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Which sunscreen sticks are best?
Sun protection is immensely important, not only to reduce your risk of sunburn but also to lessen the chance you’ll get skin cancer down the line. Sunscreen sticks are becoming increasingly popular because they make it easy to apply and reapply sunscreen.
Sun protection factor is the first thing that many buyers look at when choosing sunscreen. While it’s undeniably important, you should also pay attention to factors such as broad-spectrum protection and water resistance.
What are sunscreen sticks?
Sunscreen sticks are sunscreens that take the form of solid sticks. They look and work much like deodorant sticks, containing a mechanism that pushes the stick up from the base, so you can reach more once you’ve used up the exposed part.
They’re generally compact and there’s no chance of them leaking, so these sticks are convenient for on-the-go use. You can buy formulas for the face, the body and both.
What to look for in sunscreen sticks
SPF
The SPF of a sunscreen tells you how much protection it offers against the UVB rays that cause sunburn and skin cancer. Experts recommend wearing sunscreen with a minimum SPF of 30 if you’ll be out in the sun for an extended length of time. However, an SPF of 50 or 50+ is even better if you burn easily or you’ll be out all day.
Just be careful not to let a high SPF give you a false sense of security. You should still reapply every two hours or after swimming or excessive sweating. Wearing hats and loose-fitting clothes that cover as much skin as possible is still advisable on exceptionally hot days.
Broad-spectrum
The SPF of sunscreen only refers to the amount of protection it offers from UVB rays. Unless stated otherwise, it won’t protect against UVA rays at all. While UVB rays are objectively more harmful, leading to sunburn and a greater risk of skin cancer, UVA rays still damage the skin.
Broad spectrum sunscreen protects from UVA and UVB rays, so it should be the go-to choice for most buyers.
Water-resistant
If you’re going to the beach or intend on swimming in rivers or lakes, you should choose a water-resistant sunscreen. This offers more protection while you’re in the water. However, you should still reapply when you get back on dry land.
Mineral vs. chemical
You can find both mineral stick sunscreens and chemical stick sunscreens. While the chemicals in sunscreen are safe, some people still prefer natural mineral options. Mineral sunscreens naturally offer UVA and UVB protection and work right away but they can leave a white film on the skin.
Reef-safe
Reef-safe sunscreens are free from the chemicals known to damage coral reefs, so they’re suitable for use in places like Hawaii and Australia.
Best SPF 30 sunscreen sticks
Thinkbaby SPF 30 Sunscreen Stick
Offering broad spectrum protection, this mineral sunscreen is gentle on the skin and suitable for babies, kids and adults. It’s water-resistant for up to 80 minutes and reef-safe, so it won’t harm aquatic life.
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Sun Bum Original Sunscreen Face Stick
This SPF 30 sunscreen is designed for use on the face, but there’s no reason why you can’t use it on your body, too, in a pinch. It’s non-greasy and has a banana scent that most users love.
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Raw Elements Tinted Face Stick
Not only does this stick offer sun protection, it also has a medium tint to give the skin a healthy glow, like a tinted moisturizer. Its mineral formula offers broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection and is reef-safe.
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Babo Botanicals Clear Zinc Sport Sunscreen Stick
Thanks to its compact size, this SPF 30 mineral sunscreen stick is perfect for topping up sun protection on the go. It absorbs into the skin quickly and is non-greasy, making it great for use on the face.
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With a classic coconut scent, this broad-spectrum sunscreen will take you back to beach days and sunny picnics. It’s easy to apply and offers water-resistant protection for up to 80 minutes of swimming.
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Best SPF 50 sunscreen sticks
Supergoop Play Mineral Sunscreen Stick
Its broad-spectrum protection keeps the skin safe from UVA and UVB rays, as well as from infrared rays that can damage the skin. It has a mineral formula that’s gentle on the skin and great for face or body use.
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Boogie Mineral Sunscreen Stick
With an impressive SPF 50 and broad-spectrum protection, this stick is designed to protect babies’ delicate skin, but kids and adults can use it, too. You can buy it in packs of two or three.
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Water-resistant, sweat-resistant and freeze-resistant, this versatile sunscreen is great for active people, whether snorkeling at the beach or hitting the slopes. It has a broad-spectrum mineral formula that’s non-greasy and totally natural.
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Babo Botanicals Super Shield Zinc Sport Stick Sunscreen
Offering SPF 50 protection, this sunscreen stick helps keep your face, lips and ears from burning, even on the hottest, sunniest days. It’s sweat-resistant, water-resistant, non-greasy and ultra-sheer, so you’ll hardly feel like you’re wearing it.
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Sun Bum Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Face Stick
This reef-friendly mineral sunscreen is water-resistant and sweat-resistant for roughly 80 minutes. It offers broad-spectrum protection from UVA and UVB rays.
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Best SPF 50-plus sunscreen sticks
Zinka Clear Zinc Oxide Sunscreen Face Stick
The SPF 50-plus designation means it must provide at least SPF 60 in the relevant tests, making this some of the most protective sunscreen you can buy. Despite its strength, it has a clear, non-greasy formula that’s easy to apply.
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Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen Stick
You get broad spectrum SPF 50-plus protection from this water-resistant, reef-safe mineral sunscreen. It has a natural formula that’s free from fragrance, dyes and parabens, so you can be sure nothing nasty is going on your skin.
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NEW YORK, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cole Haan debuts a limited-edition women's golf collection in partnership with women's golf and lifestyle brand, Byrdie Golf Social Wear. The collection takes a fresh spin on two Cole Haan golf styles that launched in Spring 2023, designed specifically for women; the ZERØGRAND Fairway and ØriginalGrand Shortwing.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9151052-cole-haan-byrdie-womens-golf-collection/
Together, Cole Haan and Byrdie Golf Social Wear designed this Coastal Collection, which features stripes, seashell prints and crisp light blue and vivid green hues that are contrasted against neutral earth tones. Both styles were designed for a new generation of female golfers who are looking to balance the fit and comfort needed to bring friendships, cocktails, and legacies to all 18 holes. While this collection embraces a new era of players, it also simultaneously pays homage to the 70's country club era and the grandmothers of Byrdie Golf Social Wear's founders, who instilled in them the love of the game and were the inspiration for starting their brand.
"Cole Haan is continuously making waves in its women's style across all categories," said David Maddocks, Brand President of Cole Haan. "We are excited about this collaboration with Byrdie Golf Social Wear because our missions are in lock-step—we both want to bridge the gap between modern fashion, comfort, and performance."
The ZERØGRAND Fairway Golf Shoe retails for $170 USD while the ØriginalGrand Shortwing Oxford Golf Shoe retails for $210 USD. Both are effortlessly versatile for tee-time and beyond, feature a spikeless design with rubber traction in key zones, and incorporate Cole Haan's patented GRANDFØAM™ technology for a lightweight and plush ride that makes playing round after round a breeze.
"We are thrilled to work alongside the creatives at Cole Haan as we debut our first women's golf shoe with the limited edition Coastal Collection," said Rachelle Wates, Co-founder and CEO of Byrdie Golf Social Wear. "We created Byrdie Golf Social Wear with the female golfer in mind, and wanted to bring fashion-forward pieces to a male dominated industry. Our goal is to inspire confidence and comfort in the younger generation of golf enthusiasts on and off the course while showcasing their personal style - we believe Byrdie's collaboration with Cole Haan does just that!"
The Cole Haan x Byrdie Golf Social Wear golf shoes are available now on ColeHaan.com and select US, Japan and International stores. A Wooden Tee and Ball Marker, adorned with seashell prints, will accompany all purchases, along with limited-edition packaging featuring actual photography of the founders' grandmothers, adding a genuinely personal touch to this very special exclusive offering.
About Cole Haan
Cole Haan is a global performance lifestyle brand serving always-connected, active professionals with innovative footwear and lifestyle accessories. With a 90-year heritage, Cole Haan infuses its products with time-honored craftsmanship and modern innovation, making footwear and lifestyle accessories that customers wear from work, to workout, to weekend. Cole Haan's mission is to inspire customers to live extraordinary lives.
About Byrdie Golf Social Wear
Byrdie Golf Social Wear founders, Rachelle Wates and Hayden Shoffner, started their US based apparel brand with inspiration from their grandmothers. They taught them how to play golf and fostered in them the love of the game. Their brand is reminiscent of the 70's country club era and their desire to bring back vintage styles with functionality. Their mission is to bridge the gap between modern fashion and performance while giving their grandmother's retro style a contemporary edge. They hope to reintroduce personal style to the game of golf while celebrating the new generation of women that are picking up golf clubs and heading to the course.
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SOURCE Cole Haan | 2023-06-26T13:31:43+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/26/cole-haan-byrdie-golf-social-wear-collaborate-limited-edition-womens-golf-collection/ |
Founders Seek to Define New Standard for Excellence in Clinical Trials
DOYLESTOWN, Pa., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Korio, Inc., a technology-first IRT company, today announced a new solution that will raise industry expectations for quality, consistency and performance of randomization and trial supply management (RTSM).
The compounding negative effects of poor system performance, bloated manual processes and high employee turnover are routinely passed from legacy IRT providers to their life sciences customers. The unfortunate result is interrupted trial operations, costly delays, and decreased confidence of the critical IRT functionality and services teams powering their trials.
To address these systemic quality and scalability issues, Korio has designed the industry's first compliance-centric IRT platform. Reflecting decades of hands-on IRT experience across thousands of trial designs, Korio enables once aspirational goals around IRT feature reusability, process repeatability, system performance, and overall system quality by embedding the IRT workflow into the software itself.
"Korio's suite of best-in-class IRT functionality is nested in a comprehensive GxP framework that efficiently and thoroughly navigates long-standing quality and scalability issues plaguing IRT providers today," says Ryan Keane, co-founder and CEO of Korio. "Since our platform learns each customer's unique preferences and settings, we can automatically provide consistent and predictable IRT outcomes, creating a virtuous cycle of early and sustainable customer and employee success."
Some of the key features of Korio's IRT solution include:
- The ability to reuse client-level study settings and apply them to subsequent clinical trials, saving on time and enabling consistent quality,
- Functionality to create and manage the entire IRT documentation suite within the technology for less overhead and more accuracy in IRT setup,
- Real-time diagnostics on every IRT system to provide assurances of availability, performance and overall system health throughout the duration of every trial.
Korio co-founders Ryan Keane and Chuck Harris bring a combined 30+ years of experience in the IRT space to the company. Ten of those years were spent working together where they scaled an IRT start-up to become a leading global provider.
"To architect an intuitive, scalable, and feature-rich IRT platform, it was critical that we blended thought leaders from both inside and outside of the IRT industry," said Chuck Harris, co-founder and COO of Korio. "By leveraging brilliant product design and technology solutions from outside of our niche, and combining those with IRT needs as stated by clinical trial experts, Korio is positioned to resolve legacy IRT challenges for its customers and employees for the long haul."
Korio will be debuting its platform at the Informa IRT conference in Boston on October 17-19, 2022 and their solution will be available to host its first trials this year.
For more information, please visit https://www.korioclinical.com/
Korio's mission is to enable people to achieve more with clinical technology. By infusing into our platform the industry's top subject matter experts' unique and powerful ways of navigating today's complex protocol designs, the Korio platform transforms the status quo by enabling trial set up and management to be performed with confidence, in less time and with predictable, consistent outcomes. If change is the only constant in clinical trials, we believe that Korio is your co-pilot to success.
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REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A California judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric in connection to a 2020 fatal wildfire sparked by its equipment that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people, including an 8-year-old.
The utility also reached a $50 million settlement agreement with the Shasta County District Attorney's Office, officials from both announced in separate statements.
The wind-whipped blaze began on Sept. 27, 2020, and raged through rugged terrain and small communities west of Redding, killing four people, burning about 200 homes and blackening about 87 square miles (225 square kilometers) of land in Shasta and Tehama counties.
In 2021, state fire investigators concluded the fire was sparked by a gray pine tree that fell onto a PG&E distribution line. Shasta and Tehama counties sued the utility, alleging negligence. They said PG&E failed to remove the tree even though it had been marked for removal two years earlier. The utility says the tree was subsequently cleared to stay.
Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett determined that the company was criminally liable for the fire and charged the utility later that year.
Shasta Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Flynn disagreed, and in a tentative ruling ahead of a hearing Wednesday said prosecutors did not present enough evidence to show PG&E engaged in criminal conduct, according to the Sacramento Bee, which obtained a copy of the ruling.
The “tree was not a known risk prior to the Zogg fire, and there is no evidence to support the People’s claim in their opposition that it was," the judge wrote.
The utility said in a statement that under the agreement with Shasta County, which is subject to court approval, it will fund $45 million in contributions to organizations dedicated to rebuilding and assisting local communities. The company will also pay a $5 million civil penalty to the county.
“We stand behind our thousands of trained and experienced coworkers and contractors working every day to keep Californians safe. We feel strongly that those good-faith judgments are not criminal,” said Patti Poppe, Chief Executive Officer of PG&E Corporation.
Bridgett said her goal was always to take PG&E to trial and hold them criminally responsible but that Flynn's tentative ruling changed her position and she agreed to a settlement that includes dropping all charges.
“I am unwilling to gamble with the safety of Shasta County,” she said. "I have a responsibility to the community and needed to secure what I can for all the citizens to prevent future wildfires, prevent future deaths and devastation, and to be as prepared as our county can be if another one occurs.”
Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a $150 million settlement between Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and the CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division over PG&E’s role in the Zogg Fire. As part of the agreement, the utility will pay $10 million as a penalty to California’s General Fund, and invest $140 million in shareholder funds in new wildfire mitigation efforts, officials said. | 2023-06-01T02:06:07+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/california-judge-dismisses-criminal-charges-18129006.php |
Friday Top Stories
- APD: ‘Substantial’ amount of arrests made over holiday season for shoplifting
- Clovis commissioners vote for anti-abortion measure
- ABQ councilors approve millions in funding for Aviation Center of Excellence site project
- Speaker delay halts national security briefings for lawmakers
- Surviving roommate helped police ID Idaho suspect Kohberger
- Bills-Bengals canceled, NFL releases possible playoff scenarios
- Will Jan. 6 anniversary hit differently in the wake of House probe?
Friday’s Five Facts
[1] Police investigate shootings at homes, offices of Albuquerque elected officials – The Albuquerque Police Department is investigating at least four recent shootings at the homes and an office of two Bernalillo County commissioners and two state senators. APD says the shootings occurred on four separate days over the past month, with the latest happening on Thursday morning. During a news conference about the case Thursday, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller revealed that the fourth shooting happened at the office of newly appointed state Senator Moe Maestas. Thursday night, officials released additional information related to a possible, fifth shooting.
[2] Traffic camera tickets would be misdemeanors and affect licenses, insurance under proposed House bill – A New Mexico lawmaker is pushing for stricter traffic laws that would be harder on drivers who receive citations. Albuquerque State Representative Miguel Garcia is pushing House Bill 22, which would allow local governments to treat the citations like real traffic tickets. Garcia said civil fines for traffic enforcement cameras aren’t doing enough to change driver behavior.
[3] Friday storm brings wind and light snow, but quieter weekend ahead – It is a warmer morning across the state, with most temperatures in the 20s, 30s and 40s. The skies will be partly cloudy Friday. Snow is coming down in Pagosa Springs, and more snow is expected in the San Juan and northern mountains Friday.
[4] Previously-vandalized Santa Fe restaurant is open for business again – A locally owned restaurant is back open in Santa Fe after hate field vandalism destroyed their building in 2020. India Palace was targeted by vandals who left behind more than $100,000 in damages and racial slurs spray painted on the walls. The new owner, who has worked there since 1994, said he is thankful for the support. The FBI and Santa Fe Police are still investigating the vandalism.
[5] Santa Fe Animal Shelter holds ‘Name Your Own Price’ adoption event – The Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society is hosting a “Name Your Own Price” adoption event. Officials say the promotion is trying to alleviate the already overcrowded shelter. The promotion will run through January 31 and includes spaying or neutering, microchipping, and age-appropriate vaccinations. | 2023-01-06T13:32:29+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/newsfeed/krqe-newsfeed-string-of-shootings-traffic-laws-breezy-santa-fe-restaurant-reopened-santa-fe-adoption-event/ |
(WHNT) — The average ACT score across the nation is the lowest its been in more than 30 years, according to new data released Wednesday.
The national average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of 36 for the class of 2022, marking the first time since 1991 that the average score dropped below 20.
“This is the fifth consecutive year of declines in average scores, a worrisome trend that began significantly before the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has persisted,” said ACT CEO Janet Godwin in a Wednesday press release.
What’s more, an increasing number of high school students failed to meet any of the subject-area benchmarks set by the ACT — showing a decline in preparedness for college-level coursework.
The test scores, made public in a report Wednesday, show 42% of ACT-tested graduates in the class of 2022 met none of the subject benchmarks in English, reading, science and math, which are indicators of how well students are expected to perform in corresponding college courses.
In comparison, 38% of test takers in 2021 failed to meet any of the benchmarks.
The lowest ACT composite score in the nation went to Nevada at 17.3, according to the latest data. The highest composite score went to the District of Columbia at 26.9, followed by California at 26.5.
“The magnitude of the declines this year is particularly alarming, as we see rapidly growing numbers of seniors leaving high school without meeting the college-readiness benchmark in any of the subjects we measure,” Godwin continued. “These declines are not simply a byproduct of the pandemic. They are further evidence of longtime systemic failures that were exacerbated by the pandemic.”
She added that a “return to the pre-pandemic status quo would be insufficient and a disservice to students and educators.”
“These systemic failures require sustained collective action and support for the academic recovery of high school students as an urgent national priority and imperative,” Godwin concluded.
To see more highlights from this year’s ACT report, visit act.org.
The number of students taking the ACT has declined 30% since 2018, as graduates increasingly forgo college and some universities no longer require admissions tests. But participation plunged 37% among Black students, with 154,000 taking the test this year.
Standardized tests such as the ACT have faced growing concerns that they’re unfair to minority and low-income students, as students with access to expensive test prep or advanced courses often perform better.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-10-13T01:01:31+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/act-reports-lowest-average-test-score-in-over-30-years/ |
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Land Title Association (ALTA), the national trade association of the land title insurance industry, applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic (SECURE) Notarization Act, which would authorize the use of secure remote online notarization (RON) nationwide with key consumer protections. It also would allow businesses and consumers the ability to execute critical documents without the needing to visit a notary in person, a critical step to establishing a more accessible notarization process. The SECURE Notarization Act was rolled into a package of bills the House passed Wednesday evening by a vote of 336-90.
- Permit immediate nationwide use of remote online notarization (RON)
- Create national minimum standards for its use
- Provide certainty for the interstate recognition of RON
"Today, the U.S. House took a major leap toward establishing a more modernized notarization system that doesn't leave anyone behind," said Diane Tomb, ALTA's chief executive officer. "Unfortunately, too many consumers and business across several states still do not have access to technology that allows them to execute critical documents remotely. This legislation is a gamechanger for homebuyers with disabilities and active-duty servicemembers stationed overseas, as well as those who need to social distance after testing positive for COVID-19 and those who cannot take time off work. We are optimistic that all consumers across the country will soon be granted permanent access to RON."
The bipartisan SECURE Notarization Act was introduced in the House by Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND). It has 128 cosponsors in the House. Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced a companion bill in the Senate. The bill has 11 cosponsors in the Senate.
The SECURE Notarization Act includes critically important security standards to protect consumers, including requirements for two-way audiovisual communication, multifactor authentication and tamper-evident technology.
"The leadership of Representatives Dean and Armstrong in getting this bill through the House cannot be overstated," Tomb said. "They have been tireless in their efforts to bring this common-sense legislation forward. We are grateful for their tremendous efforts."
Currently, 42 states have enacted laws allowing permanent access to remote online notarization.
The American Land Title Association, founded in 1907, is a national trade association representing more than 6,000 title insurance companies, title and settlement agents, independent abstracters, title searchers and real estate attorneys. ALTA members conduct title searches, examinations, closings and issue title insurance that protects real property owners and mortgage lenders against losses from defects in titles.
Megan Hernandez
Office: 202-261-0315
Email: mhernandez@alta.org
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SOURCE American Land Title Association | 2022-07-28T23:12:59+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/alta-applauds-house-representatives-passing-secure-notarization-act/ |
Goal to Turn Thousands into PulsePoint Civilian Responders
SEATTLE, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- King County Fire Chiefs Association and Medic One Foundation today announced the county-wide launch of PulsePoint, a free life-saving mobile app that notifies users when someone nearby is in cardiac arrest and needs immediate help. The announcement highlights National CPR & AED Awareness Week, June 1-7, 2022.
"When a person goes into sudden cardiac arrest, every minute without CPR reduces their chance of survival, so immediate help from a bystander who can do CPR is critical," said Dr. Tom Rea, Emergency Medical Services Program Director for King County.
PulsePoint is like an AMBER alert for sudden cardiac arrest victims. It uses location-based technology to alert community members to a sudden cardiac arrest in their immediate vicinity so they can get to the victim first and start hands-only CPR in those critical, life-saving minutes before first responders are able to arrive. The app only alerts individuals to a cardiac arrest in public locations, not a private residence, and will now be available for the first time county-wide. In addition, the companion app, PulsePoint AED, allows users to report and update public AED locations so that community members can find a nearby AED when a cardiac emergency occurs. King County 911 dispatchers will also be able to access and share these AED locations with 911 callers.
"The PulsePoint app means community members can help save lives by administering hands-only CPR," said Kirkland Fire Chief Joe Sanford. "Whether neighbor or stranger, they can provide immediate help to someone in sudden cardiac arrest when they need it most – in those crucial minutes before medics get there."
This joint effort by King County fire departments, NORCOM 911, Valley Communications, King County Fire Chiefs Association and Medic One Foundation aims to recruit and empower more than 20,000 community members throughout King County to download the free app and become PulsePoint responders. No training is needed and whether or not someone responds is completely optional.
Enumclaw Fire Chief Randy Fehr said, "Our citizens are an integral part of the chain of survival and being notified by the PulsePoint app that someone nearby is in cardiac arrest can mean the difference between life and death."
With a grant from the Aldarra Foundation, Medic One Foundation is working with local fire agencies to bring PulsePoint to more communities in King and Snohomish counties. King County fire departments joins Seattle, Snohomish County and other fire agencies in western Washington that participate in PulsePoint.
The free PulsePoint app is available for iPhone and Android and can be Downloaded here. Both PulsePoint and PulsePoint AED are also available for free download at the Apple App Store and on Google Play. For more information, visit Medic One Foundation.
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Flagship building of NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences named with $5M gift
BRONXVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Iona University hosted a dedication ceremony for the Kelly Center for Health Sciences on January 12, 2023, recognizing benefactors Alfred F. Kelly Jr. '80, '81MBA, '19H, chairman and chief executive officer of Visa, and Peggy Kelly '81, '84MBA, who generously gifted $5 million to name the building.
Located on Iona's new campus in Bronxville, N.Y., the Kelly Center for Health Sciences will serve as the flagship building of the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences.
"It is a great honor to be opening the Kelly Center for Health Sciences, as we believe the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences will become a top destination for all those who feel called to serve others through these important fields of study," said Al Kelly. "This is a proud moment for our family and a historic milestone for our alma mater."
"The legacy of the Kelly Center for Health Sciences will be built through the many thousands of Iona students who go on to save and improve lives for generations to come," said Peggy Kelly. "Al and I are humbled by this gorgeous new facility, and we look forward to all that is still to come."
During the dedication ceremony, Iona University President Seamus Carey, Ph.D., said the opening of the Kelly Center for Health Sciences marked the beginning of a new era for Iona. Classes begin on Iona's new campus in Bronxville for the first time this week.
"At a time when many private institutions of higher education are challenged to stay open, Iona made the move to purchase a new campus to accommodate growth," said Carey. "This building and this campus are wellsprings of hope, not only for the students who will study here, but for the people and communities they will serve. The students who pass through this school and this building will make their mark on the world by providing health care with compassion. They will be distinctive not only for what they know, but for their generosity of spirit that is endemic in the Iona culture."
The Kelly Center for Health Sciences spans three floors and is nearly 32,000 square feet. With a design philosophy focused on holistic wellness, the building is bright, eco-friendly and infused with natural elements. Cutting-edge, collaborative spaces, meanwhile, promote interdisciplinary learning.
- Six classroom/seminar rooms and a collaborative area
- Five simulation rooms with connected control rooms
- Four laboratory rooms, including a physical assessments lab, bedside skills lab, flex occupational therapy lab and adult occupational therapy lab
- Two group therapy rooms
- Two patient examination rooms
- Interprofessional Education (IPE) collaboration space
- Two student lounges with seating, an 85-inch television display, kitchen and vending area
- Two debrief rooms
- Two administrative offices
The Kelly Center for Health Sciences completely transformed what was formerly the library of the Concordia College campus, which Iona acquired in May 2021. Renovations began April 2022.
By retaining the existing structure of the 50-year-old building, as well as the interior floors, stairs and elevator, Iona and the project team not only minimized the time and cost of the project, but also the environmental impact. The building will also reduce fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions by utilizing new heat-pump technology for heating and cooling. Other eco-friendly improvements include dimmable LED lighting as well as new double-pane windows, updated air systems and more.
Iona worked with industry leaders on the design and execution of the project, including SLAM, the architecture firm; Consigli, the construction company; and JLL, a real estate services and project management firm.
Established in July 2021 and supported by a $20 million gift, the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences offers a new vision for collaborative education, modern workforce development and community care. NewYork-Presbyterian is consistently ranked one of the nation's top hospitals and is also a leader in medical education in collaboration with two renowned medical schools: Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
"We are pleased to celebrate the dedication of the Kelly Center for Health Sciences, and we are grateful to Al and Peggy Kelly for their generosity and support," said Dr. Steven J. Corwin, NewYork-Presbyterian President and CEO. "Today is a momentous occasion, and it is just the start. We look forward to the continued development of the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences and educating the next generation of health care professionals."
Approximately 150 people attended the dedication ceremony, including Bronxville Mayor Mary Marvin and the Board of Trustees; New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson; Deputy Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins; New York State Assemblymember Amy Paulin; New York State Senator Shelley Mayer; and former United States House of Representatives Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, among others.
In a special video message recorded for the dedication ceremony, His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, congratulated President Carey and offered thanks to Al and Peggy Kelly. One attribute he has noticed about Iona students, he said, is their commitment and drive to serving others. Iona's growth in the health sciences is therefore in full alignment, he added.
"This project is the perfect culmination of the advocacy work that Al and Peggy have made it their personal mission to fulfill – Catholic education and health care," said Cardinal Dolan. "The Kelly Center for Health Sciences will not only impact the lives of those who learn within it, but also the many thousands of lives that are going to benefit from the education that Iona students will receive."
Founded in 1940, Iona University is a master's-granting private, Catholic, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. Iona's 45-acre New Rochelle campus and 28-acre Bronxville campus are just 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. With a total enrollment of nearly 4,000 students and an alumni base of over 50,000 around the world, Iona is a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence and the values of justice, peace and service. Iona is highly accredited, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous advanced certificate programs. Iona's LaPenta School of Business is accredited by AACSB International, a prestigious recognition awarded to just five percent of business schools worldwide. The Princeton Review recognized Iona's on-campus MBA program as a "Best Business School for 2022." Iona University also recently launched a fully online MBA program for even greater flexibility. In July 2021, Iona University and NewYork-Presbyterian announced the establishment of the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences, to be principally located on the University's new campus in Bronxville, N.Y. Supported by a $20 million gift from NewYork-Presbyterian, the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences offers a new vision for collaborative health care education, modern workforce development, and community care. On July 1, 2022, Iona officially changed its status from College to University, reflecting the growth of its academic programs and the prestige of an Iona education.
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Every style of music produces great songs: even in genres like house or rap, better known for ecstatic mixes and freestyle flows, songs are the going units of measurement. But Americana music lovers are the hierophants of great songwriting, bearing deep knowledge of the bardic traditions of country, folk and soul— upholding the practice of sitting down and really listening to how writers deploy their craft and distill emotion. It's a literary approach to the stuff that also feeds our urge to dance, kiss, or simply relax into a passing moment. Those who do it best are able to make their careful constructions hit close to the heart.
The annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony—which NPR Music will stream live on Wednesday, Sept. 16—is a great way to discover what's happening among the song sages. This year, the nominees are fairly evenly split among venerable older artists and young ones really coming into their own. Some have made commercial waves—Artist of the Year nominees Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson have both had major breakthrough albums—while others remain more grounded within the devoted Americana fan base. A wide world of musical approaches is reflected in the roster of nominees, from rocking band interplay to high-concept vintage moves to relatively spare balladry.
The songs included here also represent the genre's diversity and excellence. They span a number of Awards categories and include Isbell's Springsteen-esque rock, the classic country of Lee Ann Womack, the political blues of Lucinda Williams, Shakey Graves's imaginative indie-folk and Doug Seegers's troubadour tales. Graves, Rhiannon Giddens, whose tender original song "Angel City" is included here, and the great Patty Griffin will appear on Wednesday afternoon's live edition of Songs We Love, to be recorded at Nashville's historic Studio A, and later archived on NPR Music.
These picks come from NPR Music critic Ann Powers and contributor Jewly Hight, both of whom will be trolling Americana Fest for future award winners. You can follow Ann on Twitter at @annkpowers and Jewly at @rightbyherroots.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-27T07:44:37+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2015-09-14/songs-we-love-2015-americana-awards-edition |
BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government on Tuesday presented a package of measures aimed at cushioning the impact of high inflation that includes 500-euro ($523) payments for all residents and a three-month delay to a new levy on carbon dioxide emissions.
The government, a coalition of Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservatives and the environmentalist Greens, put the price of immediate measures at about 5 billion euros and said the package will cost a total of 28 billion euros through 2026. It says it aims to bring relief first to people on low incomes; the unemployed and people on low pensions are slated to get a payment of 300 euros each.
That’s in addition to 500 euros each for everyone — half of that for children, and half of it described as a “climate bonus.”
The government decided to delay from July until October the introduction of a CO2 pricing plan that envisions an initial levy of 30 euros per ton of carbon dioxide, rising to 55 euros in 2025.
Other measures include “electricity price compensation” for business and a grant for energy-intensive companies and, in the longer term, a move to address wage increases being eaten up when they move recipients into a higher tax bracket.
Austria’s annual inflation rate hit 8% in May, in line with similar rates in other European countries fueled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | 2022-06-14T20:28:06+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/austrian-government-presents-package-to-cushion-inflation/ |
It was just weeks ago that Marlin High School in Texas abruptly postponed its graduation ceremony, saying only a handful of its seniors had met requirements to get their diploma.
The students' plight made headlines, but they worked with school staff to make up the credits and grades they needed. And it paid off: In an update, school officials say that because of the seniors' hard work, all of them will graduate later this month.
"We are excited to report that as of Thursday June 8, 38 out of 38 seniors have met all requirements for graduation as outlined by the Texas Education Agency," Marlin ISD Superintendent Darryl Henson told NPR.
"It's a testament of the resiliency that our students, teachers, and families have demonstrated over the past two weeks," Henson added.
"Now let's see if this goes viral!" he said in a celebratory tweet, the month after his school's struggles drew wide interest.
"Graduation delayed, but not denied"
The new graduation date is June 22.
"It is graduation delayed, but not denied," Henson told TV station KWTX. "I have a sheer obligation of ensuring completion. It's not about trying to celebrate before we finish. Let's cross the finish line and then we can all celebrate together."
The 38 graduates include 33 students in the school's traditional program and another five in its alternative education program.
The good news is a turnaround from last month, when a school district audit found that only five seniors had met the requirements to get a diploma. Many students and their families said they were surprised to learn they had fallen short of the state's 90% attendance mandate or failed to complete courses, while others missed tests and assessments.
"It's emotional," one parent said at a meeting with administrators held in the school's auditorium. "They get their hopes up: 'I'm graduating next week! I'm at Six Flags!'" she added, referring to a senior trip.
The Marlin school district is on the rebound, official says
As he announced the students' progress, Henson also said that he will be taking on the role of principal at the high school, in addition to his district duties.
Marlin is a small town southeast of Waco, near the Brazos River. The most recent Texas Schools report card assigned Marlin High School a "B" rating— an assessment based on how it performs compared to other schools with student populations in similar economic conditions. The report said nearly 99% of Marlin High's 229 listed students are economically disadvantaged.
"Students in Marlin ISD will be held to the same high standard as any other student in Texas," Henson said at last month's meeting with parents.
Henson has stressed the importance of supporting all of the school's students, and its teachers, even as he acknowledged the challenges his district faces. Marlin ISD is in the process of emerging from a decade of entrenched problems, including losing its accreditation at one point.
"We will be confident educators in this district," Henson said, "because we have to come from so far behind."
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syria on Monday called on Arab countries to invest in the war-torn nation, now again a member of the Arab League. The appeal from Syria's economy and trade minister came during an economic conference in Saudi Arabia, ahead of a league summit in the kingdom.
The 22-member Arab League agreed earlier this month to reinstate Syria, ending a 12-year suspension and taking another step toward bringing Syrian President Bashar Assad, a long-time regional pariah, back into the fold.
However, crippling Western sanctions against Assad’s government remain in place and could prevent oil-rich Arab countries from rushing to invest in Syria — or lead to a quick release of reconstruction funds in the war-battered country.
“We invite you to participate in investing in Syria, where there are important opportunities and promising horizons,” said the Syrian minister, Mohammed Samer al-Khalil, as he addressed the opening session of the conference Monday in Jeddah.
Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan also spoke, welcoming Syria's return to the Arab League and saying he looked forward to working together "to achieve what we aim for.”
Syria earlier this month opened regional talks with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt in Amman, as part of an Arab-led initiative to resolve the Syrian conflict. Analysts say investments will likely be limited until Syria reaches a political solution to the conflict and resolves a host of other pressing issues — millions of Syrian refugees, a flourishing illicit drug trade and extremist militant groups.
It is unclear if Assad, who has been formally invited to the Arab League summit on Friday, will take part in it.
Syria was suspended from the league over Assad's brutal cracking down on mass protests against his rule in 2011. The uprising quickly turned into a civil war that has killed nearly a half million people and displaced half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
Saudi Arabia had been a key backer of armed opposition groups attempting to overthrow Assad, but in recent months Riyadh had called for dialogue. Last month, Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad visited Riyadh and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, visited Damascus and met with Assad. Last week, the two countries agreed on reopening their embassies.
In his speech, al-Khalil also thanked Arab countries for sending aid to Syria following the February earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, killing over 50,000 people, including more than 6,000 in Syria.
In addition to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have also renewed ties with Damascus, following normalization efforts from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain years ago.
Still, Kuwait, Morocco, and Qatar, remain opposed to normalizing relations with Syria and Qatar continues to be a key backer of Syrian rebel groups fighting Assad. | 2023-05-15T12:04:54+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/back-in-the-arab-league-after-12-years-syria-18099380.php |
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Lake George Arts Project announced on Facebook it has teamed up with the Lake George Music Festival to bring the Emmy Award-winning trio, Time For Three (Tf3) on August 10. Tf3 will kick off the music festival this year with a free concert in Lake George’s Shepard Park at 7:30 p.m.
Tf3 is a classically-trained string trio that explores a variety of music genres bringing energy and excitement to the stage. Officials said the event is open to the public and attendees are encouraged to B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Blanket), or your chair, and be ready to enjoy an evening of unforgettable music.
This performance will begin the Lake George Music Festival’s 2022 Season. To learn more about The Lake George Music Festival you can visit their webpage. | 2022-04-28T19:03:27+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/destination-ny/time-for-three-kicks-off-lake-george-music-festival/ |
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Journalists have long been charged with sorting fact from fiction through their reporting. But what happens when readers redefine what they see as truth and what they'll accept as fact?
New York Times writer and author Elizabeth Williamson is among journalists confronting the rampant rise and spread of conspiracy theories through her reporting and research. Her current work has focused around unraveling the targeted misinformation and lies spread after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the surviving families' lawsuits against Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and the election disinformation fueling the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
In this instructional program with the National Press Club Journalism Institute, Williamson will share her reporting and research process, along with insights she gained as she connected the dots on how conspiracy theories grow. Williamson, whose critically-acclaimed book "Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth" published this spring, will describe how she threaded together more than 400 interviews, 10,000 pages of court testimony and other records, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a line from conspiracy theories around Sandy Hook to Jan. 6, 2021.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify how misinformation and political conspiracy theories have spread;
- Work with sensitivity and clarity while reporting on conspiracy theories;
- Pre-bunk conspiracy theories through early reporting;
- Use trauma-informed reporting methods while working with people suffering tragedy; and
- Organize reporting and deep research to craft a long-form narrative.
Registration is open for this program, which will take place on Friday, June 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET.
About Elizabeth Williamson
Elizabeth Williamson is a feature writer in the New York Times Washington bureau and a former member of the New York Times editorial board. She has worked at the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and spent a decade as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe. She is the author of "Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth," published by Dutton.
Before joining The Times in 2015, Williamson was a reporter in the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. She wrote features about national politics and the culture of Washington and covered the White House during President Obama's first term.
Before joining Wall Street Journal in 2008, Williamson worked for the Washington Post from 2003. She has covered the federal government and Congress, lobbying, federal government contracting, and the reverberations of Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq.
Williamson began her journalism career as a foreign correspondent in 1994, and for a decade reported from the Balkans, Russia, the Baltic nations and broader Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, and other outlets. In 2000, she became the Wall Street Journal's Warsaw bureau chief, covering Poland and surrounding countries.
Williamson was born in Chicago and resides in Washington with her family.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fired Fox news host Tucker Carlson said Tuesday that he will be putting out a “new version” of his program on Twitter.
Carlson made his announcement in a three-minute video posted on the social media site, as part of a denunciation of media. He called Twitter that last big remaining platform that allows free speech.
“We’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,” he said. “We’ll bring some other things, too, which we’ll tell you about. But for now we’re just grateful to be here.”
He offered no other details, and a message to his lawyer, Bryan Freedman, was not immediately returned.
It’s unclear what these plans mean for his remaining contract with Fox; typically television companies include a no-compete clause when someone leaves the air. A Fox spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a call for comment.
Axios reported on Tuesday that Carlson’s lawyers sent a letter to Fox accusing the network of fraud and breach of contract.
Fox announced on April 24 that it was cutting ties with Carlson, its most popular prime-time anchor. The network offered no explanation for the move, and Fox’s ratings in his old time slot have sharply fallen. | 2023-05-10T18:10:22+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/tucker-carlson-says-hes-coming-back-with-show-on-twitter/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Veru Inc. (NASDAQ: VERU) resulting from allegations that Veru may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Veru securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9728 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.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On November 10, 2022, Veru issued a press release announcing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (the "Committee") voted against granting emergency use authorization ("EUA") for sabizabulin, Veru's product for treatment of hospitalized moderate to severe COVID-19 patients who are at high risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Specifically, the Committee voted 8-5 that the known and potential benefits of sabizabulin do not outweigh the known and potential risks.
On this news, Veru's stock price plummeted by $8.04 per share, or over 53%, to close at $6.97 per share on November 10, 2022.
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. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. 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.
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Lubbock Mexican restaurant announces closure, days after 2nd anniversary
Just days after celebrating its second anniversary, a Lubbock Mexican restaurant announced it will close its doors ahead of this weekend.
La Chaveña, 1519 34th St. Suite B, announced the closure via social media late Sunday, May 22. The restaurant, known for its family recipes and free margaritas on Fridays, will have its final day on Friday, May 26.
"At the end of 2020, post COVID, we decided to test the waters and open our own place and honestly did much better than we expected, but with our children growing quickly, and time waiting on no one, this was a decision we knew we needed to make for ourselves," the owners said in a social media post. "It’s been a joy serving our community and having a place of our own where we were able to serve y’all our awesome recipes!"
Others are reading:Growing places: Lubbock's Downtown Farmers Market marks 15th year with new location
The space will still be available for private parties and events after Friday. All arrangements made prior to the announcement will be honored.
The owners also hinted that people should continue to follow the Facebook page, as this might not be the end for them.
"Don’t forget about us, and keep an eye on our page, we may pop up somehow in the near future," the owners said in the post. | 2023-05-23T20:03:45+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/business/2023/05/23/lubbocks-la-chavena-announces-final-day-of-business/70244110007/ |
NEW YORK, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clean Beauty Collective announced today that after a decade leading the company, President Greg Black has been promoted to CEO. Clean Beauty Collective has been a pioneer in clean beauty since 2003. Its portfolio includes CLEAN RESERVE® and CLEAN CLASSIC®, ranging from prestige fragrances to skincare products that are simple, trusted, and conscious for consumers who want worry-free beauty products without compromising quality.
"I'm thrilled to be named CEO of Clean Beauty Collective," said Black. "For the last 5 years, we have been laser focused on capitalizing on our heritage as a clean beauty pioneer. I'm excited to further accelerate our growth by harnessing technology and innovation to fuel market share and further expansion in 2024."
"Greg has done an incredible job leading his team and transforming Clean Beauty Collective into a global leader in clean beauty," said John Miszuk, Director, Member of the Board. "We are ready for our next phase of growth and there's no better leader than Greg to lead the team."
Under Black's leadership, the company has experienced exponential growth, international expansion and launched award-winning innovations. The company is the #1 clean fragrance brand at Sephora in North America. In 2022, the brand, available in over 30 countries, launched exclusively at Sephora China in over 300 locations and ended 2022 as the retailer's top 10 fragrance brand in China. The company continues to expand in 2023 international markets including Mexico and South America with a roll out in countries such as Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Peru.
Black led the company's strategy during the pandemic to focus on expanding the business model with a focus on strong pipeline of product development. CLEAN RESERVE® introduced its Hair, Skin & Body collection to the portfolio, featuring ten new products for a head-to-toe regimen containing sustainable ingredients that support local farmers and their communities. The collection focuses on effective, sustainably sourced ingredients such as Buriti, Pequi oils, Tucuma butter, and Bilberry seed extract. The brand is also developing a new proprietary fragrance technology, that tested extremely well in consumer research, expected to launch in early 2024.
Black previously held senior positions with Coty, Revlon, and the Puig Beauty & Fashion Group. He is a graduate of Lafayette College.
About Clean Beauty Collective Inc.
Clean Beauty Collective Inc., is a boutique beauty company with an iconic portfolio of brands, including the CLEAN CLASSIC® and CLEAN RESERVE® pillars, each with multiple collections. Established in Ottawa, Canada in 2003 and in NYC since 2009, Clean Beauty Collective Inc.'s mission is to create and manufacture products for mindful consumers seeking not only quality in their beauty products, but also peace-of-mind that their products are simple, trusted, and conscious. The existing collections fully embody the company's core values as they are produced with partners that use green manufacturing practices, supply eco-conscious packaging, and use responsibly sourced ingredients that give back to farmers and their communities. Clean Beauty Collective Inc.'s products are sold in over 30 countries world-wide.
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Teens invent an automatic walker to help Parkinson’s patients
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (CNN) - Two teenagers have spent the last two years inventing a one-of-a-kind walker that would help people with Parkinson’s disease.
Kaavya Karthikeyan and Akanksha Tibrewala are childhood best friends, neighbors and classmates at Chantilly High School.
“And we met through preschool. And then she actually moved into the neighborhood a few years after so we have just been best friends after that,” Karthikeyan said.
Both are eyeing Georgia Tech as a possibility of entering college together.
But perhaps their biggest passion they share is caring for seniors and those with Parkinson’s disease.
“It kind of sparked with my great-grandmother,” Tibrewala said. “She had paralysis on one side of her body. So it was extremely difficult for her to do simple tasks like walking.”
The friends set to work creating an automatic walker.
“One of the main things that we were trying to focus on was to make sure our walker was completely simple to use and that it was easy for them to understand how to use it,” Karthikeyan said.
The walker would have a big impact for people who have mobility issues.
Karthikeyan and Tibrewala spent the last two years designing the walker and testing it with patients in local facilities.
“Once we had this idea, we were really surprised to see there was nothing on the market like this,” Karthikeyan said.
They asked patients with Parkinson’s as well as physicians if their product would make sense or if it would be of assistance.
“And it actually gave us really good results and we got really good feedback from them,” Karthikeyan said.
Now they’re hoping to get a patent on it and get it on the market.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-06T16:02:05+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/09/06/teens-invent-an-automatic-walker-help-parkinsons-patients/ |
Essential items for your next barbecue
Few things beat a barbecue on a sunny day or a starry night. Before you send out invites for your next backyard barbecue, make sure you have everything you need for a successful al fresco gathering.
Investing in a few essentials can turn a good barbecue into a great one. If you’re wondering whether you should upgrade your grill gear or pick up new dining accessories, this roundup has you covered.
How do I prepare to host a barbecue?
Barbecues are simple to host, but even the easiest backyard parties like these benefit from some planning. Here are a few suggestions to point you in the right direction:
- Check the weather and make contingency plans in the event that you’re rained out.
- Do a headcount so you can buy the right amount of food and beverages.
- Have a well-rounded grill menu so all guests can find something they’ll enjoy.
- Enlist the help of household members or friends to pick up food or other items.
- Prepare some food in advance to save time the day of the barbecue.
- Tidy up your outdoor space so guests have plenty of room to hang out.
- Keep trash and recycling bins within reach of guests.
If you’ve got this checklist covered, you’re ready to move on to the next few categories covering necessary barbecue items.
What grill tools should I buy for my barbecue?
Kebabs remain a popular barbecue food because they’re easy to make and quick to grill. Choose a set of stainless steel skewers, which, unlike bamboo skewers, are reusable. As an added bonus, you don’t need to soak these skewers prior to use.
If you love vegetables but kebabs aren’t your thing, pick up a grilling tray. Whether you’re grilling corn on the cob or peppers and onions, it’s a solid choice. It’s also easy to flip veggies inside a grill tray to get an even sear.
One of the most inventive grill tools we’ve seen is a Himalayan salt slab, which can be placed on a grill to cook meat, fish and kebabs. It infuses food with a mineral-rich salt flavor, and when you’re not grilling with it, it’s an eye-catching serving tray or charcuterie board.
What serveware do I need to host a barbecue?
Grilling is one thing, but serving takes the cake for one of the most challenging aspects of planning a barbecue.
Most people forego the fancy china and use durable outdoor dinner plates instead. They’re made from melamine, a material best known for its scratch-, stain-, and shatter-resistance. Many melamine plates are also BPA-free and dishwasher-safe.
As far as drinkware goes, guests can enjoy chilled beverages with insulated tumblers, like this set of four by Tervis. They have double-walled construction that keeps beverages cooler longer, even in the sweltering heat.
Speaking of staying cool, you won’t need to worry about shrimp or veggie platters getting too warm if you use a chilled platter. We like Prodyne Appetizers On Ice with Lids, a nesting platter that has a full-length tray for ice beneath the main food tray.
It’s inevitable for critters to invite themselves to your barbecue. However, you can protect food from unwanted guests with mesh food tents. They cover plates and platters of all sizes, and they’re more eco-friendly than plastic wrap.
If you’re in the market for an insulated water cooler, we recommend YETI Silo 6G Water Cooler. It has commercial-grade Permafrost insulation with extra-thick walls. The cooler also has side handles to make transport as easy as possible.
What flavors and seasonings should I buy for my next barbecue?
Ready to spice up your favorite grilling delights? Give your salt and pepper a break and upgrade to these barbecue flavors and seasonings.
Season meat, chicken and seafood with a gourmet barbecue seasoning set. This one by FreshJax comes with five exciting flavor profiles, including Island Spice, Citrus Pepper, and Bold Bayou. They’re great for giving grilled veggies a kick, too.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Robyn Benton scored 20 points, Adebola Adeyeye had 11 points and 17 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky beat 11th-seeded Florida 72-57 on Wednesday in an SEC Tournament game marred by a scuffle.
Kentucky (11-18) snapped a seven-game losing streak to advance to play No. 6 Alabama on Thursday.
The game had a 22-minute delay for an official review following an altercation between Florida forward Tatyana Wyche and Kentucky forward Ajae Petty with 5:26 remaining in the second quarter. Wyche threw the ball in the direction of Petty and then chased after her down the court. No punches appeared to be thrown, but several players left the bench area leading to eight ejections — four from each team.
“Well, obviously that’s not how we want to represent ourselves as Florida women’s basketball and in the competitive spirit,” Florida coach Kelly Rae Finley said. “So first and foremost, I apologize for that because that is not representative of the SEC, University of Florida, or how we compete.”
When the game finally reached halftime, the score was 22-21. The short-handed teams adjusted at the break, combining for 41 points in the third quarter with Kentucky leading 43-41.
Kentucky, the defending SEC Tournament champions, pulled away during an 10-0 run in the fourth quarter for a 66-52 lead. Florida struggled from the floor in the fourth quarter, missing seven straight shots early and six consecutive shots in the closing four minutes.
Nina Rickards scored 19 points and Alberte Rimdal added 15 for Florida (16-14). Rickards completed a three-point play with 2:15 left in the third quarter to give Florida its first lead, 41-39, since it was 4-2.
The Gators played without Ra Shaya Kyle, Faith Dut, and sisters Taliyah and Tatyana Wyche in the second half. The Wildcats were without Cassidy Rowe, Eniya Russell, Zennia Thomas and Saniah Tyler after the altercation as well.
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To celebrate a world-first regulatory milestone that brings the future of food one step closer to U.S. consumers, UPSIDE is sharing the news with those who will benefit most: chickens
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To commemorate a groundbreaking regulatory milestone for UPSIDE Foods and for the future of food, UPSIDE Foods founder and CEO Uma Valeti published an open letter in today's New York Times to those who will benefit most from the news: chickens. UPSIDE Foods is the leading cultivated meat, poultry, and seafood company and grows delicious meat directly from animal cells.
Valeti — a trained cardiologist and life-long animal lover — addressed the chickens of the world in their native bawk-filled language. He announced that UPSIDE Foods is the first company in the world to receive a "No Questions" letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This means that after a rigorous evaluation, FDA has accepted UPSIDE's safety conclusion. UPSIDE's first product will be a chicken filet, and it will be available following USDA inspection and label approval. "The affirmation from FDA is a watershed moment in the history of food," says Valeti, "and an even bigger moment for chickenkind."
In the Times open letter, Valeti wrote, "In the future, we might be eating just as much meat as we always have. But a lot fewer animals are going to have to suffer for it. We wanted you, the chickens of the world, to be the first to know. And we hope it brings a smile to your beaks." Read the full English translation at upsidechickenletter.com.
UPSIDE Foods selected chicken as its first commercial offering because it's the most commonly eaten meat in the U.S. and is quickly becoming the meat of choice for consumers around the world. Every year, Americans consume an estimated 8 billion chickens — or roughly 100 pounds per person — a number that has doubled since the 1970s. This growth in demand has been accompanied by an exponential increase in high-intensity industrial chicken farming resulting in more animal suffering.
UPSIDE Foods' chicken is cultivated directly from animal cells. It's not vegan or vegetarian – it's delicious meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of chickens. In fact, at full commercial scale, UPSIDE could use a small amount of animal cells to cultivate the same amount of poultry meat that could come from hundreds of thousands of traditionally farmed birds.
In regulatory terms, UPSIDE's "No Questions" letter marks a major step towards a new era in meat production where Americans will soon have the opportunity to buy delicious chicken that's grown directly from animal cells.
On top of all this, it's projected that cultivated meat production at scale will use less water and land than conventionally-produced meat. And because it's made in a controlled environment subject to high standards of testing for safety and quality control, it has the potential to help reduce the risk of harmful bacterial contamination.
This announcement comes after a series of milestones as UPSIDE Foods approaches commercialization, including a $400M Series C placing their valuation at over $1 billion, the acquisition of cultivated seafood company Cultured Decadence, a partnership with three-Michelin starred chef Dominique Crenn, and the opening of its Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center (EPIC), one of the world's most advanced cultivated meat production facilities. Next, UPSIDE Foods will continue to work with the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to secure the remaining approvals that are required before UPSIDE Foods' cultivated chicken can be sold to consumers. More details on the timing of the launch will follow.
About UPSIDE Foods
Based in Berkeley, CA, UPSIDE Foods grows meat, poultry and seafood directly from animal cells. These products are not vegan or vegetarian—they are delicious meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of animals. Founded as the world's first cultivated meat company in 2015, UPSIDE Foods has achieved numerous industry-defining milestones, including being the first company to produce multiple species of meat (beef, chicken and duck). The company believes that people shouldn't have to choose between the foods they love and a thriving planet, and is working to build a better food system with access to delicious, humane, and sustainable meat, poultry, and seafood. UPSIDE Foods has won various industry awards, including New York Times' Good Tech Awards, FastCo's Next Big Thing in Tech, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources. UPSIDE Foods has raised a total of $608 million, including from the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Baillie Gifford, Bill Gates, Cargill, Future Ventures, John Doerr, John Mackey, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Future Ventures, Norwest, Richard Branson, Softbank, Temasek, Threshold, Tyson Foods, and others. For more information, please visit www.upsidefoods.com.
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Robot dogs made headlines in New York and San Francisco, as those police departments added them to their forces. In NY’s case, the strong public backlash caused the department to return its dog.
Now the LAPD and the LA City Council are mulling over the donation of a robot dog, and the debate raged during a recent meeting of the city council’s public safety committee.
The robots come from a company called Boston Dynamics, where the slogan on their website says, “Changing your idea of what robots can do.”
Jon Regardie, who has been covering all things robot dog for LA Magazine, says of the heated meeting, “There was a long public comment period where dozens of people called in and said, ‘Do not accept this.’ There were fears that this would lead to a militarization of the Los Angeles Police Department. There were concerns about surveillance. A lot of people said, ‘Hey, this will be unfairly deployed in Black and Brown communities.’ And caller after caller urged them to say, no.”
However, he adds, “I would be surprised if it is rejected when it does finally appear before the full council.” | 2023-02-03T04:37:31+00:00 | kcrw.com | https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/dirt-agriculture-reservoirs-lapd/robot-dogs-police?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss |
EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Totus Medicines, the drug discovery and development company committed to ending the era of untreatable disease, announced today the appointment of Dr.Lewis Cantley, Dr. Hope Rugo, and Josep Tabernero to the company's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Totus has created the first biosearch technology that scans, maps, and decodes effective new drugs thousands of times faster than traditional drug discovery processes. To start, Totus has focused on oncology with an early breakthrough for the most mutated oncogene in cancer, PI3Kα, using the Totus Accel™ Platform.
The members of the newly appointed SAB bring unique expertise and experience in the areas of oncology treatment and therapeutic development for some of the world's hardest oncology gene mutations to treat. They include:
- Dr. Lewis Cantley: Dr. Cantley's work has helped define the field of signal transduction, and he notably discovered the PI3K pathway and its role in cancer. He previously co-founded Agios Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AGIO), Petra Pharma, and Volastra Therapeutics. Dr. Cantley has been the recipient of multiple awards. For the discovery of PI3K, he received the inaugural $3M Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, an honor that "recognizes excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and human life." He is a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Cancer Cell Biology program.
- Dr. Hope Rugo: Dr. Rugo is a foremost expert on targeted oncology clinical development and well known for developing new strategies to enable rapid advancement of effective drugs to patients. As the co-director of UCSF's breast cancer clinical trials program, she established the I-SPY Trials, a groundbreaking new clinical approach to allow rapid approvals based on pre-defined benchmarks. This represents the longest running platform trial ever. Dr. Rugo has also served as principal investigator for over 10 new therapies, including working with multiple PI3K inhibitors. She is also an investigator with the Bay Area's SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) on breast cancer.
- Dr. Josep Tabernero: Dr. Tabernero served as ESMO President from 2018 – 2019, including its Executive Board of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) for many years. He is also member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and has been appointed as member of several Educational and Scientific Committees of ESMO, ASCO, AACR, AACR/NCI/EORTC, ASCO Gastrointestinal, and ESMO-GI/WCGIC meetings. As the Head of the Medical Oncology Department at the Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus and Director of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Dr. Tabernero has been Principal Investigator of several Phase I pharmacodynamic studies and translational projects with tumor-directed targeted therapies and immune therapies.
Totus announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board in May 2022, taking a novel approach to the usual practice of populating an SAB with experts of similar backgrounds. Instead, Totus recruited industry leaders from different disciplines to provide strategic guidance as the company entered clinical trial phase in December 2022 and continues to expand its platform.
"I am excited to join the Scientific Advisory Board of Totus Medicines. Totus has a uniquely novel approach to targeting PI3K-alpha that may solve the key challenges that this field has been working to address for decades," said Dr. Lewis Cantley. "By achieving near 100% inhibition of PI3K-alpha, this approach could produce real benefit for patients with this mutated oncogene."
"I'm honored to have Dr. Cantley, Dr. Rugo, and Dr. Tabernero join our growing Scientific Advisory Board," said Totus CEO and co-founder Dr. Neil Dhawan, Ph.D. "Totus' mission is to solve some of the biggest issues plaguing the biopharma industry through our novel technology applications and platform - and our new SAB members, who are renowned leaders with diverse backgrounds, will be a crucial part as we continue to develop the next generation of highly effective medicines."
The SAB advances Totus' efforts to continue to deliver unparalleled efficiency and accuracy with its groundbreaking drug discovery platform. Announced last year, Totus initiated a drug program for the newly identified TOS-358, which is the first highly selective covalent molecule targeting PI3Kα, which is the most mutated oncogene in cancer.
About Totus Medicines
Founded in 2019, Totus Medicines has developed the next generation of cellular analysis to create life-changing therapies to treat previously untreatable diseases. Totus' platform uses proprietary molecular tags that track drug binding in individual cells to enable the screening of billions of molecules across any drug target. Totus is based in the Bay Area.
For more information, please visit totusmedicines.com and follow Totus on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Kansas City Royals (29-73, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (49-51, second in the AL Central)
Cleveland; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Zack Greinke (1-10, 5.03 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 65 strikeouts); Guardians: Aaron Civale (3-2, 2.71 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 49 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Guardians -205, Royals +170; over/under is 8 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals meet the Cleveland Guardians leading the series 1-0.
Cleveland has a 49-51 record overall and a 26-24 record in home games. The Guardians have a 28-8 record in games when they scored five or more runs.
Kansas City has a 14-37 record on the road and a 29-73 record overall. The Royals have gone 8-14 in games when they hit at least two home runs.
Tuesday's game is the ninth time these teams match up this season. The Guardians have a 5-3 advantage in the season series.
TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Naylor has a .309 batting average to lead the Guardians, and has 22 doubles and 15 home runs. Steven Kwan is 15-for-44 with two home runs and seven RBI over the last 10 games.
Bobby Witt Jr. has 17 doubles, six triples and 16 home runs for the Royals. Freddy Fermin is 10-for-26 with three doubles, a home run and four RBI over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 4-6, .272 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs
Royals: 3-7, .243 batting average, 4.66 ERA, outscored by seven runs
INJURIES: Guardians: Shane Bieber: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Williams: day-to-day (blister), Triston McKenzie: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cal Quantrill: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Peyton Battenfield: 60-Day IL (shoulder)
Royals: Daniel Lynch: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Staumont: 60-Day IL (neck), Josh Taylor: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Matt Beaty: 7-Day IL (concussion), Vinnie Pasquantino: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brad Keller: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (flexor), Jake Brentz: 60-Day IL (elbow)
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-07-25T08:19:07+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/royals-face-the-guardians-with-1-0-series-lead/HOSXG2COHVFOTIDMO24NBOOHJY/ |
House GOP demands visitor logs in Biden classified docs case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly empowered House Republicans on Sunday demanded the White House turn over all information related to its searches that have uncovered classified documents at President Joe Biden’s home and former office in the wake of more records found at his Delaware residence.
“We have a lot of questions,” said Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Comer, R-Ky., said he wants to see all documents and communications related to the searches by the Biden team, as well as visitor logs of the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, from Jan. 20, 2021, to present. He said the aim is to determine who might have had access to classified material and how the records got there.
The White House on Saturday said it had discovered five additional pages of classified documents at Biden’s home on Thursday, the same day a special counsel was appointed to review the matter.
In a letter Sunday to White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Comer criticized the searches by Biden representatives when the Justice Department was beginning to investigate and said Biden’s “mishandling of classified materials raises the issue of whether he has jeopardized our national security.” Comer demanded that the White House provide all relevant information including visitor logs by the end of the month.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Comer referred to Biden’s home as a “crime scene” though he acknowledged that it was not clear whether laws were broken.
“My concern is that the special counsel was called for, but yet hours after that we still had the president’s personal attorneys, who have no security clearance, still rummaging around the president’s residence, looking for things — I mean that would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak,” Comer said.
The House Judiciary Committee on Friday requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland turn over information related to the discovery of documents and Garland’s appointment of special counsel Richard Hur to oversee the investigation.
White House officials “can say they’re being transparent, but it’s anything but,” the committee chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement Saturday that a total of six pages of classified documents were found from Biden’s time serving as vice president in the Obama administration during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there.
The latest disclosure was in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Biden’s garage and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
Sauber said that Biden’s personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening. Sauber found the remaining material Thursday, as he was facilitating their retrieval by Justice Department. Sauber did not explain why the White House waited two days to provide an updated accounting. The White House is already facing scrutiny for waiting more than two months to acknowledge the discovery of the initial group of documents at the Biden office.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said the Justice Department rightfully appointed special counsels to “get to the bottom” of the Biden classified documents matter as well as in a separate investigation into the mishandling of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida.
But Raskin also stressed key differences between the two cases, including that Biden’s team readily handed over documents to the National Archives compared with Trump’s repeated resistance to such requests.
“We should keep a sense of proportion and measure about what we’re talking about,” Raskin told CNN.
Asked Sunday if his oversight committee would investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents as well, Comer demurred.
“There have been so many investigations of President Trump, I don’t feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time investigating President Trump, because the Democrats have done that for the past six years,” he said.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wei Chen wants people who visit Philadelphia's Chinatown to see past the amber-colored roast ducks hanging in a restaurant window and notice the two older women chatting in Mandarin on the steps to the apartments above.
“These apartments are full of people who are low-income, who are elderly people, and people who are new immigrants,” said Chen, the community engagement director for Asian Americans United. “You have to think about how Chinatown was created. We weren't welcome in other neighborhoods.”
Chen, along with other organizers and members of Chinatown, said they were surprised by the Philadelphia 76ers' announcement Thursday of a proposal to build a $1.3 billion arena just a block from the community's gateway arch. They said neither the organization nor the property owner reached out for community input before the announcement.
A spokesperson for 76 Devcorp, the development company behind the arena, said in an emailed statement that the process is in its early stages — years from “anything changing" — and that the company planned to work with the community to help shape the project and ensure it's “done right."
“We are very sensitive to the Chinatown community’s concern in light of prior Center City proposals and are committed to listening to and working with the community in a way that hasn’t happened before," the statement read.
But those are promises many in Chinatown have heard before. After decades of developments — like the Pennsylvania Convention Center, which took homes from 200 families; Interstate 676, also known as the Vine Street Expressway, which threatened to cut off parts of the community; and proposals for a jail, a casino and another sports facility — that all were beaten back by the community, residents have a deep playbook of their own to choose from.
Across the country, there are fewer than 50 Chinatowns, some more vibrant and larger than others. Many took root in areas of cities that were thought of as red light districts. And as cities grew and changed around those communities, many Chinatowns have been under threat from gentrification or development.
Like others, the community in Philadelphia is just bouncing back after losing business during the pandemic, when Chinatown’s restaurants were shuttered for dining-in. Much of the senior population didn’t want to leave the neighborhood because of the fourfold increase since 2019 in hate crimes against people of Asian descent.
“This is an ongoing struggle for Chinatowns and other downtown communities of color and of low income,” said historian John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of Rutgers University’s Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience. “In the case of Chinatowns that play important symbolic roles for the cosmopolitan claims of the city, sport authority interests often trump such roles.”
The 76ers’ current home is in south Philadelphia, a few miles from downtown, along with most of the city’s other pro sports teams.
Many Chinatown residents and business owners are concerned that if a new arena is built, affordable street parking will disappear, traffic will increase, and holding traditional celebrations and festivals could become more difficult. But they are also worried that already-increasing property values could spike and force many who depend on the community to leave.
Debbie Wei is a founding member of Asian Americans United, started in Philadelphia in the 1980s to unite people of Asian ancestry to build the community and fight oppression. She was also an organizer of the protests against a proposed Phillies baseball stadium that city officials wanted to place at Chinatown’s door in 2000.
“If it's not a stadium, it's a highway or a convention center. Seattle ... Detroit ... Chicago, Boston, and then Washington, D.C. I have friends who grew up in Chinatown in D.C. and it's just been decimated," Wei said.
The home of the Washington Capitals hockey team and the Wizards basketball team moved to D.C.'s Chinatown community in 1997. Economic development experts say the increased foot traffic and more desirable real estate brought revitalization, but for the Chinatown community it meant rising rents and chain restaurants forcing them out.
Census numbers show that in 1990, about 66% of the people who lived in the D.C. Chinatown area identified as Asian American. That dwindled to 21% in 2010. And as of the 2020 census, that had dropped to about 18% in the two tracts that make up parts of Chinatown.
Wei described signs for chains like CVS and Starbucks appearing with Chinese translations beside them, calling it a “cosmetic illusion.” Chen fears the changes to D.C.'s Chinatown could happen to Philadelphia.
“If you go inside a restaurant or a business, the workers aren't Asian anymore. The owner isn't Asian. And a lot of the customers aren't Asian,” he said. “So where is the Chinatown? It's not there anymore.”
But in Philadelphia, Chinese-speaking households have been one of the fastest-growing populations, according to the census. The community passed the 5% threshold recently, meaning Chinese languages became official ballot languages. Asian and other immigrant communities contributed to the city reversing a decades-long trend of losing population in recent censuses.
Helen Gym, the first Asian American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council and an at-large member, held up two T-shirts from previous fights against potentially detrimental developments wanting to come to Chinatown. The first says, “No stadium in Chinatown,” and the second crossed out the word stadium and replaces it with “casino,” for the 2008 proposal that hoped to put a casino near the current proposal for the arena.
Gym previously joined the fight against the stadium and said that now, as a council member, she is “extremely skeptical” of the 76ers proposal.
“To us, this is one of the most vital parts and neighborhoods and communities in the city of Philadelphia,” Gym said. “This side has been a community that has continued to invest in itself, in its people, in small businesses. And in fact, this side is the one that has grown the health and well-being of the city.”
After the stadium failed in 2000, Gym said, the community developed the nearby space north of the expressway to add a public charter school, a community center, extensions of the Chinese Christian Church, the first Cambodian arts center and other cultural organizations.
Wei was the first principal of that school, the Folk Arts Cultural Treasures charter school. She said the building's owner turned down offers from developers who wanted to build condos.
“People don't understand what Chinatown means to the people of this community, people all over the area who consider this their home,” Wei said.
“There are precious few communities, real communities, left in Philadelphia. They are not just geographic; they are about relationships and memories. They are a place-based core that has been systematically destroyed not just in Philadelphia and the U.S.; but around the world," Wei said. "And once Chinatown is gone, it's gone. You can't rebuild it."
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Associated Press writer Shawn Marsh in Trenton, New Jersey, contributed to this report. | 2022-07-25T05:47:13+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Chinatown-fears-community-business-loss-in-76ers-17326378.php |
A former executive fired from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance made a raft of accusations against the tech giant Friday, including that it stole content from competitors like Instagram and Snapchat, and served as a “propaganda tool” for the Chinese government by suppressing or promoting content favorable to the country’s interests.
The allegations were made in a complaint Friday by Yintao Yu, the head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. operations from August 2017 to November 2018, as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this month in San Francisco Superior Court. Yu claims he was fired for disclosing “wrongful conduct” he saw at the company.
In the complaint, Yu alleges the Chinese government monitored ByteDance’s work from within its Beijing headquarters and provided guidance on advancing “core communist values.”
Yu said government officials had the ability to turn off the Chinese version of ByteDance’s apps, and maintained access to all company data, including information stored in the United States.
ByteDance did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The allegations come as TikTok – one of the most popular social media apps in the U.S. — faces heighted scrutiny in Washington and some states about whether it can keep American data safe from the Chinese government. The Biden administration has threatened to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell their stakes.
TikTok maintains it never gave U.S. user data to China’s government and wouldn’t do so if it was asked. In an effort to avoid a ban, it also wants to store U.S. user data on servers operated by the software giant Oracle.
In another attention-grabbing part of the lawsuit, Yu alleges he observed ByteDance promoting content that expressed hatred for Japan on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. At another time, he said the company demoted content that showed support for the protests in Hong Kong while promoting content that expressed criticism of the protests.
Yu said ByteDance developed software that would scrape user content from competitors’ websites without permission. He alleges the company would then repost the content on its own websites – including TikTok – to attract more engagement from users.
Yu said a fellow TikTok executive in charge of the video-sharing app’s algorithm waved off his concerns. At some point, Yu said the company modified the program, but continued to scrape data from U.S. users when they were abroad.
The former executive also alleges the company created fake users to boost its engagement metrics, including by programming them to “like” and “follow” real accounts.
Yu is seeking punitive damage, lost earnings and 220,000 ByteDance shares that had not vested by the time he was fired. | 2023-05-13T06:16:53+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/executive-fired-from-tiktoks-chinese-owner-says-beijing-had-access-to-app-data-in-termination-suit/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhongchao Inc. (NASDAQ: ZCMD) ("Zhongchao" or the "Company"), a platform-based internet technology company offering services to patients with oncology and other major diseases, today announced the renewal of the partnership between Zhongchao Medical Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("Zhongchao Shanghai"), of which Zhongchao consolidates the operations and financial results through a series of contractual arrangements and Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Limited ("J&J"). The renewed partnership is expected to further strengthen two parities' cooperation in the global advanced field of innovative medical and health.
As the first Fortune 500 company to position the Chinese market as a "global innovation engine," J&J is committed to providing innovative comprehensive medical solutions for Chinese patients and medical and health professionals, the vision of which is also shared with Zhongchao. Zhongchao Shanghai and its subsidiaries are equipped with independent research and development ability of innovative medical education solutions such as Practical Improvement (PI), Community of Practice Share (COPS), medical doctrines, AI knowledge maps, and educational technology modules such as thinking training. Zhongchao Shanghai has developed professional and rich medical content production capabilities and stringent quality control processes. Pursuant to the cooperation agreement, Zhongchao Shanghai will provide digital education, multimedia courseware production, medical editing, and related design services for J&J in mainland China.
Weiguang Yang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zhongchao, commented, "we are thrilled to announce the extension of our cooperation with J&J since 2017, following our last renewal in 2020. We remain committed to deepening our cooperation with J&J in the field of serving patients' health, with the aim of providing the best comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic solutions based on the benefits of patients and consumers. The MDMOOC platform provides year-round online professional medical training and education services for medical workers to improve their diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities, increase the accessibility and affordability of medical and health services, and promote the popularization of quality medical resources. Together with J&J, we intend to combine our respective expertise and resources to address the challenges in the healthcare market and deliver innovative medical solutions to patients. Meanwhile, we look forward to continuing our efforts to advance digital medical education in the healthcare related markets."
About Zhongchao Inc.
Zhongchao Inc. is an offshore holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. It conducts operations in China through the contractual arrangements between its wholly owned subsidiary and PRC operating entities. Zhongchao Inc. is a platform-based internet technology company offering services to patients with oncology and other major diseases. The PRC operating entities provide online healthcare information, professional training and educational services to healthcare professionals under their "MDMOOC" platform (www.mdmooc.org), offer patient management services in the professional field of tumor and rare diseases through Zhongxin, offer internet healthcare services through Zhixun Internet Hospital, and pharmaceutical services through Xinjiang Medical and operate an online information platform, Sunshine Health Forums, to general public. More information about the Company can be found at its investor relations website at http://izcmd.com.
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SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WORTH Magazine has announced its selection of Vintage Wine Estates (Nasdaq: VWE and VWEWW) President Terry Wheatley as one of the 50 Women Changing the World on its 2022 Groundbreakers List.
The prestigious list of "Groundbreakers 2022: 50 Women Changing the World" recognizes women who have achieved the extraordinary over the past year, demonstrating that living through several concurrent historical events presents an opportunity to reimagine a more equitable future. The fifty women represented on this year's list have risen above the tumult to achieve new heights, seized opportunities, and used their voices to uplift other women.
"As the first woman president to take a multimillion-dollar wine company public, my goal is to continue to raise up more women in our organization and others while continuing to advance Vintage Wine Estates' strategy for growth," stated Ms. Wheatley. "I am humbled to take my place among the Worth women who share that vision." VWE is an industry leader in digital marketing and among the fastest growing wine companies in the country
Ms. Wheatley joins the diverse list of remarkable women, which also includes Taylor Swift, GM CEO Mary Barra, Meghan Markle, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, Academy Award winning director Chloe Zao, Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke, among other notable figures.
WORTH Magazine's 2022 Groundbreakers List can be viewed at: https://www.worth.com/groundbreakers2022/
About Vintage Wine Estates:
Vintage Wine Estates (Nasdaq: VWE and VWEWW) is a family of wineries and wines whose singular focus is producing the finest quality wines and incredible customer experiences with wineries throughout Napa, Sonoma, California's Central Coast, Oregon, and Washington State. Since its founding 20 years ago, the Company has become a top 15 U.S. wine producer via organic and acquisitive growth, today selling more than 2 million nine-liter equivalent cases annually. To achieve this growth, the Company curates, creates, stewards, and markets its many brands and services to customers and end consumers via a balanced omni-channel strategy encompassing direct-to-consumer, wholesale and exclusive brand arrangements with national retailers. VWE is diverse across price points and varietals with over 50 brands ranging from
$10 to $150 USD at retail, with the majority selling in the $10 to $20 USD price range. For more information, visit https://www.vintagewineestates.com/.
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New Zillow survey finds being flexible about move-in date and offering to pay more up front are the top strategies to land a rental in an ultracompetitive market
SEATTLE, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Typical monthly rents are the highest they've ever been ($2,084 as of September), yet the rising cost of buying a home is keeping more and more people in the rental market. Safe to say, it's a stressful time to be a renter. In a recent Zillow survey,i more than one-third of recent renters (defined as Americans who moved into a rental unit in the past 2 years) reported that getting their current rental was more difficult than getting a new job.
What's making it so hard to land a rental? On top of determining how to afford a new place, renters face fierce competition from those who want or need to continue renting. Standing out to potential landlords among a slew of applicants is difficult, and staying organized to move quickly is of the utmost importance. Zillow asked recent successful renters for strategies they used to land their home.
Strategy 1: Be flexible about move-in date
More than one-third (34%) of recent renters said this strategy helped. Moving in earlier or later than initially planned is a (sometimes expensive) sacrifice, but it can help open up more options for renters. If a landlord won't budge on a proposed lease start date and the renter is able to stay with friends or relatives during the lease gap or have rental payments overlap for a short time, this strategy has been proven to work.
For renters who don't have this flexibility, it's best to keep their search specific to homes that line up with their move-in timing. Zillow's new move-in date filter can better align the end of a lease with the start of a new one, eliminating the "double rent" scenario.
Strategy 2: Be willing to pay more up front
In Zillow's survey of recent renters, 30% said paying at least two months' rent in advance helped them win their most recent rental. Only 20% of renters said they were involved in a bidding war for their place, but paying more up front may be a way to grab the attention of a landlord.
Even when that's not an option, renters should always make their best offer. Renters can start by researching and knowing what they can afford before even starting their search. Zillow's rent affordability calculator can help determine their price range, and Zillow's Rental Market Trends tool provides an up-to-date look at their desired market to help them feel confident they are getting a fair deal.
Strategy 3: Have strong references
Serious renters should have all of their documentation ready to go even before they start searching. It's common for landlords to ask for references, so having a few options ready to attest to a renter's reliability and trustworthiness is an important strategy — one that helped 29% of recent renters land their place.
In addition, Zillow's Renter Profile helps renters get a jump on putting their best foot forward and moving quickly when it comes time to apply. Renters create a personal profile outlining their renter qualifications, such as employment, income and credit score, as well as their desired move-in date and lease duration. A profile allows them to introduce themselves to potential landlords and offer a sense of what they're looking for in a rental.
Strategy 4: Being one of the first applicants
Landlords don't want their units sitting vacant for any longer than they have to, so it makes sense that being one of the first applicants was a successful strategy for more than 1 in 4 (26%) recent renters. In fact, in some areas, renters can move faster by taking advantage of virtual 3D Home tours and interactive floor plans on many Zillow rental listings. This quickly narrows their options, avoids wasting time touring apartments that are not a good fit and enables them to be among the first to apply. Renters should also check to see if the city in which they are searching has laws requiring landlords to accept the first applicant who meets all requirements.
Applications do still take time, and they come with a cost. Renters can gain advantages of both speed and savings in this supercharged market simply by using Zillow Applications. For a flat fee of $29, renters can use Zillow Applications to apply online for an unlimited number of participating properties for 30 days, which gives them the ability to control costs and add flexibility to their search.
Strategy 5: Offering to sign a longer lease
For a landlord, there's a lot of work that goes into filling a rental unit, so the additional security of knowing that their rental will have a tenant for more than just a typical 12-month period may make an offer more attractive. In fact, 23% of recent renters noted that this strategy helped them into their place.
In a market where rent prices continue to climb, signing a longer lease can be a great strategy for renters, too. Locking in the current price for two years instead of one can help them avoid annual rent increases.
Despite the cooling temperatures, aspiring renters are entering an extremely hot rentals market this fall, but one or more of these proven strategies can help them land their next rental.
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life's next chapter. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates offer customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting, or financing with transparency and ease.
Zillow Group's affiliates and subsidiaries include Zillow®; Zillow Premier Agent®; Zillow Home Loans™; Zillow Closing Services™; Trulia®; Out East®; StreetEasy®; HotPads®; and ShowingTime+™, which houses ShowingTime®, Bridge Interactive®, and dotloop®. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org).
i This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Zillow from August 9-11, 2022 among 2,064 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, among whom 406 have moved into a rental unit in the past 2 years. The sampling precision of Harris online polls is measured by using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the sample data is accurate to within + 2.8 percentage points using a 95% confidence level. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables and subgroup sample sizes, please contact press@zillow.com
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Democratic and Republican senators were at odds Thursday over how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for their self-imposed deadline of holding votes in Congress next week.
Lawmakers said they remained divided over how to define abusive dating partners who would be legally barred from purchasing firearms. Disagreements were also unresolved over proposals to send money to states that have “red flag" laws that let authorities temporarily confiscate guns from people deemed dangerous by courts, and to other states for their own violence prevention programs.
The election-year talks have seemed headed toward agreement, with both parties fearing punishment by voters if Congress doesn't react to the carnage of last month’s mass shootings. A total of 31 people were slain at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. An outline of a deal has been endorsed by President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a lead GOP bargainer, seemed visibly unhappy as he left Thursday's closed-door session after nearly two hours, saying he was flying home.
“This is the hardest part because at some point, you just got to make a decision. And when people don’t want to make a decision, you can’t accomplish the result. And that’s kind of where we are right now," Cornyn said.
“I'm not frustrated, I'm done," he added, though he said he was open to continued discussions.
Lawmakers have said a deal must be completed and written into legislative language by week's end if Congress is to vote by next week. It begins a July 4 recess after that. Leaders want votes by then because Washington has a long record of talking about reacting to mass shootings, only to see lawmakers' and voters' interest fade quickly over time.
Other bargainers seemed more optimistic, saying much of the overall package has been agreed to and aides were drafting bill language.
“A deal like this is difficult," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said when the meeting ended. “It comes with a lot of emotions, it comes with political risk to both sides. But we’re close enough that we should be able to get there."
The measure would impose just small-scale curbs on firearms. It lacks proposals by Biden and Democrats to prohibit assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in Buffalo and Uvalde, or to raise the legal age for purchasing assault rifles from 18 to 21.
Even so, it would be Congress’ most robust move against gun violence since 1993. A ban lawmakers enacted that year on assault weapons took effect in 1994 and expired after a decade. Scores of high-profile mass shootings since have yielded little from Washington but partisan deadlock, chiefly due to Republicans blocking virtually any new restrictions.
Federal law bars people convicted of domestic violence against a spouse from acquiring guns, but leaves a loophole for other romantic relationships. Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates firearms curbs, says 31 states bar convicted domestic abusers from buying firearms, including 19 that cover violent dating partners.
Senators have disagreed over how to define such relationships, with Republicans working against a broad provision. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, the other lead GOP negotiator, said bargainers would use some state statutes as their guide, though their laws vary.
“You need to make sure that you’re capturing everyone that actually beat" up their girlfriends, said Murphy, a Democrat.
In addition, 19 states and the District of Columbia have “red flag” laws. Cornyn and the other lead bargainer, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., represent states that do not, and it is unclear how money in the bill would be divided among them.
Senators have not said what the measure's overall price tag will be, though people following the talks have said they expect it to range around $15 billion or $20 billion. Lawmakers are looking for budget cuts to pay for those costs.
Twenty senators, 10 from each party, agreed to the outlines of a compromise measure last weekend. Top bargainers have labored ever since to translate it into details.
The framework includes access to the juvenile records of gun buyers age 18 to 20. Both shooters in Buffalo and Uvalde were 18, and both used AR-15 style automatic rifles, which can load high-capacity magazines.
The plan also includes added spending for mental health and school safety programs, tougher penalties for gun trafficking and requirements that slightly more gun dealers obtain federal firearms licenses. | 2022-06-17T00:54:49+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/politics/gop-dem-senate-bargainers-divided-over-gun-deal-details/2786427/ |
Cody Bellinger Player Prop Bets: Cubs vs. Mariners - April 11
Published: Apr. 11, 2023 at 1:24 PM CDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
The Chicago Cubs and Cody Bellinger, who went 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI last time in action, take on Chris Flexen and the Seattle Mariners at Wrigley Field, Tuesday at 7:40 PM ET.
In his last game he had a one-hit showing (1-for-4) against the Mariners.
Cody Bellinger Game Info & Props vs. the Mariners
- Game Day: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
- Game Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Wrigley Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Mariners Starter: Chris Flexen
- TV Channel: MARQ
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +310)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +130)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Cody Bellinger At The Plate
- Bellinger is hitting .176 with a double, a home run and four walks.
- Bellinger has picked up a hit in four games this season (44.4%), including one multi-hit game.
- He has hit a home run in one game this year.
- Bellinger has driven in a run in five games this year (55.6%), including one multiple-RBI game.
- He has scored a run in four of nine games so far this season.
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Cody Bellinger Home/Away Batting Splits
Mariners Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Mariners pitching staff ranks 19th in the league.
- The Mariners' 3.17 team ERA ranks fifth across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Mariners allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (six total, 0.5 per game).
- Flexen (0-1) gets the starting nod for the Mariners, his second this season.
- In his last appearance on Wednesday, the righty threw five innings against the Los Angeles Angels, allowing two earned runs while surrendering two hits.
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Personal connections show lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s downfall
Columbia, S.C. – The shooting deaths of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son started a chain of investigations, strange happenings and legal maneuvers over the past 13 months that led to murder charges Thursday.
But Murdaugh’s life was quietly unraveling behind the scenes long before that. Authorities said he was stealing money, addicted to painkillers and desperately trying to avoid an in-depth examination of his finances tied to a wrongful death lawsuit involving his son – all while lying to just about everyone in his life.
Like the whiteboard on a detective show, the spokes of a half-dozen investigations radiated from Murdaugh after the killings of Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and 22-year-old son Paul on June 7, 2021.
Suddenly, a whole cast of people became victims or unwitting players in the drama – the family of a teenager killed in a boat crash determined to fight for justice, the slain wife who led a quiet life, the Murdaugh client who may have been hired to stage an attempt on the lawyer’s life and the housekeeper who died in a fall in the Murdaugh home.
Mallory Beach
More than a year before the killings, 19-year-old Mallory Beach died when she was thrown from a Murdaugh family boat after it crashed into a bridge pier. Police said Paul Murdaugh was drunk while driving the boat in February 2019.
Beach’s family demanded justice not just criminally, but in civil court too, filing a wrongful death lawsuit that still is awaiting trial.
That lawsuit likely meant a close look at the Murdaugh family’s finances. Murdaugh fought the suit at every turn as Beach’s attorneys suggested he was fearful they would discover how he was managing to live so far above his current means. Prosecutors said they have learned since that Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating if Murdaugh, his family or his friends tried to obstruct the investigation into the boating crash. Others on the boat said Murdaugh was at the emergency room that night, looking up their rooms and trying to convince them to tell investigators his son wasn’t driving.
Maggie Murdaugh
Maggie Murdaugh married the sweetheart she met at the University of South Carolina and moved to tiny Hampton County, where Alex Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather had been elected prosecutors.
By all accounts, she led a quiet life, supporting her husband’s work and raising two sons. Friends don’t remember her working outside a brief time running her own gift shop. They remember a devoted mother who loved her family’s coastal home about 60 miles (96 kilometers) away on Edisto Island.
Maggie Murdaugh died near her younger son at the family’s Colleton County hunting estate. Both were shot multiple times, the coroner said. Alex Murdaugh called 911 after discovering their bodies. He has said he had just returned home from visiting his mother and ailing father.
Thirteen months later, Murdaugh was indicted in her death and the killing of their younger son. Police said Murdaugh used two different guns – shooting his wife with a rifle and his son with a shotgun. But the indictments said nothing about what evidence linked Murdaugh to the killings.
Curtis "Eddie" Smith
Curtis “Eddie” Smith met Alex Murdaugh when he sued the tree company he worked for after hurting his back in 2007. Or they might have already known each other. Like many things with Murdaugh, exactly what transpired is murky.
Murdaugh won a settlement for Smith, who said the two became friends. Murdaugh’s lawyers said it was more of a business relationship, with Murdaugh buying drugs.
A few days after the century-old Murdaugh family law firm discovered stolen money in September 2021, Murdaugh asked Smith to meet on the side of a lonely Hampton County highway, according to prosecutors. Murdaugh said he asked Smith to kill him so his surviving son could get $10 million life insurance policy. Smith said Murdaugh threatened to kill himself and the gun fired as Smith tried to wrestle it from his grip.
The shot only grazed Murdaugh’s head. Murdaugh’s lawyers called Smith a drug dealer.
“With a friend like that, who needs enemies?” Smith told an Associated Press reporter.
Both men were indicted for the roadside shooting – Smith for assisted suicide, conspiracy and other charges; Murdaugh, for insurance fraud and filing a false police report after initially saying he was shot at randomly while changing a tire.
In June, prosecutors suggested a much deeper relationship. They indicted both men again, saying Murdaugh wrote 437 checks worth $2.4 million that Smith cashed over eight years to try to hide theft and other illegal activity, including a drug ring involving the painkiller oxycodone.
It was the 16th indictment against Murdaugh, who prosecutors said has stolen more than $8 million from clients and others.
Gloria Satterfield
Gloria Satterfield was a housekeeper for the Murdaughs for two decades before slipping into a coma and dying a few days after Alex Murdaugh said she tripped and fell in their home.
Murdaugh steered Satterfield’s family toward a friend to act as their attorney, according to a lawsuit. Murdaugh then strong-armed his insurers to pay more than $4 million in wrongful death settlements, prosecutors said.
But Satterfield’s family never saw a dime until their new attorneys came after him. Eric Bland and Ronnie Richter relentlessly attacked Murdaugh in court and in the media. Murdaugh eventually ended up behind bars on a $7 million bond.
Bland compared Murdaugh to a bank robber, but using a pen and corrupt friends instead of a gun.
Months later, the lawyer friend and a banker who prosecutors said secretly sent Murdaugh money meant to go into trusts for his clients were indicted.
Bland and Richter have earned well over $4 million in legal settlements from Murdaugh, whose assets have been frozen, as well as Murdaugh’s attorney friend and the bank Murdaugh used.
The investigation into Satterfield’s death continues. State agents said in June that they would exhume her body. Coroners in South Carolina are supposed to be notified of any suspicious death, but the Hampton County coroner wasn’t told about Satterfield’s fall.
Another death investigation was reopened after the shooting deaths. Stephen Smith, 19, died in what investigators said was a hit-and-run, likely struck in the head by the mirror of a semitrailer on a Hampton County two-lane road in 2015. But Smith’s mother said there was no broken glass or plastic shards from a mirror on the road where her son’s body was found.
State agents haven’t said what evidence in the Murdaugh case led them to reopen the Smith case. | 2022-07-14T17:26:23+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/14/personal-connections-show-lawyer-alex-murdaughs-downfall/10059041002/ |
The Jemez River didn’t rise as anticipated Friday but is still running high, prompting officials to implement several safety measures.
Sandoval County announced it would close access to at least one bridge and discouraged travel to the Soda Dam area and the U.S. Forest Service said it will keep campgrounds and fishing access sites along a portion of N.M. 4 shut for now.
Earlier this week, a heat wave caused snow to melt rapidly, the resulting water rushing down the mountain and into streams and rivers in northern New Mexico, including the Jemez River valley.
On Wednesday, the county declared a state of emergency as the river swelled to about twice its regular size. The high waters caused wastewater treatment plant pumps to fail, forcing the county to use pump trucks to deal with the overflow. Thursday, the Jemez River began filling flood plains and at points crossed onto N.M. 4. Meteorologists anticipated the river would continue to rise Friday and maintain flood levels through the weekend.
However, the river didn’t officially reach flood status, at least at the one gauge in the valley measured by the U.S. Geological Survey. The Jemez River usually runs about 4 feet high at the USGS gauge in Jemez. It must reach 8 feet high to be considered a flood. The Jemez River crested at 7.85 feet high at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Since, the river has receded and by 4:45 p.m. Friday, the gauge was measuring 6.83 feet high.
The safety measures announced by the county’s Office of Emergency Management and the Forest Service on Friday include:
- Setting up a detour at the San Antonio River crossing on Hidden Valley Road south of N.M. 126 in the community of La Cueva. The county said the bridge over the river could be unsuitable for vehicular traffic;
- Setting up barrels at the Soda Dam area near Jemez to discourage the public from getting close to the river;
- Asking residents in Jemez Springs to reduce the amount of water going to the town’s wastewater treatment plant;
- Offering sandbags for pickup at fire stations along N.M. 4 at San Ysidro, Jemez Springs and La Cueva;
- Closing Forest Service Road 376;
- Closing campgrounds and fishing access sites along N.M. 4 between San Ysidro and La Cueva.
Businesses in the Jemez valley remain open, according to the county, but drivers should be cautious about entering low-lying areas with water on the roadway. | 2023-04-15T10:36:55+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2591039/jeme-zriver-receding-but-still-running-high-heres-the-latest.html |
Organizations in need of supplies urged to register for Reuse Fair
Porter County Recycling and Waste Reduction will hold a Reuse Fair during the annual Northwest Indiana Earth Day event on April 22 at Porter County Expo Center, 215 E. Division Road, Valparaiso. The Reuse Fair is an opportunity for the public to donate items to fulfill wish lists developed from multiple schools’ and organizations’ requests. Potential benefitting organizations include non-profits, schools, and charities. Wish lists will be advertised to encourage donations at the Earth Day event. There is a limit to the number of participants; early application is encouraged. Interested parties are asked to email Public Relations Coordinator, Gabrielle@PorterCountyRecycling.org to register. Due to limited space, wish lists should not exceed ten reusable items. To participate, organizations must have a member present at the event to collect materials on the day of the event. For more information, contact Gabrielle@PorterCountyRecycling.org or 219-465-3819.
St. Mary Medical Center Auxiliary to host fundraisers
St. Mary Medical Center Auxiliary will host public fundraisers. Proceeds will benefit the scholarship fund in support of students pursuing careers in the healthcare field. The Nutman Company Sale featuring a variety of nuts, candies, snack mixes and chocolates will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. Robert’s Medical Uniform Sale featuring an assortment of uniforms, scrubs, shoes and other medical accessories will run from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 2, and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 3. Nothing Bundt Cakes will be on sale from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 10. All sales will be in Rooms 3 and 3A near the West Entrance at the hospital, 1500 S. Lake Park Ave., Hobart. For more information, call 219-947-6011.
Lakeshore PBS, Lakeshore Public Media to air State Addresses
Lakeshore Public Media will air upcoming 2023 State Addresses on Lakeshore PBS and Lakeshore Public Radio. Governor Eric Holcomb’s State of the State Address will air live at 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday on both Lakeshore PBS and Lakeshore Public Radio. Indiana Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush’s State of the Judiciary Address will air at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 on Lakeshore Public Radio and at 9 a.m. Jan. 22 on Lakeshore PBS. Immediately following Governor Holcomb’s State of the State Address, Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Lauren Chapman and a panel of guests will bring viewers analysis and reaction to the governor’s speech and policy proposals heading into 2023. Lakeshore PBS broadcasts its main channel over the air on 56, on Comcast on 17 or 21 (HD Channel 239), on DISH Network HD Channel 6320, AT&T U-verse HD Channel 1056 and DirecTV on 56, and online at lakeshorepbs.org. Lakeshore Public Radio can be heard on 89.1 FM and streaming online at lakeshorepublicradio.org or via numerous streaming apps like Spotify, TuneIn Radio and iTunes.
Free movies at the National Park Visitor Center
Escape the cold and join a ranger and fellow visitors for National Park themed movies at 10 a.m. Saturday, and Jan. 21 and 28; and at 2 p.m. Sunday and Jan. 22 and 29 at the Indiana Dunes National Park Visitor Center, 1215 N. State Road 49, Porter. The movies change every weekend and run between an hour to an hour and a half in length. This month’s movies are “The Tuskegee Airmen and Steel and Steam,” “Everglades of the North” and “Heroes on Deck.” For more information on this and other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park, call 219-395-1882.
Hike, watershed memories part of AWLI’s 22nd winter fest
The 22nd annual Winter Wonderland at Wolf Lake festival will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday via Zoom and at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Eggers Grove Forest Preserve for a tree identification hike. The event is sponsored by the Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative (AWLI). The morning session will be an exchange of memories of the Wolf Lake watershed, which includes Wolf Lake, George Lake, Powderhorn Lake, Indian Creek and Eggers Grove. Marianne Kozlowski, co-steward of Eggers Grove, will lead the afternoon tree identification hike. Entrance is at East 112th Street and South Avenue E, Chicago. Hikers are advised to wear sturdy shoes and outerwear fit for the weather. To attend either event, contact AWLI by Noon Friday at 219-933-7149 or at michael@wolflakeinitiative.org. | 2023-01-09T22:15:11+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-news-brfs-st-0110-20230109-hjmopzjaezfxbhh6dsum37doke-story.html |
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WRIC) — A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection to a tire-slashing incident that involved three businesses and over 20 cars earlier this month.
A Crime Solvers tip helped police identify the suspect as 54-year-old Andrew G. Heywood of the 12000 block of Stamford Road in Chesterfield.
On June 16, Heywood was arrested and charged with one count of felony vandalism and three counts of misdemeanor vandalism in relation to the incidents.
On June 6, police received a call reporting that vehicle tires had been slashed at several businesses in the 8300 block of Midlothian turnpike.
It was initially reported that 54 tires had been slashed on 23 vehicles and one trailer at three businesses — One Stop Auto Repair, Haley Toyota and RNR Tire Express. According to police, a further investigation revealed that even more tires had been damaged at other locations in the area.
Surveillance cameras in the area showed a suspect slashing the tires at around 1:30 a.m. this footage was released to the public in the hopes that someone would come forward with more information.
8News also interviewed Jerry Jacobson, the owner of One Stop Auto Repair earlier this month.
“I was a nervous wreck, I didn’t know what to do,” Jacobson said. “I have customers who rely on our services and I feel like he took something away from me and the customers that’s hard to replace.”
Chesterfield County Police are continuing to investigate the incident and encourage anyone with information to contact police at 804-748-1251 or Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660 or through the P3 Tips mobile app. | 2022-06-17T18:43:57+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/chesterfield-vandalism-suspect-accused-of-slashing-over-50-tires-arrested/ |
DANVILLE, Pa., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) ranked best among commercial health plans in Pennsylvania for member satisfaction in the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.
In its third consecutive win, GHP earned a 17-point increase year-over-year. The study examines several key factors, including cost, coverage and benefits, customer service, information and communication, and provider choice, all of which Geisinger rated higher in than the previous year.
"Health coverage should be affordable for everyone, especially in times like these," said Kurt J. Wrobel, GHP president and executive vice president of insurance operations for Geisinger. "It is no easy feat to be named the top insurance plan in Pennsylvania, but this study shows that our members and patients get the quality of care they deserve and expect from the name they trust most with their health. At Geisinger, we always have, and always will, put our patients, members and communities first."
The 2022 study was conducted among commercial HMO, PPO and POS health plan members drawn from online panels. Results are based on responses across 147 health plans in 22 market-based U.S. regions as identified in the 2022 study. Of the 147 plans evaluated, 139 are eligible for ranking.
As part of one of the country's most well-established integrated health systems, GHP maintains a provider network of more than 29,000 doctors and 100 hospitals across Pennsylvania. More than half a million members trust GHP for their healthcare coverage.
To learn more about J.D. Power's rankings, visit http://www.jdpower.com/pr-id/2022061
About Geisinger
Geisinger is committed to making better health easier for the more than 1 million people it serves. Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes 10 hospital campuses, a health plan with more than half a million members, a Research Institute and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and nearly 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain granted personhood status Wednesday to what environmentalists call Europe’s largest salt-water lagoon, which has suffered massive die-offs of marine life as it degrades due to coastal development and local farming. The new law came after a citizen-led push to provide better protection for the threatened ecosystem.
The initiative backed by more than 600,000 citizens will become law after Spain’s Senate in Madrid voted in favor of the proposal to grant the Mar Menor lagoon on Spain’s southeastern coast the status of personhood, the first time such a measure has been taken in Spain.
A total of 1,600 square kilometers (994 square miles) of the lagoon and the nearby Mediterranean coastline will now be legally represented by a group of caretakers made up of local officials, local citizens and scientists who work in the area. The grassroots group that pushed the measure hopes this will improve the ability to defend the lagoon from further degradation.
The World Wildlife Fund calls the Mar Menor Europe’s largest salt-water lagoon. It’s home to several species of fish, seahorses and the endangered European eel. The lagoon, which covers 135 square kilometers (84 square miles), is separated from the open sea by a thin strip of land 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) long that is a popular vacation spot dotted with hotels.
For years, ecologists and citizens have denounced the periodic die-offs of marine life in the lagoon due to the runoff of fertilizers from nearby farms.
In 2019, over 50,000 people marched in the nearby city of Cartagena to denounce the degradation of the lagoon. This month, Spain’s government approved 20 million euros ($19.7 million) in aid to improve water treatment in towns near the Mar Menor as part of a recovery plan for the lagoon.
“So that natural disasters like those that have occurred, so that the episodes of mortality of fauna of the Mar Menor don’t return, let’s give this ecosystem its own rights,” Senator María Moreno said before the vote.
The law codifies the lagoon’s right “to exist as an ecosystem and to evolve naturally” and recognizes its right to protection, conservation and restoration.
In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River.
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Follow AP’s climate and environment coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment | 2022-09-21T20:11:19+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/international/ap-international/ap-spain-grants-personhood-status-to-mar-menor-lagoon/ |
(Motor Authority) — Toyota in late 2021 announced plans to launch 30 electric vehicles across the Toyota and Lexus brands by 2030, including sports cars.
A concept for an LFA-like supercar was shown for Lexus while something resembling a modern MR2 was shown for Toyota.
Toyota has confirmed the Lexus will deliver a 0-60 mph time in the low two-second range and have a manual transmission. The manual won’t actually connect to the powertrain, though. Instead it will only simulate the sensation of shifting gears by adjusting the torque of the electric powertrain and generating sounds mimicing an engine’s revs building and dropping.
Very little has been said about Toyota’s own electric sports car, though Toyota Chairman—and former CEO—Akio Toyoda revealed a few details in an interview with Automotive News (subscription required) during last weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Toyoda said he’s personally involved in the development of Toyota’s electric sports car and confirmed it will have a manual transmission (complete with a clutch pedal) and will generate engine sounds just like the Lexus. He also said anyone driving the car “probably wouldn’t be able to tell” that it is an EV, from the driving experience.
Timing for the Toyota electric sports car’s release wasn’t mentioned. Toyoda also said that he doesn’t know whether the car will make it to production.
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Though sports cars don’t sell in high volumes, Toyoda sees their development as an important step of improving more mainstream models. When discussing the reasons for developing the LFA a decade ago, Toyoda likened sports car development to the Japanese ceremony known as Shikinen Sengu. This ceremony involves relocating a major shrine from east to west, or west to east, once every 20 years. In doing so, skills and techniques, including the sourcing of materials for building the shrine, are passed on, he said. In the case of the LFA, new technological breakthroughs were also developed, particularly in the area of materials, and this has since been incorporated into other vehicles. | 2023-06-18T15:34:41+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/automotive/akio-toyoda-drops-first-details-on-toyota-electric-sports-car/ |
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona spoke with Scripps News on Thursday after the Supreme Court's ruling that race cannot be used as a factor in deciding college admissions.
"We're taking a step backwards here with college admissions," Cardona said of the decision. "It's the Supreme Court deciding on a tool no longer being available to promote diversity. But this idea of making sure that our universities reflect the beautiful diversity of our country — we're still committed to that 100%."
"We have to make sure that in our response, it's based on what the decision was, not what we assumed it could be," Cardona said. "Right now our teams are working extremely hard, going through it to make sure that within 45 days, we have tools and resources for universities as they're planning their policies for the upcoming year."
Cardona said the department would continue to work with college presidents and other officials to help college students.
"We're going to find strategies that work that are lawful and follow the Supreme Court decision, but are committed to the goal of making sure that we're providing opportunities for students who maybe historically haven't had those opportunities, and that we're providing opportunities for students, not based on wealth or privilege, but on the their ability to be successful in an agile learning environment at the university level."
SEE MORE: Biden, politicians condemn SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action
Cardona also looked ahead to another hotly anticipated Supreme Court decision, over whether the Biden Administration can move to forgive certain amounts of student loan debt. Under the plan, those who qualify could apply to have $10,000 in federal debt canceled, or up to $20,000 if they're Pell Grant recipients.
Cardona said he was very confident that the law as it stands grants the president and the Department of Education authority to extend relief to borrowers — but he declined to elaborate on how the Department of Education might react if the Supreme Court halts the effort.
"It's in our DNA in this administration to fight to make sure we make college affordable and accessible," he said. "And that's never going to change."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-30T04:54:34+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/education-secretary-affirmative-action-ruling-is-a-step-backwards |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A Sioux Falls high school student just returned from a trip to New York City she says she will never forget.
For 17-year-old Jo Kimball, singing is something she is passionate about.
“I’ve been singing as long as I can remember. I’ve always loved choir, loved singing, and I’ve been doing voice lessons for about six years now. It’s always been something that’s been important to me,” Kimball said.
Last week, she took that passion to the next level.
She performed at Carnegie Hall with hundreds of other students in the High School Honors Performance Series.
“There were people from New Zealand, Germany; everyone was from the coast, pretty much, so I was one of the few people from the Midwest,” Kimball said. “It was awesome to perform in a group where everyone is so talented and everyone is really passionate about music.”
After days and hours of rehearsal, they performed on Saturday. Kimball’s mom was there to watch the group sing.
“Being able to sit there and watch her perform, it was just so emotional because I know Jo is such a talented singer and it was so neat to see her being recognized for her efforts and how hard she tries and practices constantly,” Jo’s mom, Lynn Bartholow, said.
“Walking on it was like a dream, so surreal and we sang one of our songs that was kind of emotional and I started crying because it was crazy and I can’t believe I was able to do that,” Kimball said.
A moment that she will cherish forever.
“It was amazing. Everything that I worked up to, like to this point, paid off. It was probably the best moment of my life,” Kimball said.
After graduation, Kimball wants to go to college for vocal music education. She’d like to be a choral teacher. | 2023-02-08T00:02:15+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/sioux-falls-student-sings-at-carnegie-hall/ |
TORONTO (AP) — A bus carrying seniors to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba Thursday, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police said.
Rob Hill, Commanding Officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities in Manitoba were deploying all their resources to the scene. Ten people were taken to hospitals.
TV broadcasters aired images of what looked like a large van or bus smoldering in a ditch near a transport truck with a smashed engine on a road. The pavement was littered with debris — broken glass, a large bumper and what looked like a walking aid. Seven blue and yellow tarps were stretched out.
RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson said “as of right now the drivers of both the bus and truck are alive and in hospital.” He did not say if they were among the 10 listed as injured. The dead were mainly seniors.
Lasson said the bus was heading south and there would have been a stop and yield sign. He said the bus was crossing the east bound lanes when it was struck by the truck that was going east, adding that who had the right of way is critical to the investigation.
“The public is reeling and asking a lot of questions and people are trying to determine if their loved ones were involved,” Lasson said. “Death on this scale is never normalized for us.”
The crash scene was in Carberry, a city 170 kilometers (105 miles) west of Manitoba’s capital of Winnipeg.
“The news from Carberry, Manitoba is incredibly tragic,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. “I’m sending my deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones today, and I’m keeping the injured in my thoughts.”
A family support center has been set up at a Lutheran Church in Dauphin, Manitoba for relatives. Police said the people on the bus were from Dauphin and the areas around it.
Flags have been lowered to half-mast at the Manitoba legislature.
Barbara Czech, a spokesperson for Sand Hills Casino in Carberry, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the bus carrying the seniors was en route to the casino.
Kim Armstrong, the administrator of the Dauphin senior center, said the bus left from there Thursday morning.
The senior community is extremely tight knit in the city of around 8,600 people and the center is sometimes like a second home, she said.
“It’s huge to lose so many individuals of our community and of course it is shocking. We just pray for those that are surviving,” she said.
Armstrong said seniors and community members often go on trips on buses to nearby events or casinos.
Nirmesh Vadera, who was working at a business on the side of the highway when the crash happened, said he went outside and saw a transport truck with a smashed engine on the highway. The bus was on fire in the grass on the side of the road. First responders were trying to get people out of the burning vehicle, he said.
“It was burning and all the (firefighters) and medical help and everybody was trying to get them away from the fire,” he said.
The crash brought back memories of the 2018 bus crash in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan that killed 16 people from the Humboldt Broncos minor league hockey team. Lasson said investigators in that crash are assisting.
“Sadly this is a day in Manitoba and across Canada that will be remembered as one of tragedy and incredible sadness,” said Hill, the RCMP commanding officer. | 2023-06-16T01:11:14+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/15-people-mostly-seniors-killed-in-highway-crash-in-canada-official-says/ |
GILBERT, South Carolina (WJW) – More than a dozen children are recovering after their school bus collided with a tanker in Gilbert, South Carolina, on Thursday.
The accident sent 18 people, 17 of them children, to the hospital, according to local news outlet WIS-TV.
Footage captured by a nearby surveillance camera shows the bus coming to a stop at an intersection while the tanker approaches from the left. The bus then pulls into the intersection and is struck by the tanker.
Bystanders are soon seen running toward the site of the crash.
Emergency crews later responded to the scene and transported the injured children and the adult to the Lexington Medical Center for treatment. All have since been released, a spokesperson told the Associated Press.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating the accident.
Gilbert is about 30 miles (49 kilometers) southwest of South Carolina’s capital of Columbia. | 2023-05-27T20:02:14+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/school-bus-collides-with-tanker-in-south-carolina-video-shows/ |
Surgically targeted radiation therapy inside the brain offers treatment for recurrent cancer following tumor removal.
TAMPA, Fla., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tampa General Hospital and USF Health Morsani College of Medicine physicians are the first in Hillsborough County to bring patients experiencing recurring brain tumors a groundbreaking treatment.
Known as GammaTile, the FDA-cleared procedure places a bio-resorbable collagen tile the size of a postage stamp in the tumor site, immediately following surgery to remove the tumor. The procedure slows the progression of a returning brain tumor by immediately targeting residual tumor cells with precise gamma ray doses before those cells can significantly replicate.
"This new approach broadens future horizons as it increases options for patients with recurrent disease who can't tolerate more external radiation," said Dr. John David, assistant professor in the Department of Radiology in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and director of brachytherapy (internal radiation therapy) services and lead physician of radiopharmaceuticals at Tampa General. "GammaTile emits internal radiation in the specific area of the tumor as an additional treatment and it is a game changer for patients with recurrent brain tumors.''
Every year in the United States, more than 200,000 people are diagnosed with aggressive brain tumors that spread rapidly, build resistance to some treatments and are often fatal. Surgical re-section, chemotherapy and radiation treatment have been the traditional approaches to combating these brain tumors such as glioblastomas, gliomas, and meningiomas.
GammaTile at Tampa General offers a potentially life-prolonging option when traditional methods, including chemotherapy and radiation, fail to stop the recurrence of aggressive brain cancers. Many patients with recurrent brain tumors have received levels of radiation therapy that make the risk of additional exposure outweigh the potential benefits of more treatment. As a result, these patients are left with surgery as their only option. Unfortunately, tumor-removal surgery alone is rarely enough to prevent the growth of residual cancer cells.
"GammaTile starts targeting any recurring tumor cells immediately upon placement," said Dr. Richard Tuli, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, chief of radiation oncology at Tampa General and deputy director of the TGH Cancer Institute. "With traditional treatments, patients often had to wait for their surgical wounds to heal before undergoing radiation. Additionally, their treatment likely required multiple visits to receive the recommended dose. GammaTile allows for potentially life-saving radiation treatments to begin as soon as their surgery is complete. The introduction of this treatment is yet another example of the kind of innovation and multidisciplinary care that patients can expect from the TGH Cancer Institute."
In clinical trials, patients treated with GammaTile therapy required no additional trips to the hospital or clinic and could go about their daily lives. The tile is insulated except for a small area that allows the targeted dose to focus on the site most likely to have a recurrence, which spares healthy tissue and can limit such side effects as hair loss. The tile dissolves harmlessly, so no further surgery is required to remove it.
"By working as a team, neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists can employ this innovative treatment for recurring brain cancer right in the operating room, providing patients with a better quality of life," said Dr. Harry van Loveren, medical director of Neurosurgery at Tampa General and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. "This is a true multidisciplinary approach that takes the whole patient into account and gives each patient an opportunity to continue fighting brain cancer."
For more information about GammaTile and other innovative radiation oncology treatments offered at the TGH Cancer Institute, call 813-844-3903 or go to https://www.tgh.org/institutes-and-services/cancer-institute.
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,041-bed, not-for-profit, academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2021-22 Best Hospitals, and one of the top four hospitals in Florida, with five specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious 2021 Forbes magazine rankings – America's Best Employers by State, third out of 100 Florida companies and first among health care and social organizations, and 13th nationally in America's Best Employers for Women. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2020, provided a net community benefit worth more than $182.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 19 outpatient Radiology Centers. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics, and they can even receive home visits in select areas through TGH Urgent Care at Home, powered by Fast Track. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
USF Health's mission is to envision and implement the future of health. It is the partnership of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, the Taneja College of Pharmacy, the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, the Biomedical Sciences Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs, and USF Health's multispecialty physicians group. The University of South Florida is a high-impact global research university dedicated to student success. Over the past 10 years, no other public university in the country has risen faster in U.S. News and World Report's national university rankings than USF. For more information, visit health.usf.edu.
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The Gilroy Police Department got the OK from the city council on July 5 to enforce no-camping ordinances on public property, but it comes with a number of caveats that may render the decision moot.
Those experiencing homelessness, however, say the limited shelter options in Gilroy leave them nowhere else to go.
Outright bans on outdoor camping have been largely prohibited across the U.S. and in Gilroy since the Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled in 2019’s Martin v. City of Boise that outdoor public camping cannot be criminalized unless the individuals are given an alternative shelter option.
Hearing concerns from many residents on the growing number of encampments in Gilroy prompted officials to consider their options within the parameters of the court’s decision.
Police Chief Pedro Espinoza said the city’s two quality of life officers visit the encampments to see what, if any, services the unhoused individuals are receiving from providers. The officers then offer to connect the person to a provider if they are not receiving any services.
Espinoza said the officers seek voluntary compliance from the individuals to vacate a property, and added the goal is not to displace anyone as “from our experience, the problem often continues.”
City Attorney Andy Faber said the Boise case “sent shockwaves through public agencies,” as it implied that a city had to completely solve its homelessness issue before it could enforce no-camping ordinances.
But it includes some fine print that could allow a city to enforce the ordinances without facing lawsuits, he noted.
“There are a lot of complications and I don’t want to imply that this is a simple process at all,” Faber said. “But it appears that under the law if Gilroy desires to enforce a no-camping ordinance…we can do that, if we provide adequate shelter and if it is available.”
Availability is hard to come by, homeless advocates say.
Jan Bernstein Chargin said anyone can call the shelter hotline at 408.385.2400 and ask if there are any beds available in Gilroy. The answer, she said, will be the one she hears daily: no.
Bernstein Chargin said she is attempting to find a woman, who is being harassed on the streets, a place to shelter, but she’s been on a waiting list for about a month.
“The system is overwhelmed,” she said. “The reason why the shelters are full, and the reason why there’s a months-long waiting list is because people want shelter. The barrier to shelter is the lack of beds.”
Toni-Jo Napihaa said she’s been homeless for the past decade, despite holding a job for the last 20 years.
“Something is broken and something needs to be fixed,” she said. “I’m tired of being on the street. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t want to be there anymore, and I bet a lot of them don’t want to be there either, but they don’t know how.”
Kim Summers said she’s worked her “whole life,” but has been homeless for 10 years, struggling with health issues and trying to find a shelter.
“I just couldn’t afford my apartment anymore,” she said. “I don’t want to be out here.”
Mike Conrotto, the owner of the former Orchard Supply Hardware building on 10th Street that now houses Gilroy Motorcycle Center, said the area on Ninth Street behind the building has had problems for years with individuals selling drugs, leaving trash behind and using “bushes as their bathroom.”
He suggested the city create a sanctioned encampment for the homeless trying to get back on their feet.
“We need to put these people in an encampment where they can be protected,” Conrotto said.
Councilmember Dion Bracco said the city needs to “be more vocal and put pressure on the county,” suggesting having drug rehabilitation and mental health services at the county-owned St. Louise Regional Hospital will go far toward solving some of the issues.
He added that if nothing changes, a major incident is bound to happen, pointing to the number of encampments that line Highway 101 near Leavesley Road.
“Something’s going to happen sooner or later,” he said. “One day, a car or truck is going to come off that highway and it’s not going to be pretty.”
Bracco suggested the city reconvene its homeless ad hoc committee, which formed in late 2020 with himself and Councilmembers Carol Marques and Fred Tovar as members. Tovar, however, said the committee had already discussed the topics that Bracco brought up, but Marques said they “have to go further.”
“All we do is talk and talk and massage the issue,” she said. “Why is the public so angry? They’re angry because they’re tired of looking at all the garbage, they’re tired of seeing people walking down the streets screaming and hollering.”
She said many of the homeless people who have family members with housing need to “go home and get help.”
“Living with a family member is a lot better than living on the streets,” Marques said.
Councilmember Rebeca Armendariz, however, said the city should not be making any assumptions about a person’s family situation, adding that many unhoused individuals would dispute Marques’ claim.
She agreed that while the county can do a better job in providing resources, “so can we,” pointing to the council’s earlier decisions to purchase a garbage truck to clean up encampments and to reject a bid for a safe parking program.
“What kind of resources did we dedicate to the homeless?” Armendariz said. “We bought a garbage truck. We hired two quality of life officers, for what? Criminalization? It certainly hasn’t housed anybody.”
On a 5-2 vote, with Councilmembers Zach Hilton and Armendariz dissenting, the council agreed to allow police to enforce the no-camping ordinances on public property, if there is sufficient shelter space available.
On a separate unanimous vote, the council agreed to discuss options for “safe camping” on city property at a future meeting. | 2022-07-15T20:24:26+00:00 | gilroydispatch.com | https://gilroydispatch.com/lack-shelter-space-limits-options/ |
70-year-old man accused of dumping body in restaurant parking lot in broad daylight, police say
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) – A 70-year-old man in Mississippi was charged with desecration of a corpse after dumping a body in the parking lot of a restaurant Thursday evening, police said.
The Laurel Police Department obtained a video that showed a man in a white van pushing the body out into the parking lot.
Officers were called to the restaurant around 5:30 p.m. and found 45-year-old Dennis Ray Walker dead in the parking lot.
Police said they believe he overdosed and had been dead for quite some time.
Laurel Police Department Captain of Investigations Michael Reaves said he had never seen a body dumped in a parking lot in broad daylight in his 25 years at the police department.
“You can’t just leave bodies anywhere,” said Reaves. “There’s a proper way, and, you know, obviously, he should have called the police or ambulance service or something of that nature, but that’s where we are in the middle of the investigation right now.”
Reaves said officers arrested Reginald Arrington in connection with the crime.
Walker’s body has been sent to the Mississippi Crime Lab for autopsy. Reaves said after they receive the toxicology report from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, more charges could be pending.
“We’ve seen a heightened amount of overdose deaths,” Reaves said. “A lot of our heroin that we’re seeing today is laced with fentanyl, and, obviously, when that happens, the risk of overdose death increases, and we do have Good Samaritan laws in place that allow those people that, if there is an overdose, to call us without having fear of being charged with a crime.”
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VIDEO: Teen wrestler cited for assault after punching opponent
CHICAGO (WBBM) - A teenage wrestler seen on video sucker-punching his opponent after he lost a match at a Chicago-area competition was cited for assault under a local ordinance.
Video from the Wrestling Spot shows 14-year-old Cooper Corder extending his hand to his opponent, Hafid Alicea, also 14, after Alicea lost their freestyle match 14-2. Alicea also extends his hand, as if getting ready to shake, but then punches Corder in the face, deviating his septum.
“I didn’t want to retaliate, obviously, and I didn’t want to get hit again. So, as soon as it happened, my first reaction is ‘I gotta ball up or I gotta try to get away from what just happened,’” Corder said.
The incident happened April 8 at the Beat the Streets Chicago tournament at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois. The teens were both visiting from clubs outside the nonprofit’s program.
“I didn’t really understand until he was on the ground, and there was probably a three-or four-second delay of my brain just processing what just happened. Did what I think happened just happen?” said Corder’s mother, Jillian Hill.
She ran over to her son, who she says was in the fetal position on the ground, shaking.
Police were called after the incident and spoke with Alicea and his parents. The teenager allegedly told them he struck Corder because he was angry that he had lost the match.
Alicea received a local ordinance citation for assault and was charged under the Village of Oak Park code on Thursday. A hearing is scheduled for next month.
Corder says he’s doing well and recovering from the incident. A highly decorated young wrestler since the age of 4, he and his mother don’t want the video of the attack, which went viral, to take away from his accomplishments and the dedication he has for the sport.
“Anybody can get knocked down. Anybody can go through a hard time, but it’s your response to that and it’s your ability to move forward. That’s probably one of the things that makes me most proud of Cooper is he has handled this well. He has handled this so much better than most adults would have,” Hill said.
Corder’s goals for the future include wrestling at a Division I level and winning Olympic gold medals.
“I never want to be seen for being at a high level just because I got the exposure being punched. I want to be seen for all the work that I do, all the achievements I’ve had and everything I do that I’ve put into this sport,” he said.
The incident was also referred to USA Wrestling, the governing body for amateur wrestling in the United States, and its Illinois chapter.
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Shortly after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban notched up a fourth landslide election win, the European Union triggered powers that may ultimately deprive his government of more than 40 billion euros ($44 billion) in funding. The dramatic move shows the frustration among Hungary’s neighbors at Orban’s gradual consolidation of power and erosion of minority rights. If they succeed and Orban backs down, it would bolster democracy and EU unity. Failure may rekindle talk of Hungary’s potential exit from the bloc.
1. What’s the backdrop?
Since 2010, Orban has made it harder for independent institutions to hold the government to account. He’s appointed loyalists to the courts, the chief prosecutor’s office and the country’s media authority. A big parliamentary majority allowed him to write a new constitution that critics condemned as an attack on democracy and human rights. And he’s targeted minorities, including the Roma and LGBTQ communities. In 2019, Hungary became the first EU country to lose its rating as a full-fledged democracy at Freedom House, a Washington D.C.-based institution that assesses political systems. Meantime, corruption has flourished, with Transparency International, the graft watchdog, now rating Hungary as the most corrupt country in the EU after Bulgaria.
2. How did the EU allow this to happen?
While governments must adhere to stringent democratic criteria to gain admission to the world’s largest trading bloc, there have been few tools available to deal with wayward members once they’ve joined. The EU did try targeted legal action, but Orban always found a way out -- dragging his feet on demands for change, cutting deals that stopped short of meaningfully rolling back his power and exploiting shortcomings in the bloc’s own legal charters. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel also shielded Orban, arguing that pressing him too hard may prompt Hungary to follow the U.K. in its decision to leave the EU.
3. What’s changed?
The U.K.’s exit from the EU showed the region’s leaders that the biggest threat to the bloc’s future may come from its own members. In 2015, the nationalist Law & Justice party took power in Poland pledging to emulate Orban’s policies. In Slovenia, another populist ally of Orban, Janez Jansa, took power. Italy’s Matteo Salvini and France’s Marine Le Pen have also forged close ties with Orban, seeing in the Hungarian leader’s track record a recipe to subvert mainstream politics in their own countries. In response, the European Parliament voted in 2018 to trigger a rule-of-law probe against Hungary on “a clear risk of a serious breach” of the EU’s democratic principles. A new mechanism adopted in 2020 allowed the EU to potentially cut off funding when the bloc’s financial interests may be undermined.
4. How important is EU funding for Hungary?
It’s crucial. Hungary’s share of the 2021-2027 EU budget is 36 billion euros, which is equivalent to about 28% of the country’s gross domestic product in 2020. That year, EU funds made up more than 10% of budget revenue. There’s also the question of Hungary’s 7.2 billion-euro share of the pandemic recovery funds. The EU has delayed the release of Hungary’s share, citing corruption concerns. When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on April 5 that she was unleashing the mechanism for reining in nations that violate the EU’s core values, it sent Hungary’s forint plunging 2% against the euro.
5. How did Hungary’s government react?
At first, Orban’s ministers attacked the EU decision, calling it a political move to help the defeated opposition. Orban struck a more diplomatic tone, saying he believed Hungarian and EU officials were close to resolving their disagreements. The government tried to reassure investors, saying any potential financial penalties would need to be proportional and targeted and shouldn’t affect Hungary’s pandemic funds.
6. What happens next?
Hungary has two months to respond to EU concerns, and Brussels could still row back if Orban makes concessions. If he doesn’t, heads of government would vote at a summit on a funding freeze. To pass, the measure would need leaders representing at least 65% of the bloc’s population to vote in favor.
7. Is Poland on the same path?
Not quite. The European Commission has also delayed the release of pandemic recovery aid to Poland because of concerns over the independence of its judiciary. But corruption is seen as less of a problem than in Hungary. And Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given Poland, Ukraine’s direct neighbor, an incentive to improve ties with Brussels. It’s taken in more than 2 million refugees fleeing the war and led the way in urging a tougher line against Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the day she announced the move against Hungary, von der Leyen said the bloc was “close” to releasing the pandemic funds to Warsaw. That suggests the bloc may be trying to isolate Poland from Orban, the EU leader with the closest ties to Putin.
8. Could Hungary one day leave the EU?
In his post-election news conference, Orban said Hungary intends to remain in the EU. Its export-oriented economy relies heavily on the free movement of goods and services, and the conflict raging in neighboring Ukraine has given Hungarians a sense of what might happen if they weren’t in the EU and the NATO military alliance. If the EU holds to its demands, it’s hard to see Orban willingly unwinding the changes of the past decade and launching a campaign against corruption: The ruling elite and its business allies are the biggest beneficiaries of his tenure. If the EU keeps up its criticism, Hungary may re-evaluate its membership at the end of the decade when it’s expected to become a net contributor to the bloc’s budget, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga said last year.
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Country singer Jake Flint died Sunday, hours after getting married, according to The Oklahoman.
Flint married his wife Brenda on Saturday and by Sunday morning, he had died in his sleep. He was 37.
"We should be going through wedding photos but instead I have to pick out clothes to bury my husband in," Brenda Flint wrote on Facebook.
A cause of death has not been determined.
Flint, a native of Holdenville, Oklahoma, began making music at a young age after his dad bought him guitar lessons shortly after being diagnosed with Lou Gherig's disease. He released two albums, I'm Not OK in 2016 and Jake Flint in 2020.
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Brenda Cline, his manager, said she "loved him much like a son."
"The funniest, most hilarious, hardest working, dedicated artist I have ever worked with in my career," she said on Facebook.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The NFL and NFL Players Association agreed to modify the league’s concussion protocol following a joint investigation into procedures after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered an injury against the Buffalo Bills last month.
The league and players’ union said in a joint statement Saturday that the outcome of the Tagovailoa case “was not what was intended when the Protocol was drafted.” As a result, language addressing abnormality of balance/stability was added to the league’s list of symptoms that would keep a player from returning to action.
In the first half of the Sept. 25 game against Buffalo, Tagovailoa took a hit from Bills linebacker Matt Milano, which caused him to slam to the ground. He appeared disoriented afterward and stumbled as he tried to get to his feet.
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Tagovailoa was immediately taken to the locker room and taken through the NFL’s concussion protocol, after which he was cleared of any head injury. He started the third quarter, drawing criticism from viewers about why he was allowed to return to the game.
The NFL and NFLPA said they reviewed video and jointly interviewed members of the Dolphins’ medical staff, the head athletic trainer, the Booth ATC Spotter, the Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant, and Tagovailoa.
They found he did not show any signs or symptoms of a concussion during his locker room exam, during the rest of the game, or throughout the following week. But immediately after he took the hit from Milano, gross motor instability was present.
After the game, Tagovailoa and Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said the quarterback had suffered a back injury earlier in the game on a quarterback sneak.
The review said Tagovailoa told the medical staff that he aggravated his back injury on the play in question and that his back injury caused him to stumble. It also said the medical staff determined that the gross motor instability was not due to a concussion.
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In their statement Saturday, the NFL and players' union said there was not examination of the QB's back during the concussion examination, but that they "instead relied on the earlier examination conducted by other members of the medical staff.” The conclusion then was that the back injury was the cause of Tagovailoa’s instability.
As a result of the joint investigation, the league and union agreed to change the league’s concussion protocol to include the term “ataxia,” defined as “abnormality of balance/stability, motor coordination or dysfunctional speech caused by a neurological issue.”
Ataxia replaced the term “gross motor instability” and has been added to the list of symptoms that would prohibit a player from returning to the game. The others are confusion, amnesia, and loss of consciousness.
“The Protocol exists to establish a high standard of concussion care for each player,” the league and union’s statement said, “whereby every medical professional engages in a meaningful and rigorous examination of the player-patient. To that end, the parties remain committed to continuing to evaluate our Protocol to ensure it reflects the intended conservative approach to evaluating player-patients for potential head injuries.”
On Oct. 1, the union fired the Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant who handled Tagovailoa’s situation during the game.
Jeff Miller, the NFL's executive vice president overseeing health and safety, said in a virtual news conference Saturday that he believes this is the first time a UNC has been fired, and that the NFL did not support the decision to fire him.
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Less than a week after the injury, Tagovailoa started against the Cincinnati Bengals in a Thursday night game. He suffered a concussion in the first half after taking a hard sack, and displayed the fencing response after the scary hit. He was stretchered off the field and immediately taken to the hospital. He remains in the concussion protocol and will miss Sunday’s game against the Jets.
Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s Chief Medical Officer, said that under the league’s amended protocol, Tagovailoa would have been diagnosed with a concussion on Sept. 25 under the ataxia term, thus making him ineligible to come back into that game.
Sills said there’s no exact timetable for return for a player diagnosed with a concussion, but it would be “extremely unlikely” for a player diagnosed with ataxia to be able to play on Thursday night. The median time out with a concussion is nine days, he added.
Sills also alluded to how difficult it is to definitively diagnose concussions. He mentioned that blood and saliva tests could help make concussion examinations more accurate.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said at a fan forum in London Saturday that the NFL will make a “change or two” to its concussion protocol.
McDaniel, asked repeatedly in the days following the incident about the decision to allow Tagovailoa to return, emphasized his confidence in the team’s handling of the situation.
“This is a player-friendly organization that I make it very clear from the onset,” McDaniel said last week, “that my job as a coach is here for the players. I take that very serious, and no one else in the building strays from that.”
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US official meets Ukrainian children at UNICEF hub in Warsaw
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1of 15 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, centre, visits the UNICEF facility in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations says she does not expect the U.S. midterm election to weaken U.S. support for Ukraine given the bipartisan support for Kyiv since Russia’s invasion of its neighbor. Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke after she visited a UNICEF center in Warsaw that has become a hub for Ukrainian refugee children in their mothers, offering educational support and therapy. Michal Dyjuk/AP Show More Show Less
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that she does not expect the U.S. midterm election to weaken Washington's support for Ukraine given the bipartisan backing for Kyiv since Russia's invasion of its neighbor.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke after she visited a UNICEF center in Warsaw that has become a hub for Ukrainian refugee children and their mothers, offering educational support and therapy.
She said her talks with government and Warsaw city officials included making contingency plans in case the coming winter and power outages create another large exodus of Ukrainians to Poland and other frontline states.
She also expressed gratitude to the people of Poland and the government for the enormous help they have provided to Ukrainians, many of whom fled to Poland and have remained there.
A day earlier she was in Ukraine, where she announced that the U.S., through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $25 million to support vulnerable people in Ukraine during the harsh winter. She said she met with people in a community center who could not return to their homes “because of Russia’s horrible attacks” on the power and water infrastructure.
Asked by a reporter about the impact the U.S. election Tuesday might have on U.S. support for Kyiv, she replied: “I haven’t given that any thought other than the fact that our support for Ukraine has been bipartisan so I don’t see that the elections will have an impact on that support."
“I know that the president will continue to work with Congress to get the support that Ukraine needs until Russia’s unprovoked attacks on Ukraine are brought to an end,” she said.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) announced today that the Company's Board of Directors has declared common stock dividends of $0.177 per share for the third quarter of 2022. The dividend represents an annualized rate of $0.708 per share and is payable on October 14, 2022 to holders of record on September 30, 2022. The dividend was previously increased by 4.12% in the second quarter of this year.
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War between Russia and Ukraine has thrown buckwheat supplies "upside down," says a Washington grain handler, who hopes to increase production of the crop in the Columbia Basin to meet demand.
Russia and Ukraine are the No. 1 and No. 3 production countries for buckwheat in the world, with China No. 2, said Darrel Otness, owner of Washington Producers Inc. in Basin City, Wash.
The company contracts with farmers to grow buckwheat.
About 99% of Otness' customers are in Japan, with a small number from South Korea. Russia has stopped exporting buckwheat to Japan, negatively impacting Otness' customers.
"They need to buy more buckwheat, and we are looking for more buckwheat," he said. "It's hard to find buckwheat with all of the crops being so high-priced."
Buckwheat is typically grown as a second crop in the Columbia Basin, Otness said — after wheat, peas, early sweet corn and the first cut of timothy hay.
"That's when it works economically and agronomically for the grower," he said.
The Washington Grain Commission recommends not following buckwheat with a wheat crop due to concerns about volunteer plants in the wheat.
Otness works with 40 to 50 farmers, who raise 8,000 to 10,000 acres of buckwheat in their crop rotations. He estimates there are 12,000 to 14,000 total acres in Oregon and Washington.
"Now that demand is stronger and everyone's fighting for acres, we're looking for more acres of buckwheat," he said.
Otness is looking for "a couple thousand" more acres.
He's concerned about cool spring weather delays on other crops, possibly shortening the buckwheat production period, or preventing planting altogether.
Buckwheat prices have increased from 25 cents per pound to 30 cents per pound in the last five years.
"It's a very profitable crop because it uses so little inputs," Otness said. "There's no sprays you can put on it for herbicides. You can spray grass weeds out, but it doesn't need any other chemical sprays, very little fertilizer usage. So it is quite economical as a second crop."
Contact Otness at 509-521-7535 or d.otness@wapro.us for more information. He recommends texting or emailing first.
"A lot of guys have seen their neighbors raise it and they're curious about it," he said.
He expects Ukraine to request buckwheat for food aid, noting it's a staple there.
"I think we're going to have a whole new demand when this war situation gets squared away," Otness said. "I honestly think we won't be able to get enough buckwheat for the next five to 10 years." | 2022-06-16T21:18:50+00:00 | capitalpress.com | https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/grains/buckwheat-handler-expects-strong-demand-calls-for-more-acres-of-the-crop/article_5210ca08-ec3b-11ec-b05f-738ea552b266.html |
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With great sadness, the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today shares the news of the loss of our dear friend and esteemed PCF Board member (Emeritus) Arthur H. Kern, who passed away on November 16, 2022, at the age of 76.
Art was incredibly proud of his career in philanthropy. He and his family were touched deeply by cancer - Art lost his 11-year-old niece Mara to brain cancer, and later both he and his brother John survived prostate cancer diagnoses. Art translated his personal experience into philanthropic action, serving on the Boards of leading cancer research organizations such as National Brain Tumor Board, University of California San Francisco Foundation, and PCF.
Art was an early supporter of PCF's mission to accelerate research toward the new treatments and diagnostics that will end death and suffering from prostate cancer. Art's treasured involvement as part-owner of the San Francisco Giants provided a natural stepping-stone toward joining PCF's life-saving community in 1997 through the Home Run Challenge, PCF's ongoing philanthropic partnership with Major League Baseball to raise funds and awareness every June in support of prostate cancer research. After several years of loyal and passionate donor support, Art himself began serving as a leader of the PCF team, joining PCF's Board of Directors in 2004.
"I knew Art personally, and he was a friend of both PCF as well as UCSF during my time there," says PCF President and CEO Charles J. Ryan, MD. "Art was always a very positive and encouraging presence and a very strong supporter of early career researchers. He was a gem of a human being."
Art served PCF and its mission with distinction through his Board service for 12 years, until stepping down in 2016. His commitment to PCF's work never waned. Art and his family sponsored 15 separate PCF science research awards between 1999 and 2021, including six individual PCF Young Investigator Awards and three PCF "Team Science" Challenge Awards. Through the generosity of the Kern Family, PCF has been able to support the prostate cancer research work of:
David Heber, MD, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Peter Scardino, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
Gary Miller, MD, PhD, of the University of Colorado
Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Phillip Febbo, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Eric Small, MD, of UCSF and UCLA
Ross Levine, MD, of MSKCC
Albert Chang, MD, PhD, of UCLA
Jean Tien, PhD, of the University of Michigan
Joaquin Mateo, MD, PhD, of Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (Barcelona, Spain)
Philip Kantoff, MD, of MSKCC
Tianyi Liu, PhD, of UCSF
Ivan de Kouchkovsky, MD, of UCSF
Haolong Li, PhD, of UCSF
The cultivation of the careers of these cancer researchers and the medical knowledge stemming from the results of their work comprise Art's true legacy – one measured in scientific discovery, lives saved, and families kept whole.
"I met Art in the late 1990s. The gentle way he influenced people raised the passion for many in cancer science, and especially me," says PCF Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer Howard R. Soule, PhD. "Art was a warrior for so many on the journey of cancer. We will miss him greatly, but his wisdom will burn brightly in the hearts of so many."
PCF owes a large debt of gratitude to Art for his 25 years of generosity, 22 years of direct cancer researcher support, and 12 years of PCF Board leadership. Thanks to Art's dedication to PCF, the cancer research landscape – and the lives of countless prostate cancer patients and their families - will remain forever altered.
About the Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's leading philanthropic organization dedicated to funding life-saving prostate cancer research. Founded in 1993 by Mike Milken, PCF has been responsible for raising close to $1 billion in support of cutting-edge research by more than 2,200 research projects at 245 leading cancer centers in 28 countries around the world. Since PCF's inception, and through its efforts, patients around the world are living longer, suffering fewer complications, and enjoying better quality of life. PCF is committed to creating a global public square for prostate cancer, in service to our mission of ending death and suffering from the disease. Learn more at pcf.org.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, “wisely” following doctors’ advice, will skip Sunday’s customary public blessing to allow himself to better heal after abdominal surgery earlier this week, his surgeon told reporters.
Blood and imaging tests indicate that the 86-year-old pope’s recovery is proceeding in an “absolutely normal” manner, Sergio Alfieri, who operated on the pontiff, also told reporters on Saturday at Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome.
During the three-hour-long operation on Wednesday, using general anesthesia, doctors removed increasingly painful scarring that resulted from previous abdominal surgeries as well as repaired a hernia in the abdominal wall, with the insertion of a prosthetic support netting, or mesh.
Alfieri said while Francis’ recovery has been medically uneventful, any extra physical exertion, like rising from bed to move to an armchair to recite the traditional Sunday noon blessing and commentary to the public through a video link, could be risky at this point.
While the Vatican said earlier in the week that Francis had occasionally been sitting in a chair to read newspapers, the weekly noon appointment customarily involves the pope speaking to the public for about 15 minutes and giving his blessing.
Advice by his doctors and the pope’s trusted Vatican nurse to forgo the Sunday appearance is aimed at achieving “the least strain on the abdominal wall in order to allow the implanted mesh and the muscle fascia repaired to heal optimally,” Alfieri said.
“In the next few days, if he’s not careful about healing, the netting could tear and he’ll be back in the operating room,” the surgeon said.
“If he has a careful recovery, he’ll be back better” than before at the Vatican, Alfieri said. “It’s prudence that we suggested and that he wisely accepted.”
Francis has graduated from a liquid to a semiliquid diet and had no fever, according to his medical staff.
His cardiac and respiratory status was also fine, Alfieri said in his first medical briefing on the pontiff’s condition since the one he gave Wednesday shortly after the pope came round from the anesthetic.
“All parameters are regular,” Alfieri said at a news briefing in the hospital atrium, flanked by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni.
“For his age, 86, he doesn’t have pathologies” regarding his heart or respiratory systems, Alfieri said in response to a reporter’s question.
Francis will recite the traditional Sunday noon prayer privately in his hospital room, and faithful are encouraged to join in the prayer, Bruni said.
While praying privately, Francis will unite “spiritually, with affection and gratitude, to the faithful who want to accompany him, wherever they are” in prayer, Bruni said in a separate, written statement.
Meanwhile, thousands of people were expected in St. Peter’s Square for a late afternoon gathering at the Vatican to promote brotherhood — a quality so dear to Francis that he wrote an encyclical on its importance in 2020. In that document, the pope explained his vision of a post-COVID-19 world built on solidarity, fraternity and care for the environment.
But instead of hearing a speech from the pope, as faithful had originally hoped, a Vatican cardinal will read a speech from Francis, Bruni said.
While in the 10th-floor apartment reserved for papal use at Gemelli Polyclinic, Francis has been reading newspapers while sitting in an armchair, and spent time working and in prayer, the Vatican said earlier in the week.
No date has yet been announced for his release from the hospital.
“We hope we will convince him to stay at least the whole next week,” Alfieri said on Saturday.
When the surgery was announced, the Vatican said the pope was expected to be hospitalized for several days. Alfieri said by opting to spend more of his convalescence in the hospital instead of leaving after a handful of days, the pope can return “to his work with more strength and safety.”
Alfieri recalled his remarks, hours after the surgery, that Francis had experienced no complications during the surgery or from the general anesthesia.
During the operation, the surgical team removed adhesions, a kind of internal scarring not infrequent after previous surgery. Two years earlier, Francis had part of his colon removed following a narrowing of a section of the bowel. The hernia that was repaired had formed over a previous scar.
Alfieri had performed the 2021 bowel surgery as well. When he operated this time, “I found the same scars I found two years ago,” the surgeon said Saturday. “Then they weren’t causing symptoms.” But in the time since, the adhesions were increasingly causing pain.
Post-surgery, Francis “doesn’t have much pain,” Alfieri said, adding that the pontiff was on “bland” anti-pain medication “so he can breathe well.”
Francis has two trips abroad set for August, the first to Portugal, for a Catholic youth jamboree, and then, at the end of that month, to Mongolia, the first-ever pilgrimage by a pontiff to that Asian country.
Asked about the prospects for those strenuous trips given his surgery, Alfieri said the pontiff, “made these calculations” when deciding to go ahead with the June 7 surgery, an indication that Francis felt that the timing of the operation would allow him to stick to his travel plans. | 2023-06-10T16:38:05+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/pope-upon-doctors-advice-to-skip-sunday-public-blessing-surgeon-says-recovery-absolutely-normal/ |
KIRTLAND, N.M. – The clamor of second graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work.
At Judy Nelson Elementary, 1 in 4 students have left in an exodus spurred by decisions made five years ago to shutter a coal-fired power plant and mine that sit just up the road from the school in a largely Navajo community. The plant and mine had provided electricity to millions of people across the southwestern U.S. for nearly a half-century.
The San Juan Generating Station burned its last bit of coal Thursday. The remaining workers will spend the coming weeks draining water from the plant, removing chemicals and preparing to tear down what has long been fixture on the high-desert horizon.
It's part of the latest wave of coal-burning units to be retired as New Mexico and other states try to fight climate change by requiring more carbon-free sources of electricity. President Joe Biden also has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
Just weeks ago, Hawaii’s last coal-fired power plant closed after 30 years, and more retirements are scheduled around the U.S. over the next decade.
Realities of shuttering the San Juan plant are setting in for surrounding communities, including the Navajo Nation, where poverty and joblessness already are exponentially higher than national averages. Hundreds of jobs are evaporating along with tens of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue used to fund schools and a community college.
“A lot of the Native American families have multi-generations living in the home so it doesn’t just affect the husband and wife. It affects their children and their grandchildren,” said Arleen Franklin, who teaches second grade at Judy Nelson. Her husband purchases equipment for a coal mine that feeds another power plant scheduled to close in 2031.
Denise Pierro, a reading teacher at Judy Nelson, said it's stressful for parents to see a steady income erased. Pierro's husband, who served as the general manager of the mine for the San Juan plant, is among those forced into early retirement.
“They've taken the rug out from underneath our feet,” she said.
Area power plants, mines and associated businesses represent 80% of property tax revenues that fund the Central Consolidated School District, which spans an area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Almost 93% of the students are Navajo.
It's rural and remote. Some students ride a school bus for three hours round trip, arriving home well after sunset. Internet service is spotty or nonexistent, and many homes don't have electricity or indoor plumbing. The poverty rate within the district is four times the national level. The median annual household income is about $20,000, and the unemployment rate hovers around 70%.
New Mexico's Democratic leaders have celebrated the plant's closure while touting a landmark 2019 law that pushes for a renewable energy economy. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is running for reelection, has said the law represented a promise to future generations for a cleaner environment and new job opportunities.
Environmentalists have said the closure will reduce air and water pollution in a region that some have described as an industrial sacrifice zone. They argue that power plant emissions and methane from the oilfields have caused health problems for residents.
Joe Ramone, a 69-year-old pipe welder who worked at San Juan, lives in a Navajo community not far from the Four Corners plant. When the wind blows just right, he said his community is hit with ash and coal dust.
Still, he said his priority is making sure Navajos have work.
“I don’t want to see anybody unemployed and I am in no way in favor of these companies being shut down. But there’s room for improvement,” he said, suggesting more investments could have been made.
The loss of the San Juan plant and the mine ripple through every facet of life, from fewer lunch orders at Kirtland's café to a dwindling ash supply for concrete manufacturers. Meanwhile, prices have skyrocketed for everything from the Navajo staple of mutton to the woven baskets and other materials needed for healing ceremonies.
Public Service Co. of New Mexico, which runs the plant, is providing $11 million in severance packages to help about 200 displaced workers. About 240 mine workers are getting severance payments worth $9 million. Another $3 million went to job training.
A state fund established by the energy law also includes $12 million for affected workers.
Solar and battery storage projects are meant to eventually replace the capacity lost with San Juan's shutdown and provide jobs during construction. But some of those projects have been delayed due to supply chain problems, and others are on hold indefinitely amid historic inflation and other economic constraints.
Fresh off a night shift as an electrician at the mine for the neighboring Four Corners Power Plant, Christine Aspaas, a Central Consolidated School Board member, said even if those “green” jobs existed now, they would be temporary. And to make up for lost property tax revenue, she said, some families will have to pay up to seven times more.
It's been heartbreaking for so many Navajos to consider leaving home, Aspaas said.
“That’s what others don’t understand," she said. “There’s culture, there’s traditions, and so it’s not easy.”
Sharon Clahchischilliage, once a teacher and a former New Mexico lawmaker, said people in her Navajo community near Shiprock are angry.
"One of them told me, ‘I don’t know who to be angry at for us having to do this. We don’t have a family anymore,'" she said, referring to bonds broken as Navajos search for jobs elsewhere.
In the final days, the plant's spinning turbine sent vibrations through layers of concrete and passing work boots. Heat emanated from the boilers below.
In the dim control room, workers monitored screens displaying temperatures, pressure, turbine speeds and pollution control systems. Allen Palmer, 70, spent over half his life working his way up the ranks.
“I hate to see it close,” he said.
Workers knew for years that the plant would be shuttered. It became more real as coal piles shrank each day — until there was nothing left. As the finish line approached, the company served workers green chile cheeseburgers as a morale booster alongside a big projection screen that read: “Thank you to all employees at San Juan for your years of dedicated service!”
The last few dozen employees will be laid off over the coming weeks. Some were ready to retire; in June, there were voluntary layoffs when the first of the last two generating units closed.
“There’s lots of us who have worked 20-plus years and we all know each other and it’s our family," said plant director Rodney Warner, who will oversee the decommissioning. "It’s who we are.”
December would have marked 10 years at the plant for Steven Sorrow, 32. He and his coworkers know there’s a good chance they will have to uproot and possibly enter other fields. Some will head to Wyoming, Colorado or Utah, where there are other plants and mines.
“It’s going to be an adjustment for sure,” he said. “I feel like I’ve tried to prepare over the five years when they told us what we had left. Hopefully I’ve prepared well enough.”
Aspaas said officials need to find ways to keep the workforce in New Mexico. She said the foundation of economic development is education but without economic development, education suffers.
“This whole transition, everything that’s happening, the closures, that’s what is threatening our ability to keep funding education,” she said. “When you go down to what it impacts, it is the education of our people, of the Navajo people, our students.” | 2022-10-02T16:14:38+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2022/10/02/us-shift-away-from-coal-hits-tribal-community-in-new-mexico/ |
COVID-19 vaccines tweaked to better match today’s omicron threat are expected to roll out in a few weeks but still up in the air is how much benefit the booster shots will offer, who should get one — and how soon.
Pfizer and rival Moderna both asked U.S. regulators this week to authorize modified versions of their booster vaccine — shots that are half the original recipe and half protection against BA.4 and BA.5, the newest versions of omicron.
The Food and Drug Administration ordered that recipe at the end of June, and now has to decide if this combination — what scientists call a “bivalent vaccine” — is ready.
The Biden administration hopes updated boosters could help blunt a winter COVID-19 surge in a population weary of the virus — and of vaccinations. But while the first-ever modification to these vaccines is momentous, it’s more of an expected next step — like how flu vaccines get updated every year — than a true next-generation shot.
“We need to give a clear, forward-looking set of expectations,” said University of Pennsylvania immunologist E. John Wherry, who compares vaccine tweaks to periodically updating your computer software.
WHY DID FDA ORDER COMBO SHOTS?
BA.5 currently is causing nearly all COVID-19 infections in the U.S. and much of the world. Current COVID-19 vaccines match the coronavirus strain that circulated in early 2020. And while those vaccinations still offer strong protection against serious illness or death from COVID-19, there’s little effectiveness against infection from the wildly mutated omicron family.
The gamble is that BA.5, or something similar, still will be circulating when cold weather hits so the combo shots will be a good match. (Vaccines target the spike protein that coat the coronavirus, and the BA.4 and BA.5 spikes are identical although those strains vary in other ways.)
HOW WERE THE MODIFIED SHOTS TESTED?
Pfizer and Moderna both studied an earlier tweak to their vaccines that targets the original omicron, called BA.1, that hit last winter, plus even earlier variants.
FDA will use data from human testing of the BA.1-tweaked doses plus mice tests of the BA.5-targeted version to decide if the newest update spurs virus-fighting antibodies enough to warrant another shot.
But data on the newest tweak will come later in the year, to help assess the value of modified shots. Moderna has started a human study of its BA.5 combo shot; Pfizer and its partner BioNTech expect to open a similar study soon.
WILL THEY WORK BETTER?
No one knows. Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an FDA vaccine adviser, said the antibody jump from that earlier BA.1-tweaked candidate was “underwhelming.”
“What the administration is asking us to do is to accept this bivalent vaccine as significantly better” than another dose of today’s vaccine, he said. “It would be nice if there were data to support that.”
Plus, antibodies wane over time. That’s why protection against infection doesn’t last as long as protection against serious illness, which depends on a different part of the immune system, its “memory” cells.
Still, current shots are so outdated that an update makes sense, said Dr. Walter Orenstein of Emory University, a former vaccine director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While he’d like to see more data, he plans to get the new booster.
WHO SHOULD GET AN UPDATED SHOT?
That’s up to the CDC, which called a meeting of its influential vaccine advisers next Thursday and Friday to help decide.
Pfizer wants to open its updated boosters to everyone 12 and older who’s already had a primary series of today’s vaccine, while Moderna has applied only for adult use. CDC will determine if people at highest risk should go first.
A government rollout plan anticipates that people who’ve already gotten their initial vaccinations would qualify for one of the new combination shots, regardless of how many boosters they’ve already had.
WHEN SHOULD THOSE ELIGIBLE GET THE NEW BOOSTER?
Again, the CDC will weigh in, after considering how many doses will be available in early September versus later in the fall. The Biden administration has purchased more than 170 million doses.
But immunologists caution not to race out for a new shot if you recently had a dose of the original vaccine or an infection. That’s because if you still have a lot of antibodies in your bloodstream, they’ll recognize and attack the brand new antibodies that vaccine dose is supposed to produce.
So if you already got a booster in July or August and then seek the new combo shot in September, “you’ll receive very little additional boosting from that,” Wherry said. He recommends waiting four to six months.
WILL PEOPLE ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES AGAIN?
Americans have been reluctant to keep up with COVID-19 vaccinations. While three-quarters of Americans 12 and older have gotten their initial vaccinations, only half got a first booster shot — deemed crucial for the best protection against variants. And just a third of people 50 and older who were advised to get a second booster when omicron arrived did so.
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FAIRFAX, Va., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TEEL Construction, Inc. is pleased to announce Deborah Magano's promotion to Director of Field Operations, along with Bryce Teel's promotion to Director of Business Development.
Deborah began her career at TEEL in 2018, first serving as Superintendent. After demonstrating an eye for quality and safety on her projects, Deborah quickly advanced to TEEL's 1st Director of Safety and Quality Assurance in 2019. Deborah's strong leadership, high standards and sound initiatives have resulted in her promotion to TEEL's 1st Director of Field Operations.
TEEL's Vice President of Construction Adam Turner said, "Deborah's new role will interface directly between field supervision and project management while keeping safety and quality at the forefront during our company's growth. She will assist me in all faculties, working hand-in-hand with Our General Superintendent, Bob Tucker Jr. to ensure all projects are completed on time, on budget and with the highest quality standards in the industry."
TEEL's President, Spencer Teel, said in a statement, "Deborah has earned great respect and admiration from our team and customers alike where she has championed countless initiatives improving our company's focus on quality and safety. Her role and responsibilities have since grown, naturally becoming the go-to resource for our field teams. This new role in our company is the direct result of our growth these past few years, where Deborah has been an integral contributor to our team's success."
Deborah is a member of National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) and volunteers with AmeriCorps, Warrior Paddle Connect and Rebuilding Together.
Bryce joined TEEL in 2013 as an Assistant Project Manager, later earning his promotion to Project Manager in 2017, a position he has held over the past 5-1/2 years. During his tenure as PM, Bryce consistently demonstrated strong business development skills, primarily managing projects for clients he introduced, with over 200 projects successfully completed.
Mr. Teel said, "My brother's tenacity in providing solutions for our customers has earned him and the company an extremely loyal set of clients. Bryce has achieved a 93% repeat and referred client rate through his alignment with our Core Principles. His focus on finding like-minded clients has proven to be mutually beneficial time and again. We are excited for him to apply his proven process to better serve our clients on a full-time basis. Congratulations Bryce on your well-deserved promotion. It has been a pleasure watching your development and I couldn't think of a better person to fill this role in our company."
Bryce is a member of ABC Virginia, ICSC and NAIOP Northern Virginia.
About TEEL
Since 1987, TEEL Construction, Inc. has provided general contracting, construction management and design+build services for our clients nationwide. Our focus on the commercial environment has enabled our airport, corporate interior, country club, financial institution, education, grocery store, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, religious, restaurant, and retail clients to experience TEEL's commitment to the highest-quality of construction.
Please visit https://teelconstruction.com/ to learn more.
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Tim Bachman, a member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive has died at the age of 71.
Tim's death was confirmed by his brother Randy Bachman and his son via social media.
"I haven’t posted because my heart has been heavy but the news has announced my brother Tim passed this weekend," Randy shared Monday. "I am the last of my family on this side with all my memories of our life growing up in Winnipeg. So grateful for that. I’m sure my parents welcomed him home with my other 2 brothers who have passed in quick succession since the pandemic. I was the oldest. Rest in Peace, Timmy with mummy, daddy, Gary & Robbie."
ROBBIE BACHMAN, DRUMMER FOR BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE, DEAD AT 69
Tim's son shared the news of the guitarist's death on Friday. He has regularly shared updates on his father's health to his Facebook page.
"My Dad passed this afternoon," he wrote. "Thank You Everyone for the kind words," Ryder wrote. "Grateful I got to spend some time with him at the end. Grab yer loved ones and hug em close, ya never know how long you have."
In a post shared the day before, he recalled his final moments with his father.
"I sat with Dad yesterday afternoon and reminisced about some of the good times we had," he wrote at the time. "He was pretty out of it most of the time, but at one point looked up at me with really, big wide eyes and said, ‘I love you Paxton, keep sharing the music…’ and then passed back out. It’s really hard watching your parent lay in bed helpless and sick and there’s nothing you can do to help them. Breaking my heart. Thankful for the time we got to spend together."
Tim, Robbie and Randy formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973.
Tim left the band at one point, and Blair Thornton took his place until he rejoined the band in 1984 for a reunion tour.
The group is most known for its song "Takin' Care of Business," and its single "Let It Ride" landed a spot on the Top 40 list.
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Tim's brother and Bachman-Turner Overdrive drummer Robbie died in January at the age of 69.
Robby confirmed his death on Twitter at the time.
"Another sad departure. The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side," he wrote. "Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock 'n' roll machine and we rocked the world together. #RIP #littlebrother #family." | 2023-05-01T20:40:35+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/tim-bachman-guitarist-for-bachman-turner-overdrive-dead-at-71/article_04b9283c-834a-5d1b-8a4e-aacb6a2f17c4.html |
While many robotics startups are focused on developing new hardware, Realtime Robotics in Boston is trying to make all of those robots safer and easier to use through software.
On Thursday, the five-year-old company said it had raised $14.4 million in a deal led by Soundproof Ventures, Heroic Ventures, and SIP Global Partners.
Robots are in widespread use in manufacturing, logistics, and other industries. But programming robots to perform complicated tasks, like welding multiple joints on a car or moving around a warehouse among human workers, is still tricky. Realtime’s software allows companies like Sony and Toyota to outline the tasks a robot should perform without needing to program each step.
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“If you open your fridge to reach for a beer, your hand doesn’t smack into the side, you don’t knock over other things, you don’t get your fingers tangled,” said George Konidaris, chief roboticist and cofounder of Realtime. “Robots don’t have that basic physical intelligence, the mastery of space, we get from our motor cortex.”
The problem has bedeviled the robotics industry for decades. Automakers, for example, employ teams of hundreds of programmers to choreograph how multiple robots can work together on an assembly line. Changing one step in the process can require revising an entire program.
“Having multiple robots collaborating together, whether in a logistics, manufacturing, or construction operation, has been a challenge,” said Fady Saad, general partner of VC firm Cybernetix Ventures and an investor in Realtime. “The Realtime team managed to solve it.”
Have you stopped by booth 2332 yet and seen the @KawasakiRobot #AutomateShow demo yet that combines their industrial #robots with @realtime_i #RapidPlan #software? What are you waiting for?#automate2022#automateshow2022 pic.twitter.com/M4vqXDloQE
— Realtime Robotics (@realtime_i) June 7, 2022
Realtime employs almost 100 people including contractors, with offices in Berlin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Its annual revenue is about $4 million and rising rapidly, chief executive Peter Howard said. “The revenue train is just getting started at this point,” he said.
The initial plan is to pitch companies using the 3 million industrial robots already out there on Realtime’s software. Other industries like agriculture, construction, and food services that are moving toward automated machines will come later.
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Raising money has not always been easy, as many venture capital firms interested in robotics favor startups that hone in on specific use cases and design both hardware and software. “Not that we’ve had trouble raising money from industrial partners, but, man, that Sand Hill Road gang never liked us from day one,” Howard said, referring to some of the Bay Area’s top VC firms.
“Silicon Valley has that saying, ‘move fast and break things,’” Konidaris added. “That’s not actually a good idea with robots. If they break, they can hurt people or shut down a factory. You can’t just do that.”
Although Konidaris got his PhD in computer science at UMass Amherst and spent several years at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, he and his three cofounders initially developed the technology for Realtime at Duke, where he was a professor. But when it was time to start a company, Konidaris returned to the Boston area to found Realtime. He now teaches at Brown University.
Realtime was one of the first startups to take advantage of the robotics accelerator program at MassRobotics in the Seaport.
“The natural place for this is Boston,” Konidaris said. “That’s where all the talent is, flowing out of all of the universities.”
Aaron Pressman can be reached at aaron.pressman@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @ampressman. | 2022-09-08T15:10:55+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/08/business/boston-startup-choreographing-robots-gets-new-money/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The company tasked with locking down the assets of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX says it has managed to recover and secure $740 million in assets so far, a fraction of the potentially billions of dollars likely missing from the company’s coffers.
The numbers were disclosed on Wednesday in court filings by FTX, which hired the cryptocurrency custodial company BitGo hours after FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11.
The biggest worry for many of FTX’s customers is they’ll never see their money again. FTX failed because its founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and his lieutenants used customer assets to make bets in FTX’s closely related trading firm, Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried was reportedly looking for upwards of $8 billion from new investors to repair the company’s balance sheet.
Bankman-Fried “proved that there is no such thing as a ‘safe’ conflict of interest,” BitGo CEO Mike Belshe said in an email.
The $740 million figure is from Nov. 16. BitGo estimates that the amount of recovered and secured assets has likely risen above $1 billion since that date.
The assets recovered by BitGo are now locked in South Dakota in what is known as “cold storage,” which means they’re cryptocurrencies stored on hard drives not connected to the internet. BitGo provides what is known as “qualified custodian” services under South Dakota law. It’s basically the crypto equivalent of financial fiduciary, offering segregated accounts and other security services to lock down digital assets.
Several crypto companies have failed this year a s bitcoin and other digital currencies have collapsed in value. FTX failed when it experienced the crypto equivalent of a bank run, and early investigations have found that FTX employees intermingled assets held for customers with assets they were investing.
“Trading, financing, and custody need to be different,” Belshe said.
The assets recovered include not only bitcoin and ethereum, but also a collection of minor cryptocurrencies that vary in popularity and value, such as the shiba inu coin.
California-based BitGo has a history of recovering and securing assets. The company was tasked with securing assets after the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox failed in 2014. It is also the custodian for the assets held by the government of El Salvador as part of that country’s experiment in using bitcoin as legal tender.
FTX is paying Bitgo a $5 million retainer and $100,000 a month for its services. | 2022-11-24T17:42:30+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/technology/ap-740m-in-crypto-assets-recovered-in-ftx-bankruptcy-so-far/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former handlers or other people who adopt retired police K-9s will get financial help from Florida under a bill signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday.
The new law will reimburse people who care for retired K-9s up to $1,500 for veterinary care for the dogs.
The bill was sponsored by Democratic Sen. Bobby Powell and passed unanimously in the House and Senate.
“The years of intense training and demanding requirements can take a heavy toll on law enforcement K-9s,” Powell said in a news release. “This legislation is a small repayment for the years of service these dogs have given. It ensures that a modest amount of funding is available to help pay for veterinary care as the canines retire and physical ailments due to aging or previous on-the-job injuries begin to appear.”
DeSantis signed the bill at a ceremony in Flagler County and was joined by 14-year-old Emma Stanford, who started a non-profit organization to help police K-9s.
“The retired dogs have served us and our community, and I believe they deserve the best possible care,” Stanford said. | 2022-06-10T19:12:47+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Florida-law-helps-pay-for-retired-police-K-9s-17233628.php |
Trump officials tried to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census in a move experts said would benefit Republicans despite initial doubts among some in the administration that it was legal, according to an investigative report released Wednesday by a congressional oversight committee.
The report offers a smoking gun of sorts — a secret memo the committee obtained after a two-year legal battle showing that a top Trump appointee in the Commerce Department explored apportionment as a reason to include the question.
“The Committee’s investigation has exposed how a group of political appointees sought to use the census to advance an ideological agenda and potentially exclude non-citizens from the apportionment count,” the report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said.
It has long been speculated that the Trump administration wanted the citizenship question in order to exclude people in the country illegally from apportionment numbers.
The report includes several drafts showing how the memo evolved from recognizing that doing so would likely be unconstitutional to coming up with other justifications for adding the citizenship question.
The apportionment process uses state population counts gathered during the once-a-decade census to divide up the number of congressional seats each state gets.
Opponents feared a citizenship question would scare off Hispanics and immigrants from participating in the 2020 census, whether they were in the country legally or not. The citizenship question was blocked by the Supreme Court in 2019. In the high court’s decision, Chief Justice John Roberts said the reason the Commerce Department had given for the citizenship question — it was needed for the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Voting Rights Act — appeared to be contrived.
The Commerce Department oversees the Census Bureau, which conducts the count used to determine political power and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding each year. Then-Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testified before the oversight committee that apportionment wasn't the reason for the citizenship question, even though the Commerce Department memo suggests otherwise, the House report said.
“I have never intentionally misled Congress or intentionally said anything incorrect under oath,” Ross said during a 2019 hearing before the oversight committee.
According to the House committee report, during planning for the citizenship question, an adviser to the Commerce Department reached out to a Republican redistricting expert who had written that using citizen voting-age population instead of the total population for the purpose of redrawing of congressional and legislative districts could be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.
The August 2017 memo prepared by senior Commerce Department political appointee James Uthmeier went to the heart of of interactions by the Commerce Department and the Justice Department to come up with a contrived reason for the citizenship question, the House report said.
An initial draft of the memo raised doubts that a citizenship question would be legal since it can only be added to the once-a-decade census if the Commerce Secretary concludes that gathering that information in survey sampling is not feasible. But a later draft removed that concern and added that the Commerce Secretary had the discretion to add a citizenship question for reasons other than apportionment.
An even later draft removed apportionment as an exception to the Commerce Secretary's discretion and added “there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional about adding a citizenship question."
An early draft of the memo also noted that using a citizenship data for apportionment was likely unconstitutional and went against 200 years of precedent, but that language also was removed in later drafts.
The House report says Uthmeier researched using Voting Rights Act enforcement as a reason for the citizenship question three months before the Justice Department requested it, and hand-delivered his memo with that suggestion to the Justice Department in order to avoid a digital fingerprint.
Uthmeier, who now is working as chief of staff to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, didn't immediately respond to an email inquiry Wednesday.
In an effort to prevent future attempts at politicizing the census, members of the oversight committee on Wednesday planned to debate a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., that would require new questions for the head count to be vetted by Congress, and prohibit a Census Bureau director from being fired without cause.
The Trump administration named an unusually high number of political appointees without prior experience in the statistical agency to top positions in the Census Bureau. The legislation would limit the number of political appointees to three, with all other positions being filled by career civil service workers.
Even though many of the Trump administration’s political efforts ultimately failed, some advocates believe they did have an impact, resulting in significantly larger undercounts of most racial and ethnic minorities in the 2020 census compared to the 2010 census.
“It is clear that legislative reforms are needed to prevent any future illegal or unconstitutional efforts to interfere with the census and chip away at our democracy," said Maloney, who chairs the oversight committee.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Surviving relatives have identified the parents and three children who died after a house fire on Euclid Avenue in Flint early Monday.
The parents were 54-year-old Darrin Brown and 30-year-old Deon Bradley. Their children were 9-year-old Darrin Brown Jr., 6-year-old Dav’ion Brown and 3-year-old Deonna Brown.
The couple's second child, 8-year-old Deon Brown, escaped the fire by jumping from a second story window. He was hospitalized at Hurley Medical Center with undisclosed injuries.
A GoFundMe page has been set up in the family's honor to help with medical and funeral expenses.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An effort to ban most abortions in Iowa was blocked Monday by a state judge who upheld a court decision made three years ago.
Judge Celene Gogerty found there was no process for reversing a permanent injunction that blocked the abortion law in 2019.
Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement that she would appeal the decision to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Current state law bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but Reynolds asked the courts to reverse the 2019 decision that blocked a bill she had signed into law the previous year. That law prohibited abortions once cardiac activity can be detected — the “fetal heartbeat” concept — which usually happens around six weeks of pregnancy and is often before many women know they’re pregnant.
Reynolds argued that because of decisions earlier this year by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Iowa Supreme Court that found woman have no constitutional right to abortion, the Iowa judge should reverse the 2019 decision blocking the abortion law.
Lawyers for Iowa’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, countered that there is no precedent or legal support for reversing a decision finalized by a judge years earlier. They said Reynolds must go through the legislative process to pass a new law.
Reynolds did not appeal the decision when it was handed down in 2019.
At that time, Judge Michael Huppert’s decision was based on U.S. Supreme Court precedent, as well as an Iowa Supreme Court decision in 2018 that declared abortion a fundamental right under the Iowa Constitution.
Reynolds, who supports outlawing abortions, decided to turn to the courts to impose stricter abortion limits instead of calling a special session of the legislature to pass a new law.
In her decision Monday, Gogerty wrote that state law didn’t give her the power to dissolve the permanent injunction and let the new abortion law take effect. Even if she had that power, Gogerty wrote that the Iowa Supreme Court decision finding no constitutional right to abortion didn’t substantially change how the abortion law would have been judged under the Iowa Constitution.
In her statement, the governor expressed disappointment the law approved by the Legislature wasn’t allowed to take effect, but she noted an appeal to the state Supreme Court was always expected, regardless of the judge’s decision. The current court is far more conservative than in 2018 when it declared a right to abortion, with five of the court’s seven members named by Reynolds.
“The decision of the people’s representatives to protect life should be honored, and I believe the court will ultimately do so,” Reynolds said. “As long as I’m governor, I will continue to fight for the sanctity of life and for the unborn.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States didn’t immediately respond to a request for a comment about the ruling.
Although Iowa’s law blocked by the courts seeks to prevent abortions when a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected, this does not easily translate to medical science. That’s because the point where advanced technology can detect that first visual flutter, the embryo isn’t yet a fetus, and it doesn’t have a heart. An embryo is termed a fetus eight weeks after fertilization.
The Iowa law contains exceptions for medical emergencies, including threats to the mother’s life, rape, incest, and fetal abnormality. | 2022-12-13T00:29:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/iowa-judge-blocks-effort-to-ban-most-abortions-in-the-state/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
The right glasses for your high-end cocktails
A good cocktail consists of a mix of bold and subtle flavors. The way humans taste those flavors is dependent on variables such as temperature and how the liquid contacts the tongue. The way a cocktail looks also has a profound effect on the experience. The right glass showcases colors, gradients and garnishes. To that end, the type of glass used to serve a cocktail has a big influence on the drink’s quality.
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How to pick the right cocktail glasses
First, consider what type of cocktails you and your guests like the most. If you’re a big fan of whiskey, make sure to collect some smaller glasses that accommodate the size of a common dram. If fruity, sour beverages are more your thing, consider wide-rimmed glasses. These increase surface area and help bring out some aromatics. If you love to compare beers and wines, you need a set of glasses that work with each variety to get the most out of your favorite beverages.
Cocktail glass size
Classic bar drinks such as the old-fashioned, martini and cosmopolitan don’t usually have high volume. For that style, it’s worth having traditional, mid-size rocks glasses on hand. For enjoying bright, refreshing cocktails, you need something larger. While most are familiar with classic pint glasses, many types of craft beer taste better from tulip glasses. Similarly, the size of the glass helps to evaluate the body and appearance of high-end wine while allowing for the right amount of oxidation.
Shape and surface area
The easiest example of shape influencing a drink’s quality is champagne, typically served in the iconic champagne flute. Tall and slim glasses such as flutes minimize the liquid’s contact with air and prevent the loss of all-important carbonation. Any drink that’s carbonated or includes a fizzy mixer benefits from a tall glass, rather than a wide one.
On the other hand, drinks that rely on smell as much as direct flavor work best in wide-rimmed glasses. Allowing fragrant liquors and bitters to contact the air helps release aromatics and prepares your palate for a powerful flavor every time you raise the glass to your lips.
Cocktail glass material
Simple glass is the most common material, but it’s not the only one. If you have rambunctious kids or pets or plan to enjoy beverages outside frequently, plastic is worth considering. It rarely delivers the same high-quality experience as glass, but it’s practically unbreakable. If it does break, you won’t find yourself cleaning glass shards from your lawn, patio or pool area.
Then there are crystal glasses. These aren’t made from actual crystal, but a subtype of glass with a chemical such as a metal oxide added to the mix. Crystal glasses usually have higher density and are thinner than common glasses. The material melts at a lower temperature and remains strong even when very thin. Don’t mistake that strength for durability, though. High-end crystal is typically much thinner and therefore more brittle than common glass.
Crystal also tends to look fancier than standard glass, due to the way it refracts light. Since crystal is worked at lower temperatures than glass, it can hold more intricate designs and patterns. Those patterns, coupled with the refraction crystal offers, make for spectacular, even prismatic effects when light plays off the glass and beverage.
If you love fancy cocktails, it’s worth investing in a set of crystal glasses. Be warned, though, that they require care to keep from breaking and can’t go in the dishwasher. It’s also an investment to get the most high-end crystal cocktail glasses.
Best cocktail glasses for home bars
Whether you make yours with gin or vodka, these novel glasses ensure your favorite martini looks great.
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Libbey Cosmopolitan Martini Glasses
Not everybody prefers holding stemmed glasses or worrying about them getting knocked over. Consider these stemless martini glasses instead. They also double as cosmopolitan or old-fashioned glasses in a pinch.
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JoyJolt Bloom Coupe Crystal Glasses
These 275-milliliter coupe glasses are perfect for complex, high-test adult beverages that pack tons of flavor into each sip.
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Despite the name, these are great for high-powered, traditional recipes, such as the old-fashioned. They’re not the most stable, but they add a classy flair to any cocktail party.
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Schott Zwiesel Tritan Collins Glasses
Also known as highballs, Collins glasses are great for fruity drinks on the rocks that taste best through a straw.
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There’s an extensive universe of gins to choose from, but they’re all united in their powerful, complex aromas and pungent herbal flavors. These thin-lipped, wide-rimmed glasses have enough room inside to bring out the most subtle flavors from your gin and tonic.
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Libbey Blue Ribbon Margarita Glasses
These sturdy, stemless options are great for your favorite tequila drink, whether it’s blended or on the rocks.
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The most iconic glass among whiskey enthusiasts, the Glencairn sports a heavy base and the perfect capacity for premium liquor. Most important, though, is its shape, which funnels complex, often smoky, salty and woody aromas straight to the nasal passages.
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Regal Trunk & Co. Mixing Glass
This one’s for gently mixing cocktails before pouring them. It includes a tall measuring jigger, cocktail spoon and Hawthorne strainer.
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At every party, somebody will probably knock over a wine glass. Serving in stemless wine glasses significantly reduces that risk. These come in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit very specific types of adult grape juice.
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Thick, malty Belgians and sharp, piney IPAs both shine in this graceful beer glass made from premium, ultrathin crystal.
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These are similar to a champagne flute but for beer. Their tall, slim shape preserves effervescence and helps bring out the freshest flavors in many American pale ales.
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Best reusable straws for home bars
Reusable straws made from bamboo or nonreactive metal can improve the cocktail drinking experience. They also keep you from realizing right before guests show up that you have plenty of ingredients, but nothing to drink with.
They come in two lengths and varying widths, which is helpful because wider straws make some cocktails taste better than thin ones.
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If you like iced, blended drinks like hurricanes, you need straws that can accommodate their thick texture.
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These eight-inch straws won’t harm delicate glasses and are reusable several times before they need replacing. They’re available in bulk packs of 100, too.
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With five different finishes, these help you mark cocktails so guests don’t mix them up.
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If you want the perfect straw for any kind of beverage that you and a friend or family member could want, you can’t go wrong with this varied set.
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SAP® SuccessFactors® Solutions Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning Will Bring the Power of AI to People Leaders, Helping Them Recruit and Develop Their Teams
WALLDORF, Germany, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced the next step in its long-standing partnership with Microsoft, using the latest in enterprise-ready generative AI innovation to help solve customers' most fundamental business challenges. The companies will collaborate on integrating SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning, as well as Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service to access powerful language models that analyze and generate natural language. The integrations will enable new experiences designed to improve how organizations attract, retain and skill their people.
"For years, Microsoft and SAP have worked together to help drive their customers' transformation journeys forward," said Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. "SAP has long embedded AI into our solutions, and we're very excited about the opportunities generative AI unfolds for our industry and our customers. Today's announcement is one example of how we are bringing the power of generative AI to business, building on 50 years of trusted innovation for companies worldwide."
"We have an incredible opportunity to deliver next-generation AI that will unlock productivity growth for every individual, organization and industry, including the human resources function," said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. "We're building on our long-standing cloud partnership with SAP and bringing together the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot with SAP SuccessFactors solutions to transform how organizations attract and develop their most important resource – their people."
Addressing the Skills Challenge — One of Today's Toughest Business Problems
Across the world today, companies are facing a growing challenge as they manage the gap between the skills they have in their work force and the skills they need for the future. Closing that gap means optimizing how they recruit and hire new talent in today's competitive market, as well as how they deliver learning and development programs to help employees grow.
Today, these functions require a lot of manual, repetitive work and often end up missing the mark. Companies are constantly reinventing the wheel each time they create a new position, updating requirements based on the rapidly changing skills landscape, ensuring job descriptions are market competitive and developing interview questions to unearth the potential in every candidate.
Another concern is closing the gap between each employee's unique career aspirations and the cross-skilling and upskilling opportunities offered by the organization. With today's announcement, Microsoft and SAP will collaborate to enable SAP customers to benefit from the power of generative AI to attract the most qualified candidates for key roles and generate personalized insights to keep them engaged once on board.
Streamlining Recruitment and Employee Learning
Through this collaboration and SAP's use of the Azure OpenAI Service API, SAP and Microsoft will work together on new experiences that streamline recruiting and employee development processes, including:
- Recruiting: SAP will leverage the Azure OpenAI Service API and data from SAP SuccessFactors solutions to create compelling and highly targeted job descriptions. Through an integration between the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting solution and Microsoft 365, people leaders will be able to fine-tune job descriptions using Copilot in Microsoft Word with additional content and checks to detect bias. The final job descriptions will then be published in SAP SuccessFactors solutions to complete the workflow, without people leaders having to leave their normal flow of work. SAP will also leverage the Azure OpenAI Service API to offer prompts to interviewers within Microsoft Teams with suggested questions based on a candidate's resume, the job description and similar jobs.
- Learning: Integration between SAP SuccessFactors solutions and Microsoft Viva Learning will enable employees to use Copilot in Viva Learning to conduct natural language queries to create personalized learning recommendations based on data and learning courses in SAP SuccessFactors solutions that align with the employee's career and development goals. As learning is completed, the SAP SuccessFactors portfolio will update automatically, providing companies an up-to-date view of the skills landscape in their organization. This enhancement builds on an already robust integration with content, assignment, permissions and SSO sync, available now, and an automated admin setup Experience available to customers later this year.
A Rich Data Foundation for Effective AI
Given SAP's worldwide footprint, the company's immense data estate provides the potential to significantly enhance the capabilities of large-language models across many industries. As such, today's announcement is also a model for how AI tools can work to enhance the power of data and systems in any field.
A Responsible Approach to AI
SAP AI abides by the highest industry standards on responsible AI. It is transparent, so organizations can understand how it makes inferences and builds recommendations. It respects the privacy of sensitive data and helps avoid bias. As one of the first companies to define guiding principles for using AI in its software, SAP works with leading ethics experts as part of its AI ethics advisory panel to explore the implications of deploying AI in the enterprise.
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In March, Disney called Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida “anti-business” for his scorched-earth attempt to tighten oversight of the company’s theme park resort near Orlando. Last month, when Disney sued the governor and his allies for what it called “a targeted campaign of government retaliation,” the company made clear that $17 billion in planned investment in Walt Disney World was on the line.
“Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people and pay more taxes, or not?” Robert Iger, Disney’s CEO, said on an earnings-related conference call with analysts last week.
On Thursday, Iger and Josh D’Amaro, Disney’s theme park and consumer products chair, showed that they were not bluffing, pulling the plug on a nearly $1 billion office complex that was scheduled for construction in Orlando. It would have brought more than 2,000 jobs to the region, with $120,000 as the average salary, according to an estimate from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
The project, known as the Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to involve the relocation of more than 1,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as Imagineering, which works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions. Most of the affected employees complained bitterly about having to move — some quit — but Disney largely held firm, partly because of a Florida tax credit that would have allowed the company to recoup as much as $570 million over 20 years for building and occupying the complex.
When he announced the project in 2021, D’Amaro cited “Florida’s business-friendly climate” as justification.
D’Amaro’s tone in an email to employees Thursday was notably different. He cited “changing business conditions” as a reason for canceling the Lake Nona project. “I remain optimistic about the direction of our Walt Disney World business,” D’Amaro said in the memo. He noted that $17 billion was still earmarked for construction at Disney World over the next decade — growth that would create an estimated 13,000 jobs. “I hope we’re able to,” he said.
But the company’s battle with DeSantis and his allies in the Florida Legislature figured prominently into Disney’s decision to cancel the Lake Nona project, according to two people briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. A spokesperson for Iger said he was not available for an interview.
About 200 Disney employees already relocated to Florida from California. D’Amaro said in his note that the company would discuss options with them, “including the possibility of moving you back.” The Lake Nona project had initially been scheduled to open next year. Last July, Disney pushed back the move-in date to 2026, citing construction delays.
The Lake Nona campus, about 20 miles from Disney World near the Orlando International Airport, had been championed by Bob Chapek, who served as Disney’s CEO from 2020 until he was fired last year. Iger, who came out of retirement to retake Disney’s reins, was much less enthusiastic about the project — even before the company became mired in its battle with DeSantis. As soon as he returned to Disney, Iger began telling lieutenants, for instance, that it made little sense to move Imagineering so far away from Disney’s movie studios. As he is fond of saying, “Creative teams need to be together.”
Disney is also in the midst of cutting $5.5 billion in costs as it seeks to improve profitability, pay down debt and restore its dividend.
DeSantis and Disney have been sparring for more than a year over a special tax district that encompasses Disney World. The fight started when the company criticized a Florida education law that opponents labeled “Don’t Say Gay” because it limits classroom instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation — angering DeSantis, who repeatedly vowed payback.
Since then, Florida legislators, at the urging of DeSantis, have targeted Disney — the state’s largest taxpayer — with a variety of hostile measures. In February, they ended Disney’s long-held ability to self-govern its 25,000-acre resort as if it were a county by giving DeSantis control over government services at the resort.
It was soon discovered that the previous, Disney-controlled board had approved development contracts that lock in a growth plan for the resort. An effort to void those agreements has since resulted in dueling lawsuits, with Disney suing DeSantis and his allies in federal court and the governor’s tax district appointees returning fire in state court. | 2023-05-18T20:19:51+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/disney-pulls-plug-on-1-billion-development-in-florida-amid-desantis-fight/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Justice Department’s investigation into classified records stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
The document purported to be from the U.S. Treasury Department, claimed that the agency had seized sensitive documents related to last month’s search at Mar-a-Lago and included a warrant ordering CNN to preserve “leaked tax records.”
The document remained late Thursday on the court docket, but it is a clear fabrication. A review of dozens of court records and interviews by The Associated Press suggest the document originated with a serial forger behind bars at a federal prison complex in North Carolina.
The incident also suggests that the court clerk was easily tricked into believing it was real, landing the document on the public docket in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant case. It also highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. court system and raises questions about the court’s vetting of documents that purport to be official records.
[ RELATED: Judge chooses independent arbiter to review records taken from Mar-a-Lago ]
The document first appeared on the court’s docket late Monday afternoon and was marked as a “MOTION to Intervene by U.S. Department of the Treasury.”
The document, sprinkled with spelling and syntax errors, read, “The U.S. Department of Treasury through the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Marshals Service have arrested Seized Federal Securities containing sensitive documents which are subject to the Defendant Sealed Search Warrant by the F.B.I. arrest.”
It cited a federal statute for collecting financial records in federal investigations. The document also included the two supposed warrants, one that claimed to be sent to CNN in Atlanta and another to a towing company in Michigan.
Those supposed warrants, though, are identical to paperwork filed in another case in federal court in Georgia brought by an inmate at the prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. The case was thrown out, as were the array of other frivolous lawsuits the man has filed from his prison cell.
The man has been in custody for several years since he was found not competent to stand trial after an arrest for planting a fake explosive outside the Guardian Building, a skyscraper in Detroit. Since his incarceration, he has filed a range of lawsuits and has impersonated the Treasury Department, claimed to be a federal trustee and claimed to be a lawyer for the Justice Department, a review of court records shows.
[ RELATED: Judge unseals additional portions of Mar-a-Lago affidavit ]
In the Georgia case, the man alleged that Trump and others had “acquired ‘millions of un- redacted classified tax returns and other sensitive financial data, bank records and accounts of banking and tax transactions of several million’ Americans and federal government agencies,” court documents say.
The judge in that case called his suit “fanatic” and “delusional,” saying there was no way to “discern any cognizable claim” from the incoherent filings.
The man has repeatedly impersonated federal officials in court records and has placed tax liens on judges using his false paperwork, two people familiar with the matter told the AP. Because of his history as a forger, his mail is supposed to be subjected to additional scrutiny from the Bureau of Prisons.
It’s unclear how the documents — the fake motion and the phony warrants — ended up at the court clerk’s office at the courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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A photocopy of an envelope, included in the filing, shows it was sent to the court with a printed return address of the Treasury Department’s headquarters in Washington. But a postmark shows a Michigan ZIP code, and a tracking number on the envelope shows it was mailed Sept. 9 from Clinton Township, Michigan, the inmate’s hometown.
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The AP is not identifying the inmate by name because he has a documented history of mental illness and has not been charged with a crime related to the filing.
“There is simply nothing indicating that he has any authorization to act on behalf of the United States,” the judge in the Georgia case wrote.
But despite the clear warning signs — including a stamp noting the Georgia case number on the phony warrants — the filing still made its way onto the docket.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the Treasury Department would not comment. They declined to answer on the record when asked if the document was false and why the government had not addressed it.
Representatives in the court clerk’s office and the magistrate judge overseeing the search warrant case did not respond to requests for comment.
Associated Press writers Eric Tucker and Fatima Hussein in Washington, Kate Brumback in Atlanta and Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Florida, contributed to this report. | 2022-09-16T14:07:24+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-trump-fbi-phony-document-20220916-vbzrjuomhrebdpovnljn2b3wym-story.html |
Question: At the Clinton Nuclear Power Plant, it is a 12 1/2-foot uranium fuel rod that begins the process that creates nuclear power. But it takes more than just one rod. Do you know how many of those rods at Clinton it takes to produce nuclear energy to power your home, and how long do those rods last?
Answer: Bad news: It takes 38,016 rods to adequately equip Clinton to produce power for your home, as well as thousands of others. Good news: Each rod lasts between three to six years, before it is “out of nuclear-spawning energy.”
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Recently graduated high schoolers received over $80,000 in scholarships during the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Bradley Ross Jackson, president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP Youth Council, at the 2023 NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Carla Campbell-Jackson, vice president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP, at the NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Michael Coleman, previous recipient of Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Mentoring and Providing Scholarships, delivers remarks on Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. lined up to give out scholarships at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Brandon Caffey of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. presented students with scholarships on Saturday, June 3, at the Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Members of the local Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. gave out scholarships at Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
Photos: Bloomington-Normal NAACP, other groups present $82K in scholarships
The Bloomington-Normal NAACP and a number of other groups handed out over $80,000 in scholarships to recent high-school grads in Bloomington and Normal.
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Recently graduated high schoolers received over $80,000 in scholarships during the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Bradley Ross Jackson, president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP Youth Council, at the 2023 NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Carla Campbell-Jackson, vice president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP, at the NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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James Harden, executive director of engagement and social emotional learning in Champaign Unit 4 School District, delivered the keynote speech Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Michael Coleman, previous recipient of Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Mentoring and Providing Scholarships, delivers remarks on Saturday, June 3, at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. lined up to give out scholarships at the Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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The Bloomington-Normal NAACP held its annual Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Brandon Caffey of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. presented students with scholarships on Saturday, June 3, at the Joint Scholarship Celebration at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington.
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Members of the local Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. gave out scholarships at Bloomington-Normal NAACP's Joint Scholarship Celebration on Saturday, June 3, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington. | 2023-06-13T13:13:26+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/column/flick-fact-how-many-uranium-rods-to-make-nuclear-energy-in-clinton/article_400d10fc-0592-11ee-9cab-bf0c9d15c2ee.html |
The upcoming forecast is not exactly a thrill ride: temperatures look to go up and down over the next 4 or 5 days with no real trend establishing. This is actually not a bad thing, no extremes are likely.
As April grinds to an end and May begins the statistical likelihood of significant rain diminishes from about 1" for the month in April to less than half that for most of the area in May.
We are already experiencing common spring weather conditions like night and morning clouds with afternoon clearing and the wind. Spring winds on the Central Coast are common and over the next 4 or 5 days, you can expect afternoon winds of 15-25mph for coastal areas, and late afternoon winds in the interior valleys.
The onshore winds are like free air conditioning with water temperatures in the 50s the wind passes over the water and cools the air, that air comes to the landmass and keeps temps from getting too hot.
Saturday the Central Coast looks generally warm (but not hot) with highs in the 70s to nearly 80 in the coastal valleys with mid-80s inland. Beaches will remain in the 60s.
Sunday will cool a little, especially in the coastal valleys as an upper-level disturbance passes to the north and introduces more marine layer. Inland temps will cool a few degrees in response as well.
The jet stream pattern shows small little waves in the jet and these smaller waves are why temps will go up and down into later next week when a larger cooling takes place around Thursday.
In terms of rain, I don't see any. The long-term charts continue to show a series of cold fronts passing too far north to bring rain here but that series of fronts likely will keep temps from getting very extreme.
The long-term models are not optimistic about May rain, but that is not a big surprise as May is generally fairly dry and LaNina is still active which also generally depresses rainfall in our region. | 2022-04-30T01:17:43+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/weather/the-weekend-gets-off-to-a-warm-start-but-cools-a-little-sunday |
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Revenue of $31.3 million for the second quarter of 2022
- GAAP net loss of $(107.9) million for the quarter, impacted by $98.2 million of special items
- Adjusted EBITDA of $2.9 million for the quarter
- LTM Adjusted EBITDA of $52.5 million
- Produced approximately 621 bitcoin during the second quarter
- Power plant uptime of 100.0% in second quarter, 99.8% YTD, and 98.3% LTM, including downtime for scheduled maintenance outages
- Mining capacity of approximately 2.5 EH/s from approximately 27,500 miners at June 30, 2022
- $67 million in cash and fair value of cryptocurrency holdings at June 30, 2022
- Approximately $92 million of additional cash on deposit with Bitmain as of June 30, 2022
- Minimal additional cash contributions anticipated to complete purchase of miners in order book
July 2022 Operational Update
- Produced approximately 287 bitcoin in July 2022
- Approximately 2.7 EH/s of mining capacity from approximately 29,300 miners as of July 31, 2022
- Power plant uptime of 100.0%
FAIRFIELD, Conn., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GREE) ("Greenidge"), a vertically integrated cryptocurrency datacenter and power generation company, today announced financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2022 and provided an operational update for the month ended July 31, 2022.
"While our team once again delivered strong operational performance in terms of bitcoin production and plant uptime for the quarter and for the month of July, the approximately 60% decrease in the price of bitcoin during the second quarter coupled with the spike in global energy prices clearly presents a challenging earnings environment," said Jeff Kirt, Chief Executive Officer of Greenidge. "The sudden change in mining economics has driven us to refocus our strategy to prudently prioritize liquidity and capital preservation over aggressive growth – while maintaining our relentless focus on operational performance.
"As a result, we have chosen to pause our plans to develop certain additional sites in our pipeline in the ERCOT market and, instead, intend to concentrate our operations at our two existing sites in South Carolina and New York for the time being. We now expect to have at least 3.6 EH/s of mining capacity by the first quarter of 2023 and expect to maintain our first quarter 2023 level of mining capacity until we determine that market conditions are attractive for additional growth.
"Our development plan is fully funded with cash on our balance sheet and substantially all of the required infrastructure equipment has been procured. We anticipate minimal cash contributions, if any, will be required to finance the purchase of our remaining order book and expect the cost of the remaining infrastructure build to be less than $7.5 million.
"Importantly, our lenders have shown strong support of our revised development plan by working with us to flatten our amortization curve in order to further enhance liquidity during this challenging time for our industry. This provides us with additional near-term liquidity as we complete our revised development plan in the upcoming months, which allows us to benefit from the next uptick in the bitcoin cycle while also providing us with a stronger liquidity position in the event of a market downturn"
Greenidge's revenue for the second quarter was $31 million, up 94% compared to the prior year period. Cryptocurrency datacenter revenue for the second quarter was $20 million, up 43% compared to the prior year period, and Power and capacity revenue for the second quarter was $3 million, up 35% compared to the prior year period. Greenidge's Support.com subsidiary, which was acquired in September 2021, generated approximately $8.1 million in second quarter revenue and was not included in Greenidge's second quarter 2022 results. Support.com revenue is included in Greenidge's Services and other revenue line item on the income statement.
Greenidge produced approximately 621 bitcoin during the second quarter of 2022, compared to 315 bitcoin in the second quarter of 2021, and had approximately 27,500 miners with approximately 2.5 EH/s of combined capacity as of June 30, 2022.
Net loss was $(107.9) million for the second quarter as compared to net income of $3.5 million in the prior year period. As detailed below and in Greenidge's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed today, the second quarter of 2022 results had $98.2 million of special items. Following a substantial drop in the price of bitcoin and a spike in energy prices in the second quarter, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 360, Property, Plant and Equipment, Greenidge took a $71.5 million nonrecurring, noncash charge in the quarter. Additionally, Greenidge's second quarter 2022 results included an $11.1 million charge for the remeasurement of environmental liabilities, $0.5 million of merger and other costs, $0.1 million of expansion costs and a $15.0 million tax charge for the recognition of a valuation allowance on deferred tax assets primarily related to historical net operating loss carryforwards of the Support.com business that was acquired in 2021. Adjusted net loss was $(9.7) million, compared to Adjusted net income of $4.2 million in the prior year period.
Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter was $2.9 million, or 9.2% of revenue, compared to the prior year period of $8.1 million, or 49.9% of revenue
Greenidge ended the quarter with approximately $67 million of cash and fair market value of cryptocurrency holdings, of which, less than $1 million was cryptocurrency holdings. In addition, Greenidge had approximately $92 million of cash on deposit with Bitmain Technologies, Ltd as of June 30, 2022.
Greenidge's mining operations in Dresden, NY are powered by the power plant located at the facility. The plant is periodically offline for scheduled maintenance outages and for unscheduled outages. In the second quarter of 2022, the plant was offline for zero (0) hours, representing an uptime, defined as running hours divided by total hours in the period, of 100.0%. For the six months June 30, 2022, the plant was offline for seven (7) hours, representing an uptime of 99.8%. For the twelve months ended June 30, 2022, the plant was offline for 149 hours, representing an uptime of 98.3%. Greenidge commenced mining operations in scale at its Dresden facility in the first quarter of 2020. For the 27 month period beginning April 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2022, the plant was offline for a total of 324 hours, representing an uptime for the period of 98.4%. Offline hours mentioned above include hours the plant is offline for scheduled maintenance. The plant's maintenance schedule currently has approximately 190 hours of planned time offline in the second half of 2022.
During the month of July 2022, Greenidge produced approximately 287 bitcoin. As of July 31, 2022, Greenidge had approximately 2.7 EH/s of mining capacity from approximately 29,300 miners. Additionally, Greenidge had approximately 2,800 miners in transit as of July 31, 2022. The power plant at Greenidge's Dresden facility was offline for zero (0) hours during the month, representing an uptime of 100.0%.
Pursuant to Greenidge's revised development plan, it now expects to have at least 3.6 EH/s of mining capacity by the first quarter of 2023 and expects mining capacity to remain at first quarter 2023 levels until it determines market conditions are attractive for additional growth. Greenidge expects to have ample mining infrastructure available at its locations in New York and South Carolina to accommodate this capacity and has substantially all of the mining infrastructure equipment on hand including the required transformers, switchgear, PDUs and mobile mining structures. The expected cost to procure the contractor services and any remaining infrastructure equipment required to develop Greenidge's mining infrastructure is less than $7.5 million. Following a planned upgrade to the electrical service at its Spartanburg, SC site in late 2022 or early 2023, Greenidge expects to have 50 megawatts of electrical capacity available at the site.
In the second quarter, Greenidge began to upgrade its fleet efficiency by reducing its inventory of older, less efficient mining equipment in order to free up mining capacity for newer, more efficient miners in its order book. Greenidge expects this trend to continue during the second half of 2022 and may also consider other asset sales, including but not limited to sales of surplus mining infrastructure equipment, to further enhance its liquidity position.
As further detailed in Greenidge's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed today, on August 10, 2022, B Riley Commercial Capital, LLC and Greenidge amended the terms of Greenidge's Secured Promissory Note by extending the maturity to June 2023, reducing scheduled monthly amortization payments and reducing certain mandatory prepayments. The interest rate of the Secured Promissory Note was revised to 7.5% and the principal balance following the amendment was $16.4 million.
Consistent with the intentions provided in its press release on June 30, 2022, Greenidge filed a notice with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation ("NYDEC") on July 28, 2022, requesting a hearing on the NYDEC's decision to deny Greenidge's application for a Title V Air Permit Renewal at its Dresden, NY facility. Greenidge is permitted to operate uninterrupted under a State Administrative Procedures Act extension, in full compliance with its existing Title V Air Permit, until four months after final resolution of the adjudicatory hearing. While no adjudicatory proceedings have been scheduled to date, Greenidge has been advised that, based on the progression of previous and ongoing cases of a similar nature, the appeals process may take a number of years to fully resolve.
Following a substantial drop in the price of bitcoin and a spike in energy prices in the second quarter, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 360, Property, Plant and Equipment, Greenidge undertook an impairment assessment pertaining to long-lived assets that resulted in a non-cash charge of $72 million reflected in the income statement and the property and equipment line item of the balance sheet. Further details of the ASC 360 impairment are available in Greenidge's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022.
Separately, Greenidge adjusted its estimate pertaining to a legacy environmental liability associated with a settling pond located at its Dresden, NY facility. The liability results from operations prior to Greenidge's ownership of the site and was assumed when Greenidge purchased the facility in 2014. The adjustment resulted in a $11 million charge during the quarter.
Additionally, the Company recognized a charge of $15 million during the second quarter for a valuation allowance associated with deferred tax assets recorded primarily relating to net operating losses of the Support.com business, which was acquired in 2021.
Greenidge will host a management presentation on Monday, August 15, 2022 at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Greenidge's management team will discuss the financial results and provide a general business update.
A link to the management presentation will be available on Greenidge's Investor Relations website at http://ir.greenidge.com and will be available for replay.
Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GREE) is a vertically integrated cryptocurrency datacenter and power generation company. Greenidge is committed to 100% carbon-neutral datacenter operations at all of its locations by utilizing low-carbon sources of energy and offsetting its carbon footprint.
To provide investors and others with additional information regarding the financial results of Greenidge (the "Company"), the Company has disclosed in this press release certain non-GAAP operating performance measures of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, LTM Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted net (loss) income. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization, which is then adjusted for stock-based compensation and other special items determined by management, including, but not limited to costs associated with the merger with Support.com, costs of becoming a public company (which included the costs of a corporate reorganization from an LLC, public registration of shares and associated costs), business expansion costs, impairments of goodwill and long-lived assets and remeasurement of environmental liabilities. Adjusted EBITDA margin is the percentage of Adjusted EBITDA of revenue. LTM Adjusted EBITDA is Adjusted EBITDA over the last twelve-month period. Adjusted net (loss) income is net (loss) income adjusted for the after-tax impacts of special items determined by management, including but not limited to costs associated with the merger with Support.com, costs of becoming a public company (which included the costs of a corporate reorganization from an LLC, public registration of shares and associated costs), business expansion costs, impairments of goodwill and long-lived assets, remeasurement of environmental liabilities and tax charges for the recognition of valuation allowances on deferred tax assets. These non-GAAP financial measures are a supplement to and not a substitute for or superior to, the Company's results presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures presented by the Company may be different from non-GAAP financial measures presented by other companies. Specifically, the Company believes the non-GAAP information provides useful measures to investors regarding the Company's financial performance by excluding certain costs and expenses that the Company believes are not indicative of its core operating results. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results or guidance prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to U.S. GAAP results is included herein.
This press release includes certain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements for purposes of federal and state securities laws. These forward-looking statements involve uncertainties that could significantly affect Greenidge's financial or operating results. These forward-looking statements may be identified by terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "foresee," "expect," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "would," "could," and "should," and the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, among other things, statements regarding the business plan, business strategy and operations of Greenidge in the future. In addition, all statements that address operating performance and future performance, events or developments that are expected or anticipated to occur in the future, such as statements concerning (i) the development of facilities in South Carolina and New York, (ii) future mining capacity, (iii) future electrical capacity, (iv) future liquidity, (v) the ability to obtain future debt or equity financing, and (vi) the Department Title V Air Permit appeal process, are forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Matters and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to the matters and factors described in Part I, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Greenidge's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, in Part II, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Greenidge's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022, and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as statements about or relating to or otherwise affected by the completion of management's final review of the financial results and Greenidge's other closing procedures. Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by the information contained under this caption. No assurance can be given that these are all of the factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release. You should not put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. No assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do occur, the actual results, performance, or achievements of Greenidge could differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and Greenidge does not assume any duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, the occurrence of future events, uncertainties or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
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SOURCE Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. | 2022-08-15T20:50:19+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/08/15/greenidge-generation-announces-financial-operating-results-second-quarter-2022-provides-operational-update-july-2022/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The burly, bearded men belting out holiday classics have made the night before Christmas more than just a time this year to watch the Philadelphia Eagles try and slay the competition.
Lane Johnson, Jason Kelce and Jordan Mailata -- with a little assist from some melodic teammates -- have made a season already pretty jolly in Philly a bit more sweet-sounding with the release of their Christmas album, “A Philly Special Christmas.”
Yes, the album title is an ode to Old Saint Nick, in this case former QB Nick Foles and the trick play that helped the Eagles win their only Super Bowl in the 2017 season.
The trio of Eagles offensive lineman can sing about as well as they can pass protect -- Johnson might not even let Santa Claus down the chimney as he holds the record for most consecutive games without allowing a sack -- and an All-Star cast of musicians was assembled to record the album.
Leading the charge was Charlie Hall, drummer for the Grammy-winning band War on Drugs.
“If we’re going to do this, let’s make it meaningful. Let’s make it awesome,” Hall said. “It’s not a goof.”
While the tone is light, this is no novelty record.
“Oh, football players making a record, it’s like ‘Super Bowl Shuffle,’” Hall said with a laugh. “But no, this was born out of sincerity and a deep love and appreciation of music.”
The cover art features Johnson, Kelce and Mailata sketched in an homage to the Peanuts characters on the “A Charlie Brown Christmas” album and the songs are standards found on Christmas playlists.
“I did not think it was going to get to this level of quality,” Kelce said.
The guys in green sing “White Christmas,” “ Blue Christmas,” “Silent Night” and Eagles radio announcer Merrill Reese narrates “The Night Before Christmas.”
On the field, the Eagles play the Dallas Cowboys Dec. 24.
There’s a philanthropical slant to the album as well, with proceeds going to the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center in Philadelphia. More than $100,000 has already been raised.
Good luck buying the album, though.
Well, at least a vinyl copy, as previous pressings have quickly sold out. The last batch sold out in 120 seconds -- some albums are going for $4,000 on eBay -- and there’s one final order available on Friday. “A Philly Special Christmas” is of course available on streaming services and one song a week has been dropped each Friday leading to the full record’s release on Dec. 23.
The idea for an album was kicked around last year by Kelce and friends around last Christmas and former Eagle Connor Barwin used his music connections - War on Drugs have headlined the former defensive end’s charity show - to get the ball rolling. The album was recorded over several days at various Philadelphia-area studios this past summer.
“It’s 98 degrees and we’re recording a Christmas album,” Kelce said, wearing a Christmas sweater, Eagles Santa hat and holding a beer, in a making-of video.
Barwin served as an executive producer. The seven-song LP from Vera Y Records also features musicians from The Hooters, Dr. Dog and 98-year-old saxophone player Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra.
The recording team brought in a vocal coach to assist the Eagles as they made the transition from the huddle to the studio.
“That was the lesson in all this, just being game for something,” Hall said. “They’re like, ‘yeah, show me what to do. Show me how to be better and I’ll do it.’ Just totally coachable.”
Kelce, who dressed as a Mummer during the Super Bowl parade and s ang the national anthem at a 76ers game last season, channeled his inner Bruce Springsteen for the classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
Kelce bursts into laughter when the 25-year-old Mailata hits all the high notes of falsetto on the the “ I-I-I am dreaming of a white Christmas ” doo-wop part popularized by The Drifters.
“What Jordan did, you could call singing,” Kelce said. “What Lane did, you could call singing. I don’t know if you could call what I did singing. I’m very much just a yeller in certain tones.”
Mailata has the best pipes of the bunch and even competed on the Fox reality show “ The Masked Singer. ”
“Jordan could straight up quit football and be a singer if he wanted to,” Hall said. “But they’re all great. Their voices are like a reflection of their personalities. Lane has this incredibly soulful voice. If they were to get out of this line of business, Jordan would have no trouble finding a gig singing.”
Hall already felt the holiday spirit with the War on Drugs set to play three-sold out “ Drugcember To Remember” charity shows next week at the Philly rock venue Johnny Brenda's. The money raised goes toward The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, a nonprofit that raises and coordinates investments into the Philadelphia public schools.
War on Drugs had just won a Grammy and were on tour in Australia in February 2018 when the Eagles beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
“It was like 10 in the morning and we all crammed into a hotel room and were screaming and throwing chairs out of excitement,” Hall said.
Now they're building Christmas traditions together.
“It's sort of a beautiful reminder that we're all just connected through life and music and friendship," Hall said.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-12-15T20:16:01+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Eagles-belt-holiday-hits-on-Philly-Special-17655978.php |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The number of deaths following Hurricane Ian’s rampage in Florida continued to rise over the weekend.
On Saturday evening, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced there have been 47 deaths attributed to the hurricane so far — mostly from drowning.
The Associated Press reported that an additional four people in North Carolina and three in Cuba were also killed by the storm, bringing the death toll to 54.
Among those killed were a 62-year-old woman who was hurt and drowned after a tree fell on her mobile home, a 54-year-old man who drowned after being trapped in a window, and a Lee County woman whose body was found tangled in wires under a home.
A 71-year-old man also died after falling off his roof while installing rain shutters Wednesday.
Another death was also reported in the Tampa Bay area after a 22-year-old woman died in an ATV crash caused by a road washout in Manatee County.
FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie said there was also a case of human remains found in an underwater home in Lee County.
“We do not know exactly how many were in the house,” he said Friday. “The water was up over the rooftop.”
More deaths are expected to be discovered as floodwaters recede. According to Guthrie, the death toll may also go down at some points, because deaths can later be attributed to be non-storm-related causes. That’s why the totals are expected to change as information goes in.
“People die in disasters that have nothing to do with the disaster,” he said. “The medical examiner is the one that makes that determination.” | 2022-10-02T16:47:09+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/54-deaths-from-hurricane-ian-reported-as-recovery-efforts-continue/ |
Updated April 24, 2022 at 11:01 AM ET
PARIS — France voters turned out Sunday for a presidential runoff election that has wide repercussions for Europe's future, with President Emmanuel Macron considered the front-runner but fighting a tough challenge from far-right rival Marine Le Pen.
The centrist Macron is asking voters to trust him for a second five-year term despite a presidency that was troubled by protests, the pandemic and Russia's war on Ukraine. A Macron victory in this vote would make him the first French president in 20 years to win a second term.
The result Sunday in France, a nuclear-armed nation with one of the world's biggest economies, could also impact the war in Ukraine, as France has played a key role in diplomatic efforts and firmly backed sanctions against Russia for its invasion of its neighbor.
All recent opinion polls converge toward a win for the 44-year-old pro-European Macron — yet the margin over his 53-year-old far-right rival varies broadly. Polls also forecast a possibly record-high number of people who will either cast a blank vote or not vote at all.
Le Pen's support in France's electorate has grown during this campaign to her highest level ever, and much will depend Sunday on how many people turn out to vote. Participation was 26.1% at midday, slightly higher than in the first-round vote on April 10.
Many of those expected to choose Macron are doing so mainly to keep out Le Pen, whose platform is seen as extreme and anti-democratic, such as her plan to ban the Muslim headscarf in public. Macron has questioned her party's ties to Russia.
"I am serene," Le Pen said as she voted in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont and took selfies with fans. "I have confidence in the French."
Macron, meanwhile, greeted crowds with handshakes and embraces in the English Channel coastal town of Le Touquet.
Both candidates are trying to court the 7.7 million supporters of leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon, who was among the 10 other presidential candidates eliminated in the first round of voting on April 10.
For many who voted for left-wing candidates in the first round, the runoff presents an unpalatable choice between Le Pen, a far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist, and Macron, a leader who some feel has veered to the right during his first term. The outcome could depend on whether left-wing voters back Macron or abstain from voting, leaving him to fend for himself against Le Pen.
Voting west of Paris in the suburb of Le Pecq, Stephanie David cast her ballot for Macron "without much joy." She had voted for the Communist Party candidate in round one.
"It was the least worst choice," said the transport worker, who added that Le Pen was anathema to her. "Even if she tries to soften her rhetoric, I can't stomach it."
Retiree Jean-Pierre Roux voted to keep out Le Pen's extreme-right father, Jean-Marie, in France's 2002 presidential runoff and voted against his daughter in 2017. But Roux could not bring himself to vote for Macron again this time, saying he was too arrogant. Roux put an empty envelope in the voting box.
"I am not against his ideas but I cannot stand the person," he said.
Le Pen has sought to appeal to working class voters struggling with surging prices amid the fallout of Russia's war in Ukraine — an approach that even Macron acknowledged has found resonance in the public. She said bringing down the cost of living would be her priority if elected as France's first woman president, and she portrayed herself as the candidate for voters unable to make ends meet.
Le Pen says Macron's presidency has left the country deeply divided, pointing to yellow vest protest movement that rocked his government before the COVID-19 pandemic, with months of violent demonstrations against economic policies that some thought hurt the poorest.
Macron has sought to appeal to voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities, especially because of Le Pen's proposed policies targeting Muslims and putting French citizens first in line for jobs and benefits.
Macron has also touted his environmental and climate accomplishments in a bid to draw in young voters popular with far-left left candidates. Many young French voters are particularly engaged with climate issues.
Although Macron was associated with the slogan "Make The Planet Great Again," in his first five-year term, he capitulated to angry yellow vest protesters by scrapping a tax hike on fuel prices. Macron has said his next prime minister would be put in charge of environmental planning as France seeks to become carbon neutral by 2050.
Le Pen, once considered a climate-change skeptic, wants to scrap subsidies for renewable energies. She has vowed to dismantle wind farms and invest in nuclear and hydro energy.
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A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board on Tuesday in a high-stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison.Video above: Victims and family members speak at parole hearing for Kentucky school shooterMichael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. School shootings were not yet a depressing part of the national consciousness, and Carneal was given the maximum sentence possible at the time for someone his age — life in prison but with the possibility of parole. A quarter century later, in the shadow of Uvalde and in a nation disgusted by the carnage of mass shootings, Carneal, now 39, will try to convince the parole board he deserves to be freed.His parole hearing began Monday with testimony from those injured and close family of those killed, several of whom had considered Carneal a friend.Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed by one of Carneal's bullets and uses a wheelchair, said there are too many “what ifs” to release him. What if he stops taking his medication? What if his medication stops working?“Continuing his life in prison is the only way his victims can feel comfortable and safe,” she said. Video below: Archives: In 1997, teen opens fire in Kentucky school, killing 3 studentsKilled in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger. Jenkins Smith said it would be unfair to them and their loved ones for Carneal to be set free.“They will forever be a 17 year old, a 14 year old, and a 15 year old — allowed only one full decade of life. A consequence of Michael’s choice,” she said.Also testifying Monday was Christina Hadley Ellegood, whose younger sister Nicole was killed in the shooting. Ellegood has written about the pain of seeing her sister's body and having to call their mom and tell her Nicole had been shot.“I had no one to turn to who understood what I was going through,” she said Monday. “For me, it’s not fair for him to be able to roam around with freedom when we live in fear of where he might be.” A two-person panel of the full parole board is hearing Carneal’s appeal. They have the option to release him or defer his next opportunity for parole for up to five years. If the two cannot agree on those options, they can send the case to a meeting of the full board next Monday. Only the full board has the power to deny Carneal any chance of parole, forcing him to stay in prison for the rest of his life. Hollan Holm, who was wounded that day, spoke Monday about lying on the floor of the high school lobby, bleeding from his head and believing he was going to die. But he said Carneal was too young to comprehend the full consequences of his actions and should have a chance at supervised release.“When I think of Michael Carneal, I think of the child I rode the bus with every day,” he said. “I think of the child I shared a lunch table with in third grade. I think of what he could have become if, on that day, he had it somewhere in him to make a different choice or take a different path.”
PADUCAH, Ky. — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board on Tuesday in a high-stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison.
Video above: Victims and family members speak at parole hearing for Kentucky school shooter
Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. School shootings were not yet a depressing part of the national consciousness, and Carneal was given the maximum sentence possible at the time for someone his age — life in prison but with the possibility of parole. A quarter century later, in the shadow of Uvalde and in a nation disgusted by the carnage of mass shootings, Carneal, now 39, will try to convince the parole board he deserves to be freed.
His parole hearing began Monday with testimony from those injured and close family of those killed, several of whom had considered Carneal a friend.
Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed by one of Carneal's bullets and uses a wheelchair, said there are too many “what ifs” to release him. What if he stops taking his medication? What if his medication stops working?
“Continuing his life in prison is the only way his victims can feel comfortable and safe,” she said.
Video below: Archives: In 1997, teen opens fire in Kentucky school, killing 3 students
Killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger. Jenkins Smith said it would be unfair to them and their loved ones for Carneal to be set free.
“They will forever be a 17 year old, a 14 year old, and a 15 year old — allowed only one full decade of life. A consequence of Michael’s choice,” she said.
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Authorities escort Michael Carneal to his arraignment in January 1998.
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Michael Carneal parole hearing September 2022.
Also testifying Monday was Christina Hadley Ellegood, whose younger sister Nicole was killed in the shooting. Ellegood has written about the pain of seeing her sister's body and having to call their mom and tell her Nicole had been shot.
“I had no one to turn to who understood what I was going through,” she said Monday. “For me, it’s not fair for him to be able to roam around with freedom when we live in fear of where he might be.”
A two-person panel of the full parole board is hearing Carneal’s appeal. They have the option to release him or defer his next opportunity for parole for up to five years. If the two cannot agree on those options, they can send the case to a meeting of the full board next Monday. Only the full board has the power to deny Carneal any chance of parole, forcing him to stay in prison for the rest of his life.
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A Heath High School student screams at the scene of the 1997 shooting at the school.
Hollan Holm, who was wounded that day, spoke Monday about lying on the floor of the high school lobby, bleeding from his head and believing he was going to die. But he said Carneal was too young to comprehend the full consequences of his actions and should have a chance at supervised release.
“When I think of Michael Carneal, I think of the child I rode the bus with every day,” he said. “I think of the child I shared a lunch table with in third grade. I think of what he could have become if, on that day, he had it somewhere in him to make a different choice or take a different path.” | 2022-09-20T15:48:00+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/kentucky-school-shooter-michael-carneal-heath-high-school/41293607 |
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered a lower court review of Biden administration revisions to a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal district judge in Texas should take another look at the program following the revisions adopted in August. The ruling, for now, leaves the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals up in the air.
"It appears that the status quo for DACA remains," said Veronica Garcia, an attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, an advocacy organization.
DACA was adopted by former President Barack Obama's administration and has had a complicated ride through federal court challenges.
Texas-based U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen last year declared DACA illegal. He found that the program had not been subjected to public notice and comment periods required under the federal Administrative Procedures Act. But he left the program temporarily intact for those already benefiting from it, pending the appeal.
Wednesday's ruling by three judges of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit upholds the judge's initial finding. But it sends the case back to him for a look at a new version of the rule issued by the Biden administration in late August. The new rule takes effect Oct. 31.
"A district court is in the best position to review the administrative record in the rulemaking proceeding," said the opinion by Chief 5th Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, nominated to the court by President George W. Bush. The other panel members were judges Kurt Engelhardt and James Ho, both appointees of President Donald Trump.
The new rule's 453 pages are largely technical and represent little substantive change from the 2012 memo that created DACA, but it was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process intended to improve its chances of surviving legal muster.
In July arguments at the 5th Circuit, the U.S. Justice Department defended the program, allied with the state of New Jersey, immigrant advocacy organizations and a coalition of dozens of powerful corporations, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. They argued that DACA recipients have grown up to become productive drivers of the U.S. economy, holding and creating jobs and spending money.
Texas, joined by eight other Republican-leaning states argued that they are harmed financially, incurring hundreds of millions of dollars in health care, education and other costs, when immigrants are allowed to remain in the country illegally. They also argued that the White House overstepped its authority by granting immigration benefits that are for Congress to decide.
DACA is widely expected to go to the Supreme Court for a third time. In 2016, the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 over an expanded DACA and a version of the program for parents of DACA recipients, keeping in place a lower court decision for the benefits to be blocked. In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration improperly ended DACA by failing to follow federal procedures, allowing it to stay in place.
DACA recipients have become a powerful political force even though they can't vote, but their efforts to achieve a path to citizenship through Congress have repeatedly fallen short. Any imminent threat to lose work authorization and to expose themselves to deportation could pressure Congress into protecting them, even as a stopgap measure.
The Biden administration disappointed some pro-DACA advocates with its conservative legal strategy of keeping age eligibility unchanged. DACA recipients had to have been in the United States in June 2007, an increasingly out-of-reach requirement. The average age of a DACA recipient was 28.2 years at the end of March, compared to 23.8 years in September 2017.
There were 611,270 people enrolled in DACA at the end of March, including 494,350, or 81%, from Mexico and large numbers from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and South Korea.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna will follow-up her soaring Super Bowl halftime show with a performance at the Super Bowl of movies — the Oscars.
Producers of the telecast said Thursday that the music superstar will sing “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“Lift Me Up,” with music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson and lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler, is nominated for original song. It is Rihanna’s first Oscar nomination.
Earlier this month, the Barbadian superstar, dressed in a bright red jumpsuit, plowed through 12 of her hits in 13 minutes, at the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The performance doubled as an announcement to the world that she was pregnant with her second child.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on March 12.
Among Oscar competitors that Rihanna faces is Lady Gaga, who was nominated for “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.” Lady Gaga co-wrote the song with BloodPop and it’s her fourth nomination; she won an Oscar in 2019 for “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper.
Another nominee is Diane Warren, who received her 14th Oscar nomination through her song “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman.” The prolific songwriter was recognized with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards last year.
Other best original song nominees are M.M. Keeravaani’s “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR,” which was written by Chandrabose, and “This is a Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The latter track was created by Mitski, David Byrne and Ryan Lott, who along with his band Son Lux was also nominated for best original score.
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PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — A man attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a parked SUV in Southern California was run over and killed when the vehicle’s sleeping driver awakened and started to drive away, authorities said.
The death occurred Tuesday evening in a retail parking lot in Palmdale, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
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Arriving deputies found a Ford Excursion partially backed out of a parking stall, a man lying on the ground and a smaller vehicle in the next parking stall.
The department said the Excursion driver was asleep when the smaller vehicle pulled up and one of the four people inside got out and began sawing the catalytic converter off the Ford.
“The victim woke up from the sound, turned the car on, put the vehicle in reverse, and felt a bump like she ran something over,” the department said. “She stopped immediately, leaving the suspect on the ground after running him over.”
The driver then called 911 to get medical help for the suspect.
The suspect was pronounced dead at a hospital. The other three people in the smaller vehicle were detained. No names were released.
Palmdale is in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles. | 2023-02-17T18:58:33+00:00 | centraloregondaily.com | https://centraloregondaily.com/catalytic-converter-theft-suspect-run-over/ |
PARIS, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While celebrating their 20th anniversary, the World's 50 Best Restaurants and its panel of 1,080 international culinary experts, held their annual award ceremony in London, on July the 18th. According to this highly esteemed panel, Le Clarence is now considered the 28th best restaurant in the world and the 2nd finest restaurant in France.
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Le Clarence's identity is born out of a magical recipe. The main ingredients include the audacious concoctions of a seasoned "rebel" Chef, Christophe Pelé, mixed in with the vision of a daring entrepreneur, Prince Robert of Luxembourg, President & CEO of family company, Domaine Clarence Dillon. Together, in November 2015, they created a unique blend of instinctive, brilliantly executed modern cuisine, juxtaposed with the warm traditional charm of a French chateau.
Housed in an elegant 19th century mansion located in Paris, only meters away from the most famous avenue in the world, the Champs Elysées, Le Clarence is situated at the epicentre of the city of lights' Golden Triangle and thus in the exalted heart of European culture and the global luxury goods industry.
It is with tremendous joy and pride that Chef Christophe Pelé, on behalf of his entire team, salutes the 50 Best Committee and states: "This extraordinary vote of confidence from such a distinguished panel of epicurean connoisseurs touches us deeply. You can be sure that this will only add to our keen desire to further dazzle our guests and to surpass ourselves with every service".
Delighted, Prince Robert of Luxembourg remarks: "At Le Clarence, we aimed to create a unique environment where time stands still. On every occasion that I have the pleasure to enjoy Chef Pelé's cuisine, I am deeply moved by the elegance, delicacy and subtlety of his compositions. I have no doubt that this exceptional honour conferred on us by this exalted jury of peers will encourage our teams to reach new heights. We are deeply grateful to the 50 Best Restaurants for this outstanding recognition bestowed on our relatively youthful establishment."
Christophe Pelé
Managing Director and Executive Chef of the restaurant Le Clarence
From a very young age, Christophe Pelé developed a taste for cooking, but it was only at the age of 25 that he became aware of his destiny.
After having worked in the most prestigious Parisian establishments - Ledoyen, Lasserre, Pierre Gagnaire, Le Bristol -, it was at the Royal Monceau that something clicked for him when he met Bruno Cirino. This was an important turning point in his life. He took over the reins of the Royal Monceau kitchen from the Chef in 2004.
In 2007, chef Pelé opened La Bigarrade, which he imagined to be a simple "neighbourhood restaurant" in Paris. The Michelin Guide awarded him his first star in 2008 and his second in 2009. He closed his restaurant in 2013 and took some time to explore new horizons and discover other culinary cultures.
In 2014, Christophe Pelé met Prince Robert of Luxembourg and together they opened Le Clarence in November of 2015. Le Clarence was awarded two stars by the Michelin Guide in 2017.
Domaine Clarence Dillon
Founded in 1935, the family company Domaine Clarence Dillon produces some of the most prestigious wines in the world including Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Château Quintus and Clarendelle.
Domaine Clarence Dillon owns a mansion house in Paris, a true embassy of the French art of living so prized by its President, Prince Robert of Luxembourg. This building is home to the two-starred gastronomic restaurant, Le Clarence, but also to the prestigious wine merchant, La Cave du Château (www.lcdc.wine ). This exceptional boutique, mainly focused on the very finest French wines and spirits, offers a collection of more than 2,500 references. A second shop was opened at Chateau Haut-Brion in Bordeaux in 2021.
In 2005, Clarence Dillon Wines, today one of the most important Bordeaux wholesale companies (Negociant), was also created (www.clarencedillonwines.com).
In 2018, Prince Robert of Luxembourg, representing the 4th generation of the Dillon family, joined Primum Familiae Vini, an international association of 12 families owning some of the most prestigious wine estates in the world.
Restaurant Le Clarence
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Open Wednesday to Saturday for lunch and Tuesday to Saturday for dinner.
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TORONTO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Blade, a North American commercial indoor air quality (IAQ) technology manufacturer, has been awarded a publicly procured, competitively solicited national cooperative contract (R10-1136B) from Region 10 Education Service Center, an Equalis Group Lead Agency.
This partnership allows Blade to provide its suite of indoor air quality (IAQ) solutions and technologies through Equalis, to K-12 schools, higher education entities, local governments, state agencies, and non-profits in the U.S. The available technologies include portable HEPA air purifiers, UVC supplemental air sanitization (induct and standalone options), and electrostatic polarized HVAC filters.
Aedan Fida, CEO of Blade, remarked upon the announcement, "We are very excited about our partnership with Equalis Group. We take great pride in manufacturing our unique, high-quality technologies. This partnership gives us the opportunity to supply schools, government agencies, and municipalities with our leading technologies while ensuring they are easily accessible and cost-effective."
Equalis Group delivers compliant, publicly procured cooperative agreements that public sector entities, including federal and state agencies, local governments, and educational institutions across the country can utilize to: i) quickly acquire the products and services they need; ii) receive better pricing through the collective buying power of Equalis Group Members; and, iii) save time through Equalis Group's legal and compliant alternative to conducting their own resource-consuming solicitation process.
This contract was procured and awarded in accordance with the requirements of 2-C.F.R. Part 200, commonly referred to as "Uniform Guidance". Why is that important? Because public sector entities receiving federal grant and award dollars can typically spend those dollars through Equalis Group's already-procured contracts without having to conduct their own bid or request for proposals (RFP).
Being a North American manufacturer, Blade assures quality, fast lead times, and durability with all products- a company value held high with great pride. "Equalis Group is delighted to have Blade as a supplier partner of our IAQ technology contract. We are certain that Blade will provide value to our clients by helping purchasers navigate procurement guidelines and statutory requirements while reducing costs, enabling them to concentrate on quickly securing the right solution for their IAQ needs," said Stephen Hull, CEO of Equalis Group.
This cooperative contract vehicle is immediately available to Equalis Group members. Any public sector entity within the United States can join Equalis Group and begin utilizing this competitively solicited contract by completing the membership agreement, located here. There are no dues, fees, or obligations to join Equalis Group.
Contract Information:
Contract #: R10-1136B
Effective Date: September 1, 2022
Expiration Date: August 31, 2025
Renewable Through: August 31, 2027
Blade is an industry-leading manufacturer of Canadian-made commercial indoor air quality (IAQ) technology located in Toronto, Ontario. They supply tailored, state-of-the-art indoor air quality solutions that meet the highest industry standards. Currently managing and improving indoor air quality in over 50 million square feet of building spaces across Canada, Blade is a trusted supplier and the preferred vendor of choice to the Ontario government for IAQ technology. In addition, they work with businesses and organizations across all industries.
Equalis Group is a national public sector purchasing cooperative that develops and administers a diverse portfolio of cooperative purchasing programs that cover a wide range of products and services. Each program in Equalis' rapidly growing portfolio provides its members with and a legal and compliant exemption to the traditional bid/RFP process and the ability to configure the solution that best meets their individual needs while achieving the lowest total cost.
To learn more about Blade, visit www.bladeair.ca or call (416) 701-0201.
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Montgomery getting new, free clinic with support from Beacon Center, Five Horizons
The Beacon Center wants to remove barriers and help members of the Montgomery community to build better lives. Access to health care is just another one of those barriers.
The Rev. Richard Williams opened the Beacon Center in 2022 as a ministry of Metropolitan United Methodist Church. Located in west Montgomery, it was meant to be a place where people who needed help could find it — whether in the form of food, advice, or health screenings.
Just two months past the center’s one-year anniversary, it’s already opening an expansion.
The Five Horizons at the Beacon Center will be a free clinic where anyone in the community can receive medical care, regardless of insurance or financial status.
One of the Beacon Center’s primary goals is to remove barriers from the lives of Montgomery community members and help them build better lives. Access to health care is just another one of those barriers.
“We want to set up a footprint in that community, making it convenient, affordable and comprehensive,” Five Horizons CEO Billy Kirkpatrick said. “We are going to serve people whether they are insured, uninsured or underinsured.”
Kirkpatrick’s nonprofit originally launched in 1988 with the name West Alabama AIDS Outreach; now, it operates health clinics around Alabama and Mississippi. The Montgomery location in partnership with the Beacon Center is Five Horizon’s third clinic. The other two are in Tuscaloosa and Starkville, Miss.
All three clinics offer help that goes beyond medical needs. The Montgomery clinic will offer case management and social services, behavioral health services, sexual health education and risk reduction counseling in addition to standard primary care and STI testing and treatment.
“I’m very thankful for the collaboration with even having a social worker present,” Williams said. “Many of our neighbors have many different issues, and sometimes they need that case management.”
Starting as early as next week, patients can visit the clinic at 3091 Gaston Ave. — just south of W. Fairview Avenue near I-65 — between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. As the clinic opens, it will offer services only on weekdays.
Kirkpatrick said the team will evaluate the needs of the community and ensure that the times they are open best serve the community. The clinic will also look to adjust the services it offers based on what seems to be the community’s greatest need moving forward.
Hadley Hitson covers children's health, education and welfare for the Montgomery Advertiser. She can be reached at hhitson@gannett.com. To support her work, subscribe to the Advertiser. | 2023-07-06T09:38:32+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2023/07/06/new-free-health-care-clinic-opening-in-west-montgomery/70366149007/ |
Watcharee’s intensely flavored Thai sauces can give any plain dish an exciting South Asian twist, whether grilled fish, leftover chicken, or noodles.
The Maine start-up has catapulted into a national brand with its four varieties of sauces — Pad Thai, green and massaman curries, and peanut sauce. Watcharee Limanon, the company’s founder, grew up in Thailand and learned to cook traditional Thai foods at her mother’s side. Initially, she worked as an environmental lawyer, but her career path turned toward cooking, and she studied at culinary schools in Bangkok.
Almost 20 years ago, Limanon came to the United States with her husband and two sons and lives on Cousins Island in Casco Bay. She has now launched a line of six Thai-inspired dipping and stir-fry sauces created in Thailand from fresh, traditional ingredients: Thai Sweet Chili and a Spicy Chili, Thai Lemongrass & Chili, Pad Thai, Thai Sweet & Sour, and Thai Basil & Garlic. The sauces are versatile, too, and come in handy for stir fries, grilling, salads, and vegetable dips.
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In creating her latest products, Limanon said she wanted to make easy dishes more thrilling for busy home cooks while sharing flavors of her homeland ($5.49 each).
The dipping and stir-fry sauces are available at Hannaford locations. Watcharee’s original line is sold at Stop & Shop, Wegmans, and Whole Foods selected locations.
Ann Trieger Kurland can be reached at anntrieger@gmail.com. | 2023-04-25T17:15:20+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/25/lifestyle/thai-inspired-sauces-make-easier-more-thrilling-weeknights/ |
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading tech bankers and advisors David Handler and David Neequaye have today launched Tidal Partners, a next-generation M&A and strategic advisory boutique. The new firm's mission is to drive long-term value creation for its clients against the backdrop of accelerating digital transformation.
"The tech landscape is more dynamic and evolving faster than ever. We see an opportunity for a trusted strategic partner who will help clients connect dots and move with greater agility and creativity," said David Handler, Partner and Co-Founder of Tidal Partners. "In Tidal Partners, we're combining best-in-class M&A expertise and a powerful ecosystem of partners - all in service of enabling our clients to move boldly in today's market. The relationships and trust we've built over the last two decades and our proven track record of industry-defining transactions serve to differentiate the value Tidal will bring to our clients."
"We are thrilled to be able to build a firm that will service our clients with not only the highest level of support, partnership, and discretion, but a firm that attacks business problems differently. Our unique structure allows us to be differentiated and creative in our solutions – solutions that we believe will drive extraordinary value for our clients," says David Neequaye, Partner and Co-Founder of Tidal Partners.
Tidal Partners also announced today that it has secured minority investments from 25madison, a leading tech venture platform and Consello, a strategic investing and specialized financial services advisory platform.
In addition, Tidal and Consello have formed an exclusive commercial partnership whereby they will work jointly on M&A and strategic financial advisory assignments, going to market as partners on select assignments.
Handler and Neequaye bring with them 25 years of proven, best-in-class strategic advisory and M&A transaction experience, together with a reputation for out-of-the-box thinking and creative problem solving on industry-defining transactions. They were both previously Partners at Centerview Partners, where they joined the firm during its formation to build and run the tech practice and open the Silicon Valley office.
To learn more about Tidal Partners, visit tidalpartners.com.
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Man accused of posting threats to law enforcement after Mar-a-Lago search
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Washington – A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with threatening to assault and murder federal law enforcement officers in the days following the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to court documents unsealed Monday.
Adam Bies, who allegedly went by the online aliases Adam Kenneth Campbell and “@BlackFocus,” is accused of using the online chat forum Gab – which is frequented by members of far-right extremist groups – to post numerous threatening and derogatory statements against law enforcement. According to investigators, many of the threats were made in the days following the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
“Every single piece of s*** who works for the FBI in any capacity, from the director down to the janitor who cleans their f****** toilets deserves to die. You’ve declared war on us and now it’s open season on YOU,” Bies allegedly wrote on Aug. 10, two days after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, according to Monday’s court filing.
On Aug. 11, Bies allegedly posted to his “Blank Focus” Gab account, “I sincerely believe that if you work for the FBI, then you deserve to DIE,” adjacent to a news article that reported on FBI Director Christopher Wray’s denunciation of threats against FBI agents.
“I’m ready for the inevitable,” Bies allegedly posted that same evening, adding, “My only goal is to kill more of them before I drop. I will not spend one second of my life in their custody.”
An investigator wrote in the charging documents that they took that comment to mean that Bies was, “willing to commit violence towards law enforcement in support of his beliefs, even if that costs him his own life.”
Bies’ arrest came as the FBI and Homeland Security Department warned of increased threats against law enforcement following the search of Trump’s primary residence at Mar-a-Lago. The joint bulletin said the threats are “occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms, including social media sites, web forums, video sharing platforms, and image boards.”
The internal intelligence memo was shared with state, local, tribal and territorial law enforcement officials nationwide late Friday night.
Last week, a man was killed by Cincinnati police after an hours-long standoff at an FBI field office. The suspect, Ricky Shiffer, appeared to post on Trump’s social media platform “TRUTH Social” to express his desire to kill federal agents. The post has since been removed by the site’s moderators.
The FBI searched Trump’s primary residence at Mar-a-Lago last week and seized 11 sets of documents that were marked classified, including four that were designated “top secret,” according to the property receipt that was released Friday. Trump has said the documents were declassified.
According to the search warrant, Trump is being investigated for the removal or destruction of records, obstruction of an investigation, and violating a provision of the Espionage Act related to gathering, transmitting or losing defense information.
Bies made his initial appearance in a Pennsylvania federal courtroom Monday afternoon. He will remain in jail pending a detention hearing set for later this week.
The federal public defender’s office, who is representing Bies, did not immediately respond to CBS News’ request for comment. | 2022-08-16T15:39:23+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/man-accused-of-posting-threats-to-law-enforcement-after-mar-a-lago-search/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Retail Cross Talk -- Oracle has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale Software for Large Apparel and Softlines Retail 2023 Vendor Assessment1 and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Price Optimization Solutions 2023 Vendor Assessment2. Both report excerpts are available here.
Oracle was also recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Commerce Platform Service Providers 2023 Vendor Assessment3.
"It's more imperative than ever that retailers have a holistic view of their data and customers. What separates the retail winners is the agility to act using real-time information, no matter how, when, or where their customers engage," said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Retail. "Our comprehensive platform for modern retail is designed to help customers solve these complex challenges to deliver an optimal experience that drives revenue and customer loyalty. We believe being named a Leader in three IDC MarketScape reports is a testament to our commitment to delivering the solutions and innovations our global customers need to achieve and maintain success."
Price is king
The IDC MarketScape for price optimization evaluated 14 vendors with a broad range of competencies and strategies in price optimization.
The report states, "Price optimization has become even more important as the economy emerges from the pandemic and inflationary pressure inconveniences retailers. Retailers must evaluate and leverage price optimization solutions to reduce costs, maintain profitability, and continue to offer effective price points that consumers will be willing to purchase at."
Oracle Retail's price, promotion, and markdown optimization applications leverage Oracle Retail Analytics and AI Solutions which combines AI, machine learning, and decision science with data captured from Oracle Retail SaaS applications as well as third-party data. The self-learning applications detect trends, learn from results, and increase their accuracy the more they are used, adding massive amounts of contextual data to get a clearer picture on what motivates outcomes. These pricing applications are complemented by a broad suite of retail planning, optimization, and execution applications. Oracle recently unveiled new cloud extensions that further enable retailers to execute pricing and promotion strategies that move inventory.
The report noted, "Oracle's price optimization capability is one part of the company's end-to-end retail enterprise capabilities across a large portfolio of solutions." It also added that, "Oracle offers easy, efficient, and out-of-the-box integrations with a full range of adjacent modules and capabilities."
Upleveling the shopping journey
The IDC MarketScape for 2023 Point-of Sale report, which evaluated seven vendors, added, "Deep commitment to innovation and customers and long retail experience combined with Oracle's deep technology expertise makes Xstore a strong choice for omni-channel retailers looking for a complete POS solution that is future ready and can enable differentiation from competitors. A benefit of being part of Oracle's deep global reach, Xstore is an excellent choice for retailers seeking a solution with a wide global footprint and local support and expertise, especially knowing that Xstore is already live with retailers in 94 countries."
Leading retail brands to recently standardize on Xstore to uplevel the shopping journey for their customers include Prada, Al Babtain, Hibbett, and more.
"The rapidly changing macroeconomic conditions as well as new shopper expectations for frictionless, engaging experiences means that POS providers must address not only the omni-channel needs of today but have a strong strategy for powering the omni-channel needs of tomorrow with the rapid innovation," says Margot Juros, research manager, Worldwide Retail Technology Strategies at IDC. "Successful players need to enable seamless omni-channel shopping with features, such as mobile POS, self-service/kiosks, and mixed carts, that allow consumers to shop anywhere and any way they want."
To learn more about Oracle Retail, visit oracle.com/retail.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
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1 "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale Software for Large Apparel and Softlines Retail 2023 Vendor Assessment" Margot Juros, March 2022 (Doc #US48621522)
2 "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Price Optimization Solutions 2023 Vendor Assessment" Ananda Chakravarty, March 2023 (Doc #US49458922)
3 "IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Commerce Platform Service Providers 2023 Vendor Assessment" Filippo Battaini, Ornella Urso, Sofia Poggi, Cristiano Quattrini, May 2023 (Doc #US49436123)
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Southwest Montana Experiential Marketing Company Plans for Immediate Growth in 2023
BIG SKY, Mont., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Outlaw Partners, the most influential experiential marketing, media and events company in southwest Montana, is pleased to announce that Rob Smith has recently been appointed as CEO.
A former partner at creative powerhouse Goodby Silverstein and Partners, Smith comes to Montana from San Francisco. Before joining Outlaw, he led the creative technology company, Splash Worldwide as CEO with clients such as Google, Uber, Nike, Sonos and Masterclass, before a successful exit to digital media company Jellyfish. Before Splash, Smith served as Chief Marketing Officer for two startups, Silent Circle and Kodak Moments. He previously ran global advertising accounts at Ogilvy in London, New York and Los Angeles, including IBM and Motorola.
With deep experience across both the creative agency and the client world, Smith brings an extensive track record of developing and leading teams and companies to growth across a variety of sectors.
"We couldn't be more thrilled to have someone of Rob's caliber now leading the Outlaw team," said Eric Ladd, Founder and Owner of Outlaw Partners. "With his global experience in leading large-scale teams for clients at some of the most successful agencies in the world, he brings a level of leadership and credentials that will take Outlaw Partners to the next level, in Montana and beyond. Having Rob and Megan Paulson working together to provide an enhanced Outlaw experience is an incredible next chapter, for our entire team and our clients."
Outlaw Partners co-founder and former CEO, Megan Paulson has been appointed to Chief Marketing Officer in order to focus on developing the company's expanding client base and lead the sales team. Amongst its growing and impressive client list, Outlaw represents some of the top emerging brands in Southwest Montana, which include Peak Skis, Montage International, Voormi, 406 Agave, Lone Peak Cannabis, Hey Bear, Northwestern Energy and more.
"I'm grateful to be leading a team of talented and creative Outlaws," said Smith. "It is a unique company with tremendous potential in that it represents so many aspects of modern, experiential marketing. It's rare to lead a team that creates world-class events, publishes award winning magazines, is the local news source for a community, and elevates so many innovative brands in a variety of realms, all at the base of some of the most incredible mountain scenery in our country. I'm excited to see where we can go next."
Smith joins Outlaw Partners at a time of exponential growth for the company, with the intent to enhance the client and consumer experience in a way only Outlaw Partners can provide, grounded in the experiences and culture of Southwest Montana.
"With such a unique position in all that we do, the totality of Outlaw is now reaching a level much greater than its individual parts," said Smith. "By tapping into that, along with the experiences available in Montana, we've got something very special to provide."
Outlaw Partners is an award-winning experiential marketing, media and events company based in Big Sky and Bozeman, Montana. Formed around the pioneering principles of the Code of the West, Outlaw Partners builds brands that live to challenge the status quo.
Founded in 2009, Outlaw Partners' award-winning media publications include Mountain Outlaw magazine, Explore Big Sky newspaper and VIEWS magazine. In addition, we produce hand-curated events in Southwest Montana such as Wildlands Music Festival, Big Sky Professional Bull Riding, and the Big Sky Ideas Festival.
With multiple awards for content and graphic design, Outlaw Partners is driven to make an impact in the world by creating meaningful connections, supporting local community organizations, inspiring action in service, and producing quality content that represents a unique demographic and fosters a global kinship to the spirit of the Mountain West.
For more information, please visit www.outlaw.partners
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — The teachers are not OK.
One after another told the School Committee Tuesday night they were feeling defeated, depressed, stressed, and begged for mental health support.
They’d been through the disruptions of the pandemic, adapted to distance learning, and then the return to classrooms that had changed. They saw how their students struggled with their mental health. They’ve struggled with their own.
Last fall, they reeled after learning a trusted and respected teacher and basketball coach had been taking teen boys aside for private “naked fat tests” in his office since the 1990s. They felt the shame of the accusations against former coach Aaron Thomas and questions about why no one did anything to stop him. They felt betrayed by the lack of communication from their own school department.
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Then last month, a beloved teacher died unexpectedly. Alicia Biros, 42, had taught math at the high school for 18 years. Her obituary said Biros had “lost a long battle with mental illness.” Her colleagues learned of her death in an emergency staff meeting and then were sent out to teach as usual.
That was the moment that finally broke them, they said at Tuesday’s meeting. They were speaking openly for the first time since the Thomas scandal became public. It was Biros’ death that prompted at least 10 teachers to tell the School Committee about how bad things had become.
High School math teacher Lisa Hanson Garcia, the Rhode Island Teacher of the Year, told the committee about how her friend Biros had become overwhelmed by stress. Garcia said Biros had taught courses that required students to engage in productive struggles, but the community’s distrust with the school system left her open to attacks from parents about her methods and abilities. Biros had felt defeated and demoralized, Garcia said. And she was not the only one.
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“Teachers are overwhelmed, tired, depressed, frustrated, and overworked. We have been working in crisis mode for too long, and this is negatively impacting our health. Many are experiencing thoughts of hopelessness, and want to leave the profession,” Garcia said.
Math teacher Jordan Abernaz told the School Committee they learned of Biros’ death in an emergency staff meeting at 6:30 a.m., and then were sent to face the students arriving at 7. There was an announcement at 7:15, and then the teachers were back in the classroom, as if nothing was different.
“We’re asked to go from [being] grieving adults to students learning as if nothing happened,” Abernaz said. “At some point, there is a breaking point. I feel like we are at it.”
On June 3, the day of Biros’ funeral, Superintendent Michael Waterman closed the high school to give the students and staff the day to mourn.
But even leading up to the funeral, the teachers were left out, said Sue Warburton, ELL teacher at the high school and president of the teachers union. The union wanted to know how to handle the day of the funeral, and had no answers until the day before.
It was one more moment of disrespect, Warburton said.
Biros’ loss has illuminated the pressure they’ve been under. One after another, teachers begged the School Committee for wellness programs for teachers, mental health support for students, and open communication and accountability.
The high school may be among the top-ranked in the state, but inside, the teachers say they are struggling.
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It was something that retired Superior Court Judge Susan McGuirl noticed when she visited the high school three times to interview teachers and coaches for her report analyzing what happened with Thomas and recommending changes.
“North Kingstown High School is, by all accounts, an excellent school,” McGuirl wrote. “I have been impressed by the excellent and caring teachers, faculty, and staff that I have met. They are sad, embarrassed, angry, frustrated, and upset by the events.”
But even she took note of the pressure the teachers were under — the strains of dealing with two years of upheavals caused by COVID-19, being mindful of their students’ mental health issues, being aware and prepared to deal with threats to school safety, include a shooter.
History teacher David Avedisian told them about the morning they found out Biros had died. The emergency meeting, the cold announcement, then he ran into a student who had been kicked out of their home, and another who was drunk, and how he searched to find the right person to help them. And later, wondering if he’d done the right thing.
“The best crisis team you have is us,” Avedisian said, but there is no communication among school officials to know if they have managed the crisis.
Committee members and the superintendent listened quietly to each of the teachers. A few parents also got up to speak, just to offer support for the teachers.
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The teacher’s contract is expiring in two weeks. Warburton said the union sent a formal request last fall to bargain, with dates, but have heard nothing.
“You cannot expect more and more from teachers while providing less resources. We cannot lift our students up when we are feeling beaten down,” Warburton said. “We need additional resources to handle the mental health needs in our community. We need to be heard.”
Amanda Milkovits can be reached at amanda.milkovits@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @AmandaMilkovits. | 2022-06-15T04:25:32+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/14/metro/north-kingstown-teachers-tell-school-committee-they-are-breaking-point/ |
NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Max Homa knew he had no choice but to go for it on the par-5 18th hole if he wanted to defend his title at the Fortinet Championship. Trailing Danny Willett by a shot, he went for the green in two but ended up in a tough spot in a bunker short of the green. He blasted out but still wasn’t on the putting surface.
Homa stayed aggressive, and this time it paid off, ramming his chip from 33 feet into the hole for a closing birdie. Still, all Willett needed to do was convert his own birdie from short range — and he didn’t deliver.
Willett hit his 3-foot, 7-inch putt too hard. It grazed the lip and ran 4 feet, 8 inches by. Then his comebacker broke left, hit the lip and stayed out, too, completing a shocking collapse that made Homa the winner again in Napa.
“That was crazy. I still don’t really know what happened,” said Homa, a college star at California who now has three victories in the Golden State. “Just kind of one of those weekends you just had to hang around.”
Homa high-fived his caddie when his chip shot hit the flagstick and dropped. Moments later, he was a five-time winner on the PGA Tour.
“Them things happen. Luckily we’ve been in a good position all week and then unfortunate things happen when you feel like you need them most,” said Willett, who is winless in the United States since he took advantage of Jordan Spieth’s collapse to win the 2016 Masters.
Willett laid up 65 yards short of the 18th green green, then stuffed his approach close enough that closing out the tournament should have been routine.
“It’s a shame with how it finished but I’m pretty sure those are the only short putts we’ve missed all week. Just a shame to do it when I did. One of them things. At times you wish you could rewind time. We learn from it and move on,” he said.
Homa had struggled with his putter over the weekend but didn’t need it at the end.
“Today I hit it well, kept it around the hole where it needed to be, I just couldn’t get the ball to go to its home,” he said. “On 18 it decided to go home quickly, so that was quite a nice bonus.”
Homa closed with a 4-under 66 for a total of 16-under 272 and now heads to Charlotte, North Carolina, as a captain’s pick for the Presidents Cup with three wins in the past 12 months. Willett shot 69. Taylor Montgomery was alone in third at 13 under after a closing 64.
Homa’s wife, Lacey, had no idea what he’d just done but hurried out to hug her husband. She is pregnant with their first child, a boy, due Nov. 2.
“I’m shocked right now,” she said. “I didn’t see what was happening.”
The leaders had their tee times pushed up by nearly four hours in an effort to get the round in before the North course at Silverado Resort & Spa became completely unplayable. Greens that had been hard and fast earlier in the week from the sun and wind were suddenly quite the opposite, slow and soft from all the water.
Justin Lower held a one-stroke lead going into the final day while chasing his first title after years of struggles just to secure his tour card. The 33-year-old American wound up tied for fourth with Byeong Hun An at 12 under after shooting a 1-over 73.
Willett birdied three holes on the front nine to take a three-stroke lead, only to miss a short par putt on the par-5 ninth as Lower birdied to pull back within a stroke.
Homa and Willett began the day one shot back of Lower. All three players birdied the par-4 10th.
On the par-4 14th, Willett made a miraculous birdie. His tee shot landed behind a tree, and then he whipped the ball around it to the back side of the fringe before sinking a 5-foot putt.
On the front nine, Willett birdied Nos. 1, 4 and 8 — making a 7-footer for birdie on the par-4 eighth while Lower made bogey.
The 34-year-old Willett, from Sheffield, England, stayed loose, laughed with his caddie and smiled between holes in far from ideal conditions in California’s famous wine country: wind and heavy rain the first three holes, a brief respite, then more rain. He regularly toweled off his clubs, wiped down his shoes before putting and took on and off his black sleeveless vest.
The weather made for an intimate gallery of umbrella-holding diehards willing to brave the elements.
“It’s what I came to California for,” Willett cracked with a grin in the early going of his final round.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-19T20:51:47+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/ap-homa-chips-in-wins-in-napa-after-willetts-shocking-3-putt/ |
TREMONT – When Mathinee Spencer has time, when she isn't worn out from teaching or parenting or life's daily challenges, she likes to get in the kitchen and make dishes from her native Thailand.
"If I have time to prep, I make Thai food," said Spencer, 52, who lived in Tremont.
Spencer was born and raised in the Kalasin Province of Thailand. After her mother married an American, the family moved to Washington State in 1980. When her stepdad retired from the Army, they moved to Tilden, a small community in Itawamba County, where his family lived.
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"I came to the U.S. at 9 years old, and they put me in first grade," she said. "So I didn't graduate high school until I was 21."
When Spencer was a junior at Itawamba Agricultural High School, mutual friends introduced her to a young man. She asked him out on a date, and he said yes.
That young man is her husband, Randy, the pastor at Tremont First Baptist Church. The couple has been married 30 years and has four children – Loren, Samuel, Miah and Lydia – and one grandchild, Luca. Spencer teaches eighth-grade math at Mooreville Middle School, and is now in her 27th year.
Even though Spencer ate Thai food as a child, her mother didn't prepare it much after the family moved stateside.
"Mama cooked Hamburger Helper and hamburgers when we came to the U.S.," Spencer said. "She didn't cook Thai because the ingredients didn't become readily available until maybe the late 1980s."
Consequently, the only thing Spencer could cook when she married in 1992 was spaghetti.
"Randy got so tired of spaghetti," she said. "When Loren and Samuel were born, I wanted to feed them correctly – green beans and broccoli. I wanted them to have good, nourishing meals."
She learned to cook Southern staples, like chicken and dressing, and chicken and dumplings and vegetable soup, but she also got interested in cooking Thai food.
"When Randy and I would go out of town, we'd go to Thai restaurants," she said. "When we got home, I'd Google what we had, or look on Pinterest. I try to make Thai food as authentic as I can. Now, when we go to a Thai restaurant, my children say, 'Why are we here? You know how to make all this at home.'"
Every three months or so, Spencer will travel to the International Farmers Market in Cordova, Tennessee, to get ingredients to make Thai dishes.
"Once, I found a type of guava fruit that I hadn't had since I was a little girl," she said. "It used to grow in our yard. I brought it home and ate it, and I just cried. It's amazing how the brain works, how that piece of fruit took me back."
Spencer goes through phases, where she prefers one Thai dish over another. Currently, her favorite is Som Tum, a green papaya salad.
"It's a dish you share with people," she said. "Food is meant to be enjoyed with people – people you love. It's meant to bring people together."
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DRUNKEN NOODLES
PROTEIN
8 ounces shrimp, bacon, chicken or pork
1 teaspoon fish sauce
1 clove garlic, grated
Pinch of white pepper
SAUCE
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
2 tablespoons honey, palm sugar or brown sugar
NOODLES AND VEGETABLES
1 pound fresh rice noodle sheets or wide rice noodles
1 to 5 Thai chilies, crushed then chopped
8 cloves garlic, crushed then chopped
1 large shallot, sliced
6 ounces Chinese broccoli or broccolini
1 red chili, sliced
2 cups Thai basil
Combine protein of choice, fish sauce, garlic and white pepper in a bowl and let marinate while preparing other ingredients, about 10 minutes.
Combine oyster sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, dark soy sauce and palm sugar in a small mixing bowl and set aside.
Soak noodles in hot water for 15 minutes, then drain.
Heat a wok over high heat until smoking. Saute Thai chilies, garlic and shallot for 45 seconds to 1 minute. Add the marinated protein and saute 2 minutes. Add broccoli and saute for 1 minute. Add soaked, drained noodles and the reserved sauce. Stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add sliced red chili and basil. Turn off heat and keep tossing.
THAI MANGO SWEET STICKY RICE
1 cup glutinous/sweet rice
2 to 3 fresh mangoes
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon coconut milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon corn starch
1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds
Soak glutinous/sweet rice for 2 hours, or up to overnight. Drain water when ready to cook.
Using a steamer, steam sticky rice for 20 to 30 minutes. Check at the 20-minute mark. If rice is soft and not hard in the middle, it is done.
While waiting for rice to cook, slice mangoes.
Prepare the sweet coconut sauce by bringing 1 cup of coconut milk, sugar and salt to boil. Once it reaches a boil, place half of the sauce into a small bowl and set aside.
Combine remaining 1 tablespoon of coconut milk and corn starch, then add that into the pot to thicken the sweet coconut sauce. Boil for a few minutes until sauce is thickened.
When rice is done, add the reserved bowl of sweet coconut sauce to rice and mix well. Set aside and let it cool for 15 to 20 minutes.
Once cool, place rice onto serving plate, top with sliced mangoes, and drizzle the thickened sweet coconut sauce onto rice. Garnish with sesame seeds.
SOM TUM
(Thai Green Papaya Salad)
1 1/2 cups julienned green papaya
2 cloves garlic, peeled
Thai chilies, to taste
1 1/2 tablespoon palm sugar, finely chopped, packed
2 to 3 long beans, cut into 2-inch pieces
3 tablespoons roasted peanuts
1 heaping tablespoon small dried shrimp, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 teaspoons tamarind juice
1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
1/2 cup grape tomato halves or a small tomato cut into wedges
Soak payaya strips in ice water for 10 to 15 minutes until they are firmer. Drain well and place in a bowl lined with 2 layers of paper towels to absorb excess water.
In a large mortar and pestle, pound garlic and chilies until there are no more big chunks (pieces of chili skin are fine). Add palm sugar and mash with the pestle until it turns into a wet paste and all the chunks are dissolved. Add long beans and pound just until they're broken.
Add peanuts and dried shrimp and pound to break the peanuts up slightly. Add lime juice, tamarind juice and fish sauce, adding the squeezed lime skin into the mortar as well for extra lime fragrance. Stir with a large spoon to mix and dissolve the sugar.
Add juliennd papaya and tomatoes, and mix well. Once everything looks well mixed and the tomatoes are just slightly crushed, it's done.
CHEESECAKE
FILLING
2 eggs
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 large graham cracker pie crust
TOPPING
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Fruit or pie filling, optional
For the filling, beat eggs and softened cream cheese. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until well blended. Pour into graham cracker pie crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes.
For the topping, combine sugar, sour cream and vanilla. Spread on top of cheesecake. Return to the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Add fruit or a dollop of pie filling on each slice, if desired.
MATHINEE'S EGG ROLLS
1 pound ground pork sausage
1 small cabbage, shredded
1/4 cup shredded carrots, or less
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, or less
Sugar to taste
1 package (18-count) egg roll wrappers
1 egg white mixed with a little water
Vegetable oil, for frying
Thai sweet chili sauce, soy sauce, or sweet and sour sauce, for dipping
In a large skillet, brown pork sausage. Add cabbage and carrots and season with garlic salt and sugar. Stir and cook until the cabbage wilts. Let mixture cool.
Follow wrapping instructions on the egg roll package. Brush egg white mixture on egg rolls to seal. Place egg rolls on a paper-towel lined cookie sheet.
Deep-fry egg rolls until golden brown. Serve with Thai sweet chili sauce, soy sauce or sweet and sour sauce, for dipping.
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Trio of beef organ supplements selected by Bear Grylls – the global face of adventure — boosts health and performance to support a healthy lifestyle, even when people are under stress
HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for health-conscious consumers' 2023 New Year's resolution goals, Bear Grylls, the global face of adventure and Ancestral Supplements, the founder and leader of the beef organ supplement movement, today announced the launch of the Bear Grylls Survival Pack, which includes a potent blend of three nutrient-dense supplements designed to help people thrive in stressful and challenging situations. The Bear Grylls Survival Pack includes one bottle each of Grass-Fed Beef Liver, Beef Heart and Beef Lung supplements, with 180 capsules per bottle that creates a powerful combination that helps nourish people to survive and thrive. Recognized worldwide as the global face of adventure, Bear Grylls joined forces with Ancestral Supplements in October 2022 to bring focus to the importance of balanced nutrition to support active living. The Bear Grylls Survival Pack is available on Amazon and AncestralSupplements.com for one-time orders for $122 and also for auto-ship for $115.90.
"I've spent a lot of time searching, trialing and testing for the best supplements out there to help my body withstand stress and perform at the highest level. When it comes to survival and adventure you need to give yourself the best advantage when you're in some extraordinarily demanding environments," said Bear Grylls. "The Bear Grylls Survival Pack contains the three ultimate supplements that have proven themselves to best help my body and mind function at their peak, whether trekking through jungles, scaling mountains or crossing deserts. Ancestral Supplements are here to support anyone facing life's challenges and stresses, whether in the wild or simply getting through a stressful day at work. It's about tackling life on your terms and on the front foot."
The supplements in the Bear Grylls Survival Pack can transform energy, performance and endurance along with proven support for a healthy heart, immune system, digestion and detoxification. The Bear Grylls Survival Pack was designed to best empower Bear on his global adventures, and contain beef liver, lungs and heart. The supplements contain thousands of grass-fed dense nutrients that help maintain balance and foster optimum health when people are under pressure. It's why Bear Grylls swears by this potent combo – it gives him that edge.
Ancestral Supplements makes high-quality, nutrient-dense superfoods in supplement form. The company also provides recipes and educational material about the benefits of organ meat. The supplements are sourced from pasture-raised, grass-fed animals in New Zealand and Australia, which are hormone and pesticide-free and contain no fillers. A third party tests all supplements for purity.
"The Bear Grylls Survival Pack wasn't just developed for one world-class adventurer," said Divina Jandusay, CEO of Ancestral Supplements. "It was designed for anyone looking to tap into our ancestors' timeless nutritional wisdom, something often lost in our busy lives."
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Ancestral Supplements is a U.S.-based vitamin and supplement company that is focused on improving the nutrition and health of families around the world. As the founders of the beef organ supplement movement, the Ancestral Supplements team is focused on the nine Ancestral Tenets and restoring what the modern diet has left out. Our mission is to honor wisdom from a simpler time and to help restore health and well-being to everyone who has a need. For more information about high-quality nutritional supplements or to find out what is missing from the modern diet, follow us on Facebook, TikTok or Instagram, or visit AncestralSupplements.com to learn more.
About Bear Grylls OBE
Bear Grylls is arguably the most recognizable face of adventure on the planet. He is a former British Special Forces soldier, who went on to become one of the youngest ever climbers of Mt. Everest, despite breaking his back in a free-fall accident only months earlier.
From Everest he has gone on to host more extreme adventure TV shows across more global networks than anyone else in history. Bear's shows include the legendary Discovery channel show MAN Vs WILD and the hit show RUNNING WILD with Bear Grylls, now in its eighth season on National Geographic Channel. His Running Wild guests have included President Obama, Roger Federer, Julia Roberts, Prime Minister Modi of India and many other stars.
He also hosts the double Emmy Award winning INTERACTIVE Netflix series YOU VS WILD where it's the viewers who get to decide what adventure Bear goes on.
He is a family man, and a No. 1 bestselling author who has sold over 20 million books. He is the Honorary Colonel to the British Royal Marine Commandos, and the first ever Chief Ambassador to 60 million young Scouts worldwide.
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ATLANTA — Dr. Meredith Evans is the director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. It archives federal records and some personal papers from President Jimmy Carter and his family.
The library also tracks Carter's life, from his early days in Plains to his rise in the Navy and in politics, as well as his service after his days in the White House.
"As an archivist, our job is to be as equitable as possible with the records that we have," Evans said. "We tell true stories, so this museum to me is not pro or con, it’s just here are the facts. And I want people to take away from the facts that he is a man of integrity and a humble man who tried his best to make sure everybody has a roof over their head and food at the table.”
Paige Alexander is CEO of the Carter Center, the nonprofit President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, founded after the presidency. She first met Carter when she was 12 at an event in the Rose Garden. She learned about the Carter Center during her decades of peace and human rights missions.
Alexander took over in mid-2020, during the COVID pandemic and amid social unrest in Atlanta and across the country. She recounted sitting around the Carters' lunch table in Plains, chatting about global affairs while eating a pimento cheese sandwich, tomato soup and apple slices with the former president and first lady.
“President Carter is a giant among men," Alexander said. "At the end of the day, you see the outpouring on social media of people whose lives he touched. Whether it was walking down the aisle on an airplane and shaking everyone’s hand or whether it was truly leaning over someone struggling to have a guinea worm removed from their body, or negotiating a ceasefire in Sudan…making sure we could get into an endemic area in the middle of conflict.”
The Carter Center has done work for decades helping to eradicate Guinea worm disease, among other health challenges, and hold more than 100 elections in over 40 countries around the world. The Carter Center has also played an instrumental role in advocating for mental health, including the Mental Health Parity Act that was recently passed in Georgia.
Up until his decision to go into hospice care at his home, President Carter remained engaged in programs at the Carter Center, asking questions and promoting every person's wellbeing. The center has received thousands of messages per day since last weekend, wishing the former president well.
"He is retired, but I don’t think he’ll ever fully retire," Alexander said. "He’s comfortable with where he is now, and that’s really important to all of us. He was establishing something that really meant a lot to him globally and domestically. Coming from Plains, GA, whether we’re working in Nigeria or Morocco or Uganda, we have the same sense of this is someone who came a from a small village who wants to help a small village. He really touched people’s lives in all spectrums. He is somebody who everyone looks up to. You don’t find many of those anymore.”
Alexander and Evans are living in a full circle moment, as the former is from Atlanta. Evans wrote President Carter a note inviting herself to the white house many years ago. The note has now found a home here at the Carter Library and Museum, where the author is now the director and a student of a life well lived.
"I think he’s a patient man and a man of faith, which is different from just religion," Evans said. "He believes in God and prays and worships, reads the scriptures. That’s a walk that’s part of him, that speaks to his character but also helps him deal with people who may not be as friendly as others. I think President Carter is always willing to share stories, experience, listen and provide advice. I think we’ll miss that.
"Character I think people will miss, particularly in government, that civility that he has that we seem to have lost a little. We say he’s humble, but he really genuinely is. He is engaged genuinely with the people and has a heart for people and people doing well. People might want to make fun of him as a Southerner or peanut farmer or whatever negative thing they think about, but that means he’s a hard worker, that means he cares for people, that means he’s willing to give something away to help you be better and do better.” | 2023-02-24T01:32:54+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/jimmy-carter/jimmy-carter-legacy-kept-alive-carter-center-presidential-library/85-6aaedfe0-c668-4c08-b3fc-66e70d2a0a91 |
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets.
The tough statement came as the administration of President Nayib Bukele asked for yet another extension of an anti-gang emergency measures that would take the crackdown into its 13th month.
Over the last 354 days, about 65,000 people have been arrested in the antigang campaign. Human rights groups say that there have been many instances of prisoner abuses and that innocent people have been swept up in police raids.
The government announced the mass inmate transfer with a slickly produced video posted on social media. It showed prisoners forced to run barefoot and handcuffed down stairways and over bare ground, clad only in regulation white shorts. They were then forced to sit with their legs locked in closely clumped groups in cells.
Gustavo Villatoro, the government’s minister for justice and peace, said the suspected gang members would never return to the streets, even though about 57,000 of those arrested are still awaiting formal charges or a trial.
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Villatoro said.
Only about 3,500 people swept up in the crackdownhave been released so far.
Bukele, who revels in taking a contrarian stance and once described himself as “world’s coolest dicator,” wrote in his Twitter account that “there are now 4,000 gang members in the world’s most criticized prison.”
Dubbed the Terrorism Confinement Center, the prison was inaugurated in February and already holds about 2,000 suspected gang members. It is a sprawling campus 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of San Salvador, the capital, that could eventually house up to 40,000 inmates.
Congress must still approve the extension of the antigang measures, but legislators are expected to do, as they have done a dozen times before.
Bukele requested the special powers to pursue the gangs last March 27, following a surge in gang violence in which 62 people were killed in a single day across the country. Streets gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18 have long killed and extorted money from residents in El Salvador.
The measures have reduced killings and have proved widely popular among most Salvadorans. Officials say that since the crackdown began, there have been 200 days with no homicides at all.
Under the special powers, the right to association is suspended, police don’t have to tell someone being arrested the reason or inform them of their rights. Someone arrested does not have a right to a lawyer and can be held for 15 days without seeing a judge rather than the previous 72 hours.
The local rights group Cristosal documented 3,344 cases of human rights abuses in the first 11 months of the state of emergency. | 2023-03-16T20:06:56+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/world-news/el-salvador-2000-more-to-prison-vows-will-never-return/ |
By TERRY TANG
Associated Press
More than 60 years after Anna May Wong became the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the pioneering actor has coined another first, quite literally.
With quarters bearing her face and manicured hand set to start shipping Monday, per the U.S. Mint, Wong will be the first Asian American to grace U.S. currency. Few could have been more stunned at the honor than her niece and namesake, Anna Wong, who learned about the American Women Quarters honor from the Mint’s head legal consul.
“From there, it went into the designs and there were so many talented artists with many different renditions. I actually pulled out a quarter to look at the size to try and imagine how the images would transfer over to real life,” Anna Wong wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
The elder Wong, who fought against stereotypes foisted on her by a white Hollywood, is one of five women being honored this year as part of the program. She was chosen for being “a courageous advocate who championed for increased representation and more multi-dimensional roles for Asian American actors,” Mint Director Ventris Gibson said in a statement.
The other icons chosen include writer Maya Angelou; Dr. Sally Ride, an educator and the first American woman in space; Wilma Mankiller, the first female elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation; and Nina Otero-Warren, a trailblazer for New Mexico’s suffrage movement.
Wong’s achievement has excited Asian Americans inside and outside of the entertainment industry.
Her niece, whose father was Anna May Wong’s brother, will participate in an event with the Mint on Nov. 4 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. One of Wong’s movies, “Shanghai Express,” will be screened, followed by a panel discussion.
Arthur Dong, the author of “Hollywood Chinese,” said the quarter feels like a validation of not just of Wong’s contributions, but of all Asian Americans’. A star on the Walk of Fame is huge, but being on U.S. currency is a whole other stratosphere of renown.
“What it means is that people all across the nation — and my guess is around the world — will see her face and see her name,” Dong said. “If they don’t know anything about her, they will … be curious and want to learn something about her.”
Born in Los Angeles in 1905, Wong started acting during the silent film era. While her career trajectory coincided with Hollywood’s first Golden Age, things were not so golden for Wong.
She got her first big role in 1922 in “The Toll of the Sea,” according to Dong’s book. Two years later, she played a Mongol slave in “The Thief of Bagdad.” For several years, she was stuck receiving offers only for femme fatale or Asian “dragon lady” roles.
She fled to European film sets and stages, but Wong was back in the U.S. by the early 1930s and again cast as characters reliant on tropes that would hardly be tolerated today. These roles included the untrustworthy daughter of Fu Manchu in “Daughter of the Dragon” and a sex worker in “Shanghai Express.”
She famously lost out on the lead to white actor Luise Rainer in 1937’s “The Good Earth,” based on the novel about a Chinese farming family. But in 1938, she got to play a more humanized, sympathetic Chinese American doctor in “King of Chinatown.”
The juxtaposition of that film with her other roles is the focus of one day in a monthlong program, “Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years,” that Dong is curating at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles in November.
“(‘King of Chinatown’) was part of this multi-picture deal at Paramount that gave her more control, more say in the types of films she was going to be participating in,” he said. “For a Chinese American woman to have that kind of multi-picture deal at Paramount, that was quite outstanding.”
By the 1950s, Wong had moved on to television appearances. She was supposed to return to the big screen in the movie adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” but had to bow out because of illness. She died on Feb. 2, 1961, a year after receiving her star.
Bing Chen, co-founder of the nonprofit Gold House — focused on elevating representation and empowerment of Asian and Asian American content — called the new quarter “momentous.” He praised Wong as a star “for generations.”
But at the same time, he highlighted how anti-Asian hate incidents and the lack of representation in media still persist.
“In a slate of years when Asian women have faced extensive challenges — from being attacked to objectified on screen to being the least likely group to be promoted to corporate management — this currency reinforces what many of us have known all along: (they’re) here and worthy,” Chen said in a statement. “It’s impossible to forget, though, as a hyphenated community, that Asian Americans constantly struggle between being successful and being seen.”
Asian American advocacy groups outside of the entertainment world also praised the new quarters. Norman Chen, CEO of The Asian American Foundation, plans to seek the coins out to show to his parents.
“For them to see an Asian American woman on a coin, I think it’d be really powerful for them. It’s a dramatic symbol of how we are so integral to American society yet still seen in stereotypical ways,” he said. “But my parents will look at this. They will be pleasantly surprised and proud.”
To sum it up, Chen said, it’s a huge step: “Nothing is more American than our money.”
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Terry Tang is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ttangAP
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a protective barrier that can be positioned between an individual and a bathtub to improve sanitary conditions," said an inventor, from San Bernadino, Calif., "so I invented the SHIY SHIY. My design prevents contact with cleaning chemicals, dirt and germs while soaking in a bathtub."
The invention provides a sanitary way to soak in any bathtub. In doing so, it prevents cross contamination from person to person. As a result, it increases comfort and safety and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a practical design that is easy to apply, use and remove so it is ideal for households, hotels, college dormitories, etc.
The original design was submitted to the Riverside sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-RSJ-114, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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