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Edge Applications Estimated to Represent 50 Percent of Market by 2026
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a brand-new report "Telecom Server" from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, the telecom server market opportunity is projected to reach $14 B by 2026. Edge data centers will account for most of the telecom server market growth.
"Data center IT and telecom network infrastructure have been converging in recent years. Service providers have been replacing dedicated devices with unique hardware architectures in the mobile core network with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to virtualize various network functions," said Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell'Oro Group. "Network function virtualization has the potential to reduce capex through the use of less expensive and commoditized COTS hardware, instead of dedicated or proprietary hardware for network services. Furthermore, a new class of latency-sensitive applications in the form of multi-access edge computing (MEC), and virtualization of the baseband functions in the radio access networks in the form of Open RAN, will pave the way for the explosive growth of a new class of servers located at the network edge," explained Fung.
Additional highlights from the new Telecom Server market Advanced Research Report:
- Edge use cases for Broadband Access, MEC, and RAN— still in the nascent stage, are expected to exceed 50 percent CAGR in server revenue over our forecast horizon.
- Server form factors and vendor ecosystem will require further development prior to mainstream adoption.
- Select telecom workloads are likely to migrate to the public cloud.
Dell'Oro Group's Telecom Server Advance Research Report includes a 5-year market forecast for servers deployed by service providers for IT and network functions, and servers deployed by enterprises for MEC applications. The report addresses some critical business questions:
- How much of the telecom servers will be deployed at the core versus the edge in the future?
- What is the enterprise edge server market opportunity and what are some key use cases?
- What type of telecom or network-related workloads will be virtualized to run on COTS servers?
- What type of service providers will invest in the edge server market, the major Cloud service providers or the traditional telecom operators?
- What will be the prevalent wired and wireless network technologies connecting the edge infrastructure?
For more information about the report, please contact us at dgsales@delloro.com.
Dell'Oro Group is a market research firm that specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center infrastructure markets. Our firm provides in-depth quantitative data and qualitative analysis to facilitate critical, fact-based business decisions. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.delloro.com.
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Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to a 34-count felony indictment today in a Manhattan courthouse, which was barricaded and surrounded by law enforcement and onlookers.
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Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to a 34-count felony indictment today in a Manhattan courthouse, which was barricaded and surrounded by law enforcement and onlookers.
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Jesse Anglen, CEO of Rapid Innovation reveals tips for securing your data
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the recent news of the Luna crash, and another celebrity getting hacked, there are some wondering how safe the industry is for both investors and companies.
"The cryptocurrency and blockchain industry is the fastest-growing sector in the world right now. Every day it is attracting more and more talent to work in the space. So this is here to stay. But you must do your homework and determine ways to protect yourself in any project you get involved in. For an individual investor that means doing your research, holding your own private keys offline, and avoiding phishing attacks," says Jesse Anglen, CEO of Rapid Innovation.
One way that attackers carry out phishing attacks is by creating fake websites that look identical to legitimate ones. They then use these websites to lure users into providing personal information or sending cryptocurrency to a phony account.
Another common tactic is to send spoofed emails that appear to come from a trusted source. These emails often contain links or attachments that, if clicked, will install malware on the victim's computer.
Use hardware wallets, meaning offline devices that store your private keys. Even if your computer is hacked, the thief would still need physical access to the hardware wallet to steal your coins.
"For businesses to protect themselves in this space, that could mean building a private blockchain to meet the specific needs of an organization. Most companies don't want to store their private data on a fully decentralized blockchain. Does that mean they shouldn't be allowed to use the technology? Of course not. Thankfully, there are other options," said Jesse Anglen.
A private blockchain is a permissioned network where only selected participants are allowed to access the data and take part in the consensus process. This type of network is often used by organizations that need to share sensitive data with a limited number of users.
"They can be customized to meet the specific needs of an organization. For example, a company might use a private platform to keep track of its supply chain or reduce the risk of fraud. Or a game developer will use a private blockchain to be able to reward participants with native tokens or access to ownership of the game itself! This technology has utility in practically every industry you can think of."
It is essential that every business educate themselves on this transformative technology and choose a reputable blockchain platform to help them safely utilize it in their industry.
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Which Cruella costume is best?
Cruella de Vil is a character from the classic animated movie “101 Dalmatians” and the recent 2021 movie remake, “Cruella.” The mischievous character dresses in bold and eccentric fashion statements. If you’re looking for a striking villain costume for a party or Halloween, you can’t go wrong with dressing like Cruella. For a quality option, the Lgandpg Cruella Costume is the best pick.
What to know before you buy a Cruella costume
Size and fit
Though there is a standard size chart, the charts online may vary. It depends on the brand or the region the clothes have been manufactured in. As such, the size of some costumes may run larger or smaller than what has been indicated. The fit may also vary based on your body shape. To get the most accurate size, check both the size number and the actual measurements.
Weather
Depending on where you live, you may need to add or remove some layers of clothing to your costume. For instance, in chilly weather, you can use items such as tights, leggings, capes or leather gloves to keep you warm while maintaining the character’s aesthetic. If the material of your costume is thick enough, you can remove some layers and add accessories and jewelry to finish the look.
Design
Cruella de Vil has multiple dresses that can be used as costumes. The most common Cruella dresses are the red flame dress and the classic black and white dress inspired by the dalmatian fur. These are also the easiest to find. However, you can choose any of her iconic looks and simply select accessories to replicate them.
Comfort
The best costume not only looks great but also feels great. Costumes with elastic seams and zippers make it easy to adjust the outfit to your preference and move around. It should also be made from a soft material as scratchy fabrics tend to irritate the skin. Additionally, your costume should not be too tight or too loose as that might be uncomfortable or shabby.
What to look for in a quality Cruella costume
Accessories
Additional accessories like gloves, jewelry or masks add to the authenticity of any Cruella-inspired outfit. Some classic items the character has include her black and white wig, fur coat and black cigarette holder. These pieces make your character come to life and add the flare Cruella is known for. High-quality costumes also have the actual accessories and not just designs that have been printed onto the costume.
Material and durability
A high-quality material can be used over and over again without looking worn out or shabby. The material should feel thick and heavy and should not tear easily. A good costume also has strong stitches that do not unravel when stretched or show any loose threads.
Authentic look
The best costumes pay attention to as much detail as possible, they are authentic and easily recognized by fans. For instance, one of Cruella’s signature looks is the black and white Dalmatian dress in a high-low design with black gloves. Another popular dress is the flame dress, which is a red dress with ruffles at the bottom.
How much you can expect to spend on a Cruella costume
Depending on the size and type of material used, it costs between $10-$70.
Cruella costume FAQ
Was Cruella’s coat real Dalmatian?
A. No. According to Disney, the design of the coat was inspired by Dalmatian fur but only faux fur was used.
How can I make a Cruella wig?
A. For the iconic half-black and half-white look, start by sectioning a black wig in two parts then dye one side with white dye. You can also dye just the front part of the wig white, depending on the costume you’re going for. Bleaching the wig before using the dye is another alternative that helps the color last longer.
How can I replicate Cruella’s makeup?
A. You can get the look with a smoldering smoky eye shadow, winged eyeliner and a bold red lip.
What’s the best Cruella costume to buy?
Top Cruella costume
What you need to know: This is a two-piece Cruella costume set with a dress and a wig.
What you’ll love: This classic black-and-white Dalmatian outfit is instantly recognizable and is made from soft and breathable fabric. It also comes with the option of a cape that adds more life to the costume. The black and white wig is already styled and curled, so it will need little to no adjustments.
What you should consider: Some users say the wig is a little scratchy and may get uncomfortable over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Cruella costume for the money
Eusnady’s Kids Cruella de Vil Costume
What you need to know: This is a red costume inspired by Cruella’s flame dress.
What you’ll love: This dress is comfortable to wear and has a good fit for most children. The red dress is sleeveless and fitted with ruffles at the bottom. The style is very cute and can easily be paired with other accessories.
What you should consider: The material is thin and the costume does not come with any additional accessories.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Women’s Black White Costume Dress
What you need to know: This is a classic three-piece Cruella costume set.
What you’ll love: This iconic costume is made from lightweight and soft polyester fabric that feels comfortable on your skin. You also have the option to choose just the dress or the dress with gloves and a wig. The wig comes with a hairnet that makes it easier to wear and is adjustable for your head size.
What you should consider: It might run a little small and the material has little or no stretch to it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- The Cleveland Jewish News has debuted its first podcast this month: a multi-episode series on the story of Aliza Sherman, the 53-year-old in-vitro fertilization nurse and Beachwood mother who was murdered in March 2013 in downtown Cleveland.
The first episode of “Aliza: Her Story at 10 Years” was released May 16 on major podcast platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts and RadioPublic. It also will be streamed at cjn.org/podcast.
The podcast was created in partnership with Jennifer Sherman, Aliza’s daughter and a lead advocate working to create change surrounding her mother’s case. Jennnifer is serving as an executive producer on the series.
“The power of storytelling is that it has the unique ability to connect us to our shared humanity and to illuminate upon perspectives and experiences that we may not have encountered before,” Cleveland Jewish News Publisher and CEO Kevin S. Adelstein said in a news release.
“Our inaugural podcast ‘Aliza: Her Story at 10 Years’ is a testament to that power of storytelling, as it offers a unique and personal glimpse into the life of Aliza Sherman.”
Sherman was stabbed 11 times in broad daylight on March 24, 2013, on her way to meet with her divorce lawyer in downtown Cleveland. She died later that day, just two days before the scheduled start of her divorce trial that had been two years in the making.
“I have always emphasized my firm belief that my mother was far too miraculous of a human to allow her legacy to be defined by the brutal manner in which she died,” Jennifer Sherman said in the release.
“The podcast platform allows for a more in-depth look into who Aliza was throughout different chapters of her life, told by a variety of narrators.
“It’s well known that podcasts have gained traction in becoming the latest storytelling trend. By sharing Aliza’s story through this approach, I hope to facilitate our continued pursuit of spreading awareness, inspiring change and advocating for the justice she so deserves.”
Episodes will be released on a biweekly basis on Tuesdays.
To learn more and support the Aliza Sherman Fund, visit give.ccf.org/alizashermanfund.
Honors for Senders Pediatrics doctors: Each member of the medical staff at Senders Pediatrics has been honored by Castle Connolly -- a publishing organization that deals with healthcare research and information services in the United States -- as 2023 Top Doctors.
The seven physicians are Elizabeth Bucchieri, of Shaker Heights; Kelly Irwin, of Cleveland; Alyssa Stachowiak, of Cleveland Heights; Ann Witt, of University Heights; Jill Sangree, of Shaker Heights; Shelly Senders, of Beachwood; and Laura Caserta, of Shaker Heights.
Senders Pediatrics is located at 2054 S. Green Road in South Euclid.
The full Cain Park season: The City of Cleveland Heights has announced the extended 2023 Cain Park season, which gets under way May 20 with a performance by Grammy-winning folk legend Judy Collins, backed by a full symphony orchestra.
The season extends through September.
Cain Park is home to two outdoor performance spaces -- the Evans Amphitheater and the Alma Theater -- and the Feinberg Art Gallery. All three spaces offer opportunities for an art-filled summer, including nearly 100 performances and the work of hundreds of artists.
To get all the Cain Park information you need for the 2023 season, visit here.
College news: Beachwood’s Emily Beckman was among the students named to the winter 2023 president’s list at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H.
Also, Daniel Demarco, of Shaker Heights, has graduated with a master’s degree in Biblical and theological studies from Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss.
Laura Rodio, of Cleveland Heights, was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Belmont University in Nashville.
Dynamic mother-son duo: Musical mother and son Olga and Vladislav Kern are coming to Cleveland for the final session in Piano Cleveland’s Dynamic Duos Listening Series.
Together, Olga and Vladislav will share insights into their lives as professional pianists and perform classic works by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and more.
The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. May 31 at Disciples Christian Church, 3663 Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights.
General admission tickets cost $25, while student tickets are $10. Each ticket includes small bites and one drink on the house. You can buy tickets here.
Nature Center names new CEO: The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Board of Trustees has announced that Peter Bode will serve as its next president and CEO.
Working with Shaker Heights-based executive search firm Dise & Co., a nine-member search committee -- with feedback from multiple stakeholders including retiring President & CEO Kay Carlson, staff members, former board members, key donors and community partners -- selected Bode.
The national search drew more than 300 applicants. Following a comprehensive interview process with both local and national candidates, the committee unanimously selected Bode.
A Nature Center news release states that “Peter will bring high energy and many new relationships and community partnerships that will expand the diversity and reach of the Nature Center’s mission.”
“His wealth of experience and expertise in nonprofit transformational leadership, ecological restoration and social and environmental advocacy will build upon the strengths of the Nature Center and the momentum it has gained from the recent successful capital campaign and guide the strategic direction of the organization,” the release says.
Bode will be stepping down as executive director of the Community Life Collaborative in Chagrin Falls. He has extensive experience, ranging from senior ecological project management and conservation at West Creek Conservancy to serving as planning commissioner for the City of Seven Hills. He is a graduate of Cleveland State University.
Art exhibit at Cain Park: The Feinberg Art Gallery at Cain Park is playing host, from May 19 to July 22, to “Community: All Access,” a collaboration with the Cleveland Institute of Art in which CIA students’ work will be on display.
“This exhibition aims to display the wide breadth of work from emerging visual artists,” reads a news release on the exhibit. “Community is both in reference to the community of students coming together for this show, but also the notion that it will be shown in a community park setting.
“We are hoping to engage a broader audience beyond Cleveland’s art community. Community in the classroom is contained when compared to being a professional artist out in the world. This exhibition stands as our entry into that new sphere.
“The Cleveland Institute of Art is one of the premier art schools in the country. Its students produce work that is on the pulse of what is happening in the art world.
“This exhibit is an ongoing collaboration between Cain Park and the CIA. Both institutions are striving to keep the arts in the Greater Cleveland area relevant, accessible and thriving.”
Cleveland Heights Neighborhood Survey: The City of Cleveland Heights continues to ask residents to take its Neighborhood Survey.
Cleveland Heights and Cleveland State University are asking residents about their neighborhoods and the neighborhoods throughout the city. To take the survey, visit here.
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Warriors vs. Lakers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 1:32 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Golden State Warriors are 4.5-point favorites heading into Game 1 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the Los Angeles Lakers at Chase Center on Tuesday, starting at 10:00 PM ET on TNT. The point total is 227.5 for the matchup.
Warriors vs. Lakers Odds & Info
- When: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET
- Where: Chase Center in San Francisco, California
- TV: TNT
Check out the latest NBA odds and place your bets on this matchup with BetMGM Sportsbook.
Warriors Betting Records & Stats
- Golden State and its opponents have scored more than 227.5 points in 60 of 82 games this season.
- Golden State has an average point total of 236.1 in its contests this year, 8.6 more points than this game's over/under.
- The Warriors have a 39-43-0 record against the spread this season.
- This season, Golden State has won 37 out of the 59 games, or 62.7%, in which it has been favored.
- This season, Golden State has won 24 of its 39 games, or 61.5%, when favored by at least -190 on the moneyline.
- The Warriors have a 65.5% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
Lakers Betting Records & Stats
- Los Angeles has played 51 games this season that have gone over 227.5 combined points scored.
- The average over/under for Los Angeles' contests this season is 233.8, 6.3 more points than this game's point total.
- Los Angeles has a 41-41-0 record against the spread this year.
- The Lakers have been underdogs in 51 games this season and have come away with the win 23 times (45.1%) in those contests.
- This season, Los Angeles has won nine of its 27 games, or 33.3%, when it is the underdog by at least +155 on the moneyline.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Los Angeles has a 39.2% chance of pulling out a win.
Warriors vs Lakers Additional Info
Warriors vs. Lakers Over/Under Stats (Regular Season)
Additional Warriors Insights & Trends
- The Warriors have a 6-4 record against the spread while going 7-3 overall in their last 10 games.
- The Warriors have hit the over in five of their last 10 contests.
- In home games, Golden State sports a better record against the spread (27-14-0) compared to its ATS record in road games (12-29-0).
- The Warriors average just 2.3 more points per game (118.9) than the Lakers allow (116.6).
- Golden State is 31-19 against the spread and 35-15 overall when scoring more than 116.6 points.
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Additional Lakers Insights & Trends
- Los Angeles is 5-5 against the spread and 7-3 overall over its last 10 contests.
- In their past 10 games, the Lakers have hit the over six times.
- Los Angeles' winning percentage against the spread at home is .512 (21-20-0). Away, it is .488 (20-21-0).
- The Lakers' 117.2 points per game are just 0.1 more points than the 117.1 the Warriors allow to opponents.
- Los Angeles has put together a 29-11 ATS record and a 32-8 overall record in games it scores more than 117.1 points.
Warriors vs. Lakers Betting Splits
Warriors vs. Lakers Point Insights
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The average global temperature hit 63 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, surpassing the most recent records set by Tuesday and Monday. The last time this planetary average record was broken was in 2016.
We speak with Marshall Shepherd, director of the University of Georgia’s atmospheric sciences program, to tell us more about this heat.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-07T18:26:07+00:00 | kanw.com | https://www.kanw.com/2023-07-07/the-past-4-days-were-the-hottest-on-record |
There have been scores of memoirs and analyses written about the events we call "Watergate," but none captures the early days of that era-defining White House scandal quite like All the President's Men.
Its authors were two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting helped a "third-rate burglary" — which took place 50 years ago on June 17, 1972 — become a national obsession.
Both in their 20s at the time, they seized on a suspicious story about a bungled break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington during the presidential campaign of 1972. Over a matter of weeks, they found themselves following a trail of evidence all the way to some of the most powerful men in the federal government — ultimately including President Richard Nixon.
Nixon would resign in August 1974. Several of his most senior staffers went to prison, many others had their reputations destroyed. Nixon's Republican Party would need the better part of a decade to recover.
In the years thereafter, Woodward and Bernstein became part of the nation's shared memory and the folklore of the period. They also came to personify a sea change in American journalism.
And now, All the President's Men is back. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, has issued a commemorative edition to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the burglary this week (although the original version of the book itself did not appear until two years later).
The new edition is more than an artifact or a prompt for nostalgia. It coincides with the televised hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. And to underscore the connection, the authors have included a fresh, 15-page foreword explicitly linking Nixon and former President Donald Trump.
"As reporters," they write, "we had studied Nixon and written about him for nearly half a century, during which we believed with great conviction that America would never again have a president who would trample the national interest and succeed in undermining democracy through the audacious pursuit of personal and political self-interest. And then along came Trump."
In that statement, Woodward and Bernstein, now in their 70s, sum up what many Americans have found incomprehensible about Trump. Seven presidents had taken the oath since Nixon and each had shown respect for the lessons of Nixon's fall. They knew the moral of the story, the meaning of the cautionary tale that was Watergate. And then along came Trump.
Entering the time warp
Woodward and Bernstein profess amazement that, after half a century, another president came along who was willing to jettison whatever conscience he had, and whatever respect for the rule of law, in an effort to stay in office.
Nixon condoned, and then tried to conceal, an array of covert campaign operations designed to cripple potential opponents in his re-election year. Trump, having lost his re-election bid, decided to insist instead he had won "in a landslide" and to declare the election "rigged" or "stolen." Beyond these pronouncements, he engaged in a series of apparently illegal acts — urging elected and appointed officials to break the law or rewrite the Constitution — to overturn the election results and remain in office.
Woodward and Bernstein perceive a personality pattern in these presidents, noting that both Nixon and Trump "had been outsiders, given to paranoia, relentless in their ambition, carrying chips on their shoulders."
But going beyond such characteristics in common, Woodward and Bernstein write that Nixon and Trump "created a conspiratorial world in which the U.S. Constitution, laws and fragile democratic traditions were to be manipulated or ignored, political opponents and the media were 'enemies,' and there were few or no restraints on the powers entrusted to these two presidents."
The foreword also includes an anecdote about Woodward sitting down with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in December of 2019, 12 days after Trump's first impeachment by the U.S. House. Rather than discuss the articles of impeachment, Trump shows his guest a video of his 2019 State of the Union address, dwelling on the TV "reaction shots" of various prominent Democrats. "Hate! They hate me! See the hate!" Trump shouts, inches from Woodward's ear.
The emphasis on the word hate also prompts the authors to recall Nixon's famous valedictory on the day he resigned: "Always remember, others may hate you — but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." The authors call this "a blinding moment of self-understanding."
Controversies and myths
As long as they have been household names, Woodward and Bernstein have had their critics and controversies. Was their work for The Washington Post actually responsible for Nixon's disgrace? And did their Watergate stories change the course and character of American journalism?
The publicity for the new edition of All the President's Men includes several hyperbolic blurbs of the kind one associates with movie ads. One from Time magazine hails "the work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history." A quote from a former managing editor of The New York Times reads: "Maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time."
This sort of hagiography has always made the authors themselves uncomfortable. W. Joseph Campbell, a communications professor at American University (and a former newspaper reporter) has disputed the importance of the Post in the Watergate saga. In his 2010 book, Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism, Campbell credits Woodward and Bernstein for their work in the critical weeks and months when few others were focusing on it.
But in the end, he argues, Nixon's edifice was dismantled by intrepid public servants in all three branches of government who did their jobs and held him accountable. Woodward has made much the same point in interviews and appearances over the years.
He and Bernstein also acknowledge this on the second page of the new foreword: "Nixon's illegal conduct was gradually exposed by the news media, the Senate Watergate Committee, special prosecutors, a House impeachment investigation, and finally by the Supreme Court."
What most deserves respect in All the President's Men is the reporters' gritty and painstaking process. They had little to go on, many doubters and an imposing wall of resistance to overcome. The message is that great journalism takes time and patience, frequent self-examination and perhaps even admissions of error along the way.
The point is to persist and to penetrate and ultimately to expose. In the end, the countless phone calls that yield nothing lead to the contacts that produce the story. Tiny brush strokes fill the canvas until a portrait emerges.
How much did they change journalism?
Turning to the impact of Woodward and Bernstein on their profession, generations of journalists have been admonished to emulate their best traits — to be dogged, fearless and so on. Surely they elevated the aspirations of the craft, giving a generation of reporters a model for taking on all kinds of powerful institutions and individuals.
But there has also been a long-running critique of their reliance on unnamed sources, which some say has helped to erode the public's faith in the news media in general and political journalism in particular.
Woodward has written a shelf's worth of best sellers (21 and counting). Bernstein has added six books and been a featured contributor on CNN. Both have relied on sources they do not always name or identify. And for better or worse, that practice has become far more common and acceptable in legacy media; unnamed sources are far more acceptable in far more media outlets today than they were before Watergate.
There is no question this has allowed many more stories to be told, but also no question it is often cited by survey respondents who say they have "lost faith" or lessened faith in the news media as a result.
Are the advantages of allowing at least some unnamed sources concrete enough to justify the loss of some confidence in some portions of the audience?
It is a judgment that news organizations and their audiences ultimately make for themselves. But we can expect Woodward and Bernstein to be cited in the arguments pro and con for some time to come.
Speaking as one who applied to journalism school in year All the President's Men was first published, it is hard to imagine the intervening decades without it — or without the institution of "Woodward and Bernstein."
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Resources support ongoing efforts to inspire a culture shift towards diversity and inclusion in the construction workforce
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 6, the Associated General Contractors of California (AGC of California) launched Culture of CARE, a collection of resources designed to aid construction industry companies and organizations' understanding and implementation of belonging and diversity, equity & inclusion's (DE&I) best practices.
"Cultivating an inclusive environment in the construction industry is imperative to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce now and in the future," said AGC of California Chief Executive Officer Peter Tateishi. "Our Culture of CARE initiative allows our industry to work together to address long-standing underrepresentation in the construction workforce and provide an environment where every worker feels welcome and included."
"CARE" stands for "cultivate, attract, retain, and empower." The program offers actionable tools and resources to help contractors gauge current company culture and provides learning resources for both the office and in the field. Specific resources include:
- Facilitator guide: Tips and best practices for delivering training sessions at your office or jobsite.
- Toolbox Talks: Informational discussion guides on topics such as racism, gender identity, sexual orientation, and more.
- Learning resources Assets your organization can adapt for heritage months, research tools, supplier diversity, and more.
- Belonging survey: An anonymous questionnaire that assesses workers' overall sense of belonging and identifies disparities across demographics. AGC of California's DE&I team will assist companies with analysis of results, which are presented in a succinct and informative way.
Creating a culture that supports DE&I is integral to attracting and retaining an engaged workforce. According to Deloitte, 46% of companies who foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization reported an increased competitive advantage. And 69% of Gen Z said they would be "absolutely more likely to apply to a job with a company whose recruiters and values reflect a more racially and ethnically diverse workplace," according to Tallo.
"Since its launch in 2021, the AGC of California Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Steering Committee has been working to adapt AGC of America's Culture of CARE initiative to maximize its impact on the California construction industry," said Erin Volk, AGC of California's senior vice president, workforce & community development, and executive director, AGC Construction Education Foundation. "AGC of California's Culture of CARE website will serve as the hub for companies to access the tools necessary to build, reinforce and strengthen the sense of belonging for our current and future construction workforce. People have always been our greatest asset; Culture of CARE ensures that everyone feels welcomed and valued."
AGC of California, based in Sacramento, California, and the state's largest construction advocacy association that represents over 900 contractors, is dedicated to inspiring a culture shift in the construction industry. Culture of CARE resources are on AGC of California's new branded Culture of CARE website complete with actionable tools and resources.
The initiative continues AGC of California's long-term commitment to advance DE&I across the industry, membership and leadership. These efforts include the AGC of California DE&I Forum which serves as a space for companies to engage in conversations about transforming corporate structure, policies, practices, and jobsites. The forum is led by AGC of California's DE&I Steering Committee – comprised of diverse AGC of California contractor and associate members as well as external experts. The group develops policies, procedures and training to help guide the development of recommendations listed in our DE&I Task Force Report.
"I hope that creating a Culture of CARE will inspire an environment that is more innovative, efficient and mentally safe because all perspectives and ideas are considered," said AGC of California DE&I Steering Committee member and Hensel Phelps General Superintendent Ciara Seger. "The people in our industry are bright, imaginative and out-of-the-box thinkers, and we have an opportunity to tap into everyone's potential by helping to create a Culture of CARE in California."
About the Associated General Contractors of California
Since 1920, the Associated General Contractors of California (AGC of California) has worked alongside members to provide advocacy, education, career development, and networking opportunities to experienced and next generation construction and contracting professionals. AGC of California advocates for contractors with state and local governments, while helping members connect with industry leaders through services, innovative programs, and events. Learn more at www.agc-ca.org.
About Culture of CARE
Launched in June 2023, AGC of California's Culture of CARE is an industry-wide initiative designed to promote belonging in the workplace. The program provides actionable tools and resources for the construction industry which include a company-wide belonging survey, facilitator guide, learning resources, and toolbox talks. Learn more at www.agc-ca.org/sites/culture-of-care/.
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regression Games, the AI gaming and esports company, today announced it has closed $4.2M in seed funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), BBQ Capital, Roosh Ventures, and various angel investors to bring the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to gaming and esports. Regression Games plans to use the new capital to grow their engineering team and accelerate the development of their initial platform to test AI-driven gaming, in partnership with existing games and game studios.
Regression Games is building the platform and ecosystem to make AI gaming and esports accessible and enjoyable for everyone. The platform will enable players to write code and AIs that control characters, debug strategies in real-time, compete for prizes in tournaments and top spots on leaderboards, and collaborate with friends to build the best bots possible. Rather than traditional game playing where players utilize a controller or mouse and keyboard, Regression Games users will program algorithms and machine learning models to battle others. The AI platform will be made to integrate with both existing games and original games developed by Regression Games. With more than 3.2 billion gamers around the world, 175 US collegiate esport programs, and over 47% of US high schools teaching computer science, this intersection of gaming and coding is poised to grow over the years to come. By 2028, the video game industry is estimated to be worth over $435bn, as well as an estimated 45 million coders by 2030.
The company was founded by Aaron Vontell, an MIT alum and early engineer at AI-powered automation company Instabase. Aaron has spent the past few years working on low-code / no-code systems for non-technical people to harness the power of large machine learning models. Before Instabase, he helped develop Battlecode, an annual AI gaming competition at MIT where college students from around the globe build virtual bots to compete in video games.
"People really enjoy being able to use their technical skills to compete and win prizes, and with the proliferation of AI–this is the perfect time to start bringing AI gaming to the masses," says Aaron Vontell, Founder and CEO, Regression Games. "There is a lot of really great work coming from the ML community in using neural networks to play games like Minecraft, Dota 2, and Atari games. I want to bring those ideas to the mainstream and give people an accessible place to have fun using and competing with artificial intelligence in games."
"The growth of gaming, combined with its significant overlap with the esports and programming communities, has created a market primed for the collision of gaming and AI," said Rick Yang, General Partner and Head of Consumer Investing at NEA. "We met Aaron through our investment in Instabase and are thrilled to keep him in the NEA Family and partner with him as he executes on his vision to build Regression Games into a platform offering opportunities for competition, education, and recreation for players of all skill levels. Regression has great potential to become a pioneer in the emerging AI gaming space."
a16z General Partner James Gwertzman added, "One of the core tenets of our a16z games fund is that games are great breeding grounds for new technologies that will then find their way into all sorts of other industries. And Regression is a perfect example. What Aaron is doing — turning the creation of AI bots into a game — is not only fun in its own right, but will likely create new frameworks to simplify AI bot creation that will have broad applicability outside of games."
Aaron believes that the tools and approaches for AI competition are useful to more than just the players, but also to game studios that wish to enhance AI capabilities, or run their own AI competitions. Aaron says: "A lot more people are gaming these days, and there is a lot of complexity that goes into planning the NPCs and AIs that are used in the metaverse, online battle arenas, etc. The tools and platform we're building for players to compete will also be extremely useful for developers who want to build AIs into their games. It's widely known that existing bots in games are lacking, and we can do so much more than what is currently implemented"
Regression Games plans to hold a private alpha test and tournament with players on its AI platform in the coming months. Interested players and game developers can visit: https://regression.gg to sign up for the mailing list and follow Regression Games on Twitter and join the company's Discord server for updates!
Regression Games is hiring! Visit https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/regressiongg to view available positions.
Regression Games is building the platform and ecosystem to make competitive gaming with artificial intelligence accessible and fun to everyone. Players create AIs using code or machine learning models, debug strategies in real time, compete for prizes in tournaments and top spots on leaderboards, and collaborate with friends to build the best bots possible. For more information visit: https://www.regression.gg/
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DETROIT (AP) — A top administrator at the Wayne County juvenile jail has been fired amid a sexual assault investigation.
Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility Deputy Director of Administration Mark Roland was fired Friday, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday. He had worked at the facility since September.
The firing comes as officials investigate allegations that youths at the facility sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy on Wednesday. State police are investigating and so far seven employees at the juvenile jail have been suspended.
Roland told the newspaper that the firing surprised him. He said that as of Thursday he was part of an improvement plan.
“I am just not sure what made them come to that decision,” Roland said. “My hope would have been that they would have kept the current team in place for consistency.”
Meanwhile on Friday, facility Director Brandon Barber was reassigned to another county job. Tiffani Jackson, a county spokeswoman, didn’t provide his position and the newspaper couldn’t reach Barber for comment.
The Free Press has reported that the jail is overcrowded and understaffed, with juveniles confined to rooms for long periods and denied showers, recreation, medication and schooling. | 2023-03-17T21:53:58+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/jail-administrator-fired-amid-sexual-assault-17846133.php |
DALLAS, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NYSE: NXDT) ("NXDT" or the "Company") today announced a dividend for its 5.50% Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares (NYSE: NXDT PR A) ("Preferred Shares") of $0.34375 per share. The dividend will be payable on March 31, 2023, to Preferred shareholders of record at the close of business March 24, 2023.
NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust is an externally advised, publicly traded, diversified real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the acquisition, development, and management of opportunistic and value-add investments throughout the United States across multiple sectors where NexPoint and its affiliates have operational expertise. NXDT is externally advised by NexPoint Real Estate Advisors X, L.P. For more information, please visit nxdt.nexpoint.com.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As part of a deal they struck to avoid extradition to the United States, two men pleaded guilty Wednesday in New Zealand to their involvement in running the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload.
The pleas by Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk at the Auckland High Court ended their 10-year legal battle to avoid extradition to the U.S. on charges that included racketeering.
Those charges will be dropped under a deal with prosecutors from both countries after the pair pleaded guilty in New Zealand to being part of a criminal group and causing artists to lose money by deception. They have been released on bail pending sentencing and face a maximum ten years in prison.
The U.S. is still seeking to extradite Megaupload’s founder Kim Dotcom, who also lives in New Zealand and has said he now expects his former colleagues to testify against him.
Prosecutors say Megaupload raked in at least $175 million — mainly from people who used the site to illegally download songs, television shows and movies — before the FBI shut it down in early 2012 and arrested Dotcom and other company officers.
Ortmann told news website Stuff that after a decade of living in New Zealand on bail, the pair had firm roots in the country and were contributing to society through Mega, a legitimate cloud-storage website they set up after their arrest.
“There’s absolutely no point in dwelling on these proceedings any longer and we are putting it behind us, and accepting our responsibility,” Ortmann said.
Van der Kolk said they had learned from their mistakes.
“We’ve worked incredibly hard on Mega and we strongly feel that our rehabilitation process has started a long time ago,” he told Stuff.
Lawyers for Dotcom and the other men had long argued that if anybody was guilty in the case, it was the users of the site who chose to pirate material, not the founders. But prosecutors argued the men were the architects of a vast criminal enterprise.
Dotcom and the two other men were once close friends but had a falling out after their arrest and subsequent work on the Mega website.
U.S. prosecutors had earlier dropped their extradition bid against a fourth officer of the company, Finn Batato, who was arrested in New Zealand. Batato returned to Germany where he died from cancer earlier this month.
In 2015, Megaupload computer programmer Andrus Nomm, of Estonia, pleaded guilty in the case to conspiring to commit felony copyright infringement and was sentenced to one year and one day in U.S. federal prison.
Last year, New Zealand’s Supreme Court ruled the trio could be extradited. But the nation’s justice minister has yet to make a final decision on whether the extradition — now just of Dotcom — will go ahead.
Even that decision could be appealed and spend still more time in the slow-moving New Zealand legal system. | 2022-06-22T18:37:03+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/to-avoid-us-extradition-megaupload-pair-plead-guilty-in-nz/ |
SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. (PIX11) — In less than 30 hours this holiday week, Long Island may have had half as many shark bites as it had all of last year, even though 2022 saw a record number of bites, with eight.
Right now, state and local authorities confirmed that there have been three shark bites in the ocean waters off the South Shore since Monday afternoon, as well as one additional marine animal bite that is being investigated as a possible shark bite.
It’s left officials assuring beachgoers that they’re taking every effort to protect them, while at the same time calling on people who come to the seaside to be vigilant, and to be in contact with lifeguards and marine patrol officers at area beaches.
New York State Parks lifeguards launched a drone off Robert Moses State Park’s Field Beach 3 just before the beach was set to open on Independence Day morning. What it detected a few hundred yards off shore caused lifeguards to ban swimming.
“They saw a school of sharks,” said George Gorman, the regional director of New York State Parks, in an interview. “Sand sharks, approximately 50 of them.”
The beach remained shut down for about an hour and a half.
When there were no new sightings, lifeguards allowed people to go back into the surf, only to change the order again minutes later, when somebody reported another possible shark sighting just east of the first one.
Zach Fishman was one of hundreds of people at the beach at the time.
“The lifeguards said that there was a marine sighting,” he said. “Everybody just started coming out.” He added that people wasted no time leaving the water.
However, after another 90 minutes or so without a shark sighting, beachgoers were allowed to go back into the water again at Robert Moses State Park.
Nine miles east, though, just before 2 p.m. on Independence Day, there was a shark bite off Fire Island Pines. A 49-year-old man was bitten in that incident.
Also in the afternoon on the Fourth of July, a man was bitten in the surf of the Atlantic Ocean off of the village of Quogue, in the eastern end of Long Island.
Those happened a day after a 15-year-old boy was bitten while on his surfboard in the waters off Kismet Beach at Fire Island. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison spoke with the boy by phone as he recovered after being released from the hospital.
“He stated that the shark was about 4-5 feet in length,” Harrison said. “It took a nice bite out of his left foot and caused some gashes to his toe and heel, as well as punctured his left calf.”
That was at around 5 p.m. on Monday. Three-and-a-half hours before that, at Robert Moses State Park, a 15-year-old girl was bitten.
However, at the very same location where a shark bit her on Monday, people were back in the water on Tuesday.
“The weather has been so bad in New York, I’ll take any beach day,” said Sophia Batista, minutes after emerging from the Robert Moses surf. “I’ll just have my ears open for the lifeguard, and have my eyes open for the water.”
Her friend Raquel Cordo agreed. “Can’t live in fear, you know?” she said.
Suffolk County Police and New York State Parks officials said they have waverunners, drones, helicopters and, of course, lifeguards looking out.
Still, they said, the frequency of shark bites and sightings is an indication of ocean health.
“This is our new normal,” said George Gorman, the state parks director for the Long Island region. “We have more baitfish and bunker fish, and that’s what’s drawing the sharks closer to shore.”
In all of the shark attacks this week, the people who’ve been bitten were either treated at local hospitals and released, or declined medical attention.
One of them, the 15-year-old boy bitten off Fire Island, provided a look at how beachgoing may be, going forward, as shark bites become more commonplace.
He spoke with Commissioner Harrison.
“I asked our victim,” Harrison said in an interview, “‘Listen, do you plan on going swimming again?’, and he goes, ‘Oh absolutely.'”
“So if he’s willing to go swimming and go surfing again,” Harrison said, “then sure enough, I will as well.” | 2023-07-05T02:57:30+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/new-england/at-least-3-shark-bites-off-long-island-this-week-have-officials-warning-beachgoers/ |
MARGATE, Fla. – A Denny’s employee who was struck by a customer with a vehicle after refusing to pay spoke exclusively with Local 10 News on Thursday.
Denny’s server Robert Huffman told police that 18-year-old Keith Habberfield and another unidentified suspect were dining around 2 a.m. Monday when the two received a bill of $47.84 and walked passed all points of sale without attempting to pay.
Huffman told Local 10 News that he followed Habberfield outside and stood in front of his vehicle in an attempt to get him to pay his bill.
“I ran outside (and) I was like guys, you have to pay your tab or us servers are responsible to pay that,” said Huffman.
Huffman said that the car wasn’t turned on the moment he stood in front of it.
Habberfield then sped off, intentionally striking Huffman and causing him to land on top of the vehicle’s hood, according to the police report.
“The car accelerated towards me and I fell on,” he said.
Local 10 News obtained cellphone video of Habberfield driving with Huffman on the hood, swerving side to side in an attempt to get him off the vehicle.
After fearing for his life, Huffman eventually let go and was thrown to the pavement where he sustained abrasions to the right kneecap and right elbow.
“It is either I was on the hood, or I was under the car,” he said.
Habberfield was eventually tracked down and arrested, but Huffman said he would’ve acted differently if certain memos hadn’t been posted in the restaurant.
“Their book says no don’t do it, but this says something totally different,” he said. “This says, ‘Walk-outs will be paid for by whoever the server is.”'
Local 10 News reached out to Denny’s in regard to their “walk-out policy” which you can read in the statement below.
Local 10 News also went to the home of Habberfield to get his side of the story, but no one answered the door.
He is facing one count each of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and petit theft. | 2023-05-18T22:14:33+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/05/18/dennys-employee-describes-scary-moment-after-being-hit-with-vehicle-by-dine-and-dash-customer-in-margate/ |
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Trey Mullinax shoots 2-over 73 in round three of the Mexico Open at Vidanta
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Trey Mullinax sticks approach to set up birdie at Mexico Open
In the second round of the 2022 Mexico Open at Vidanta, Trey Mullinax makes birdie on the par-4 2nd hole.
In his third round at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, Trey Mullinax hit 7 of 13 fairways and 13 of 18 greens in regulation, finishing at 7 under for the tournament. Mullinax finished his day tied for 24th at 7 under; Jon Rahm is in 1st at 15 under; Cameron Champ and Kurt Kitayama are tied for 2nd at 13 under; and Davis Riley, Patrick Rodgers, and Nate Lashley are tied for 4th at 12 under.
On the 208-yard par-3 fifth, Mullinax hit the green off the tee but had a three-putt after missing a putt from 6-feet for a par and finished with a bogey. This put Mullinax at 1 over for the round.
On the 603-yard par-5 sixth, Mullinax got on the green in 4 and two-putt for bogey, bringing Mullinax to 2 over for the round.
On the 297-yard par-4 seventh Mullinax hit his tee shot 301 yards to the green. He ended up two putting for a birdie. This moved Mullinax to 1 over for the round.
At the 496-yard par-4 eighth, Mullinax got on in 2 and missed his par putt from 6 feet, finishing with a 3-putt bogey. This moved Mullinax to 2 over for the round.
At the 195-yard par-3 11th, Mullinax hit a tee shot 192 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 30-foot putt for birdie. This moved Mullinax to 3 over for the round.
On the par-4 16th, Mullinax's 171 yard approach to 2 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Mullinax to 2 over for the round.
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A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans.
The journey began with a perfect morning liftoff by Europe's Ariane rocket from French Guiana on the coast of South America. But there were some tense minutes later as controllers awaited signals from the spacecraft.
When contact finally was confirmed close to an hour into the flight, Mission Control in Germany declared: “The spacecraft is alive!”
It will take the robotic explorer, dubbed Juice, eight years to reach Jupiter, where it will scope out not only the solar system's biggest planet but also Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. The three ice-encrusted moons are believed to harbor underground oceans, where sea life could exist.
Then in perhaps the most impressive feat of all, Juice will attempt to go into orbit around Ganymede: No spacecraft has ever orbited a moon other than our own.
With so many moons — at last count 95 — astronomers consider Jupiter a mini solar system of its own, with missions like Juice long overdue.
“This is a mission that is answering questions of science that are burning to all of us,” said European Space Agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher after the launch. "Of course, one of these questions is: Is there life out there?”
It can't find life, “but Juice will be identifying the habitability of these icy moons around Jupiter,” he added.
The spacecraft is taking a long, roundabout route to Jupiter, covering 4 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers)
It will swoop within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Callisto and 250 miles (400 kilometers) of Europa and Ganymede, completing 35 flybys while circling Jupiter. Then it will hit the brakes to orbit Ganymede, the primary target of the 1.6 billion-euro mission (nearly $1.8 billion).
Ganymede is not only the solar system's largest moon — it surpasses Mercury — but has its own magnetic field with dazzling auroras at the poles.
Even more enticing, it’s thought to have an underground ocean holding more water than Earth. Ditto for Europa and its reported geysers, and heavily cratered Callisto, a potential destination for humans given its distance from Jupiter’s debilitating radiation belts, according to Carnegie Institution’s Scott Sheppard, who’s not involved with the Juice mission.
“The ocean worlds in our solar system are the most likely to have possible life, so these large moons of Jupiter are prime candidates to search,” said Sheppard, a moon hunter who’s helped discover well over 100 in the outer solar system.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small bus, won't reach Jupiter until 2031, relying on gravity-assist flybys of Earth and our moon, as well as Venus.
“These things take time — and they change our world,” said the Planetary Society’s chief executive, Bill Nye. The California-based space advocacy group organized a virtual watch party for the launch.
Belgium’s King Philippe and Prince Gabriel, and a pair of astronauts — France’s Thomas Pesquet and Germany’s Matthias Maurer — were among the spectators in French Guiana. Thursday’s launch attempt was nixed by the threat of lightning.
Juice — short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer — will spend three years buzzing Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. The spacecraft will attempt to enter orbit around Ganymede in late 2034, circling the moon for nearly a year before flight controllers send it crashing down in 2035, later if enough fuel remains.
Europa is especially attractive to scientists hunting for signs of life beyond Earth. Juice will keep its Europa encounters to a minimum, however, because of the intense radiation there so close to Jupiter.
Juice’s sensitive electronics are encased in lead to protect against radiation. The 14,000-pound (6,350-kilogram) spacecraft also is wrapped with thermal blankets — temperatures near Jupiter hover around minus 380 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 230 degrees Celsius). And its solar panels stretch 88 feet (27 meters) tip to tip to soak in as much sunlight that far from the sun.
Late next year, NASA will send an even more heavily shielded spacecraft to Jupiter, the long-awaited Europa Clipper, which will beat Juice to Jupiter by more than a year because it will launch on SpaceX’s mightier rocket. The two spacecraft will team up to study Europa like never before.
NASA has long dominated exploration at Jupiter, beginning with flybys in the 1970s by the twin Pioneers and then Voyagers. Only one spacecraft remains humming at Jupiter: NASA's Juno, which just logged its 50th orbit since 2016.
Europe provided nine of Juice’s science instruments, with NASA supplying just one.
If Juice confirms underground oceans conducive to past or present life, project scientist Olivier Witasse said the next step will be to send drills to penetrate the icy crusts and maybe even a submarine.
“We have to be creative,” he said. “We can still think it’s science fiction, but sometimes the science fiction can join the reality.”
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Frances Tiafoe 2023 MercedesCup Odds
Frances Tiafoe enters the MercedesCup following his French Open finished with a loss at the hands of Alexander Zverev in the round of 32. Tiafoe's opener is versus Jiri Lehecka (in the round of 16). Tiafoe's monyeline odds to win the tournament at TC Weissenhof, Stuttgart are +1400.
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Tiafoe at the 2023 MercedesCup
- Next Round: Round of 16
- Tournament Dates: June 9-18
- Venue: TC Weissenhof, Stuttgart
- Location: Stuttgart, Germany
- Court Surface: Grass
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Tiafoe's Next Match
In his opener at the MercedesCup, on Wednesday, June 14 (at 4:00 AM ET) in the round of 16, Tiafoe will face Lehecka.
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Frances Tiafoe Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +5000
- US Open odds to win: +2000
- MercedesCup odds to win: +1400
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Tiafoe Stats
- In his most recent match, Tiafoe lost 6-3, 6-7, 1-6, 6-7 versus Zverev in the Round of 32 of the French Open.
- Tiafoe has won one of his 22 tournaments over the past year, with an overall match record of 40-21.
- Tiafoe is 3-3 on grass over the past 12 months.
- Through 61 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Tiafoe has played 27.7 games per match. He won 52.9% of them.
- On grass, Tiafoe has played six matches over the past year, and he has totaled 38.8 games per match while winning 51.9% of games.
- Tiafoe, over the past 12 months, has won 83.1% of his service games and 23.4% of his return games.
- On grass over the past year, Tiafoe has claimed 82.8% of his service games and 21.4% of his return games.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Five people were killed by a shooter who opened fire along a walking trail in North Carolina’s capital city on Thursday and eluded police for hours before he was cornered in a home and arrested, police said.
An off-duty police officer was among those killed by the suspect, who police only described as a white, juvenile male. He was arrested around 9:37 p.m., authorities said. His identity and age weren’t released.
The gunfire broke out around 5 p.m. along the Neuse River Greenway in a residential area northeast of downtown, Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said. Officers from numerous law enforcement agencies swarmed the area, closing roads and warning residents to stay inside while they searched for the shooter.
Among those slain was an off-duty police officer, authorities said. Two other people, including another police officer, were taken to hospitals. The officer was later released, but the other survivor remained in critical condition.
“Tonight terror has reached our doorstep. The nightmare of every community has come to Raleigh. This is a senseless horrific and infuriating act of violence that has been committed,” Gov. Roy Cooper told reporters.
Authorities didn't offer any details on a motive, but Baldwin joined Cooper in decrying the violence.
“We must stop this mindless violence in America, we must address gun violence,” the mayor said. “We have much to do, and tonight we have much to mourn.”
Brooke Medina, who lives in the neighborhood bordering the greenway, was driving home at around 5:15 p.m. when she saw about two dozen police cars, both marked and unmarked, race toward the residential area about 9 miles (14 kilometers) from Raleigh’s downtown. She then saw ambulances speeding the other direction, toward the closest hospital.
She and her husband, who was working from home with their four children, started reaching out to neighbors and realized there was a shelter-in-place order.
The family closed all of their window blinds, locked the doors and congregated in an upstairs hallway together, said Medina, who works as a communications vice president at a think tank. The family listened to the police scanner and watched local news before going back downstairs once the danger seemed to have moved further away from their home.
“We’re just going to hunker down for the rest of the night and be very vigilant. Keep all of our lights on, doors locked,” she said.
She described the neighborhood known as Hedingham as a sprawling, dense, tree-lined community that’s full of single-family homes, duplexes and townhomes that are more moderately priced compared to other parts of the Raleigh area.
Medina said she often takes her kids on bike rides along the greenway during the day, but typically brings pepper spray along just in case.
“There’s a lot of places one could disappear,” she said.
The Raleigh shooting was the latest in a violent week across the country. Five people were killed Sunday in a shooting at a home in Inman, South Carolina. On Wednesday night two police officers were fatally shot in Connecticut after apparently being drawn into an ambush by an emergency call about possible domestic violence.
It followed shootings of police officers this week in Greenville, Mississippi; Decatur, Illinois; Philadelphia, Las Vegas and central Florida. Two of those officers, one in Greenville and one Las Vegas, were killed.
Thursday’s violence was the 25th mass killing in 2022 in which the victims were fatally shot, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killings database. A mass killing is defined as when four or more people are killed excluding the perpetrator.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG).
Class Period: November 19, 2020 – March 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 22, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period and in the Offering Documents, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) cosmetic and skincare sales of Perfect Diary and Little Ondine products were substantially declining in the period leading up to (and including at the time of) the IPO, and continued to decline throughout 2021, and (2) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is awarding up to $1,180,500 million in funding to five qualified charitable organizations as part of its Integral Maternal, Neonatal and Childhood Health Care program, part of the Humanitarian Health Grants.
The open round for grant proposals was announced in March 2022. During the review process, 18 grant applicants presented a concept note about their proposed charitable project and information about their organization, project implementation experience, and financial position, among other information. Only 7 of the original 18 grant applicants were invited to present a full project proposal, which was thoroughly evaluated by the Foundation and a volunteer advisory team and subsequently approved by the Foundation's Board.
The selected grantee nonprofit organizations highlighted below will develop health and nutritional support projects, which include knowledge transfer initiatives and educational campaigns in Venezuela, all of which aim to support and empower mainly vulnerable mothers and children. All will be implemented by local and international charitable organizations with proven experience in Venezuela. The projects are estimated to benefit more than 62,000 people in need, including mothers, children, indigenous people and health professionals, with initiatives lasting an average of twelve months and covering eight Venezuelan states.
The original grant program was capped at $1 million; however, due to the overwhelming response to the application process and the quality of the grant proposals, the Foundation quickly reassessed the scope and allocated more funds.
Since the Simón Bolívar Foundation modified its mission in 2019, it has expanded its impact and number of beneficiaries by focusing on providing access to funding, capacity building and empowering nonprofits that provide health services, medicines, nutrition support and well-being to vulnerable individuals in and from Venezuela.
Beneficiaries: 12,000 women, children and health workers in Carabobo state
Duration: 12 months
Focus area: Nutrition and health support as well as training and education
Beneficiaries: 34,400 vulnerable people in Amazonas and Apure states
Duration: 12 months
Focus Area: Sexual and reproductive health
Beneficiaries: 4,199 indigenous people in Bolívar state
Duration: 6 months
Focus Area: Health care training, capacity building, patient education and provision of supplies
Beneficiaries: 500 mothers and 750 children in Aragua, Falcón and Lara states
Duration: 12 months
Focus Area: Preventive health services and provision of health supplies
Beneficiaries: 10,500 patients and 15 health professionals in Zulia state
Duration: 12 months
Focus Area: Primary health care and nutrition support for infant, toddlers, nursing mothers and pregnant women as well as training for health professionals and social workers
Please visit simonbolivarfoundation.org for more information.
Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation. The Foundation supports charitable initiatives, leverages existing resources and provides charitable grants to qualified organizations to meet the immediate and long-term health needs of the most vulnerable individuals, particularly in and from Venezuela, with a special focus on the health and well-being of children and their mothers.
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NEW YORK, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PERSUIT, the world's only law firm engagement platform, today announced a series of AI-driven enhancements to its core offering. The PERSUIT platform, which empowers the world's most innovative legal teams to competitively source and engage law firms at the matter level, will soon leverage AI and ChatGPT to drive a more efficient process for in-house teams. PERSUIT's Proposal Analyzer, the first in a series of enhancements, will quickly summarize proposal responses from multiple firms and will highlight strengths, weaknesses, and key differences.
With AI layered into the law firm selection process, corporate legal teams will have the opportunity to evaluate and select law firm proposals with more precision and speed than ever before.
This announcement follows a series of product enhancements brought to market in 2023, including the relaunch of PERSUIT's analytics functionality, a centralized dashboard for providing performance reviews to law firms in real time, and a new homepage directing users to the software's seven core use cases.
"Our adoption of AI within the PERSUIT platform will help to accelerate our core mission of shifting the legal industry to value-based billing," said Jim Delkousis, CEO and Founder at PERSUIT. "With the transition away from the billable hour, our in-house customers will have the opportunity to focus more on outcomes."
PERSUIT plans to harness AI technology to bring additional features to its web application throughout 2023. For more information on PERSUIT's full offering, visit www.persuit.com.
About PERSUIT
PERSUIT is a law firm engagement platform that fundamentally changes how in-house legal teams engage with outside counsel. By focusing on outcomes instead of billable hours, PERSUIT empowers the world's most innovative legal teams to engage law firms at the matter level in a way that creates fairness, equity, diversity, predictability, and transparency.
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Didn’t get everything you wanted during Black Friday and Cyber Monday? The good news is that there are still awesome products to be found. With great prices on premium coffee makers, soft blankets, essential kitchen items and more, it’s the perfect time to find gifts for everyone who’s still on your holiday shopping list.
To help you save time browsing for quality items, we’ve put together a roundup that’s packed with gift-worthy items like a drill set for the DIYer in your life, a duffel for your favorite hiker and a gaming headset for the avid gamer. Check out our complete list below to save on gifts that are sure to impress.
Best gifts to shop this year
Anyone who likes to do projects around the house will appreciate this Dewalt set that includes an impact and drill driver. Two batteries, a charger and storage bag make it a solid deal.
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Home Decorators Collection Fremont Double Vanity
This vanity is a great choice for the couple who share a bathroom thanks to the dual-sink design. It features an attractive, contemporary style that looks great with any bathroom decor, from classic to modern.
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Zwilling J.A. Henckels Four Star 8-Piece Knife Block Set
This premium knife block set is too good to miss. It includes eight well-made pieces and a handsome knife block crafted in solid beechwood.
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Martha Stewart Collection 7-Piece Bar Tool Set
Bar tools are essential for the person on your list who entertains frequently or has a home bar. This set includes seven must-have pieces that are crafted in gleaming stainless steel.
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Saeco Xelsis Automatic Espresso Machine
Want to impress the serious coffee connoisseur on your holiday list? Saeco Xelsis’s espresso machine offers features that rival a coffeehouse model, including a built-in grinder and milk frother. Its touch display has preset functions for preparing delicious brews with the push of a button.
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Costa Del Mar 580G Polarized Sunglasses
Stylish shades are always a welcome gift. This pair offers protective polarized lenses that reduce glare in bright, sunny conditions. The frames feature a timeless design and are lightweight for superior comfort.
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If you’re shopping for someone who loves to explore in the winter, check out these quality snowshoes. A lightweight build, excellent traction and a user-friendly binding system are features that make them well-worth the current low sale price.
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Serta Comfort Boost Mattress Topper
Serta’s Comfort Boost mattress topper can improve the comfort of an existing mattress by adding a layer of supportive memory foam. It also boasts a contoured structure that promotes airflow during sleep.
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Who wouldn’t appreciate a new blanket under the tree on Christmas morning? With a sherpa material that’s soft, thick and cozy, this Cuddl Duds throw is made for curling up on the sofa on wintry days.
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Bissell CrossWave All-in-One Wet/Dry Vac
Holiday cleanup is a snap with the Bissell CrossWave that mops and vacuums all at once. Simple controls make it easy to maneuver and clean hard flooring and area rugs, so it eliminates the need to power up multiple cleaning machines to get the job done.
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Gamers love it when the action of their favorite games seems to come to life, which is where this 27-inch monitor comes in. The curved design and impressive 240Hz refresh rate make graphics pop and create a truly immersive gaming experience.
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HyperX Cloud Stinger Gaming Headset
This headset offers notable sound, comfortable rotating ear cups and reliable noise cancellation, which makes it the perfect gift for any gamer. It’s compatible with most popular gaming systems, including Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PC and PS4.
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Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizing Hot Air Brush
From drying hair to adding volume to creating beautiful styles, this Revlon hair styling tool does it all. What’s more, it features two heat settings, a cool function and ionic technology that protect hair from damage while it dries and styles.
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Ninja Foodi Digital Air Frying Oven
When it comes to making meals and snacks, this versatile small appliance has you covered. That’s because it’s a toaster, convection oven and air fryer in one that cooks fast and evenly for delicious results.
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Bushnell PowerView 2 Binoculars
These durable binoculars are ideal for bird watching and other outdoor activities, thanks to their alloy construction and outstanding magnification. Rubberized coating provides a slip-resistant grip for added protection.
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Whether that special someone on your list loves to stream, watch movies, indulge in sports or game, this 77-inch TV is built to amaze. In addition to its impressive size, it offers an immersive 4K OLED display and has built-in Alexa.
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When it comes to saving on energy costs, the Nest Learning Thermostat is a worthwhile investment for any home. Powered by smart technology, it lives up to its name by “learning” the temperatures home occupants prefer and adjusting accordingly. Smart-device compatibility means its owner can control it when away from home for optimal energy savings.
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Popular Fuel Rewards® Program at Shell is increasing cash back for PF Black Card® members once a week through March 15
HAMPTON, N.H., Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- – Planet Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: PLNT), one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers with more members than any other fitness brand, announced the addition of a new, limited-time only perk now available to all PF Black Card® members from Shell – sign in or up for the Fuel Rewards® program at Shell to save up to 15 cents per gallon on every fill up, once a week. This exclusive promotion runs now through March 15. Anyone interested in joining Planet Fitness and taking advantage of its many membership perks from Shell and others, including discounts on Grubhub+, Amazon Halo, Reebok® and more, can find their nearest club or join online here. Dates to redeem discounts vary by offer.
"The perks of being a Planet Fitness member expand well beyond health and wellness. Our Perks program offers members incredible discounts at brands they love. In fact, our partnership with the Fuel Rewards® program at Shell has been so successful that we are thrilled to offer our PF Black Card® members increased savings in the new year," said Sherrill Kaplan, Planet Fitness' Chief Digital Officer. "To date, our members have redeemed rewards on more than 1.4 million gallons of gas, which just shows that saving on essentials really matters. We're proud to offer our members even more value in 2023."
"In conjunction with our ten-year anniversary celebrating the Fuel Rewards® program at Shell, we are thrilled to announce an even bigger promotion and partnership with Planet Fitness to support a healthy lifestyle and wallet," said Greg Lemen, Director of Loyalty Partnerships, Shell. "Many Americans are focused on new resolutions in the new year and we hope to complement that positive energy by keeping them fueled up with big savings."
"It's important for me to fuel up with a great workout followed by big savings at the pump – the best of both worlds for someone who is constantly on the go," said two-time NASCAR Champion and driver of #22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang Joey Logano. "As a member since 2015, I am appreciative to Planet Fitness for continuing to provide its members with new, exclusive perks for us to put to good use."
Planet Fitness members interested in learning more about the Fuel Rewards® program can download the Fuel Rewards® mobile app from the App Store or Google Play.
In addition to benefits with the Fuel Rewards® program, Planet Fitness members and PF Black Card® members are also eligible for a variety of perks in the form of discounts and special offers from its many partners. Offers are currently live or beginning soon, please note dates below. Some examples include**:
- Grubhub+: Tired and emotionally hungover from the holidays? Would you rather just sit back and relax instead of spending more time in the kitchen? Grubhub has you covered with a variety of great options from popular neighborhood restaurants to national chains. Join our 'Hang-Offer' promotion to receive access to Grubhub+ for free for six months of unlimited $0 delivery fees, exclusive offers and more.
- Amazon Halo: Planet Fitness members can get an Amazon Halo Band to track their activity, sleep and more for just $34.99 – that's up to 50 percent off. Members can claim their unique promo code in the Planet Fitness App through March 15, 2023.
- Hyperice: Relieve tension, unlock sore muscles and prime your body with 10 percent off Hyperice innovative products.
- Reebok: Looking for new workout gear at a great price? Get 25 percent off Reebok.com.
- 1-800-Flowers: Send a loved one that beautiful gift you've been thinking about and take 15 percent off your order from any of the 1-800-Flowers family of brands when you make a purchase online.
To view all Planet Fitness membership perks or for more information, download the Planet Fitness App or visit Planetfitness.com/pf-membership-perks.
Members can also shop for Planet Fitness apparel, gear and more at shop.planetfitness.com. Use promo code NewYear23 to get 20 percent off site-wide and shop new arrivals, including shirts, shorts, water bottles and more. Offer ends March 31, 2023.
*Offer available only for PF Black Card® and U.S. resident members from January 2, 2023 - March 15, 2023. Save up to $0.15/gal at Shell when you redeem this Planet Fitness Perk. Fuel Rewards® bonus savings earned through this offer will expire on Sunday of the week that the Fuel Rewards member receives their reward. Limit 20 gallons of fuel per purchase per vehicle. Cannot be combined with other discounts or rewards. Must be 18 years old to create a Fuel Rewards® account. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. See fuelrewards.com for complete Fuel Rewards® program details and Terms and Conditions. Additional restrictions may apply.
**See complete offer details for full terms and conditions at Planetfitness.com/pf-membership-perks.
Grubhub+
Six-month free trial of Grubhub+ for Planet Fitness members who have not previously participated in Grubhub+ when you sign up here between 12/29/22-01/12/23. Terms apply.
Amazon Halo
Up to 50 percent off Amazon Halo Band for all Planet Fitness members between 01/11/23-03/15/23.
Hyperice
10 percent off all products beginning 12/19/22 for all Planet Fitness members.
Reebok
25 percent off for all Planet Fitness members between 01/02/23-02/28/23. Not valid in store. Exclusions apply. Cannot be combined with any other discount/offer. Valid U.S. Only.
1-800-Flowers
15 percent off 1-800-Flowers family of brands for all Planet Fitness members.
About Planet Fitness
Founded in 1992 in Dover, NH, Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States by number of members and locations. As of September 30, 2022, Planet Fitness had more than 16.6 million members and 2,353 stores in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Mexico and Australia. The Company's mission is to enhance people's lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which we call the Judgement Free Zone®. More than 90% of Planet Fitness stores are owned and operated by independent business men and women.
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BERLIN (AP) — A U.S. company that helped build a huge aquarium in Berlin says it is sending a team to investigate the rupture of the tank, which sent a wave of debris, water and tropical fish crashing through the hotel lobby it was located in and onto the street outside.
Reynolds Polymer Technology, which says it manufactured and installed the cylinder component of the AquaDom tank 20 years ago, said in an emailed statement that “at this point, it is too early to determine the factor or factors that would produce such a failure.”
Police have said they found no evidence of a malicious act but the cause of the spectacular collapse shortly before 6 a.m. on Friday, in which two people were slightly injured, remains unclear. Berlin’s top security official, Iris Spranger, told German news agency dpa on Friday that “first indications point to material fatigue.”
Officials said on Friday evening that the hotel building itself was assessed to be safe.
The local government said that nearly all of the 1,500 fish that were inside at the time of the rupture died but “a few fish at the bottom of the tank” were saved. About 400 to 500 mostly small fish from a separate set of aquariums housed under the hotel lobby were evacuated to other tanks in a neighboring aquarium that was unaffected.
The AquaDom aquarium opened in December 2003 and was modernized in 2020.
Grand Junction, Colorado-based Reynolds Polymer, which says on its website that 41 of its acrylic panels were used in building the tank cylinder, said it “offers its sincere concern” to the hotel guests and workers who were affected and to those who were injured. It said that “we are also deeply saddened by the animals and aquatic life lost.” | 2022-12-18T03:56:33+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-us-company-to-send-team-to-look-into-berlin-aquarium-rupture/ |
CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Libya voiced concern on Thursday over the struggle for control of Libya's oil corporation after its chairman was sacked by one of Libya's two rival governments.
The embassy tweeted that U.S. officials are following the developments with “deep concern." It added that The National Oil Corporation has preserved its political independence and worked effectively under Chairman Mustafa Sanalla, in a sign of U.S. support for him.
That came a day after the Tripoli-based government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah announced Sanallah's dismissal and the appointment of Farhat Bengdara, a former governor of Libya’s central bank as the country’s new oil chief. Dbeibah also announced the appointment of a four-member commission to oversee the handover. It came as Sanallah and his board were out of the office celebrating Eid El Adha holidays.
Sanallah has refused to leave office, arguing in a televised speech that Dbeibah’s government lacked legitimacy.
“The reported replacement of the NOC board may be contested in court but must not become the subject of armed confrontation,” said the U.S. Embassy.
Earlier on Thursday, the NOC issued a statement saying that military vehicles belonging to a Dbeibah-allied militia have been stationed inside its premises. The NOC statement said it would hold Dbeibah responsible for any attempt to disrupt their work.
In a video circulated on the social media, NOC staff appeared to rally at the entrance of the NOC building to prevent members of the Dbeibah-appointed commission from stepping in. However later on, Dbeibah's government announced that both the commission and the new oil chief had walked into the building and took over.
The North African country has been wrecked by conflict since the NATO-backed uprising-turned-civil war toppled and later killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. For many years, Libya has been divided between two administrations one in the east and another in the west, each backed by foreign governments and local militias.
The country’s prized light crude has long been a feature of Libya's civil war, with rival militias and foreign powers jostling for control of Africa's largest oil reserves.
In its statement, the U.S. embassy called on all parties to restore oil and gas production in order to address electricity shortages and for a “transparent” mechanism for the management and oversight of oil revenues.
In recent months, tribal leaders have shut down crucial oil facilities, including the country’s largest oil field in the south. The blockage was likely meant to deprive Dbeibah’s government of funds and empower his rival, Fathi Bashagha, who was appointed as prime minister by the east-based parliament in February.
The shutdown has exacerbated the country's electricity shortages and sparked protests across the country, including one that resulted in the storming of the east-based parliamentary headquarters in Tobruk.
Libya's lawmakers insist that Dbeibah's mandate expired last year after his failure to hold general elections in December as dictated by a UN-brokered roadmap.
In recent months, the UN has sponsored several rounds of talks between the country's two rival legislative bodies to agree on a constitutional mechanism to hold elections — without results. | 2022-07-14T13:09:40+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-Embassy-alarmed-by-power-struggle-at-Libya-s-17304454.php |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — DJ Uiagalelei kept delivering the ball on target downfield for No. 5 Clemson in a shootout with No. 21 Wake Forest.
That offered enough cover for a defense that struggled for stops — right up until finally coming up with the winning play to cap a double-overtime classic.
Nate Wiggins broke up Sam Hartman’s fourth-down pass in the end zone to help the Tigers hold off the Demon Deacons 51-45 on Saturday. That marked their 14th straight win in the series, this one coming in a tense road game pairing two of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top teams.
Uiagalelei threw for 375 yards and five touchdowns to lead Clemson (4-0, 2-0 ACC), including the go-ahead score over the middle to Davis Allen to start the second overtime.
“Honestly, man, that was a crazy game,” Uiagalelei said, adding: “You could just see the heart of our team — the heart of the offense, the heart of the defense. When plays had to be made, we made the plays. That just shows a great sign of a good football team.”
Or, at the least, plenty of perseverance — particularly for Wiggins.
He had been targeted frequently by Hartman and the Wake Forest receivers but came through to knock away Hartman’s final ball for A.T. Perry. He fell to the end zone turf, then sprung up to join his team in celebration after a wild shootout between the reigning Atlantic Division champion Demon Deacons and the preseason league favorite Tigers.
Before that stop, Wiggins had thrice been flagged for pass interference in an injury-battered secondary and was beaten on Donavon Greene’s 25-yard TD haul.
“The only good thing about the game (defensively) is we gave up six touchdown passes — we didn’t give up seven,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said with a chuckle. “That’s the only good thing I can say. And they never quit and they kept battling and they played one more play — and Nate came up with it right there at the end.”
Hartman threw for 337 yards and the six TDs to set a program record for Wake Forest (3-1, 0-1), including two each to Greene and Jahmal Banks. But the Demon Deacons stalled out near midfield on a potential winning drive to end regulation, then couldn’t stop the Tigers in the first OT after starting off with Hartman’s TD throw to Perry.
“That locker room right now is hurting,” Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said. “It’s a football team that has invested a lot and they care a lot and expected to win this game.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Clemson: This was the start of a two-week stretch that could give the Tigers control of the league’s Atlantic Division race. The Tigers took early control by scoring touchdowns on their first two drives to take a 14-0 lead, only to see the Demon Deacons’ high-scoring offense get rolling by pushing the ball downfield. On this day, the Uiagalelei-led offense had to keep coming up with big plays to stay on pace – and did.
Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons have accomplished plenty under Clawson, highlighted by last year’s push to tie the program record with 11 wins to reach the ACC championship game. But Clemson continues to bedevil them, with Wake Forest last winning in 2008 and only one of the previous 13 straight losses coming by fewer than 14 points. Wake Forest also fell to 1-65 all-time against teams ranked in the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll, with the only win coming against No. 4 Tennessee in 1946.
A BIG STOP
Wake Forest appeared on the verge of ending its long skid in the series when it pushed near midfield on a potentially winning drive late in regulation. But 300-pound lineman Tyler Davis stuffed Justice Ellison on a run then teammed with linemate Myles Murphy to sack Hartman and eventually force the Demon Deacons to punt for OT.
“We battled and felt like we were in that game until the end,” Hartman said. “But at the end it’s a play here, a play there.”
BRESEE’S RETURN
Clemson defensive tackle Bryan Bresee returned after missing last week’s win against Louisiana Tech while being home with his family following the death of his 15-year-old sister, Ella, to brain cancer. He had two tackles and batted Hartman’s second-down pass at the line in the second OT.
“I just never lost confidence in us,” he said.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The Tigers are near the top of the AP Top 25 with little room to climb despite a tough road win. The Demon Deacons aren’t likely to slide much, if at all, after giving the Tigers all they could handle.
THEY SAID IT
“You hate for anybody to lose a game like that. That was an unbelievable college football game — two teams that fought with every ounce of everything they had. That’s what (top-25) matchup should look like, especially on the road.” — Swinney.
UP NEXT
Clemson: The Tigers host No. 12 North Carolina State next Saturday in another critical division game.
Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons travel to Florida State next Saturday.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement authorities faced mounting questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed a Texas elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.
Separately, after two days of unclear and contradictory accounts from police, a Texas law enforcement official said that an armed school district officer did not encounter or exchange fire with the attacker, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, before he entered Robb Elementary in the town of Uvalde, as previously reported.
But many other details about the timing of events and the police response remained murky. The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, a decade ago — remained under investigation, with authorities saying Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.
During the siege, which ended when a U.S. Border Patrol team burst in and shot the gunman to death, frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the school, according to witnesses.
“Go in there! Go in there!” women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who watched the scene from outside a house across the street.
Carranza said the officers should have entered the school sooner: “There were more of them. There was just one of him.”
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said Wednesday that 40 minutes to an hour elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer to when the tactical team shot him.
“The bottom line is law enforcement was there,” McCraw said. “They did engage immediately. They did contain (Ramos) in the classroom.”
But a department spokesman said Thursday that authorities were still working to clarify the timeline of the attack, uncertain whether that period of 40 minutes to an hour began when the gunman reached the school, or earlier, when he shot his grandmother at home.
“Right now we do not have an accurate or confident timeline to provide to say the gunman was in the school for this period,” Lt. Christopher Olivarez told CNN.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz did not give a timeline but said repeatedly that the tactical officers from his agency who arrived at the school did not hesitate. He said they moved rapidly to enter the building, lining up in a “stack” behind an agent holding up a shield.
“What we wanted to make sure is to act quickly, act swiftly, and that’s exactly what those agents did,” Ortiz told Fox News.
But a law enforcement official said that once in the building, the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.
Olivarez said investigators were trying to establish whether the classroom was, in fact, locked or barricaded in some way.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school as the massacre unfolded. When he arrived, he saw two officers outside the school and about five others escorting students out of the building. But 15 or 20 minutes passed before the arrival of officers with shields, equipped to confront the gunman, he said.
As more parents flocked to the school, he and others pressed police to act, Cazares said. He heard about four gunshots before he and the others were ordered back to a parking lot.
“A lot of us were arguing with the police, ‘You all need to go in there. You all need to do your jobs.’ Their response was, ‘We can’t do our jobs because you guys are interfering,’” Cazares said.
Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a funeral home, who ran away uninjured, according to authorities and witnesses.
As for the armed school officer, he was driving nearby but was not on campus when Ramos crashed his truck, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke of condition of anonymity. Investigators have concluded that school officer was not positioned between the school and Ramos, leaving him unable to confront the shooter before he entered the building, the law enforcement official said.
As Ramos entered the school, two Uvalde police officers exchanged fire with him, and were wounded, according to Olivarez. Ramos began killing his victims in a classroom.
On Wednesday night, hundreds packed the bleachers at the town’s fairgrounds for a vigil. Some cried. Some closed their eyes tight, mouthing silent prayers. Parents wrapped their arms around their children as the speakers led prayers for healing.
Before attacking the school, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at the home they shared. Gilbert Gallegos, 82, who lives across the street and has known the family for decades, said he was puttering in his yard when he heard the shots.
Ramos ran out the front door and across the yard to a truck parked in front of the house and raced away: “He spun out, I mean fast,” spraying gravel in the air, Gallegos said.
Ramos’ grandmother emerged covered in blood: “She says, ‘Berto, this is what he did. He shot me.’” She was hospitalized.
Gallegos said he had heard no arguments before or after the shots, and knew of no history of bullying or abuse of Ramos, whom he rarely saw.
Lorena Auguste was substitute teaching at Uvalde High School when she heard about the shooting and began frantically texting her niece, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary. Eventually she found out the girl was OK.
But that night, her niece had a question.
“Why did they do this to us?” the girl asked. “We’re good kids. We didn’t do anything wrong.”
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Bleiberg reported from Dallas.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)Joel Farabee had two points and Samuel Ersson made 28 saves to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-0 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night.
In his fifth start of the season, Ersson earned his first career NHL shutout against the league’s highest scoring team and gave the Flyers their fifth win in six games.
”I think that’s what’s been impressive about (Ersson), he’s just very calm and he gets about his business,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said. ”It helps the team. So, I’m happy for him.”
Farabee’s goal and assist came 1:27 apart in the first period. After Zack MacEwen opened the scoring early in the first, Farabee’s goal gave Philadelphia a 2-0 lead. He then helped set up a goal from Noah Cates that made it 3-0. Wade Allison scored about 2 minutes into the third period.
”(Farabee’s) obviously such a smart player and really deceptive,” Cates said. ”Coming off surgery and whatnot this offseason, it maybe took him a little to get into the season, but . he’s been great for us lately especially.”
Craig Anderson made 34 saves for Buffalo, which was shutout for the first time this season and lost for just the second time in the past 10 games.
”I thought tonight our guys looked and felt emotionally drained,” Sabres coach Don Granato said. ”They just had a really difficult time executing things that they execute simple. They didn’t look like themselves. We fought the puck all night and we didn’t look fast.”
MacEwen opened the scoring at 2:04 of the first when a pass from Patrick Brown glanced off him and past Anderson. Farabee made it 2-0 at 13:31 of the first after an Owen Power gaffe and fired a wrist shot past Anderson. Cates made it 3-0 when he buried a rebound off a Travis Konecny shot in front.
”I think we just keep getting better,” MacEwen said. ”We’re starting to trust our game and our structure. With that, I think we’re kind of playing the right way and it’s creating more offense for us, we’re scoring more goals. It’s just something we’ve got to keep building.”
COMRIE ACTIVATED
Sabres goalie Eric Comrie was activated from injured reserve on Monday. Comrie has been out of action since he sustained a lower-body injury Nov. 16 against Ottawa. Goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen was loaned to AHL Rochester to make room on the roster.
JOKIHARJU STATUS
Sabres defenseman Henri Jokiharju has been out since Dec. 9, when he was injured in a game against Pittsburgh. Buffalo general manager Kevyn Adams said the team will update Jokiharju’s status Tuesday; it’s expected he’ll be ready to return to the Sabres lineup as soon as this week.
UP NEXT
Flyers: Host Washington on Wednesday night.
Sabres: Host Seattle on Tuesday night.
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Training dogs is an important part of responsible pet parenting and a dog whistle can help you communicate with your dog. With its high-pitched sound, it can grab a dog’s attention from a distance and be used to issue commands.
Whistle training takes time and patience, but it’s a great tool for communication with your dog. It’s particularly effective when paired with positive-reinforcement training, so it’s also good to look at other dog training tools.
In this article: Sportdog Roy Gonia Special Whistle Without Pea, Sportdog Competition Mega Whistle and The Acme Shepherd Mouth Whistle.
Why whistle train your dog
If you’re still on the fence about getting a dog whistle, here are some of the reasons why you might want to whistle train your dog:
- Long-distance communication: Whistle training lets you communicate with your dog from a distance. This is especially useful when dogs are out of sight or when you need to get their attention in noisy environments.
- Consistency: A whistle signal is a consistent and recognizable sound that your dog can learn to associate with specific commands. There’s less nuance involved than there is with voice commands, which can sound quite different to dogs depending on your tone. This makes it easier for dogs to understand what you want them to do.
- Attention-grabbing: Whistle sounds are often high-pitched and attention-grabbing, which makes it easier to get your canine companion’s attention in a loud or distracting environment.
- Hands-free: Whistle training allows you to give commands without using your hands. This is ideal if you are busy or need to keep your hands free for other tasks.
- Versatility: You can train your dog to respond to a variety of commands with a whistle, such as recall, stop and stay.
Pea whistle vs. pealess whistle
A dog training whistle with a pea has a small ball inside the whistle that vibrates when air is blown through the whistle, producing the sound. This type of whistle is often referred to as a “pea whistle” because of the small ball, or “pea,” inside the whistle. You can also buy whistles without a pea.
- Pea whistles: Pea whistles make a trilling sound, which you can control with practice to make a wider range of sounds, plus they’re generally louder than pealess whistles. However, they can freeze in colder months.
- Pealess whistles: Pealess whistles are less likely than pea whistles to stop working because there aren’t moving parts that can go wrong. They’re also more hygienic because saliva can stick to the pea and grow bacteria. However, they aren’t as loud, so they’re better suited to close-range work.
What to look for in a dog whistle
Here are some features to look for and considerations to make when choosing a whistle:
- Frequency: Dog whistles come in different frequencies, with some designed to produce a higher-pitched sound and others a lower-pitched sound. Some dog whistles let you adjust the pitch, which is great if you want to train a lot of whistle commands because you can use different frequencies to denote particular commands. It’s also useful when you have more than one dog, as each dog can have their own pitch.
- Volume: The louder the whistle, the more useful it is for communicating with your dog over long distances. Some whistles have a volume control feature, which allows you to adjust the volume of the whistle.
- Durability: A good quality dog whistle should be durable and able to withstand regular use. Consider purchasing a whistle made from sturdy materials, such as stainless steel or high-quality plastic.
- Lanyard or clip: Some whistles come with a lanyard or clip that makes it easy to carry the whistle around your neck or attach it to your clothing or equipment.
Best dog whistles
Sportdog Roy Gonia Special Whistle Without Pea
With its pealess design, this reliable whistle won’t freeze, so it shouldn’t fail when you need it most. It’s a great choice for whistle training puppies or for close-range work. However, it’s lower-pitched than some pealess whistles, which makes the sound carry further.
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Sportdog Competition Mega Whistle
This super-loud whistle is great for working over a long-range, as well as for wet and windy conditions when quieter whistles aren’t much use. It trains the sound away from you, so it won’t damage your ears, despite its loud sound. The pea makes a trill, so you can subtly change the sound for different commands.
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The Acme Dog Training Whistle Number 210.5
The high-pitch frequency is quiet to the user, but loud to dogs, which saves the ears. It has a single frequency. The keyring makes it easy to attach to a lanyard or similar to keep it within easy reach.
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The Acme Shepherd Mouth Whistle
Although there’s a bit of a learning curve to using this whistle effectively, it can produce a wide variety of tones. This makes it ideal for anyone who needs more versatility than a single-frequency whistle can provide.
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This durable metal whistle has an adjustable pitch, which lets you more easily communicate a range of commands to your canine companion. It’s high-pitched and almost inaudible to humans.
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With two whistles in a pack, they offer good value and are great for anyone liable to misplace small items, since you’ll have a spare on hand. They’re loud so they can be heard over a distance.
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Other dog training essentials
Karen Pryor Clicker Training Terry Ryan Clik Stik
Dog training clickers are helpful for marking behavior and can be used in conjunction with whistles as a form of positive reinforcement. This one is paired with a retractable target stick to make it even more versatile.
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Cloud Star Tricky Trainers Chewy Dog Training Treats
Treats, treats and more treats are key to training your dog using positive reinforcement. These dog training treats are small and low in calories, making them perfect for the early stages of training where you may find you have to feed your dog more treats than usual.
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Paw Lifestyles Dog Treat Training Pouch
Dog treat bags make it easier for you to quickly access treats. Giving your dog a treat at just the right moment is vital during the training process, as this marks positive behavior.
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Hi Kiss Dog Recall Training Lead
This long training leash is the perfect partner when you’re teaching your dog recall. You shouldn’t let dogs loose in public spaces until their recall is 100%, but this long leash gives you the chance to practice recall safely out and about.
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CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) — A former respiratory therapist has pleaded guilty in the deaths of two patients at a Missouri hospital two decades ago.
Jennifer Hall, 42, initially was charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty instead Friday to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old Fern Franco and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper, The Kansas City Star reported. She also pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault.
Franco and Harper were among nine patients who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 in what charging documents describe as “medically suspicious” events.
From December 2001, when Hall started working at the hospital, until she was placed on administrative leave the following May, there also were 18 cardiac arrests or “Code Blue” events, up from an average of one a year before then.
The case was revived after an analysis of Franco’s tissue samples found morphine and a powerful muscle relaxant used in anesthesia in her system. Neither drug was prescribed or ordered for her by her doctors, investigators said.
Some staff at the hospital believed Hall was responsible because of her proximity to the stricken patients, her access to deadly pharmaceuticals, and because she notified staff of every patient’s cardiac emergency, according to court documents.
Hall had previously denied any involvement in the deaths.
Families of patients who died during Hall’s employment later sued the hospital. | 2023-04-24T19:32:03+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/respiratory-therapist-pleads-guilty-in-deaths-of-17915371.php |
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. ("Greenidge" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GREE). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at rswilloughby@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 9980.
The investigation concerns whether Greenidge and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On February 2, 2022, Greenidge announced selected preliminary operating results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2020. Among other results, the Company reported that it "[e]xpects GAAP Net Loss of $(51) to $(41) million, including a noncash goodwill impairment charge related to the Support.com business of $42 to $47 million[.]"
On this news, Greenidge's stock price fell $1.51 per share, or 11.93%, to close at $11.15 per share on February 2, 2022.
Then, on June 30, 2022, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ("DEC") issued a statement "announc[ing] its denial of the Title V air permit renewal for the Greenidge Generation, LLC, facility located in the town of Torrey, Yates County." DEC stated that it had "determined the permit renewal application does not demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Based on DEC's review of the specific facts and circumstances presented, this natural gas-fired facility's continued operations would be inconsistent with the statewide greenhouse gas emission limits established in the Climate Act." DEC specified that "[a]mong the factors considered was the dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the facility since the passage of the Climate Act, driven by the change in the primary purpose of its operations. Rather than solely providing energy to the state's electricity grid, the power plant now primarily provides energy behind-the-meter to support the demands of Greenidge's energy-intensive proof of work cryptocurrency mining operations."
On this news, Greenidge's stock price fell $0.20 per share, or 7.3%, to close at $2.54 per share on June 30, 2022.
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First rabid moose in state history discovered in Alaska
TELLER, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - The first moose to be diagnosed with rabies in Alaska was confirmed Monday by the state’s Department of Fish and Game.
Department officials killed the moose after it was seen wandering through the community of Teller in Western Alaska and charging towards people.
Alaska Wildlife Biologist Sara Germain, who specializes in wildlife in the Nome area, said Fish and Game received reports on June 2 of the moose acting strangely around Teller with injuries on its side.
“That moose was being aggressive towards people and charging and getting a little bit too close to comfort for them,” Germain said. “So because those are all signs of rabies, we decided to dispatch the animal and take the head and some other samples to try and see what was wrong with it.”
The moose was dispatched on the same day by officials with Fish and Game and was confirmed to have tested positive for rabies on June 6 by the department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a press release from Fish and Game.
After the samples were taken, Fish and Game coordinated with the City of Teller to burn the carcass.
While this was the first moose to be diagnosed with rabies in Alaska, there have been previous occurrences in South Dakota, Minnesota, Canada, and Russia.
After determining the animal was infected with the rabies virus, Fish and Game said it will begin to start testing all wild mammals found dead or euthanized for the rabies virus.
Alaska State Veterinarian Bob Gerlach and Alaska Wildlife Veterinarian Kimberlee Beckmen both said the moose was most likely bitten by a fox with the rabies virus, leading to it contracting the disease.
“This past winter, red foxes from the Nome and surrounding area — including Teller — there were 66 tested in total, and 28.8% were positive,” Beckmen said.
In a normal year, Beckmen said about 3-5% of red foxes tested will have rabies, and about 15% will test positive during an outbreak.
Germain says one possibility for the high amount of rabies cases is a large fox population. It usually follows higher lemming populations, which are prey for foxes to feed on.
While it is extremely unlikely to encounter a moose with rabies, the department advises wearing protective gloves, washing hands and equipment after handling wild game, and cooking wild game to an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
The department asks that if someone does encounter a wild animal exhibiting signs of rabies, or carcasses of wild animals, they contact the state so that they may test for rabies.
“We’re going to begin testing all mammals that come out of Northwest Alaska, and other parts of the endemic region, for fox rabies,” Beckmen said. “So that includes Southwest Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula, and the North Slope. We’ll test all mammals now.”
Fish and Game also advises that vaccinating pets is the best way to protect domesticated animals and the larger community from the rabies virus, as they are much more likely to come in contact with a rabid animal.
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(NewsNation) — After a single-car crash on a Colorado highway, Jacob Paddock-Weeks walked away from his vehicle, apparently unharmed. But four years later, his family is still searching for answers.
Even the joy of a new grandchild is muted for Amanda Weeks, still missing her stepson.
“In my heart, I still believe he’s out there,” Weeks said.
She has refused to give up on Paddock-Weeks, hoping for his return.
On Feb. 2, 2019, the 27-year-old man lost control of his truck on a stretch of Highway 285 in Jefferson County, Colorado.
“Jacob had been going about 80 miles an hour down the mountain, and he hit about 500 feet of the inner guardrail coming down the mountain,” Weeks said.
Witnesses say Paddock-Weeks got out of the truck, seemingly unhurt. He ran across the road and headed east, into the wooded hills. According to an accident report, his wallet, ID and two cellphones were left behind in his vehicle, along with a small bag of drugs.
At the time of the accident, Paddock-Weeks was on probation for several misdemeanor charges, including driving under the influence.
“I think it’s probably more than likely the reason he took off from, walked away from the vehicle, was knowing that he had paraphernalia in there,” Weeks said.
It was the last time anyone saw her stepson. Weeks said police initially thought he made it safely off the mountain, ahead of a massive storm.
“We had the bomb cyclone storm that dumped a lot of snow in the area. We weren’t able to do a search of the area until the beginning of July,” Weeks said.
Still, Amanda and George Weeks have never given up hope, searching the rugged terrain near the accident.
“It’s a very hard area to search with the steep mountains. And then you have to worry about mountain lions and bears,” Weeks said.
The couple keeps hoping one day they’ll get a call from somewhere else, from someone who recognizes Paddock-Weeks’ distinctive tattoos on his arms and calf, a call that will help guide him home.
“In my heart, I hope that one day I get a phone call from Mexico and somebody’s telling me ‘I have your son here, he’s on the phone’ and we get to talk to him but after four years, keeping up that hope is one of the hardest things,” Weeks said.
Anyone with information on Paddock-Weeks disappearance can contact the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department at (303) 271-5195. | 2023-04-12T00:19:21+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/family-searches-for-man-who-disappeared-after-2019-solo-car-crash/ |
Russia launched a rescue ship on Friday for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the International Space Station.
The new, empty Soyuz capsule should arrive at the orbiting lab on Sunday.
The capsule leak in December was blamed on a micrometeorite that punctured an external radiator, draining it of coolant. The same thing appeared to happen again earlier this month, this time on a docked Russian cargo ship. Camera views showed a small hole in each spacecraft.
The Russian Space Agency delayed the launch of the replacement Soyuz, looking for any manufacturing defects. No issues were found, and the agency proceeded with Friday’s predawn launch from Kazakhstan of the capsule with bundles of supplies strapped into the three seats.
Given the urgent need for this capsule, two top NASA officials traveled from the U.S. to observe the launch in person. To everyone’s relief, the capsule safely reached orbit nine minutes after liftoff — “a perfect ride to orbit,” NASA Mission Control’s Rob Navias reported from Houston.
Officials had determined it was too risky to bring NASA’s Frank Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin back in their damaged Soyuz next month as originally planned. With no coolant, the cabin temperature would spike during the trip back to Earth, potentially damaging computers and other equipment, and exposing the suited-up crew to excessive heat.
Until the new Soyuz pulls up, emergency plans call for Rubio to switch to a SpaceX crew capsule that’s docked at the space station. Prokopyev and Petelin remain assigned to their damaged Soyuz in the unlikely need for a fast getaway. Having one less person on board would keep the temperature down to a hopefully manageable level, Russian engineers concluded.
The damaged Soyuz will return to Earth with no one aboard by the end of March, so engineers can examine it.
The three men launched in this Soyuz last September on what should have been a six-month mission. They’ll now stay in space for a full year, until a new capsule is ready for their crew replacements for liftoff in September. It was their Soyuz that just launched with no one on board.
The damaged supply ship was filled with trash and cut loose over the weekend, burning up in the atmosphere as originally planned.
“The Russians are continuing to take a really close look” at both spacecraft leaks, NASA’s deputy space station program manager Dana Weigel told reporters earlier this week. “They’re looking at everything … to try to understand that.”
NASA has a fresh crew of four launching atop a SpaceX rocket early Monday morning from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX’s William Gerstenmaier said the four astronauts returning to Earth in a few weeks already have inspected the Dragon capsule that will carry them home and “it all checked out fine.”
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Millions of Muslims in Indonesia are gearing up to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which is expected to start on Thursday, with traditions and ceremonies across the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country amid soaring food prices.
From colorful torchlight street parades to cleaning relatives’ graves and sharing meals with family and friends, every region in the vast Southeast Asian archipelago seems to have its own way to mark the start of Ramadan, highlighting the nation’s diverse cultural heritage.
The country’s religious affairs minister on Wednesday evening will try to sight the crescent moon to determine the first day of the holy month. If the moon is not visible, as expected, the first day of Ramadan will be a day later. Most Indonesians — Muslims comprise nearly 90% of the country’s 277 million people — are expected to follow the government’s official date.
Indonesia’s second-largest Islamic group, Muhammadiyah, which counts more than 60 million members, said that according to its astronomical calculations Ramadan will begin on Thursday.
During Ramadan, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse from sunrise until sunset. Even a tiny sip of water or a puff of smoke is enough to invalidate the fast. At night, family and friends gather and feast in a festive atmosphere.
The fasting is aimed at bringing the faithful closer to God and reminding them of the suffering of the poor. Muslims are expected to strictly observe daily prayers and engage in heightened religious contemplation. They are also urged to refrain from gossip, fighting or cursing during the holy month.
Although Indonesia has more Muslims than any other country in the world, its Ramadan traditions have been influenced by other religions. Nyadran is a Javanese ritual heavily influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism that involves visiting ancestors’ gravesites to pay respect.
Each year, thousands of villagers who live on the slopes of Mount Merapi in Central Java visit cemeteries to welcome Ramadan. In the ritual, people clean and decorate gravesites and make prayers and offerings. They bring various foods in bamboo containers that they eat together after praying.
In other regions on the main island of Java, including in the capital, Jakarta, Muslims also mark the holy month by cleaning their relatives’ graves, scattering flower petals on them and praying for the deceased.
After evening prayers, many boys and girls across Jakarta parade through the streets of the densely populated neighborhoods to welcome the holy month. They carry torches and play Islamic songs accompanied by the beat of the rebana, the Arabic handheld percussion instrument.
People in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province celebrate the beginning of Ramadan with Meugang festivities by slaughtering animals such as oxen or buffalo, as well as smaller animals like chicken and ducks. The meat is then cooked and shared with family, friends and even the poor and orphans in a communal feast that aims to bring the community together.
Hundreds of residents in Tangerang, a city just outside Jakarta, flock to the Cisadane River to bathe in a tradition that involves washing one’s hair with rice straw shampoo to welcome the holy fasting month with a symbolic spiritual cleansing.
Islam follows a lunar calendar, so Ramadan begins around a week and a half earlier each year. At the end of Ramadan, Muslims celebrate the joyous Eid al-Fitr holiday, when children often receive new clothes and gifts.
Indonesia’s Trade Ministry has said prices of imported staple foods including wheat, sugar, beef and soybeans have increased sharply this year as a result of rising global commodity prices and supply chain disruptions, particularly following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But many people say the rise in prices not only impacts imported foods but also local commodities like rice, eggs, chili, palm oil and onions. Gas and electricity prices have also gone up. Many blame the government for this.
Some Muslims worry how they will cope financially during Ramadan this year.
“Prices are going up every week. How come the government cannot help with this? Anything to do with cooking is rising,” said Yulia Ningsih, a mother of two who lives in Jakarta. “I worry that rising food and energy costs will impact Ramadan celebrations.” | 2023-03-22T20:52:53+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/muslims-in-indonesia-gear-up-for-first-day-of-ramadan/ |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill that would bar transgender people from using public bathrooms or changing their name or gender on their driver's license cleared the GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday by margins suggesting backers could override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s expected veto.
The state Senate voted 28-12 with one vote more than a two-thirds majority that would be needed to overturn any veto, giving final passage to an earlier House-passed version of the legislation and sending it to the governor.
The measure deals with bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities, and defines “sex” as “either male or female, at birth,” a move LGBTQ+-rights advocates said would legally erase transgender people and deny recognition to non-binary, gender fluid and gender non-conforming people.
The sweeping transgender bill, one of the broadest of its kind in the nation, is among several hundred measures aimed at rolling back LGBTQ rights pursued by Republicans this year across the United States.
Seven states elsewhere have enacted laws banning transgender students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms associated with their gender identities, most recently Kentucky. However, the Kansas measure also covers prisons, jails, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters and other spaces “where biology, safety or privacy” prompt separate facilities for men and women. It defines male and female based on a person’s physical anatomy at birth.
“I am what they are scared of,” Ian Benalcazar, a 13-year-old transgender boy from Lawrence in northeast Kansas said at a recent LGBTQ-rights rally outside the Statehouse. “I am a human being and I deserve to be treated as such, and I deserve to be happy. I shouldn’t have to argue for this."
The Kansas bill's supporters framed their measure as a proposed "Women's Bill of Rights," similar to measures introduced in Congress and at least five other states. It was based on language circulated by several national anti-trans groups.
Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, said lawmakers are trying to protect families amid what people see as a small but growing number of cases of transgender girls or women using facilities with cisgendered girls or women.
“People are starting to pay attention,” Masterson said. “There have been enough problems that several members of our body are interested in finding solutions.”
The state Senate vote on Tuesday approved a version of the bill passed by the House last week, advancing it to the governor's desk.
House members included provisions requiring accommodations for some intersex people, who are born with chromosomes, genitalia, or reproductive organs not associated with typical definitions for males or females.
The House vote last month was 83-41, one vote shy of the two-thirds majority necessary to override a veto, but one conservative Republican who is likely to support the bill was absent.
Kelly vetoed a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports this year for the third year in a row. Republican lawmakers in Kansas also are pursuing a bill aimed at stopping gender-affirming care for minors, something at least 11 states have done.
The governor promised LGBTQ youth lobbying lawmakers last week that she would “protect your rights” and "veto any bill that aims to harm or discriminate against you.”
The measure now headed to Kelly would declare that legally, “sex” means “biological” sex, “either male or female, at birth.” It says females have a reproductive system “developed to produce ova,” while males have one “developed to fertilize the ova.”
The measure says having separate spaces for men and women, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, is justified by “the important governmental objectives of protecting the health, safety and privacy.”
“This will protect women's spaces currently reserved for women and and men's spaces currently reserved for men,” House Health Committee Chair Brenda Landwehr, a Wichita Republican, said in explaining her “yes” vote for the bill last week.
Doctors say reproductive anatomy at birth doesn’t always align with strict definitions of sex and that binary views of sexual identity can miss biological nuances.
Carson Rapp, a Wichita-area 15-year-old who identifies as bigender or embracing “both more masculine and more feminine traits," said people expressing their gender identities don't harm others.
“Why stop people from doing it if they’re just being themselves and having fun and expressing themselves?” Carson said during last week's LGBTQ-youth lobbying day.
LGBTQ-rights advocates say having a driver’s license or birth certificate confirm a transgender person’s identity is important by itself but also can prevent daily hassles or harassment. The bill’s language would prevent transgender people from changing both driver's licenses and birth certificates, but Kansas is under a 2019 federal court order to allow birth certificate changes.
Carson's father, Will Rapp, the Kansas managing director for GLSEN, a group advocating for LGBTQ youth, said it's discouraging to see lawmakers pursue what he sees as “pretty awful” legislation.
But he added: “I would like to think that if they were to get to know these young people, that would change their hearts, and we will always have hope for that.”
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ALAMEDA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phocas Financial Corporation ("Phocas"), an employee-owned registered investment adviser specializing in equity REIT and small-cap value equity investing, today issued its Q4 2022 commentary and Q1 2023 REIT investment outlook.
Phocas manages some $750 million, and has managed REIT, Small Cap Value, and Equity Income investment strategies since its founding in 2005. Phocas' Q4 REIT strategy highlights follow.
- Investor concerns about decelerating earnings and softening fundamentals are discounting relatively strong 3Q22 earnings across most real estate sectors and often positive Wall Street views of higher quality names recovering from depressed prices during the quarter.
- Aim to strike a balance between stable/defensive groups such as storage and cell 'phone towers, as well as companies trading at steeper discounts such as offices and select healthcare and retail names.
- Because of rising wages and labor shortages we expect labor pressure to remain a key concern for healthcare and other REITs in 4Q22 and into 2023.
Yolanda Foreman, President of Phocas, said, "Most of us will continue to live, work, shop, use our cell 'phones, and secure our electronic data. These ongoing life activities will continue to present attractive REIT investment opportunities worthy of consideration even by conservative investors."
James Murray, Portfolio Manager, commented on the outlook, "Entering the first quarter of 2023 investors should try to focus their portfolios on companies with attractively valued fundamentals in growth sectors like Health Care and Towers. Regarding REITs being able to adjust pricing rapidly to adapt to inflation, interest rate changes, and perceptions of economic health, consider the speed with which prices of hotel rooms can be changed.
We believe that commercial real estate remains attractive. For example, we continue to believe that Health Care deserves attention due to impacts of the Pandemic, including increased utilization and demand for medical office facilities. For example, dialysis centers in shopping centers can sustain and even boost valuations of retail real estate through increased consumer foot traffic."
Phocas Financial Corporation was founded in 2005 and is based in Alameda, California. The firm is 100% employee-owned. Phocas' partners are William Schaff, Yolanda Foreman, James Murray, Steve Block, and Kevin Granger. The firm manages separate accounts and a mutual fund for institutional investors, investment advisors, and individual investors. Phocas' client roster also includes several managers of managers working on behalf of large investors including significant U.S. public pension plans.
The firm currently manages three strategies: U.S. Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts; U.S. Small Cap Value equities; and U.S. Equity Income which invests in equities, fixed income instruments, and preferred securities. The investment strategies at Phocas are designed to deliver attractive long-term returns with moderate risk and low turnover. Capacity constraint is a core value of Phocas. The team will cap assets under management in each strategy at levels designed to protect their ability to outperform strategy benchmarks for investors.
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ANN ARBOR, MI - You can separate Ann Arbor into two seasons: before and after the Nichols Arboretum peonies bloom.
The flowers in the W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden, established in 1922, typically start to emerge and flourish in late May until mid-June. As the calendar is now in June, the vibrant colors of the rare peony flowers are officially popping. | 2022-06-03T15:01:33+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/06/theyre-in-bloom-rare-peonies-steal-the-show-in-this-michigan-garden.html |
NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandra (Ali) Kavulich has been named Managing Director of 360PR+ New York. Kavulich joined 360PR+ in 2015 and has since overseen client relationships and award-winning integrated campaigns spanning sectors, from travel and food & beverage to home goods and lifestyle brands. As Managing Director, Kavulich will play a broader leadership role for the agency, overseeing clients, employee engagement and operations for 360's New York office. Kavulich will report to 360PR+ Partner and EVP Victoria Renwick.
"Ali has consistently shown herself to be a strategic, trusted partner to 360 clients, an engaged business-builder for the agency and compassionate mentor to our staff," commented Renwick. "We are fortunate to have Ali's leadership of our talented and growing New York team and more broadly across the agency."
One of Kavulich's hallmarks is cultivating long-term relationships. In that vein, she'll continue to lead a portfolio of client accounts, while also focusing on growth opportunities for 360's New York office. Kavulich will partner with other leaders across the 360PR+ family of agencies, including Rob Bratskeir, EVP-General Manager of Three Cheers, and EVP-General Manager Cynthia Ricco of CRC. Three Cheers and CRC are both based in New York.
"360 has given me the opportunity to work with the highest-quality professionals in a culture that's both entrepreneurial and supportive, helping team members reach their fullest potential, and I'm excited to be taking this next step in my career to build on the talent and creative work of our New York office," Kavulich said.
Prior to 360PR+, Kavulich spent time at Octagon, where she led campaigns and prestigious events for luxury brands, including Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America. Kavulich also served as Assistant Vice President, Public Relations and Marketing, for Sotheby's auction house. Kavulich began her career at Rogers & Cowan in New York, working in the agency's entertainment and lifestyle practice for some of the biggest brands in cable TV. Kavulich is a graduate of Georgetown University and a member of the Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance.
About 360PR+
360PR+ is an award-winning, leading independent integrated communications agency recognized for its bold, headline-making, conversation-driving campaigns for some of the most trusted global brands and innovative marketplace challengers. 360PR+ clients include America's Test Kitchen, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Gerber Childrenswear, Harvest Hill Beverage, Hasbro, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), National Geographic, Nintendo of America, Pete & Gerry's Organic Eggs, Riverbend Home, The Rockport Company, Tommee Tippee, Trek Bicycle, United Natural Foods, Inc. and Virgin Airlines, among others. 360PR+ is a certified women-owned business and partner in PROI Worldwide, with reach and expertise in 100+ cities globally. The 360PR+ family of agencies includes 360PR+, CRC and Three Cheers PR.
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Kofa’s Tiernan Nicewander now tied for school’s single-season goal record after six-goal night
YUMA, Ariz., (KYMA, KECY) - On Friday night, Kofa's leading goal-scorer, Tiernan Nicewander, made one step closer to history in an unbelievable performance.
In a 8-0 win over Youngker on Senior Night at Irv Pallack Field, Nicewander netted six straight goals to help the Kings run away with their 13th win of the season and secure the 5A Central Valley Region title.
The sixth goal tying Donal Landrum for the most goals in a season in Kofa boys soccer history.
Nicewander now sits at 34 goals and 78 points on the season, each of those leading all of 5A and 6A. His breakout senior season giving him a total of 52 goals and 123 points in his three-year varsity career.
He will have a chance to break that school record next Thursday night when the Kings travel for the 5A play-in tournament.
If the Kings win, they will advance to the 16-team state tournament - something they haven't done since the 2015-16 season. That year they lost in the state-semifinals to Sunnyslope. | 2023-02-04T16:30:36+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/sports/high-school/2023/02/04/kofas-tiernan-nicewander-now-tied-for-schools-single-season-goal-record-after-six-goal-night/ |
Growing number of key assets in space highlights the importance of working together globally on space
sustainability
MUNICH, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rivada Space Networks has joined the #Astra Carta initiative to accelerate space sustainability. Launched by the Sustainable Markets organization, Astra Carta brings to reality a vision for space sustainability outlined by His Majesty King Charles III, when he was the Prince of Wales, at the UK Government's Summit for Space Sustainability in 2022.
Following the Global Leaders on Space Sustainability Symposium held in London this week, Ann Vandenbroucke, Chief Regulatory Officer at Rivada Space Networks, attended the ceremony at Buckingham Palace where His Majesty King Charles III unveiled the Astra Carta seal to mark the launch of the Sustainable Markets Initiative Astra Carta framework, accelerating space sustainability efforts and goals.
"Rivada Space Networks is proud to be a signatory of the Astra Carta principles. We are committed to holistic space sustainability – from design to operation," Vandenbroucke said. "We are already working with OKAPI:Orbits to provide our constellations with satellite mission-analysis tools and collision avoidance and de-orbiting strategies, demonstrating our commitment to using space responsibly and applying the highest standards in terms of space sustainability and debris mitigation. We welcome this initiative and look forward to working together globally to bring this vision for space sustainability to reality."
With technological progress increasing accessibility and unlocking new use cases, particularly in low earth orbit (LEO), space sustainability is becoming increasingly important to avoid damage to key space infrastructure and to ensure we continue to enjoy the enormous potential of space here on earth.
Rivada Space Networks will soon be launching a first-of-its-kind LEO constellation, which will offer access to a secure satellite network with pole-to-pole reach, with end-to-end latencies similar to or better than terrestrial fiber. Rivada's unique system architecture creates the first true "OuterNET" by combining inter-satellite laser links with advanced onboard data routers to create a global mesh network in space. It will deliver ultra-secure and highly reliable global connectivity for business operations in the telecom, enterprise, maritime, energy and government services markets. The first satellite launch is set for 2025, with global service starting in 2026.
Declan Ganley, CEO, Rivada Space Networks, said: "We are building something unique in low earth orbit, the OuterNET: the first truly private global network on which data travels through space alone to provide ultra secure, highly reliable low latency communications anywhere on the globe." He added: "We will continue to work very closely with the global space community to ensure the responsible use of space and the success of this ground-breaking satellite constellation."
For more information on the Astra Carta, please visit:
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About Rivada Space Networks
Rivada Space Networks GmbH is a disruptive new company set to establish and operate the first true "OuterNET": a global low latency point-to-point connectivity network of LEO satellites. By connecting its satellites with lasers, Rivada Space Networks will provide resellers and B2B customers with the ability to securely connect any two points on the globe with low latency and high bandwidth. The constellations, comprising 600 low-earth-orbit communications satellites, will represent a fundamental change in the availability of secure, global, end-to-end enterprise-grade connectivity for Telecom, Enterprise, Maritime, Energy and Government Services markets. Rivada Space Networks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rivada Networks, Inc. www.rivadaspace.com Follow Rivada Space Networks on:
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Which wholesome holiday ideas for family are best?
For many among us, the holiday season means taking time off from work, school and generally putting our lives on hold to spend time with family and friends.
A lot of time.
Figuring out how to bring everyone together for a pleasant holiday season can be a bit difficult, especially when ages and interests vary greatly.
Take some of that stress off your plate; these are some wholesome family fun ideas you can enjoy with everyone under the same roof.
Candyland Gingerbread House Kit
If creating your own gingerbread house is too much, no shame in that. Opt for this pre-made one that allows you and yours to decorate as you see fit. Plus, it has a Candyland theme that adds a fun twist for any fans of the classic board game.
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For something a little bit in-between, here is a pre-made house that you can decorate with gingerbread, candies and chocolates, and then re-use to make something new all over again. We all know how messy real gingerbread can get; avoid the hassle with this easy-to-decorate candy cottage.
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DIY Christmas Wooden Ornaments
This set of assorted wooden ornaments in holiday shapes will keep your family busy with crafts as you adorn your tree and home. Be sure to grab a set of acrylic paint pens to colorfully and creatively decorate each one.
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Baking is a holiday tradition for many, and this set of holiday-themed cookie cutters is just right for the occasion. For more advanced (or adventurous) bakers, grab these squeeze bottles and frosting dye to make an unforgettable mark on your Christmas treats.
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Engaging, lively and rather straightforward, Bananagrams is the ideal game to have on hand this winter. It requires no accessories other than the included tiles and can support over a dozen players. Just pour out the bag and start creating words!
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Puzzles are an ideal endeavor: they welcome all ages, acumen and have no time constraints or turns. This Polar Express theme fits in with the snowy holiday season, and at 550 pieces, it’s sure to take up a few hours even with many people helping out.
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Churchyard Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle
Here’s a slightly more detailed and Christmas-themed puzzle for the whole family to enjoy if you fancy. It’s especially fun if you open this up on Christmas day and piece together the joyous occasion unfolding before your eyes.
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It’s the season of giving, so help the young ones around embrace the spirit of love and generosity by writing out thank you notes. These cute animal cards will be sure to get them into the habit.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Figurines
You can own and enjoy your own figurines from unquestionably one of the most beloved holiday classics of all time, the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The two-inch collectibles are detailed and cute, even the mighty abominable snowman himself.
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Building a snowman in freshly fallen snow is another beloved holiday tradition. This 14-piece kit gives you all the notable accessories, like a scarf and top hat, to make your snowman iconic. All you need is the snow itself!
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While Monopoly is fun for teens and adults, The Santa Claus Game is perfect for the youngest family members. Play as Santa and move along the board handing out presents and celebrating the spirit of giving.
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These simple, seasonal coloring books are great to keep kids occupied and adults can color alongside them, as the set comes with five different books with winter themes.
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This collection of Christmas stickers is sure to engage young ones without creating a mess for the adults around, and they’re fun to add to a coloring book. The set includes 30 sheets.
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EAU CLAIRE — Spring’s arrival means snow squalls will soon change to rumbles of thunder, and the risk of warm-weather severe weather increases.
While Wisconsin isn’t known for the worst storms, it can certainly have its share of severe events. There were 28 confirmed tornadoes in the state last year. An outbreak on June 15 brought most of them, including one impressive tornado that stayed on the ground for 9.5 miles near Wittenberg.
None of the tornadoes caused injuries or deaths, though, and that’s in large part due to the warnings people received. Radar may be the primary tool for identifying dangerous storms, but eyes on the ground always have a place in the system. That’s why the National Weather Service hosts Skywarn storm spotting classes each spring.
Skywarn is a national program that educates people on what officials need to know for relaying accurate, real-time information when severe weather threatens. The work is especially important for locations some distance from weather radars, when the radar beam may not be able to spot developments at a storm’s lower levels.
Area classes are listed below for the 2023 spring season:
Barron County
2 p.m. April 26
Barron Government Center, 335 E. Moore Ave.
6 p.m. April 26
Barron Government Center, 335 E. Moore Ave.
Chippewa County
7 p.m. April 13
County Courthouse, 711 N. Bridge St., Chippewa Falls.
Eau Claire County
7 p.m. March 29
Commons room of the Energy Education Center, CVTC, 4000 Campus Road, Eau Claire
7 p.m. March 30
Augusta-Bridge Creek Fire Station, 745 Industrial Drive, Augusta
St. Croix County
6 p.m. April 18
Hudson fire station, 2121 Ward Ave.
6 p.m. April 20
Hudson fire station, 2121 Ward Ave.
6 p.m. April 25
Hudson fire station, 2121 Ward Ave.
6 p.m. April 27
Hudson fire station, 2121 Ward Ave.
9 a.m. April 29
St. Croix Co. Government Center, 1752 Dorset Ln., New Richmond
9 a.m. May 6
St. Croix Co. Highway Department, 300 Oak Ridge Parkway, Baldwin
Officials are also hoping to recruit more passive observers for CoCoRaHS, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network. Some 20,000 volunteers nationally work with the network to measure and report precipitation, primarily rain, hail and snow, to build a better picture of what’s happening with the weather.
Reports allow experts to understand the differences between projections for a given storm and what actually happens on the ground. That, in turn, allows for better forecast development. But it depends on a good network. CoCoRaHS is “especially in need of additional precipitation reports across greater Minnesota and western Wisconsin,” the organization said.
All people need is a 4-inch rain gauge and an internet connection. Additional information on joining is available at cocorahs.org. | 2023-03-21T14:12:10+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/daily-updates/nws-seeks-storm-spotters/article_572c8e76-c7e8-11ed-bb92-af52fd3cdb95.html |
(The Hill) – The Biden administration is planning to discharge all outstanding federal student loans borrowed by former Corinthian Colleges students, providing $5.8 billion in loan cancellations to 560,000 borrowers.
The group loan discharge applies to all former students who attended any campus owned or operated by Corinthian Colleges Inc. since the company was founded in 1995 through its closure in 2015.
The Hill first reported earlier on Wednesday that the Biden administration was planning to administer widespread relief for former Corinthian students, citing multiple sources.
Vice President Harris is expected to announce the measure on Thursday.
The Department of Education will notify former students of Corinthian in the coming weeks through a letter, and the actual discharges will follow in the months after. Borrowers will not have to take any actions to receive their discharges, and the discharge will not impact borrowers who have already fully repaid their loans.
“We’ve reached a determination that every borrower who attended Corinthian was subject to illegal conduct at Corinthian and at that point we have a variety of legal authorities available to us to discharge those loans,” a senior administration official said.
Corinthian faced multiple investigations and lawsuits for defrauding students out of millions in federally backed loans. Since Corinthian closed, advocates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have called on the Education Department to provide relief to former students who faced some form of debt collection.
In 2016, when Harris was attorney general in California, her office obtained a $1.1 billion judgment against Corinthian Colleges for “their predatory and unlawful practices.”
Beginning in 2013, she filed suits seeking to stop the practices, which left thousands of students in debt with worthless degrees, alleging that Corinthian intentionally misrepresented information to students about job placement rates and was engaging in deceptive and false advertising and recruitment.
The senior administration official referenced the lawsuit by Harris’s office during her time as attorney general as the reason the college had to declare bankruptcy.
This announcement is the second group discharge from Biden administration’s Education Department. In April, it approved $238 million in loan discharges for former Marinello Schools of Beauty students.
So far, the total amount of loan relief granted by the Biden-Harris administration has grown to $25 billion since January 2021.
“It is hard to overstate how important this announcement is for the borrowers who were defrauded by Corinthian schools,” a senior administration official said. “These people have been in limbo for years, and now they and their families will finally get the relief they deserve.”
“Moving forward, we will continue to ensure that all Americans with federal student loans get the protection and support they deserve to help them achieve the American dream,” the official added.
The White House has indicated that it is nearing a decision on broad student loan debt forgiveness, zeroing in on canceling $10,000 per borrower, but has not said that a decision is finalized.
Several sources told The Hill in late April that Biden was looking to cancel at least $10,000 per borrower, the amount the president had supported canceling in his 2020 campaign, although progressives have called for $50,000 per borrower.
National Economic Council Director Brian Deese on Tuesday told reporters Biden “hasn’t made any decision on that policy” when asked about the president’s potential plan to forgive $10,000 in student debt.
Biden in April extended the pandemic moratorium on federal student loans and interest accrual through August. The pause on student loan payments was first enacted in March 2020 under President Trump and has been extended multiple times since. | 2022-06-02T02:21:28+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/white-house-cancels-5-8b-in-student-loans-tied-to-now-defunct-school/ |
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers staged a protest Friday to condemn the anti-graft agency’s unprecedented probe of a senior judge who convicted former Prime Minister Najib Razak, calling it a threat to judicial independence.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in April launched an investigation of Judge Mohamad Nazlan Mohamad Ghazali, following allegations of an unexplained sum of over 1 million ringgit ($227,000) in his bank account.
Nazlan was the high court judge who sentenced Najib to 12 years in prison in July 2020 for corruption, and later was promoted to the Court of Appeals. Najib is appealing the case in the country’s top court after losing an earlier appeal.
The Bar Council, which organized Friday’s rally, condemned the anti-graft agency for publicly announcing its investigation and naming Nazlan. It said the move was not in accordance with constitutional procedures and could shake confidence in judicial integrity.
“We think that this particular unprecedented way of disclosure of the name of a sitting judge is actually an intimidation against the judiciary,” said bar president Karen Cheah. She said the Bar Council wants the government to preserve and maintain the judicial independence “so that people can be confident in our judiciary system.”
The agency has submitted its findings to the attorney general’s office, which said last month it was still studying the report. Nazlan and the judiciary had denied the “false, baseless and malicious” allegation they said was aimed at tarnishing his credibility and meddling in the powers of the judiciary.
The agency’s public disclosure of its probe with no details of the findings raises questions about its motive while Najib launches the final appeal against his conviction, said lawmaker and lawyer Sivarasa Rasiah, who joined the rally.
He said the Bar Council called for legislative reforms to make the anti-graft agency accountable to Parliament, instead of reporting directly to the prime minister.
Najib also faces several other graft trials linked to the multi-billion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund following his ruling party’s ouster in 2018 general elections. He still remains influential and his Malay party has returned to power amid political maneuvers that saw lawmakers switching allegiance.
Police barred the lawyers, who assembled at a field, to march to nearby Parliament. The rally dispersed peacefully after a deputy minister came to the field to receive a memorandum from the Bar Council. | 2022-06-17T09:44:07+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/malaysia-lawyers-protest-probe-of-judge-who-convicted-ex-pm/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reacting to the tumult and mass layoffs at Twitter under its new owner Elon Musk, a group of Democratic senators on Thursday asked federal regulators to investigate any possible violations by the platform of consumer-protection laws or of its data-security commitments.
The senators also asked Lina Khan, head of the Federal Trade Commission, to take enforcement action if needed against Twitter and company executives for “any breaches or business practices that are unfair or deceptive.”
The FTC said last week it is “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.”
A key focus is the 2011 consent agreement that Twitter signed with the agency, requiring the San Francisco company to address serious data-security lapses. Twitter paid a $150 million penalty in May, several months before Musk’s takeover, for violating the consent order. An updated version established new procedures requiring the company to implement an enhanced privacy-protection program as well as beefing up information security.
Developments on the ground at Twitter have been chaotic, and experts and Twitter employees are warning of serious security risks flowing from the drastically reduced staff and deepening disorder.
In the latest turn, employees faced a 5 p.m. Eastern deadline Thursday to reply to a Musk email asking them to click “Yes” on a link if they want to be part of the “new Twitter.” Those not replying by that time were to receive three months’ severance, according to his email.
Musk, who completed the $44 billion takeover of the company in late October, fired much of its full-time workforce by email early this month and is expected to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs for those responsible for fighting misinformation and other harmful content.
A number of engineers said on Twitter they were fired after saying something critical of Musk, either publicly on Twitter or on an internal messaging board for Twitter employees.
Musk is fundamentally overhauling the offerings of the influential social platform, and it’s not known whether he is telling the FTC about it, as required under the 2011 agreement.
In recent weeks Musk “has taken alarming steps that have undermined the integrity and safety of the platform, and announced new features despite clear warnings those changes would be abused for fraud, scams and dangerous impersonation,” the seven Democratic senators, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, said in a letter to Khan.
“Users are already facing the serious repercussions of this growth-at-all-costs strategy,” they wrote, noting recent incidences of fake accounts impersonating President Joe Biden, lawmakers, athletes, companies and others.
“We are concerned that the actions taken by Mr. Musk and others in Twitter management could already represent a violation of the FTC’s consent decree, which prohibits misrepresentation and requires that Twitter maintain a comprehensive information-security program,” the letter says.
Commenting last week on the developments, the FTC said “No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees. Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them.”
The agency would not say whether it is investigating Twitter for potential violations. If it were, it is empowered to demand documents and depose employees.
FTC officials declined to comment on the senators’ request Thursday.
After the FTC’s warning came to light last week, Musk said “Twitter will do whatever it takes to adhere to both the letter and spirit of the FTC consent decree.”
Also signing the letter to FTC Chair Khan were Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. | 2022-11-18T13:12:37+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-senators-to-ftc-probe-twitter-security-take-needed-action/ |
LA Galaxy (11-11-7, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Dynamo (9-16-6, 13th in the Western Conference)
Houston; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Los Angeles +112, Houston +197, Draw +285; over/under is 3.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Sebastian Ferreira leads the Houston Dynamo into a matchup with the LA Galaxy after a two-goal showing against Nashville.
The Dynamo are 7-12-6 against Western Conference opponents. The Dynamo are ninth in the Western Conference drawing 140 corner kicks, averaging 4.5 per game.
The Galaxy are 8-11-6 against Western Conference opponents. The Galaxy are sixth in the Western Conference allowing only 43 goals.
The matchup Sunday is the second meeting this season between the two teams. The Dynamo won the last game 3-0.
TOP PERFORMERS: Darwin Quintero has eight goals and three assists for the Dynamo. Ferreira has five goals over the past 10 games.
Dejan Joveljic has 10 goals and three assists for the Galaxy. Chicharito has eight goals and two assists over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Dynamo: 3-5-2, averaging 1.4 goals, 3.7 shots on goal and 4.5 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.6 goals per game.
Galaxy: 4-1-5, averaging 2.3 goals, 5.8 shots on goal and 4.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Dynamo: Xavier Valdez (injured), Daniel Steres (injured), Hector Herrera (injured).
Galaxy: Jonathan Perez (injured), Jorge Villafana (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-04-08T09:45:13+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/ferreira-and-the-houston-dynamo-host-the-la-galaxy-17885875.php |
What are the best toys and games to help kids learn about archaeology and history?
After a year-long excavation, Egypt recently unveiled dozens of new archaeological discoveries that will help us not only understand our past, but also how it fits into our world today. Findings include two ancient tombs and a sarcophagus that date between 2500 B.C and 2100 B.C, which may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt thus far.
Groundbreaking discoveries are the perfect way to introduce kids to the world of history and educate them while having fun with STEM toys. If you want to get kids excited about learning, here are the best toys and games so kids can unearth treasures of their own.
The latest Egyptian archaeological discovery
In January 2023, Egypt presented the findings of a year-long excavation led by the director, Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s most renowned archaeologist. Discoveries “were found beneath an ancient stone enclosure near the Saqqara pyramids,” which is part of a sprawling necropolis that includes the Giza Pyramids.
Two tombs were uncovered, one belonging to a priest from the fifth dynasty and the other to a palace official known as “the keeper of the secrets.” The team also found a 15-meter shaft that contained a large limestone sarcophagus belonging to a man named Heka-shepes. At 4,300 years old and completely untouched, it’s expected to be the oldest and most complete mummy to date. Director Hawass said, “I put my head inside to see what was inside the sarcophagus: A beautiful mummy of a man completely covered in layers of gold.” Other findings include statues, amulets and ancient tools.
The importance of STEM toys
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Any toys that provide an educational concept in those fields is considered a STEM toy or game. Many of these toys and games take a hands-on approach and teach kids that they can learn and have fun simultaneously. Examples of STEM toys include fossil-digging kits, board games and LEGOs. In addition to promoting fun learning, STEM toys introduce kids to the world of science, teach problem-solving, improve fine motor skills and enrich creative thinking.
Best kids toys and games about archaeology and history
National Geographic Mega Fossil Dig Kit
Let kids feel like they’re participating in an archaeological discovery while digging into this fossil kit. Kids get to find 15 fossils from around the world, including shark teeth, dinosaur bones, ammonites and coral. The kit comes with everything needed to excavate real fossils, such as a chisel, brush and magnifying glass. Sold by Amazon
XX Egyptian Antique Excavation Dig Kit
For those interested specifically in Egyptian artifacts, consider this antique dig kit packed with one of six unique mummy artifacts. Plus, this pack of six kits provides hours of learning fun and allows kids the opportunity to collect all six surprises. Also included are a chisel and brush. Sold by Amazon
Lonely Planet Kids Build Your Own History Museum
Learn about ancient artifacts, cultures and traditions by building your own history museum. Kids are tasked with assembling the treasures and assigning them to the correct room before the museum’s grand opening. Inside are a Greek temple, Egyptian sarcophagus, Chinese Terracotta Army and a ton of cool facts. Sold by Amazon
Peaceable Kingdom Museum at Midnight
After having a blast completing the puzzle, kids then need to locate the objects and artifacts scattered around the museum. For help, turn off the lights and shine the included blacklight on the puzzle to see which items glow. This game teaches critical thinking, problem-solving and fine motor skills. Sold by Amazon
Underdog Games Trekking the World
Travel around the world without leaving your house, thanks to this educational family board game. Read the card associated with all the wonders of the world to learn amazing facts, such as the Pyramids of Giza, Acropolis of Athens and Niagara Falls. It’s perfect for ages 8 and up. Sold by Amazon
“Archaeology for Kids: Uncovering the Mysteries of Our Past”
In addition to photos and accurate facts about archaeology, this book also contains 25 interesting activities and projects that teach kids how to track soil age by color, how to make a surface survey of a site, how to count tree rings to date a find and much more. Sold by Amazon
Dan & Darci Dig a Dozen Dino Egg Dig Kit
Dig up 12 dinosaur eggs, each with a unique type of dinosaur, from a stegosaurus to a pterodactyl to a tyrannosaurus rex. This kit also comes with 12 learning cards describing the history of each dinosaur, 12 dual-ended chisels and brushes and 12 instruction cards. Sold by Amazon
LEGO Jurassic World T. Rex Dinosaur Fossil Exhibition Building Kit
LEGO kits are excellent STEM toys, and this one is perfect for those who love fossils and history. With 198 pieces, it’s ideal for ages 7 and up to build their own tyrannosaurus rex fossil exhibition and also comes with several mini-figures. Sold by Amazon
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tupperware Brands Corp. (TUP) on Wednesday reported a loss of $35.7 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Orlando, Florida-based company said it had a loss of 80 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs and to account for discontinued operations, were 24 cents per share.
The direct seller of plastic storage containers and cosmetics posted revenue of $313.7 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $14.2 million, or 31 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $1.31 billion.
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Storm-struck California scrambles to clean up ahead of rain
Los Angeles — Storm-ravaged California scrambled to clean up and repair widespread damage on Wednesday as the lashing rain eased in many areas, although the north could see thundershowers and another powerful weather front was expected to hit the state Friday.
At least 17 people have died in the storms battering the state. The figure is likely to rise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday during a visit to the scenic town of Capitola on the Santa Cruz coast that was hard hit by high surf and flooding creek waters last week.
A pickup truck driver and a motorcyclist were killed early Tuesday in the San Joaquin Valley when a tree that had been struck by lightning fell on them, authorities said.
More than half of California’s 58 counties were declared disaster areas, the governor said.
The latest storm that began Monday was one in a series that began late last month and repairing the damage may cost more than $1 billion, said Adam Smith, a disaster expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Crews worked to reopen major highways that were closed by rockslides, swamped by flooding or smothered with mud while more than 10,000 people who were ordered out of seaside towns on the central coast were allowed to return home.
They included Montecito, a wealthy Santa Barbara County community that is home to Prince Harry and other celebrities where 23 people died and more than 100 homes were destroyed in a mudslide five years ago.
Yet thousands of people living near rain-swollen creeks and rivers remained under evacuation orders. In the San Joaquin Valley, raging waters from Bear Creek flooded parts of the city of Merced and neighboring Planada, a small agricultural community along a highway leading to Yosemite National Park.
All 4,000 residents of Planada were ordered to leave Tuesday morning. Neighborhoods were under water with cars submerged up to their roofs. Residents ordered to evacuate carried whatever they could salvage on their backs as they left in the rain.
Other evacuations were ordered because of levee breaches in parts of Monterey County.
The most recent atmospheric river — a long plume of moisture stretching into the Pacific that can drop staggering amounts of rain and snow — have eased in some areas. Light to moderate rain with some thundershowers was forecast to arrive Wednesday in Northern California. A longer storm system was predicted to last from Friday until Jan. 17.
Despite the rain, most of the state remained in extreme or severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
The storms may help locally “but will not resolve the long-term drought challenges,” said Rick Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Damage from the storm included washed-out roads and seaside businesses flooded by 20-foot (6-meter) surf that pounded Santa Cruz County.
Many areas saw unprecedented amounts of rain coupled with furious winds and even hail and lightning that knocked down trees and damaged electrical lines.
More than 75,000 homes and businesses around the state were without power as of late Tuesday night, according to the website Poweroutage.us.
Mudslides damaged some homes in pricey Los Angeles hillside areas, while further up the coast a sinkhole damaged 15 homes in the rural Santa Barbara County community of Orcutt.
Kevin Costner, best-actor winner in a television drama series for “Yellowstone,” was unable to attend Tuesday’s Golden Globe awards in Los Angeles because of the weather. Presenter Regina Hall said he was sheltering in place in Santa Barbara due to flooding.
In San Francisco, a tree fell on a commuter bus on Tuesday without causing injuries and lightning struck the city’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid building without damage. High winds also ripped away part of the roof on a large apartment building.
Some people found themselves stranded in small communities inundated with water and mud.
“We’re all stuck out here,” Brian Briggs said, describing a scary night during which the deluge unleashed mudslides in remote Matilija Canyon that buried one house and cut off the only road to nearby Ojai. The canyon creek began to flood yards and the surrounding hills, which were stripped of vegetation in the 2017 Thomas Fire, began to tumble down in the dark.
Mudflows dragged sheds, gazebos and outhouses into the creek, Briggs said. After helping neighbors get to higher ground, he returned home to find his fence destroyed by waist-deep mud.
A helicopter dropped 10 sheriff’s deputies Tuesday to help the residents of dozens of canyon homes.
The wet and blustery weather left California’s large homeless population in a precarious situation. At least two homeless people in Sacramento County died and more than a dozen people were rescued from a homeless encampment on the Ventura River.
Theo Harris, who has lived on San Francisco's streets since 2016, fortified his shelter with tarps and zip ties Tuesday and took in his girlfriend after her tent flooded.
“The wind has been treacherous, but you just got to bundle up and make sure you stay dry,” Harris said. “Rain is part of life. It’s going to be sunny. It’s going to rain. I just got to strap my boots up and not give up.” | 2023-01-11T13:54:04+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/11/storm-struck-california-scrambles-to-clean-up-ahead-of-rain/69797601007/ |
SOONER OF THE CENTURY. O U’S BIGGEST FAN TURNS 104 TOMORROW. BUT THE NAVY CHIEF’S BIRTHDAY PARTY WAS TODAY WHERE HIS FRIENDS, FAMILY AND FAVORITE SCHOOLS CELEBRATED HIM WITH GIFTS WORTHY OF A VETERAN AND A FOOTBALL SIGNED BY OUR BRAND NEW YOU COACH BRANT VENABLE. OH, IT’S NOT EVERY DAY YOU TURN 104. SO WHEN THE DAY CAME FOR A WELL KNOWN VETERAN, IT HAD TO BE SPECIAL. WHEN WHITE. OH, THANK YOU, ALAN. ALAN. AND WAS A NAVY CHIEF DURING WORLD WAR TWO. HE’S BEEN IN SERVICE IN USS SEAHORSE, ONE OF THE FIRST SUBMARINES TO RESPOND TO PEARL HARBOR. AND WE DIDN’T KNOW DAD WAS A HERO. IT WAS ONLY LATER IN LIFE THAT I BEGAN TO LOOK INTO HIS SERVICE DAYS. AND AS WE THANKED HIM FOR HIS SERVICE. TEARS CAME TO HIS EYES. THINK, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, PAPA WAS THE PATRIOT OF THE GAME AT ONE OF THE FOOTBALL GAMES. IT WAS REALLY SPECIAL. HIS LOVE FOR YOU STARTED BACK IN COLLEGE WHERE HE GRADUATED WITH HIS MASTER’S IN EDUCATION. HE’D GO ON TO BE A PRINCIPAL AT MARK TWAIN ELEMENTARY FOR 20 YEARS. WELL, I DON’T DESERVE ALL THIS LITTLE. I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I THANK YOU AND FOR HIS YEARS AS A MENTOR FOR IT WAS ALL WORTHWHILE. WHEN I TELL YOU, YOU GOT BLACK. AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. AS A LIFELONG SUPER FAN, IT’S NOT HARD TO GUESS WHAT HIS 104TH BIRTHDAY WISH WAS. OF ALL THE. REPORTING IN NORMA
WWII veteran, lifelong college football fan turns 104
As a lifelong Oklahoma Sooners football fan, it's not hard to guess what his 104th birthday wish was – a win.
Updated: 1:01 PM EDT Oct 7, 2022
It's not every day you turn 104. So, when the day came for Oklahoma World War II veteran Allen Vann, it had to be special.Vann was a Navy chief during WWII. He spent his service on the USS Seahorse, which was one of the first submarines to respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor."We didn't know dad was a hero," Daniel Vann, his son, said. "It was only later in life that I began to look into his service days."As everyone thanked Allen for his service during a birthday party Thursday, tears came to his eyes."Last year, Papa was the 'Patriot of the Game' at one of the football games. It was really special," Marsha Vann, his daughter-in-law, said.Allen's love for OU started back in college. He graduated with a master's in education, and he went on to be a principal at Mark Twain Elementary School for 20 years."I don't deserve all this, but I want you to know that I thank you," Allen said. "Those years I spent in the service, it was all worthwhile when I take a look at you. God bless you, and keep up the good work."As a lifelong OU fan, it's not hard to guess what his 104th birthday wish was."Above all, beat Texas," Allen said. One of OU's mascots, as well as cheerleaders and RUF/NEKS, OU's spirit squad, attended Allen's birthday party.
NORMAN, Okla. — It's not every day you turn 104. So, when the day came for Oklahoma World War II veteran Allen Vann, it had to be special.
Vann was a Navy chief during WWII. He spent his service on the USS Seahorse, which was one of the first submarines to respond to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"We didn't know dad was a hero," Daniel Vann, his son, said. "It was only later in life that I began to look into his service days."
As everyone thanked Allen for his service during a birthday party Thursday, tears came to his eyes.
"Last year, Papa was the 'Patriot of the Game' at one of the [Oklahoma University] football games. It was really special," Marsha Vann, his daughter-in-law, said.
Allen's love for OU started back in college. He graduated with a master's in education, and he went on to be a principal at Mark Twain Elementary School for 20 years.
"I don't deserve all this, but I want you to know that I thank you," Allen said. "Those years I spent in the service, it was all worthwhile when I take a look at you. God bless you, and keep up the good work."
As a lifelong OU fan, it's not hard to guess what his 104th birthday wish was.
"Above all, beat Texas," Allen said.
One of OU's mascots, as well as cheerleaders and RUF/NEKS, OU's spirit squad, attended Allen's birthday party. | 2022-10-07T17:43:07+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/oklahoma-norman-wwii-veteran-turns-104/41559063 |
DUBAI, UAE, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Around two-thirds of young Arabs (60%) say that relations between Iran and Israel and the West will deteriorate into military conflict. Many expect the Iranian regime to become even more authoritarian in the future, with nearly a third saying Iran will experience more civil unrest and possibly a coup.
The findings this year also highlight the shifting geopolitical allegiances in the Arab world, with the region's youth saying they view Turkey and China as stronger allies of their country than traditional powers such as the United States and Russia.
These are some of the key insights from the landmark 15th annual ASDA'A BCW Arab Youth Survey, unveiled today by ASDA'A BCW, the Middle East & North Africa's leading communications consultancy. The survey is the largest study of its kind of MENA's largest demographic, its 200 million plus youth. This year's findings show young Arab men and women 'Living a New Reality', the overarching theme of the 2023 survey.
ASDA'A BCW commissioned SixthFactor Consulting, a leading research company, to conduct face-to-face interviews with 3,600 Arab citizens aged 18 to 24 in their home nations from March 27 to April 12, 2023. The largest sample in the survey's history was equally divided between men and women in 53 cities across a total of 18 Arab states, including for the first time South Sudan.
The 75-year Palestinian-Israeli conflict won't be resolved soon
Arab youth are pessimistic about the prospects for peace in the Palestinian Territories, with most surveyed saying the 75-year conflict between Palestinians and Israelis won't be resolved within the next five years.
Moreover, nearly four in 10 (39%) young Arabs overall believe that with rising national priorities, the conflict does not receive adequate attention from the Arab world, rising to more than half (51%) in the Levant region, which includes the Palestinian Territories.
A divergence of views on closer ties with Israel
When young Arabs were asked whether they supported or would endorse their government's decision to normalise diplomatic ties with Israel, three-quarters (75%) in the UAE, a signatory of the Abraham Accords, said they supported normalisation. A third in Bahrain, the first country to sign the agreement, said the same. In Sudan, however, the fourth Arab nation to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel, 94% oppose it.
Shifting geopolitical allegiances
Among non-Arab nations, 82% of Arab youth named Turkey as a 'strong ally' or 'somewhat of an ally of their country', followed by China (80%), the United Kingdom (79%), Germany (78%) and France (74%). The US ranked seventh, with 72% votes, just below India at 73%. Russia, a top-three ally in last year's study, now ranks in ninth place, rated as an ally by 63% of respondents, below Pakistan (69%).
At the same time, they say the US continues to exert the most influence in the Arab world. However, most would like the US to be less involved in Middle Eastern affairs, with nearly two-thirds saying they 'strongly or somewhat support' US disengagement from the region.
Views on 'model nations'
For the 12th consecutive year since young Arabs were asked to name the countries they consider 'model nations', they have said the UAE is the country they would most like to live in and the one they would most like their own to emulate.
Nearly one in four Arab youth (24%) named the UAE as the country they would most like to live in, followed by the US (19%), Canada (19%), Qatar (14%) and the UK (13%). The UAE was also named the country most Arab youth want their own to emulate, again for the 12th straight year. The UAE was identified by 22% of young Arab men and women overall, ahead of the US (19%), Canada (16%), Qatar (15%) and Saudi Arabia and the UK in joint fifth place (11%).
Sunil John, President, MENA, BCW and Founder of ASDA'A BCW, who has led the survey over the past 15 years, said: "The annual ASDA'A BCW Arab Youth Survey has proven to be an indispensable resource for global decision makers in government and business seeking a clearer understanding of a region that is increasingly influential in world affairs, yet still an enigma for many. Once again, the study sheds new light on the Arab world's changing geopolitical landscape."
In the coming weeks, ASDA'A BCW will publish insights under the other five themes covered in the study: My Politics, My Livelihood, My Identity, My Aspirations, and My Lifestyle. To know more about the findings, log on to arabyouthsurvey.com
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6 a.m. — TENNIS — Next Gen ATP Finals Round Robin; Billie Jean King Cup Finals Group Stage: U.S. v. Poland, Switzerland v. Italy, Belgium v. Slovakia, Spain v. Kazakhstan | 2022-11-09T01:54:08+00:00 | heraldcourier.com | https://heraldcourier.com/sports-on-tv/article_b7e9fa7e-5fbe-11ed-91b4-cf4e8541e37a.html |
Constance Sue (Cole) Scigliano 1964-2023 Constance Sue (Cole) Scigliano died March 3, 2023, from complications arising from Posterior Cortical Atrophy. Connie was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Salmeri and the late Jesse Cole. She spent her early years on the family ranch, west of Cheyenne. Connie later graduated from Laramie High School, attended the University of Wyoming, and earned a bachelor's degree in wildlife management. She later earned a master's degree in Adult Education. While at the university, she met Bruce Scigliano and the couple married in 1989. The pair made their home in Gillette. While in Gillette, Connie was the local 4-H agent and later became a juvenile probation officer. When Bruce was transferred to Sheridan, Connie continued to work in Gillette, positively influencing many young lives. In 2000, Connie and Bruce hosted Niels Raue, a German foreign exchange student. Niels became the son the couple longed for, and he and his family brought much joy to Connie. Connie was larger than life. There was never a doubt that she had entered a room, for her laughter was more than enough to fill any space. Connie was full of life, laughter and love. Politely described as strong-willed, she was a formidable adversary and steadfast ally. Connie was surrounded by many loving friends. She loved to travel and visited many foreign countries, including Finland to visit her good friend, Hely. Her favorite journey was to Africa, accompanying Sandy Daly. Connie was preceded in death by her father; her sister, Tina Marie; her beloved Uncle Bill, and Zeb (Rat Dog). She is survived by her husband of 33 years, Bruce; her mother, Elizabeth Salmeri; brother, Silas Cole; sister, Celine Barbour; brother-in-law, Jon Barbour; Niels and Jeannette Raue; their children, Josephina, Carla and Felix; Brother-in-law, Stephen (Susan)Scigliano; Brother-in-law, David Scigliano (Nancy); Father-in-law, Alfred Scigliano; Nieces, Elizabeth, Carly, Shawna and Lindsay; Nephews, Michael, Scott, and Steven; many cousins; and her good and faithful caregiving friends, Robin Schilling, Misty Plott, and Jackie Dygert. A celebration of life will be held July 8, 2023, at the Story Women's Club, between the hours of 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM. A memory hike will be held the following day. Donations in memory of Connie may be made to The Hub on Smith- Dementia Care Department, 211 Smith Street, Sheridan Wyoming, 82801 or Campbell County 4-H Council, 412 South Gillette Ave. Gillette, WY 82716 The family wishes to thank Doctor Laura Ferries and the staff of Westview Health Care Center for their loving and compassionate care of Connie during the last two years. Champion Funeral Home has been entrusted with local arrangements. Online condolences may be written at www.championfh.com.
To plant a tree in memory of Constance Scigliano as a living tribute, please visit Tribute Store. | 2023-03-08T01:16:43+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/milestones/obituaries/scigliano-constance-sue/article_746db51a-ca8d-5451-a209-5bae50b41f76.html |
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — After a dominant win, with a dose of luck, Sergio Pérez seems increasingly like a Formula One title contender.
Red Bull’s status as the leading team isn’t in doubt but now it’s 2-2 on wins between Pérez and his teammate Max Verstappen and the Dutchman’s lead is down to six points.
“Well done guys, we dominated this weekend,” Pérez told his team over the radio. “We are in the fight, guys.”
Pérez took advantage of a fortunately timed safety car to beat Verstappen to the victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday, adding it to the sprint he secured the day before, as Red Bull kept up its winning start to 2023.
In what the stewards called a “very dangerous situation” near the end of the race, a group of people including photographers had to run out of the way as Esteban Ocon came into pit on his second-to-last lap.
Pérez took the lead when he managed to save time pitting during a safety car period after Verstappen had come in a lap earlier. The two didn’t fight for position after that, but Pérez said they “pushed to the maximum” as he fought to keep the lead. Both Pérez and Verstappen clipped the track wall at different times.
Verstappen started second behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc but swept past him on the long start-finish straight at the end of lap 3, the first lap on which drivers were allowed to use the DRS overtake assist system on the rear wing.
It was a copy of the pass Pérez made on Leclerc on his way to winning the sprint race Saturday. After Verstappen took the lead Sunday, Pérez needed only two more laps for his own similar pass on Leclerc to seize second. It was a powerful illustration of Red Bull’s unbeatable race setup after Leclerc had signaled a minor resurgence for Ferrari by taking pole position for both the sprint and main race.
Pérez benefited when an accident by Nyck de Vries brought out the safety car after the AlphaTauri slid off the track with a broken suspension, just after Verstappen had pitted from the lead. The safety car meant Pérez and Leclerc lost less time on their stops and came out ahead of Verstappen. The Dutch driver said he wanted Red Bull to review “if there was anything we could have done different” on the call to pit, since de Vries had already stopped before Verstappen came in.
After that, the two Red Bull drivers pulled away from the pack in a straightforward win. Red Bull has won all four Grands Prix this season and the sprint in Baku on Saturday. Leclerc was third to continue his recovery after a poor start to the year and said the Red Bulls had been “in another league” for race pace.
Pérez is the only driver to win in Baku more than once and has four podium finishes in his last five races there. The Mexican driver joked he had won “two and a half” times in Azerbaijan including Saturday’s sprint.
Verstappen accepted it just hadn’t been his day and was a calmer figure than on Saturday, when he confronted George Russell over a first-lap collision in the sprint.
“Checo (Pérez) and I, we’re having a good time,” Verstappen said. “You need to acknowledge and also appreciate when somebody has done a great job.” Pérez added there is a “very high level of respect” between the two as they fight for the championship lead.
Fernando Alonso finished in fourth place, showing strong pace for Aston Martin after issues in qualifying on Friday, ahead of Carlos Sainz, Jr. for Ferrari and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, who recovered after losing out in the safety car period like Verstappen.
The second Aston Martin of Lance Stroll took seventh ahead of Hamilton’s teammate George Russell, with McLaren’s Lando Norris and AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda ninth and 10th, respectively.
The race stewards summoned FIA staff overseeing the pit lane over the incident involving Ocon. It appeared on TV broadcasts that the staff were leading a group of photographers across the pit lane toward the pit wall ahead of the expected finish of the race and were surprised when Ocon drove into the pit lane.
“We considered that it was fortunate that there were no serious consequences on account of what happened today. We stressed that the requirements of ensuring a safe and orderly event are paramount. This was acknowledged by the FIA team,” the stewards wrote, adding that the FIA pledged to review its procedures.
It was the second potentially dangerous incident in as many races after fans climbed security barriers at the Australian Grand Prix while cars were still on track.
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-01T13:20:41+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/perez-beats-verstappen-to-win-azerbaijan-grand-prix/ |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
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¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | 2022-11-30T03:48:28+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17619759.php |
The House on Tuesday voted in favor of preventing the Consumer Product Safety Commission from banning gas stoves and also limiting the safety agency’s ability to regulate the products.
Tuesday’s 248-180 vote comes after the legislation was put on the backburner last week after conservative Republicans decided to block floor action — putting the House floor in a state of paralysis and raising questions about Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) ability to control his conference.
The GOP conservatives joined Democrats to block a rule bringing the bill to the House floor last week. Rule votes are typically party-line votes and it was the first time in more than 20 years that a majority party in the House had lost a rule vote. Rules are necessary to govern House votes under the rules of the chamber unless a bill is brought to the floor under suspension of House rules. Doing so requires a supermajority.
On Monday, the conservative defectors announced they would stop blocking floor votes for now as they look to gain more power from party leadership and cut spending.
The gas stove vote comes after the suggestion of a ban sparked a firestorm in Washington. Republicans have sought to draw attention to the issue.
The legislation is unlikely to be taken up by the Democratically-led Senate. The White House said that it opposes the legislation, but has stopped short of a veto threat.
A total of 29 Democrats voted with Republicans in favor of the bill.
The House on Tuesday also approved an amendment from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) that expanded the legislation beyond stoves, making the restrictions apply to commission bans on any type of appliance based on its fuel source.
Nevertheless, gas stoves have recently been a hot topic in Washington.
Consumer Product Safety Commission member Richard Trumka Jr., a Biden appointee, made headlines earlier this year when he suggested that a ban for new gas stoves could be on the table. Republicans seized on his remark and have sought to play up the issue as an example of Democratic overreach into Americans’ lives.
Amid the backlash, key figures, including commission Chairman Alexander Hoehn-Saric, also a Biden appointee, said he did not want to ban gas stoves and the agency wasn’t poised to do so.
The commission appears to be unlikely to actually ban the gas stoves, but has signaled it could seek to impose some regulations upon them.
The bill approved by the House on Tuesday not only says that the Consumer Product Safety Commission cannot ban the products, it also bars the agency from imposing other safety standards that increase their costs.
Other solutions to the health issues that have been linked to gas stoves are not a ban but rather ther measures like performance standards.
Abe Scarr, director of the Illinois Public Interest Research group, which is part of a national network of organizations that advocate on environment and public health issues, acknowledged in an email to The Hill that mandating performance standards could increase prices. It’s possible that this type of measure would be barred under the legislation.
Generally, left-wing groups have expressed concerns about gas stoves because they have been linked to childhood asthma and have been found to leak chemicals like the carcinogen benzene.
Tuesday’s vote is the first of two the House is slated to take related to the gas stoves issue. The chamber is also expected to take up another bill that would block an Energy Department proposal with efficiency requirements for various cooking appliances including some gas stoves.
The 29 Democrats who crossed party lines to vote for the bill were: Reps. Colin Allred (Texas), Ami Bera (Calif.), Nikki Budzinski (Ill.), Yadira Caraveo (Colo.), Steve Cohen (Tenn.), Angie Craig (Minn.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Danny Davis (Ill.), Donald Davis (N.C.), Lizzie Fletcher (Texas), Sylvia Garcia (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Josh Harder (Calif.), Jahana Hayes (Conn.), Steven Horsford (Nev.), Jeff Jackson (N.C.), Greg Landsman (Ohio), Susie Lee (Nev.), Kathy Manning (N.C.), Jared Moskowitz (Fla.), Jimmy Panetta (Calif.), Mary Peltola (Alaska), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Terri Sewell (Ala.), Eric Sorensen (Ill.), Greg Stanton (Ariz.), Gabe Vasquez (N.M.), and Marc Veasey (Texas). | 2023-06-13T23:40:12+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/house-votes-to-restrict-feds-from-banning-or-regulating-gas-stoves/ |
BUFFALO – A winter storm forecasters say could bring 65 mile-per-hour wind gusts, lake effect snow, whiteout conditions and flash freezing to the region this weekend forced the NHL to postpone Friday’s Sabres game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at KeyBank Center.
The game will be made up at 12:30 p.m. on March 4. The Sabres’ home game against the Philadelphia Flyers originally slated for that date has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. on Jan. 9.
Friday’s game was the Sabres’ last before the league’s three-day Christmas break. They don’t play again until Tuesday’s road contest against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The NHL, of course, rarely postpones games so far in advance, but the league clearly didn’t want to risk the Lightning getting stuck in Buffalo over the holiday break.
Tampa Bay was supposed to fly to Buffalo after finishing a back-to-back road set Wednesday against the Detroit Red Wings.
The postponement is ill-timed for the surging Sabres, who have won four straight contests and just concluded a three-game road trip. They last played Monday, beating the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2.
According to the National Weather Service, the storm will have “major impacts” in and around Buffalo and driving conditions will be “dangerous or impossible.” | 2022-12-22T03:32:17+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sabres-lightning-postponed-due-to-pending-winter-storm/article_e78ed210-819a-11ed-966f-37c45727ef2d.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Dave Hawley arrived at Wichita Collegiate School in the mid-1970s. He led the Spartans to their first state championship in tennis in 1976.
After 37 years and 58 state titles, Coach Hawley is retiring this spring with more state championships under his belt than any coach in any other sport in Kansas state high school history.
It’s not often you come across a sports complex named for an active coach. Then again, Hawley is more than a tennis coach.
“It’s not just Dave the tennis coach. He also teaches history here in the middle school. Does a fabulous job there. He’s well-respected in every facet of our school community,” said Wichita Collegiate Athletic Director Mitch Fiegel.
Coach Hawley is an institution at Collegiate and a legend in the tennis community. His Spartan girls and boys teams have combined to win 59 state championships. He’s coached 35 singles state champs and 47 more doubles state champions.
Hawley says he realized last fall that it’s time to retire.
“Ready to let somebody else do it. It’s been a wonderful ride. It’s a good time and a good opportunity. You’ve got kids coming in both programs. So, the cupboards are full, and it’s a good time for somebody else to step in and really take over the reins,” said Hawley, who started teaching at Collegiate at the age of 24.
Hawley says during his first few years at Collegiate, he looked around for other jobs, but the longer he stayed.
“The more I fell in love with it. All three of my kids went to school here. I have five grandkids here now. Will have six in the fall and one in another three years,” said Hawley. “It’s been wonderful having them here. So, it’s just become another extension of our family. A very deep part of our family.”
Fiegel has known Coach Hawley for 34 years.
“The most impressive thing about Dave is his work ethic. I think a lot of people think just because Dave’s been here at a private school that, these tennis players just roll in. And you know what? They do, but Dave creates those players,” he said.
So, what’s the secret behind Collegiate’s tennis legacy?
“I think the fact years ago, we built a culture for tennis. And the fact I’ve run a summer program for 40 years where we get little kids on the court, and we’ll introduce them to tennis. And then I think a big part of it really is Wichita. Wichita is a tennis town,” said Hawley.
Rather than talk about his 59 state championship teams, Coach Hawley prefers to give credit to all his players through the years.
“I mean, the titles are wonderful, and I know they’re meaningful to the school. They’re meaningful to me. Meaningful to the kids, but the bigger picture to me is just being around amazing people,” explained Hawley.
“You know, state championships. You don’t just stumble into those. You work. You manufacture them. He’s proven to have the ability to do that better than anybody in the state for a long time,” added Fiegel.
“I give God all the glory for putting me here and giving me a chance to grow as a coach. To meet kids, be with kids who are industrious and families who are supportive. All of that is a big part of it,” said Hawley. “I’ve been blessed. Incredibly blessed to have that.”
The current boys’ tennis team would like nothing more than to send Coach Hawley into retirement with his 60th state championship. The Class 3-1A State Tournament is May 12-13 at Wichita Collegiate.
While Hawley plans to retire from varsity coaching, he plans to continue to teach middle school history and coach the middle school tennis team for one more year. | 2023-04-20T00:06:12+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/local-sports/collegiate-tennis-head-coach-to-retire-as-winningest-coach-in-kansas-high-school-history/ |
Which popular LeapFrog toys are best?
LeapFrog is a brand known for their interactive learning toys. It has produced plenty of fun and engaging educational products for kids over the years, but which ones have parents been most eager to get their hands on lately? Well, that depends on the subject. LeapFrog makes toys for reading, counting and so on. Broken down by those subjects, here are the most popular LeapFrog toys you can buy online now.
What is LeapFrog?
LeapFrog is a company that specializes in educational toys for children ranging from infants to first graders. LeapFrog toys combine education and play with technology and tactile components for an immersive learning experience. They produce interactive learning games, books and even stuffed animals.
How much do LeapFrog toys cost?
While some LeapFrog toys cost fewer than $15, most start at around $20 and can go up to around $50.
LeapFrog counting and numbers toys
LeapFrog Scout’s Learning Lights Remote Deluxe
What you need to know: Available in green or pink, this learning remote helps children 6 months to 3 years old learn numbers and shapes.
What you’ll love: It features LeapFrog’s “Scout” character as it goes through shapes, numbers and even weather. There’s music and songs plus the remote lights up.
What you should consider: Demo batteries are included, but you will need to get three fresh AAA batteries for use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
LeapFrog Chat and Count Smart Phone
What you need to know: This chat and count phone comes in two colors, providing music and number activities for children 18 months to 3 years old.
What you’ll love: The “phone” is perfect for little hands and has clear, big number buttons for easy use. A digital Scout or Violet dog will count along with kids as they learn their numbers.
What you should consider: The volume is on the quiet side, which can be frustrating. Demo batteries do come included, but you’ll need three fresh AAA batteries for use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: Here is a little toy oven offered in two colors for kids, focusing on counting and pretend-play for kids between the ages of 2 and 5.
What you’ll love: The oven comes with 16 ingredients and accessories for “baking” different dishes. Counting, time and even temperature are explored through play pretend.
What you should consider: Demo batteries included, but three fresh AAA batteries will be required.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
LeapFrog Count Along Cash Register
What you need to know: This green cash register comes with toy money and groceries so children 2 years old and up can practice counting, selling and buying.
What you’ll love: The register counts, talks and even sings. Kids can insert the coins in a count-along coin slot while playing grocery store, making for a fun, educational and immersive experience.
What you should consider: The cash register drawer can jam if overfilled. Demo batteries included, but three fresh AAA batteries will be needed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
LeapFrog reading and writing toys
LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter Set
What you need to know: This set comes with 26 alphabet tiles for the refrigerator as well as a tile reader in yellow or pink so kids 2 to 5 years old can learn each letter one by one.
What you’ll love: The set promotes phonics and fine motor skills as well as vocabulary and coordination. There are also fun songs that can be activated with the different letters.
What you should consider: There aren’t too many features with this toy, and the letters don’t come with a storage back. Three AAA batteries are required but are not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: Available in two colors, this toy laptop is a fun computer introduction that helps teach letters and spelling for children between the ages of 2 and 4 years old.
What you’ll love: There are four different learning modes and 16 songs/melodies. Kids can pretend to send emails and learn how to spell their own names as well as animal names.
What you should consider: Screen brightness is not adjustable, and the set requires three AAA batteries that do not come included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: This 11-inch tall plush Scout character stuffed animal is a snuggly dog with tons of songs and activities for kids 6 months to 3 years old.
What you’ll love: Scout is soft and comforting, with over 40 songs and melodies for children to learn. The activities help teach kids words as well as how to express emotion.
What you should consider: You will need to get three AA batteries, as they do not come included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Kohl’s and Bed Bath & Beyond
LeapFrog Mr. Pencil’s Scribble and Write
What you need to know: Mr. Pencil is designed for kids 3 to 7 years old and helps them learn how to trace and write letters.
What you’ll love: This toy is great for learning how to spell and matching sounds with letters. There’s a screen for tracing and a smiling pencil stylus. Two AA batteries come included.
What you should consider: The screen is a little dark and can be difficult to see.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
LeapFrog toys that cover lots of subjects
LeapFrog Learn and Groove Caterpillar Drums
What you need to know: This drum set is shaped like a friendly caterpillar and is designed to teach music, counting and songs to kids 6 months to 3 years old.
What you’ll love: Children can follow along or make up their own songs. The caterpillar features bright colors and lights plus wiggly feet.
What you should consider: Demo batteries come included but two fresh AA batteries will be required.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
LeapFrog LeapStart Preschool Success
What you need to know: LeapStart helps kids 3 to 7 years old learn reading, counting, problem-solving and more through booklets and an interactive stylus.
What you’ll love: The featured activities usually have multiple levels and are perfect for getting kids ready for preschool through the first grade. There’s audio and colorful imagery to help maximize engagement. Two AA batteries come included.
What you should consider: A computer and internet connection are required for all downloads, and if this is being given as a gift, it’s probably best to do all downloading before giving it to the recipient to save time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
LeapFrog RockIt Twist Handheld Learning Game System
What you need to know: Here is a handheld gaming system available in green or pink that is designed for kids 4 to 8 years old.
What you’ll love: There are great tactile features like dials and buttons. Kids can “grow” three virtual pets and play a variety of corresponding games and puzzles. This game promotes literacy, numbers skills and creative thinking. Rechargeable batteries come included.
What you should consider: It might be a redundant and limited toy if the child already has an iPad or tablet.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Rossen Reports: These groceries could disappear from shelves
Rossen Reports: These groceries could disappear from shelves
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Rossen Reports: These groceries could disappear from shelves
Grocery prices are way up — and experts say don’t plan on them coming down anytime soon. Now, there's more that we have to be worried about, including shortages. Due to supply chain problems, bad weather, etc., grocery shoppers can expect looming shortages and gaps on store shelves.Chief National Consumer Correspondent Jeff Rossen is breaking down some of the foods experts say we should be concerned about right now.Watch the full report in the video player above. Here are some tips to beat rising grocery prices and looming shortages: Use your freezer: Buying in bulk doesn't just have to be for nonperishable items. If you have freezer space; meat, bread and cheese can be bought and stored in the freezer for up to three months.Best products to buy in bulk: Rice, dry beans, cereal, canned goods, household and cleaning supplies, toiletries, diapers and beverages stored at room temperature. Just buy two: If you’re not ready to purchase things in bulk, just try buying two at a time to beat potential shortages. Be organic smart: Not everything needs to be organic, especially because it's more expensive. The Environmental Working Group has a Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Researchers measure the amount of pesticide residue left behind on conventionally grown produce. They say it isn’t necessary to buy the following things organic because they have low levels of pesticide residue; Avocados, sweet corn, onions, eggplant, asparagus, broccoli, pineapple, kiwi, cauliflower, mushrooms, honeydew melon and cantaloupe.Sign up for loyalty programs: Most grocery stores offer loyalty programs that are free to join. You can benefit from discounts that automatically get applied to your cart at checkout or you can get access to exclusive coupons on their apps.Buy generic: Generic and store brands are often less expensive and taste just as good.Buy local: If you're having trouble finding things at the larger chain grocery stores, try going to local supermarkets to see what kind of supplies they have available. Use a rebate app: There are shopping apps that give you cash back for buying groceries. You can register for free, too. Depending on the app, you may need to link a loyalty card or submit receipts to receive a rebate. Some of the ones we've tested and seen money back with are Ibotta, Rakuten and Fetch.
Grocery prices are way up — and experts say don’t plan on them coming down anytime soon. Now, there's more that we have to be worried about, including shortages.
Due to supply chain problems, bad weather, etc., grocery shoppers can expect looming shortages and gaps on store shelves.
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Chief National Consumer Correspondent Jeff Rossen is breaking down some of the foods experts say we should be concerned about right now.
Watch the full report in the video player above.
Here are some tips to beat rising grocery prices and looming shortages:
- Use your freezer: Buying in bulk doesn't just have to be for nonperishable items. If you have freezer space; meat, bread and cheese can be bought and stored in the freezer for up to three months.
- Best products to buy in bulk: Rice, dry beans, cereal, canned goods, household and cleaning supplies, toiletries, diapers and beverages stored at room temperature.
- Just buy two: If you’re not ready to purchase things in bulk, just try buying two at a time to beat potential shortages.
- Be organic smart: Not everything needs to be organic, especially because it's more expensive. The Environmental Working Group has a Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Researchers measure the amount of pesticide residue left behind on conventionally grown produce. They say it isn’t necessary to buy the following things organic because they have low levels of pesticide residue; Avocados, sweet corn, onions, eggplant, asparagus, broccoli, pineapple, kiwi, cauliflower, mushrooms, honeydew melon and cantaloupe.
- Sign up for loyalty programs: Most grocery stores offer loyalty programs that are free to join. You can benefit from discounts that automatically get applied to your cart at checkout or you can get access to exclusive coupons on their apps.
- Buy generic: Generic and store brands are often less expensive and taste just as good.
- Buy local: If you're having trouble finding things at the larger chain grocery stores, try going to local supermarkets to see what kind of supplies they have available.
- Use a rebate app: There are shopping apps that give you cash back for buying groceries. You can register for free, too. Depending on the app, you may need to link a loyalty card or submit receipts to receive a rebate. Some of the ones we've tested and seen money back with are Ibotta, Rakuten and Fetch. | 2022-10-18T20:09:21+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/groceries-that-could-disappear-from-shelves/41692968 |
Brittney Griner arrived in the U.S. early Friday, landing at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas.
The WNBA star, who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, was released Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for notorious international arms dealer Viktor Bout, bringing an end to an ordeal that sparked intense high-level negotiations between Washington and Moscow to secure her freedom.
Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, tweeted, "So happy to have Brittney back on U.S. soil. Welcome home BG!"
Per standard procedure for freed U.S. prisoners, Griner was expected to quickly undergo a medical evaluation.
President Biden announced Griner's impending return Thursday morning at the White House, saying, "She's safe. She's on a plane. She's on her way home."
"After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances, Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and she should have been there all along," Mr. Biden said. "This is a day we've worked toward for a long time. We never stopped pushing for her release."
CBS News was first to report the swap, which took place in the United Arab Emirates, citing a U.S. official. Five former U.S. officials told CBS News the agreement was reached last Thursday.
The president said he spoke to Griner by phone from the Oval Office, where he was joined by Griner's wife Cherelle, Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Mr. Biden said he was "glad to be able to say Brittney is in good spirits." He dismissed the "show trial in Russia" that landed her in prison and said, "she didn't ask for special treatment."
To secure Griner's release, the president ordered that Bout be freed and returned to Russia. Mr. Biden signed the commutation order cutting short Bout's 25-year federal prison sentence.
Notably, the Griner-for-Bout exchange left retired U.S. Marine Paul Whelan imprisoned in Russia. Whelan has been in Russian custody for nearly four years. He was convicted on espionage charges that the U.S. has called false.
"We've not forgotten about Paul Whelan," Mr. Biden said Thursday, adding "we will never give up" on securing his release.
U.S. officials told reporters it became clear in talks with the Russians that the prospect of securing the release of both Griner and Whelan in exchange for Bout was a nonstarter, with one official saying the U.S. had "a choice between bringing home one particular American — Brittney Griner — or bringing home none."
Whelan told CNN in a phone call Thursday he was happy Griner was free but he was "greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four-year anniversary of my arrest is coming up." This month marks the fourth anniversary of Whelan's time in Russian custody.
Griner, a 32-year-old star center for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, was detained at a Russian airport in February and later pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the discovery of cannabis-derived oil cartridges in her luggage. Griner said she didn't mean to bring the cartridges with her when she traveled to the country to play in a Russian basketball league during the WNBA offseason.
After five months of stalled diplomacy and various permutations of potential swap arrangements — including a previously unreported offer by the U.S. this past summer to send two prisoners back to Russia for the two Americans — sources say the one-for-one exchange came together over the last two weeks.
Whelan, who once worked as a corporate security contractor, was in Moscow for a friend's wedding when he was detained at a hotel in December 2018. Russian authorities later sentenced him to 16 years in prison for espionage — a charge the U.S. and Whelan denied.
Bout, who was most recently held at a federal prison in Marion, Illinois, was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency in Thailand following a sting operation in 2008. He was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans and began his 25-year sentence a decade ago.
Griner's arrest coincided with the February start of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and all U.S. dealings with the Kremlin have been complicated by that conflict. The U.S. has said both Griner and Whelan were "wrongfully detained," and officials have suspected that Russia has been using the American prisoners as leverage.
Griner's return for Bout marks the Biden administration's second prisoner swap with Russia. In April, the U.S. traded Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian smuggler convicted of conspiring to import cocaine, for Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine who had been imprisoned in Russia for nearly three years.
CBS News learned last Thursday that the Griner-for-Bout swap was in the offing but agreed to a White House request to hold the reporting because officials expressed grave concern about the fragility of the then-emerging deal.
The Biden administration officials warned that making details of the swap public beforehand would almost certainly lead Russia to pull out of the agreement and potentially endanger Griner's well-being.
This story was originally published by CBS News on Dec. 9, 2022.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The most powerful teams in NASCAR warned Friday that the venerable stock car racing series has a “broken” economic model that is unfair and has little to no chance of long-term stability, a stunning announcement that added to a growing list of woes.
The Cup Series is heading into the Charlotte Motor Speedway road course playoff elimination race Sunday with three full-time drivers sidelined with injuries suffered in NASCAR’s new car and no clear answer as to how to fix the safety concerns.
It got much worse as teams went public with their year-long fight with NASCAR over equitable revenue distribution.
“The economic model is really broken for the teams,” said Curtis Polk, who as Michael Jordan’s longtime business manager now holds an ownership stake in both the Charlotte Hornets and the two-car 23XI Racing team Jordan and Denny Hamlin field in NASCAR.
“We’ve gotten to the point where team’s realize the sustainability in the sport is not very long term,” Polk said. “This is not a fair system.”
The Race Team Alliance was formed in 2014 to give teams a unified voice in negotiations with the sanctioning body. A four-member subcommittee outlined their concerns at a Charlotte hotel, with Polk joined by Jeff Gordon, the four-time NASCAR champion and vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports, RFK Racing President Steve Newmark, and Dave Alpern, the president of Joe Gibbs Racing.
Hendrick and Gibbs have won six of last seven Cup Series championships dating to 2015, but Gordon said the four-car Hendrick lineup, the most powerful in the industry, has not had a profitable season in years. It will again lose money this season despite NASCAR’s cost-cutting Next Gen car.
“I have a lot of fears that sustainability is going to be a real challenge,” Gordon said.
Led by Polk, whose role with the Hornets brings familiarity with the NBA’s franchise model, the RTA presented NASCAR in June with a seven-point plan on a new revenue sharing model. The proposal “sat there for months and we told NASCAR we’d like a counteroffer,” Polk said.
He did not disclose the seven points other than noting that team sustainability and longevity were priorities. The committee said Friday they are open to all ideas, including a spending cap like that in Formula One.
“We are amenable to whatever gets us to a conceptual new structure,” Newmark said.
NASCAR responded to the RTA last week with a counteroffer of “a minimal increase in revenue and emphasis on cost-cutting,” Polk said.
The team alliance was unanimous in that the only place left to cut costs is layoffs.
“We’ve already had substantial cuts. We are doing more with less than we ever have in 30 years,” Alpern said.
NASCAR did not immediately reply to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
The battle over costs has been made public with five races remaining to crown the 2022 NASCAR champion.
The issue has simmered for years and in 2016 NASCAR adopted a charter system for 36 cars that is as close to a franchise model as possible in a sport that was founded by and independently owned by the France family. The charters at least gave the teams something of value to hold — or sell — and protect their investment in the sport.
The team business model is still heavily dependant on sponsorship, which the teams must individually secure. Newmark said sponsorship covers between 60% to 80% of the budgets for all 16 chartered organizations.
Because sponsorship is so vital, teams are desperate for financial relief elsewhere and have asked NASCAR for “distribution from the league to cover our baseline costs,” Newmark said.
The current charter agreement expires at the end of the 2024 season, the same time that NASCAR’s current television deals expire.
Although TV money is split between NASCAR, teams and the tracks, Polk said in terms of actual revenue produced by the sport 93% goes to NASCAR and the teams receive just 7%. He noted that in Formula One, all revenue is split 50-50 between the teams and series ownership.
Mars Inc., which first entered NASCAR in 1990, late last year decided this season would be its last and JGR spent the last nine months trying to find a new sponsor to keep Kyle Busch, the only winner of multiple championships at the Cup level. Busch has since signed with Richard Childress Racing and will leave JGR after 15 seasons as Toyota’s winningest NASCAR driver.
“We have become full-time fundraisers,” Alpern said. “Instead of working on our business, we’re raising money just to exist.”
Polk said the teams will honor the charter agreements through 2024. But in negotiating a new charter agreement, the teams are demanding more.
“NASCAR is a money-printing machine,” Polk said. “But the teams and the drivers are the ones putting on the show.”
NASCAR is now under fire from nearly every angle as drivers remain angry over some recent penalties and the stiffness of the new Next Gen car blamed for causing unprecedented injuries. What should have been routine crashes into the wall have sidelined both Alex Bowman and Kurt Busch with concussions, and Cody Shane Ware opted out of Sunday’s race because of a broken foot.
NASCAR has tested potential adjustments for the car and will present the findings to drivers Saturday morning ahead of practice at Charlotte. | 2022-10-07T20:02:46+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/sports/nascar-motorsports/nascar-teams-call-revenue-model-broken-warn-of-layoffs/ |
WASHINGTON — Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.
Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect on Friday. That’s when the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional right.
Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms. Some even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in states that now ban the procedure.
Almost immediately, Facebook and Instagram began removing some of these posts, just as millions across the U.S. were searching for clarity around abortion access. General mentions of abortion pills, as well as posts mentioning specific versions such as mifepristone and misoprostol, suddenly spiked Friday morning across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV broadcasts, according to an analysis by the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.
By Sunday, Zignal had counted more than 250,000 such mentions.
The AP obtained a screenshot on Friday of one Instagram post from a woman who offered to purchase or forward abortion pills through the mail, minutes after the court ruled to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“DM me if you want to order abortion pills, but want them sent to my address instead of yours,” the post on Instagram read.
Instagram took it down within moments. Vice Media first reported on Monday that Meta, the parent of both Facebook and Instagram, was taking down posts about abortion pills.
On Monday, an AP reporter tested how the company would respond to a similar post on Facebook, writing: “If you send me your address, I will mail you abortion pills.”
The post was removed within one minute.
The Facebook account was immediately put on a “warning” status for the post, which Facebook said violated its standards on “guns, animals and other regulated goods.”
Yet, when the AP reporter made the same exact post but swapped out the words “abortion pills” for “a gun,” the post remained untouched. A post with the same exact offer to mail “weed” was also left up and not considered a violation.
Marijuana is illegal under federal law and it is illegal to send it through the mail.
Abortion pills, however, can legally be obtained through the mail after an online consultation from prescribers who have undergone certification and training.
In an email, a Meta spokesperson pointed to company policies that prohibit the sale of certain items, including guns, alcohol, drugs and pharmaceuticals. The company did not explain the apparent discrepancies in its enforcement of that policy.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed in a tweet Monday that the company will not allow individuals to gift or sell pharmaceuticals on its platform, but will allow content that shares information on how to access pills. Stone acknowledged some problems with enforcing that policy across its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.
“We’ve discovered some instances of incorrect enforcement and are correcting these,” Stone said in the tweet.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that states should not ban mifepristone, the medication used to induce an abortion.
“States may not ban mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy,” Garland said in a Friday statement.
But some Republicans have already tried to stop their residents from obtaining abortion pills through the mail, with some states like West Virginia and Tennessee prohibiting providers from prescribing the medication through telemedicine consultation.
Amanda Seitz of The Associated Press wrote this story. AP reporter Sophia Tulp in New York contributed to this report.
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The Hudson Reporter chain of local weekly newspapers was shut down Friday in an announcement that caught its staff by surprise.
Hudson Reporter staff members say Newspaper Media Group General Manager Brandon Chamberlain told the reporters, the managing editor and other members of the small staff in an online meeting the newspapers and its website was ceasing operations immediately, citing “revenue versus expenses.”
The Pennsauken-based Newspaper Media Group purchased the chain in 2018.
It published the Bayonne Community News and editions of the Hudson Reporter in North Bergen, Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, Weehawken and West New York, as well as lifestyle magazines Bayonne — Life on the Peninsula, Jersey City Magazine and 07030 Hoboken.
“They pulled the rug out from under us,” said Reporter Daniel Israel, who noted between five and 10 employees who lost their jobs. “It came as a total surprise.”
At the time of the announcement, the staff was preparing to finalize next week’s editions. On its website, Newspaper Media Goup said it distributed more than 46,000 copies of the weekly newspapers and more than 29,000 magazines. The Hudson Reporter chain was founded by developer Joseph Barry in 1983, starting with the Hoboken Reporter.
Chamberlain did not return a call for comment Friday. It could not be determined Friday if any of the other Newspaper Media Group’s publications in Central Jersey, South Jersey and Philadelphia would also close.
Israel said the Reporter staff was told they would not be receiving severance pay.
Like most news publications, the Hudson Reporter’s staff was trimmed over the past two decades as more people turned to the internet for their news and newspapers suffered losses in advertising. At the time of its closing, the chain had two reporters and one editor. | 2023-01-21T00:04:08+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/01/hudson-reporter-newspaper-chain-closes-down.html |
- Tight End University (TEU), founded by George Kittle, Travis Kelce, and Greg Olsen, partnered with Bridgestone for a two-week fundraising campaign to support Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
- The campaign culminated at the TEU Summit in Nashville where Bridgestone announced it is donating $450,000 to local Boys & Girls Clubs across the country and TEU players revealed they raised an additional $131,000 for local Clubs in NFL markets through fan donations.
- Dawson Knox of the Buffalo Bills, who was the top TEU fundraiser, was awarded an additional $100,000 from Bridgestone and TEU for his Club.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgestone Retail Operations (Bridgestone), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, today celebrated the culmination of a two-week fundraising competition for Boys & Girls Clubs of America in partnership with NFL players from Tight End University (TEU). The campaign concluded at the TEU Summit in Nashville, where area Club youth had the opportunity to engage with players and experience activities that emphasized the importance of healthy life skills, such as teamwork, strength and the importance of good character.
At the event, Bridgestone announced it is making a $450,000 donation to local Boys & Girls Clubs to support critical needs, including transportation and technology resources. TEU also announced their players and fans raised an additional $131,000 for Clubs in NFL markets across the country. Dawson Knox, Tight End playing for the Buffalo Bills, was the top TEU fundraiser during the campaign and received an additional $100,000 donation from Bridgestone and TEU for his hometown Boys & Girls Club. All in, Bridgestone and TEU donated a combined $681,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide.
"Thanks to the dedication of TEU, their players and their fans, Club youth across the country will have better access to the critical resources and out-of-school programming provided by Boys & Girls Clubs each day," said Marko Ibrahim, President, Bridgestone Retail Operations. "We are so proud of the impact our Boys & Girls Clubs Driving Great Futures partnership has made over the past seven years, and we are grateful to TEU for joining forces with us to help even more youth nationwide."
The TEU partnership is the latest campaign in support of the Bridgestone Driving Great Futures initiative, which has raised more than $20 million to support Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide since the program's inception in 2015. This is the second consecutive year Bridgestone and TEU have partnered to support Boys & Girls Clubs of America. TEU provides a venue for the country's top Tight Ends to build camaraderie, share ideas and make an impact in their communities.
"When Greg, Travis and I created TEU, it was important to us that in addition to putting on an elite event for our Tight End community, we helped make a positive impact off the field," said George Kittle, NFL Tight End and Co-founder, TEU. "All proceeds from TEU will go to helping people around the country. On behalf of the 80+ NFL Tight Ends in Nashville this year, we're excited to work with Bridgestone to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Seeing the fans join in to donate and help raise money for BGCA was truly humbling."
In 2015, Bridgestone established its national partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America with the mission of making out-of-school programming more accessible to Club youth and their families. Through donations collected at the company's 2,200+ retail stores, Bridgestone has contributed funds to address transportation-related needs, including maintenance and repairs of existing Club vehicles and the purchase of 51 new vans. The partnership has also raised money to help bridge technology divides through the purchase of new computers and hotspots that support in-person Club programming, virtual classroom learning and other technology infrastructure needs.
"As Boys & Girls Clubs continue to offer safe spaces, positive mentors and life-enhancing experiences for young people, we are grateful for Bridgestone's continued support to address critical mobility and technology needs," said Jim Clark, President & CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "Not only has this partnership made Clubs more accessible to youth, but these efforts have strengthened our organization's mission to help kids and teens realize their full potential."
The Bridgestone Driving Great Futures partnership aligns with the Bridgestone E8 Commitment that consists of eight Bridgestone-like values starting with the letter "E" to realize a sustainable society. The Driving Great Futures initiative is an example of the company's commitment to "Empowerment," which is defined as contributing to a society that ensures accessibility and dignity for all and "Emotion", defined as inspiring excitement and spreading joy to the world of mobility.
For more Bridgestone company news visit BridgestoneAmericas.com.
About Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC:
Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC (BSRO) is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. and operates the largest network of company-owned automotive service providers in the world — more than 2,200 tire and vehicle service centers across the United States — including Firestone Complete Auto Care, Tires Plus, Hibdon Tires Plus and Wheel Works store locations. Credit First National Association and Firestone Complete Fleet Care operations are also part of BSRO. BSRO is a member of the Bridgestone Americas family of companies.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of America:
For 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has provided a safe place for kids and teens to learn and grow. Clubs offer caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Boys & Girls Clubs programming promotes academic success, good character and leadership, and healthy lifestyles. More than 4,900 Clubs serve over 4.3 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and Twitter.
About TEU:
Tight End University (TEU) was founded in 2021 by George Kittle, Travis Kelce and Greg Olsen to bring the tight end community together to learn from one another. The three-day event consists of film work, on-field drills, and training and recovery. In 2022, a select group of legendary NFL tight ends will join TEU as coaches to provide advice to the current generation of tight ends.
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CA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Saturday, June 25, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
227 AM PDT Thu Jun 23 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM PDT SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 10 to 20 kt with and seas 6 to 9 feet.
Locally higher winds and seas near Cape Mendocino with a few
gusts up to 35 kt.
* WHERE...Cape Mendocino to Pt Arena out 10 nm.
* WHEN...Until 3 AM PDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
* WHAT...Steep seas 7 to 10 feet. North winds 10 to 20 kt.
Locally stronger winds with gusts around 35 kt near Pt St
George.
* WHERE...Pt St George to Cape Mendocino out 10 nm.
...GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts around 40 kt and seas
11 to 14 feet.
* WHERE...Pt St George to Cape Mendocino 10 to 60 nm.
* WHEN...Until 4 PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could
capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions.
Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the
vessel for severe conditions.
...HAZARDOUS SEAS WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Very steep and hazardous seas 10 to 13 feet. North winds
around 25 kt with local gusts up to 35 kt.
* WHERE...Cape Mendocino to Pt Arena 10 to 60 nm.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Very steep and hazardous seas could capsize or cause
damage to vessels.
Recreational boaters should remain in port. Commercial vessels
should prepare for rough seas and consider remaining in port
until hazardous seas subside.
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Disasters of all kinds can strike anytime, and September has been designated as a month to raise awareness.
Let's face it, when it comes to disasters, we think it will never happen to us until it does and national preparedness month is a time to acknowledge the importance of preparing for emergencies in homes, businesses, schools, and even on the road.
"Disaster can happen here, we've seen disasters happen here. We know our surrounding counties have had tornadoes recently. We know, especially on that tornado side, that's going to happen here in Allen County sometime soon, warned Tom Berger, Allen County EMA director.
Disasters come in a variety of forms. From a weather standpoint, flooding continues to be the natural disaster that kills more each year aside from heat. Your household should have a disaster safety plan.
"Especially on the communication side. If you have children, how are you going to contact your children, how are they going to contact you? Do you have a rally point outside your home as far as a fire?" asked Berger.
A part of being prepared includes having a few basic items organized in your homes such as a flashlight, batteries, first-aid kit, toiletry items, water, and non-perishable foods.
"It's kind of tough for everybody to get that in one area, especially now with the way the economy is and having all the stuff in one location. If you have it in your house, as long as you are aware of it and have a bag to where if you need to grab that stuff you can put it in the bag real quick and exit," said Berger.
Those with special needs or limited mobility should be aware that the Emergency Management Agency has partnered with Allen County Public Health to develop a registry "Ready Allen County". Registration will give first responders valuable information to help serve you or a loved one in an emergency.
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IRVINE, Calif., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elevation Semiconductor, a high-voltage power conversion solutions developer, announced today two high-efficiency power ICs with smaller footprints for fast charging solutions.
The HL9550/52/54 are part of the integrated GaN switch family of devices with ultra-efficient GaN semiconductor high-performance controller ICs for switched-mode power supplies. They support QR, DCM, CCM, and multiple frequency hybrid-mode operations. The various 300kHz/225kHz/129kHz/82kHz frequency options provide a possibility of flexible design for optimizing transformers' size and EMI performance, offering efficient and compact 20W to 65W charger solutions. The charger solution can cover a wide range of VDD operations without an additional clamp circuit for USB PD applications, as it helps to save BOM cost and PCB space. For protection, they include the LPS function to limit input power and to avoid unexpected overpowering that would damage the system when the PD controller has failed.
The HL9701 synchronous rectifier (SR) is a high-performance controller IC for switched-mode power supplies dedicated to the secondary side of flyback converters. The HL9701 drives the SR MOSFET and is compatible with high-/low-side applications for QR, DCM, and CCM operations. It intelligently rectifies for secondary current, providing proprietary transient judgment to complete fast turn on/off control for maximum efficiency and high reliability at any load compared to the conventional ultra-fast diode or Schottky diode.
The primary applications for these high-performance controllers are USB PD quick chargers for smartphones and tablet PCs, power adaptors for portable devices, and flyback power supplies with fixed or variable output voltage applications. The power solutions easily meet DoE VI and CoC 2 efficiency rules (average efficiency above 93% for 115Vac/230Vac), and the innovative technology enables the systems to consume only 20mW of no-load power consumption.
"With industry veterans from leading analog companies experienced in high voltage power solutions, AC-DC controllers and HV drivers, and wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices such as GaN, Elevation is well-positioned to enable the next generation of advanced power systems and accelerate the world's transition to electrification and sustainability," said David Nam, CEO of Elevation Semiconductor.
About Elevation Semiconductor
Elevation Semiconductor was founded in 2021 by industry veterans from leading analog companies experienced in AC-DC power solutions, silicon controllers, and GaN intellectual properties. The company has a vast portfolio of the highest energy-efficient AC-DC products with integrated GaN for the mobile, consumer, and industrial markets. Elevation Semiconductor is based in Irvine, California. Find out more at www. elevation-semi.com.
For more information, please email us at sales@elevationsemiconductor.com.
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The Biden administration is sending controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks retired Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling how they work and what he thinks of the decision.
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By bringing in Derek Jeter for the occasion of naming Aaron Judge as their 16th team captain, the Yankees Wednesday did their best to blunt the hysteria reigning over in Queens with Steve Cohen’s stunning 3 a.m. $315 million pilfering of Carlos Correa from the Giants.
But make no mistake, this latest aggressive foray into free agency by the Mets owner, which catapulted his payroll to a staggering $384 million, sent shockwaves throughout baseball that are going to be felt for years to come. Back in October 2020, 26 of the 30 owners voted to approve Cohen as Mets owner. I would suspect most all of them now regret that. Prior to Wednesday, Cohen could defend his previous $500 million expenditures on Edwin Diaz, Brandon Nimmo, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, et al., as being simply a matter of reinforcing the Mets in the face of the potential loss of eight key free agents, including Diaz, Nimmo, Jacob deGrom and Chris Bassitt.
But now comes the Correa signing — a player Cohen really didn’t need, with a very capable third baseman in Eduardo Escobar, and their top prospect Brett Baty next up on the depth chart — and the only way you can look at it is just plain reckless. At least that’s the way the rest of baseball is looking at it. Or as one high-level baseball executive put it to me Wednesday: “Since when did Carlos Correa become a $300 million player? What has he ever done? He’s been an All-Star twice. What kind of a difference did he make last year in Minnesota?”
The answer to that question is: This offseason when the shortstop market exploded (although you could make the case that Trea Turner, Dansby Swanson and Xander Bogaerts, all of whom got less money than Correa, were superior players, especially offensively). And none of them had the stain of being one of the ringleaders of the 2017 Astros cheating scandal.
None of this, of course, mattered to Cohen, who has become the new go-to owner delight for Correa’s agent Scott Boras, the Great Bamboozler. Boras has had one heckuva winter, hauling in over $2 billion in free-agent contracts. And when his 13-year, $350 million deal for Correa with the Giants threatened to fall apart over an issue with the physical, Boras knew he had a panting Cohen — who’d been late to the bidding game originally for Correa — still at the ready to make this happen for the Mets.
Meanwhile, how bad do the Giants look in all this after losing out to the Yankees on Judge and then losing Correa after calling a press conference to introduce him without first getting the results of the physical?
Word is Correa was always the darling of the Mets’ analytics dweebs, who convinced Cohen this was the one missing bat they needed. We will never know what Buck Showalter’s feelings were, although Escobar had quickly established himself as one of the manager’s favorites, and he also couldn’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu from when he was in Texas and had to deal with another highest-paid Boras client, Alex Rodriguez, who had a direct line to the owner.
It is indeed a superstar lineup Cohen has accumulated and it’s Showalter’s challenge now to keep them all happy, off the phone to the owner, playing as a team — and to win. Cohen has spent more than $800 million on free agents this winter. His payroll is presently almost $100 million more than the Yankees’. Add in the estimated $110 million in luxury tax penalties (which is more than seven other teams’ entire payrolls) and Cohen’s total nut for 2023 will be over $500 million, at the same time his gross revenues are projected to be $450 million. He is not going to accept anything less than a World Series in Citi Field next October.
At the same time, however, Cohen, the fan probably doesn’t understand that money doesn’t guarantee anything in baseball. Right now, the last thing he is thinking about is the very real possibility his two aged $40-plus million aces, Verlander and Max Scherzer, will be worn down come next October. You can bet Showalter has, though.
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Special education teacher accused of throwing boy across classroom
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - A special education teacher at an Ohio elementary school is facing two assault charges following claims he threw a 9-year-old boy across a classroom.
Marcela Graciani was at work Tuesday when she got the call that her 9-year-old son, Jaxson, was allegedly assaulted by his Spring Elementary School teacher, Garrett Pelz. The boy’s mother says she thought she could trust the people who watch her children, but now, she’s unsure.
“He told him to sit down. He ended up sitting on the desk, and the teacher grabbed him up by his shoulders and threw him across the room. He hit his head and face on the ground,” Graciani said. “He has a little gash above his eye. It looks like a rug burn under his eye, and his teeth almost went through his whole lip.”
According to court documents, school staff had to remove other students from the classroom to clean up blood left on the carpet from the alleged incident, WTVG reports.
Graciani is concerned that Pelz works with students who have mental health issues and worries they will have to deal with more trauma because of the alleged incident. She says Pelz should never work with children again.
Pelz faces charges of assault and safe school assault. In court Wednesday, he entered a not guilty plea and was released on his own recognizance.
Graciani is a single mother of five children. She says she can’t home school but doesn’t feel comfortable sending her kids back.
“How are my other kids going to react now when they go to school? They may have regular classes, but what if the next teacher decides they’re having a bad day, and they don’t take the right precautions and another kid gets hurt?” she said.
She added that she’s looking into her legal options and other potential schooling options for her kids.
According to a statement from Toledo Public Schools Deputy Superintendent James Gant, Pelz is on paid adminstrative leave during an internal investigation. He said the district could not comment on specifics of the alleged incident.
“The number one priority for the district is the safety and security of our students and staff members, and any time there is a reported incident between a student and staff member, the district takes swift and appropriate action,” read Gant’s statement in part.
This is the second recent incident in which a school district employee allegedly assaulted a student. WTVG reported a paraprofessional was accused of slamming a student’s head on a desk and breaking his front teeth just two weeks ago.
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A new round of catastrophic flooding has struck the central United States, this time in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky, swamping communities and leaving people missing or trapped — with at least one person dead.
Flooding was reported in numerous counties in southeastern Kentucky early Thursday, including Breathitt, Floyd, Perry, Knott, Leslie, Pike and Magoffin.
Scott Sandlin, answering phones for Perry County Emergency Management, confirmed one death, but did not have any details about the victim or circumstances.
“Our county has been devastated. We’ve just washed away," Scott said. "It’s been the highest level of water I’ve ever seen.”
Scott, who has lived in the county for 57 years, said it’s been raining the last two to three days. They have received 11 to 14 inches in the past 48 hours and are expecting 2 more inches of rain Thursday. People are being evacuated. He said the office has received about 200 calls from people trapped in their home and in the mountains. Bridges have washed away.
“What we’re going to see coming out of this is massive property damage,” said Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), who declared a state of emergency speaking at a news conference Thursday. “We expect a loss of life. Hundreds will lose their homes, and this is going to be yet another event that it’s going to take not months but likely years for many families to rebuild and recover from.”
Beshear activated the National Guard to assist victims and the overall recovery effort. In a new conference Thursday morning, he called the event “one of the worst, most devastating flooding events in Kentucky’s history.”
The heavy rainfall was spawned by the same stalled weather front that caused historic flooding in St. Louis on Tuesday. Both the deluge in St. Louis and eastern Kentucky were so extreme that they are considered 1-in-1,000 year events or having a 0.1 percent chance of happening in any given year.
The city of Hazard, Ky., was among the hardest-hit, with at least 9 inches of rain falling in 12 hours Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Similar amounts fell around Jackson. High water also was widespread near the Virginia-West Virginia borders, where homes have been flooded and local media reports that people are missing.
In addition to dozens of flooded houses and businesses in Kentucky, about 25,000 customers were without power because of the severe weather.
Drone shots of the #Flooding in #Kentucky after it the water has receded several feet. #KyWx pic.twitter.com/UPgp6XRzx4
— WxChasing- Brandon Clement (@bclemms) July 28, 2022
The region where flooding is most widespread is mountainous, the downpours magnified by the terrain, which funnels water into valley towns below. In many spots, trickling streams turned into raging rivers within a few hours, allowing little time for escape.
“There are a lot of people in eastern Kentucky on top of roofs waiting to be rescued,” Deshear said, while reporting two faculty members were stranded at a school. “There are a number of people that are unaccounted for. I am nearly sure this is a situation in which we’re going to lose some of them.”
Rockslides and mudslides also have been reported, some of which have cut off communities.
Flash flooding began Wednesday night after afternoon storms that evolved into a raging deluge. Like train cars along a track, storms passed over the same areas repeatedly. The front along which the storms erupted developed along the northern periphery of a tropical heat dome sprawled over much of the southern United States.
Fire and police are overwhelmed. This is a true catastrophe near Hazard, Kentucky. Major flash flooding. Houses and cars floated away, many occupied. Posting only the lowest damage photos out of respect for anyone viewing, as should anyone. Take my word, this is a disaster area. pic.twitter.com/fLknT0Cbid
— Vince Waelti 🌪 (@VinceWaelti) July 28, 2022
Extreme levels of atmospheric moisture fed rainfall totals, which were “more than double (!) the 1-in-100 average annual chance threshold, and a couple inches beyond even the 1-in-1000 threshold,” tweeted National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Lamers.
Wednesday became Jackson’s second-wettest day on record with 4.11 inches; additional rain fell into Thursday morning.
Some of the top rainfall totals reported include:
- Hazard, Ky: 8.55 inches.
- Buckhorn, Ky.: 8.00 inches.
- Oneida, Ky.: 7.20 inches.
- Wiscoal, Ky.: 6.50 inches.
Higher amounts probably occurred, with radar estimates as high as 11 inches. It’s even possible that the 24-hour state record for Kentucky of 10.48 inches was challenged or surpassed.
The North Fork of the Kentucky River shattered its all-time record crest.
Rising to over 20 feet on Thursday morning, it easily moved past the record mark of 14.7 feet from 1957. The river level shot up 17 feet in less than 12 hours. River crests may not yet have occurred in some locations as water continues to move out of the mountains and downstream.
The extreme rainfall triggered three flash flood emergencies, each issued by the Weather Service office in Jackson. Reserved for the worst flooding situations, these emergencies are sparingly issued. They indicate that life-threatening flash flooding is occurring.
Multiple flash flood emergency warnings have been issued for parts of eastern Kentucky (highlighted in pink) this morning Serious flooding is ongoing. pic.twitter.com/mvZGrxtDj0
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) July 28, 2022
Tied to human-induced climate change, extreme precipitation events have increased dramatically over the past 100 years. The U.S. government’s National Climate Assessment shows heavy rainfall is now about 20 to 40 percent more likely in and around eastern Kentucky than it was around 1900.
New rounds of heavy rain are probable through Friday. The Weather Service has placed eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia under a Level 3 of 4 moderate risk for excessive rainfall.
Forecasters were expecting 1 to 3 additional inches Thursday and rainfall rates as high as 2 to 3 inches per hour on Friday. In addition to ongoing flood warnings, a flood watch remains in effect until late Friday for much of eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia.
By Saturday, the front responsible for the flooding is likely to drop south of the region, which should lower the threat of flooding significantly.
Andrea Sachs and Jason Samenow contributed to this report. | 2022-07-28T16:13:19+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/28/kentucky-flooding-jackson-hazard/ |
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest after making a tackle during Monday night’s game, causing the NFL to suspend a pivotal game against the Cincinnati Bengals that quickly lost significance in the aftermath of a scary scene that unfolded in front of a national television audience.
“Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the Bengals. His heartbeat was restored on the field and he was transferred to the UC Medical Center for further testing and treatment,” the Bills said in a statement released early Tuesday. “He is currently sedated and listed in critical condition.”
The 24-year-old Hamlin was administered CPR on the field. Teammates surrounded Hamlin, shielding him from public view. Many were weeping and praying while Hamlin was treated on the field by team and independent medical personnel and local paramedics. He was taken by ambulance to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Teammate Stefon Diggs later went to visit Hamlin at the hospital while fans of both teams gathered outside, holding lit candles and praying.
WHAT HAPPENED TO HAMLIN?
Hamlin was hurt while tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins on a seemingly routine play that didn’t appear unusually violent.
Higgins was running with the ball on a 13-yard pass from Joe Burrow when he led with his right shoulder, hitting Hamlin in the chest. Hamlin then wrapped his arms around Higgins’ shoulders and helmet to drag him down. Hamlin quickly got to his feet, appeared to adjust his face mask with his right hand, and then fell backward about three seconds later and lay motionless.
Hamlin was down for 19 minutes while receiving medical attention. WXIX-TV in Cincinnati reported that Hamlin required an automated external defibrillator (AED) in addition to CPR on the field.
WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED HAMLIN’S CARDIAC ARREST?
Cardiac specialists say it’s too soon to know what caused Hamlin’s heart to stop, but a rare type of trauma called commotio cordis is among the possible culprits. Commotio cordis occurs when a severe blow to the chest causes the heartbeat to quiver, leading to sudden cardiac arrest.
The condition only happens during a rare set of circumstances: when a sharp hit lands directly over the heart “at the exact wrong location at the exact wrong timing” during the heart’s rhythm cycle, said Dr. Rod Passman, director of the center for arrythmia research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Commotio cordis occurs “probably 20 times a year,’’ and about 60% of those affected survive, said heart rhythm specialist Dr. Mark Link of UT Southwestern Medical Center. The main worry for survivors is brain damage from lack of oxygen when the heart stops pumping blood, Link said. Doctors can help reduce that risk with deep sedation to give the brain a rest, he said.
Dr. Aman Chugh, a University of Michigan cardiology professor, noted that hard-hitting tackles are extremely common in football and that commotio cordis is extremely rare. It could be that Hamlin had a pre-existing heart condition that caused his heart to stop, although that is speculative, Chugh said.
In general, underlying heart disease is the most common cause of sudden cardiac arrest, said Dr. Mariell Jessup, the American Heart Association’s chief medical officer.
“It is not uncommon to find out that very vigorous athletes have undiagnosed cardiac conditions even if they’re young players,” she said.
More than 365,000 people in the U.S. have sudden cardiac arrests in non-hospital settings each year, according to the American Heart Association. Survival depends on quick CPR and shocking the heart back into a normal rhythm, as reportedly happened with Hamlin.
“The teachable moment is learn CPR,’’ Jessup said.
Hamlin’s medical history has not been made public.
WHAT TOOK SO LONG TO POSTPONE THE GAME?
It took the NFL about one hour after Hamlin collapsed to officially suspend the game because league executives were gathering information and communicating with referee Shawn Smith, coaches from both teams and the NFL Players Association.
Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of football operations, said that the NFL’s Emergency Action Plan was activated. Vincent communicated with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith. Dawn Aponte, the league’s chief football administrative officer, was at the game and communicated with Bills coach Sean McDermott and Bengals coach Zac Taylor and the referee.
“It was fluid and things were changing by the minute,” Vincent said. “It was obvious on the phone that the emotions were extremely high. It was a very volatile situation.”
Vincent refuted ESPN’s broadcast report that both teams were given a five-minute warmup period to resume playing.
“I’m not sure where that came from,” Vincent said. “It never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play. That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. That’s not a place we should ever be in.”
WHO IS HAMLIN?
Hamlin spent five years of college at Pittsburgh — his hometown — and appeared in 48 games for the Panthers over that span. He was a second-team All-ACC performer as a senior, was voted a team captain and was picked to play in the Senior Bowl.
Drafted in the sixth round by the Bills in 2021, Hamlin played in 14 games as a rookie and then became a starter this season after Micah Hyde was injured.
In 2020, Hamlin began organizing an annual Christmas toy drive in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa. By early Tuesday, a community toy drive organized by Hamlin had surged to more than $3.1 million in donations. His stated goal was $2,500.
Bills offensive lineman Rodger Saffold, in a post on Twitter, described Hamlin as a “kind, caring, extremely hard worker.” Saffold wrote that Hamlin is “loyal, honest and can always put a smile on your face. He is more than an athlete, he is a son and brother.”
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE NFL?
The Bills-Bengals game was postponed indefinitely, and the NFL announced Tuesday that it will not be resumed this week despite major playoff implications.
Both teams are battling for the AFC’s No. 1 seed. The Bills (12-3) entered the game in the top spot while the Bengals (11-4) had a chance to clinch the AFC North with a victory and also were in the mix for the No. 1 seed along with Kansas City (13-3).
The Bengals led 7-3 in the first quarter when the game was stopped. The NFL has made no decision regarding a possible resumption at a later date.
The NFL is entering the final week of the regular season, and the playoffs are scheduled to begin Jan. 14.
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Largest independent performance marketing firm in US taps visionary leader to support the company's accelerated growth as it continues to scale
NEW YORK, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, today announced the appointment of Jeremy Cornfeldt as its first-ever President. Cornfeldt – who brings over two decades of brand, media and performance marketing experience – will focus on creating total cohesion across the agency's formidable brand and performance offerings to help enhance its go-to-market solution for clients.
Cornfeldt will oversee Tinuiti's day-to-day operations as well as to help guide the strategy of future offerings. The appointment comes after Tinuiti's two recent headline-making acquisitions – Bliss Point Media. a leading streaming TV and measurement agency and full-service social & growth marketing agency, Ampush. Cornfeldt's remit includes driving cohesion across all these core and cutting-edge capabilities while integrating them with the firm's audience and strategic planning led Client Strategy Group.
"As all marketing becomes digital and therefore measurable, the persuasion of brand and the precision of performance is forever interconnected. I can't imagine anyone better positioned to help us continue to bridge all of it than Jeremy – a true visionary and leader who has built a remarkable reputation across the industry at the intersection of brand and performance," said Zach Morrison, CEO at Tinuiti.
"Jeremy has extensive experience in building agencies through new business, organic growth, and mergers and acquisitions, not to mention his work in broader media and TV. Jeremy loves being in the room with clients to dig deep into the ins and outs of performance and strategy," Morrison added. "He provides the exact combination of expertise and proven leadership skills to support Tinuiti's overall evolution in the years to come."
Cornfeldt said the initial draw to Tinuiti was "its reputation in the marketplace, its people-centric business model founded on culture of ownership, as well its remarkable growth trajectory fueled by its continued innovation in solving client and industry challenges."
"Tinuiti has built a performance powerhouse managing the entirety of the media ecosystem, through its world-class thought leadership, strategy, and tech in and across every platform and channel that matters to brands," Cornfeldt continued. "The ability to combine all the assets and data together is incredibly exciting because it puts us squarely at the front of the pack in this new world of media and marketing."
As President, Cornfeldt will report to CEO Morrison and join Tinuiti's executive team.
He will partner with executive team members, Jesse Eisenberg, Chief Commercial Officer, and Commercial executives, Dalton Dorné, Chief Marketing Officer, and Diana DiGuido, Chief Client Officer, to elevate the company's go-to-market and uplevel solutions with clients. Cornfeldt will also partner closely on strategy with Chief Strategy Officer Nii A. Ahene on future acquisitions and Chief Product Officer Sean Odlum on the firm's ever-evolving tech product suite.
Prior to joining Tinuiti, Cornfeldt served as U.S. CEO of Brainlabs, a global, digital-first media agency, where he was responsible for direction and growth in the U.S. market. Prior to joining Brainlabs, Cornfeldt oversaw iProspect, a Dentsu agency, where he spent nearly a decade building out iProspect's footprint and core offerings to drive global growth.
Over the course of his career, Cornfeldt has held various key roles within the advertising and marketing industry, including within Dentsu International, where he oversaw the Global Media Partnerships team and worked hand-in-hand with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft. Cornfeldt was responsible for the launch of AMNET, Dentsu's media trading desk in the U.S. market, which established customized automated trade offerings for Fortune 500 clients.
Cornfeldt's appointment comes on the heels of an already momentous 2023.
Big Agency Moments in Q1 2023:
- Unilever Digital Marketing Agency of Record
- Named Unilever's Health and Wellbeing Division AOR: brands include, Liquid I.V., OLLY, Onnit, SmartyPants Vitamins, and Welly Health PBC
- Tinuiti supports Paid Media, Lifecycle Marketing, Creative Services, SEO, CRO, Retail Operations, Marketplaces, and Analytics across the five brands
- Ampush Acquisition
- Tinuiti acquired the leading growth marketing agency with core focus across social platforms that provide end-to-end performance creative and customer acquisition capabilities.
- The acquisition, Tinuiti's third since 2021, unlocked a new level of social capabilities for clients
- e.l.f. Cosmetics & Tinuiti Go To The Super Bowl
- Tinuiti and client partner e.l.f. Beauty partnered to release e.l.f. Cosmetics' first-ever television commercial at Super Bowl LVII
- Tinuiti led the media strategy and planning for the 30-second spot, which featured White Lotus' star Jennifer Coolidge and e.l.f.'s TikTok mega-viral Power Grip Primer, the #1 Best-Selling Face Primer in the U.S. market
About Tinuiti
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, with more than $3 billion in digital media under management and over 1,200 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV, mobile apps, Influencer, Lifecycle, and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Each solution is delivered through Tinuiti's performance planning framework, GAMMA, and is enabled by a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – Mobius. For more information visit http://www.tinuiti.com.
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaskela Law LLC announces that it is investigating F45 Training Holdings Inc. (NYSE: FXLV) ("F45 Training") on behalf of the company's investors.
In July 2021, F45 Training completed its initial public offering ("IPO") of common stock, selling 18.75 million shares of stock to investors at $16.00 per share. In the calendar year following the IPO, shares of the company's stock declined in value to trade below $5.00 per share.
F45 Training shareholders are encouraged to contact Kaskela Law LLC (Adrienne Bell, Esq.) at (484) 229 – 0750, or by email (abell@kaskelalaw.com) or online at https://kaskelalaw.com/cases/f45-training-holdings-inc/ , to receive additional information about this investigation and their legal rights and options.
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GÖTEBORG, Sweden, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Volvo Group's Capital Markets Day today June 22, 2022, President and CEO Martin Lundstedt and Group Management outlined the major business opportunities in the ongoing technology shift that is expected to accelerate the Group's sales growth.
Over the last decade, the Volvo Group has established an industry-leading profitability and is now taking the next step on its strategic journey. Growth is expected to accelerate with the main driver being the higher value of the electric vehicles and machines. With electric vehicles there is a potential to increase the total vehicle and service revenues per unit by more than 50 percent over the lifecycle. Leveraging the Group's first-mover advantage to gain market shares and broadening the services offering are also expected to drive growth. While capturing these growth opportunities, the Volvo Group's financial targets remain.
"Climate change is the challenge of our generation. At the same time, demand for transport and infrastructure continues to grow and we must meet this demand with more sustainable solutions. In this changing landscape, we can lead the transformation and provide increased value for our customers and embark the Volvo Group on a growth journey driven by electrification, autonomous solutions and new productivity services. We are geared for growth," says Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO of the Volvo Group.
There is a strong pull from customers that want to partner up with the Volvo Group to decarbonize both their own value chains and those of their customers. The Volvo Group has the electric products, services and solutions that can make this happen.
"Our modular vehicle architectures will continue to serve us well, creating flexibility as well as cost and capital efficiencies in both R&D and the industrial system as we go through the transformation to electric and autonomous vehicles. We invest to win," says Martin Lundstedt.
A replay of the Capital Markets Day will be available at www.volvogroup.com shortly.
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The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers' uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. The Volvo Group is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, employs almost 95,000 people and serves customers in more than 190 markets. In 2021, net sales amounted to SEK 372 billion (EUR 37 billion). Volvo shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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VIDEO: Topgolf employee chases after child running on driving range
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - A video showing a Topgolf worker chasing down a small child who ran onto the facility’s driving range has gone viral over the weekend.
Adlai Ruffin, the person who took the video, said while preparing for his swing, he noticed something moving out of the corner of his eye.
Ruffin said he immediately stopped his swing and pulled out his phone to capture the moment.
“I was like, ‘Is anyone going to stop this before the kid gets too far?’” he said. “I noticed the kid keeps going and going. So, I was like, ‘You know what, this is a moment I need to record.’”
Ruffin also mentioned the person chasing after the child is a Topgolf employee.
Thankfully, no one was hurt, and the child was brought back safely.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chorus Intelligence announced today that its cutting-edge, digital intelligence platform and crime analysis solution, the Chorus Intelligence Suite (CIS), has been purchased and implemented by Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), in Florida.
The CIS equips users with self-serve, web-based capabilities that turn data into intelligence and maximizes efficiency.
Through a single pane of glass, the CIS is specifically assisting the agency with digital investigations across many crime and conspiracy types. Analysts and Detectives can now speed up their processes, enable increased accuracy and improved detection rates and collaborate using the built-in case management function.
The CIS has been trialed by MDPD over the last few months, the benefits case has been proven with tangible investigative leads now being leveraged. The platform is being used by the Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) and many other MDPD investigation bureaus.
Neil Chivers, CEO of Chorus Intelligence said: "We are delighted that Miami-Dade Police Department has joined the Chorus community and are leveraging the Chorus Intelligence Suite. From the very first moment that we engaged with their user community, their support for our vision and mission has been unwavering. I am sure that this success will continue as we have joint objectives to change the dial on the efficiency and effectiveness of the digital investigation process".
MDPD, who are the 8th largest Police Department in the United States, have joined an increasing number of law enforcement agencies setting a precedent for intelligence-led policing through the implementation of the CIS. For more information, visit: www.chorusintel.com/us
About Chorus Intelligence
Chorus Intelligence is a trusted supplier of data cleansing, analysis, search and entity enrichment software for law enforcement, government agencies, financial and corporate institutions across the globe. Made up of one platform and a single user interface, the Chorus Intelligence Suite (CIS) can be used by all, no matter your role, to get answers from your data. Founded in 2011, Chorus is used by most agencies in the UK and many North American agencies. Be empowered at every stage of an investigation to confidently turn data into intelligence and evidence. chorusintel.com
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Which Joker action figures are best?
DC Comics has a long history of creating rich characters and pitting them against each other in vivid stories. One of the most iconic characters is known simply as the Joker. Part clown, part evil super villain, the Joker has been trying to take over Gotham since Batman first started fighting crime in the 1940s.
The best Joker action figure is the 12-inch Joker action figure modeled after the original character’s style and personality. It’s brightly colored and features 11 points of mobility.
What to know before you buy a Joker action figure
The Joker’s backstory
Like many characters in DC Comics, the Joker has a troubled backstory. In the 1951 comic “Red Hood,” the Joker was a criminal who attempted to escape from the clutches of Batman and fell into a vat of chemicals. This gave him a disfigured appearance and led him to cover his face in clown makeup because he resembled the joker from a deck of playing cards.
Joker would go on to commit absurd crimes and would also attempt to be a comedian and fail, causing him to slip further into the true Joker form. Today, we know the Joker as an evil clown committing acts all over Gotham using humor as a way to justify his crimes.
The Joker in media
Aside from comics, Joker has been in all sorts of media in recent years. DC Comics uses an expanded universe to tell nearly unlimited stories with their rich cast of characters. Jokers has been featured in films such as “Suicide Squad” and “Justice League” alongside other villains. He’s faced off against Batman countless times on the big screen, and you can find him in numerous animated television series. He’s made his way into the Batman LEGO movies and believe it or not, you can fight as the Joker in “Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.”
Action figure styles
The Joker’s backstory, combined with his appearances in so many media forms, has shaped his style when it comes to action figures. Some Joker action figures feature the modern villain from recent films. You can find him dressed as Heath Ledger’s Joker with a purple suit, pinstripe pants and long green hair or you can purchase an action figure from the DC Multiverse as Jack Napier. This is Joker’s given name, and this character shows him without his purple suit, trying to make a name for himself in Gotham’s political circle.
What to look for in a quality Joker action figure
Size
Bigger is better when it comes to the Joker action figures. Larger action figures show more detail because there’s simply more room to work with. The highest quality toys will be 12-inches in height and include moveable parts to make the figure feel as tall and lifelike as possible. There are also smaller versions that are around 6-inches tall.
Originality
The highest quality Joker action figures are true to the original form of the character. This means they don’t veer off and create their own image. Comic book lore is very important and showing the proper likeness of the character means a lot to collectors. Luckily, the DC Universe is massive and over the years, the Joker has taken on many forms. As long as the action figures follow the Joker’s style as the comic books, movies and shows have portrayed him, they will be considered originals.
Officially licensed
DC Comics has released their own line of action figures that feature all the characters of Gotham, including the Joker. You can find these toys on the official DC Comics Amazon page and on the DC Comics official website. Officially licensed toys are as authentic as they come. They will feature the DC logo on the packaging, and their product descriptions will mention that they are officially licensed and sold straight from the DC Comics brand.
How much you can expect to spend on a Joker action figure
Joker action figures cost between $12-$20 depending on the size, level of detail and the manufacturer.
Joker action figure FAQ
What weapons do Joker action figures use?
A. The Joker is known less for his weapons and more for his wit and cunning. That said, he has been seen using a variety of weapons over the course of his storyline. Most Joker action figures don’t utilize weapons or instead will offer a variety of miscellaneous weapons that can be interchanged between the Joker and other DC characters.
Are Joker action figures considered collectable?
A. The Joker is a very popular character from the DC Comics Universe. Many collectors don’t collect for their toys to one day be profitable. Some collect for the fun of gathering and displaying every Joker action figure available on the market. Therefore, any type of Joker action can be considered collectable.
What are the best Joker action figures to buy?
Top Joker action figure
What you need to know: This durable action figure of the Joker is straight from the DC Comics store, so you know it’s authentic.
What you’ll love: Dressed in his signature purple suit with a green vest, this Joker toy has 11 points of articulation so that he can be posed in any number of ways. It stands at an impressive 12-inches tall and has detailed features throughout.
What you should consider: This figure does not come with any added accessories.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Joker action figure for the money
Robin and The Joker action figures set
What you need to know: This unique dual set of action figures from DC Comics includes both the Joker and his nemesis, Robin.
What you’ll love: Both figures are over 6 inches tall and are made with durable plastic. The real kicker is that each figure will come with three surprise accessories and weapons, so you never know what you’re going to get.
What you should consider: These action figures are slightly smaller than others figures available.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
The Joker True Moves action figure
What you need to know: This is a highly poseable action figure showing the Joker with a particularly evil grin on his face.
What you’ll love: In this figure, the Joker is wearing his classic purple suit with a long coattail, white gloves and purple shoes. His grimace stretches from ear to ear, showing his yellow teeth and bright red lipstick.
What you should consider: This action figure is not suitable for children under 4 years old.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTNP) ("Titan" or the "Company") today announced that it has expanded its Board of Directors (the "Board") from five (5) to eleven (11) and appointed six new directors following their election at its special meeting of stockholders held on August 15, 2022 (the "Special Meeting"). The new directors, which were on a nominee slate proposed by Activist Investing LLC (together with its affiliates, "Activist Investing"), are Avraham Ben-Tzvi, Peter L. Chasey, Eric Greenberg, David E. Lazar, Matthew C. McMurdo and David Natan.
In addition, following the Special Meeting, Mr. Lazar was appointed interim Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, with a mandate to lead Titan's continuing review of strategic alternatives. Mr. Lazar succeeds Marc Rubin, M.D., who will no longer serve as Executive Chairman, but will remain on the Board.
"As one of the largest investors in Titan, Activist Investing's goal is to help the Company unlock value for both ourselves and our fellow shareholders through a strategic transaction," commented Mr. Lazar. "I believe the reconstituted Board, which collectively possess decades of experience in pharmaceutical executive leadership, clinical research, strategic turnarounds, deal structuring, corporate governance, investment management, accounting, finance and corporate law, will be a tremendous asset in this endeavor."
Biographies of Newly Elected Directors
- Avraham Ben-Tzvi is the Founder of ABZ Law Office, a boutique Israeli law firm specializing in outsourced general counsel services for publicly traded as well as private companies and corporations, Investments & Securities Laws, Commercial Law & Contracts and various civil law matters, which he established in January 2017. Mr. Ben-Tzvi served as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Purple Biotech Ltd. (formerly Kitov Pharma Ltd.), a clinical-stage company advancing first-in-class therapies to overcome tumor immune evasion and drug resistance, from November 2015 until April 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Ben-Tzvi served as General Counsel and secretary at Medigus Ltd., a minimally invasive endosurgical tools medical device and miniaturized imaging equipment company, from April 2014 until November 2015. Mr. Ben-Tzvi is a member of the Israel Bar Association, and is also licensed as a Notary by the Israeli Ministry of Justice. Prior to that he served as an attorney at one of Israel's leading international law firms where, amongst other corporate and commercial work, he advised companies and underwriters on various offerings by Israeli companies listing in US and on various SEC related filings. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Ben-Tzvi worked in a number of business development, corporate finance and banking roles at companies in the financial services, lithium battery manufacturing and software development industries. Mr. Ben-Tzvi holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics from Yeshiva University in New York and an LLB, magna cum laude with Honors, in from Sha'arei Mishpat College of Law in Hod HaSharon, Israel.
- Peter L. Chasey serves as the Owner of Chasey Law Offices, a law practice specializing in personal litigation, business litigation and commercial law, since founding the practice in 2005. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chasey served as staff counsel for one of the largest insurance companies in the world defending general claims against insured businesses and also served as a land surveyor. Mr. Chasey holds a B.S. in Political Science and Government from the University of San Diego and a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.
- Eric Greenberg has over 40 years of capital markets experience. As a trader and portfolio manager at hedge funds, his areas of expertise included the development of trading strategies, portfolio management and deal structuring. Mr. Greenberg was Co-Founder of Blink Charging Co., a leader in the EV charging infrastructure industry. In addition, Mr. Greenberg provides investor relation and digital marketing services for companies across a variety of industries, such as life sciences, fintech, internet platforms and others. Mr. Greenberg holds a B.B.A in Finance from Baruch College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Baruch College Zicklin School of Business.
- David E. Lazar has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Custodian Ventures LLC, a company which specializes in assisting distressed public companies through custodianship, since February 2018, and Activist Investing LLC, an actively managed investment fund, since March 2018. Previously, Mr. Lazar served as Managing Partner at Zenith Partners International Inc., a boutique consulting firm, from July 2012 to April 2018. In his role as Chief Executive Officer of Custodian Ventures LLC, Mr. Lazar has successfully served as a custodian to numerous public companies across a wide range of industries. Mr. Lazar currently serves as an Advisor to PROMAX Investments LLC, a position he has held since July 2022, and as an Ambassador at Large for the Arab African Council for Integration and Development, since March 2022.
- Matthew C. McMurdo currently serves as Managing Member of McMurdo Law Group, LLC, a corporate and securities law practice, since 2010. Previously, Mr. McMurdo was a Partner at Nannarone & McMurdo, LLP, a boutique law firm, from 2008 to 2010. In addition, Mr. McMurdo served as General Counsel of Berkley Asset Management LLC, the general partner of a real estate fund focused on opportunistic and distressed real estate assets, from 2011 to 2013. Mr. McMurdo holds a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University and a J.D., cum laude, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
- David Natan currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Natan & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm offering chief financial officer services to public and private companies in a variety of industries, since 2007. In addition, Mr. Natan currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Airborne Motorworks, Inc., a privately-held aerospace transportation company, since April 2020. From February 2010 to May 2020, Mr. Natan served as Chief Executive Officer of ForceField Energy, Inc., a company focused on the solar industry and LED lighting products. From February 2002 to November 2007, Mr. Natan served as Executive Vice President of Reporting and Chief Financial Officer of PharmaNet Development Group, Inc., a drug development services company, and, from June 1995 to February 2002, as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Global Technovations, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of oil analysis instruments and speakers and speaker components. Prior to that, Mr. Natan served in various roles of increasing responsibility with Deloitte & Touche LLP, a global consulting firm. Mr. Natan currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Global Diversified Marketing Group, Inc., a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of food and snack products, since February 2021 and serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Sunshine Biopharma, Inc., a pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement company, since February 2022. Previously, Mr. Natan served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of ForceField Energy, Inc., from April 2015 to May 2020, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Global Technovations, Inc., from December 1999 to December 2001. Mr. Natan holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston University.
About Titan Pharmaceuticals
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTNP), based in South San Francisco, CA, is a development stage company developing proprietary therapeutics with its ProNeura® long-term, continuous drug delivery technology. The ProNeura technology has the potential to be used in developing products for treating a number of chronic conditions, where maintaining consistent, around-the-clock blood levels of medication may benefit the patient and improve medical outcomes. In December 2021, Titan commenced a process to explore and evaluate strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value.
For more information about Titan, please visit www.titanpharm.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statements relating to our product development programs and any other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that could negatively affect our business, operating results, financial condition and stock price. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's current expectations include those risks and uncertainties relating to our ability to raise capital, the regulatory approval process, the development, testing, production and marketing of our drug candidates, patent and intellectual property matters and strategic agreements and relationships. We expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in our expectations or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law.
CONTACT:
David E. Lazar
David@activistinvestingllc.com
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SOURCE Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2022-08-16T16:20:22+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/08/16/titan-pharmaceuticals-announces-board-expansion-management-changes/ |
NCAA Basketball Tournament: ASU's big first half buries Nevada in First Four
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - DJ Horne had 20 points and Arizona State raced to a big halftime lead and scored the most points ever in a First Four game, burying Nevada 98-73 on Wednesday night.
Desmond Cambridge Jr. — a Nevada transfer — scored 17 points as Arizona State (23-12) led 53-26 at the half and then kept up the pressure on the way to the rout.
The first-half output was a season high for Arizona State, which advanced as a No. 11 seed to face TCU in a West Region first-round game on Friday in Denver.
Arizona State hit 67.7% of its shots from the floor and forced 10 turnovers in the first half, piling up a 22-2 run over eight minutes to pull away, meanwhile keeping the pressure on and forcing the Wolf Pack to the perimeter.
Will Baker scored 17 and Tre Coleman had 14 for the Wolf Pack (22-11). One of Nevada’s top players, Kenan Blackshear, picked up three fouls early and sat on the bech for more than five minutes of the opening half. Averaging 14.4 per game, he was held to four points.
Big Picture
Nevada: The Wolf Pack shot better in the second half, but couldn’t climb out of the hole Arizona State put them in early. They couldn’t get closer than 19 points after halftime.
Arizona State: The Sun Devils forced 11 turnovers and kept the pressure on in the second half after Nevada was already buried. They were 11 for 21 (52.4%) from beyond the 3-point line. | 2023-03-16T04:58:02+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/ncaa-basketball-tournament-asus-big-first-half-buries-nevada-in-first-four |
The Lake County-based Legacy Foundation has received a $125,000 grant from the Federal Communications Commission as part of the commission’s Affordable Connectivity Program, the organization announced on Monday.
The funds will go toward efforts by Legacy Foundation to assist Lake County residents in applying for the program, which provides a $30 monthly internet service subsidy to eligible households. The program also provides a one-time contribution of $100 toward the purchase of a laptop, desktop, or tablet computer to households who meet certain requirements.
Over 61,000 Lake County households qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program, according to data compiled by Legacy Foundation as part of its grant application, and currently less than 40% of those are registered to receive the discount. Households are eligible if they meet at least one of a list of criteria, including an income level that is 200% or less than the Federal Poverty Guidelines level, or enrollment in certain government assistance programs like Medicaid or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
“Legacy Foundation is honored to receive funding to assist households in applying for ACP. We believe all Lake County residents should have access to reliable, high-speed internet, and we encourage anyone who may qualify for the program to sign up for these discounts,” Legacy Foundation President and CEO Kelly Anoe said in a Monday news release.
Legacy Foundation announced plans to hold a series of community events from July 2023 to June 2025 at which it will provide information to low-income Lake County residents on how to navigate the program application process.
“We are excited to partner with local organizations in an effort to increase digital inclusion and community awareness of the resources that are available to them,” Donna Catalano, Legacy Foundation Outreach and Engagement Manager, said in the news release.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Topeka Fire Department said two children and one adult were killed in a fire early Friday. It happened before 5 a.m. at 916 SW Warren Ave.
The fire department arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from a two-story home. Crews entered and found four people inside.
An adult and child were pulled from the home, and firefighters began life-saving treatment. They were transported to the hospital. The child died at the hospital, and the adult is being treated.
Another adult and child died at the scene.
The TFD Investigation Unit, Topeka Police Department, Evergy, Kansas Gas and the Kansas State Fire Marshal’s Office responded. Additionally, assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive has been requested. | 2023-01-20T16:13:17+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/2-children-1-adult-killed-in-topeka-house-fire/ |
(The Hill) – Sarah Matthews is set to testify at Thursday’s prime-time hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, according to Monday evening reports.
Matthews, who served as the former deputy press secretary in the Trump administration, resigned hours after the insurrection at the Capitol, where a pro-Trump mob sought to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results.
The Associated Press and CNN reported Monday that she and Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, will testify Thursday at the last currently scheduled Jan. 6 hearing, which is set to focus on Trump’s actions — or lack thereof — during the Capitol riot.
Here’s what we know about Matthews.
Who is Matthews?
Prior to her role at the White House in 2020, Matthews worked as a spokeswoman for Trump’s reelection campaign.
The Kent State University graduate said in an interview in 2020 that she met the Trump campaign’s then-national press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, through that job.
She added that McEnany took Matthews with her when she left the campaign to become the White House press secretary.
The 27-year-old is currently the communications director for Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, a position she has held since February 2021.
Matthews, who had previously been supportive of the Trump administration’s work during the former president’s term, took to Twitter in January to comment on the one-year anniversary of the insurrection, calling it “one of the darkest days in American history.”
“Make no mistake, the events on the 6th were a coup attempt, a term we’d use had they happened in any other country, and former President Trump failed to meet the moment,” Matthews wrote in a Twitter thread.
“While it might be easier to ignore or whitewash the events of that day for political expediency — if we’re going to be morally consistent — we need to acknowledge these hard truths,” she added.
She resigned on Jan. 6
Matthews was among the Trump White House staffers who resigned in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol attack.
“I was honored to serve in the Trump administration and proud of the policies we enacted. As someone who worked in the halls of Congress I was deeply disturbed by what I saw today,” she said in a statement at the time.
“I’ll be stepping down from my role, effective immediately. Our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power,” she said.
Matthews has expressed support for ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson
Matthews also expressed her support for Hutchinson’s testimony before the House select committee investigating the riot last month, defending her former colleague amid criticism over her blockbuster testimony.
She tweeted that “anyone downplaying Cassidy Hutchinson’s role or her access in the West Wing either doesn’t understand how the Trump [White House] worked or is attempting to discredit her because they’re scared of how damning this testimony is.”
She has previously testified before the Jan. 6 panel
Matthews appeared voluntarily before the House select committee in February.
A source familiar confirmed to The Hill that Matthews was asked by the committee about the White House’s activities on the day of the attack.
The committee on June 16 also played a clip from Matthews’s testimony in which she commented on Trump’s 2:24 p.m. tweet that targeted his vice president directly.
Trump tweeted, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” which according to Matthews, was like “pouring gasoline on the fire.”
“The situation was already bad, and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that,” Matthews said in the video clip. | 2022-07-19T02:52:37+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/who-is-sarah-matthews-the-trump-white-house-aide-testifying-to-jan-6-panel/ |
MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler showed up in plush blue slippers for what was officially called practice. Kyle Lowry was trying to distract him during an interview session. Nikola Jokic continued to say how he doesn’t care about statistics. Jamal Murray talked about all the fun he’s having.
At this point, there isn’t a lot of off-day, on-court work for the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat.
Game 4 of the NBA Finals is Friday night in Miami, and it’ll be the only time in the series that there’s just one day off between contests. The Nuggets — behind a historic effort from Jokic and Murray — reclaimed the lead in the series with a 109-94 win Wednesday night, and could take a commanding 3-1 edge with a win in Game 4.
“It’s a lot of fun. A lot of fun. We’re all having fun,” Murray said Thursday. “Trying to solve this puzzle together. We’ve all been dreaming about getting to this stage. We have vets in the league that haven’t made it this far in their 15, 16 years of playing. So, we don’t want to take this opportunity for granted, knowing that this is not an everyday thing. It takes a lot of work to be here.”
Murray and Jokic each had 30-point triple-doubles in the Game 3 win, the first time that’s ever happened in NBA history. Jokic had the first known game of at least 30 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in finals history. As always, he greeted news of his latest statistical accomplishment with a resounding yawn, preferring instead to solely focus on what he called the chess game between the Heat and Nuggets.
“They are one move, we are another move,” Jokic said. “I think this is the time where the players show what they’ve got.”
There were 15 other instances of teammates having triple-doubles in the same game, but never of the 30-point variety — and for that to happen not just in the playoffs but the NBA Finals only adds to the historic level of the performance.
Of course, that doesn’t mean Nuggets coach Michael Malone was wasting any time thinking about that.
“As I watched the film, as we watched it as a staff and then with the team, there was nothing about the historical night that it was,” Malone said. “We’re addressing all the areas where we have to be better.”
Malone loves to quote stats, and it’s safe to assume he knows that a 2-1 lead in the finals guarantees nothing. Boston had such a lead over Golden State last year. Phoenix led Milwaukee 2-1 the year before that. Golden State was up 2-1 on Cleveland in 2016, the Cavaliers had that same lead on the Warriors in 2015, San Antonio had that lead over the Heat in 2013 and the Heat had that lead over Dallas in 2011.
And all of those 2-1 series leaders lost the finals. It’s happened that way six times in the last 10 instances, seven times in the last 14 instances going back to Miami’s rally past Dallas in 2006. A 2-1 series lead used to be automatic — from 1979 through 2005, there were 22 instances of a team going up 2-1. All 22 of those teams went on to win the title. But starting with the Heat in 2006, that 2-1 lead hasn’t meant a whole lot.
“Stay in the saddle, stay the course,” Heat forward Kevin Love said. “That’s the biggest thing we can do. We have a game plan that is proven to work. … If anybody is capable of it, we are. Continue to drill, continue to stay true to our concept, no slip-ups. If we do that, we feel we can give ourselves a chance.”
Murray and Jokic were tremendous, and Denver’s 58-33 rebounding edge in Game 3 was not solely a byproduct of effort or lack thereof. But there were also things Heat coach Erik Spoelstra believes are correctable for Friday.
“The more experience you have, the more perspective you have about how difficult this really is,” Spoelstra said. “These are extremely difficult challenges. You end up being even more grateful for the opportunities to compete at the highest level. That’s what we all want. This is the stage that you want to be able to compete and have everything decided between those four lines and find out how your team stacks up. But it is tough. … It’s the highest level of competition.”
The Heat season has gone this way almost from opening night, a never-ending back-and-forth between ups and downs, win a few, lose a few, all capped by a postseason run that took a No. 8 seed to the NBA Finals. Win on Friday, and the series is tied. That’s all Miami can ask for right now.
“We’re going to come out with a lot more energy,” Butler said. “We’re going to compete at a high level. We’re going to get one at home.”
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-09T04:56:00+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/heat-still-confident-nuggets-remain-focused-as-nba-finals-reach-game-4/ |
New York Based Developer and Construction Manager Hire Leading PR Firm
NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Empire Corp. (NEC), a cutting-edge New York City-based development and construction management firm, today announced their retention of Rubenstein Public Relations (RPR) as its agency of record.
New Empire Corp. is dedicated to building top-quality residential mixed-use projects in New York City often identifying "hot" neighborhoods early on. By handling both the development and construction management of their projects, the firm minimizes unnecessary costs and offers prospective residents a full complement of amenities and high-quality finishes at competitive prices.
NEC will leverage RPR's long-standing media relations, expertise in both the real estate and finance industries, and experience crafting corporate messaging and developing brand positioning to generate sustained top-tier media results.
"We are excited to begin this partnership with Rubenstein Public Relations," said Emily Zhu, Head of Marketing Strategy at New Empire Corp. "Based on RPR's expertise in real estate, we believe the firm is well-equipped to help amplify our success in navigating New York City's residential market."
"With projects across Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs, New Empire Corp. has a proven track record of developing properties," said RPR President Richard Rubenstein. "NEC's recently acquired condominium development site in Woodside will offer attainable luxury to an already vibrant community."
NEC is responsible for over 100 completed residential projects throughout New York City. The Woodside project is NEC's third acquisition within the last 12 months. Acquired projects include a condominium site at 429 Second Avenue, Kips Bay and a 115,000 gross square foot property located at 24-01 Queens Plaza North, Long Island City, which was purchased earlier this year.
About New Empire Corp: NEC is a cutting-edge New York City based development and construction management firm dedicated to building top-quality residential mixed-use projects. Offering an investor and partner focused approach, the one-stop, high-impact developer has successfully renovated and built over 100 residential multifamily projects throughout New York City. New Empire Corp. prioritizes blending impeccable design with superior craftsmanship which has resulted in record breaking luxury living experiences at attainable prices. For more information, please visit www.newempirecorp.com
About Rubenstein Public Relations Rubenstein Public Relations (RPR) is an independent, New York-based communications agency headed by veteran publicist and respected brand architect, Richard Rubenstein. For more than three decades, RPR's intensive media relations approach and dedicated team of senior practitioners have helped clients build brand equity and reach their target audiences. The firm specializes in brand messaging development, media relations, crisis communications, and thought leadership positioning. RPR has a proven track record in executing successful public relations campaigns for leading corporate, real estate, technology, healthcare, social impact, luxury consumer, entertainment, and hospitality brands across the globe.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Long before Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed at the Oscars and “Squid Game” circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and devilishly elaborate vision of Korean cinema.
His latest, “Decision to Leave,” is in some ways more restrained than Park’s previous films. It lacks the brutal violence of “Oldboy” (2003) or the eroticism of “The Handmaiden” (2016). But it might be his most devastating.
The film, which is South Korea’s Oscar submission, is a twisty noir entwined with a love story. Park Hae-il plays a Busan police detective who becomes infatuated with a murder subject (Tang Wei). Their evolving relationship plays out as an investigation. Intricate and mischievous, “Decision to Leave” is yet another genre tapestry for the masterful Park to make an elegant plaything of. At the Cannes Film Festival in May, it won him best director.
Ahead of the film’s release in theaters Friday, Park met a reporter during a break at the New York Film Festival. Through an interpreter, he discussed making “Decision to Leave” (one of the biggest box-office hits of 2022 in South Korea), his role in expanding Korean cinema’s footprint and why — regardless of bloody hammers or octopuses eaten whole — love has always really been his main subject.
AP: The room you write in has been compared to the room that traps the protagonist of “Oldboy.” Is that true?
PARK: (Laughs) When we designed the house, we made a room specifically for me to write in. It’s a small room with just a table and desk and it almost feels like you’re going to suffocate inside. But I don’t just write in that room. I really write anywhere. I write in offices, cafes, hotels and on the plane.
AP: You live a relatively quiet life in between films, don’t you?
PARK: My house is in a small town in a remote area outside Seoul. My production company is also on the outskirts of Seoul. So I’m almost like someone who works in a company going back and forth between my office and my house.
AP: What was on your mind when you when you and your co-writer, Jeong Seo-kyeong, wrote “Decision to Leave”?
PARK: At that time, I was working on post-production for “Little Drummer Girl,” and I had to direct the entire six-episode series myself. It took a lot of time and was also very physically demanding. I became home sick. Of course my wife was with me, but still. During that post-production phase, my co-writer went on a family trip to London and met me twice at a cafe. We had general conversations about what my next work should be. The two core principles that we started off with were: I wanted the film to be a Korean film and I wanted it to play in theaters. The next thing was that I wanted it to be a police film. I think it’s because at the time I was reading the Martin Beck series. I was very much influenced by that. I wanted to start off from a very familiar setting: A detective assigned to a murder mystery. And I wanted to make a romance.
AP: Your film suggests that everyone’s guilty in love, but suspicion will kill it.
PARK: That’s a nice way to express it. When you’re in love, you’re naturally curious about the other person. You want to know more about them. Throughout this process of love, there’s always that sense of doubt that makes you want to dig in deeper. When that takes a dramatic form, it might even turn into stalking their social media or looking at the phone or asking questions to test if they’re lying. A lot of people do such things or have the desires to do such things. When you reach that point of doubt and suspense, I think it really becomes similar to a detective’s investigation.
AP: Love might not be what some immediately think of as the principle theme of your films. Why do you think you keep returning to love stories?
PARK: All of my films are basically about people in love. But each of these works in my filmography have their own genre elements, like thriller or horror. I think that comes off too strongly and makes people forget it’s about love. An artist’s occupation is naturally to explore what mankind really is, and I believe the best subject to explore the characteristics of mankind through is love. But even as an entertainer, love is the best subject. Love has thrill, it has mystery, it has comedy, it touches you and it horrifies you.
AP: Your movie is often funny, even farcical, but ends, unforgettably, in tragedy. How did you see that tonal arc working?
PARK: There are some tragedies where it’s just a progression of sad events happening. But I guess there’s also tragedy that comes from a movie that doesn’t seem that way. That contrast brings out the tragedy even more. There’s something very farcical about their situation. There’s farce that comes from sympathy. Without laughter, I feel like I’m forcing an emotion on the audience. As if I’m telling them: “You’re sad, right?” “You’re horrified, right?” There’s a sense of totality that comes from humor that fills up all the missing holes.
AP: How technology shapes the lives of men and women has also been a hallmark of your films. Why did you crowd “Decision to Leave” with phones, text messages and translation apps?
PARK: I wanted this movie to feel very classical and have these mythical elements. If you consider the last scene, it really resembles Orpheus. But I didn’t want this to be the kind of classical film with handwritten letters. If I wanted to do that, I could have put it in a setting where there were no phones. A lot of directors feel the desire to do this. Instead, I chose to actively incorporate modern technology, even more than you see in shows about teenagers like “Euphoria.” Making that decision was a significant moment for me.
AP: Are you proud of your role in spreading Korean film and pop culture?
PARK: If I had set that goal to spread the love of Korean cinema and worked hard towards it, I would have some pride in doing so. But the truth is, it just kind of happened that way. It’s merely a result of me trying to have fun making my works and allowing the audience to have fun watching my works. I’m never self-conscious of non-Korean audiences or foreign audiences when I’m making my film. It’s more that I make my film with the intention of Korean audiences of the future to enjoy them. Fifty or 100 years later, I want them to enjoy it just as much as contemporary audiences.
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | 2022-10-13T13:39:33+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/entertainment-news/ap-qa-park-chan-wook-on-love-genre-and-decision-to-leave/ |
MINGKAMAN – In a country where the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, a small clinic dedicated to reproductive health care for more than 200,000 people is about to be shut down. The worried-looking mothers know too well what might happen next.
“If the hospital closes, we will die more because we are poor,” said one expectant mother who gave her name only as Chuti. She was attending a monthly checkup at the Mingkaman reproductive health clinic in this town on the White Nile River, and it might be her last.
The United Nations has said it intends to end the clinic’s operations by December because of a lack of funding from European and other supporters. It is just one casualty among many in developing countries as humanitarian donors have been stretched by one crisis after another, from COVID-19 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The U.N. would not say how much it costs to run the clinic.
A loss like the clinic is of critical importance for people in places like Mingkaman, which along with the rest of South Sudan has struggled to cope with the aftermath of a five-year civil war, climate shocks like widespread flooding and lingering insecurity that includes shocking rates of sexual violence.
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has said the war in Ukraine has led to a dramatic cut in funding for emergency medical care for people who have been sexually assaulted. “It’s not that sexual violence ebbs and flows, it’s going on all the time, largely unseen,” commissioner Barney Afako said. The commission also has asserted that the government has failed to invest in basic services like health care.
This reproductive health clinic in the capital of Awerial county in central South Sudan serves a community largely of people displaced by the civil war and the floods. It is where women who once gave birth at home now come to deliver their children. It is also where women who are assaulted come for care.
The maternal mortality rate in South Sudan was 789 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. That’s more than double the rate in more developed neighboring Kenya, according to U.N. data, while the U.S. rate was 23 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At least 250 women give birth in the Mingkaman clinic every month, said Teresa Achuei, the site manager with the organization IMA World Health, which runs the facility. She said she knew of only three women who have died while giving birth in the community, all of them outside the clinic.
Now, she said, hundreds of women could be at risk. “Our aim, our mission, is to reduce maternal mortality rate. Every woman should deliver safely. If the facility closes, there will be many deaths in the community,” she told The Associated Press during a visit in mid-October.
The clinic was founded in 2014, the year after South Sudan’s civil war began. Set up in tents as a temporary way to serve people displaced by fighting, it remains makeshift but works around the clock.
It is a center of activity in Mingkaman, a community on one of South Sudan’s muddy main highways without reliable electricity and running water. The military is present to respond to flares of violence. Many women support their families by collecting firewood from the nearby forest to sell or work in modest local hotels.
Multiple women expressed concern about the clinic’s coming closure.
“It will be worsening for us because it was helping us,” said Akuany Bol, who delivered her three children there. She looked miserable while waiting for a midwife to examine her child.
Andrew Kuol, a clinical officer, said the facility receives an average of 70 to 80 patients per day. It often admits 20 patients a day, or twice the number of beds.
Some women must be treated on the ground.
Kuol said the clinic faces shortages of medicines including malaria drugs, post-rape drugs, antenatal drugs and others, again because of waning donor support.
The nearest hospital is in the city of Bor in the neighboring state of Jonglei, where the clinic’s more complicated cases are sent. Getting there is complicated, too. With no bridge between the states, it can take an hour for a boat to cross the Nile.
As in much of South Sudan, travel is challenging. And current circumstances mean few of the people here can easily relocate for health care or anything else.
“These (displaced people) are not going anywhere because there is still insecurity and also the flooding,” said James Manyiel Agup, the Awerial county director for health here in Lakes state. He urged the U.N. partners to continue supporting the facility to save lives. | 2022-10-30T07:46:50+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/10/30/womens-clinic-in-south-sudan-a-casualty-of-distracted-world/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Berger Action Fund is a nondescript name for a group with a rather specific purpose: steering the wealth of Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire, into the world of American politics and policy.
As a foreign national, Wyss is prohibited from donating to candidates or political committees. But his influence is still broadly felt through millions of dollars routed through a network of nonprofit groups that invest heavily in the Democratic ecosystem. Such groups don’t have to disclose the source of their funding — or many details about how they spend it.
Newly available tax documents show that his giving through the Berger Action Fund, which describes itself as advocating for “solutions to some of our world’s biggest problems,” swelled in 2021 to $72 million, cementing Wyss’ status as a Democratic-aligned megadonor.
Representatives for Wyss insist they comply with laws governing the giving of foreign nationals and have put in place strict policies limiting the use of donations to “issue advocacy” — not partisan electoral activities. But the fact that the money cannot be publicly traced highlights the difficulty of putting such assertions to the test.
Those same groups have helped to bankroll efforts to lift President Joe Biden’s agenda and paid for TV ads promoting Democratic congressional candidates ahead of last year’s midterm elections.
One ad paid for by a group that Wyss had financed praised Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., for helping pass a Biden-championed bill with green energy provisions. “Some politicians just ignore this crisis,” narrators said. “Maggie Hassan just did something about it.”
After criticizing Republicans for using dark money, Democratic-aligned groups spent more of it in 2020.
“The whole system is currently structured on this premise that we can take these nonprofit group at their word. The reality is there is really no effective oversight to make sure money from a foreign national doesn’t wind up in electoral politics,” said Saurav Ghosh, a director of the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington-based nonpartisan watchdog group.
Wyss, who lives in Wyoming, was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1935. But he fell in love with the U.S. as a young man, drawn to the rugged beauty of the American West.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Wyss worked in textiles and for automaker Chrysler. He later built a fortune, estimated by Forbes magazine last year to be worth $5 billion, after establishing the medical device maker Synthes USA, which was sold to Johnson & Johnson for about $20 billion in 2012.
Now, he is most aligned with environmental activism, establishing the Wyss Foundation in 1998 “to help ensure that the iconic Western landscapes that inspired him are protected for everyone.”
In 2007, he expanded his giving, creating the Berger Action Fund, which has donated $339 million to left-leaning nonprofits since 2016, records show.
Wyss’ sister, Heidi Wyss, described her brother’s pursuit of political influence in a 2014 biography that she authored, “Hansjörg Wyss: My Brother.”
“What was important for him was to find out that he could exert an influence through his foundation,” Heidi Wyss wrote.
“At a single meeting, the board of trustees quite often allocates several million dollars. Thus behind the scenes a Swiss plays an important part in American politics,” another passage states.
Of the $72.7 million donated in 2021 by Wyss’ Berger Action Fund, $62.7 million went to two groups that were focused on building public support for Biden’s agenda, according to tax documents and a statement from the group.
“The Berger Action Fund and the Wyss Foundation are committed to complying with all rules governing their activities and have established strict policies prohibiting their funds from being used for get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, or supporting or opposing candidates or political parties,” the group said in a statement.
Between 1990 and 2006, he donated $119,000 directly to candidates and political committees, as previously reported by The New York Times. Wyss has not addressed the contributions. The statute of limitations to bring any charges has long since passed and the Federal Election Commission, which enforces campaign finance laws, declined to take action against him.
Since switching his focus to nonprofits, two closely related organizations that play a role in Democratic politics have been among the biggest recipients of Wyss’ money.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund — two organizations that share the same founder, address and management firm — collectively received $245 million donated by Wyss’ groups since 2016, tax records show.
The organizations were established over a decade ago by Eric Kessler, a former Clinton administration official and heir to an automotive parts fortune.
“Nearly all of the donations we receive are intended for specific projects or purposes; many donations cannot be used for electoral activities; and every contribution is used in compliance with all guidelines, regulations, and laws,” Amy Kurtz, the president of Sixteen Thirty Fund, said in a statement.
The New Venture Fund is set up to focus on more traditional nonprofit work, while the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has received $208 million from Wyss since 2016 is, oriented more explicitly toward the political arena. Molly McUsic, the president of Wyss’ Berger Action Fund, is a former director of the Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Sixteen Thirty Fund gives directly to political committees, but it also donates to other nonprofit groups that give money to political committees or pay for TV ads that back specific candidates or causes, tax filings and campaign finance disclosures show.
Last summer, staff attorneys for the FEC said Sixteen Thirty Fund should be required to register as a political committee, a distinction which would force more disclosure.
The recommendations were spurred by a complaint filed by a conservative group against Wyss, his nonprofits, the Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund.
In a memorandum, five FEC attorneys noted that the groups denied donations from Wyss’ nonprofits were used for overt political activity, like paying for ads or electoral activity. But the groups also declined to offer specifics about what practices they have in place to ensure the money is not used that way, the memo states.
The commissioners ultimately rejected the complaint, though two of them pledged greater scrutiny of such groups.
Allegations included in two recent lawsuits filed against the New Venture Fund accuse the organization, which shares the same legal compliance firm as the Sixteen Thirty Fund, of misrepresenting information to donors, or failing to abide by the the strict controls it says it has adopted.
One former contractor, Sarah Walker, alleged in a 2022 federal lawsuit that a New Venture Fund project, where she served as executive director, repeatedly used “tax-deductible contributions” to subsidize the “overhead and pay compensation to numerous employees who performed most of their work” in the political arena. Walker, who is Black, also accuses the nonprofit of fostering a hostile work environment and of racially discriminatory conduct.
Walker declined to comment for this story.
In a statement, New Venture Fund President Lee Bodner said the allegations have “no merit.”
“Further, like any 501(c)(3) organization, we do not engage in any partisan electoral work,” Bodner said.
Wyss also has donated to another nonprofit, Fund For A Better Future, which has received $101 million since 2016. Operating under the name Climate Power, the group led a campaign that helped finance millions of dollars in ads backing Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, records show.
The group also spent about $5.3 million on ads supporting about 30 House Democrats in the closing months of the 2022 midterms, campaign finance disclosures show.
“Fund for a Better Future carefully tracks and controls its revenues and expenses to ensure we comply with legal limits and with any restrictions placed on the funds we receive from donors,” spokesperson Niki Woodard said in a statement. | 2023-04-04T00:32:48+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/group-steers-swiss-billionaires-money-to-liberal-causes/ |
(The Hill) – A federal magistrate judge on Thursday said he would release a redacted version of the affidavit that convinced him to approve a warrant to search former President Trump’s Florida home.
The decision from Judge Bruce Reinhart comes after he ordered the Justice Department to propose redactions to a document whose full release they argued would compromise their ongoing investigation.
In his order Reinhart found the redactions from DOJ to be sufficiently narrow.
“I find that the Government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason/good cause to seal portions of the Affidavit,” Reinhardt wrote, noting that it could reveal both the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties as well as the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope.
The Justice Department is ordered to file a public version of its redacted document by noon Friday.
In an earlier ruling, Reinhart cautioned that redactions could be so broad as to make the release “meaningless,” warning if they were too extensive it could make him less inclined to force its disclosure.
“I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the government,” he wrote.
Reinhart’s Thursday ruling offers little insight into what the public may ultimately glean from the release, but he ultimately decided it was “the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire affidavit.”
The Justice Department previously unsealed portions of the warrant related to the search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, indicated that the government seized 11 different sets of classified materials, along with other information about Trump’s decision to pardon ally Roger Stone.
The warrant also indicated that Trump was under investigation for a possible violation of the Espionage Act, as well as two other statutes, one that bars concealing, removing and mutilating government documents, and another that prohibits similar actions when done “with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence [an] investigation.”
It’s unusual for an affidavit to be unsealed far ahead of going to trial, let alone before charges have even been filed.
Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, said any FBI informants are often assured their identity will be protected.
“I don’t know exactly what the sensitive information is that’s in the affidavit. But just protecting that information alone at this stage is really important, because they haven’t made a decision as to whether to charge this case or not. And so you need to protect that person in case they’re going to be a witness in a grand jury, and then maybe ultimately at a trial,” McQuade said in an interview ahead of the decision from Reinhart.
“But the other reason is search warrant affidavits are not disclosed at this stage. And if it happens in this case, then in the future, other targets are going to point to this and say, ‘I want my search warrant affidavit unsealed too.’ And it is in the long run going to have an adverse impact on the way the Justice Department and the FBI conduct investigations. If you think that your affidavit is going to get turned over, witnesses are not going to cooperate.”
Trump did not oppose the release of the warrant and has called for the release of the affidavit, all the while slamming the probe as a political witch hunt.
He’s separately filed a suit seeking to block the FBI probe while asking the court to appoint a third party that would review all evidence collected during the search. | 2022-08-25T21:13:04+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/judge-to-release-redacted-affidavit-on-fbis-trump-home-search/ |
White Oaks Mall Chick-fil-A to expand drive through
Ever crave CHICK-FIL-A nuggets and waffle fries only to be scared off by that line of cars snaking around the fast-food chain’s lot and spilling out into the rest of the White Oaks Mall campus?
The Atlanta-based chain aims to fix that deterrent with a $700,000 expansion plan for the drive through at the White Oaks Mall fast food establishment that includes new canopies and realigning parking stalls, according to a building permit recently filed with the county.
But fans of the popular dining spot at 2431 Wabash Ave. need not fear Springfield will become a temporary Chick-fil-A desert.
A statement issued by Chick-fil-A’s corporate office said the restaurant will continue to operate throughout the renovation with only the possibility of the drive through being out of service for a couple of days. Construction is projected to begin this fall.
“We are pleased to share that Chick-fil-A White Oaks will be undergoing a remodel to make overall updates to the restaurant,” the emailed statement reads. “Construction is estimated to begin in the early fall, assuming there are no delays, and the restaurant will remain open throughout the entire process.
“The renovations will include updates to the drive through and parking lot to ease the flow of guests entering and exiting, increase capacity and enhance the guest experience. Chick-fil-A White Oaks looks forward to remaining a part of the community and continuing to serve our customers with great food and remarkable service.”
The parking lot reconfiguration comes just seven years after Chick-fil-A began serving up its famous chicken sandwiches and nuggets from the stand-alone location on the south side of the mall campus.
Local fans had been demanding Chick-fil-A’s return for two decades since the chain closed its location in the mall in 1996.
The anticipation was so great that the Springfield Police Department prepared a special traffic detail for the occasion and the Springfield Mass Transit District rerouted bus lines to the mall to minimize congestion.
Seven years later, the popular eatery still has a strong enough draw that vehicles lined up in the drive through frequently spill beyond its parking lot.
The facility upgrade also comes on the heels of yet another poultry-focused eating establishment joining the busy Veterans Parkway/Wabash Avenue intersection.
The Louisiana-based RAISING CANE’S CHICKEN FINGERS opened at 3100 W. White Oaks Drive in March.
Ocean waves – rather than the stockyards – are the culinary influence for the new tenant poised to fill the former site of LI’L WILLY’S SMOKEHOUSE BBQ.
NAME POKE – a Hawaiian-Japanese fusion restaurant – aims to be dishing up its fresh seafood delicacies at 916 South Grand Ave. West this summer. A late July opening is planned for the quick service establishment.
“I feel there is a market for fresh seafood and I know what fresh seafood should be like,” said owner/operator Hau Nguyen. “And I can bring that quality to Springfield.”
Poke – the traditional Hawaiian dish rhymes with “bouquet” – is often compared with sushi because both dishes feature raw fish. Poke is a raw fish salad, cubed and marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil and regularly served with seaweed and green onions.
Name – also pronounced with two syllables – is Japanese for ocean waves.
Nguyen has served as a sushi chef and helped open sushi restaurants throughout the county. Locally, the Springfield resident has worked at OSAKA and HUNAN RESTAURANT. Nguyen said Name Poke will serve seafood purchased from TRUE WORLD FOODS, known as the preeminent distributor of Asian sushi and sashimi grade specialty seafood.
Name Poke is just the latest tenant to call the renovated 1930s era filling station home. Li’l Willy’s Smokehouse operated from the site shy of three years before closing March 31. A version of the barbecue joint – owned by CONN HOSPITALITY GROUP – is expected to reopen in Vinegar Hill Mall in late summer.
Before that, FREE PRESS COFFEE operated from the former filling station.
DANA’S FAMILY RESTAURANT has opened in Auburn.
Owner Dana Cardenas is the woman behind the home-cooking establishment that serves breakfast throughout the day. The menu also offers an array of soups and salads, burgers, horseshoes, steaks, pork chops, fried chicken and a fish fry every Friday.
The restaurant is at 710 E. Jackson St. in Auburn, next to the Price Cutter grocery store.
Operating hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Dine in, take out service available. Phone: 217/438-4555.
The A La Carte column highlights restaurant openings, closing, renovations and relocations, as well as personnel changes and business news. Natalie Morris can be reached at 737-7254 or by email at natalie.sjr@gmail.com. | 2023-05-18T18:46:05+00:00 | sj-r.com | https://www.sj-r.com/story/entertainment/dining/restaurant-reviews/2023/05/18/white-oaks-mall-chick-fil-a-to-expand-drive-through/70232022007/ |
AURORA, Colo — Several people are injured after a crash in Aurora Saturday night.
The Aurora Police Department (APD) said officers are responding to a three-car crash at South Buckley Road and East Kent Drive with eight people reportedly hurt.
Multiple ambulances were called to the scene, police said.
The northbound lanes of Buckley are closed.
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Colorado's Move Over Law requires drivers to move over a lane when there’s an emergency situation along the shoulder. If the driver can’t move over, they must slow down significantly to avoid an accident.
The law was implemented in 2005 and strengthened in 2020. A CDOT news release states: "The updated law stipulates that if a driver is unable to move at least one lane away from the stationary emergency vehicle, the driver must slow down to at least 25 miles per hour on roadways with a speed limit below 45 miles per hour. On roadways with speed limits 45 miles per hour or more, motorists must slow down to 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit. Drivers that fail to slow down or move over commit the crime of careless driving, a class 2 misdemeanor traffic offense that can result in up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300."
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HOUSTON (AP) — TJ McMahon threw four touchdown passes and added a 9-yard scoring run, Gabe Taylor returned an interception 91 yards for a score and Rice beat McNeese 52-10 Saturday night.
McMahon completed 20 of 29 passes for 274 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions. Bradley Rozner finished with three receptions for 101 yards, including TD catches of 13 and 75 yards. Ari Broussard added 71 yards rushing on 17 carries, including a 2-yard touchdown that gave the Owls a 31-0 halftime lead.
Deonta McMahon ripped off a 62-yard touchdown run for McNeese (0-2) on the second play from scrimmage in the second half but Rozner's long TD came just 11 seconds later and Jack Bradley's 17-yard touchdown reception with 9:35 left in the third quarter made it 45-7.
Rice (1-1) scored 23 points off five Cowboys turnovers.
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