, but you can’t go wrong with the BenQ HT3550 4K Home Theater Projector. It has the highest resolution available and you can mount it to the ceiling.
What to know before you buy a BenQ projector
Consider your projection resolution
You naturally want the best viewing experience, but the highest resolution isn’t always practical. Consider what you’ll watch the most, and select a suitable projector. For example, if you only want to look at home videos and family pictures, then a BenQ projector with a 720p or 1080p resolution is perfect. However, for Hollywood blockbusters on movie night, you want a 4K resolution projector.
Projectors need a lot of space
Unlike TVs, a projector needs a fair bit of space for a clear image. This is called the throwing distance and indicates the optimal separation between the projector and the canvas or wall. For example, a BenQ short-throw projector can produce a 100-inch image from around 8 feet. You might need to move others further back to get the same visual dimension.
Portable devices use battery power
Complex BenQ projectors draw power from a wall socket, but if you want to watch content wherever you are, you might look at a portable projector.
Be aware, though, that these operate through a built-in battery that needs constant recharging. On average, you can get about three hours of viewing time from a 4,800-milliampere battery (that’s almost four times the battery capacity of an iPhone 13 Pro).
What to look for in a quality BenQ projector
Wi-Fi connection
You’re not always going to view content from a USB drive or a memory card. Especially for movie nights or family gatherings, you want a few options. For that reason, a good-quality BenQ projector can connect to a Wi-Fi network to access Netflix or YouTube. Some have Bluetooth to pair them with an additional speaker.
Image brightness matters
All projectors, not just BenQ’s, work best when the environment is as dark as possible. But sometimes you need to turn up the brightness to see things clearly. The native brightness of a projector is measured in lumens. Generally, the higher the indicated lumens, the brighter you can adjust the projector. A good-quality BenQ projector is at least 2,000 lumens.
Mounting options
You can easily place family-sized projectors on a table to produce an image, but sometimes you need a permanent solution. A good-quality BenQ projector has attachments and accessories to mount it to your ceiling. That way, it is out of sight when not used and will always be at the best throwing distance from the wall.
How much you can expect to spend on a BenQ projector
The price depends on its functions and additional features. A projector with a built-in speaker and a resolution of 720p costs $300-$500. However, a powerful 4K projector costs $1,400-$1,600.
BenQ projector FAQ
Which connections do BenQ projectors support?
A. In addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, many BenQ projectors can connect to HDMI sources and USB-C devices. This makes it easier if you want to mirror a mobile phone or a computer.
Do BenQ projectors have built-in speakers?
A. Most do, but the quality isn’t great. You’d be better off connecting an external speaker through Bluetooth or a 3.5-millimeter audio jack.
What’s the best BenQ projector to buy?
Top BenQ projector
BenQ HT3550 4K Home Theater Projector
What you need to know: It has a true 4K resolution (3840 x 2160 pixels) and factory-calibrated color settings for crisp, clear visuals.
What you’ll love: The projection lens has a 10-element array to ensure the correct light level is produced, improving the sharpness and clarity. The projector only needs 8.2 feet distance to produce a 100-inch display. It has a maximum brightness of 2,000 lumens. A remote control and a power cable are included in the box.
What you should consider: Although it supports HDMI and USB, it lacks Bluetooth or Wi-Fi functions for wireless streaming.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top BenQ projector for the money
BenQ GV30 Portable Smart Projector
What you need to know: This portable projector is the perfect size to watch movies and family photos wherever you want.
What you’ll love: Its round design lets you horizontally tilt the lens 135 degrees to project on a wall, roof or the floor. It has two 4-watt speakers with extra bass, and the built-in battery gives you about three hours of viewing time.
What you should consider: It has a brightness of only 300 lumens and a maximum resolution of 720p.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BenQ HT2050A 1080P Home Theater Projector
What you need to know: With 2,200 lumens of brightness and a maximum resolution of 1080p, this is an excellent choice for home entertainment.
What you’ll love: In addition to watching films, it has a low-latency mode for playing video games. It connects to media sources through HDMI and USB and is compatible with 3D content. It has a short throwing distance, projecting a 100-inch image from 8 feet away.
What you should consider: It has a single 10-watt speaker, which isn’t sufficient for video games or high-quality films.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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25 years later, Bangladesh closer to peace in border region
By JULHAS ALAM
Associated Press
RANGAMATI, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is marking 25 years since the government signed a peace treaty to end decades of fighting by a tribal insurgent group seeking autonomy in the hilly southeast region bordering Myanmar and India. But tribal organizations and their supporters say the government has yet to resolve critical issues including land disputes in the area, called Chittagong Hill Tracts. While much has changed since the treaty’s signing, experts say the region remains a hotspot for criminal activities and ethnic tensions. | 2022-12-02T11:53:26+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/12/02/25-years-later-bangladesh-closer-to-peace-in-border-region/ |
Tuesday is the deadline to file your income taxes. After years of underfunding, the IRS is beefing up to improve customer service, and to make sure people actually pay the taxes they owe.
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Tuesday is the deadline to file your income taxes. After years of underfunding, the IRS is beefing up to improve customer service, and to make sure people actually pay the taxes they owe.
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IRVINE, Calif., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) today reported total March sales of 34,778 vehicles, an increase of 5.3 percent compared to March 2022. Year-to-date sales totaled 88,384 vehicles; an increase of 7.4 percent compared to the same time last year. With 27 selling days in March, compared to the same the year prior, the company posted an increase of 5.3 percent on a Daily Selling Rate (DSR) basis.
CPO sales totaled 5,309 vehicles in March, an increase of 20 percent compared to March 2022.
Sales Highlights
- Best-ever sales of CX-50 with 4,010 vehicles sold.
- Best-ever March sales of CX-30 with 6,779 vehicles sold.
- 2nd best-ever March sales of CX-5 with 16,612 vehicles sold.
Mazda Canada, Inc., (MCI) reported March sales of 5,470 vehicles, a decrease of 5.9 percent compared to March last year. Year-to-date sales total 11,326 vehicles; a decrease of 12.3 percent compared to the same time last year.
Mazda Motor de Mexico (MMdM) reported March sales of 7,105 vehicles, an increase of 83.2 percent compared to last year. Year-to-date sales totaled 19,264 vehicles; an increase of 69.6 percent compared to the same time last year.
Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, California, and oversees the sales, marketing, parts, and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Colombia through approximately 795 dealers. Operations in Canada are managed by Mazda Canada Inc. in Richmond Hill, Ontario; operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City; and operations in Colombia are managed by Mazda de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at News.MazdaUSA.com.
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Fleur steakhouse, once famous and French, closes in Mandalay Bay
Fleur restaurant at Mandalay Bay is closing. The final dinner is June 30, the property announced Thursday. With the closing, a bit of Las Vegas restaurant history passes, too.
The restaurant was originally Fleur de Lys, a Vegas outpost of celebrated chef Hubert Keller’s famed San Francisco restaurant with its signature tented ceiling. At one time, the San Francisco original was considered one of the top fine dining restaurants in the country, and it made sense to bring that reputation to Vegas.
After being open a number of years as Fleur de Lys, the restaurant here evolved into a more casual concept known as Fleur by Hubert Keller, which served a seasonally changing menu of regional French cooking.
Fleur by Hubert Keller shuttered during the pandemic, and in January 2021, the chef severed ties with Fleur by Hubert Keller and with Burger Bar, his other place at Mandalay Bay. MGM Resorts assumed control of the restaurant, renamed Fleur. It currently offers a steakhouse menu of chops, seafood, and traditional starters like a shrimp cocktail and a wedge salad.
Another food and drink concept, as yet unnamed, will replace Fleur, Mandalay Bay said in its announcement.
The closing comes after Retro by Voltaggio, from chef brothers and “Top Chef” stars Michael and Bryan Voltaggio, launched in early May in the former Aureole, which celebrated chef Charlie Palmer opened at Mandalay Bay in 1999.
Contact Johnathan L. Wright at jwright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @JLWTaste on Instagram and @ItsJLW on Twitter. | 2023-06-02T00:52:19+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/food/fleur-steakhouse-once-famous-and-french-closes-in-mandalay-bay-2787294/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers on Wednesday readied to order an outside review of a state program meant to assist families caring for those with disabilities after it faced criticism this year from the people it is meant to serve.
Lawmakers on the Appropriations Committee, in the group's final meeting before the next legislative session starts in January, said they would request approval to hire a consultant to review the program under the Department of Human Services, called Family Support 360. The program provides funding and resources for families that have disabled members.
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State lawmakers say the program has the potential to support these families while also saving the state millions of dollars by keeping people out of state-run institutions. But it has faced complaints that it has shortcomings and is not helping the families in need.
“Our family members need these supports to be able to live a good life,” said Brenda Smith, who helps support her adult son Derek.
Smith and others who have family members with disabilities have told the Legislature that they are forced to fill gaps in care themselves due to limitations on the program from the Department of Human Services. They say that the program has a complicated application process, lacks clear communication on what supports are available and that companion care, which provides in-home aides, is limited to only 20 hours a week.
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The Department of Human Services has said in multiple legislative hearings that it is working on improvements to the program. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment on state lawmakers' push to order an outside review.
“We’re trying to take away the stress that these families have. There are so many hoops they are going through,” said state Sen. Jack Kolbeck, a Republican who has pushed the Legislature to look into the program.
Kolbeck's plan for an outside review will need continued support once the new Legislature takes office in January, as well as final approval from the Legislature's executive board, a committee of top-ranking lawmakers.
Kolbeck said North Dakota recently underwent a similar review of its program, and he hoped the process could give South Dakota's department ways to improve the program.
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In North Dakota, the U.S. Department of Justice in 2020 looked into complaints that alleged the state unnecessarily institutionalizes individuals with disabilities in nursing facilities, instead of providing them with the services they need to live in their communities. It entered a settlement agreement with the state to expand services to individuals with physical disabilities in, or at risk of entering, a nursing facility to allow them to live in their homes.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling requires states to ensure that people with disabilities receive services in settings appropriate to their needs. | 2022-12-14T23:23:54+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/South-Dakota-lawmakers-push-review-of-program-for-17654661.php |
Then-Vice President Joe Biden stood at a podium in the South Court Auditorium of the White House nearly 10 years ago as the leader of a task force formed to find solutions after a gunman killed 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In 2016, Biden spoke to a group of Sandy Hook families and expressed hope that change was on the horizon with gun laws, noting it took him seven years of pushing as a senator before a decadelong assault weapons ban was enacted in 1994.
Wednesday will mark 10 years since the Sandy Hook massacre, but gun violence is as central to Biden’s politics as ever.
Perhaps more than any other issue, Biden has used his bully pulpit as president to push Congress to address gun violence, calling repeatedly for lawmakers to reimpose a ban on assault weapons as mass shooting after mass shooting devastates the country on a regular basis.
“Together, we’ve made some important progress: the most significant gun law passed in 30 years, but still not enough. Still not enough,” Biden said last week at the 10th annual Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence.
White House officials and advocates believe the nation is in a different place in its ability to fight gun violence than it was 10 years ago, largely because of the work done by groups after the Sandy Hook shooting that have helped shift public attitudes and make incremental legislative progress.
But the regularity with which Biden issues statements after mass shootings — in Boulder, in Buffalo, in Uvalde, in Tulsa, in Highland Park, in Raleigh, in Colorado Springs — shows how much work there still is to do.
“One benefit of Biden’s long career in Washington is that we all know what issues animate him, and it’s clear that gun violence is at the top of that list,” said Eric Schultz, a former deputy press secretary in the Obama White House.
The Sandy Hook shooting led Congress to coming the closest it has in decades to reinstituting an assault weapons ban. But when it came to a vote in 2013, it only garnered 40 Senate votes because several Democrats from swing states voted against it.
Congress also failed to pass universal background checks in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. The 20-year-old shooter in Newtown, Conn., used a semi-automatic rifle and other guns legally purchased by his mother.
In the decade since, through executive action and legislation, the federal government has made progress on gun violence in other ways. Obama signed a package of executive orders after Sandy Hook with the help of Biden and his task force.
Biden has signed executive orders aiming to crack down on the use of ghost guns, which are more difficult to track and trace when they are used in crimes.
And Congress earlier this year passed bipartisan legislation bolstering red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to confiscate weapons from dangerous individuals, closing the so-called boyfriend loophole and enhancing background checks for those ages 18-21.
Groups like Everytown, Sandy Hook Promise, March for Our Lives and others have emerged in recent years to provide a counterbalance to the gun lobby. And polling has repeatedly shown stronger background checks and outlawing some semi-automatic weapons are popular with a majority of Americans.
Aides say the issue is personal for Biden, who has met with scores of survivors of gun violence and family members of victims during his time in government. In a 2016 speech to Sandy Hook families, he lamented that they shared something in common: They belonged to a “lousy club” of parents whose children had died before them. Biden lost his son Beau to brain cancer in 2015.
“He is consistent on this issue, and he’s been consistent for decades,” said Stefanie Feldman, a senior adviser on the White House Domestic Policy Council. “Because of that, he carries with him so many stories of people who have been directly impacted. He knows an assault weapons ban works. He knows other strategies to reduce gun violence work.”
Biden has talked at fundraisers and economic events, such as the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, about banning assault weapons. A White House official said Biden will sometimes ask that a reference to banning assault weapons be added to speeches if it is not already included.
Biden traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, following shootings at a grocery store and an elementary school, respectively. The president is expected to mark the Sandy Hook anniversary on Wednesday, and it is likely to renew attention on what still needs to be done to prevent future mass shootings.
Gun violence prevention advocates agree that not enough has been done to curb violence in the decade since the shooting at Sandy Hook. But, they say, progress has been made.
“The last 10 years have seen remarkable progress in building an effective social movement, the gun and safety movement, virtually from scratch. We have achieved more, I think, from a political advocacy standpoint than you might have expected when we first set out,” said Peter Ambler, executive director of Giffords.
“We’re hopeful that in the next decade that we’re going to be able to start seeing more of the effects of the policies that have been put in place and, more importantly, we’re going to be able to do more,” he said.
Zeenat Yahya, March For Our Lives policy director, said the uptick in gun violence since Sandy Hook is a clear indicator the problem persists.
“I don’t think enough has been done to curb gun violence in America, and particularly what’s really scary to me … what has really indicated that, obviously, is the fact that gun violence has increased so much over the years,” she said.
What gives advocates hope is the support for the gun violence prevention law that Biden signed in June.
Ambler called the gun control bill insufficient and narrow in scope but “an important validation of our strategy and our work over the past decade.” And it sets the stage for another 10 years of growth.
While Biden said as recently as last month that he was counting the votes to see if an assault weapons ban could pass Congress, the White House hasn’t given an update on if he has talked to lawmakers and its path to passage is unclear.
An assault weapons ban would need 60 votes in the Senate to bypass the legislative filibuster. Democrats will increase their majority next Congress to only 51 seats, while Republicans will hold a narrow majority in the House.
Advocates think that Biden should continue pushing for an assault weapons ban, even if he doesn’t have the votes.
“We need him to be able to do everything in his power possible to really apply pressure to Sen. [Charles] Schumer and to the Senate Dems, to get everybody on board and really just kind of go for it,” Yahya said. | 2022-12-13T15:04:42+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/how-biden-keeps-focus-on-gun-violence-10-years-after-sandy-hook/ |
Temptations, Four Tops, Isleys, more to honor Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson at MusiCares
A Grammy-decorated array of 20 artists will help pay tribute to Motown's Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson at the 2023 MusiCares fundraising gala on Feb. 3, the organization announced Thursday.
Motown alums including the Temptations, Four Tops, Lionel Richie, Valerie Simpson and the Isley Brothers are among the performers who will pay tribute to the pioneering pair, who are being honored for their role in spearheading Motown's rise.
Gordy and Robinson were named in October as the 2023 MusiCares Persons of the Year, the first joint honorees in the organization's 32-year history. The annual gala is a longtime fixture of Grammy week.
Also performing at the ritzy L.A. event will be Dionne Warwick, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Lalah Hathaway, John Legend, Michael McDonald, PJ Morton, Mumford & Sons, Trombone Shorty, Samara Joy, Molly Tuttle, Sebastian Yatra, Jimmie Allen, Chloe & Halle and Rita Wilson.
Detroit native Greg Phillinganes will serve as musical director for the evening.
More:Motown's Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson named 2023 MusiCares Persons of the Year
MusiCares officials said Thursday that artists will "pay tribute to the individual musical legacies created by Mr. Gordy and Mr. Robinson as well as the music they created together during their decades-long friendship."
MusiCares, founded in 1991 by the Recording Academy, is the music industry's leading charitable organization, having distributed tens of millions of dollars for health care and other social services for musicians and personnel.
"I'm so excited for this year's MusiCares lineup," Robinson said in a statement. "These artists are my friends and I not only love them, but I'm honored that they will be performing my music along with hits from the Motown catalog."
The MusiCares Persons of the Year gala will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The 65th Grammy Awards, with returning host Trevor Noah, will happen two nights later at the nearby Crypto.com Arena. | 2023-01-19T20:37:18+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2023/01/19/musicares-berry-gordy-smokey-robinson-motown-artist-lineup/69823089007/ |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- VentureCount Services, LLC; Boost Holdings, LLC; and affiliated entities ( " VentureCount") today announced a strategic partnership with Govcon Accountants, LLC and affiliated entities ( " Govcon" and collectively with VentureCount, the " Company"). The Company provides full-spectrum finance and accounting services to clients nationwide from its East and West Coast bases.
We are excited to add Govcon's industry expertise as we expand our capabilities nationwide
Based in the Washington, D.C. area, and led by Mark Vieno, Govcon provides DCAA-compliant outsourced accounting and consulting services to government contractors nationwide. Govcon helps government contractors maximize their resources and streamline financial operations in a cost-efficient manner, while ensuring DCAA compliance. Govcon also assists with contract pricing, provisional billing rates, and incurred cost submissions to allow its clients to bid on and win more government contracts. Govcon offers a highly customized approach to achieving financial efficiency, cash flow, strategic growth, and long-term stability.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., VentureCount Services, LLC provides outsourced finance and accounting services to emerging growth clients nationwide, including bookkeeping, payroll, financial forecasting, and analysis, as well as other strategic Chief Financial Officer services. With teams in Washington, D.C., and Bangalore, India, the Company offers high-caliber talent and around-the-clock customer service capabilities.
Based in Roseville, California, Boost Holdings, LLC (along with its subsidiaries, RTA Group, LLC, and United Tates Tax Service, LLC d/b/a California Business Solutions) offers strategic Chief Financial Officer services, merger and acquisition ("M&A") advisory services, bookkeeping, tax, payroll, and other accounting services.
"We are excited to add Mark and his team's industry expertise as we expand our capabilities and grow the business nationwide," said Alex Diaz-Asper, Co-Founder and Partner of VentureCount. Boost Holdings, LLC Partner Mario Curci added: "The partnership with Govcon adds an attractive new end market while continuing to broaden our service offering and geographic coverage." Mark Vieno, Founder and CEO of Govcon, noted: "We are thrilled to partner with VentureCount to accelerate the growth of our core business and benefit from the scale of VentureCount's operations."
"Mark and his team's top-tier service and DCAA experience will support continued growth toward a more scaled outsourced finance and accounting services platform," said Evan Horton, Managing Partner at Everlane Equity Partners ("Everlane"). Harry Banks, Operating Partner at Everlane, added: "We are fortunate to bring additional financial expertise and successful entrepreneurs to our growing platform, offering a full-service solution for clients."
Govcon provides DCAA-compliant outsourced bookkeeping and consulting services to government contractors nationwide. Serving clients since 2010, Govcon is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Govcon's services help government contractors solve financial management and DCAA compliance issues by providing unique industry-specific guidance, including assistance with developing government contract pricing and provisional billing rates, indirect rate budgeting, and incurred cost submissions.
Everlane is a Boston-based private capital provider focused on equity investments in high-quality companies that are well-positioned for future growth. Everlane utilizes its fully committed capital base and experience investing in small capitalization and middle market companies to accelerate value creation alongside management teams that have meaningful go-forward financial participation in their businesses. Everlane is flexible in its approach, structuring both majority and minority partnerships across primarily services industries such as business, consumer, financial, healthcare, industrial, and IT services.
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BEIJING (AP) — Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in Beijing, joining a series of foreign business figures who have visited China as the ruling Communist Party tries to revive investor interest in the country.
Gates, who stepped down as Microsoft chairman in 2014, said on Twitter late Wednesday that he would meet partners who have worked with his charitable foundation. However, Gates is revered in China as an entrepreneur, giving Chinese leaders a chance to show their interest in foreign business by publicizing any meetings with him.
CEOs of global companies including Elon Musk of Tesla Ltd. and Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook have visited China this year and met Premier Li Qiang, the top economic official, and Cabinet ministers following the end of anti-virus controls that blocked most international travel.
“I’m excited to visit with partners who have been working on global health and development challenges with @gatesfoundation for more than 15 years,” Gates wrote on Twitter. He gave no details.
The ruling party is trying to revive foreign interest in China’s slowing economy and reassure companies that have been rattled by anti-monopoly and data-security crackdowns, raids on consulting firms, tension with Washington and pressure to align their plans with official development goals. | 2023-06-15T14:49:37+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/bill-gates-visits-china-as-leaders-try-to-revive-foreign-business-interest/ |
BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Learn In's curated skills marketplace now includes the Resilience-Building Leader Program (RBLP), the leading certifications for front-line supervisors, middle managers, and senior leaders. Learn In is a pioneering platform that assists businesses to establish their own Talent Academies to provide employees with deep skill-building and career development opportunities.
Thanks to this new partnership, companies can access the RBLP leadership certifications in their Learn In marketplace and academy offerings. This is significant because it adds value to employees' individual leadership development journeys.
"Our team at RBLP is excited to announce our partnership with Learn In. In today's environment, people with the knowledge and skills to build and lead resilient teams are the driving force behind competitive advantage," explains Jason Politte, Chief of People & Program Development at the Resilience-Building Leader Program. "The partnership with Learn In brings the RBLP series of leadership certifications to the internal talent academies of organizations to help bridge the gap between leaders and the teams they lead."
"Leadership skills play a critical role in an employee's upskilling journey," says Yael Gilboa Kaufmann, Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of Learn In. "We're thrilled to collaborate with the Resilience-Building Leader Program as a partner. Their commitment to developing leadership skills for individuals at companies across industries and roles brings strength, agility, and flexibility to organizations and their employees."
The Resilience-Building Leader Program is the nationally recognized series of leadership certifications for front-line supervisors, middle managers, and senior leaders. RBLP provides a turn-key Building and Leading Resilient Teams certificate program curriculum to colleges and universities looking for relevant content that will increase enrollments. This curriculum also prepares students for the RBLP series of leadership certification exams.
To learn more about RBLP, please visit resiliencebuildingleader.com/.
Learn In helps companies establish talent academies that steer all the resources needed for building an always-skilled workforce. HR, Talent, and L&D leaders use Learn In to modernize access to learning budgets and world-class programs, and to simplify the delivery of custom programs to employee groups. Learn In's core features include a tuition benefits manager, a prepaid learning stipend card, a world-class program marketplace, a custom program builder, and dedicated coaching. Now every employee can build deeper skills precisely aligned to company needs. Co-founded by the founders of Degreed, Learn In is a fully-owned subsidiary of Degreed and has been covered in CNBC, USA Today, EdTechReview, EdSurge, and Techcrunch.
To learn more about Learn In and Talent Academies, please visit https://www.learnin.com
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Guided farm tours
LAKE LEELANAU — Bardenhagen Berries offers guided tours at 2:30 p.m. Fridays in July at 7990 E. Horn Road.
Learn about the family’s farming background and current farm operations. Adults can enjoy the “Luminous Strawberry Lemonade” cocktail at Aurora Cellars. The beverage features Bardenhagen strawberries.
Space is limited. Tickets are $20 via Eventbrite.com. Some proceeds go to the Leelanau Conservancy.
Mycology Walks
HARBOR SPRINGS — Little Traverse Conservancy and Mike Banyai from Northern Michigan Mycological Society presents the Mycology Walks from 9-10:30 a.m. July 9 and Aug. 13.
Hunt for mushrooms and identify them with the group. More details: landtrust.org or 231-347-0991.
Art fair
PENTWATER — Pentwater Jr. Women’s Club presents its annual Pentwater Juried Art and Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 9 at the Village Green.
Items include jewelry, ceramics, clothes and more. Music is provided by the Third Coast Swing Band, and kids’ art activities are available at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The Scoops for Jewels fundraiser goes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hunt for items for $10.
Artists’ Market
LELAND — The annual Artists’ Market is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 9 on the Old Art Building front lawn and along Cedar Street.
The event features fine art paintings, wooden furniture, metal art, stained glass, photography, literature, gourmet food and more. Cedar Street is closed to vehicle traffic.
Worship concert
MAPLE CITY — Aaron Boyd presents a free worship concert at 7 p.m. July 9 at Old Settlers Park on Big Glen Lake.
The Glen Lake Church Men’s Bible Study and Empire Area Community Center host this event. Donations support World Orphans and the EACC Emergency Fund.
Yoga by the Bay
SUTTONS BAY — Two K Farms hosts Yoga by the Bay at 11 a.m. July 10 and 24 at the vineyard off M22. A glass of cider or wine is included with each ticket.
Admission is $25 at mynorthtickets.com. Contact: 231-866-4265.
Pop-up event
GLEN ARBOR — An artist pop-up and demonstration is set from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 10 at Glen Arbor Arts Center.
The front yard and parking area feature this open air exhibition and music. This is part of the center’s “6ft Apart Art Series.”
Horse show benefit
WILLIAMSBURG — Traverse City Horse Shows presents the $138,600 Meijer Grand Prix at 2 p.m. July 10 at Flintfields Horse Park.
Gates open at noon. General admission is $15 per person at Eventbrite.com. Proceeds go to City Opera House.
M-66 roadwork
EAST JORDAN — The Michigan Department of Transportation begins M-66 culvert replacement on July 11. The culvert carries Monroe Creek under the highway, north of East Jordan.
M-66 traffic between Lord Road and Lacroix Road detours on U.S. 131, M-88 and U.S. 31. Drivers can also take M-32. Work is expected to finish by Sept. 2.
Mulebone concert
SUTTONS BAY — The WNMC Farmhouse Outdoor Concert Series presents Mulebone at 7 p.m. July 11 at 1535 S. Norvick Road.
Multi-instrumentalist John Ragusa and roots musician Hugh Pool perform blues, country, folk and other acoustic music.
Space is limited.
Tickets are $20 at purplepass.com/mulebone. Contact: wnmchouseconcertseries@gmail.com.
Towns recognized
TRAVERSE CITY — Boatline recently included northern Michigan cities on its “6 of the Best Lake Towns in the Midwest” list. Charlevoix is No. 1 and Mackinac Island ranks No. 2.
Traverse City is No. 15 on the list of “17 of the Best Lake Towns in the U.S.”
The Boatline.com site connects boat buyers and sellers. | 2022-07-07T14:08:35+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/go/go-in-brief-07-07-2022/article_ab6cdcaa-f879-11ec-a5f0-476e95698731.html |
While home sales declined for the fifth-straight month, the average cost of a home hit an all-time high.
The median home price was a record $416,000 last month, up more than 13% from one year ago.
According to a report from the National Association of Realtors released Wednesday, the increase marks more than a decade of year-over-year monthly price hikes.
The hottest housing markets are in sunbelt cities like Orlando and Nashville, where home prices jumped nearly 31%.
Still, selling existing homes, including townhomes, condos, and co-ops, was down 5.4% last month from May nationwide.
That's a decrease of 14% from a year ago.
Experts say inflation and rising mortgage rates could be pricing some homebuyers out of the market. | 2022-07-20T21:23:38+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/housing-prices-hit-all-time-high-as-sales-continue-to-slow |
(KTLA) – A labor union representing thousands of hotel housekeepers in Southern California is asking Taylor Swift to postpone her upcoming concerts at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood until they are paid “a living wage.”
UNITE HERE Local 11 published an open letter to the pop star in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
“We make beds, clean bathrooms, and take care of every guest need. Your shows make our hotels a lot of money,” the letter reads. “In Los Angeles, hotels are doubling and tripling what they charge because you are coming. They also add junk fees on rooms, just like Ticketmaster does. But we see none of it.”
Hotel workers have been staging labor actions in the Los Angeles area since the start of July as they negotiate for increased pay and benefits. They have also joined striking Hollywood writers and actors on the picket lines.
Experts predict Swift’s 52-night, 20-city tour will become the highest-grossing of all time. It is also having a notable economic impact on each city she visits with the surge of Swifties snatching up hotel rooms at jacked-up rates.
She is slated to perform six straight nights at SoFi Stadium beginning August 3.
Union leaders hope Swift will lend support to their cause.
“She has taken on corporate greed to make sure artists get fairly compensate and that those workers behind the scenes in her own music get the treatment they deserve,” Ada Briceno, co-president of UNITE HERE Local 11, said at a rally on Thursday outside of the Hyatt Regency at LAX.
There is no indication the pop star is considering postponing her Inglewood shows. KTLA’s request for comment on Thursday was not immediately returned. | 2023-07-28T23:59:18+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/taylor-swift-urged-to-postpone-los-angeles-area-shows/ |
Thursday, Jan. 5
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Woodstown at Penns Grove, 5:30
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Freehold Township at Christian Brothers, 5:30
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No. 17 Arts at No. 1 Roselle Catholic in Iverson Classic, 7
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No. 6 Rutgers Prep at No. 20 Gill St. Bernard’s, 7
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Haddon Heights at Paulsboro, 7
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Top 20 Scoreboard
- No. 1 Roselle Catholic vs. No. 17 Arts, 7
- No. 3 Don Bosco Prep vs. No. 16 St. Joseph (Mont.), 7
- No. 4 St. Thomas Aquinas vs. Rosedale Christian (Md.) at Roselle Catholic, 5:30
- No. 5 Bergen Catholic vs. Paramus Catholic, 7
- No 6 Rutgers Prep at No. 20 Gill St. Bernard’s, 7
- No. 7 St. Peter’s Prep at Lincoln, 4:30
- No. 8 Ramapo vs. Northern Highlands, 7
- N. 9 St. Augustine at Wildwood Catholic, 5:30
- No. 11 Montclair Immaculate vs. Science Park at Roselle Catholic, 4
- No. 12 Camden Eastside vs. Bishop Esutace, 7
- No. 13 Linden at Elizabeth, 7
- No. 18 Paterson Eastside vs. Passaic, 5:30
- No. 19 Hudson Catholic at Snyder, 6
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HERNDON, Va., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global software company Nuix (www.nuix.com | ASX:NXL) today announced that alongside partner, Serco Inc (www.serco.com | OTC: SCGPY), that it was a winner in the US Navy's Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Automation Challenge sponsored by the US Navy Office of Naval Research. In an increasingly tense geopolitical environment, managing the various types and volume of classified information correctly protects the integrity and confidentiality of the information they contain. The US Navy's recent "CUI Tool Automation Challenge" highlights the need by complex enterprises to machine automate the document assessment using recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Nuix/Serco team were one of three participants to emerge from this challenge as prize winners.
"We were delighted to work with Serco on this challenge," says Oliver Harvey, Executive Vice-President, Customer Strategy & Innovation for Nuix. "Working together we were showcasing our capabilities to an important audience - using an MIT-award-winning AI to process vast volumes of important contextual information and successfully automating a laborious process open to human error."
Correctly setting the classification level of US Government and Department of Defense documents allows DOD organizations to reduce the barriers to effective – and vital – information-sharing with partners and allies. But once information is assigned a classification level, it's a complex and labor-intensive challenge to maintain the chain of trust as various human beings interact with it. A problem made even more complex when the number of documents that must be correctly handled goes into the millions. To address this challenge, the US Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Centre launched a competition to find solutions providers with viable approaches to automate the classified document assessment for a particular type of non-classified information called controlled unclassified information (abbreviated CUI).
While the CUI challenge was designed specifically for the US Navy and the Defense establishment, it's directly and increasingly applicable to a wide range of commercial and governmental organizations today. In fact, the challenge is ubiquitous: How to leverage emerging technologies (like AI/ML/NLP) to automate and streamline the ingestion, interpretation, classification, and prioritization of a vast and steadily increasing volume of information to drive better decisions and support business objectives.
To capture the top-three finish, the Nuix/Serco team had to formally present a solution design, participate in a rigorous multi-month down-selection process, and ultimately deliver a self-installing prototype software product, which the US Navy tested in their lab. A combined team of Nuix Inc and Serco Inc subject matter experts worked collaboratively using a small data set to train the Nuix NLP product to automatically detect CUI in unstructured text documents, provide a confidence score for each document, and bundle and deploy the solution for ultimate deployment on a US Navy lab network. Once trained and deployed, the prototype successfully flagged CUI content leveraging key Nuix NLP features like a proprietary large language model, text categorization, document-type classification, context-aware extractions, and Risk Engine.
"Serco's world-renowned services and deep domain expertise, coupled with Nuix' ground-breaking AI technology, made us a formidable competitor for this complex text analysis challenge," says Bob Trabucchi, Senior Serco AI/ML Solutions Architect. "Our success on this project is even more impressive when you consider that it was achieved by just two engineers on a part-time basis. And we're just starting to scratch the surface of what's possible."
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GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit by civil rights leaders that sought the removal of a Confederate statue in front of a historic courthouse.
Superior Court Judge Don Bridges ruled Tuesday against the state NAACP, which had argued that the statue in front of the Alamance County Courthouse was a danger to public safety and violated constitutional rights to equal protection, according to The Times-News.
A 2015 state law sharply limits state and local governments from removing Confederate statues and other objects of remembrance. The NAACP had argued in its 2021 lawsuit that county officials had leeway to remove the statue under an exception for public safety. The statue, erected in 1914, has been the site of protests in recent years.
Separately, North Carolina's governor ordered the removal of Confederate monuments outside the state's historic Capitol in 2020, citing the public safety clause in the law after nearby monuments were damaged by protesters. Protesters have toppled other statues in recent years on the campus of the University of North Carolina and in downtown Durham.
But Bridges said that he interprets the state law as protecting the Alamance County statue and that the local county commission is entitled to follow it. | 2022-09-13T21:28:20+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Court-dismisses-lawsuit-seeking-to-remove-17439264.php |
The New York Police Department is searching for a man who allegedly carried out an antisemitic attack in Central Park.
According to the NYPD's Hate Crimes Unit, a 63-year-old suffered lacerations and a chipped tooth in the attack Wednesday night.
"Numerous anti-Jewish statements were made prior to the assault," authorities said.
The Anti-Defamation League said it is horrified by the reported attack.
"Crimes like these have a ripple effect across communities & cause unique trauma on top of physical harm," the organization said.
Antisemitic incidents reached an all-time high in 2021, according to the Anti-Defamation League. It says there were 2,717 incidents reported, ranging from assaults, harassment and vandalism. It is the highest number on record since the organization started tracking incidents in 1979.
New York had 416 incidents last year, according to the ADL, the highest of any state in the country. | 2022-12-16T20:50:42+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/nypd-searching-for-suspect-in-alleged-antisemitic-attack-in-central-park |
DALLAS (AP)Ben Simmons is expected to return to the Brooklyn Nets’ lineup Monday night against Dallas after missing four games because of left knee soreness.
The Nets upgraded Simmons from questionable to available, and Simmons told reporters at their shootaround that he planned to play and expected to be limited to about 20 minutes.
Simmons didn’t travel with the Nets to Washington and Charlotte for the first two games of their three-game trip so he could continue getting treatment in hopes of reducing the swelling in his knee.
The No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft returned this season after missing all of last season, first for mental health concerns while with Philadelphia and then because of a herniated disk in his back after getting traded to Brooklyn. He last played in a loss to Indiana on Oct. 29. The Nets went 3-1 in his absence.
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BOSTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE) announced that the Company intends to publish first quarter fiscal year 2023 financial results at 6:00 am EDT on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. The Company will hold a conference call with investors and analysts to discuss results and answer questions at 8:00 am EDT on August 10, 2022.
The call can be accessed via teleconference at: Q1 2023 Haemonetics Corporation Earnings Conference Call. Once registration is completed, participants will receive a dial-in number along with a personalized PIN to access the call. While not required, it is recommended that participants join 10 minutes prior to the event start.
A live webcast of the call can be accessed on Haemonetics' investor relations website. Webcast Link: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/dc896g7s
A replay of the conference call and webcast will be available for one year beginning on August 10, 2022 at 11:00 am EDT using the conference call webcast link provided in this press release.
ABOUT HAEMONETICS
Haemonetics (NYSE: HAE) is a global healthcare company dedicated to providing a suite of innovative medical products and solutions for customers, to help them improve patient care and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our technology addresses important medical markets: blood and plasma component collection, the surgical suite and hospital transfusion services. To learn more about Haemonetics, visit www.haemonetics.com.
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Winter began with three reasons to fear the worst: RSV, a respiratory illness that can be lethal for children, was filling hospital pediatric units across Pennsylvania. Flu soared to the highest level in years long before it normally kicks in. A new COVID-19 variant threatened to trigger another deadly winter surge.
The health threats prompted fears of a “tripledemic” overwhelming hospitals — especially with the ongoing healthcare staffing shortage. | 2023-03-23T11:08:54+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/health/2023/03/tripledemic-leaves-pa-largely-unscathed-as-covid-rates-fall-to-near-lowest-level.html |
VANCOUVER, Wash. — From start to finish, it’s all about having fun when Sheli Morrell teaches one of her music or orchestra classes.
“It's pretty fun when it clicks together. You're like, ‘that was cool,’” she smiled.
Mrs. Morrell is a music specialist and beginning orchestra teacher at York Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington. The way she sees it — if her students are making sound, they’re learning.
“I don't grade on skill level. I grade on participation, because if you're joining in, you're going to naturally learn and become a better little musician....even if it's not their thing. But if you're joining in, you're learning and so that's my focus — just making sure that everybody is doing the thing,” Morrell said.
The tempo, discipline and form were all on display from a learning fifth-grade orchestra class. All traits Morrell possess too — when she puts on her running shoes.
“I think lots of times, things like running and music are super impressive to people,” she said. “Because it's not something that everybody just does. So it looks really fancy on the outside.”
What started as cross-country running in middle school turned into 10k races, half marathons and eventually marathons. Morrell credits her brother and grandfather with her running start.
“My grandfather was a lifelong runner. He went to the Senior Olympics in Olympia, and he came home with a gold medal,” recalled Morrell. “And he was like, 'I won't mention that I was the only one in my age group.' Because he was like in the 80+ [year-old] category,” she added with a smile.
Morrell’s running prowess paid off when she qualified for the 2013 Boston Marathon. It was news she shared with her ailing grandfather at the time.
“I was like, ‘Grandpa, I made it to Boston. I'm going!’ And he woke up and he said, ‘I'll be right there running with you."
During the marathon, Morrell remembers the party-like atmosphere along the entire route, something she was sure to take in.
“It's everything you could expect. Like, where do you run a race and there's like grandstands of people?...it was magic, absolute magic.”
She finished the race, got her finishers’ medal and not long after that, the bomb exploded near the finish line.
“It just got so weirdly quiet, and like buzzy. There was like....something's off,” she recalled despite being in a mental haze from just running 26.2 miles. “I didn't know obviously at the time, but it was crazy.”
A decade later, it’s about tempo, discipline, and form all over again. Morrell ran the Eugene Marathon in May of 2022. She once again qualified for the 2023 Boston Marathon by hitting a personal record.
“It's just about keeping it steady, just keeping the flow happening,” she said acknowledging the similarities between running and her teaching career.
No matter how fast, no matter how it feels…or sounds, Morrell is a firm believer in giving it your all and finishing strong.
“People see the finished product. They go to the concert, they're at the race, they see you post the medal or whatever on social media. I think what people don't know — and I see it all the time with beginning orchestras — you hit that part where it's just a grind, and there's no other way to get through it besides just showing up and picking up your instrument or putting on your running shoes and just doing it anyway.” | 2023-04-16T22:02:55+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/features/boston-marathon-vancouver-teacher-10-years-bombing/283-ea5127fe-6015-4e90-8cf1-369594b9a593 |
The Israeli government has passed the first major piece of legislation in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s legal system — part of a broader plan that has triggered nationwide protests, divided the country and rattled the powerful military and influential business community.
The plan seeks to weaken the country's Supreme Court and transfer more powers to the parliament. Supporters say Israel's unelected judges wield too much power. But opponents say the judges play an important oversight role, and that the plan will push Israel toward autocratic rule.
Despite the fraught atmosphere, Netanyahu's allies say they are moving forward on the overhaul.
Here’s a look at how the overhaul could affect Israel in the coming months:
WHY IS THE COUNTRY SO DIVIDED?
Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, has long been a polarizing leader. His government took office in December, after narrowly winning the country's fifth election in under four years. All of those elections focused on Netanyahu’s fitness to rule.
These divisions have been reflected in the debate about the overhaul — stretching across religious, class and ethnic lines.
The anti-government protesters come largely from Israel’s urban middle class and include doctors, academics, military officers and business leaders. Netanyahu's supporters tend to be poorer, more religious and include residents of West Bank settlements and outlying areas. Many are working-class Jews of Mizrahi, or Middle Eastern, descent who see themselves marginalized by an Ashkenazi, or European, elite.
Following the Knesset vote that pushed the law through on Monday, Netanyahu appealed for unity and dialogue. But his opponents rejected the offer as insincere and vowed to continue the protests.
“The morning after, we emerge to an Israel with internal battle lines drawn, an Israel potentially at war with itself, a government certainly at war with much, perhaps most, of the people,” wrote David Horovitz, founding editor of the Times of Israel news site.
Simcha Rothman, the Israeli lawmaker who has spearheaded the overhaul, said he hopes the opposition will be “responsible” and return to negotiations. But he made clear he is not done.
“We have the majority,” he said, referring to the parliamentary coalition. "The majority of the people in Israel still support the reform.”
WILL THE MILITARY’S READINESS BE AFFECTED?
Thousands of military reservists have threatened to stop reporting for duty now that the first law has been passed. The military depends heavily on these volunteer reservists, particularly air force pilots, intelligence officers and members of other specialized units.
Current and former military brass have warned that if the reservists follow through on their threats, the military’s ability to function in a national emergency could be compromised.
“If we don’t have a strong and united defense force, if Israel’s best do not serve in the IDF, we will no longer be able to exist as a country in the region,” warned Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the chief of staff.
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT ISRAEL’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US?
By pushing through the new law without a broad political consensus, Netanyahu has defied the country’s closest ally, the United States, which gives Israel nearly $4 billion in annual military assistance and diplomatic backing in international forums.
In a rare public warning ahead of the vote, President Joe Biden called on the Israeli government to postpone the session and try to reach a compromise with the opposition. The White House lamented Monday's vote result as “unfortunate.”
Analysts say the contentious plan could undermine what both countries routinely describe as shared interests and values.
Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul-general in New York, said that Netanyahu's disregard for American concerns would further hurt the Israeli leader's troubled relationship with the U.S. president.
“No one will take Netanyahu at his word,” he said.
The vote could also deepen a growing rift between the conservative Israeli government and the predominantly liberal American Jewish community. Two major groups, the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America, expressed deep “disappointment” over Monday’s vote.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE PALESTINIANS?
Palestinians look at the unrest roiling Israel as proof of what they see as hypocrisy, saying that Israel's ongoing, 56-year occupation of the West Bank long ago undermined Israel's democracy.
“Palestinians see this as a contradiction, that Israelis are fighting for freedom and democracy through institutions that are inherently preventing an entire people from freedom and democracy,” said Inès Abdel Razek, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, an advocacy group.
But some politicians and analysts warn that the potential consequences of the judicial changes have a deeper reach into the West Bank than the public might think, eroding the main check on a far-right coalition bent on expanding settlements and increasing Israel’s control over the occupied territory.
“This is a dangerous development for us,” said Mustafa Barghouti, a veteran Palestinian activist.
WILL THE PROTESTS CONTINUE?
After seven months of mass demonstrations against the plan, the grassroots protest movement says it has no plans on stopping. Monday’s vote was met by fierce protests across Israel and unprecedented clashes between protesters and the police.
Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank, said the "protests are not going anywhere, especially because the government has clearly stated that this is just phase one.”
Josh Drill, a spokesperson for the protest movement, called for new measures, such as not paying taxes. He also called on the U.S. and the American Jewish community to reconsider financial support for the Israeli government and instead donate to advocacy groups aligned with the movement.
“How many statements can the U.S. administration put out that they’re distraught or that they’re worried? Come on, that’s not actually doing anything,” he said.
WILL THIS PUT ISRAEL'S ECONOMY AT RISK?
Monday's vote sent the Israeli currency and stock market tumbling and yielded warnings from the Moody's credit rating agency of “negative consequences” for the economy.
Netanyahu dismissed the negative reactions as a “momentary response" and insisted: "When the dust clears, it will be clear that the Israeli economy is very strong.”
But many experts believe the damage to the economy could be long-lasting — with foreign investors potentially deterred by fears that a weak judiciary could open the door to corruption and hurt the business environment.
The threat is particularly acute in in Israel’s high-tech sector — a key portion of Israel’s economy. On Tuesday, leading Israeli newspapers covered their front pages in black — an ominous image that was paid for by an alliance of high-tech companies.
“A black day for Israeli democracy,” the ad read.
Yannay Spitzer, an economist at Israel's Hebrew University, said Israeli stock prices have lagged behind global indexes since the plan was unveiled. This trend, he said, "cannot be accounted for by ordinary market developments.”
“Israel is headed to become an economically backward country with civil strife,” Spitzer predicted. | 2023-07-25T20:36:41+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2023/07/25/israels-government-has-passed-the-first-part-of-its-legal-overhaul-the-laws-ripples-are-dramatic/ |
Kate Middleton gave the world a look at her life as a young girl. On Saturday, the Princess of Wales shared a throwback picture, in honor of her latest campaign for Shaping Us.
"'Faces are a baby’s best toy.' On Tuesday we launched #ShapingUs to raise awareness of the vital role our early years play in shaping the rest of our lives," Kate, 41, captioned the throwback picture of herself as an infant squeezing dad Michael Middleton’s face.
As a personal touch, Kate gave "mum" photo credit. The picture of a young Kate -- which appeared across the Prince and Princess of Wales' social media platforms -- has never been shared before.
Kate encouraged followers to participate in the campaign.
"This weekend, we’d love for you all to spend time with your friends, families, colleagues and communities talking about your early childhoods and how they’ve shaped your lives. [2/3]," she wrote.
"I hope you’ll also consider joining me in sharing a picture of yourselves before your fifth birthday to help with those conversations and to share some smiles and memories too. C [3/3]."
Per the couple's standard practice whenever they personally post to social media, she signed off with a "C" for her first name, Catherine.
Immediately, royal watchers took to the comments to share a host of throwback pictures in honor of Kate’s latest endeavor.
Shaping Us, which is headed by the Princess of Wales, raises awareness of the importance of early childhood development. In January, Kate celebrated her patronage with an event at the University of Leeds, where she spoke with students pursuing childhood studies.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Standing front and center inside an otherwise nondescript seventh-floor courtroom in Las Vegas, dressed in camouflage pants and matching camo jacket, stood 61-year-old Brick Houston. On this day, he was facing charges and pleading for misdemeanor trespassing.
Houston has been in court — and arrested — dozens of times for crimes ranging from grand larceny to burglary to attempted forgery. He has done plenty of time behind bars. And, as far as this court hearing is concerned, enough of his crimes have been committed on or near the so-called Resort Corridor, that Houston is now banned from the Las Vegas Strip for six months.
“I took a 10-day suspended sentence where they restricted me for being on the Strip,” Houston said outside of the Regional Justice Center courthouse after his sentencing.
Houston is one of several criminal defendants prohibited from so much as stepping foot inside the Resort Corridor, mostly consisting of the area up and down Las Vegas Boulevard and a block or two on either side.
These defendants are among the first to appear in the so-called Resort Corridor court, where Melissa Saragosa, chief judge of the Las Vegas Justice Court, presides over cases involving people who get arrested on or near the Strip.
“I’m going to hand you a copy of this order in just a moment,” Saragosa told Houston when she levied the ban. The order includes a map of the Resort Corridor. “All the gray shaded areas are the areas you’re not authorized to be in.”
Saragosa continued her strongly worded caution, a refrain so frequently said since the court debuted in January, that those sitting in her courtroom could probably recite it along with her.
“If you are in those areas, you will be arrested on a new misdemeanor violation, and you will be brought back here to have the 10-day sentence imposed. Do you understand?”
Houston understands, even if he disagrees.
“No. I don’t think it’s fair,” Houston said. He said being banned from the entire Strip is too steep a punishment.
“If I get trespasses for being in the casino,” Houston said, “the sentence should be that I stay out of that casino. And if I get caught in that casino again, I mean, that’s when they should impose 10 days [of jail time] on me.”
Saragosa’s so-called Resort Corridor court was debated and approved by the Clark County Commission, where Commissioner Jim Gibson, the body’s chair, said it became a priority to rid the Strip and surrounding areas of serial repeat offenders. Some of those defendants get arrested in that region dozens of times.
“There are people who do things the first time,” Gibson told Nexstar’s KLAS. “And that person probably should be treated a little differently depending upon the severity of the action from a person who has done it a hundred times.”
Gibson said banning these repeat offenders is part of the solution for staggering numbers of arrests on or near the Strip. Officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) arrest tens of thousands of people in that area every year.
“The reality is we’ve got to keep the environment safe and feeling safe,” Gibson said. “And the people we’re seeing arrested there are people who have a hard time with that.”
Saragosa is the gatekeeper of the Resort Corridor. She reviews each case in a matter of seconds, confirming that each defendant understands the charges he or she is facing, conferring with the prosecutors and defense attorneys, analyzing their criminal records, and generally boiling each defendant’s day in court to a suspended jail sentence and the inevitable stay-away order.
It generally goes just like this. For instance, Saragosa had this to say when she handed down a sentence to a young woman charged with a misdemeanor account of soliciting prostitution: “I am suspending that sentence conditioned on one thing: You stay out of the order-out corridor,” Saragosa said from the bench. “That includes the entire resort corridor up and down Las Vegas Boulevard, to include casinos to the left or west of I-15. You will be given a map. You must stay out of those areas.”
Saragosa refused to sit down for an interview with KLAS despite repeated requests. LVMPD, in an email, also refused to contribute to the investigation.
“Thank you for your interest,” Metro’s Office of Public Information said in an unsigned e-mail. We will not be participating at this time. Please reach out to court staff for this interview.”
Lt. Ted Snodgrass, who spent 33 years policing the valley, spoke with KLAS about the rise in violent crime on the Strip. He said the tourists, by and large, have not changed their routine, but that local criminals are getting bolder.
“It’s the locals that come down to prey upon the tourists that have changed and been more aggressive,” Snodgrass said.
In addition to Snodgrass’s firsthand knowledge from his three-plus decades on the job, he also has some academic prowess on the topic. He focused his master’s thesis for the University of Las Vegas on crime on the Strip.
“The state of Nevada relies on these two miles,” Snodgrass said. “This is what makes Nevada.”
Commissioner Gibson said that is the point of this new court.
“We have to keep the public realm along Las Vegas Boulevard safe,” Gibson said. “We cannot have people who are just up to mischief constantly out on the Boulevard. It’ll frighten everyone off. We will end up in a place where people perceive that it isn’t safe enough.” | 2023-02-10T17:50:20+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/strip-court-heres-how-this-dedicated-las-vegas-courtroom-works/ |
DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Police are currently conducting a death investigation in Deerfield Beach.
Officials responded to the scene in front of a business on Southwest 10th Street and Sixth Avenue, Monday morning.
7SkyForce hovered over the scene where a tarp could be seen covering a body in front of Pizza Express.
Police are still investigating details of the incident.
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DENVER (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts is set to make his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, speaking Friday night at a judicial conference in Colorado.
Roberts is scheduled to be interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hosting the conference in Colorado Springs. Two judges from the court, Timothy M. Tymkovich and Jerome A. Holmes will have a discussion with Roberts during the conference’s traditional “fireside chat” event, which has featured a current or past Supreme Court justice since its inception in 2004.
While the conference offers lawyers and judges a chance to learn more about emerging legal issues, the chat, sponsored by the circuit's historical society, usually focuses on the historic view of their career, rather than discussing current events, Gregory Kerwin, the society's counselor, said.
The Supreme Court has been busy making history this year. In May, there was an unprecedented leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion that suggested the court was poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. Roberts ordered an investigation into how the opinion got out.
Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest tenured member of the court, said the court had been irrevocably harmed by the leak. The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Alito's final opinion in June that overturned Roe in a case upholding Mississippi's law banning abortion after 15 weeks.
In June's ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi's law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take “a more measured course.”
The overturning of Roe has paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states.
Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary’s independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency.
Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution.
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Associated Press writer Mark Sherman contributed to this report from Washington. | 2022-09-09T04:29:25+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Chief-Justice-John-Roberts-to-speak-at-Colorado-17429341.php |
Tigers vs. Mariners Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 16
The Detroit Tigers (41-50) have a 2-0 series lead and hope to sweep the Seattle Mariners (45-46) on Sunday at T-Mobile Park, at 4:10 PM ET.
The Mariners will call on Bryce Miller (5-3) against the Tigers and Reese Olson (1-2).
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- Date: Sunday, July 16, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: ROOT Sports NW
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Venue: T-Mobile Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Miller - SEA (5-3, 3.97 ERA) vs Olson - DET (1-2, 4.05 ERA)
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Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Reese Olson
- Olson makes the start for the Tigers, his sixth of the season. He is 1-2 with a 4.05 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 33 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was in relief on Sunday when the righty tossed two innings against the Toronto Blue Jays, surrendering one earned run while giving up only one hit.
- The 23-year-old has amassed a 4.05 ERA and 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings during eight games this season, while giving up a batting average of .200 to his opponents.
- Olson is looking to record his second quality start of the year.
- Olson will try to record his sixth game of five or more innings pitched this season. He's averaging 4.1 innings per appearance.
- He has made one appearances this season in which he did not give up an earned run.
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Mariners Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Bryce Miller
- The Mariners' Miller (5-3) will make his 12th start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday, July 1 against the Tampa Bay Rays, throwing 3 1/3 innings and giving up two earned runs.
- The 24-year-old has an ERA of 3.97 and 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings, with a batting average against of .203 in 11 games this season.
- In 11 starts this season, he's earned seven quality starts.
- In 11 starts, Miller has pitched through or past the fifth inning seven times. He has a season average of 5.4 frames per outing.
- He has three appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 11 chances this season.
Bryce Miller vs. Tigers
- The Tigers have scored 357 runs this season, which ranks 28th in MLB. They are batting .230 for the campaign with 87 home runs, 24th in the league.
- The Tigers have gone 3-for-24 with a double in seven innings this season against the right-hander.
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As the holidays near an end, the post-holiday cleaning will begin. From the fridge to the fireplace and everything in between, holiday celebrations result in needed tidying throughout the house. Additionally, it’s crucial to properly store decorations like Christmas ornaments to protect them and keep them ready to go when the holidays roll around again.
After the holidays, decluttering and deep cleaning can be overwhelming, but professional assistance can help. We consulted with our cleaning expert, Ketia Daniel, the founder of BHM Cleaning Co in Birmingham, Alabama, for tips to simplify your cleaning up and organizing efforts for a fresh start to the new year.
Tips for efficient post-holiday cleaning
When it’s time to clean up your home after the holidays, Daniel stresses that time organization is a must. “Use the time wisely, when it’s time to clean up your Christmas tree and your Christmas decorations. That’s the best time, in my opinion, to give your house a deep clean,” she said.
Having the items you need before you begin the cleaning process is the first step in maximizing your time, Daniel continued. “I would say to go ahead now, while the Christmas things are out, and buy your supplies. If you need containers to put your ornaments in [and] organize them. I would go ahead and label them and everything.”
Focus on storage
Refreshing your home after the Christmas season begins with a plan to store decorations and keep them protected while in storage. Daniel recommends purchasing boxes that are “designed especially for ornaments.” Boxes with this design typically have protective dividers.
Holiday inflatables are more popular than ever but require careful care once when it’s time to take them down and store them. “I think it’s very important for people to gather their inflatables and other things they have outside and clean them off before they put them in storage. You can just water them down after you deflate them and then let them dry and then pack them up in a plastic container. Don’t use soap because that may discolor the inflatable,” Daniel said.
Prepare to clean
When embarking on your post-Christmas cleaning chores, the most important consideration is to do a thorough job. A quality vacuum cleaner is a must for cleaning pine needles and debris off carpets, hard floors and around cracks and crevices, but Daniel also emphasizes the importance of cleaning vents.
“For air vents, I would use my vacuum along with a Swiffer Duster. I will go in with the Swiffer Duster as far as I can go then use the stick handle part to make sure there are no cobwebs.” She continued, “If the vent has black or brown discoloration from dust and dirt, I use Dawn dish soap and scrub it off in the kitchen sink. For this, you can use a microfiber cloth or an SOS non-scratch soap scrubber.”
A thorough cleaning should also include fireplaces, windows and baseboards. Daniel advises that vacuum attachments and a Swiffer come in handy for removing dust and debris in tight spaces. And because most people stock the refrigerator with Christmas goodies, it also needs a complete cleaning. “It’s a great time to clean out your fridge. Making sure that all the food from the holidays is gone completely,” Daniel said.
In addition to a vacuum and Swiffer, you can use the Clorox in a spray bottle, Dawn dish soap, scrubbers and microfiber cloths to accomplish many of the cleaning tasks Daniel recommends for the New Year and beyond.
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AP — A jury has recommended that a Missouri woman whose two young daughters died inside a hot car in 2018 be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison.
A Clay County jury found Jenna Boedecker guilty on Friday of two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two misdemeanor counts.
Prosecutors alleged that Boedecker said she put her 2-year daughter and 8-week-old daughters in her Jeep while she argued with her husband and then fell asleep at their rural Kearney home on July 3, 2018. She found them unresponsive the next morning and took them to a neighbor’s home for help but emergency responders declared the girls dead. | 2023-05-25T02:42:31+00:00 | kwos.com | https://kwos.com/2023/05/missouri-women-gets-50-years-after-children-die-in-hot-car/ |
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal authorities reviewing a Chinese company’s purchase of land in North Dakota for a wet corn milling plant say more information is needed before they can decide whether the project might be detrimental to national security.
Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million project in Grand Forks is near a U.S. Air Force base, prompting opponents to raise concerns about potential for espionage.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States told Fufeng in a letter this week that the information the company has provided is “insufficient.” The company said in a statement that it has been “open and cooperative” with U.S. officials and will comply with the government’s request for more information.
Grand Forks City Administrator Todd Feland said Friday that infrastructure work being done by the city for the project would be halted until the review is complete. He said the review is expected to take up to three months.
“I think it’s going to be one of the most highly scrutinized projects from a national security perspective through this process, which is good for everybody,” Feland said.
Amid growing opposition toward the project, Gov. Doug Burgum, and North Dakota U.S. Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer — all Republicans — pressed the U.S. government in July to expedite a review to ensure it doesn’t pose a risk to national security.
Feland has said the company, which is privately owned, voluntarily submitted a formal request for a review in July.
The Grand Forks City Council in February gave initial approval to the Chinese agribusiness for its proposed corn-milling facility that officials said could be the largest private sector investment in the community’s history.
Fufeng makes products for the animal nutrition, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, health and wellness, oil and gas, and other industries. It’s a leading producer of xanthan gum. The Grand Forks site would be its first U.S.-based manufacturing facility. | 2022-09-03T17:22:24+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/business-news/ap-us-seeks-more-info-on-chinese-companys-north-dakota-project/ |
Police: 12-year-old fatally shot in stolen car by owner
DENVER (AP) — Denver police say a 12-year-old boy in a stolen car was fatally shot by the car’s owner last weekend. Police say the car’s owner found his car after using an app to track it and then got into an “exchange of gunfire” with at least one person inside the stopped car on Sunday. Police say the boy drove a few blocks away and they found him inside with a gunshot wound. Police believe other people that were in the car ran away before officers arrived. Police say they spoke with the car’s owner but he wasn’t arrested since the investigation was underway. | 2023-02-09T19:02:35+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/09/police-12-year-old-fatally-shot-in-stolen-car-by-owner-2/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Tapia fight night has announced its main event. Albuquerque native Jason Sanchez will lace up the gloves against Mexican powerhouse Jose Luis Castillo Jr. on Friday, February 24 at the Rio Rancho Events Center.
Sanchez has not fought in two years and is excited to get back in the ring. He is scheduled to fight again in April and hopes this fight can get him back in rhythm. It won’t be a shoo-in for Sanchez however, as he knows that Castillo is a very capable fighter from a winning background.
“He’s the son of a legend, Jose Luis Castillo Sr., his father fought Mayweather. He seems pretty strong, there’s not much footage, but [from] the few that I saw, he’s a good opponent. He has 19 knockouts, 20 something wins, and three losses.”
Sanchez’s brother, Jose “Guerro”, is also set to fight on the card. The duo has not been on the same card in a few years, and the moment will be extra special for them as they will be taking the stage in their home state.
“We train together, we do some sparing together, our whole training camp is together, and then being able to fight on the same card, its really cool,” said Jason.
“I want to thank them for giving us the opportunity to fight on their card, so I’m just excited,” Guerro said. | 2023-01-18T05:51:18+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/community/sanchez-brothers-to-headline-tapia-fight-night/ |
JEDDAH – Arab leaders, joined by Syrian President Bashar Assad for the first time in more than a decade, were holding an annual summit Friday in Saudi Arabia, with a focus on Sudan and other conflicts.
The meeting comes as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pursues regional diplomacy with the same vigor he previously brought to the oil-rich kingdom's confrontation with its archrival Iran and regional proxies.
In recent months, Saudi Arabia has restored diplomatic ties with Iran, is ending the kingdom’s yearslong war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen and has led the push for Syria’s return to the Arab League, 12 years after its membership was suspended over Assad's bloody crackdown against Arab Spring protests.
The Saudis have even offered to mediate between Ukraine and Russia, following a prisoner exchange deal they brokered last year.
As leaders from the 22-member league meet in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, attention is expected to shift to Sudan. The East African country's top generals — both of whom have been backed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states — have been battling each other across the country for over a month, killing hundreds and sparking an exodus from the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, leader of the armed forces, and Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, agreed to a pact in Jeddah last week that promised safe passage for civilians fleeing the fighting and protection for aid groups. Saudi Arabia and the United States have meanwhile been leading international efforts to broker a lasting truce.
The fighting has killed over 600 people and caused tens of thousands to flee their homes.
The Arab League is also expected to reiterate its perennial criticism of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians at a time of soaring tensions.
In recent years, Assad's forces have recaptured much of Syria's territory from insurgents with help from Russia and Iran. Saudi Arabia had been a leading sponsor of the opposition at the height of the war but pulled back as the insurgents were eventually cornered in a small pocket of northwestern Syria.
“Saudi Arabia’s push to bring Syria back into the fold is part of a broader shift in the kingdom’s approach to regional politics,” says Torbjorn Soltvedt, a leading Mideast analyst at the risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.
“The previously adventurist foreign policy defined by the Yemen intervention and efforts to confront Iran are now being abandoned in favor of a more cautious approach,” he said.
There are some Arab holdouts to Damascus' rehabilitation, including gas-rich Qatar, which still supports Syria's opposition. Qatar has said it won't stand in the way of the Arab consensus on readmitting Syria but would also not normalize bilateral relations without a political solution to the conflict.
Western countries, which still view Assad as a pariah over his forces’ aerial bombardment and gas attacks against civilians during the 12-year civil war, have criticized his return to the Arab fold and vowed to maintain crippling sanctions.
That will likely continue to hamper any reconstruction. Years of heavy fighting involving Assad's forces, the opposition and jihadi groups like the Islamic State group left entire villages and neighborhoods in ruins.
U.S. lawmakers are rallying to block the Arab effort to bring Assad back into the international community. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, declared the U.S. “must use all of our leverage to stop normalization" with Assad.
Democrats and Republicans on McCaul’s committee advanced legislation this week that would bar any U.S. federal agency from recognizing or carrying out normal relations with Syria’s government as long as it’s led by Assad, who came to power in 2000, following the death of his father.
The legislation would also plug holes in existing U.S. sanctions targeting Assad, and mandate the U.S. create a formal strategy to counter efforts by countries that do normalize relations with his government.
Lawmakers are taking a somewhat harder line than the U.S. administration has so far.
“We do not believe that Syria merits readmission to the Arab League," the State Department’s deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. He added that U.S. officials have raised this point “with our regional partners and with our partners in the Arab world.”
“Our position is clear. We are not going to normalize relations with the Assad regime and we certainly don’t support others doing that,” Patel said.
Patel said the administration is still committed to a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in 2015 that endorsed a roadmap to peace drafted three years earlier. But several rounds of talks held over the years between Assad's government and the opposition went nowhere, and he has had little incentive to compromise with the beleaguered insurgents since Russia entered the war on his side eight years ago.
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Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-05-19T09:26:57+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/2023/05/19/arab-leaders-joined-by-syrias-assad-at-summit-in-saudi-arabia-look-to-resolve-other-conflicts/ |
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Two Lafayette students have been arrested and charged with terrorizing school campuses after several incidents that disrupted school this year, authorities said.
Police arrested and charged a Northside High School student with terrorizing Thursday following a social-media threat that caused an evacuation of the school campus in October. This is the second arrest made in relation to this incident and the sixth arrest made for terrorizing a school campus this year, according to a release by the Lafayette Parish School System.
The Lafayette Police Department arrested a Paul Breaux Middle School student Monday in connection with a bomb threat that caused an evacuation of the school’s campus. This was the second student arrested for terrorizing the Paul Breaux Middle School campus this year.
The week before the bomb threat was made, another student falsely reported that there was a gun on campus resulting in a three-hour lockdown of the school, authorities said. That student was also charged with terrorizing and placed into the Lafayette Juvenile Detention Home.
“LPSS would like to thank detectives with Lafayette Police Department’s Youth Services Division for their steadfast commitment to locating those responsible for these disruptions,” the release read. “We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to hold accountable any individuals choosing to terrorize our schools.” | 2022-12-02T15:54:47+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/2-more-lafayette-students-arrested-for-terrorizing-schools/ |
NEW YORK and BALTIMORE, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor®, the industry cloud company, and RPI Consultants, an ERP implementation and optimization firm focused on delivering best practices through technology, systems integration, and process redesign, have teamed up to successfully implement new business process software for the Town of Apex, North Carolina.
In an effort to enhance the lives of its 70,000 residents, the Town of Apex, a municipality in Wake County, North Carolina, has elected to implement Infor's cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, in partnership with RPI Consultants. With RPI leading the Infor Government Essentials implementation, Apex will be able to work through a single provider and operate with greater efficiency.
Apex recently introduced an intern program aimed at encouraging young people to get excited about local government. The new Infor system aligns with the town's goals of inspiring future generations to engage with policy and community interests. "A modern town calls for a modern system," Erika Sacco, Apex director of IT, said. "After a thorough request-for-proposal process and review involving all affected departments, we look forward to partnering with RPI and Infor to implement a cloud-based ERP."
The Town of Apex also sees the digital transformation as an opportunity to bolster support for its constituents. "With our residents' expectations growing all the time, we wanted to do everything we could to ensure future community success," Sacco said.
The new alliance with Apex solidifies RPI's and Infor's expertise in the public sector. "I'm thrilled to partner with Infor to help the Town of Apex bring its ambitions of creating a more forward-thinking community to life," RPI Consultant's managing partner, Keith Wayland, said. "This is the beginning of a great relationship, and I can't wait for this project to kick off."
"Infor's ongoing innovation empowers state and local agencies with government software applications that ensure transparency, adapt to regulations, and provide efficient services constituents demand," said Matt Breslin, Infor executive vice president and general manager.
As part of Infor's Government Essentials package, Apex will receive the latest version of Infor CloudSuite Public Sector applications, and implementation services by RPI. The program hosts financial, procurement, payroll, workforce management, and other HCM applications built for city, state, and government needs. With streamlined solutions for helping growing communities modernize their staffing and constituent services, the package ensures a successful implementation foundation that Apex can build upon for years to come.
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Justices rule against detained immigrants seeking release
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.
In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear persecution if sent back to their native countries, have no right under a federal law to a bond hearing at which they could argue for their freedom no matter how long they are held.
The justices also ruled 6-3 to limit the immigrants’ ability to band together in court, an outcome that Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote “will leave many vulnerable noncitizens unable to protect their rights.”
In recent years, the high court has taken an increasingly limited view of immigrants’ access to the federal court system under immigration measures enacted in the 1990s and 2000s.
“For a while, it seemed like the court was going to push back a bit. In extreme cases, it would interpret a statute to allow for as much judicial review as possible,”said Nicole Hallet, director of the immigrants rights clinic at the University of Chicago law school. “Clearly now, the court is no longer willing to do that.”
The immigrants who sued for a bond hearing are facing being detained for many months, even years, before their cases are resolved.
The court ruled in the cases of people from Mexico and El Salvador who persuaded Homeland Security officials that their fears are credible, entitling them to further review.
Their lawyers argued that they should have a hearing before an immigration judge to determine if they should be released. The main factors are whether people would pose a danger or are likely to flee if set free.
Sotomayor wrote the court’s opinion in one case involving Antonio Arteaga-Martinez, who had previously been deported to Mexico. He was taken into custody four years ago, and won release while his case wound through the federal courts. His hearing on whether he can remain in the United States is scheduled for 2023.
But Sotomayor wrote that the provision of immigration law that applies to people like Arteaga-Martinez simply doesn’t require the government to hold a bond hearing.
The court, however, left open the issue of the immigrants’ ability to argue that the Constitution does not permit such indefinite detention without a hearing.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the court’s opinion holding that federal judges can only rule in the case of the immigrants before them, not a class of similarly situated people.
Sotomayor dissented from that decision, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. She wrote that the ability to join together in a class was especially important for people who have no right to a lawyer and “are disproportionately unlikely to be familiar with the U.S. legal system or fluent in the English language.”
The cases are Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, 19-896, and Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez, 20-322.
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There’s a growing body of evidence on how access to abortion affects pregnant people, but the effects on their male partners have received less attention. In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, experts say it’s time to look at abortion access from all sides.
Here & Now‘s Anthony Brooks is joined by NPR’s Juliana Kim who has been reporting on this issue.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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DENVER (KDVR) — John Torres, whose right leg was amputated because of diabetes complications, was only wearing pajama bottoms — his top half covered with two blankets — the night his sister and her friend found him shivering in a wheelchair on a curbside outside of Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center.
It was Nov. 29 and temperatures in Denver fell to single digits. The morning low on Nov. 30 was 4 degrees. “It was cold, and I remember thinking to myself, if I don’t go to sleep, I won’t die,” Torres said.
His sister, Gina Torres, and a friend who drove her to the hospital happened to spot Torres in the dark as they were leaving the Presbyterian/St. Luke’s on their way to Saint Joseph Hospital, where they thought he had been transferred.
“If we wouldn’t have found him, he would be dead. No doubt, he would have been dead” from exposure, Gina Torres said.
Brother left in the cold after ambulance trip to hospital
In an interview, the siblings said they believe Torres had been left out in the cold for more than an hour, perhaps two.
A spokeswoman for Presbyterian/St. Luke’s told KDVR that Torres was removed by security guards and wheeled outside after verbally abusing hospital staff with racist language, an accusation Torres denied.
Torres had been taken to the hospital by ambulance after his sister called 911 because her brother had a massive migraine and had been acting confused for several days.
On the 911 call, Gina Torres can be heard telling a dispatcher, “My brother, he’s an amputee, he’s diabetic … He can’t get out of the bed. He said his head hurts really, really bad.”
John Torres said he would try to lie on the floor in the emergency room while waiting to be seen because it made his head hurt less.
He said security guards kept telling him that wasn’t allowed, but he did it anyway.
“I don’t know why they took me outside, because they didn’t want me to lay on their floor in the emergency room I guess. They had a policy against that I guess. I don’t know,” he said.
Gina Torres said it took her more than an hour to get to the hospital because she doesn’t have a car and was waiting for a friend to take her.
When she arrived she said a security guard said her brother was “in the back,” but when she couldn’t find him with the help of a nurse, she said she approached the security guard again, who then told her that John had been taken outside.
“He looked straight at me and he was like, ‘Oh, we put him outside.’ I was just flabbergasted. I was just, what the hell? What do you mean? You put him outside? He didn’t have no clothes on,” Gina Torres said.
She said she ran outside looking for her brother in the parking lot, and when she ran back inside, a security supervisor “told me to calm down,” and that her brother had been taken to Saint Joseph Hospital. “He’s like, ‘he’s at St. Joseph’s. You’ll find him there.'”
She said it was only dumb luck that her friend happened to spot her brother in the dark as they were driving to the other hospital.
“I don’t think he knew it was us. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even know it was me,” Gina Torres said.
“When I opened the door, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, what the hell happened?’ He was like, ‘They did this to me. They did this to me. Get me out of here.’ And I moved the blanket. And I flipped. He was bleeding. There was a puddle of blood under his good foot.”
Photos show wheelchair with apparent blood nearby
Gina Torres went back to the hospital the next day and took pictures of where she found her brother. She showed KDVR photos of the hospital wheelchair still sitting where she found her brother with what appeared to be streaks of blood on the concrete nearby.
“I couldn’t believe that happened you know, like, who does that? And this is so wrong. I was just thinking this is so wrong,” Gina Torres said.
KDVR spoke by phone with the friend who was driving, and she corroborated Gina Torres’ account.
Gina Torres said she’ll never forget the horror of finding her brother in the cold darkness, half-dressed and abandoned in a wheelchair.
“His pants were down, wrapped around his ankles, and one was wrapped around the wheel of the wheelchair. He was bleeding, I didn’t know from where. He was crying. He was cold. He had peed himself. I was just…I was in shock to see anybody like that, to see anybody like that. It’s terrible. But my own brother, it was, it’s bad,” she said.
Hospital denies release of security video
KDVR asked a spokeswoman with Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center if the hospital would release surveillance video, and the hospital requested privacy release forms be signed by Gina and John Torres.
The two siblings signed the forms, but Presbyterian/St. Luke’s later said it would not release any footage because doing so would invade the privacy of other patients and staff who might be seen in the video.
KDVR asked if the hospital would be willing to blur faces (as law enforcement routinely does with video it releases) and would just share the video of the security guards wheeling John Torres outside. A spokeswoman said the hospital did not have exterior video coverage outside of its ER main entrance and said it would not release interior video due to concerns with HIPAA, the federal law restricting the release of medical information.
In an email, Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center said, “Due to continuous threats and verbal abuse both inside the waiting room and in our lobby area, and for the safety of our staff, patients, visitors and those entering our facility, we felt it best to remove Mr. Torres from our property and took him to the sidewalk to wait for his sister.”
In an email, a spokeswoman for Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center told KDVR, “Mr. Torres exited the hospital after he refused further workup and services and expressed his desire to leave our ER, he was moved in the provided wheelchair from the property by our security guards. This followed his continuous threats and verbal abuse both inside the waiting room and in our lobby area to staff, patients, visitors and those entering our facility. We made numerous attempts to de-escalate Mr. Torres’s behavior and received assurances by him that his sister was picking him up.”
In a follow-up email, the spokeswoman acknowledged that Torres was taken “to the sidewalk to wait for his sister.”
Gina Torres said no one contacted her from the hospital to inquire when she might arrive and said even if her brother was being belligerent, “that’s not reason for them to do what they did to anybody, to anybody, not just my brother.”
John Torres has since hired an attorney, who said he thinks he might have a case against Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center for negligence.
Presbyterian/St. Luke’s releases statement
The full statement from Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center is below.
“At Presbyterian/St. Luke’s (P/SL), we aim to provide the highest-quality care from compassionate caregivers. Mr. Torres was brought to our emergency department waiting area on November 29, 2022 by a local ambulance service. Mr. Torres arrived with a pre-existing open sore on his toe along with additional issues related to diabetes management. He was assessed by our skilled triage team then offered further work up and subsequent care in the emergency department.
“While in the waiting area, Mr. Torres racially and verbally abused the care team and ultimately refused services. Despite having been warned by an off-duty Denver Police Officer stationed in our ER to mitigate his behavior, Mr. Torres continued the harassment toward the staff and other patients at P/SL. We believe our colleagues, physicians, staff, and patients should have a safe environment in which to provide and seek care without fear of being abused or threatened.
“Ultimately, Mr. Torres refused further work up and services, then expressed his desire to depart the property against recommendations indicating a family member would be picking him up. The triage team thoroughly explained the risk of leaving the hospital. At that time, Mr. Torres’s vitals were stable and his speech clear. Mr. Torres was provided a wheelchair, coat and two blankets from the P/SL care team, having arrived at the hospital without any of those items, and escorted from the waiting area and entry where he continued to harass staff and visitors. While he was in our care, our staff remained committed to caring for Mr. Torres, treating him cordially and professionally, and we wish him well. We steadfastly affirm our commitment to the safety of our patients and colleagues, and are deeply grateful for our nurses, providers and colleagues who show up every day to care for our patients,” the hospital’s statement reads. | 2023-03-16T20:05:09+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/wheelchair-bound-amputee-left-outside-in-the-cold-by-hospital-security-guards/ |
French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has apologized for comments made on Wednesday where she said men's matches had more "appeal" than women's.
Mauresmo was fielding questions about why there were nine men's matches in the prime evening slot in Paris, compared to just one women's match.
"In this era that we are in right now, I don't feel -- and as a woman, former women's player, I don't feel bad or unfair saying that -- right now you have more ... appeal," Mauresmo said Wednesday. "That's the general [reason] for the men's matches."
The current world No.1 Iga Swiatek said she found Mauresmo's comments "disappointing" and "surprising."
Following criticism, Mauresmo issued an apology during an interview with Tennis Channel.
"First of all, the comments that I made were taken out of the wider picture, out of the context," Mauresmo said. "And I want to say sorry to the players that really felt bad about what I said. Again, I think the people who know me, who've known me on and off the court, throughout my career, throughout everything that I've done, know that I'm a big fighter for equal rights and women's tennis, women in general.
"Concerning the scheduling, specifically for the night matches, my say was that because we have one match only, the ticket holders, I feel that it's really tougher to schedule a women's match because we have to take into consideration the length [of the match], I feel. I feel it's the fair kind of thing to do for the ticketholders."
Mauresmo will conduct a full tournament review after this year's French Open finishes and she said they may double up women's matches next year.
"So I feel that next year in order to be able to be more fair to the women's player, as well as to both categories actually, it would be good to maybe have the possibility to put two matches or maybe a women's match plus a doubles match," Mauresmo said.
"Try to find a better solution to be fair to everyone. We tried to modernize the event. We tried to move forward, and I can see that there are some adjustments to be made. That's for sure. And we're going to talk about it after the tournament." | 2022-06-02T14:31:20+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/34024704/french-open-director-amelie-mauresmo-apologizes-saying-women-matches-lack-prime-appeal |
Suspect in Club Q mass shooting expected to take plea deal
By Jim Mustain and Jesse Bedayn/AP
The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 17, several survivors told The Associated Press.
Word of a possible legal resolution of last year’s Club Q massacre follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from the suspect to the AP expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at the next scheduled court hearing this month.
“I have to take responsibility for what happened,” 23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich said in their first public comments about the case.
Federal and state authorities and defense attorneys declined to comment on a possible plea deal. But Colorado law requires victims to be notified of such deals, and several people who lost loved ones or were wounded in the attack told the AP that state prosecutors have given them advance word that Aldrich will plead guilty to charges that would ensure the maximum state sentence of life behind bars.
Prosecutors also recently asked survivors to prepare for the June 26 hearing by writing victim-impact statements and steeling themselves emotionally for the possible release of the Club Q surveillance video of the attack.
“Someone’s gone that can never be brought back through the justice system,” said Wyatt Kent, who was celebrating his 23rd birthday in Club Q when Aldrich opened fire, gunning down Kent’s partner, Daniel Aston, who was working behind the bar. “We are all still missing a lot, a partner, a son, a daughter, a best friend.”
Jonathan Pullen, the suspect’s step-grandfather who plans to watch the upcoming hearing on a livestream, said Aldrich “has to realize what happened on that terrible night. It's truly beginning to dawn on him.”
Aldrich faces more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. And the U.S. Justice Department is considering filing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing case. It’s unclear whether the anticipated resolution to the state prosecution will also resolve the ongoing FBI investigation.
Some survivors who listened to the suspect’s recorded comments to the AP lambasted them as a calculated attempt to avoid the federal death penalty, noting they stopped short of discussing a motive, put much of the blame on drugs and characterized the crime in passive, generalities such as “I just can’t believe what happened” and “I wish I could turn back time.” Such language, they said, belied by the maps, diagrams, online rants and other evidence that showed months of plotting and premeditation.
“No one has sympathy for him,” said Michael Anderson, who was bartending at Club Q when the shooting broke out and ducked as several patrons were gunned down around him. “This community has to live with what happened, with collective trauma, with PTSD, trying to grieve the loss of our friends, to move past emotional wounds and move past what we heard, saw and smelled.”
Terror erupted just before midnight on Nov. 19 when the suspect walked into Club Q, a longtime sanctuary for the LGBTQ community in this mostly conservative city of 480,000, and fired an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle indiscriminately. Disbelief gave way to screaming and confusion as the music continued to play. Partygoers dove across a bloody dance floor for cover. Friends frantically tried to protect each other and plugged wounds with napkins.
The killing only stopped after a Navy petty officer grabbed the barrel of the suspect’s rifle, burning his hand because it was so hot. An Army veteran joined in to help subdue and beat Aldrich until police arrived, finding the shooter had emptied one high-capacity magazine and was armed with several more.
Aldrich, who since their arrest has identified as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, allegedly visited Club Q at least six times in the years before the attack. District Attorney Michael Allen told a judge that the suspect’s mother made Aldrich go to the club “against his will and sort of forced that culture on him.”
Allen also has said the suspect administered a website that posted a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” shooting training video. Online gaming friends said Aldrich expressed hatred for the police, LGBTQ people and minorities and used anti-Black and anti-gay slurs. And a police detective testified that Aldrich sent an online message with a photo of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade.
Defense attorneys in previous hearings have not disputed Aldrich’s role in the shooting but have pushed back against allegations it was motivated by hate, arguing the suspect was drugged up on cocaine and medication the night of the attack.
“I don’t know if this is common knowledge but I was on a very large plethora of drugs,” Aldrich told the AP. “I had been up for days. I was abusing steroids. ... I’ve finally been able to get off that crap I was on.”
Aldrich didn’t answer directly when asked whether the attack was motivated by hate, saying only that’s “completely off base.”
Even a former friend of Aldrich found their remarks to be disingenuous. “I’m really glad he’s trying to take accountability but it’s like the ‘why’ is being shoved under the rug,” said Xavier Kraus, who lived across the hall from Aldrich at a Colorado Springs apartment complex.
The AP sent Aldrich a handwritten letter several months ago asking them to discuss a 2021 kidnapping arrest following a standoff with a SWAT team, a prosecution that had been dismissed and sealed despite video evidence of Aldrich’s crimes. In that case, just months before the Club Q shooting, they threatened to become “the next mass killer” and stockpiled guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb. The incident was livestreamed on Facebook and prompted the evacuation of 10 nearby homes as authorities discovered a tub with more than 100 pounds of explosive materials.
The alleged shooter, who lived with their grandparents at the time and was upset about their plans to move to Florida, threatened to kill the couple and “go out in a blaze,” authorities said. “You guys die today and I’m taking you with me,” they quoted the suspect as saying. “I’m loaded and ready.”
The charges were dismissed even after relatives wrote a judge warning that Aldrich was “certain” to commit murder if freed. District Attorney Allen, facing heavy criticism, later attributed the dismissal of the case to Aldrich’s family members refusing to cooperate and repeatedly dodging out-of-state subpoenas.
In response to AP’s letter, Aldrich first phoned a reporter in March and asked to be paid for an interview, a request that was declined. They called back late last month, days after prosecutors wrote in a court filing that there was “near-unanimous sentiment” among the victims for “the most expedient determination of case-related issues.”
In a series of six calls, each limited by an automated jail phone system to 15 minutes, the suspect said: "Nothing’s ever going to bring back their loved ones. People are going to have to live with injury that can’t be repaired.”
Asked why it happened, they said, “I don’t know. That’s why I think it’s so hard to comprehend that it did happen. ... I’m either going to get the death penalty federally or I will go to prison for life, that’s a given.”
While the AP normally would not provide a platform to someone alleged to have committed such a crime, editors judged that the suspect’s stated intent to accept responsibility and expression of remorse were newsworthy and should be reported.
Former Club Q bartender Anderson was among survivors who told prosecutors they wanted a fast resolution of the criminal case.
“My fear is that if this takes years, that prevents the processing and moving on and finding peace beyond this case,” he said. “I would love this wrapped up as quickly as possible under the guarantee that justice is served.”
AP Writer Colleen Slevin in Denver contributed to this report. Contact AP’s global investigative team at Investigative@ap.org.
Previous coverage of the Club Q suspect in court:
- Five things we learned from the Club Q shooting suspect’s preliminary hearing
- Suspect in Colorado Springs Club Q shooting to be tried on hate crime, murder charges
- Accused Club Q shooter appears in court for first day of preliminary hearings
- El Paso County judge denies another motion to push back preliminary hearing for the suspect in the Club Q shooting
- Club Q Update: Judge denies defense attorneys their request for a delay in preliminary hearing
- Judge denies motion to hold El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in contempt for Club Q media leak
- Club Q shooting: DA files a motion for additional charges against suspected shooter, including attempted murder
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TULSA, Okla. — In our two America series, we’re aiming to cover the America you know and the America you may not. The America we all know is an end to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Last month, we told you about a proposal by the Drug Enforcement Agency that fell in line with the end of the emergency action.
We often question the chances for change when people speak out. Can a movement that starts far from power reach those at its center?
Kelly Dunn is the executive director for clinical treatment at Oklahoma State University.
“It takes a lot to change anything. So, by the time the DEA makes a change, it’s probably been overdue for a while," she said.
Dunn is referring to a last-minute announcement from the DEA, holding off on a change that would have rippled through homes far from power, homes handling addiction.
“With addiction care, it's most successful when there's as little obstacle as possible to access that care,” Dunn added.
When COVID-19 hit, that need erupted. The DEA used the public health emergency to greatly expand prescribing medication without seeing a patient in person. Two years later, a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others found telehealth treatment related to addiction led to lower odds of an overdose – at a time when tens of thousands die from overdose each year. But this February, with the emergency set to expire, the DEA announced it would keep telehealth access for some medications but remove it for others, including buprenorphine, a major treatment for addiction.
“These are life-changing medications for people that they’re no longer going to be able to access," Dunn said when we first met with her.
Sitting with her that day was Alina Messick, a physician’s assistant at Oklahoma State University who provides treatment for rural patients.
She wrote one of 38,000 public comments on the DEA’s proposal. This week, two days before the deadline, the DEA announced it would hold off on the new rules for another six months.
Dunn predicts the DEA will likely try to allow easier access, in general, while regulating treatments with potential for abuse. It’s not quite a victory, but it is a success, Dunn says, for those in need and those who spoke out.
“If anything, it kind of continues to give me hope,” Dunn said. “It’s pretty exciting for people to be active in this and that everyone’s participating in the change they want to see.” | 2023-05-15T15:00:51+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/two-americas/dea-delay-decision-on-telehealth-regulations |
Liudmila Samsonova 2023 Bad Homburg Open presented by Engel & Voelkers Odds
A match in the Bad Homburg Open presented by Engel & Voelkers quarterfinals is next up for Liudmila Samsonova, and she will go up against Katerina Siniakova. Samsonova's monyeline odds to win the tournament at TC Bad Homburg are +350, the No. 2 odds in the field.
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After defeating Linda Noskova 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, Samsonova will face Siniakova in the quarterfinals on Thursday, June 29 at 12:00 PM ET.
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The rats don't run this city! Allegedly.
Who is she? Kathleen Corradi is the newly appointed New York City 'rat czar', the first person to hold the position aiming to address a swelling rat population.
What's the big deal? While they can be seen as filthy pests by many, the presence of rats in an urban environment can actually be indicative of many environmental factors directly tied to quality of life.
What are people saying?
Here's the rat Czar herself on her call of duty:
Rats are a symptom of systemic issues, including sanitation, health, housing, and economic justice. As the first director of rodent mitigation, I'm excited to bring a science- and systems-based approach to fight rats. New York may be famous for the Pizza Rat, but rats, and the conditions that help them thrive will no longer be tolerated – no more dirty curbs, unmanaged spaces or brazen burrowing. I'm honored to lead this work, grateful to Mayor Adams for this opportunity and look forward to sending the rats packing.
For Mayor Eric Adams, it's personal:
Everyone that knows me, they know one thing: I hate rats.
And professional:
Rats impact how you feel about the city that you're in, that's why we're taking this serious.
New York City sanitation commissioner Jessica Tisch went viral last year for her rodent battle cry:
The rats are going to absolutely hate this announcement. But the rats don't run this city. We do.
And Kaylee Byers, a senior scientist at the Pacific Institute for Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, spoke to NPR's Shortwave on the city's approach to tackling the rat issue, and how it should be more holistic:
We need to not just be thinking about 'How do we eradicate rats?' We've been doing that for thousands of years — catch, kill, repeat — and it's not working."
"[We need to tackle how] rats intersect with other aspects of urban planning in the city — waste management, green spaces, transit, housing.
Want more on city politics? Listen to Consider This on what Chicago's mayoral race says about how officials are handling crime.
So, what now?
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Public schools and state agencies in North Dakota would be prohibited from referring to students and employees by any pronouns that don’t reflect the sex assigned to them at birth, under a bill approved by the legislature.
The House approved the bill 60-32 on Wednesday. It passed the Senate last month and now awaits the signature of Republican Gov. Doug Burgum.
In 2021, Burgum vetoed a bill that would have restricted transgender students from participating in public elementary and secondary school sports. But Burgum has not said publicly if he supports this latest measure.
The bill is among hundreds nationwide that are taking aim at nearly every facet of transgender existence, from pronouns to bathroom use to health care to athletics. In North Dakota, similar bills to restrict transgender athletes have passed the House this session with veto-proof majorities. The Senate has not yet voted on them. Last week, Wyoming became the 19th state to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls or women’s sports teams.
“It’s another week of a legislative session, and we have another bill that’s telling certain people that they have value or don’t have value in our state,” Democratic Rep. Josh Boschee of Fargo said as he urged lawmakers to vote against the pronoun bill.
Right before the vote, Republican Rep. SuAnn Olson of Baldwin countered: “Five years ago, this whole pronoun thing wasn’t a thing. It puts teachers in the very difficult position” of keeping up with students who switch their pronoun, she said. “It’s just a common-sense bill that deserves a green vote.”
The bill would not criminalize teachers or state employees. And if a teacher received approval from a student’s parent or guardian — and from the school administrator — the teacher would be allowed to use the pronouns a student prefers.
Although the measure also affects state employees outside the schools, Wednesday’s debate focused mostly on educational staff who would be affected. Supporters said the bill would ease burdens on teachers and create better learning environments for students
The bill would allow teachers to “rest with relief that they only need to remember one name and (one) set of historically recognized biological pronouns,” Republican Rep. Lori VanWinkle, of Minot, said in support. She added that the bill would instill confidence in parents that their kids are safe at school and create learning environments without “social distractions.”
Opponents including Democratic Rep. Mary Schneider of Fargo cited the testimony of countless people who argued the bill would harm LGBTQ youth: mental health therapists, school counselors, social workers, suicide prevention advocates, church leaders and more.
Schneider noted that these experts said the bill would not protect kids or promote learning, because “the real threats to children are poverty, hunger, lack of health care, gun violence, bigotry, social pressures, mental health and bills like these.”
Democrats and Republicans voted against the bill.
A survey by The Trevor Project in 2022 found that 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the previous year, but that those who were supported socially or at school reported lower rates.
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STAMFORD, Conn., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, announced today that it has raised its prime lending rate to 5.50 percent from 4.75 percent, effective July 28, 2022.
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Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, National Association and its HSA Bank Division. Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits solutions. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with $68 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com.
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Dying to Ask podcast: Get stuff done with an accountability partner
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Dying to Ask podcast: Get stuff done with an accountability partner
Want to get something done? Consider finding an accountability partner. Accountability partners can be friends, work colleagues or even strangers at first. They agree to help coach each other toward goals, personal or professional. They can be a really effective tool in setting and reaching milestones. But, there are dos and don'ts to finding and being a good partner.Amy Schmidt, the co-host of the Better than Gossip podcast, is back on the show with how she relies on accountability partners. A good partnership can help you reach goals faster. And, isn't it more fun to work hard with the support of a friend?In this Dying to Ask: How to choose an accountability partnerHow to structure the relationship so that both sides are getting something out of itWhy bluntness is important in the relationshipHow accountability partners add purpose and enrich our personal and professional lives
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Amy Schmidt, the co-host of the Better than Gossip podcast, is back on the show with how she relies on accountability partners.
A good partnership can help you reach goals faster. And, isn't it more fun to work hard with the support of a friend?
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Investor Presentation to be held at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AZZ Inc. (NYSE: AZZ), a global provider of galvanizing and metal coating solutions, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services for maintaining and building critical infrastructure, announced today that David Nark, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Investor Relations, will present at the Stifel 2022 Cross Sector Insight Conference in Boston, MA on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. ET.
A webcast of the presentation will be available on the Company's Investor Relations page at www.azz.com/investor-relations. A replay of the presentation will be available following the event.
Management will host one-on-one investor meetings during the event. Investors interested in arranging one-on-one meetings should contact your Stifel conference representative or StifelCorporateEvents@stifel.com. Conversely, you may also call or email Lytham Partners at 602-889-9700, or azz@lythampartners.com.
About AZZ Inc.
AZZ Inc. is a global provider of hot-dip galvanizing, coil coating, and a variety of metal coating solutions, welding solutions and specialty electrical equipment to a broad range of markets, including, but not limited to, the power generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial markets. AZZ's Metal Coatings segment is a leading provider of metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot-dip galvanizing, spin galvanizing, powder coating, anodizing and plating, to the North American steel fabrication industry. AZZ's Precoat Metals Segment is a leading provider of protective and decorative coatings to the North American steel and aluminum coil market. AZZ's Infrastructure Solutions segment is dedicated to delivering safe and reliable transmission of power from generation sources to end customers, and automated weld overlay solutions for corrosion and erosion mitigation to critical infrastructure in the energy and waste management markets worldwide.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Family members awaited the results of DNA testing to identify victims of a train crash that killed nearly 60 people in Greece, as workers went on strike Thursday saying the rail system is outdated, underfunded and dangerous.
The government has blamed human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.
Emergency crews, meanwhile, inched through the mangled remains of passenger carriages in their search for the dead from Tuesday night’s head-on collision, which has left 57 confirmed dead — a number that rescuers fear will increase.
The collision of a passenger train and a freight train was the country’s deadliest ever, and more than 48 people remained hospitalized — with six in intensive care — most in the central Greek city of Larissa.
RESIDENTS LINE UP IN RAIN TO GIVE BLOOD
Larissa residents lined up to give blood, many waiting in heavy rain for more than an hour, while the city’s hotel association provided free accommodation to relatives of the crash victims.
DNA matching was going fast, with at least four families — in the presence of psychologists — receiving confirmation Thursday that their relatives were among the dead, said police spokeswoman Constandia Dimoglidou.
Dimoglidou said the process usually takes several days but authorities are making an effort to finish by Friday. She said 24 bodies have been identified through DNA so far. The testing was necessary because many of the bodies were burned or mangled beyond recognition.
Among the dozens of grieving relatives who spent a second day at the hospital awaiting results Thursday was Dimitris Bournazis, whose father and 15-year-old brother remain unaccounted for. He said phone calls to Italian-owned train operator Hellenic Train have been fruitless.
“I’ve been trying since yesterday afternoon to communicate with the company to find out what seat my father was in,” he said. “Nobody has called me back.”
WORKERS, RELATIVES SAY TRAIN SYSTEM UNSAFE
Railway workers’ associations called strikes, halting national rail services and the subway in Athens to protest working conditions and what they described as a dangerous failure to modernize the rail system. A second 24-hour strike was called for Friday.
Two separate protests in central Athens were held by left-wing groups, with one resulting in clashes between stone-throwing youths and riot police. Protests were also held in Thessaloniki and Larissa.
Critics blame a lack of public investment during the deep financial crisis that spanned most of the previous decade and brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy. It was during the crisis, in 2017, that the rail operator, then heavily losing money, was privatized and bought by Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group.
Despite years of modernization projects, much of the key rail control work is still manually operated.
The head of the engine drivers’ union, Costas Genidounias, said an up-to-date traffic control system was supposed to have been ready three years ago. He said that starting in 2020, union representatives sent legal notices to the company responsible for Greece’s railway infrastructure, OSE, as well as government and regulatory officials, but received no reply.
OSE issued a statement Thursday expressing condolences to the victims’ families but it has not publicly commented on the criticism.
“A FOREST OF RESPONSIBILITY”
Transportation Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned following the crash and officials launched a judicial inquiry to determine how two trains traveled in opposite directions on the same track for more than 10 minutes without anyone raising the alarm.
The Larissa station manager was charged Thursday with multiple counts of manslaughter and causing serious physical harm through negligence. His name was not released.
The stationmaster’s lawyer, Stefanos Pandzardzidis, said his client was “devastated” and accepted “his portion of the responsibility.”
“But beyond that … we must not focus on the tree while there’s a whole forest beyond it,” he said. “There’s a forest of responsibility.”
Bournazis agreed that the responsibility for the crash should go far beyond the stationmaster.
“We can’t dump all the blame on one person for making one mistake,” he said.
He said the crash should lead to a full safety overhaul of the country’s rail system.
“I’ve lost my brother, my father. That can’t change, I know it,” he said. “But the point is for us not to mourn victims like that again. They bought 50 tickets to death.”
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged in a televised statement Wednesday night to get to the bottom of the disaster.
“Responsibility will be assigned. We will work so that the words ‘never again’ … will not remain an empty pledge,” he said. “That I promise you.”
“CENTIMETER BY CENTIMETER”
Amid the growing criticism, emergency workers continued their grim recovery effort, proceeding “centimeter by centimeter” through mounds of twisted steel, shattered glass and scattered luggage, said Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios.
“We can see that there are more (bodies) of people there. Unfortunately they are in a very bad condition,” he told state television.
Rescuers were focusing on the restaurant car, which was crushed under the first carriage from the force of the collision, said fire official Vassilios Vathrakogiannis.
“This morning we removed seven burned bodies from that carriage,” he said.
CRASH SURVIVOR DESCRIBES FIERY ESCAPE
About 350 people were on the passenger train, many of them students returning from a holiday weekend and annual Carnival celebrations around Greece.
Andreas Alikaniotis, a 20-year-old survivor, described how he and fellow students escaped from a jackknifed train car as the fire approached, smashing windows and throwing luggage outside to use as a makeshift landing pad.
“It was a steep drop, into a ditch,” Alikaniotis, who suffered a knee injury, told reporters from his hospital bed in Larissa.
“The lights went out. … The smoke was suffocating inside the rail car but also outside,” Alikaniotis said.
He said he was “one of the few around who had not been seriously injured.”
“Me and my friends helped people get out.”
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Paphitis reported from Athens, Greece. Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed to this report. | 2023-03-02T20:47:48+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/ap-general/ap-greek-rail-workers-strike-over-conditions-after-deadly-crash/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix suburb is reviewing how it handles water rescues as video of three police officers standing nearby as a homeless man drowns sparks outcry.
The Tempe Police Department says the officers are on paid administrative leave after last month’s drowning in a city lake.
An uproar arose after Tempe police on Friday released edited footage from officers’ body cameras as well as a transcript of the May 28 incident.
The video shows Sean Bickings, 34, climb over a 4-foot (1.2-meter) fence along Tempe Town Lake. An officer tells him swimming is not permitted. Bickings then goes into the water and starts swimming. Another officer tells police to watch him while he goes to get a boat.
The video ends there. But the transcript shows two officers repeatedly tell Bickings to swim to a pylon and “hold on.” Bickings continuously says “I can’t” and pleads for help.
At one point, one of the officers says: “I’m not jumping in after you.”
Bickings swam in all for roughly 40 yards (37 meters) under a pedestrian bridge, city officials said.
The Tempe Officers Association said the public needs to understand officers are not trained for water rescues. These officers followed their training and went to get a boat.
In a news release Monday, the city said officials will reevaluate the protocols around water rescues. They will also look at where rescue equipment like life preservers should be placed relative to the lake or any body of water.
Police were originally responding to reports of a fight just after 5 a.m. between Bickings and a female companion. When questioned, both denied any physical altercation had taken place. But officers ran their names through a background check and found Bickings had three outstanding warrants.
Authorities say that is when Bickings climbed over the fence. According to the transcript, his companion, who said Bickings was her husband, tried to go after him but officers kept her back.
Firefighters recovered Bickings’ body and pronounced him dead.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety and police in the neighboring suburb of Scottsdale are investigating the police response.
Police Chief Jeff Glover met with Bickings’ mother last week. She had asked for any video to be released, the city said.
Tempe Town Lake is more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) long and was built in 1999 by damming a portion of the Salt River. It is a popular spot for jogging, biking, kayaking and other recreational activities. | 2022-06-08T08:15:14+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/arizona-officers-inaction-during-drowning-spurs-probe/ |
DULUTH — How does music affect learning? How does salt affect freshwater bacteria? How do magnetic fields affect brine shrimp?
A dozen budding scientists in East High School’s student-founded Science Fair Club studied those questions and more this school year. Six presented their findings at a regional science fair at the University of Minnesota Duluth in February. Each of the club’s entrants at the regional fair advanced to a statewide fair in March.
Emelyn Beaster, one of the club’s founders, advanced her project "Using Microplastics to Sequester Organophosphate Pollutants" to the International Science and Engineering Fair on May 13-19 in Dallas. Her work considered a new way to use recycled plastics to filter contaminants out of polluted water.
Beaster and classmate Stella Harbson founded the club near the end of their sophomore year. Both are now seniors.
They and other club members answered questions from the News Tribune about their club, the inspiration for their science fair projects and more.
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Q: Why did you want to start a science fair club at East?
A: Emelyn Beaster: I wanted to start a science fair club because I’d been given such amazing opportunities through science fair and wanted to share these with my school community. I saw a passion for science in a lot of the students at East, and I wanted to create this opportunity for anyone who was interested.
A: Stella Harbson: Being a part of the science fair has given me amazing opportunities. I knew a lot of other students who were interested in and passionate about science but didn’t have the chance to take their interests further. Creating this club allowed many to develop and strengthen their interests in STEM.
Q: How has the club changed or grown since you started it?
A: Beaster: Last year was our first full year operating the club, and it was difficult to promote the club and gain a good base of members. We ended up only submitting three projects to the regional fair. This year, we had over 30 people initially sign up for the club, and twice as many projects as last year. We were also able to advertise the club using strategies like talking in classes and putting up posters, and we were even able to secure some funding this year for the club for state projects.
A: Harbson: When we first started the club, we struggled to have a lot of students participate in competitions. Through talking to classes and one-on-one with students, we have built a strong passionate community in our school.
Q: What was it like competing at the regional fair at UMD?
A: Adele Mamedova: It was fun to see other cool projects from schools near us. The people were very social and the awards ceremony had a radiant energy. The judges were interactive with us and interested in our projects and helped prepare us for state and asked us questions. At state, judges were insightful and more focused on the specifics of our projects and even provided guidance outside of the fair.
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A: Rhees Cragun: Regionals was a really cool experience, especially seeing people from around the area who share interests with us. It was really fun to cheer on our peers before their presenting session, and see everyone do so well in the awards ceremony. At state, I got to learn from experts and have them explain things and talk about it. Judges are very invested and care.
A: Beaster: Regionals was a refreshing experience coming out of COVID, because the regional fair was in person for the first time in three years. I love interacting with the judges and other students in person, and especially at regionals, a lot of the judges are community members who are just excited to learn about your project. At state, I appreciated the depth with which judges interviewed us. I would explain my project and then spend the majority of judging time just discussing real-life implications of my project. It ultimately turned into more of an environmental engineering discussion, and I had a great time.
Q: What inspired your project or projects this year?
A: Mamedova: Seeing a problem on a daily basis including in our high school and finding a solution in a scientific and simple manner. In this case, the problem was sleep in teenagers and people.
A: Cragun: I wanted to study a project in our area that was relevant to us, and I was interested in putting together an experiment.
A: Beaster: I started working with UMD professor Dr. Melissa Maurer-Jones on some of her microplastics research, and she inspired me to look more into topics regarding microplastics. It was intriguing to me that microplastics have these properties that allow them to adsorb many organic substances, and I wanted to see if this applied to organic pollutants and could be used as a form of pollutant sequestration.
A: Lucia Nelson: I really enjoy the subject of music. It’s a part of my everyday life, and I wanted to further my past research on how music impacts people on a daily basis in order to continuously improve and innovate my research.
A: Alex Leach: I am just really interested in people and why they are the way they are. As high school students, we see conformity all around us, especially with cliques and things like that. I wanted to study if we can find out when conformity is at its highest (age), and not necessarily try to remove conformity, but change what people are conforming to.
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Q: How do you think the work you've done with the science fair club might help you once you graduate from East High School?
A: Beaster: I’m sure that the research skills I’ve gained through science fair will benefit me in college and beyond. I want to pursue a career in research science at NASA or a similar institution, and science fair has given me the critical thinking, reasoning and research skills that I’ll need for the future.
A: Cragun: I now have the skills to set up a scientific experiment when I have a question about something.
A: Mamedova: I made a lot of connections at state with other students and with judges, and I think it’s important for the future to build strong relationships and connect with people in the scientific community. | 2023-04-28T13:29:57+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/extra-credit-q-a-duluth-east-students-excel-in-new-science-fair-club |
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. ("Wheaton" or the "Company") is announcing that it has entered into a definitive agreement with certain subsidiaries of Glencore plc ("Glencore") (LSE: GLEN) to terminate its silver stream on the Yauliyacu Mine in Peru for a cash payment of US$150 million, less the aggregate value of any deliveries to Wheaton of silver produced in 2022 prior to closing. Wheaton has agreed to terminate the stream in order to help facilitate the sale by Glencore of the Yauliyacu Mine.
"Yauliyacu has been part of Wheaton's portfolio since 2006 and has been integral to the history of our company. Combined with San Dimas and Zinkgruvan, Yauliyacu gave us the scale to grow the streaming business and become the company we are today," said Randy Smallwood, Wheaton's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Consistent with a core principle of working with our partners, Wheaton has agreed to terminate the stream, adding even more financial capacity to explore new opportunities that we believe are in the best interests of our shareholders. Glencore was one of the first mining companies to recognize the value that is created for all stakeholders through the streaming model, and we thank them for their stewardship of this project and look forward to maintaining our strong partnership on existing and potential future developments."
Wheaton acquired the silver stream on the Yauliyacu Mine in 2006 for an upfront consideration of US$285 million and has subsequently generated over US$485 million in cash flow from the stream. Combined with the termination payment, Wheaton will have generated an absolute return of over 220% of the original investment.
The closing of the transaction is contingent on Glencore divesting the Yauliyacu mine by December 31, 20221 and is subject to other customary conditions.
As a result of the transaction, Wheaton now expects average annual production for the five-year period ending December 31, 2026, to be approximately 800,000 gold equivalent ounces2 ("GEOs") (from 820,000 previously) and for the ten-year period ending December 31, 2031, to be approximately 850,000 GEOs (from 870,000 previously). Production in 2022 is expected to remain between 640,000 and 680,000 GEOs.
End Notes
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1 Glencore has the option, but not the obligation, to terminate the silver stream even if it does not divest Yauliyacu by December 31, 2022.
2 Commodity price assumptions for the gold equivalent production and sales in 2022 are $1,800 / ounce gold, $24 / ounce silver, and $2,100 / ounce palladium and $33 / pound cobalt. Other metal includes palladium and cobalt.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation concerning the business, operations and financial performance of Wheaton and, in some instances, the business, mining operations and performance of Wheaton's precious metals purchase agreement ("PMPA") counterparties. Forward-looking statements, which are all statements other than statements of historical fact, include, but are not limited to, the termination of the Yauliyacu silver stream for $150 million, the value of silver produced and delivered after January 1, 2022 and the satisfaction of each party's obligations in accordance with definitive documentation relating to the termination of the Yauliyacu silver stream. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "projects", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", "potential", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Wheaton to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to risks associated with any specific risks relating to the termination of the Yauliyacu silver stream and the satisfaction of each party's obligations in accordance with the terms of the definitive documentation relating to the termination of the Keno Hill silver stream, and other risks discussed in the section entitled "Description of the Business – Risk Factors" in Wheaton's Annual Information Form available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and in Wheaton's Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Form 6-K filed March 10, 2022 both available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov, as well as the risks set out in Wheaton's management's discussions and analysis for the period ended December 31, 2021 available on SEDAR and EDGAR (together, the "Disclosure"). Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management currently believes to be reasonable, including (without limitation): the receipt of $150 million from Glencore, the estimated value of silver to be produced and delivered after January 1, 2022 and the satisfaction of each party's obligations in accordance with the terms of the definitive documentation relating to the termination of the Yauliyacu silver stream, and such other assumptions and factors as set out in the Disclosure. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and even if events or results described in the forward-looking statements are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Wheaton. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and are cautioned that actual outcomes may vary. The forward-looking statements included herein are for the purpose of providing readers with information to assist them in understanding Wheaton's expected financial and operational performance and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, reflects Wheaton's management's current beliefs based on current information and will not be updated except in accordance with applicable securities laws. Although Wheaton has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those contained in forward‑looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results, level of activity, performance or achievements not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
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Rangers third. Elier Hernandez walks. Meibrys Viloria flies out to deep center field to Brandon Marsh. Marcus Semien lines out to third base to Phil Gosselin. Jonah Heim walks. Elier Hernandez to second. Nathaniel Lowe singles to right field. Jonah Heim to third. Elier Hernandez scores. Adolis Garcia singles to right field. Nathaniel Lowe to second. Jonah Heim scores. Kole Calhoun strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rangers 2, Angels 0.
Angels third. Phil Gosselin hit by pitch. Andrew Velazquez singles to shallow infield. David Fletcher to second. Shohei Ohtani homers to center field. Andrew Velazquez scores. David Fletcher scores. Taylor Ward strikes out swinging. Luis Rengifo walks. Jared Walsh strikes out swinging. Luis Rengifo steals second. Max Stassi strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Angels 3, Rangers 2.
Rangers fourth. Ezequiel Duran strikes out swinging. Josh Smith walks. Elier Hernandez flies out to center field to Jo Adell. Meibrys Viloria walks. Josh Smith to second. Marcus Semien homers to center field. Meibrys Viloria scores. Josh Smith scores. Jonah Heim singles to right center field. Nathaniel Lowe strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rangers 5, Angels 3.
Angels fifth. Taylor Ward walks. Luis Rengifo grounds out to shortstop, Marcus Semien to Nathaniel Lowe. Taylor Ward to second. Jared Walsh grounds out to first base to Nathaniel Lowe. Taylor Ward to third. Max Stassi singles to left field. Taylor Ward scores. Jo Adell flies out to center field to Adolis Garcia.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rangers 5, Angels 4.
Rangers sixth. Josh Smith walks. Elier Hernandez pops out to Luis Rengifo. Meibrys Viloria homers to center field. Josh Smith scores. Marcus Semien singles to shallow right field. Jonah Heim grounds out to first base. Marcus Semien out at second.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rangers 7, Angels 4.
Angels eighth. Max Stassi singles to second base. Jo Adell strikes out swinging. Brandon Marsh walks. Max Stassi to second. David Fletcher doubles to deep left field. Brandon Marsh scores. Max Stassi scores. Kurt Suzuki pinch-hitting for Andrew Velazquez. Kurt Suzuki strikes out swinging. Shohei Ohtani is intentionally walked. Taylor Ward walks. Shohei Ohtani to second. David Fletcher to third. Taylor Ward to second. Shohei Ohtani to third. David Fletcher scores. Luis Rengifo doubles to deep right center field. Taylor Ward scores. Shohei Ohtani scores. Jared Walsh grounds out to second base, Ezequiel Duran to Nathaniel Lowe.
5 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Angels 9, Rangers 7. | 2022-07-31T05:22:48+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Texas-L-A-Angels-Runs-17340926.php |
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — If ever there was an heir to the intellectual legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, it's Cardinal Gerhard Mueller.
Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job — prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica.”
He even gave Mueller his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
“Of course, he took his furniture with him, but the whole thing breathes the spirit of Joseph Ratzinger,” Mueller said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, the eve of Benedict’s funeral.
He meant the flat, but he could have been referring to himself.
Mueller is one of a dwindling number of cardinals firmly associated with Benedict’s doctrinaire papacy, and he has taken up the late pope’s mantle with gusto, thanks in part to his somewhat spectacular falling out with Pope Francis.
The Jesuit pope, who succeeded Benedict after his historic 2013 resignation, dismissed Mueller in 2017 after an unusually brief, single term as prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Mueller was only 69 at the time, well short of the normal retirement age. And in his free time since, besides compiling Ratzinger’s theological magnum opus, he has become something of Francis' highest-ranking critic, singling out his two-year initiative to consult laity about everything from church teaching on sexuality to the roles of women.
“Is the church a political party or an NGO that changes all the time the program according to the applause of the multitude?” Mueller asked rhetorically as he sat in his apartment library that once belonged to Ratzinger. “Or is the church the mission of Jesus Christ, of God, to preach the Gospel?”
The numbers aren’t necessarily in his favor, as Francis has appointed 81 of the 125 cardinals who are young enough to vote in a future conclave, many of whom share the pontiff's more pastoral approach to church leadership.
But Mueller is undeterred on resetting the church's course. Together with Benedict’s longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, he seems committed to ensuring the late pope’s legacy.
Just this week, Italian publisher Piemme announced Gaenswein’s tell-all memoir, “Nothing But the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI,” would be published Jan. 12, a week after the pope is laid to rest. Piemme said the book would expose the “blatant calumnies” and “dark maneuvers” that sullied Benedict’s reputation, but also celebrate his historic papacy and life.
“These voices in the mass media, they abused their power for making a primitive polemics against him. But they have no future,” Mueller said of the often negative press that Benedict received. “In the long run of church history, all these stupid voices will become quiet and reason will win.”
He got up from his armchair and opened the window to show a visitor how he used to look out in the morning and wave to Benedict, who did the same from the top-floor corner apartment of the Apostolic Palace a short distance away.
“So many, many links and connections,” he said of their daily ritual.
The connections continued until recently. When Benedict announced on Feb. 11, 2013, that he would become the first pope in six centuries to resign, Mueller was marking the 35th anniversary of his priestly ordination.
On Dec. 31, the day Benedict died, Mueller turned 75.
“My 75th ‘Earthen’ birthday, and his heavenly birthday,” he said. “Coincidences. But also some divine providence.”
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Geir Moulson contributed from Berlin.
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BEIJING, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASI), a Cayman Islands incorporated biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics and pharmaceutical products, today reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2023.
Wei-Wu He, Ph.D., CASI's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Revenue for EVOMELA® was $8.3 million in the first quarter of 2023, down 8% from the same period in 2022. This decline is primarily due to the enhanced impact of the COVID-19 restrictions in major cities in China since fourth quarter 2022. We are also facing competition from a generic melphalan for injection product with lower cost and undifferentiated formulation in China market. CASI's commercial and medical marketing team has implemented a strategy to defend our market leadership position. CASI has a strong foundation for our commercial franchise in the oncology malignant hematology therapeutic area. We will continue to grow our commercial franchise throughout 2023 and beyond."
Dr. He continued, "Advancement, development, and commercialization of the portfolio remains our strategic focus. We have achieved a major milestone with our partner Juventas Biotechnology (Tianjin) ("Juventas") on the CNCT-19 CART cell therapy. CNCT-19's New Drug Application (NDA) was accepted by National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in December 2022. We are now diligently preparing for the anticipated CNCT-19 launch in China. We are advancing the clinical development of BI-1206 in combination with rituximab and presently undertaking the enrollment of patients for the second cohort of the phase I trial in China. CB-5339 also received Clinical Trial Application approval from the NMPA in January 2023. We are transitioning the development of CID-103 into China for the malignant hematology indications and have submitted the multiple myeloma IND to the Chinese Health Authority. We plan to build on the momentum to drive our portfolio forward by executing on several milestones as well as bringing in new potential opportunities for synergy in the quarters ahead."
First Quarter 2023 Financial Highlights
Revenues consist primarily of product sales of EVOMELA. Revenue was $8.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to $9.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Costs of revenues were $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023, compared to $3.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Research and development expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2023 were $2.5 million, compared with $4.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The decrease was mainly due to reduced R&D expenses on CID-103.
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2023 were $5.7 million, compared with $5.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Selling and marketing expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2023 were $4.0 million, compared with $3.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The increase was mainly due to increased marketing activities.
Other income for the three months ended March 31, 2023 was $1.3 million, compared with $0.04 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022. The increase was mainly attributed to the $1.3 million refund from Pharmathen Global BV with respect to the termination of the exclusive distribution license agreement of product Octreotide LAI.
Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2023 was $5.8 million, compared with $8.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
As of March 31, 2023, CASI had cash, cash equivalents, short term investments and long-term deposit of $44.8 million compared to $51.6 million as of December 31, 2022. Cash and cash equivalents are expected to fund current operations beyond the first quarter of 2024.
Further information regarding the Company, including its Quarterly Report for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, can be found at www.casipharmaceuticals.com.
About CASI Pharmaceuticals
CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics and pharmaceutical products in China, the United States, and throughout the world. The Company is focused on acquiring, developing, and commercializing products that augment its hematology oncology therapeutic focus as well as other areas of unmet medical need. The Company intends to execute its plan to become a leader by launching medicines in the Greater China market, leveraging the Company's China-based regulatory and commercial competencies and its global drug development expertise. The Company's operations in China are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, CASI Pharmaceuticals (China) Co., Ltd., located in Beijing, China. More information on CASI is available at www.casipharmaceuticals.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as the Company's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the risk that we may be unable to continue as a going concern as a result of our inability to raise sufficient capital for our operational needs; the possibility that we may be delisted from trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market if we fail to satisfy applicable continued listing standards; the volatility in the market price of our ordinary shares; the risk of substantial dilution of existing shareholders in future share issuances; the difficulty of executing our business strategy on a global basis including China; our inability to enter into strategic partnerships for the development, commercialization, manufacturing and distribution of our proposed product candidates or future candidates; legal or regulatory developments in China that adversely affect our ability to operate in China, our lack of experience in manufacturing products and uncertainty about our resources and capabilities to do so on a clinical or commercial scale; risks relating to the commercialization, if any, of our products and proposed products (such as marketing, safety, regulatory, patent, product liability, supply, competition and other risks); our inability to predict when or if our product candidates will be approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency, PRC National Medical Products Administration, or other regulatory authorities; our inability to enter into strategic partnerships for the development, commercialization, manufacturing and distribution of our proposed product candidates or future candidates; the risks relating to the need for additional capital and the uncertainty of securing additional funding on favorable terms; the risks associated with our product candidates, and the risks associated with our other early-stage products under development; the risk that result in preclinical and clinical models are not necessarily indicative of clinical results; uncertainties relating to preclinical and clinical trials, including delays to the commencement of such trials; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; the lack of success in the clinical development of any of our products; and our dependence on third parties; the risks related to our dependence on Juventas to conduct the clinical development of CNCT19 and to partner with us to co-market CNCT19; risks related to our dependence on Juventas to ensure the patent protection and prosecution for CNCT19; risks relating to the commercialization, if any, of our proposed products (such as marketing, safety, regulatory, patent, product liability, supply, competition and other risks); risks relating to interests of our largest shareholder and our Chairman and CEO that differ from our other shareholders; and risks related to the development of a new manufacturing facility by CASI Pharmaceuticals (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the SEC. All information provided herein is as of the date of this announcement, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
EVOMELA® is proprietary to Acrotech Biopharma LLC and its affiliates.
COMPANY CONTACT:
Rui Zhang
CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
240.864.2643
ir@casipharmaceuticals.com
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing.
Breezy with highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
40. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
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TXZ071-212230-
Irion-
Including the cities of Barnhart, Arden, Mertzon, and Sherwood
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Not as cool
with highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Cold with lows in the lower 30s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
$$
TXZ073-212230-
Concho-
Including the cities of Eden, Live Oak, and Lowake
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
40. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
TXZ155-212230-
San Saba-
Including the cities of Chappel, Cherokee, Harkeyville,
and San Saba
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers this
morning, then partly sunny this afternoon. Highs in the lower
50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds around 5 mph, becoming
southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s. South winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in
the morning. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
TXZ076-212230-
Crockett-
Including the city of Ozona
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Not as cool
with highs in the mid 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower
60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows in
the lower 40s.
$$
TXZ077-212230-
Schleicher-
Including the city of Eldorado
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s.
South winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing.
Highs around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
$$
TXZ168-212230-
Menard-
Including the cities of Erna, Fort Mckavett, Hext, and Menard
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers this
morning. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. South winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Southeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
TXZ170-212230-
Mason-
Including the cities of Fredonia, Katemcy, Koockville,
Loyal Valley, Mason, Pontotoc, and Streeter
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers this morning,
then partly sunny this afternoon. Not as cool with highs in the
lower 50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming
southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the
upper 40s. South winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
$$
TXZ078-212230-
Sutton-
Including the city of Sonora
424 AM CST Mon Nov 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s.
South winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the mid
40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows in
the lower 40s.
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Video: $20k reward offered for info on suspect who shot Philadelphia Parking Authority officer, police say
FRANKFORD - The Philadelphia Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify a suspect accused of shooting a parking enforcement officer in Philadelphia.
Authorities say the officer, identified as Timothy McKenzie by the PPA, was shot just before 4 p.m. on November 25 on the 4500 block of Frankford Avenue.
Police released pictures of the suspect and say he was last seen wearing a navy-blue hooded sweatshirt, green cargo pants, a black mask, gloves and black boots.
He used a silver revolver and approached McKenzie from behind, firing one shot into his head before fleeing onto the 1500 block of Gillingham Street, police say.
The suspect is considered armed and dangerous, according to law enforcement officials.
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The City of Philadelphia and The Philadelphia Parking Authority have each offered a $10,000 for a $20,000 total reward for information leading to the suspect's arrest and conviction.
"While Tim continues to improve as each day passes, we must do our part to assist law enforcement in apprehending the criminal who was intent on killing one of our enforcement officers. We hope this $20,000 reward assists our police in capturing this criminal assailant," said PPA Board Chair Beth Grossman.
Police also released surveillance video of the shooting in hopes that someone will identify him.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department's Shooting Investigation Group at 215-686-8270.
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Tips can be submitted by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477) or texting PPD TIP (773847). Tips can also be submitted anonymously online, here. All tips are confidential.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for ZVO, CCL, BAC, ATXI, and NIO.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)LOOKAHEAD TO SATURDAY
Andy Murray will try to overcome whatever lingering exhaustion he might have after two five-set matches and more than 10 hours of action at the Australian Open when he plays Roberto Bautista Agut for a place in the fourth round. Murray played the longest match of his career to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis across 5 hours, 45 minutes in the second round. That came after a match that lasted nearly 5 hours in the first round. Murray is a three-time Grand Slam champion and a five-time runner-up at Melbourne Park. He is bidding to reach the last 16 of a Grand Slam event for the first time since Wimbledon in 2017. The 35-year-old Murray had a metal hip inserted in 2019. Nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic will test out his sore hamstring when he plays 27th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov. Djokovic is 9-1 for his career against Dimitrov. Djokovic would equal Rafael Nadal’s men’s record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles if he wins the Australian Open. No. 4 Caroline Garcia and No. 5 Aryna Sabalenka are among the women in third-round action as Week 1 comes to a close.
SATURDAY’S FORECAST
Mostly sunny. High of 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius).
FRIDAY’S KEY RESULTS
Women’s Third Round: No. 1 Iga Swiatek beat Cristina Bucsa 6-0, 6-1; No. 3 Jessica Pegula beat Marta Kostyuk 6-0, 6-2; No. 7 Coco Gauff beat Bernarda Pera 6-3, 6-2; No. 20 Barbora Krejcikova beat Anhelina Kalinina 6-2, 6-3; No. 22 Elena Rybakina beat No. 13 Danielle Collins 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
Men’s Third Round: No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Tallon Griekspoor 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-3; No. 6 Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Francisco Cerundolo 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; No. 15 Jannik Sinner beat Marton Fucsovics 4-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0
STAT OF THE DAY
Zero – Number of times in his career Jannik Sinner had come back to win after dropping the first two sets of a match until doing so on Friday.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
”I was thinking to myself, `What is he doing here?’ He should be in bed.” – Stefanos Tsitsipas on seeing Andy Murray at Melbourne Park hours after finishing a match at 4:05 a.m.
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Updated November 16, 2022 at 10:29 PM ET
The Food and Drug Administration has taken a first step towards allowing the sale of cultivated "no kill" meat in the U.S, giving a safety nod to Upside Foods, a San Francisco based start-up. The company produces meat grown from animal cells, without slaughtering the animal.
"The world is experiencing a food revolution and the FDA is committed to supporting innovation in the food supply," wrote FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and director the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Susan Mayne.
The FDA reviewed more than 100 pages of documentation from Upside Foods, and has now completed its pre-market consultation. The agency says it "has no further questions" about the firm's conclusion that the products are safe to eat. This removes a key regulatory hurdle and could bring Upside Foods one step closer to selling its products in the U.S. The next steps are to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on labeling and inspection.
Upside Foods was co-founded by Uma Valeti, a cardiologist who dreamt of producing meat in a different way. Instead of raising livestock on farms and killing them in slaughterhouses, Valeti wanted to find a way to "grow" meat in a production facility, by culturing animal cells.
The concept for what's now called "cultivated" meat came to Valeti when he was working with heart attack patients at the Mayo Clinic more than 15 years ago, growing human heart cells in a lab. It should be possible to grow meat with similar science, he realized.
Scientists could extract cells from an animal via a needle biopsy, place them in tanks, feed them the nutrients they need to proliferate, including fats, sugar, amino acids and vitamins, and end up with meat.
It has taken years of experimentation by a crew of biologists, biochemists and engineers to turn that concept into a product ready to eat. "People said it was science fiction," Valeti told me as we toured the company's new 70,000-square-foot facility. If it gets a greenlight to start selling its meat, Upside's production facility in Emeryville, Calif., will be able to produce over 50,000 pounds of cultivated meat products per year. "This is real," Valeti says.
We suited up for the tour in gowns, goggles and hair nets to maintain food safety protocols and walked past shiny, brewery-style, stainless steel tanks reaching from floor to ceiling.
But these tanks — called cultivators in this industry — "brew" meat, not beer. We saw the cell bank where the animal cell samples are stored, the pipes that pump nutrients into the tanks, and finally the raw meat as it emerged from the production facility.
The process had a futuristic vibe but by the end of the tour, it felt somehow ordinary to me — like a kind of hydroponic gardening.
The facility's glass walls look out into a busy upscale neighborhood, filled with restaurants, apartments and offices. Valeti says the glass walls are intentional — to signal transparency. "To create a paradigm change, people should be able to walk through and see and believe it," he says.
Upside Foods could have lots of competition once cultivated meats enter the market. More than 80 companies are staking a future in the space. For instance, Good Meat, part of Eat Just, Inc., will serve its cultivated chicken at the COP-27 climate conference this week, after debuting its product in Singapore. Also, Sci-Fi Foods, founded by self-proclaimed "burger-obsessed food lovers" aims to blend cultivated beef with a plant-based recipe to produce a hybrid burger that, they say, will be better for the planet.
The acceleration in investment comes as more consumers connect the dots between what they eat and the environment. An estimated one third of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions come from food production and scientists warn it's nearly impossible to meet climate goals without changing agriculture.
Scientists say beef has an especially large environmental impact because it requires a lot of land to graze animals and is a leading source of methane emissions. By comparison, it takes much less land and grain to raise chickens. However, concentrated poultry operations are linked to water pollution.
Furthermore, concentrated animal feeding operations are a risk factor for the emergence of diseases that spread between animals and people, as a U.N. report from 2020, Preventing the Next Pandemic, warned.
A move from medicine to meat
Valeti's leap from cardiology to food innovation was inspired by a belief that there was a better way to bring meat to the table.
He recalls working in a campus dining hall in medical school. He was sent to a slaughterhouse where he saw hundreds of chickens hanging on a production line. "They were literally moving past at blazing speed, they'd be upside down with blood everywhere," Valeti recalls. "That was an image that just stayed in my head."
He became a vegetarian, but he knew many people are resolute carnivores. Despite calls from climate change scientists to eat less meat, the globe is demanding more of it. Americans now eat more than 220 pounds of meat per person, per year, compared to 193 pounds a year in the early 1980s.
After his aha moment in the cardiology lab, Valeti became convinced he could develop a viable technique for cultivating meat from animal cells. "Once I got that idea into my head it was nearly impossible to get out," Valeti recalls.
He began raising money and started Upside (formerly called Memphis Meats) in 2015. At the time his two children were young, and his wife, also a doctor, was supportive of the decision despite the risks involved in a start-up.
He's won over plenty of investors along the way, including Bill Gates and venture capitalist John Doerr, and the company is now valued at more than a billion dollars. Some of the largest companies involved in traditional meat production, including Tyson and Cargill have also invested.
Though the idea of meat grown in tanks elicits an "ick" response from many people, the emerging industry sees market potential. According to consumer research, 88% of Gen Z consumers in the U.S. say they'd be somewhat open to trying cultivated meat, compared with about 72% of baby boomers.
"We feel super bullish on the prospects for plant-based meat as well as cultivated meat," says Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute which tracks investment trends and lobbies for alternative proteins.
Climate-conscious consumers would be likely early adopters, Friedrich says, but for the market to really take off the products need to taste great and be cost-competitive, he says. "Until they get there, they're going to stay niche," Friedrich predicts. "Price and taste are why people make their food decisions."
When I asked Valeti about price parity with conventional meat he said the goal is to be price-competitive. "It will take time to build," Valeti acknowledged. As for taste, he says his team is ready to wow consumers.
A visit to the test kitchen
During our visit, we stopped in the company's state-of-the-art test kitchen for taste of Upside Foods' chicken. I was asked to sign a waiver before tasting it, because it's not yet legal to sell cell-cultured meat in the U.S.
I was served a piece of their chicken, pan-fried in a white-wine butter sauce. My first reaction: "It's delicious." (Isn't everything in wine-butter sauce?) And the texture was chewy, closely replicating the texture of chicken breast (minus bones, and tough bits or gristle.) "It tastes like chicken," I said, to which Valeti quickly replied, "It is chicken!"
It took Valeti and his team years to develop the technology behind these tasty bites. A key challenge was creating the feed for the cells. Cells need a mix of proteins, carbohydrates and fats (just as animals do) but, designing the exact formulation was part alchemy, and a lot of trial and error.
The feed needed to maximize growth, but also produce a good taste, texture and nutritional value. He quickly realized no single scientist had the skills to figure this out alone.
A muscle biologist can focus on growth, but he brought in nutritional biochemists and engineers to tackle the competing challenges linked to taste and growth. "We had to develop a multidisciplinary team of scientists," Valeti says.
The FDA and the USDA are working together on a regulatory framework "to help move these innovative products along into the U.S. market, as long as we're making sure that everything can be done safely and with appropriate labeling," the FDA's Susan Mayne told NPR.
Upside Food's pre-market consultation was the first to be completed, and the FDA says it will review each company's submission separately. "We encourage firms to have these conversations with us often and early in their product development phase," an FDA spokesperson wrote in an email.
A recent executive order from the Biden administration, which calls for advancing innovative solutions in climate change and food security, including "cultivating alternative food sources," was viewed by many in the nascent cultivated food industry as a sign of increased momentum toward approval. The USDA is currently developing labeling requirements.
Debates over health and environmental impact
There are debates about whether cultivated meat is healthy — or potentially healthier than conventional meat. "It's a very nuanced question without a very simple answer," explains Dana Hunnes, a registered dietitian at UCLA Medical Center. Opinions tend to reflect the range of views about meat in general.
Hunnes says cultivated meat may not appeal to vegans or vegetarians. She points to the healthfulness of plant-based diets, which is the diet she follows, and says some people don't want to eat meat, no matter how it's produced. Also, the cultivated meat industry has relied on fetal bovine serum from cows as a growth medium for the cells, though Upside Foods has developed an animal component-free alternative.
But most Americans are meat-eaters, and dieticians say meat is a good source of protein and important micronutrients including B vitamins. Part of the intrigue of cultivated meat is that it can be altered for improved nutrition. For instance, if cells were fed omega-3 fatty acids during the growing process, then, in theory, these heart-healthy fats could be absorbed into the meat.
"It is possible to create a so-called healthier version of the meat," Hunnes says, though much of this has not yet been explored since the industry is so new.
From a public health perspective, a potential advantage of cultivated meat is the fact that without live animals to catch and spread disease, no antibiotics are needed in production facilities and there's decreased likelihood of foodborne illness from intestinal pathogens.
For instance, salmonella, a bacteria that lives in animal intestines and is shed through their feces, would not be present in a cultivated meat production facility. "From a food safety standpoint, it probably has a one up," on the traditional meat industry, Hunnes says.
Because this is a new industry, there are potential unknowns. Some scientists say it's possible that unforeseen biological mechanisms could occur as the meat grows, such as cells multiplying in unpredictable ways. There's a continued need for research as the industry heads toward commercialization.
The first cultivated meat products were produced from cells biopsied directly from live animals. But this process isn't efficient. Over the last few years, start-ups have worked to identify "immortalized" cell lines, that "can be grown almost indefinitely without having to go back to the animal," explains David Kaplan, professor of biomedical engineering of Tufts University.
His lab received a $10 million grant from USDA to help develop the cultured meat industry. "We need more and more," immortalized cell lines, Kaplan says, as the industry looks to expand to different types of meat, poultry and fish.
Another unknown is the exact climate impact of cultivated meat. Researchers at the University of Oxford modeled the potential climate change impact of cattle compared to cultivated meat. One advantage of cultivated meat is that it will not produce methane emissions, which is a potent greenhouse gas produced by cattle.
But the cultivated meat industry will contribute to CO2 emissions, given that its production facilities will use electricity. The researchers conclude that the relative impact will be determined by whether — or how quickly — the energy used to power the cultivated meat production facilities comes from clean-energy, or decarbonized energy.
Culinary future
For Valeti, the potential benefits of cultivated meat are too important not to try to overcome the obstacles. He sees a future with a better alternative to the current system of producing meat, and he's determined to create it.
Valeti says, ultimately, as a doctor he might have been able to help a few thousand patients during his career. But, by taking the leap to cultivated meat, with its potential promise to overhaul meat production, he believes he can have a larger impact. "This could literally affect billions of human lives and save potentially trillions of animal lives," Valeti says.
While awaiting regulatory approval, he's moving forward to bring the product to people's plates. He has signed a partnership with Dominique Crenn, the co-owner and chef of the three-Michelin-starred restaurant Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, who has agreed to provide culinary consulting and recipe development and — once the new product is approved for market — to serve Upside's cultivated chicken at her restaurant.
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A day after the New Jersey Devils missed out on the top prize in NHL free agency, they landed two-time Stanley Cup champion Ondrej Palat on Thursday.
The Washington Capitals, meanwhile, continued their busy offseason by agreeing to terms with former Chicago Blackhawks forward Dylan Strome, according to a person with knowledge of the move who person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced.
The Devils signed Palat to a $30 million, five-year contract. The left-winger had 52 points in 71 games during Tampa Bay’s three consecutive trips to the Cup Final. He finished sixth in Conn Smythe Trophy voting as playoff MVP this year.
Tampa Bay attempted to keep the 31-year-old from Czechia and defenseman Jan Rutta, who signed with Pittsburgh, but couldn’t make the salary cap numbers work. Instead, general manager Julien BriseBois signed defensemen Mikhail Sergachev and Erik Cernak and center Anthony Cirelli to eight-year extensions through 2031.
The Devils landed Palat after losing the Johnny Gaudreau sweepstakes to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Gaudreau signed a $68.25 million, eight-year contract with Columbus after deciding to leave Calgary. His decision came after an initial frenzy of signings, including the Washington Capitals getting Cup-winning goaltender Darcy Kuemper and Giroux leaving Florida for Ottawa.
Strome is Washington's latest addition after Chicago decided against a qualifying offer to keep him around. The 25-year-old scored a career-high 22 goals last season and added 26 assists in 69 games.
The Capitals previously signed Darcy Kuemper to be their starting goaltender and Charlie Lindgren to be their backup, re-signed winger Marcus Johansson and defenseman Matt Irwin, and replaced Justin Schultz on the blue line with another Blackhawks castoff, Erik Gustafsson. They acquired winger Connor Brown from the Ottawa Senators for a 2024 second-round pick.
Ottawa also stayed busy, following up on signing former Flyers captain Claude Giroux by locking up third-year center Josh Norris through the 2029-30 season with a $63.3 million, eight-year deal.
The spree of signings that occurred during the first day of free agency slowed to a trickle on Thursday, with forward Nazem Kadri and defenseman John Klingberg the most notable names still on the market.
The reigning champion Colorado Avalanche have said they would like to bring back Kadri, who helped them win it all. The Dallas Stars all but ruled out keeping Klingberg, who could still sign one of the biggest contracts of the offseason.
The Senators continued building on what could be the most promising offseason in the franchise’s 30-year history with Norris’ signing.
Selected 19th in the 2017 draft, the 23-year-old from Michigan is considered a key fixture on a young, developing team. He's coming off a season in which he scored a team-leading 35 goals and 55 points in 66 games.
Norris' signing comes on the heels of the the Senators landing Giroux in a move that brings the 34-year-old former Flyers captain back to the region where he played junior hockey. Ottawa also acquired winger winger Alex DeBrincat and goaltender Cam Talbot in trades over the past week in signaling the team is prepared to take the next step toward contending in the Eastern Conference.
Elsewhere:
— The Vegas Golden Knights made two bargain signings, adding forwards Sakari Manninen and Spencer Foo on one-year deals each worth $750,000. Manninen was Finland’s leading goal-scorer on the way to winning gold at the Beijing Olympics, while Foo played for host China.
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A former volleyball player has filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University, widening a scandal that alleges significant hazing within its athletic program.
The player is the first female athlete to sue the university over the scandal. The new suit alleges Northwestern retaliated against her after she reported mistreatment.
In the suit, she alleges the hazing caused her physical harm sufficient to require medical attention in 2021. She says she was punished for violating the volleyball team's COVID guidelines, after contracting COVID-19 in February. She says she was forced to perform strenuous running exercises while coaches, trainers and teammates watched.
Meanwhile, another suit against the school by former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates alleges hazing and abuse within the football program, including sexual abuse and racially charged comments directed at players of color.
SEE MORE: Ben Crump: Alleged football hazing was abuse 'in the purest sense'
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says his firm will file more than 30 suits against the school, drawn from complaints throughout its athletic programs.
"It was civil rights [abuse] in the purest sense," Crump said in a recent interview with Scripps News. "The coaches knew that there was a culture that existed of this hazing and this humiliation, this retaliation, as well as this sexual abuse that was going on. It's hard to fathom that coaches didn't know what was going on in their own programs."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-07-25T03:21:20+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/new-lawsuits-expand-northwestern-university-s-hazing-scandal |
Experts urge parents to prioritize their financial security over children’s college costs
Study: 20% of parents with kids under 18 have not started a college fund
InvestigateTV - Saving money for your child’s college education is a goal for many, but experts caution it should not come at the expense of your personal financial security.
According to a recent NerdWallet study, 20% of parents with children under the age of 18 have not started saving for their children’s college education.
Cecilia Clark from NerdWallet suggested several options for parents who simply cannot afford college costs without going into debt or sacrificing their retirement.
Consider community colleges: Students can take basic courses at a much cheaper rate and then transfer those credits to a four-year college.
Apply for FASA: The Free Application for Student Aid opens each year on October 1 - apply every year to see what aid may be available to your child.
“Your child ultimately has the option for grants, scholarships, if need be, loans,” said Clark. “You don’t have those options to fund your retirement. You don’t have those options to make sure that you stay financially healthy now.”
She advised you prioritize your retirement and then figure out what you can reasonably save for your child’s college.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. ("Wheaton" or the "Company") has added a sustainability-linked element in connection with the extension to its existing undrawn US$2 billion revolving credit facility underscoring Wheaton's commitment to sustainability initiatives.
"At Wheaton, sustainability is integral to every aspect of our business, strategy and overall success," said Randy Smallwood, Wheaton's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Integrating key performance indicators that are based on our ambitious sustainability goals into the renewal of our credit facility demonstrates that we are committed and accountable to creating value for all of our stakeholders, including our shareholders, mining partners and our neighbours. It is the right thing to do, and we hope to see more of our peers in the streaming and mining industry do the same."
The renewed revolving credit facility is aligned with Wheaton's sustainability strategy, which includes a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. More information on Wheaton's sustainability targets are included in the company's annual Sustainability Report.
Under the renewed revolving credit facility, the interest rate paid on drawn amounts and standby fees will be adjusted based upon Wheaton's performance in three sustainability-related areas:
- Wheaton's attributable emissions from third-party mining partners operations covered by science-based emissions targets
- Diversity at the Wheaton group's board and management levels
- Wheaton's S&P ESG score
Wheaton has also extended the maturity date of the renewed revolving credit facility by one year to July 18, 2027. The Company currently has no amounts drawn under the revolving credit facility.
The Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal acted as Joint Bookrunners and Co-Lead Arrangers of the revolving credit facility. Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank of Canada acted as Co-Lead Sustainability Structuring Agents and Coordinators, and The Bank of Nova Scotia and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce acted as Co-Sustainability Agents. Bank of America, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and Export Development Canada acted as lenders.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation concerning the business, operations and financial performance of Wheaton and, in some instances, the business, mining operations and performance of Wheaton's precious metals purchase agreement ("PMPA") counterparties. Forward-looking statements, which are all statements other than statements of historical fact, include, but are not limited to Wheaton's climate change and environmental commitments, Wheaton's sustainability-linked commitments and targets and the interest rates and fees payable under the revolving credit facility. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "projects", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", "potential", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Wheaton to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to risks associated with the ability to achieve climate change and environmental commitments at Wheaton and at the Mining Operations, risks associated with the ability to achieve sustainability linked commitments and targets and the risks associated with interest rate adjustments and fees under the revolving credit facility and other risks discussed in the section entitled "Description of the Business – Risk Factors" in Wheaton's Annual Information Form available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and in Wheaton's Form 40-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Form 6-K filed March 10, 2022 both available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov, as well as the risks set out in Wheaton's management's discussions and analysis for the period ended December 31, 2021 available on SEDAR and EDGAR (together, the "Disclosure"). Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management currently believes to be reasonable, including (without limitation): that Wheaton will be able to achieve climate change and environmental commitments and that Wheaton will be able to achieve its sustainability-linked commitments and targets and such other assumptions and factors as set out in the Disclosure. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and even if events or results described in the forward-looking statements are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Wheaton. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and are cautioned that actual outcomes may vary. The forward-looking statements included herein are for the purpose of providing readers with information to assist them in understanding Wheaton's expected financial and operational performance and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, reflects Wheaton's management's current beliefs based on current information and will not be updated except in accordance with applicable securities laws. Although Wheaton has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those contained in forward‑looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results, level of activity, performance or achievements not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
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WESTFIELD — The committee working on the new elementary school project with the Massachusetts School Building Authority continued to meet over the summer, and the project is currently on schedule to meet the city’s goal of opening the new school for students in fall 2024, according to a recent update from architect Bert Gardner of Caolo and Bieniek Associates.
The new school, to be built on Franklin Street, will serve students from the area that currently feeds Abner Gibbs and Franklin Avenue elementary schools.
Gardner will be speaking with Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski about the progress that has been made and next steps for the project on the “Superintendent’s Spotlight” radio show, 9-10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, on WSKB 89.5 FM and WCPC Channel 15. | 2022-09-13T06:31:08+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/westfieldnews/2022/09/westfield-school-building-project-on-schedule-on-budget-superintendent-says.html |
Reenactor pleads guilty to placing pipe bomb at battlefield
HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A Civil War reenactor has pleaded guilty to charges that he planted a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield in 2017 and wrote letters falsely claiming that antifa protesters were to blame.
Prosecutors on Tuesday announced the guilty plea from Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, of Winchester.
Drake admitted during a hearing Monday in federal court in Harrisonburg that he planted a pipe bomb at Cedar Creek Battlefield during an annual reenactment in October 2017. The bomb did not detonate, but it resulted in cancellation of the reenactment after its discovery.
Drake was a Civil War reenactor who regularly participated in events at Cedar Creek until he was expelled from his unit in 2014.
He also admitted writing letters in 2017 and 2018 in which he falsely portrayed himself as part of a group of antifa activists who were targeting the reenactments because they believed them to glorify slavery. The letters threatened violence at subsequent Cedar Creek reenactments as well as an annual Remembrance Day Parade in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
“This defendant sought to intimidate and harm innocent people, and further, he tried to sow discontent by falsely claiming that the attempted bombing was politically motivated,” said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia Christopher Kavanaugh, whose office prosecuted the case.
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Cassidy Hutchinson, the Mark Meadows aide who appeared in videotaped testimony before the Jan. 6 committee last week, is the panel's surprise witness for Tuesday's hearing, NPR has confirmed.
The committee announced Monday that it would hold a hearing Tuesday "to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."
Watch the hearing here starting at 1 p.m.:
The hearing announcement was unexpected; the committee was on brief hiatus until the week of July 11.
This will be the sixth hearing for the Democrat-led committee, which has spent the last few weeks building a case around former President Donald Trump and his influence on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
This story will be updated.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-28T14:28:26+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/2022-06-28/cassidy-hutchinson-a-mark-meadows-aide-to-testify-at-tuesdays-jan-6-panel-hearing |
EDEN – Sometimes in sports, a player just has one of those in-the-zone nights, one where he feels like he just can’t miss. And that was basically the case with Morehead junior Makel Smith, who dropped 52 points on cross-county rival Rockingham in the Panthers 91-62 win over the Cougars in the first game of the 2022-2023 season Tuesday night in front of a packed house pumped up for the pending Thanksgiving holiday.
Initially it was a tight game as the Panthers took the early two-possession lead, but back-to-back scores by Rockingham’s Maleek Bryant tied the game at 9-9 with 2:41 to go in the opening frame. Moments later, a 3-pointer by Jeremy Everitt gave the Cougars their first, and only, lead of the game at 12-11, but another late run punctuated with another trey by Smith put Morehead on top at the end of the first quarter with a 16-12 advantage.
A nice over-the-shoulder dish from Dalton Johnson to Jeremy Edwards for a score closed the margin, but back-to-back scores by Smith - a trio of buckets by Jordan Chandler, a triple by Gage Grogan, and another score by Jadan Martin had the Panthers in the driver’s set with a four-possession lead with just under six minutes to play in the second quarter. The Cougars continued to knock down shots to keep it from getting away from them, but another late push bumped the lead up to 41-28 at the half.
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Things continued to turn in Morehead’s favor in the opening minutes of the third quarter, as several fast break scores, and a 3-pointer by Smith, set the tone. Six different Panthers players scored during that span as Smith continued to gather steam, pouring in 10 more to close out the third period to account for a big 71-44 lead to close out the frame.
By that time, the game was pretty much in the books as Smith made his curtain call in the fourth quarter and rained down his final trio of 3’s to eclipse the half c-note mark for the night. In the locker room after the game, Smith said he was feeling it all game long.
“It’s just that me and my teammates have built that chemistry. We know where everybody is on the court and they know that when I’m hot, get it to me. I can shoot it, and I won’t let them down. I just want to say ‘thank you’ to my teammates for trusting and believing in me and getting me the ball,” he said.
Smith hit seven 3-pointers and was 17 of 20 from the free throw line on his way to his career-high.
Chandler had 13, while Martin and Brittyn Barnes had 8 points each.
Lane Powell led the Cougars with 13 points and knocked down a pair of 3-pointers. Bryant scored 12 and Centaluis Graves added 9 more points for the Cougars, all in the second half.
Expectations are high for Morehead after winning the Mid-State 2A Conference regular season championship and making it to the second round of the 2A NCHSAA playoffs before losing to Monroe to close out 2021-2022. But the Panthers have a lot of holes to fill with the departure of last season’s senior class with key contributors in Lucas Lynn, Hayden Friese and Landon Carter.
“There was a little uncertainty coming in because losing four starters from last year that were seniors, so there were a few question marks as to how we were going to handle the new guys in the lineup especially in a rivalry game. I thought they responded. There are definitely some things we need to work on. We pulled away towards the end, but overall I was pleased with things,” Morehead head coach Damien Price said.
The coach says he believes in Smith’s scoring ability and understands he always gives his team a chance to win. However, Price is going to continue to push the talented guard and reward him when it is earned.
“Tonight, I was proud of him offensively. We all know he can do that. What I wasn’t proud of was him out there reaching and picking up several not so-smart fouls. But there was a point, he figured out at the end that he was close to 50. I really didn’t want to put him back in - I wanted to show good sportsmanship, but he’s a kid that wakes me up early at six in the morning to let him come in and shoot in the gym. He puts in the work, so I thought he deserved it to hit that mark,” said Price.
Meanwhile, the Cougars are looking to turn the tide following last season’s 4-18 finish, and first-year head coach Josh Evans is determined to turn things around.
“We’ll be back at 8 o’clock in the morning working on defense. You are not going to win ball games giving up 91 points. We sent them to the free throw line 30 times tonight – that’s just terrible defense. So we are going to get back tomorrow morning on basics and defense. We gave up 52 points to Makel, and 91 in the game and that’s just a big defensive letdown . . . I’ve been super-proud of this team and the work they have put in up to this point. We’ve had good scrimmage play, and a good jamboree, but obviously I was a bit surprised tonight with our breakdown on defensive intensity,” said Evans.
UP NEXT: Rockingham (0-1) travels to take on McMichael Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in Mayodan. Morehead (1-0) hosts College Prep and Leadership Academy Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP)Sebastian Aho scored in the sixth round of the shootout, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat Andrei Vasilevskiy and the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night.
Brady Skjei, Seth Jarvis and Martin Necas scored in regulation for Carolina, which has won three straight – all in overtime or shootout. Frederik Andersen stopped 23 shots.
”We’re sticking with it all the way through the end,” Hurricanes center Jordan Staal said.
Nikita Kucherov extended his goal-scoring streak to five games, and Nicholas Paul and Ross Colton also scored for the Lightning, who had won three straight. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 53 saves – one shy of his career high.
”That’s the product of playing poorly, and that’s what happened,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of the one-sided shot totals. ”The better team won tonight.”
Tampa Bay’s Ross Colton and the Hurricanes’ Teuvo Teravainen both scored in the fourth round of the tiebreaker.
Vasilevskiy made several strong stops during an OT power play for Carolina, including shots by Aho and Brent Burns.
”Vasilevskiy is quite the goaltender,” Skjei said. ”He made some big saves. You’re on the bench sometimes and it’s like, how did that not go in. He’s just a stud.”
Skjei tied it 3-3 when he scored a short-handed goal with 6:26 left in the third.
”We, obviously, generated a lot of pucks to the net,” Skjei said. ”Sooner or later they will go in.”
Kucherov has scored in five or more games for the sixth time in his career. The only active players with more are Alex Ovechkin (12), Tampa Bay teammate Steven Stamkos (11), Sidney Crosby (nine) and Auston Matthews (eight).
Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman missed his second consecutive game due to an undisclosed upper-body injury.
Undisciplined penalties cost Carolina as Tampa Bay scored three times in the second period to take a 3-2 lead.
Jalen Chatfield was called for tripping and then picked up a high-sticking call after the whistle that led to Colton’s goal that tied it 1-1 at 5:50 during a four-minute power play.
After Paul scored at 9:19 to put the Lightning ahead, Necas made it 2-2 with a power-play goal with just under 6 minutes remaining.
Tampa Bay got a 5-on-3 power play late in the second when Chatfield received a cross-checking penalty and Jordan Martinook was sent off for slashing Colton after the play was over.
Kucherov’s power-play goal then gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead from the top of the right circle with one minute to go in the period.
Jarvis opened the scoring from the left circle five seconds after a Carolina power play ended 8:29 into the game. He is the sixth player in Carolina team history to reach 20 goals before turning 21.
NOTES: Kucherov also has a nine-point streak. He has a point streak of at least nine games in five of the last six seasons. … Burns, who had an assist, and Necas both have five-game point streaks. … Stamkos had an an assist but failed to score a goal in his sixth straight game. The Lightning captain scored seven times during a season-opening five-game goal streak.
UP NEXT
Hurricanes: Host Buffalo on Friday night.
Lightning: Play the third of a four-game homestand Saturday night against Buffalo.
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